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Spotify
Who runs Spotify, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest podcast hosting alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Podbean
Measured from Spotify’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Spotify01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Spotify
Spotify anchor.fm
Get to know Spotify for Creators (formerly Spotify for Podcasters), the free audio and video podcasting platform of Spotify.
Wikidata: Swedish audio streaming service
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
02 · Privacy
What Spotify tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
trackers that follow visitors
None of the 15 alternatives below has fewer; 10 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
We found no trackers, ad pixels or third-party embeds on Spotify’s homepage.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Spotify
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Spotify, thumbs down if it isn’t.
3 of the 60 sites closest to Spotify match.
- 01
The knowledge layer for AI | GitBook
GitBook is a knowledge platform that connects your docs, product and users, answers user questions, and identifies knowledge gaps. Docs-as-code support & AI insights included.
Very close - 02
GitHub · Change is constant. GitHub keeps you ahead. · GitHub · GitHub
Join the world's most widely adopted, AI-powered developer platform where millions of developers, businesses, and the largest open source community build software that advances humanity.
Very close - 03
Mintlify - The documentation platform for agents
Self-updating documentation for startups, enterprises, and agents.
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Spotify’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Spotify uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Spotify adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 9 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,214
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 58 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Spotify’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). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- JavaScript frameworks
- CDN
- Fastly header x-served-by: cache-ber1080054-BER, cache-ber1080054-BER, cache-ber108002…
- Hosting
- Google Cloud header via: HTTP/2 edgeproxy, 1.1 google, 1.1 varnish, 1.1 varnish
- Web servers
- Envoy header server: envoy
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Email delivery
- Amazon SES TXT v=spf1 a mx include:_spf.google.com include:amazonses.com -all
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-1225.awsdns-25.org
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console meta google-site-verification: aO993F8yaFFSu4KnaQAhrF6hk4xAIQGs8jk_eWbefec
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 19/20
- Google Workspace 16/20
- Amazon Route 53 11/20
- Cloudflare · not on anchor.fm 9/20
- Zendesk · not on anchor.fm 8/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on anchor.fm 8/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on anchor.fm 7/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on anchor.fm 7/20
- Google Fonts · not on anchor.fm 6/20
- HubSpot · not on anchor.fm 6/20
- Stripe · not on anchor.fm 6/20
- Apple Business · not on anchor.fm 5/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on anchor.fm 5/20
- SendGrid · not on anchor.fm 5/20
- Atlassian · not on anchor.fm 5/20
- OneTrust · not on anchor.fm 5/20