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edX

Who runs edX, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest online learning (MOOC) alternatives.

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

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs edX

edX edx.org

Find the online learning path for you, delivered by world-class institutions like Harvard, Google, Amazon, and more.

Wikidata: online education technology company

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

02 · Privacy

What edX 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

10 of the 16 alternatives below have fewer, 2 have more.

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Cookie banner
OneTrust
US company
2 tools
  • Visitor analytics

    Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.

  • Tag manager

    Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to edX

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

Fewer trackers than edXNo ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in English

20 of the 60 sites closest to edX match.

  1. 01
    Coursera coursera.org Top 10K English No trackers

    Coursera | Online Courses, Certificates, & Degrees

    Learn job-ready skills with online courses, Professional Certificates, Specializations, and degrees from Google, Meta, Anthropic, DeepLearning.AI, Stanford, and more. Start learning today.

    Compare Coursera with edX →
  2. 02
    Udacity udacity.com English 2 trackers

    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!

    Compare Udacity with edX →
  3. 03
    Codecademy codecademy.com Top 10K English No trackers

    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).

    Compare Codecademy with edX →
  4. 04
    Khan Academy khanacademy.org Top 10K English No trackers

    Client Challenge

    non-profit educational organization

    Compare Khan Academy with edX →
  5. 05
    Pluralsight pluralsight.com English 1 tracker

    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.

    Compare Pluralsight with edX →
  6. 06
    Open edX openedx.org English 3 trackers

    Home - Open edX

    Discover how Open edX delivers inspiring learning experiences on any scale. Trusted by top organizations worldwide. Join over 55 million learners today!

    Compare Open edX with edX →
  7. 07
    DIO dio.me English No trackers

    DIO | Code your global future now

    Master artificial intelligence agents and seize the best opportunities in the global market

    Compare DIO with edX →
  8. 08
    Domestika domestika.org English 1 tracker

    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.

    Compare Domestika with edX →
  9. 09
    O’Reilly Media oreilly.com Top 10K English 3 trackers

    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.

    Compare O’Reilly Media with edX →
  10. 10
    Brilliant brilliant.org English 1 tracker

    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.

    Compare Brilliant with edX →
  11. 11
    W3Schools w3schools.com Top 10K English 1 tracker

    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.

    Compare W3Schools with edX →
  12. 12
    Harvard Business School hbs.edu Top 10K English No trackers

    Harvard Business School

    Harvard Business School

    Compare Harvard Business School with edX →
  13. 13
    egghead.io English No trackers

    egghead.io - Learn Web Development from Expert Developers

    Learn modern web development with expert-led courses, tutorials, and workshops. Master React, TypeScript, Next.js, AI tools like Claude Code and Cursor, and more with hands-on video lessons.

    Compare egghead.io with edX →
  14. 14
    freeCodeCamp freecodecamp.org English No trackers

    Learn to Code for Free

    Compare freeCodeCamp with edX →
  15. 15
    LinkedIn linkedin.com Top 100 English No trackers

    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.

    Compare LinkedIn with edX →
  16. 16
    SANS Institute sans.org English 2 trackers

    Cybersecurity Training in EMEA | SANS Institute

    SANS Institute is the most trusted resource for cybersecurity training, certifications and research. Offering more than 60 courses across all practice areas, SANS trains over 40,000 cybersecurity professionals annually.

    Compare SANS Institute with edX →
  17. 17
    Tynker tynker.com English 4 trackers

    Coding For Kids, Kids Online Coding Classes & Games | Tynker

    Tynker makes coding for kids fun and easy, with 5,000+ award-winning lessons that take kids from block coding to Python and JavaScript. Start coding free today.

    Compare Tynker with edX →
  18. 18
    CodeHS codehs.com English 1 tracker

    The Top Coding and Computer Science Platform for K-12 Schools | CodeHS

    CodeHS is the comprehensive K-12 platform for computer science, AI, and digital literacy — free curriculum, IDE, grading tools, and professional development for schools and districts nationwide.

    Compare CodeHS with edX →
  19. 19
    CBT Nuggets cbtnuggets.com English 1 tracker

    CBT Nuggets | IT Training Built for Teams

    IT training built for teams. IT Trainerbot answers your engineers' questions in seconds and cites the source video; courses, labs, and practice exams back it.

    Compare CBT Nuggets with edX →
  20. 20
    Laracasts laracasts.com Top 10K English No trackers

    Learn Laravel | Laracasts

    The best way to learn Laravel and PHP.

    Compare Laracasts with edX →

Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles edX’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones edX uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.

04 · History

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what edX 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 · 21 technologies
Neighbours
k = 60
Sites searched
9,212
Vector
384-d
Query
66 ms

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to edX’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.

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