Alternatives and competitors

Sites like TED

The 20 closest educational video talks alternatives to TED, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 13 technologies behind it.

Looking for an alternative to TED? The closest matches are telegram.org, Habr and Khan Academy. 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 TED

TED ted.com

TED: Ideas change everything

TED Talks are influential videos from expert speakers on education, business, science, tech and creativity, with subtitles in 100+ languages. Ideas free to stream and download.

Wikidata: global set of conferences

Top 1K · #831 English 13 technologies Crawled Nov 6, 2026
Visit TED

Summary by Claude

TED publishes free video talks by expert speakers on science, technology, business, education, culture and global issues, with subtitles in over 100 languages. It also runs the TED conferences, TEDx events, TED-Ed educational content and newsletters.

Who it’s for
General public, lifelong learners, educators
Business model
Advertising, sponsorships, conference tickets and donations

02 · Embedding space

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to TED’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.

similarity × popularity

How-To GeekRedditGlosbeWikibooksPreziCNETGizmodoKhan AcademyHabrtelegram.org

03 · Nearest neighbours

Alternatives to TED

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

Only in English
  1. 01
    telegram.org Top 1K

    Telegram Messenger

    Fast. Secure. Powerful.

  2. 02
    Habr habr.com Top 10K English

    Publications / My feed / Habr

    collaborative blog

  3. 03
    Khan Academy khanacademy.org Top 10K English

    Client Challenge

    non-profit educational organization

  4. 04
    Gizmodo gizmodo.com Top 10K English

    Gizmodo | The Future Is Here

    Dive into cutting-edge tech, reviews and the latest trends with the expert team at Gizmodo. Your ultimate source for all things tech.

  5. 05
    CNET cnet.com Top 1K English

    CNET: Product reviews, advice, how-tos and the latest news - CNET

    Get full-length product reviews, the latest news, tech coverage, daily deals, and category deep dives from CNET experts worldwide.

  6. 06
    Prezi prezi.com Top 10K English

    Prezi: the presentation platform built for what happens after you present

    Prezi is an interactive presentation platform for educators, trainers, and teams. Bring the slides you have or describe what you're covering, run live polls and quizzes everyone joins from their phone, then share one link that keeps working after the session.

  7. 07
    Wikibooks wikibooks.org Top 10K English

    Wikibooks

    free multilingual online collection of textbooks

  8. 08
    HowStuffWorks howstuffworks.com Top 10K English

    American media company

  9. 09
    Glosbe glosbe.com Top 10K English

    Glosbe Dictionary - All Languages of the World in One Place

    Glosbe dictionary - one place, all languages! Translations, example sentences, pronunciation recordings and grammar references. Check it out!

  10. 10
    Reddit reddit.com Top 1K

    American social news aggregation website and discussion portal

  11. 11
    GeeksforGeeks geeksforgeeks.org Top 10K English

    GeeksforGeeks | Your All-in-One Learning Portal

    Your All-in-One Learning Portal. It contains well written, well thought and well explained computer science and programming articles, quizzes and practice/competitive programming/company interview Questions.

  12. 12
    Lifehacker lifehacker.com Top 10K English

    Lifehacker | Do everything better

    Lifehacker is the ultimate authority on optimizing every aspect of your life. Do everything better.

  13. 13
    How-To Geek howtogeek.com Top 10K English

    How-To Geek - We Explain Technology

    We explain technology. Learn more with our articles, reviews, tips, and the best answers to your most pressing tech questions.

  14. 14
    venturebeat.com Top 10K English

    Vercel Security Checkpoint

    American technology news and analysis website

  15. 15
    IXL ixl.com Top 10K English

    IXL | Math, Language Arts, Science, Social Studies, and Spanish

    IXL is the world's most popular subscription-based learning site for K–12. Used by over 18 million students, IXL provides personalized learning in more than 20,000 topics, covering math, language arts, science, social studies, and Spanish. Interactive questions, awards, and certificates keep kids motivated as they master skills.

  16. 16
    XDA Developers xda-developers.com Top 10K English

    XDA

    The world’s best source for computing news, reviews, editorials guides, and more.

  17. 17
    Pantip pantip.com Top 10K Thai

    Pantip - Learn, Share & Fun

    ร่วมพูดคุยแลกเปลี่ยนความคิดเห็นในทุกประเด็น ทั้งบันเทิง หุ้น ความงาม ท่องเที่ยว รถยนต์ กีฬา โทรศัพท์มือถือ อาหาร การเมือง ครอบครัว บ้าน วิทยาศาสตร์ สุขภาพ ธุรกิจ

  18. 18
    Telegraph telegra.ph Top 10K

    Telegraph

    Telegra.ph is a minimalist publishing tool that allows you to create richly formatted posts and push them to the Web in just a click. Telegraph posts also get beautiful Instant View pages on Telegram.

  19. 19
    Quizlet quizlet.com Top 10K English

    Captcha Challenge…

    online studying platform

  20. 20
    Vimeo vimeo.com Top 100 English

    Vimeo - All-in-One Video Platform

    The video platform trusted by 287 million creatives, entrepreneurs, and businesses. Everything you need to create, manage, and share stunning videos.

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

04 · Fingerprints

Technology

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

Built with

JavaScript frameworks
  • Next.js page source: /_next/static/
  • React implied by Next.js (page source: /_next/static/)
Advertising
Live chat & support
  • Zendesk TXT v=spf1 include:aspmx.sailthru.com include:spf.mandrillapp.com include…
Monitoring
  • New Relic page source: js-agent.newrelic.com
CDN
  • Fastly header x-served-by: cache-iad-kiad7000199-IAD, cache-ber1080021-BER
Web servers
  • nginx header server: nginx/1.27.5
Email hosting
Email delivery
DNS hosting
SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
  • Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=4timsOUsdaVIPDVxoNaau9lRel9P83lqXmmmtsI…
  • Canva TXT canva-site-verification=o-gjQy5XSCZFLMlzw9BblQ
  • Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=UIn4zpG4F9qybIzoM2BeT-O2H3RG6M4vgoC_n8CPzW0

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