Alternatives and competitors
Sites like Zhihu
The 20 closest question-and-answer community alternatives to Zhihu, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 2 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to Zhihu? The closest matches are Quora, Answers and Douban. 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 Zhihu
Zhihu zhihu.com
Wikidata: Chinese question-and-answer website
Summary by Claude
Chinese-language social question-and-answer site where users ask questions, post answers and articles, and follow topics, with additional features such as live talks, paid knowledge content and online fiction.
- Who it’s for
- Chinese-speaking internet users
- Business model
- Advertising and paid memberships
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Zhihu’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 Zhihu
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Zhihu, thumbs down if it isn’t.
We can’t read zhihu.com’s homepage (HTTP 403), so it’s compared on what Wikidata and Wikipedia say about it.
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American question-and-answer website
Very close cos 0.928 - 02
Answers - The Most Trusted Place for Answering Life's Questions
Answers is the place to go to get the answers you need and to ask the questions you want
Very close cos 0.921 - 03
豆瓣
提供图书、电影、音乐唱片的推荐、评论和价格比较，以及城市独特的文化生活。
Very close cos 0.920 - 04
新浪网
新浪网为全球用户24小时提供全面及时的中文资讯，内容覆盖国内外突发新闻事件、体坛赛事、娱乐时尚、产业资讯、实用信息等，设有新闻、体育、娱乐、财经、科技、房产、汽车等30多个内容频道，同时开设博客、视频、论坛等自由互动交流空间。
Very close cos 0.915 - 05
站长之家 - 站长资讯-我们致力于为中文网站提供动力！
站长之家(中国站长站)为个人站长与企业网络提供全面的站长资讯、源代码程序下载、海量建站素材、强大的搜索优化辅助工具、网络产品设计与运营理念以及一站式网络解决方案，十年来我们一直致力为中文网站提供动力。
Very close cos 0.910 - 06
博客园 - 开发者的网上家园
博客园是一个面向开发者的知识分享社区。自创建以来，博客园一直致力并专注于为开发者打造一个纯净的技术交流社区，推动并帮助开发者通过互联网分享知识，从而让更多开发者从中受益。博客园的使命是帮助开发者用代码改变世界。
Very close cos 0.908 - 07
bilibili
哔哩哔哩（bilibili.com)是国内知名的视频弹幕网站，这里有及时的动漫新番，活跃的ACG氛围，有创意的Up主。大家可以在这里找到许多欢乐。
Very close cos 0.908 - 08
Горячее – самые интересные и обсуждаемые посты | Пикабу
Пикабу – это уютное информационно-развлекательное сообщество, где любой желающий может опубликовать пост. Истории из жизни, свежие шутки и мемы, познавательные статьи, забавные фото и видео, интересные комментарии. Если другим пользователям понравится ваша история, ее увидят сотни тысяч людей.
Very close cos 0.907 - 09 Very close cos 0.906
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喜马拉雅-国内专业音频分享平台,随时随地,听我想听！
国内专业音频分享平台，随时随地，听我想听！4亿用户选择的在线音频平台。马东、郭德纲、吴晓波等20多万大咖入驻，1亿多条原创有声内容覆盖有声书、儿童、相声评书、财经新闻、音乐等328类。
Very close cos 0.904 - 11
腾讯网
腾讯网从2003年创立至今，已经成为集新闻信息，区域垂直生活服务、社会化媒体资讯和产品为一体的互联网媒体平台。腾讯网下设新闻、科技、财经、娱乐、体育、汽车、时尚等多个频道，充分满足用户对不同类型资讯的需求。同时专注不同领域内容，打造精品栏目，并顺应技术发展趋势，推出网络直播等创新形式，改变了用户获取资讯的方式和习惯。
Very close cos 0.904 - 12
Hot Questions - Stack Exchange
Stack Overflow – 180+ community-powered knowledge sites.
Very close cos 0.902 - 13
website for professional and enthusiast programmers
Very close cos 0.902 - 14
新华网_让新闻离你更近
中国主要重点新闻网站,依托新华社遍布全球的采编网络,记者遍布世界100多个国家和地区,地方频道分布全国31个省市自治区,每天24小时同时使用6种语言滚动发稿,权威、准确、及时播发国内外重要新闻和重大突发事件,受众覆盖200多个国家和地区,发展论坛是全球知名的中文论坛。
Very close cos 0.903 - 15 Very close cos 0.901
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巴哈姆特電玩資訊站 - 系統異常回報
Taiwanese ACG Internet forum
Very close cos 0.899 - 17 Very close cos 0.898
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中国网--网上中国
国家重点新闻网站，拥有十个语种独立新闻采编、报道和发布权；第一时间报道国家重大新闻事件；国情信息库服务全球读者了解中国；国务院新闻办公室发布会独家网络直播发布网站；拥有国内外顶级学者专家资源，独家编发各种相关政策解读。
Very close cos 0.900 - 19
中国新闻网_梳理天下新闻
中国新闻网，是知名的中文新闻门户网站，也是全球互联网中文新闻资讯最重要的原创内容供应商之一。依托中新社遍布全球的采编网络,每天24小时面向广大网民和网络媒体，快速、准确地提供文字、图片、视频等多样化的资讯服务。在新闻报道方面，中新网动态新闻及时准确，解释性报道角度独特，稿件被国内外网络媒体大量转载。
Very close cos 0.900 - 20
凤凰网
凤凰网是中国领先的综合门户网站，提供含文图音视频的全方位综合新闻资讯、深度访谈、观点评论、财经产品、互动应用、分享社区等服务，同时与凤凰无线、凤凰宽频形成三屏联动，为全球主流华人提供互联网、无线通信、电视网三网融合无缝衔接的新媒体优质体验。
Very close cos 0.898
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to zhihu.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Zhihu uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What Zhihu is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=0ABf57rqECBcCKb6
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=WreyhhjBpv_EcWw27fGRsO7yz4sy_6oiT1HeoJfv1JQ
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Zhihu adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 15/20
- Google Workspace · not on zhihu.com 7/20
- jQuery · not on zhihu.com 6/20
- GlobalSign · not on zhihu.com 5/20
- Cloudflare · not on zhihu.com 4/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on zhihu.com 4/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on zhihu.com 4/20
- DocuSign · not on zhihu.com 3/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on zhihu.com 3/20
- Zendesk · not on zhihu.com 3/20
- Mailgun · not on zhihu.com 3/20
- Yandex Webmaster · not on zhihu.com 3/20
- Bing Webmaster Tools · not on zhihu.com 3/20
- React · not on zhihu.com 3/20
- OpenAI · not on zhihu.com 2/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on zhihu.com 2/20