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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
None of the 60 sites closest to Giphy match these filters. We read imprints and pricing pages once a week, so more sites qualify as we get to them.
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 and search numbers · 15 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,221
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 36 ms
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