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DuckDuckGo

Who runs DuckDuckGo, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest web search engine alternatives.

Who’s behind it
Not stated
Online since
Unknown
Trackers
Prices
No pricing page
Last price change
–
Closest alternative
Startpage.com

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs DuckDuckGo

DuckDuckGo duckduckgo.com

The Internet privacy company that empowers you to seamlessly take control of your personal information online, without any tradeoffs.

Wikidata: privacy-focused online search engine

Company
No imprint we could read
Online since
Not in the Internet Archive
Audience
In English

02 · Privacy

What DuckDuckGo 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 19 alternatives below has fewer; 11 have more.

Privacy-friendly alternatives →
Cookie banner
None found

We found no trackers, ad pixels or third-party embeds on DuckDuckGo’s homepage.

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to DuckDuckGo

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to DuckDuckGo, thumbs down if it isn’t.

No ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in English

1 of the 60 sites closest to DuckDuckGo matches.

  1. 01
    Semrush semrush.com Top 10K English Free plan 2 trackers

    Semrush: Your Unfair Advantage for Growing Brand Visibility

    Semrush is the leading platform to grow and measure brand visibility across AI search, SEO, PPC, social, and more.

    Compare Semrush with DuckDuckGo →

Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles DuckDuckGo’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones DuckDuckGo 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 DuckDuckGo 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 and search numbers · 11 technologies
Neighbours
k = 60
Sites searched
9,216
Vector
384-d
Query
672 ms

Built with

JavaScript frameworks
  • Next.js page source: /_next/static/
  • React implied by Next.js (page source: /_next/static/)
Live chat & support
  • Zendesk TXT v=spf1 include:mail.duckduckgo.com include:spf.mailer.duckduckgo.com …
Payments
  • Stripe TXT stripe-verification=e508f445dbb94b1ae51f7b48901897714b661f5298da43bb6…
Web servers
  • nginx header server: nginx
Email hosting
DNS hosting
  • NS1 NS dns1.p05.nsone.net
SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
  • Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=XeKEoqnRNUfkUc5l
  • OpenAI TXT openai-domain-verification=dv-OKbsaUeVbNte6OPtWDpdt4Xr
  • Slack TXT slack-domain-verification=oDt8KTPHJdkpcJOZ6J8W8cyJLsEfrJULCQiQ1YbP
  • Zoom TXT ZOOM_verify_QSjXtfOfRHiY0O9gD5E4Ug

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