Alternatives and competitors

Sites like Synology

The 20 closest network-attached storage alternatives to Synology, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 9 technologies behind it.

Looking for an alternative to Synology? The closest matches are QNAP Systems, ugnas.com and QuickConnect. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.

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01 · Entity

About Synology

Synology synology.com

Synology Inc.

Synology uniquely enables you to manage, secure, and protect your data - at the scale needed to accommodate the exponential data growth of the digital world.

Wikidata: Taiwanese IT company specialized in NAS servers

Top 1K · #919 English 9 technologies Crawled Nov 6, 2026
Visit Synology

Summary by Claude

Synology makes network-attached storage (NAS) appliances running its DSM operating system. It also sells backup appliances, surveillance video recorders (NVR) and private cloud storage for businesses and home users.

Who it’s for
Businesses, IT administrators and home users
Business model
Hardware sales and software licenses

02 · Embedding space

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to Synology’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.

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iCloudNinjaOnemyQNAPcloudSamsung CloudAcronisDropboxSeagate TechnologyQuickConnectugnas.comQNAP Systems

03 · Nearest neighbours

Alternatives to Synology

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Synology, thumbs down if it isn’t.

Only in English
  1. 01
    QNAP Systems qnap.com Top 10K English

    QNAP (US) | Secure, Intelligent Data & Storage Solutions

    Accelerate workflows, protect data, and strengthen IT/OT resilience—powered by integrated NAS, High Availability, networking, Edge AI servers, video surveillance, and myQNAPcloud One.

  2. 02
    ugnas.com Top 10K Chinese

    绿联NAS私有云官网 - 更懂你的数据中心 - 绿联云

    绿联NAS私有云, 搭载自研的UGOS Pro系统, 倾力打造更懂用户的数据中心AI NAS产品。绿联NAS支持大容量存储池, 绿联云自带高速远程访问, 满足高效同步备份传输需求。丰富的应用下载,涵盖影视中心, 相册备份, 音乐库, Docker, 迅雷, 在线协同办公等应用一应俱全

  3. 03
    QuickConnect quickconnect.to Top 1K

    Synology QuickConnect

    Synology QuickConnect allows you to access your Synology NAS anytime, anywhere, from any device and browser, without having to set up port forwarding and firewalls.

  4. 04
    Seagate Technology seagate.com Top 10K

    American data storage company

  5. 05
    Dropbox dropbox.com Top 1K English

    Dropbox: Secure cloud storage, file sharing, and more

    Discover Dropbox – secure, easy cloud storage for file sharing and collaboration. With Dash, save time and organize all your company content in one place.

  6. 06
    Acronis acronis.com Top 10K English

    AI-Powered Cybersecurity, Data Protection & IT Automation | Acronis

    We deliver deeply integrated AI-powered features across our backup, cybersecurity, endpoint management and automation solutions to protect and manage workloads for MSPs and businesses. Protect your business and simplify IT operations today.

  7. 07
    Samsung Cloud samsungcloud.com Top 1K English

    Samsung Cloud

    See what's synced and backed up across your Samsung devices.

  8. 08
    myQNAPcloud myqnapcloud.com Top 10K English

    myQNAPcloud

    myQNAPcloud is a cloud service provided by QNAP for you to remotely connect to your QNAP devices and to share your files securely. You can have your own Internet hostname for your QNAP devices and also access your data remotely without the need to manually configure your router.

  9. 09
    Syncthing syncthing.net Top 10K English

    Syncthing

    open source continuous file synchronization software

  10. 10
    NinjaOne ninjarmm.com Top 10K English

    NinjaOne Unified IT Operations Platform | Unify & Modernize IT

    NinjaOne is the unified IT operations platform for endpoint management, autonomous patching, backup, and remote access. Trusted by IT teams and MSPs worldwide.

  11. 11
    SonicWall sonicwall.com Top 10K

    cybersecurity company

  12. 12
    Network Solutions networksolutions.com Top 10K English

    Security check | Network Solutions

    American-based technology company and a subsidiary of Web.com

  13. 13
    Snapcraft snapcraft.io Top 10K English

    Snapcraft - Snaps are universal Linux packages

    Snaps are containerised software packages that are simple to create and install. They auto-update and are safe to run. And because they bundle their dependencies, they work on all major Linux systems without modification.

  14. 14
    Snowflake snowflake.com Top 10K English

    Snowflake AI Data Cloud

    Snowflake powers AI, data engineering, applications, and analytics on a trusted, scalable AI Data Cloud—eliminating silos and accelerating innovation.

  15. 15
    Tenable® tenable.com Top 10K English

    Vulnerability and exposure management | Cloud and AI security | Tenable®

    The leader in exposure management and AI security, Tenable cybersecurity solutions reduce cyber risk across IT, OT, cloud, identity & hybrid attack surfaces.

  16. 16
    NextDNS nextdns.io Top 10K English

    NextDNS - The new firewall for the modern Internet

    NextDNS protects you from all kinds of security threats, blocks ads and trackers on websites and in apps and provides a safe and supervised Internet for kids — on all devices and on all networks.

  17. 17
    Dashlane dashlane.com Top 10K English

    Dashlane: Password management & credential security platform

    Top-rated password manager and credential protection solution for enterprises, businesses, and individuals.

  18. 18
    iCloud icloud.com Top 100 English

    iCloud

    Log in to iCloud to access your photos, mail, notes, documents and more. Sign in with your Apple Account or create a new account to start using Apple services.

  19. 19
    Netgate netgate.com Top 10K English

    Netgate | Firewall, VPN and Routing Solutions

    Netgate is an open-source driven secure networking company that provides appliance and software-based firewall, VPN and routing solutions including pfSense

  20. 20
    ClouDNS cloudns.net Top 1K English

    Free DNS hosting, Cloud DNS hosting and Domain names | ClouDNS

    ClouDNS provides Free DNS, Cloud DNS, Managed DNS, GeoDNS and DDoS Protected DNS hosting with included web redirects, mail forwards and Round-Robin load balancing. Instant updates in Europe, North and South America, Asia and Australia.

Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to synology.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Synology uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.

04 · Fingerprints

Technology

What Synology is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.

Built with

JavaScript frameworks
  • Vue.js asset https://www.synology.com/js/vendor/vue.global.js
JavaScript libraries
  • jQuery asset https://www.synology.com/js/vendor/jquery.js
CDN
  • Amazon CloudFront header x-amz-cf-id: XgaEuD0whZTJGpaCWaMciyRx88IUC33TR5WQ8MXHpFSddfMwqnfVIQ==
Email hosting
Email delivery
  • Amazon SES TXT v=spf1 mx:synology.com include:_spf.salesforce.com include:amazonses.…
  • Mailchimp Transactional TXT v=spf1 mx:synology.com include:_spf.salesforce.com include:amazonses.…
DNS hosting
SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
  • Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=yye3FPh6LcNp7ErWXUcEB7XEMehHrKd3ThjBMmsV7mc
  • Salesforce TXT v=spf1 mx:synology.com include:_spf.salesforce.com include:amazonses.…

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