jellyfin.org
Jellyfin
Who runs Jellyfin, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest media server software alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Emby
Measured from Jellyfin’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Jellyfin01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Jellyfin
Jellyfin jellyfin.org
The volunteer-built media solution that puts you in control of your media. Stream to any device from your own server, with no strings attached.
Wikidata: free media server
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Jellyfin 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 19 alternatives below has fewer; 10 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
We found no trackers, ad pixels or third-party embeds on Jellyfin’s homepage.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Jellyfin
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Jellyfin, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
Emby — Your Personal Media Server
Emby is a personal media server that organizes and streams your own videos, music, photos, and live TV to your devices.
Very close - 02
streaming media service
Very close - 03
Stremio - Freedom to Stream
Watch videos, movies, TV series and TV channels instantly.
Very close - 04
RustDesk: Open-Source Remote Desktop with Self-Hosted Server Solutions
RustDesk is open-source remote desktop software for your own self-hosted server, a TeamViewer and AnyDesk alternative for Windows, macOS, Linux and Android.
Very close - 05
Home · MPC-HC
MPC-HC, the free, open source media player for Windows
Very close - 06
Pluto TV: Watch Free Movies, TV Shows & Live TV Online
Watch your choice of free hit movies, free binge-worthy TV shows & live TV online, anytime. Stream Now. Pay Never.
Very close - 07
Tubi is the largest free movie and TV streaming service in the US. We are not available in Europe due to changes in EU laws.
American streaming video service
Very close - 08
Blog Tool, Publishing Platform, and CMS | WordPress.org
Open source software which you can use to easily create a beautiful website, blog, or app.
Very close - 09
Syncthing
open source continuous file synchronization software
Very close - 10
TurnKey Linux | Free, preconfigured Linux server images for self-hosting
Free, preconfigured Linux server images for self-hosting
Very close - 11
VLC: Official site - Free multimedia solutions for all OS! - VideoLAN
VLC: Official site - Free multimedia solutions for all OS!
Very close - 12
Vimeo - All-in-One Video Platform
The video platform trusted by 287 million creatives, entrepreneurs, and businesses. Everything you need to create, manage, and share stunning videos.
Very close - 13
Discourse | One platform. Any community.
Discourse is the customizable, scalable community platform powering more than 22,000 communities that create knowledge through conversation.
Very close - 14
Seafile - Open Source File Sync and Share Software
Seafile is an open source, self-hosted file sync and share solution with high performance and reliability. Sync, access, and collaborate on files on your own server or private cloud.
Very close - 15
Video Hosting & Marketing Platform for Business | Wistia
Wistia is the complete video and webinar platform for business. Host with an ad-free player, run webinars, record and edit, and measure what drives impact.
Very close - 16
Proxmox - Powerful open-source server solutions
Proxmox develops powerful and efficient open-source server solutions like the Proxmox VE platform, Proxmox Backup Server, and Proxmox Mail Gateway.
Close - 17
Appwrite · The open-source cloud for developers and agents
Appwrite is an open-source developer platform with Auth, Databases, Storage, Functions, Messaging, and Sites. The open-source cloud for agents and developers.
Very close - 18
Nextcloud - Open source content collaboration platform
The most popular open source content collaboration platform for tens of millions of users at thousands of organizations across the globe
Very close - 19
The extensible community framework - Flarum
Free, open-source forum software built by the community. Beautiful, fast, and extensible — made for communities of all sizes.
Very close - 20
Homepage - VIDAA
Home Comes To Life Global and Local Entertainment. #1 Fastest growing Smart TV platform globally* All your favorite apps and channels, ready when you are.
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Jellyfin’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Jellyfin 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 Jellyfin 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 · 2 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,199
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 40 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Jellyfin’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
- CDN
- Fastly header x-fastly-request-id: f7e0717873e107ba76c67e248be68d45d85a8354
- Hosting
- GitHub Pages header server: GitHub.com
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console · not on jellyfin.org 18/20
- Google Workspace · not on jellyfin.org 12/20
- Cloudflare · not on jellyfin.org 9/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on jellyfin.org 8/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on jellyfin.org 7/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on jellyfin.org 7/20
- nginx · not on jellyfin.org 5/20
- React · not on jellyfin.org 5/20
- Google Fonts · not on jellyfin.org 5/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on jellyfin.org 5/20
- Next.js · not on jellyfin.org 4/20
- Amazon SES · not on jellyfin.org 4/20
- Atlassian · not on jellyfin.org 4/20
- jQuery · not on jellyfin.org 4/20
- Font Awesome · not on jellyfin.org 3/20
- Apple Business · not on jellyfin.org 3/20