genius.com
Genius
Who runs Genius, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest online lyrics database alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Couldn’t check
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Musixmatch
Measured from Genius’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Genius01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Genius
Genius genius.com
Wikidata: American digital media company
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
02 · Privacy
What Genius tracks
We couldn’t read genius.com’s homepage (bot protection page), so we can’t say what it loads.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Genius
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Genius, thumbs down if it isn’t.
We can’t read genius.com’s homepage (bot protection page), so it’s compared on what Wikidata and Wikipedia say about it.
- 01 Musixmatch musixmatch.com
online music lyrics database
Very close - 02
AZLyrics - Song Lyrics from A to Z
music online lyrics database
Very close - 03
Lyrics.com
On Lyrics.com you can find all the lyrics you need. From oldies to the latest top40 music. ©2026 STANDS4 LLC
Very close - 04
Song Meanings at Songfacts
Songfacts - the stories and meanings behind the songs, with songwriter interviews and lyrics.
Very close - 05
SongMeanings | Song Lyrics, Meanings & Discussion
SongMeanings is a community of thousands of music lovers who contribute song lyrics, discuss song meanings and interpretations, and connect over songs and artists they love!
Very close - 06
Brazilian lyrics database
Very close - 07
VAGALUME - Letras de Músicas
Cante certo com as letras de músicas e traduções do Vagalume! Milhões de letras de músicas, traduções de letras e cifras.
Very close - 08 AllMusic allmusic.com
American online music database
Very close - 09
نجومي - كلمات الاغاني العربية
موقع نجومي لكلمات الاغاني العربية
Very close - 10
Home - Encyclopaedia Metallum: The Metal Archives
website on heavy metal bands
Very close - 11 JamBase jambase.com
jam band-focused database and news website
Very close - 12
American media company
Very close - 13 Infoplease infoplease.com
reference website
Very close - 14
online database of information related to films, television series, and video games
Very close - 15
MusicBrainz - the open music encyclopedia
online music metadata database
Very close - 16
PostgreSQL: The world's most advanced open source database
The official site for PostgreSQL, the world's most advanced open source database
Very close - 17
A girl jumps into a pool because a man tells her that if she loves him, she will jump off the diving board.
Very close - 18
free, collaborative database about films
Very close - 19
setlist.fm - the setlist wiki
Over 10,680,000 concert setlists of more than 481,400 artists including tour and song statistics, personal statistics, videos and much more.
Very close - 20
Shazam - Music Discovery, Charts & Song Lyrics
Identify the music playing around you. Explore the music you love. Discover songs, lyrics, and artists on Shazam.
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Genius’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Genius 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 Genius 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 · 13 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 56 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Genius’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
- Analytics
- Mixpanel page source: cdn.mxpnl.com
- Live chat & support
- Zendesk TXT v=spf1 mx include:_spf.google.com include:mail.zendesk.com ~all
- Payments
- Stripe TXT stripe-verification=DD4DBC1FB4BF1186F5F8C137CBF7277B822D9050E282EABDC…
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a57717448c20e474-HAM
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms10556953
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS gail.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=EfRsRQ0HxpWuGSIi
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=zBnQjyxIXRiBvnX39OwQsQjQ0NHRTT8z7jLkSYo…
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=jDlIT98pi-_jA47Dj3KvhYesl2n50v66abqeCMo9CRY
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=gjd6qq5ko95rzz3rr5ybmw46u9nk64
- Slack TXT slack-domain-verification=C0bfs07QtaBeS8anLI6Wxb7nv66uabFX4HdllmgF
- Zoom TXT ZOOM_verify_QMXaG8RM8bDxZUToxZ8FeP
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 18/20
- Google Workspace 13/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on genius.com 8/20
- Cloudflare DNS 8/20
- Cloudflare 7/20
- Google Analytics · not on genius.com 5/20
- PHP · not on genius.com 5/20
- Amazon CloudFront · not on genius.com 5/20
- Meta Business Suite 5/20
- SendGrid · not on genius.com 4/20
- jQuery · not on genius.com 4/20
- nginx · not on genius.com 4/20
- Amazon SES · not on genius.com 4/20
- Atlassian 3/20
- Mailchimp · not on genius.com 3/20
- Google Ad Manager · not on genius.com 3/20