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Microsoft
Who runs Microsoft, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest cloud computing alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Alibaba Cloud
Measured from Microsoft’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Microsoft01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Microsoft
Microsoft azure.com
Invent with purpose, realize cost savings, and make your organization more efficient with Microsoft Azure’s open and flexible cloud computing platform.
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Microsoft 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 18 alternatives below has fewer; 12 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
We found no trackers, ad pixels or third-party embeds on Microsoft’s homepage.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Microsoft
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Microsoft, thumbs down if it isn’t.
6 of the 60 sites closest to Microsoft match.
- 01
Slack | AI Work Platform & Productivity Tools
Boost productivity and save time with Slack — the AI work platform for managing projects, automating workflows, and connecting teams securely. Start working smarter today.
Very close - 02
Push your ideas to the web | Netlify
Create with AI or code, deploy instantly on production infrastructure. One platform to build and ship.
Very close - 03
GitLab - Speed with control for agentic software engineering
Teams and agents ship trusted software faster with GitLab, the intelligent orchestration platform with context and governance for the entire software lifecycle.
Very close - 04
Build internal software better, with AI. | Retool
Build, deploy, and manage internal tools with Retool's unified engine. Connect to any database, API, or LLM. Leverage AI throughout your business.
Very close - 05
AI-powered enterprise work management software | Wrike
Wrike is the trusted work delivery platform for people and AI. We help enterprises reach the outcome faster, without losing control of how work gets done.
Very close - 06
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
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Microsoft’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Microsoft 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 Microsoft 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 · 8 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,211
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 33 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Microsoft’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
- CMS
- Adobe Experience Manager page source: /etc.clientlibs/
- CDN
- Akamai header x-akamai-transformed: 9 - 0 pmb=mRUM,2
- Azure Front Door header x-azure-ref: 20261108T212844Z-17db9fdbcd75ptcchC1AMSwgu80000000cs0000000…
- Email hosting
- Microsoft 365 MX azure-com.mail.protection.outlook.com
- Email delivery
- SparkPost TXT v=spf1 include:sparkpostmail.com ~all
- DNS hosting
- Azure DNS NS ns4-39.azure-dns.info
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=Iy1v50CTys4-99S9JxhQC4DDbCaN7YXdu-z5wbWDAEY
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=l4ke8if4pstaadd9urwauavlfhnnjz
Sitemaps
, 27 of them guides, blog or magazine pages.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 19/20
- Microsoft 365 12/20
- Google Workspace · not on azure.com 12/20
- Apple Business · not on azure.com 9/20
- Atlassian · not on azure.com 9/20
- OneTrust · not on azure.com 7/20
- Proofpoint · not on azure.com 7/20
- Cloudflare · not on azure.com 7/20
- OpenAI · not on azure.com 7/20
- Adobe · not on azure.com 6/20
- Akamai 5/20
- DocuSign · not on azure.com 5/20
- Stripe · not on azure.com 5/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on azure.com 5/20
- GlobalSign · not on azure.com 4/20
- Adobe Experience Manager 4/20