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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.

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01 · 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.

No ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in English

5 of the 60 sites closest to Microsoft match.

  1. 01
    Slack slack.com Top 1K English EU-registeredFree plan 1 tracker

    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.

    Compare Slack with Microsoft →
  2. 02
    Netlify netlify.com Top 10K English Free plan 2 trackers

    Push your ideas to the web | Netlify

    Create with AI or code, deploy instantly on production infrastructure. One platform to build and ship.

    Compare Netlify with Microsoft →
  3. 03
    GitLab gitlab.com Top 1K English Free plan 2 trackers

    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.

    Compare GitLab with Microsoft →
  4. 04
    Retool retool.com English Free plan 2 trackers

    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.

    Compare Retool with Microsoft →
  5. 05
    ClickUp clickup.com Top 10K Free plan 3 trackers

    ClickUp™ | Maximize productivity • Software, AI, and humans converge

    Our mission is to make the world more productive. To do this, we built the everything app for work - Tasks, Docs, Goals, and Chat.

    Compare ClickUp with Microsoft →

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

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
9,208
Vector
384-d
Query
37 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.

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