Alternatives and competitors
Sites like Udemy
The 20 closest online learning marketplace alternatives to Udemy, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 19 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to Udemy? The closest matches are Coursera, Udacity and MasterClass. 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.
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 4,032
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 8 ms
01 · Entity
About Udemy
Udemy udemy.com
Wikidata: online learning platform
Summary by Claude
Udemy is an online course marketplace where independent instructors publish on-demand video courses that learners buy individually or access through a subscription, plus a business plan for company training.
- Who it’s for
- Individual learners and corporate teams
- Business model
- Course sales, subscriptions, enterprise licenses
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Udemy’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
03 · Nearest neighbours
Alternatives to Udemy
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Udemy, thumbs down if it isn’t.
We can’t read udemy.com’s homepage (bot protection page), so it’s compared on what Wikidata and Wikipedia say about it.
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Coursera | Online Courses, Certificates, & Degrees
Learn job-ready skills with online courses, Professional Certificates, Specializations, and degrees from Google, Meta, Anthropic, DeepLearning.AI, Stanford, and more. Start learning today.
Very close cos 0.918 - 02
Learn the Latest Tech Skills; Advance Your Career | Udacity
Learn online and advance your career with courses in programming, data science, artificial intelligence, digital marketing, and more. Gain in-demand technical skills. Join today!
Very close cos 0.908 - 03
online education platform
Very close cos 0.910 - 04
Preply: Learn with the best online language tutors on app & web
Looking for a tutor? Preply is the best platform for private online lessons with a flexible payment system and affordable prices. Book your first lesson.
Very close cos 0.903 - 05
Client Challenge
non-profit educational organization
Very close cos 0.899 - 06
edX | Online Courses, Certificates & Degrees from Leading Institutions
Find the online learning path for you, delivered by world-class institutions like Harvard, Google, Amazon, and more.
Very close cos 0.897 - 07
Discover Moodle — the world's most popular LMS
Build an effective, engaging learning ecosystem with Moodle, the most customisable and popular LMS for education, enterprise, and public sector organisations.
Very close cos 0.896 - 08
Teaching Resources & Lesson Plans | TPT
World’s most popular online marketplace for original educational resources with more than four million resources available for use today.
Very close cos 0.895 - 09
Learn to Code - for Free | Codecademy
Learn the technical skills to get the job you want. Join over 50 million people choosing Codecademy to start a new career (or advance in their current one).
Very close cos 0.897 - 10
O'Reilly Media - Technology and Business Training
Build the skills your teams need. Give them the O'Reilly learning platform and equip them with the resources that drive business outcomes.
Very close cos 0.894 - 12
403 - Access Denied | Edmunds
American automotive resource company
Close cos 0.891 - 13
Captcha Challenge…
online studying platform
Close cos 0.890 - 14
YouTube
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
Close cos 0.889 - 15
Brilliant | Your Personal Tutor for Math and Coding
Visual, interactive tutoring in math and coding, from 5th grade through college. Master concepts in algebra, calculus, Python, computer science, and more.
Close cos 0.888 - 16
Online Course Platform to Sell Courses and Communities | Thinkific
Build and sell online courses and communities with Thinkific, an all-in-one online course platform with a drag-and-drop builder, payments, and LMS tools.
Close cos 0.883 - 17
W3Schools Online Web Tutorials
Well organized and easy to understand Web building tutorials with lots of examples of how to use HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL, Python, PHP, Bootstrap, Java, XML and more.
Close cos 0.886 - 18
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.
- Google Search Console
- Google Workspace
- Amazon SES
- Amazon CloudFront
- Google Ads conversion tracking
- Google Analytics
Close cos 0.886 - 19
Hotmart — Learn what you want, teach what you know
Learn more about Hotmart, the leading platform for selling and distributing digital products.
Close cos 0.882 - 20
Hire Freelancers & Find Freelance Jobs Online | Freelancer
Access the world's largest cloud workforce. 25.9+ million jobs completed across 3400+ skills. Post your job free, compare quotes, and hire top talent today.
Close cos 0.885
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to udemy.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Udemy uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What Udemy is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- Marketing automation
- Marketo TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:mktomail.com include:spf.mtasv…
- Live chat & support
- Zendesk TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:mktomail.com include:spf.mtasv…
- Cookie consent
- OneTrust TXT onetrust-domain-verification=2a6df466515246c4a7c37104f55a82b8
- Payments
- Stripe TXT stripe-verification=e006b01ab77ebbe2e6c509a4e2280540bfea979f8c49ed3ef…
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a563062c8df0e5d1-HAM
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX smtp.google.com
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms39886121
- Email delivery
- Postmark TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:mktomail.com include:spf.mtasv…
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS anna.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Adobe TXT adobe-idp-site-verification=e54c98a1c7f23b54b8ac4b7b75952259c173d7bfb…
- Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=IEscmDl7jHBZDO_dBAG0xMjbBbPxomU_9rqwksKrNmk
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=iztR9OQCHGIVBm5w5PmFPf1nTaqiOROSuNTF9Kv…
- Canva TXT canva-site-verification=Ng9bmmu7vJyWHYrTk_wUZw
- DocuSign TXT docusign=d078f828-536c-4ce3-a867-b26ad811bb8a
- GlobalSign TXT _globalsign-domain-verification=oJsQtL3M8axaRGjlRJ4BstY+1TfWDryoeAouw…
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=RuYIvfeP5e2eBgQzIaky9XuiCkkrVE2KUBULndTtFE4
- Miro TXT miro-verification=f165badb21a511b048a7f7a9fba3352c0db8b09b
- OpenAI TXT openai-domain-verification=dv-ncbISx7kF83lZ69Xc97AoraD
- Salesforce TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:mktomail.com include:spf.mtasv…
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Udemy adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 20/20
- Google Workspace 18/20
- Apple Business 16/20
- Atlassian 13/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on udemy.com 12/20
- OpenAI 12/20
- Cloudflare 12/20
- Microsoft 365 11/20
- OneTrust 10/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on udemy.com 10/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on udemy.com 9/20
- Salesforce 9/20
- SendGrid · not on udemy.com 8/20
- Next.js · not on udemy.com 8/20
- React · not on udemy.com 8/20
- Zendesk 8/20