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.
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 4,032
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 17 ms
01 · Entity
About Yelp
Yelp yelp.com
Wikidata: American company directory service and online review forum
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
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.
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Simple Page
food focused online social networking service
Very close cos 0.915 - 02
tripadvisor.com
American travel website company
Very close cos 0.915 - 03
pagesjaunes : Trouvez plus que des coordonnées.
telephone and business directory
Very close cos 0.903 - 04
American internet company owned by Booking Holdings
Very close cos 0.900 - 05
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.
Very close cos 0.901 - 06
Lifehacker | Do everything better
Lifehacker is the ultimate authority on optimizing every aspect of your life. Do everything better.
Very close cos 0.903 - 07 Very close cos 0.904
- 08
company owned by System1
Very close cos 0.900 - 09
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.
Very close cos 0.903 - 10
Simple Page
health website
Very close cos 0.899 - 11
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
Very close cos 0.897 - 12
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.
Very close cos 0.900 - 13
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.
Very close cos 0.895 - 14
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
Very close cos 0.898 - 15
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.
Close cos 0.894 - 16
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!
Close cos 0.893 - 17
Ansh Medical Store
Close cos 0.890 - 18
Danish freemium review website
Close cos 0.891 - 19
product discovery website
Close cos 0.893 - 20
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
Close cos 0.892
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
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- 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
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Yelp adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 20/20
- Google Workspace 12/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on yelp.com 11/20
- Atlassian 9/20
- DocuSign · not on yelp.com 9/20
- OneTrust 9/20
- Meta Business Suite 8/20
- Apple Business 8/20
- GlobalSign 7/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on yelp.com 7/20
- Adobe 6/20
- Miro · not on yelp.com 6/20
- OpenAI 6/20
- Cloudflare · not on yelp.com 5/20
- Salesforce · not on yelp.com 5/20
- nginx · not on yelp.com 5/20