Alternatives and competitors
Sites like VK
The 20 closest content delivery network alternatives to VK, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 3 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to VK? The closest matches are VK Video, Wikimedia movement and ngenix.net. 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
- 7 ms
01 · Entity
About VK
Summary by Claude
userapi.com is a content delivery and static asset domain operated by VK (VKontakte), serving user-uploaded images, videos and other media for the VK social network. It has no standalone website and redirects to VK.
- Who it’s for
- VK social network users and services
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to VK’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 VK
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to VK, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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Wikimedia Error
global social movement for free educational knowledge
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That request didn't go through. Our security filter flagged something. You don't have permission to access this page.
database of icons
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Wikidot - Free and Pro Wiki Hosting
Polish wiki hosting corporation
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bunny.net - The Global Edge Platform that truly Hops
Hop on bunny.net and speed up your web presence with the next-generation Content Delivery Service (CDN), Edge Storage, and Optimization Services at any scale.
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Unlimited photo hosting @iMGSRC.RU
Your free and unlimited host iMGSRC.RU presents Unlimited photo hosting
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InterServer Privacy Policy
InterServer provides world class web hosting, dedicated servers and internet services.
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WeTransfer | Skicka stora filer snabbt
Det enkla, snabba och säkra sättet att skicka filer till hela världen utan ett konto. Dela filer, foton och videor idag helt gratis.
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MediaWiki
free and open-source wiki software, developed by the Wikimedia Foundation
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Checking your browser before accessing unsplash.com
website dedicated to sharing copyright-free photography under the Unsplash license
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Client Challenge
free and open-source web content management system
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NLnet Labs - Home
Research & Development, Internet architecture, DNS, Routing, Stability and Security.
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Wikisource
online multilingual library that collects open-content source material
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Welcome to wiki.gg!
wiki.gg hosts MediaWiki sites about common-interest topics. With over 800 wikis and an indie, editors-first mindset, we're a great place to host your wiki and we'd love to have you!
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9GAG - Best Funny Memes and Breaking News
Your daily dose of funny memes, GIFs, videos and weird news stories. We deliver hundreds of new memes daily and much more humor anywhere you go.
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TikTok - Make Your Day
video-focused social media platform
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promotion & networking platform for digital designers and creatives
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Control your data governance with an independent cloud. Solutions hosted in the heart of Europe, designed to protect your confidentiality.
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ResearchGate - Temporarily Unavailable
commercial scientific social network
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Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to userapi.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones VK uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What VK is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- Analytics
- Comscore page source: .scorecardresearch.com
- Languages & backends
- PHP header x-powered-by: KPHP/7.4.127812
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- GlobalSign TXT _globalsign-domain-verification=6gPgwhJkX4uBuKXUE5O7y9oUmtXB-CAJv9xnF…
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what VK adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console · not on userapi.com 15/20
- Google Workspace · not on userapi.com 12/20
- GlobalSign 8/20
- nginx · not on userapi.com 7/20
- Bootstrap · not on userapi.com 5/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on userapi.com 5/20
- React · not on userapi.com 5/20
- Zendesk · not on userapi.com 4/20
- Font Awesome · not on userapi.com 4/20
- Next.js · not on userapi.com 4/20
- Yandex Webmaster · not on userapi.com 3/20
- Amazon SES · not on userapi.com 3/20
- Mailchimp · not on userapi.com 3/20
- SendGrid · not on userapi.com 3/20
- Google Analytics · not on userapi.com 3/20
- jQuery · not on userapi.com 3/20