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Discord
Who runs Discord, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest group chat and VoIP alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Guilded
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.gg
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.
tracker that follows visitors
8 of the 17 alternatives below have fewer, 4 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- OneTrust
- US company
- 2 tools
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.
20 of the 60 sites closest to Discord match.
- 01
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 - 02
Telegram Messenger
Fast. Secure. Powerful.
Very close - 03
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 - 04
Messenger
Hang out anytime, anywhere—Messenger makes it easy and fun to stay close to your favorite people
Very close - 05
Steam Community
Community Hubs are collections of all the best community and official game content as rated by users.
Close - 06
Tango Live - Live Stream & Video Chat
Tango is your free video chat and live streaming platform to meet new people, stream live, and connect in real time, anytime. Join now and start chatting.
Very close - 07
YouTube
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
Very close - 08
Twitch
Twitch is an interactive livestreaming service for content spanning gaming, entertainment, sports, music, and more.
Very close - 10
Hornet | Hornet, the Queer Social Network
Meet, chat and connect with 100 million+ queer men worldwide
Very close - 11
Welcome to ~tilde.club~
Very close - 12
Hot Questions - Stack Exchange
Stack Overflow – 180+ community-powered knowledge sites.
Very close - 13
BAND – The App For Groups
Where Leaders Communicate Better
Close - 14
The Something Awful Forums
comedy website founded by Richard Kyanka
Very close - 15
Home — Weasyl
online art gallery
Very close - 16
Dailymotion
video streaming site
Very close - 17
Bitchute
Bitchute is a video service that prioritizes creators and champions users' freedoms and privacy.
Very close - 18
Signal >> Home
Say "hello" to a different messaging experience. An unexpected focus on privacy, combined with all of the features you expect.
Very close - 19
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.
Close - 20
AniList: Track, Discover, Share Anime & Manga
Track, discover, and share anime and manga with AniList. Discover top-rated and popular shows through reviews and recommendations. Sign up for free!
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 · 9 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,216
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 36 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
- Cookie consent
- OneTrust page source: otSDKStub
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a562f7e5dd2920da-HAM
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS sima.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=zozWMNbMyCg4di2h
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=W3bS5jNE3UOjccTXit2Ec9uo83D0leVlfpYH04PSEvg
Sitemaps
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What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 19/20
- Google Workspace 16/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on discord.gg 11/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on discord.gg 9/20
- Zendesk · not on discord.gg 7/20
- Amazon SES · not on discord.gg 6/20
- OneTrust 6/20
- Atlassian · not on discord.gg 6/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on discord.gg 5/20
- Stripe · not on discord.gg 5/20
- Zoom · not on discord.gg 5/20
- Apple Business 5/20
- Amazon CloudFront · not on discord.gg 4/20
- Google Analytics · not on discord.gg 4/20
- HubSpot · not on discord.gg 4/20
- Next.js · not on discord.gg 4/20