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Who runs Foursquare, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest location intelligence alternatives.

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

Who runs Foursquare

Foursquare foursquare.com

Foursquare is the industry-leading geospatial intelligence platform. Power your business with 100M+ POIs, foot traffic data, and location-based solutions for marketers, developers, and analysts.

Wikidata: American technology company

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

02 · Privacy

What Foursquare 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

17 of the 19 alternatives below have fewer, 0 have more.

Privacy-friendly alternatives →
Cookie banner
OneTrust
US company
4 tools

  • Visitor analytics

    Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.

  • Marketing and email tracking

    Links visits to email campaigns and customer profiles.

  • A/B testing

    Shows visitors different versions of the page to see which works better.

  • Tag manager

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

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to Foursquare

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

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

3 of the 60 sites closest to Foursquare match.

  1. 01
    Mixpanel mixpanel.com Top 1K English Free plan 4 trackers

    Product Intelligence Platform for the AI Era | Mixpanel

    Mixpanel is the product intelligence platform for the AI era, combining analytics, session replay, experiments, feature flags, and AI-powered insights.

    Compare Mixpanel with Foursquare →
  2. 02
    Amplitude amplitude.com Top 1K English Free plan 4 trackers

    Amplitude | A new era for product teams

    From analytics to feedback to code, Amplitude brings AI into every step of building self-improving products. Start free with 2M events per month.

    Compare Amplitude with Foursquare →
  3. 03
    Retool retool.com English Free plan 2 trackers

    Build internal software better, with AI. | Retool

    Build, deploy, and manage internal tools with Retool's unified engine. Connect to any database, API, or LLM. Leverage AI throughout your business.

    Compare Retool with Foursquare →

Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Foursquare’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Foursquare 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 Foursquare 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 · 20 technologies
Neighbours
k = 60
Sites searched
9,216
Vector
384-d
Query
38 ms

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to Foursquare’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

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Analytics
  • Parse.ly page source: cdn.parsely.com
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Tag managers
Marketing automation
  • HubSpot page source: js-eu1.hs-scripts.com
Live chat & support
  • Zendesk TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:sendgrid.net include:mail.zend…
Cookie consent
  • OneTrust page source: cdn.cookielaw.org
A/B testing
  • VWO page source: dev.visualwebsiteoptimizer.com
CDN
  • Fastly header x-served-by: cache-ber1080047-BER
Web servers
  • nginx header server: nginx
Languages & backends
  • PHP implied by WordPress (meta generator: WordPress 6.9.11)
Email hosting
Email delivery
  • SendGrid TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:sendgrid.net include:mail.zend…
DNS hosting
SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
  • Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=K9xP4O3Kf2AWcoL6
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  • Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=S8eMmX7gV97qABWx7R0eRpfzLXwdY895N-ABXbm758Y
  • Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=fkxskr1vbb3jdk14iaytmo5k0so3wq
  • OpenAI TXT openai-domain-verification=dv-HYfddEsOazWpFcmjumrDkUwC