Giphy
Who runs Giphy, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest GIF search engine alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- tenor.com
Measured from Giphy’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Giphy01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Giphy
Giphy giphy.com
GIPHY is the platform that animates your world. Find the GIFs, Clips, and Stickers that make your conversations more positive, more expressive, and more you.
Wikidata: website hosting animated GIFs
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Giphy 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
12 of the 14 alternatives below have fewer, 2 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 4 tools
Advertising and retargeting
Lets ad networks recognise visitors on other sites and show them ads.
Visitor analytics
Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.
Marketing and email tracking
Links visits to email campaigns and customer profiles.
Tag manager
Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Giphy
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Giphy, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
Tenor GIF Keyboard - Bring Personality To Your Conversations
Say more with Tenor. Find the perfect Animated GIFs and videos to convey exactly what you mean in every conversation.
Very close - 02 Gfycat gfycat.com
video hosting service
Very close - 03
Imgur: The magic of the Internet
Find, rate and share the best memes and images. Discover the magic of the Internet at Imgur.
Very close - 04
9GAG - Best Funny Memes and Breaking News
Your daily dose of funny memes, GIFs, videos and weird news stories. We deliver hundreds of new memes daily and much more humor anywhere you go.
Very close - 05
Instagram
Create an account or log in to Instagram - Share what you're into with the people who get you.
Very close - 06
Page Not Available - Likee
Likee is a Short Video Community that allows you to explore more content of your interests and make more like-minded friends.
Very close - 07
YouTube
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
Very close - 08
wiki hosting service and domain
Very close - 09
Tumblr
Tumblr is the place you go to be yourself on the internet. No performance, no perfection. Just you, and the people who get it.
Very close - 10 pinterest.com Top 100
American photo sharing and publishing website
Very close - 11 iFunny ifunny.co
meme website
Very close - 12
Mix — Expand your mind
Discover the gems of the web, personalized to you.
Very close - 13
Главная - прикольные картинки, мемы, комиксы, гифки на JoyReactor
Главная страница JoyReactor - это смешные картинки, арты, игровой юмор и гифки (с котами). Но стоит копнуть чуть глубже, и можно найти больше постов и разделов, интересных именно вам, и подписаться на них. Полезно каждый день поглядывать в разделы Тренды и Наши любимые теги на главной странице, можно повстречать много неожиданного и, как минимум, занятного.
Very close - 14
Anime and manga database
Very close - 15
Flipboard: Your Social Magazine
One place for all the stories you care about. Join the Flipboard community to discover and share what inspires you.
Very close - 16
MyAnimeList.net - Anime and Manga Database and Community
Welcome to MyAnimeList, the world's most active online anime and manga community and database. Join the online community, create your anime and manga list, read reviews, explore the forums, follow news, and so much more!
Very close - 17
Dailymotion
video streaming site
Very close - 18
StumbleUpon
content discovery platform
Very close - 19
AniList: Track, Discover, Share Anime & Manga
Track, discover, and share anime and manga with AniList. Discover top-rated and popular shows through reviews and recommendations. Sign up for free!
Very close - 20
American entertainment and social media website
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Giphy’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Giphy 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 Giphy 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 · 15 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,193
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 25 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Giphy’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
- JavaScript frameworks
- Analytics
- Comscore page source: .scorecardresearch.com
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- Advertising
- Meta Pixel page source: connect.facebook.net/en_US/fbevents.js
- Marketing automation
- Mailchimp TXT v=spf1 include:sendgrid.net include:_spf.google.com include:_spf.mail…
- CDN
- Fastly header x-served-by: cache-iad-kcgs7200168-IAD, cache-ber1080056-BER
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Email delivery
- SendGrid TXT v=spf1 include:sendgrid.net include:_spf.google.com include:_spf.mail…
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-8.awsdns-01.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=Fii0eNOZHns9TIAc
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=2ZiBk8nroSamkeHuamMoEH9zYMfA1R0XO1ZWlq1…
- Bing Webmaster Tools meta msvalidate.01: F8A7FDC3D369E857ACB67C4AB8EBD9A4
- Google Search Console meta google-site-verification: 8mfne8CLOmysP4fUdGDJioWLEGbHMJY4tBsxsQT2eSY
- OpenAI TXT openai-domain-verification=dv-Sagm5Hc2GH6IccoTx7kqsIPO
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 19/20
- Google Workspace 16/20
- Amazon Route 53 9/20
- Atlassian 7/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on giphy.com 7/20
- nginx · not on giphy.com 6/20
- Amazon SES · not on giphy.com 4/20
- Mailchimp 4/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on giphy.com 4/20
- Google Analytics · not on giphy.com 4/20
- Google Fonts · not on giphy.com 4/20
- Zendesk · not on giphy.com 4/20
- Apple Business 4/20
- Cloudflare · not on giphy.com 4/20
- GlobalSign · not on giphy.com 4/20
- DocuSign · not on giphy.com 4/20