drugs.com
drugs.com
Who runs drugs.com, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest drug information reference alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Couldn’t check
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- RxList
Measured from drugs.com’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit drugs.com01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs drugs.com
drugs.com
Wikidata: online pharmaceutical encyclopedia
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
02 · Privacy
What drugs.com tracks
We couldn’t read drugs.com’s homepage (bot protection page), so we can’t say what it loads.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to drugs.com
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to drugs.com, thumbs down if it isn’t.
We can’t read drugs.com’s homepage (bot protection page), so it’s compared on what Wikidata and Wikipedia say about it.
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RxList - The Internet Drug Index for prescription drug information, interactions, and side effects
Medications and prescription drug information for consumers and medical health professionals. Online database of the most popular drugs and their side effects, interactions, and use.
Very close - 02
WebMD - Better information. Better health.
The leading source for trustworthy and timely health and medical news and information. Providing credible health information, supportive community, and educational services by blending award-winning expertise in content, community services, expert commentary, and medical review.
Very close - 03
Today on Medscape
educational website (1995-)
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MedlinePlus - Health Information from the National Library of Medicine
Find information on health conditions, wellness issues, and more in easy-to-read language on MedlinePlus, the up-to-date, trusted health information site from the NIH and the National Library of Medicine.
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GoodRx - Error
American prescription drug price tracking website and app
Very close - 06 Infoplease infoplease.com
reference website
Very close - 07
online edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica
Very close - 08
Encyclopedia.com | Free Online Encyclopedia
Encyclopedia.com – Online dictionary and encyclopedia with pictures, facts, and videos. Get information and homework help with millions of articles in our FREE, online library.
Very close - 09
Healthline: Medical information and health advice you can trust.
We're committed to being your source for expert health guidance. Come to us in your pursuit of wellness.
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Dictionary, Encyclopedia and Thesaurus - The Free Dictionary
The World's most comprehensive free online dictionary, thesaurus, and encyclopedia with synonyms, definitions, idioms, abbreviations, and medical, financial, legal specialized dictionaries
Very close - 11
UpToDate
medical software company
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Statista - The Statistics Portal for Market Data, Market Research and Market Studies
Find statistics, consumer survey results and industry studies from over 22,500 sources on over 60,000 topics on the internet's leading statistics database
Very close - 13
American digital media company
Very close - 14 AllMusic allmusic.com
American online music database
Very close - 15
Everyday Health: Trusted Medical Information, Expert Health Advice, News, Tools, and Resources
Everyday Health inspires and empowers people to live their healthiest lives, every day, through trusted, medically reviewed information and expert health advice from the nation's leading healthcare providers and patient advocates. Learn more about health
Very close - 16
American media company
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online provider of legal information
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AZLyrics - Song Lyrics from A to Z
music online lyrics database
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Song Meanings at Songfacts
Songfacts - the stories and meanings behind the songs, with songwriter interviews and lyrics.
Close - 20
HealthyChildren.org - From the American Academy of Pediatrics
english~
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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles drugs.com’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones drugs.com 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 drugs.com 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 · 7 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,193
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 26 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to drugs.com’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
- Live chat & support
- Zendesk TXT v=spf1 a:list.drugs.com include:amazonses.com include:_spf.google.com…
- CDN
- Akamai header server: AkamaiGHost
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Email delivery
- Amazon SES TXT v=spf1 a:list.drugs.com include:amazonses.com include:_spf.google.com…
- DNS hosting
- Akamai Edge DNS NS a18-65.akam.net
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=wrvb0d1j9zmo8k8xmix15o2qby5yca
- OpenAI TXT openai-domain-verification=dv-QIstIypN2ja5j4FqRnLbKRrl
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console · not on drugs.com 19/20
- Google Workspace 16/20
- Cloudflare · not on drugs.com 11/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on drugs.com 11/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on drugs.com 10/20
- Meta Business Suite 9/20
- OneTrust · not on drugs.com 7/20
- Atlassian · not on drugs.com 7/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on drugs.com 7/20
- GlobalSign · not on drugs.com 6/20
- Amazon CloudFront · not on drugs.com 6/20
- Google Analytics · not on drugs.com 5/20
- Google Ad Manager · not on drugs.com 4/20
- Adobe · not on drugs.com 4/20
- Zendesk 4/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on drugs.com 4/20