linkedin.com
Who runs LinkedIn, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest professional social networking alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
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- Closest alternative
Measured from LinkedIn’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit LinkedIn01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs LinkedIn
LinkedIn linkedin.com
1 billion members | Manage your professional identity. Build and engage with your professional network. Access knowledge, insights and opportunities.
Wikidata: American social networking website for people in professional occupations
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What LinkedIn 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 6 alternatives below has fewer; 2 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
We found no trackers, ad pixels or third-party embeds on LinkedIn’s homepage.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to LinkedIn
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to LinkedIn, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
Find the right job for you. Or get found!
Over 1 million jobs ✓ 20,000 recruiters ✓ Salary ranges ✓ Employer reviews. Set your job preferences and do your XING!
Very close - 02
Glassdoor is one of the world's largest job and recruiting sites.
Very close - 03
American worldwide job listing search engine
Very close - 04 monster.com Top 10K
employment website
Very close - 05
Online employment marketplace connecting employers and job seekers through mobile and email services.
Very close - 06
American online social media and social networking service
Very close - 07
commercial scientific social network
Very close - 08
Welcome to the Jungle — Work with the company you belong to
Welcome to the Jungle is the guide that walks you through your job-search: find out what it's like to work for today's top companies and find the best content to thrive in your career
Very close - 09
design website
Very close - 10
Instagram
Create an account or log in to Instagram - Share what you're into with the people who get you.
Very close - 11
Comparably - Transparent Cultures, Brands & Salaries
Compare Employee Reviews, Consumer Ratings & Salary Data
Very close - 12
promotion & networking platform for digital designers and creatives
Very close - 13
Find Tech Jobs | Advance Your Tech Career | Job Search on Dice.com
Search 70,000+ job openings from tech's hottest employers. Salary estimations, career path tips and Insights to make your next career move the right one.
Very close - 14 CareerBuilder careerbuilder.com
employment website
Very close - 15
open repository of academic articles
Very close - 16 Kununu kununu.com
platform for checking companies
Very close - 17
social networking service for neighborhoods
Very close - 18
photo sharing website
Very close - 19 Cara cara.app
artist social media app
Very close - 20
American social news aggregation website and discussion portal
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles LinkedIn’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones LinkedIn 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 LinkedIn 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 · 9 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 82 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to LinkedIn’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
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a590ad90c9da0d22-HAM
- Languages & backends
- Java cookie JSESSIONID
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=Hp7LihDNsREwfHX9
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=dDed2VFvlDajBX8X22w52Jx/W/YLHR81SxUuraa…
- DocuSign TXT docusign=11f01284-dffc-40f9-8d56-57e5261ede3f
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=xAGz495k8RbGclhamQx1TkZSHDxOaEd95fOjc8xpbTA
- Miro TXT miro-verification=260f00146b6d2ad1bb70d6dc07a077b672badd28
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 20/20
- Google Workspace · not on linkedin.com 13/20
- Apple Business 12/20
- Atlassian 12/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on linkedin.com 10/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on linkedin.com 9/20
- Amazon CloudFront · not on linkedin.com 7/20
- Salesforce · not on linkedin.com 7/20
- Adobe · not on linkedin.com 7/20
- DocuSign 6/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on linkedin.com 6/20
- Zendesk · not on linkedin.com 6/20
- Cloudflare 6/20
- OneTrust · not on linkedin.com 6/20
- OpenAI · not on linkedin.com 5/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on linkedin.com 5/20