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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

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01 · 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

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

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
9,222
Vector
384-d
Query
46 ms

Built with

JavaScript frameworks
  • Next.js page source: /_next/static/
  • React implied by Next.js (page source: /_next/static/)
Analytics
  • Comscore page source: .scorecardresearch.com
Tag managers
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
Email delivery
  • SendGrid TXT v=spf1 include:sendgrid.net include:_spf.google.com include:_spf.mail…
DNS hosting
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