gumroad.com
Gumroad
Who runs Gumroad, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest creator e-commerce alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Sellfy
Measured from Gumroad’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Gumroad01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Gumroad
Gumroad gumroad.com
Start selling what you know, see what sticks, and get paid. Simple and effective.
Wikidata: American software company
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Gumroad 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
None of the 18 alternatives below has fewer; 10 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 1 tool
Privacy-friendly analytics
Counts visits without cookies or personal profiles.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Gumroad
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Gumroad, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
Online Store Builder: Create a Free Online Store | Sellfy
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Very close - 02
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Payments, tax & subscriptions for software companies • Lemon Squeezy
Sell digital products and SaaS software the easy peasy way with Lemon Squeezy. As your merchant of record, we handle the tax compliance burden so you can focus on more revenue and less headache.
Very close - 04
Hotmart — Learn what you want, teach what you know
Learn more about Hotmart, the leading platform for selling and distributing digital products.
Very close - 05
Where Creator Communities Thrive — Patreon
Build a community, share exclusive work, and turn your passion into a thriving business with Patreon. Get started today!
Very close - 06
Shopify: The All-in-One Commerce Platform for Businesses - Shopify
Try Shopify free. Build or grow your business fast with AI. Get more than ecommerce software with tools to manage every part of your business.
Very close - 07
Eduzz — Tudo para criar, vender e crescer no digital
Uma comunidade que ajuda você a transformar conhecimento em impacto.
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Very close - 09
#1 Ecommerce Shopping Cart & Online Store - Try Ecwid!
Launch your online store easily—no tech skills required. Build a brand-new ecommerce site or add an online store to your existing website. No transaction fees.
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Buy Me a Coffee
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Commerce built for momentum. | BigCommerce
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Website Builder – Easily Create Your Own Website — Squarespace
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FastSpring: Global Payments, Subscriptions, & Tax Compliance
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WooCommerce
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Online Course Platform to Sell Courses and Communities | Thinkific
Build and sell online courses and communities with Thinkific, an all-in-one online course platform with a drag-and-drop builder, payments, and LMS tools.
Very close - 19
Paddle - Subscriptions, Payments & Tax Compliance for SaaS & Mobile Apps
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Global E-Commerce is Global-e
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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Gumroad’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Gumroad 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 Gumroad 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 · 10 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,197
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 23 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Gumroad’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
- Cloudflare Web Analytics asset https://static.cloudflareinsights.com/beacon.min.js/vce701823e78c4301a35b7e07294d87301792…
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a5630eebac4c20da-HAM
- unpkg asset https://unpkg.com/@lottiefiles/lottie-player@2.0.12/dist/lottie-player.js
- Languages & backends
- Ruby on Rails page source: <meta name="csrf-param" content="authenticity_token"
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms30035841
- Email delivery
- SendGrid TXT v=spf1 a mx ip4:67.225.137.176 include:sendgrid.net include:stspg-cus…
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS venus.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=PgpLEes7We_6DhccKbUEiYcZ0pdoMFKC9nvJzv5llfo
- Notion TXT notion-domain-verification=sSdqoXWqKQb9UfQM5R80tQCvesneCxOsRl4uKtCzkZc
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 19/20
- Google Workspace 17/20
- Cloudflare 12/20
- Microsoft 365 12/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on gumroad.com 10/20
- Atlassian · not on gumroad.com 9/20
- Cloudflare DNS 8/20
- Apple Business · not on gumroad.com 8/20
- Stripe · not on gumroad.com 8/20
- OpenAI · not on gumroad.com 8/20
- Amazon SES · not on gumroad.com 7/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on gumroad.com 7/20
- Zendesk · not on gumroad.com 7/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on gumroad.com 6/20
- React · not on gumroad.com 6/20
- Slack · not on gumroad.com 6/20