Alternatives and competitors

Sites like Wikidata

The 20 closest open knowledge graph alternatives to Wikidata, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 1 technologies behind it.

Looking for an alternative to Wikidata? The closest matches are Wikisource, Wikibooks and Wikimedia movement. 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 Wikidata

Wikidata wikidata.org

Wikidata

Wikidata: free multilingual online knowledge graph

Top 10K · #4,103 English 1 technologies Crawled Nov 6, 2026
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Summary by Claude

A free, collaboratively edited multilingual knowledge base of structured data that humans and machines can read and edit, serving as central data storage for Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects and available under a CC0 license.

Who it’s for
Wikimedia editors, researchers, developers and data users
Business model
Donations (nonprofit)

02 · Embedding space

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to Wikidata’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

ZenodoNamuwikiWiktionaryOpenStreetMapMediaWikiWikiquoteWikipediaWikimedia movementWikibooksWikisource

03 · Nearest neighbours

Alternatives to Wikidata

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

Only in English
  1. 01
    Wikisource wikisource.org Top 10K English

    Wikisource

    online multilingual library that collects open-content source material

  2. 02
    Wikibooks wikibooks.org Top 10K English

    Wikibooks

    free multilingual online collection of textbooks

  3. 03
    Wikimedia movement wikimedia.org Top 1K English

    Wikimedia Error

    global social movement for free educational knowledge

  4. 04
    Wikipedia wikipedia.org Top 100 English

    Wikipedia

    Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia, created and edited by volunteers around the world and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation.

  5. 05
    Wikiquote wikiquote.org Top 10K English

    Wikiquote

    free multilingual online collection of quotes

  6. 06
    MediaWiki mediawiki.org Top 10K English

    MediaWiki

    free and open-source wiki software, developed by the Wikimedia Foundation

  7. 07
    OpenStreetMap openstreetmap.org Top 1K English

    OpenStreetMap

    OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license.

  8. 08
    Wiktionary wiktionary.org Top 10K English

    Wiktionary

    free online multilingual dictionary

  9. 09
    Namuwiki namu.wiki Top 10K English

    Paraguay-based Korean wiki website

  10. 10
    Zenodo zenodo.org Top 10K English

    Zenodo

    research data repository

  11. 11
    Our World in Data ourworldindata.org Top 10K English

    Our World in Data

    Research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems.

  12. 12
    Hugging Face huggingface.co Top 10K

    Hugging Face – The AI community building the future.

    We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

  13. 13
    Wikidot wikidot.com Top 10K English

    Wikidot - Free and Pro Wiki Hosting

    Polish wiki hosting corporation

  14. 14
    MySQL mysql.com Top 1K English

    MySQL

    Open-source relational database management system

  15. 15
    Liquipedia liquipedia.net Top 10K English

    Liquipedia

    esports encyclopedia

  16. 16
    Open Library openlibrary.org Top 10K English

    Welcome to Open Library | Open Library

    Open Library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published. Read, borrow, and discover more than 3M books for free.

  17. 17
    OSF osf.io Top 10K English

    OSF

    tools that make open science practice easier

  18. 18
    Schema.org schema.org Top 10K English

    Schema.org - Schema.org

    Schema.org is a set of extensible schemas that enables webmasters to embed structured data on their web pages for use by search engines and other applications.

  19. 19
    Cookiedatabase.org cookiedatabase.org Top 1K English

    Cookiedatabase.org

  20. 20
    Wowhead wowhead.com Top 10K English

    World of Warcraft News and Guides

    The largest World of Warcraft (WoW) information site, featuring guides, news, and information on classes, gearing, professions, raids, transmog, and more.

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

04 · Fingerprints

Technology

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

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Competitors by meaning, stacks from the source. Data from public homepages and DNS.

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