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Coursera

Who runs Coursera, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest online education (MOOCs) alternatives.

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Prices
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Closest alternative
FutureLearn

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs Coursera

Coursera coursera.org

Learn job-ready skills with online courses, Professional Certificates, Specializations, and degrees from Google, Meta, Anthropic, DeepLearning.AI, Stanford, and more. Start learning today.

Wikidata: online education technology company

Company
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Online since
Not in the Internet Archive
Audience
In English

02 · Privacy

What Coursera tracks

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trackers that follow visitors

None of the 15 alternatives below has fewer; 11 have more.

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03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to Coursera

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  1. 01
    FutureLearn futurelearn.com

    British digital education platform

    Compare FutureLearn with Coursera →
  2. 02
    edX edx.org Top 10K English 2 trackers

    edX | Online Courses, Certificates & Degrees from Leading Institutions

    Find the online learning path for you, delivered by world-class institutions like Harvard, Google, Amazon, and more.

    Compare edX with Coursera →
  3. 03
    Udemy udemy.com Top 10K English

    online learning platform

    Compare Udemy with Coursera →
  4. 04
    Udacity udacity.com English 2 trackers

    Learn the Latest Tech Skills; Advance Your Career | Udacity

    Learn online and advance your career with courses in programming, data science, artificial intelligence, digital marketing, and more. Gain in-demand technical skills. Join today!

    Compare Udacity with Coursera →
  5. 05
    Pluralsight pluralsight.com English 1 tracker

    Tech & IT Learning Platform for Teams | Pluralsight

    Trusted by 23,000+ organizations, Pluralsight is the online tech learning platform for building AI, cloud, data, and security skills with courses and labs.

    Compare Pluralsight with Coursera →
  6. 06

    online learning platform

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  7. 07
    Alura alura.com.br Top 10K Portuguese 2 trackers

    Black November Alura: matricule-se com até 50% de desconto!

    A Black November da Alura chegou! Aproveite o maior desconto do ano para se matricular e avançar na sua carreira tech!

    Compare Alura with Coursera →
  8. 08
    Codecademy codecademy.com Top 10K English No trackers

    Learn to Code - for Free | Codecademy

    Learn the technical skills to get the job you want. Join over 50 million people choosing Codecademy to start a new career (or advance in their current one).

    Compare Codecademy with Coursera →
  9. 09
    O’Reilly Media oreilly.com Top 10K English 3 trackers

    O'Reilly Media - Technology and Business Training

    Build the skills your teams need. Give them the O'Reilly learning platform and equip them with the resources that drive business outcomes.

    Compare O’Reilly Media with Coursera →
  10. 10
    Domestika domestika.org English 1 tracker

    Online courses for creative professionals | Domestika

    Domestika is the largest creative community. Learn and share from anywhere with online courses taught by the best professionals in the world of design and creativity.

    Compare Domestika with Coursera →
  11. 11
    DataCamp datacamp.com

    company providing data-science courses

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  12. 12
    Khan Academy khanacademy.org Top 10K English No trackers

    Client Challenge

    non-profit educational organization

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  13. 13
    Rocketseat rocketseat.com.br Portuguese 1 tracker

    O MENOR PREÇO DO ANO para aprender tecnologia e IA | Rocketseat

    Aprenda com especialistas, desenvolva competências alinhadas ao mercado digital e evolua por meio de cursos, graduações e soluções para empresas.

    Compare Rocketseat with Coursera →
  14. 14
    DIO dio.me English No trackers

    DIO | Code your global future now

    Master artificial intelligence agents and seize the best opportunities in the global market

    Compare DIO with Coursera →
  15. 15
    MasterClass masterclass.com English

    online education platform

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  16. 16
    grow.google Top 10K German 2 trackers

    Kompetenzen für die digitale Zukunft - Google Zukunftswerkstatt

    Digitale Weiterentwicklung für Unternehmen und Berufstätige: Die professionellen und praxisnahen Trainings der Google Zukunftswerkstatt vermitteln digitale Kompetenzen für die digitale Welt von heute und morgen.

    Compare grow.google with Coursera →
  17. 17
    frontendmasters.com English 2 trackers

    Learn JavaScript, React, and TypeScript to Node.js, Fullstack, and Backend | Master.dev

    Advance your web development and software engineering skills from front-end to full-stack!

    Compare frontendmasters.com with Coursera →
  18. 18
    LinkedIn linkedin.com Top 100 English No trackers

    LinkedIn: Log In or Sign Up

    1 billion members | Manage your professional identity. Build and engage with your professional network. Access knowledge, insights and opportunities.

    Compare LinkedIn with Coursera →
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    Brilliant brilliant.org English 1 tracker

    Brilliant | Your Personal Tutor for Math and Coding

    Visual, interactive tutoring in math and coding, from 5th grade through college. Master concepts in algebra, calculus, Python, computer science, and more.

    Compare Brilliant with Coursera →
  20. 20
    W3Schools w3schools.com Top 10K English 1 tracker

    W3Schools Online Web Tutorials

    Well organized and easy to understand Web building tutorials with lots of examples of how to use HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL, Python, PHP, Bootstrap, Java, XML and more.

    Compare W3Schools with Coursera →

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04 · History

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Coursera 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 · 23 technologies
Neighbours
k = 20
Sites searched
9,192
Vector
384-d
Query
37 ms

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to Coursera’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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