Alternatives and competitors
Sites like Vrbo
The 20 closest vacation rental marketplace alternatives to Vrbo, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 18 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to Vrbo? The closest matches are Airbnb, Houfy and expedia.com. 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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- k = 20
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01 · Entity
About Vrbo
Vrbo vrbo.com
Bot or Not?
Wikidata: American vacation rental online marketplace
Summary by Claude
Online marketplace where property owners list vacation homes, cabins, condos and beach houses for short-term rental, and travelers search, compare and book stays. Owned by Expedia Group.
- Who it’s for
- Travelers, families and vacation property owners
- Business model
- Booking service fees and host commissions
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Vrbo’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 Vrbo
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Vrbo, thumbs down if it isn’t.
We can’t read vrbo.com’s homepage (HTTP 429), so it’s compared on what Wikidata and Wikipedia say about it.
- 01
Airbnb: Vacation Rentals, Cabins, Beach Houses, Unique Homes & Experiences
Get an Airbnb for every kind of trip → 8 million vacation rentals → 2 million Guest Favorites → 220+ countries and regions worldwide
Very close cos 0.970 - 02
Book Direct Vacation Rentals – Houfy
Book direct with verified hosts. Message the host, agree to the terms, and pay the host directly on Houfy.
- Google Search Console
- Meta Business Suite
- Amazon CloudFront
- Google Fonts
- Google Tag Manager
- Google Workspace
Very close cos 0.945 - 03 Very close cos 0.940
- 04
Online travel platform for booking hotels, vacation rentals, and other accommodation worldwide
Very close cos 0.937 - 05
With over 1 million rental listings, Apartments.com is the place to find a place.
Very close cos 0.928 - 06
website and mobile apps for booking accommodation
Very close cos 0.931 - 07
viator.com
online travel marketplace
Very close cos 0.928 - 08
Human Verification
American real estate brokerage
Very close cos 0.927 - 09
tripadvisor.com
American travel website company
Very close cos 0.925 - 10
Cheap Car Rental, Price Match Guarantee - Rentalcars.com
Find the best rental prices on luxury, economy, and family rental cars with FREE amendments in over 60,000 locations worldwide, reserve online today!
Very close cos 0.923 - 11
Zillow: Real Estate, Apartments, Mortgages & Home Values
The leading real estate marketplace. Search millions of for-sale and rental listings, compare Zestimate® home values and connect with local professionals.
Very close cos 0.923 - 12
FINN.no – mulighetenes marked
Skal du kjøpe eller selge, stort eller smått, så er FINN.no stedet. Vi er der for deg når du skal selge hytta di, finne en pent brukt sofa, fly billigst mulig til Praha eller finne drømmebilen.
Very close cos 0.921 - 13
Ich bin kein Roboter - ImmobilienScout24
an online service/website that offers search for real estate (houses, apartments, etc.) purchase or rental in Germany, Austria and Switzerland
Very close cos 0.921 - 14
Priceline.com - The Best Deals on Hotels, Flights and Rental Cars.
Deep Discounts on Hotels, Flights and Rental Cars. Get Exclusive Savings with Priceline.com.
Very close cos 0.921 - 15
OnTheMarket | Property, Houses & Flats for Sale & to Rent
The most uncluttered, user-friendly property portal. Find hundreds of 1000s of properties for sale & to rent from leading UK estate agents | OnTheMarket
Very close cos 0.919 - 16
Eventbrite - Discover the Best Local Events & Things to Do
Eventbrite - Discover the Best Local Events & Things to Do
Very close cos 0.915 - 17
GetYourGuide – Error
website where tourists can book activities
Very close cos 0.915 - 18
idealista.it
Spanish company with real estate portal services
Very close cos 0.916 - 19
Rightmove - UK's number one property website for properties for sale and to rent
UK's number one property website for properties for sale and to rent
Very close cos 0.915 - 20
Trip.com Official Site | Travel Deals and Promotions
Choose from over 1.2 million hotels in more than 200 countries, 30 million real guest reviews. Book flights to over 5,000 destinations worldwide. 24/7 Customer Service.
Very close cos 0.916
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to vrbo.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Vrbo uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What Vrbo is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- Marketing automation
- Security
- Akamai Bot Manager cookie bm_sz
- CDN
- Akamai header x-akamai-transformed: 0 - 0 -
- Email hosting
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms18587922
- Email delivery
- Mailchimp Transactional TXT v=spf1 a:zgateway.zuora.com include:_netblocks.google.com include:spf…
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Adobe TXT adobe-idp-site-verification=b41c23aaa74626ffffc55a59a6acf723e991ccd66…
- Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=nBx_zynGhN20XhjOhYF49B7BD5JbZAuW2gbPVDPrVVk
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=BoDCBNyHJzHh97Myx/Z4n3grU8sMEGR10Mi8Cdp…
- DocuSign TXT docusign=3d8fbf3d-d176-4b88-b961-e2743b9c9161
- Dropbox TXT dropbox-domain-verification=nfxk5s331hym
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=2OCAEpwy7Vv5-nn1RtZi9G_Rke-cjJQDlxE5SCzcT30
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=kj7l4cwqftpopbeord2swqwepbsp4o
- Miro TXT miro-verification=d36744c01c72c4c0e036eacc18ffe55264b3bf81
- Salesforce TXT v=spf1 a:zgateway.zuora.com include:_netblocks.google.com include:spf…
- Slack TXT slack-domain-verification=7yM0PM3dCrAA1eDe4Q2iRnE8xEDQiAdjBXtszZbA
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Vrbo adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 20/20
- Atlassian 17/20
- Microsoft 365 17/20
- Apple Business 14/20
- Meta Business Suite 14/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on vrbo.com 12/20
- Google Workspace · not on vrbo.com 11/20
- OpenAI · not on vrbo.com 11/20
- Adobe 10/20
- DocuSign 9/20
- Amazon CloudFront · not on vrbo.com 9/20
- GlobalSign · not on vrbo.com 9/20
- Miro 8/20
- React · not on vrbo.com 6/20
- Slack 6/20
- Zendesk · not on vrbo.com 6/20