Alternatives and competitors

Sites like XING

The 20 closest professional networking and job board alternatives to XING, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 14 technologies behind it.

Looking for an alternative to XING? The closest matches are LinkedIn, Stepstone and arbeitsagentur.de. 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 XING

XING xing.com

Find the right job for you. Or get found!

Over 1 million jobs ✓ 20,000 recruiters ✓ Salary ranges ✓ Employer reviews. Set your job preferences and do your XING!

Wikidata: job board

Top 10K · #1,022 English 14 technologies Crawled Nov 6, 2026
Visit XING

Summary by Claude

XING is a German-language professional networking and job search site where users create career profiles, search over a million job listings, set job preferences to receive offers from recruiters, and read employer reviews and salary information.

Who it’s for
Job seekers and recruiters in the DACH region
Business model
Premium subscriptions and recruiter/job ad fees

02 · Embedding space

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to XING’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

Freelancermonster.comGlassdoorDribbbledice.comResearchGateIndeedCareerBuilderarbeitsagentur.deLinkedIn

03 · Nearest neighbours

Alternatives to XING

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

Only in English
  1. 01
    LinkedIn linkedin.com Top 100 English

    LinkedIn: Log In or Sign Up

    1 billion members | Manage your professional identity. Build and engage with your professional network. Access knowledge, insights and opportunities.

  2. 02
    arbeitsagentur.de Top 10K English

    Info and support for international workers | Federal Employment Agency

    Official information and advice for workers who wish to live and work in Germany. Start your career in Germany now!

  3. 03
    CareerBuilder careerbuilder.com English

    careerbuilder.com

    employment website

  4. 04
    Indeed indeed.com Top 1K English

    Security Check - Indeed.com

    American worldwide job listing search engine

  5. 05
    ResearchGate researchgate.net Top 1K English

    ResearchGate - Temporarily Unavailable

    commercial scientific social network

  6. 06
    dice.com English

    Find Tech Jobs | Advance Your Tech Career | Job Search on Dice.com

    Search 70,000+ job openings from tech's hottest employers. Salary estimations, career path tips and Insights to make your next career move the right one.

  7. 07
    Dribbble dribbble.com Top 10K English

    promotion & networking platform for digital designers and creatives

  8. 08
    Glassdoor glassdoor.com Top 10K English

    Security | Glassdoor

    Glassdoor is one of the world's largest job and recruiting sites.

  9. 09
    monster.com Top 10K English

    monster.com

    employment website

  10. 10
    Simply Hired simplyhired.com English

    employment website

  11. 11
    reed.co.uk English

    Jobs and Recruitment on Reed.co.uk, the UK's #1 job site

    Find your next job from the 200,000 available, hire staff, or start a new course today - ♥ Mondays with Reed.co.uk, the UK's #1 job site.

  12. 12
    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.

  13. 13
    immowelt immowelt.de Top 10K English

    immowelt.de

    company

  14. 14
    JobStreet.com jobstreet.com Top 10K English

    online employment company

  15. 15
    Whitepages whitepages.com Top 10K English

    Whitepages: People Search, Phone Numbers & Addresses

    Founded in 1997, Whitepages is the largest U.S. directory and trusted source for contact info and property data. Find people, phone numbers, addresses, and emails nationwide. Free and premium search across the Whitepages Identity Graph: 350M+ identity records, 4B+ data linkages, 112M+ property records.

  16. 16

    rnd.de

    German news organization

  17. 17
    heise online heise.de Top 10K English

    heise online – IT news, guides and background information | heise online

    News and forums on computers, IT, science, media and politics. Price comparison of hardware and software as well as downloads at Heise Medien.

  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
    Grindr grindr.com Top 10K English

    Grindr: The World’s Largest Social Networking App for LGBTQ People.

    Grindr is the world’s largest social networking app for gay, bi, trans, and queer people. Download Grindr today to discover, connect to, and explore the queer world around you.

  20. 20
    Lycos lycos.com Top 10K English

    Home – Lycos

    search engine and web portal

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

04 · Fingerprints

Technology

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

Built with

Marketing automation
  • Mailchimp TXT v=spf1 mx include:_netblocks.mail.xing.com include:_spf.zimpel.de inc…
Live chat & support
  • Zendesk TXT v=spf1 mx include:_netblocks.mail.xing.com include:_spf.zimpel.de inc…
CDN
  • Amazon CloudFront header x-amz-cf-id: qvGF2wMScWT6Howz8Jt4UQqtYo_jRHrGY-W0B4viaYhnbf-kZXK-Zg==
Email hosting
DNS hosting
SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
  • Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=s4efFoD3ULh06gGS
  • Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=jQie6vPSfhfQ4wsCwYZtuCQTWC7PhDbv9HmrAzb…
  • DocuSign TXT docusign=73ffe7e4-a802-458a-bad3-3afefc637792
  • Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=UqxFvQ_ikK9hga0Qm1unOA9HbMWTTlJ_TTVxRTu9z04
  • Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=xxd0q3s7lv62wywvvpver0e8j1j1vw
  • Miro TXT miro-verification=3969bd74d34f4d6e10fb42f5233014d2d3dd4f9c
  • OpenAI TXT openai-domain-verification=dv-JfWX8IbG0n87GNHoDQvLlbeM
  • Salesforce TXT v=spf1 mx include:_netblocks.mail.xing.com include:_spf.zimpel.de inc…
  • Zoom TXT ZOOM_verify_av-wjAz-T62Xdl1pMRBySA

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