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.

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01 · Entity

About Udemy

Udemy udemy.com

Wikidata: online learning platform

Top 10K · #1,945 English 19 technologies Crawled Nov 6, 2026
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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

Edmundsskillshare.comO’Reilly MediaCodecademyedXKhan AcademyPreplyMasterClassUdacityCoursera

03 · Nearest neighbours

Alternatives to Udemy

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

Only in English

We can’t read udemy.com’s homepage (bot protection page), so it’s compared on what Wikidata and Wikipedia say about it.

  1. 01
    Coursera coursera.org Top 10K English

    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.

  2. 02
    Udacity udacity.com English

    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!

  3. 03
    MasterClass masterclass.com English

    online education platform

  4. 04
    Preply preply.com Top 10K English

    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.

  5. 05
    Khan Academy khanacademy.org Top 10K English

    Client Challenge

    non-profit educational organization

  6. 06
    edX edx.org Top 10K English

    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.

  7. 07
    Moodle moodle.com Top 10K English

    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.

  8. 08
    Teachers Pay Teachers teacherspayteachers.com Top 10K English

    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.

  9. 09
    Codecademy codecademy.com Top 10K English

    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).

  10. 10
    O’Reilly Media oreilly.com Top 10K English

    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.

  11. 11

    online learning platform

  12. 12
    Edmunds edmunds.com Top 10K English

    403 - Access Denied | Edmunds

    American automotive resource company

  13. 13
    Quizlet quizlet.com Top 10K English

    Captcha Challenge…

    online studying platform

  14. 14
    YouTube youtube.com Top 100 English

    YouTube

    Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

  15. 15
    Brilliant brilliant.org English

    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.

  16. 16
    Thinkific thinkific.com Top 10K English

    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.

  17. 17
    W3Schools w3schools.com Top 10K English

    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.

  18. 18
    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.

  19. 19
    Hotmart hotmart.com Top 10K English

    Hotmart — Learn what you want, teach what you know

    Learn more about Hotmart, the leading platform for selling and distributing digital products.

  20. 20
    Freelancer freelancer.com Top 10K English

    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.

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
Email hosting
Email delivery
  • Postmark TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:mktomail.com include:spf.mtasv…
DNS hosting
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…

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