coursera.org
Coursera
Who runs Coursera, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest online education (MOOCs) alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- FutureLearn
Measured from Coursera’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Coursera01 · 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
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Coursera 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; 11 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- OneTrust
We found no trackers, ad pixels or third-party embeds on Coursera’s homepage.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Coursera
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Coursera, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01 FutureLearn futurelearn.com
British digital education platform
Very close - 02
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.
Very close - 03
online learning platform
Very close - 04
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!
Very close - 05
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.
Very close - 07
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!
Very close - 08
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).
Very close - 09
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.
Very close - 10
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.
Very close - 11 DataCamp datacamp.com
company providing data-science courses
Very close - 12
Client Challenge
non-profit educational organization
Very close - 13
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.
Very close - 14
DIO | Code your global future now
Master artificial intelligence agents and seize the best opportunities in the global market
Very close - 15
online education platform
Very close - 16
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.
Very close - 17
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!
Very close - 18
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.
Very close - 19
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.
Very close - 20
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.
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Coursera’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Coursera 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 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.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- CMS
- Contentful page source: images.ctfassets.net
- Cookie consent
- OneTrust TXT onetrust-domain-verification=bc353cda9f49402e8b2ac8a3b3e86286
- Payments
- Stripe TXT stripe-verification=0f6967e13ea84d76953d1c3f2dc9eb80e82f090fff99161cd…
- Monitoring
- Sentry page source: browser.sentry-cdn.com
- CDN
- Amazon CloudFront header x-amz-cf-id: kLNkQYr9gAmXEuelvfaUi1RD5JudL7v4oOtpl6a_21OdQwgTHLAgEg==
- Web servers
- Envoy header server: envoy
- Languages & backends
- Express header x-powered-by: Express
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms91657421
- Email delivery
- Amazon SES TXT spf2.0/pra include:amazonses.com include:sendgrid.net include:_spf.go…
- Postmark TXT spf2.0/pra include:amazonses.com include:sendgrid.net include:_spf.go…
- SendGrid TXT spf2.0/pra include:amazonses.com include:sendgrid.net include:_spf.go…
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-1590.awsdns-06.co.uk
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=8gxy28dzSlSOYkUI
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=pwnyCbGEmC6E08lYJGO/SYkQvbjFS+OXy03eVMG…
- Canva TXT canva-site-verification=m3eGQL4tz88BqXJO92JRpw
- DocuSign TXT docusign=05d7ee1b-a029-4b94-912a-25bb3c4a2bed
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=UGpuPtZLCcMKFmgAeN4q6EbvxJn56A8Jz0sgW3yVKmA
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=46dep9ql4m6it0wahwkhiou7xit57h
- Miro TXT miro-verification=d5e807f40d602cde4051496eaaa95234e158ada0
- OpenAI TXT openai-domain-verification=dv-ykQklEbL6szace8vG1l7ejkQ
- Salesforce TXT v=spf1 include:sendgrid.net ip4:24.6.102.21 ip4:50.16.53.44 include:_…
- Yandex Webmaster meta yandex-verification: 4970cfdb825622c7
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 19/20
- Google Workspace 16/20
- Apple Business 14/20
- Atlassian 13/20
- Cloudflare · not on coursera.org 13/20
- Microsoft 365 12/20
- Meta Business Suite 10/20
- OpenAI 10/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on coursera.org 9/20
- OneTrust 9/20
- Zendesk · not on coursera.org 8/20
- DocuSign 7/20
- SendGrid 7/20
- Adobe · not on coursera.org 7/20
- Next.js · not on coursera.org 7/20
- React · not on coursera.org 7/20