Alternatives and competitors

Sites like Yelp

The 20 closest local business reviews alternatives to Yelp, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 12 technologies behind it.

Looking for an alternative to Yelp? The closest matches are allrecipes.com, Tripadvisor and PagesJaunes. 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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Sites searched
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Query
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01 · Entity

About Yelp

Yelp yelp.com

Wikidata: American company directory service and online review forum

Top 1K · #698 12 technologies Crawled Nov 6, 2026

Summary by Claude

Yelp publishes crowd-sourced reviews, ratings and photos of local businesses such as restaurants, shops and service providers, along with a searchable business directory and tools for reservations and requesting quotes.

Who it’s for
Consumers seeking local businesses; small business owners
Business model
Advertising

02 · Embedding space

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to Yelp’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

verywellhealth.comCNETMapQuestexpedia.comLifehackerBazaarvoiceOpenTablePagesJaunesTripadvisorallrecipes.com

03 · Nearest neighbours

Alternatives to Yelp

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

We can’t read yelp.com’s homepage (robots.txt disallows our crawler), so it’s compared on what Wikidata and Wikipedia say about it.

  1. 01
    allrecipes.com Top 10K English

    Simple Page

    food focused online social networking service

  2. 02
    Tripadvisor tripadvisor.com Top 1K English

    tripadvisor.com

    American travel website company

  3. 03
    PagesJaunes pagesjaunes.fr Top 10K French

    pagesjaunes : Trouvez plus que des coordonnées.

    telephone and business directory

  4. 04
    OpenTable opentable.com Top 10K

    American internet company owned by Booking Holdings

  5. 05
    Bazaarvoice bazaarvoice.com Top 10K English

    Bazaarvoice | The UGC Platform for Authentic Shopper Experiences

    The leading UGC platform for authentic ratings, reviews, visual UGC, and review syndication that powers discovery, shopper trust, and higher ecommerce conversion.

  6. 06
    Lifehacker lifehacker.com Top 10K English

    Lifehacker | Do everything better

    Lifehacker is the ultimate authority on optimizing every aspect of your life. Do everything better.

  7. 07
    expedia.com Top 10K

    Bot or Not?

    travel website

  8. 08
    MapQuest mapquest.com Top 10K English

    company owned by System1

  9. 09
    CNET cnet.com Top 1K English

    CNET: Product reviews, advice, how-tos and the latest news - CNET

    Get full-length product reviews, the latest news, tech coverage, daily deals, and category deep dives from CNET experts worldwide.

  10. 10
    verywellhealth.com Top 10K English

    Simple Page

    health website

  11. 11
    Craigslist craigslist.org Top 1K

    craigslist: hamburg jobs, apartments, for sale, services, community, and events

    craigslist provides local classifieds and forums for jobs, housing, for sale, services, local community, and events

  12. 12
    MakeUseOf makeuseof.com Top 10K English

    MUO - Technology, Simplified.

    MUO is your guide to modern tech. Learn how to make use of the tech and gadgets around you, and discover cool stuff on the internet.

  13. 13
    BuzzFeed buzzfeed.com Top 10K English

    BuzzFeed

    BuzzFeed has breaking news, vital journalism, quizzes, videos, celeb news, Tasty food videos, recipes, DIY hacks, and all the trending buzz you’ll want to share with your friends. Copyright BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.

  14. 14
    Everyday Health everydayhealth.com Top 10K English

    Everyday Health: Trusted Medical Information, Expert Health Advice, News, Tools, and Resources

    Everyday Health inspires and empowers people to live their healthiest lives, every day, through trusted, medically reviewed information and expert health advice from the nation's leading healthcare providers and patient advocates. Learn more about health

  15. 15
    Psychology Today psychologytoday.com Top 10K English

    Psychology Today: Health, Help, Happiness + Find a Therapist

    View the latest from the world of psychology: from behavioral research to practical guidance on relationships, mental health and addiction. Find help from our directory of therapists, psychologists and counselors.

  16. 16
    Hot Pepper hotpepper.jp Top 10K Japanese

    ホットペッパーグルメ

    ホットペッパーグルメは人気の特集や季節のおすすめ情報から簡単お店検索!ネット予約なら24時間利用可能でポイントもたまります!

  17. 17
    Justdial justdial.com Top 10K

    Ansh Medical Store

  18. 18
    Trustpilot trustpilot.com Top 1K

    Danish freemium review website

  19. 19
    Product Hunt producthunt.com Top 10K English

    product discovery website

  20. 20
    Statista statista.com Top 1K English

    Statista - The Statistics Portal for Market Data, Market Research and Market Studies

    Find statistics, consumer survey results and industry studies from over 22,500 sources on over 60,000 topics on the internet's leading statistics database

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

04 · Fingerprints

Technology

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

Built with

Cookie consent
  • OneTrust TXT onetrust-domain-verification=53afac8ba50845c3b7c8ba137d2349c0
Payments
  • Stripe TXT stripe-verification=6CB8483E931BB30A9798D497914DB00B6CD935BC954C67CB3…
Email hosting
DNS hosting
  • NS1 NS dns2.p06.nsone.net
SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
  • Adobe TXT adobe-idp-site-verification=9ac7165b0af2483ec7767a476cdba5d35ebf9581d…
  • Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=7xkVWehEYAdxIGR18-iBcC-263XTlJE3Xh4KZcgF_1o
  • Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=45ozypIxFMV4A0xxbgkqTjhHaKzj8CrbxzUxbak…
  • GlobalSign TXT _globalsign-domain-verification=PO95qR5HARP3zbvcQ1WFBVyLGBUvgjmgc16EN…
  • Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=4OznISzbxHzmhzRM-NtpUcP1P6nIfsanNZdNI1G_EU8
  • Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=mdu6515tt8odq7akwzr4a036q6w3cz
  • Notion TXT notion-domain-verification=WDNH0Y6wClSmazu1ox2mB6gcdkjd6MA3er4OAerRCUt
  • OpenAI TXT openai-domain-verification=dv-fJLMFcavOatIU9F5VNTB4uzC

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