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Instagram

Who runs Instagram, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest social media alternatives.

Who’s behind it
Not stated
Online since
Unknown
Trackers
Prices
No pricing page
Last price change
–
Closest alternative
Facebook

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs Instagram

Instagram instagram.com

Create an account or log in to Instagram - Share what you're into with the people who get you.

Wikidata: photo and video sharing social network owned by Meta Platforms

Company
No imprint we could read
Online since
Not in the Internet Archive
Audience
In English

02 · Privacy

What Instagram 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 13 alternatives below has fewer; 8 have more.

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Cookie banner
None found

We found no trackers, ad pixels or third-party embeds on Instagram’s homepage.

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to Instagram

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Instagram, thumbs down if it isn’t.

No ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in English

20 of the 60 sites closest to Instagram match.

  1. 01
    TikTok tiktok.com Top 100 English 1 tracker

    TikTok - Make Your Day

    video-focused social media platform

    Compare TikTok with Instagram →
  2. 02
    Snapchat snapchat.com Top 1K English 1 tracker

    Snapchat - Say It In A Snap

    Chat, send Snaps, explore Stories, and try Lenses on desktop, or download the app on mobile! See how to connect & create with friends on Snapchat, wherever you are.

    Compare Snapchat with Instagram →
  3. 03
    Triller triller.co No trackers

    American video-sharing and social networking service

    Compare Triller with Instagram →
  4. 04
    kwai.com Top 10K English No trackers

    Make Everyone Shine

    Kwai is a social network for short videos and trends. Discover funny short videos. Contribute to the virtual community with recordings, videos of your life, playing daily challenges or likes the best memes and videos. Download the app to share your life with short videos and choose from dozens of magical effects and filters for them.

    Compare kwai.com with Instagram →
  5. 05
    Tumblr tumblr.com Top 1K English 1 tracker

    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.

    Compare Tumblr with Instagram →
  6. 06
    VK vk.com Top 1K English 1 tracker

    VK.com | VK

    Compare VK with Instagram →
  7. 07
    VK vk.ru Top 1K English 1 tracker

    VK.com | VK

    social networking service from Russia

    Compare VK with Instagram →
  8. 08
    Mixi mixi.jp Japanese 1 tracker

    ソーシャル・ネットワーキング サービス [mixi(ミクシィ)]

    mixi(ミクシィ)は、日記、写真共有、ゲームや便利ツール満載のアプリなど、さまざまなサービスで友人・知人とのコミュニケーションをさらに便利に楽しくする、日本最大規模のソーシャル・ネットワーキングサービスです。

    Compare Mixi with Instagram →
  9. 09
    500px 500px.com Top 10K English No trackers

    photo sharing website

    Compare 500px with Instagram →
  10. 10
    Likee likee.video 1 tracker

    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.

    Compare Likee with Instagram →
  11. 11
    YouTube youtube.com Top 100 English No trackers

    YouTube

    Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

    Compare YouTube with Instagram →
  12. 12
    BeReal bereal.com English 1 tracker

    BeReal

    Your daily dose of real life.

    Compare BeReal with Instagram →
  13. 13
    LinkedIn linkedin.com Top 100 English No trackers

    LinkedIn: Log In or Sign Up

    1 billion members | Manage your professional identity. Build and engage with your professional network. Access knowledge, insights and opportunities.

    Compare LinkedIn with Instagram →
  14. 14
    kslawin.com Top 10K English No trackers

    Make Everyone Shine

    Kwai is a social network for short videos and trends. Discover funny short videos. Contribute to the virtual community with recordings, videos of your life, playing daily challenges or likes the best memes and videos. Download the app to share your life with short videos and choose from dozens of magical effects and filters for them.

    Compare kslawin.com with Instagram →
  15. 15
    flic.kr Top 10K English 2 trackers

    Flickr | The best place to be a photographer online.

    The nicest place on the internet is here for you: inspiration, community, creativity, art, passion, and a heaping scoop of weirdness await you. Join for free.

    Compare flic.kr with Instagram →
  16. 16
    SensCritique senscritique.com French 1 tracker

    Avis de musiques, films, jeux vidéo, BD, livres et séries TV à découvrir sur SensCritique

    Donnez votre avis sur la culture et découvrez les avis de vos amis. Votre collection en ligne accessible à tout moment sur Senscritique.

    Compare SensCritique with Instagram →
  17. 17
    Farcaster farcaster.xyz English No trackers

    Farcaster

    A decentralized social network

    Compare Farcaster with Instagram →
  18. 18
    Hornet hornet.com English No trackers

    Hornet | Hornet, the Queer Social Network

    Meet, chat and connect with 100 million+ queer men worldwide

    Compare Hornet with Instagram →
  19. 19
    Locket locketcamera.com English No trackers

    Locket - Best friends first

    Add your friends to your Home Screen, share weekly recaps, and keep your people close. Locket is for best friends first.

    Compare Locket with Instagram →
  20. 20
    Pikabu pikabu.ru Top 1K Russian 1 tracker

    Горячее – самые интересные и обсуждаемые посты | Пикабу

    Пикабу – это уютное информационно-развлекательное сообщество, где любой желающий может опубликовать пост. Истории из жизни, свежие шутки и мемы, познавательные статьи, забавные фото и видео, интересные комментарии. Если другим пользователям понравится ваша история, ее увидят сотни тысяч людей.

    Compare Pikabu with Instagram →

Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Instagram’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Instagram uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.

04 · History

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Instagram 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 · 5 technologies
Neighbours
k = 60
Sites searched
9,197
Vector
384-d
Query
47 ms

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to Instagram’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

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