Imgur
Who runs Imgur, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest image hosting alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Flickr
Measured from Imgur’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Imgur01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Imgur
Imgur imgur.com
Find, rate and share the best memes and images. Discover the magic of the Internet at Imgur.
Wikidata: American online image sharing and image hosting service
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Imgur 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
11 of the 14 alternatives below have fewer, 2 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 3 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.
Tag manager
Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.
Third-party embeds
Videos, maps or fonts from other companies, which receive the visitor’s IP address.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Imgur
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Imgur, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
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 - 02
Postimages — free image hosting / image upload
Provides free image uploading and hosting integration for forums. Free picture hosting and photo sharing for websites and blogs.
Very close - 03
ImgBB — Upload Image — Free Image Hosting
Free image hosting and sharing service, upload pictures, photo host. Offers integration solutions for uploading images to forums.
Very close - 04
GIPHY - Be Animated
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.
Very close - 05
Unlimited photo hosting @iMGSRC.RU
Your free and unlimited host iMGSRC.RU presents Unlimited photo hosting
Very close - 06
imgbox - fast, simple image host
Use imgbox to upload, host and share all your images. It's simple, free and blazing fast!
Very close - 07
ImageShack: Image Hosting & Photo Sharing
Image hosting and photo storage for your high-res photos. Upload, organize into albums and share anywhere with ImageShack. Plans from $3.99/month.
Very close - 08
Upload Video Online - Free Video Hosting - Streamable
Upload your video in seconds on Streamable. We accept a variety of video formats including MP4, MOV, AVI, and more. It's free, try it now!
Very close - 09
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 - 10
photo sharing website
Very close - 11
Instagram
Create an account or log in to Instagram - Share what you're into with the people who get you.
Very close - 12
Client Challenge
American hosting service, owned by Scribd, for professional content including presentations, infographics, documents, and videos
Very close - 13
Home - The Big Cheezburger Network - Made from the finest of internets - Cheezburger
You get a Cheezburger, and YOU get a Cheezburger. EVERYONE GETS A CHEEZBURGER. The original internet funny site.
Very close - 14
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 - 15
FC2 - Free Website, Analyzer, Blog, Rental Server, SEO Countermeasures, etc. -
FC2 is a portal site which brings you a pleasant web life providing blog/website/analyzer services and others. Our blog service is ranked No.2 domestically and supported by wide range of users including both beginners and heavy users. We offer as many as 30 different services.
Very close - 16
online video sharing, live streaming, and cloud services platform
Very close - 17
wiki hosting service and domain
Very close - 18
ControlC - One click image and text hosting
One click image and text hosting. Share text, images, and GIFs with ControlC.
Very close - 19
Dailymotion
video streaming site
Very close - 20
Welcome to wiki.gg!
wiki.gg hosts MediaWiki sites about common-interest topics. With over 800 wikis and an indie, editors-first mindset, we're a great place to host your wiki and we'd love to have you!
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Imgur’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Imgur 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 Imgur 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 · 14 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 86 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Imgur’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
- Fonts
- Google Fonts asset https://fonts.googleapis.com/
- Analytics
- Google Analytics page source: google-analytics.com/analytics.js
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- Advertising
- Prebid.js page source: pbjs.que
- Live chat & support
- Zendesk TXT v=spf1 ip4:54.198.157.21 include:mailgun.org include:amazonses.com in…
- CDN
- Fastly header x-served-by: cache-ber1080042-BER, cache-ber1080042-BER, cache-ber108005…
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms20045453
- Email delivery
- Amazon SES TXT v=spf1 ip4:54.198.157.21 include:mailgun.org include:amazonses.com in…
- Mailgun TXT v=spf1 ip4:54.198.157.21 include:mailgun.org include:amazonses.com in…
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-457.awsdns-57.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=zBnQjyxIXRiBvnX39OwQsQjQ0NHRTT8z7jLkSYo…
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=Kh_iAw1AcwclD3rmGP7pOJp0zBgCwcW1V-L-mUXHMls
- Zoom TXT ZOOM_verify_7qYn368TOF6Au0Hn7KWJ2P
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 17/20
- Google Workspace 15/20
- Amazon Route 53 11/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on imgur.com 6/20
- GlobalSign · not on imgur.com 5/20
- SendGrid · not on imgur.com 5/20
- Google Analytics 4/20
- Google Fonts 4/20
- Amazon SES 4/20
- nginx · not on imgur.com 4/20
- Cloudflare · not on imgur.com 3/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on imgur.com 3/20
- Fastly 3/20
- Zendesk 3/20
- Stripe · not on imgur.com 2/20
- Apple Business · not on imgur.com 2/20