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Discord
Who runs Discord, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest Instant messaging and VoIP alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- TeamSpeak
Measured from Discord’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Discord01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Discord
Discord discord.com
Discord is great for playing games and chilling with friends, or even building a worldwide community. Customize your own space to talk, play, and hang out.
Wikidata: instant messaging and VoIP software
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Discord 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
15 of the 19 alternatives below have fewer, 3 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- OneTrust
- US company
- 3 tools
Marketing and email tracking
Links visits to email campaigns and customer profiles.
Tag manager
Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.
Third-party embeds
Videos, maps or fonts from other companies, which receive the visitor’s IP address.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Discord
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Discord, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
TeamSpeak
TeamSpeak — the trusted voice communication platform for gaming, business, and communities. Crystal-clear audio, military-grade security, and cross-platform support.
Very close - 02
Telegram Messenger
Fast. Secure. Powerful.
Very close - 03
Guilded - Chat for Gaming Communities
Guilded upgrades your group chat and equips your server with integrated event calendars, forums, and more – 100% free.
Very close - 04
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 - 05
Messenger
Hang out anytime, anywhere—Messenger makes it easy and fun to stay close to your favorite people
Very close - 06
Home | Viber
cross-platform instant messaging voice-over-Internet Protocol application for smartphones
Very close - 07
GroupMe | Group chat app
Group text messaging to every phone. The easy way to connect with all the groups in your life, big and small.
Very close - 08
LINE｜always at your side.
More than just a messenger app. LINE is new level of communication and the very infrastructure of your life.
Very close - 09
WhatsApp | Secure and Reliable Free Private Messaging and Calling
Use WhatsApp Messenger to stay in touch with friends and family. WhatsApp is free and offers simple, secure, reliable messaging and calling, available on phones all over the world.
Very close - 10
Signal >> Home
Say "hello" to a different messaging experience. An unexpected focus on privacy, combined with all of the features you expect.
Very close - 11 Wire wire.com
instant messaging client
Very close - 12
Element | Secure collaboration and messaging
Element is a Matrix-based end-to-end encrypted messenger and secure collaboration app. It’s decentralised for digital sovereign self-hosting, or through a hosting service such as Element Matrix Services. Element operates on the open Matrix network to provide interoperability and easy connections.
Close - 13
BAND – The App For Groups
Where Leaders Communicate Better
Very close - 14
One platform to connect | Zoom
Modernize workflows with Zoom's trusted collaboration tools: including video meetings, Zoom Chat, VoIP phone, webinars, whiteboard, contact center, and events.
Very close - 15
WeChat - Connects with over 1 billion users | Chats · Calls · Life Services
WeChat is a social communication app serving over 1 billion users, supporting free chat, HD voice and video calls, Moments, and mobile payments, making communication and life more convenient.
Very close - 16
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Very close - 17
Live-Chat-Software: Die 11 besten Anbieter für 2026
Live-Chat bietet personalisierten Support in Echtzeit über Website, App und Social Media. Finden Sie die beste Software.
Very close - 18
MAX — быстрое и легкое приложение для общения и решения повседневных задач
MAX позволяет отправлять любые виды сообщений и звонить даже на слабых устройствах и при низкой скорости интернета.
Very close - 19
Build, manage, & optimize real-time apps at scale | PubNub
Power your real-time app with PubNub - the world's largest pub/sub network. Scale to 3 trillion API calls/month, with <30ms global delivery. Start building now!
Very close - 20
Respond.io | AI-Powered Customer Conversation Platform
Trusted by 10,000+ B2C businesses to scale customer chats, calls & campaigns. Unify WhatsApp, TikTok, Instagram & Facebook in a team inbox with AI Agents on respond.io
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Discord’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Discord 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 Discord 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 · 15 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 47 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Discord’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
- Website builders
- Webflow page source: data-wf-page=
- Fonts
- Google Fonts asset https://fonts.googleapis.com/
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- Marketing automation
- HubSpot TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:mail.zendesk.com include:sendg…
- Live chat & support
- Zendesk TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:mail.zendesk.com include:sendg…
- Cookie consent
- OneTrust page source: otSDKStub
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a562f8039a8699cd-HAM
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Email delivery
- SendGrid TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:mail.zendesk.com include:sendg…
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS sima.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=UP89cBit9taWldL9
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=JNe2Ze7P8p623k8f7xRaHDyQWb6VzLxjFga1tu8…
- DocuSign TXT docusign=90632817-c176-45ac-9297-96916059c0c5
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=P3cQmz_2xQ17u5qOBHf7JIAYGq3HzDq0UtEkbOR6ZjQ
- Slack TXT slack-domain-verification=hb2Jt7Z5kT0NqJOuGUM2P6L3ZihqWD3wR17JuECt
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 17/20
- Google Workspace 11/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on discord.com 9/20
- Cloudflare 7/20
- Stripe · not on discord.com 7/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on discord.com 6/20
- Google Tag Manager 6/20
- Zendesk 5/20
- Amazon SES · not on discord.com 5/20
- Atlassian 5/20
- Cloudflare DNS 4/20
- HubSpot 4/20
- OneTrust 4/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on discord.com 3/20
- nginx · not on discord.com 3/20
- Amazon CloudFront · not on discord.com 3/20