lulu.com
Lulu
Who runs Lulu, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest self-publishing and print-on-demand alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Blurb
Measured from Lulu’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Lulu01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Lulu
Lulu lulu.com
Lulu is a publishing technology platform for on-demand book printing and global fulfillment, powered by APIs and ecommerce integrations.
Wikidata: company offering self-publishing, printing, and distribution services
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Lulu 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 15 alternatives below has fewer; 10 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 1 tool
Third-party embeds
Videos, maps or fonts from other companies, which receive the visitor’s IP address.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Lulu
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Lulu, thumbs down if it isn’t.
People compare Lulu with
From Google searches like “lulus vs shein”, with searches a month.
- 01
Custom Book Printing - Professional Book Printing Services | Blurb
Create and print custom books and magazines with Blurb’s professional book printing services. Perfect for photographers, self-publishers and creators.
Very close - 02
IngramSpark: Self-Publishing Book Company | Print & Distribute
IngramSpark is an online self-publishing company that allows you to print, globally distribute, and manage your print and ebooks. Self-Publish Like a Pro
Very close - 03
Draft2Digital
Very close - 04
Printful: Custom Print On Demand & Dropshipping
Design and sell custom products online with print-on-demand dropshipping. Sign up for free and start an online store without inventory.
Very close - 05
American multinational technology company
Close - 06
book e-commerce website
Very close - 07 HarperCollins harpercollins.com
Anglo-American publishing house
Very close - 08
Manning
Manning publishes books, eBooks, video courses and liveProjects on programming, software engineering, AI, data science and other technology topics, written by practitioners and available in print, eBook and on liveBook.
Very close - 09
Overnight Prints | Custom & Quick Online Printing Services Shop
Need online printing services? Overnight Prints is your online printing shop for fast, high-quality prints. Design and order your custom products online now!
Very close - 10
Canadian subsidiary of Japanese e-commerce conglomerate Rakuten
Very close - 11
Hotmart — Learn what you want, teach what you know
Learn more about Hotmart, the leading platform for selling and distributing digital products.
Very close - 12
Snapfish | Personalized Gifts, Cards, Home Decor, Photo Books & More
Design and send the best personalized gifts, cards, home decor, photo books, and prints with Snapfish.
Very close - 13
Workplace and Digital Printing Solutions | Xerox
Workplace solutions, document management and digital printing technologies to help organizations communicate, connect and work.
Very close - 14
platform for building online shops
Very close - 15
Digital Publishing and Content Experience Platform | Joomag
Joomag is a leading Content Experience Platform for creating and distributing high-design content — magazines, catalogs, brochures, proposals and reports that are personalized and interactive.
Very close - 16
YUMPU - Publishing digital magazines worldwide
YUMPU releases magazines, documents and catalogs on the internet. Publish for free. Gain new readers and costumers worldwide.
Very close - 17
Client Challenge
global publishing company
Very close - 18
Mixbook | Create Custom Photo Books, Cards & Gifts – Free Designs
Make personalized photo books, cards, calendars & more in minutes with Mixbook Studio™. Easy AI-powered tools. 43K+ rave reviews. Shop picture books starting at $14.99!
Very close - 19
Wiley-VCH - Home
Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim - A passion for publishing
Very close - 20
Ghost: The best open source blog & newsletter platform
Beautiful, modern publishing with email newsletters and paid subscriptions built-in. Used by Platformer, 404Media, Lever News, Tangle, The Browser, and thousands more.
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Lulu’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Lulu 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 Lulu 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 · 13 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,193
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 50 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Lulu’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
- CMS
- Contentful page source: images.ctfassets.net
- WordPress implied by WooCommerce (page source: class="amber-icon-woocommerce)
- Ecommerce
- WooCommerce page source: class="amber-icon-woocommerce
- JavaScript frameworks
- Fonts
- Google Fonts page source: fonts.gstatic.com
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a5632303389134a6-HAM
- Languages & backends
- PHP implied by WordPress (implied by WooCommerce (page source: class="amber-icon-woocommerce))
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS lakas.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=oUbI5R9QvaHMO12X
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=zRy9qbrLuWw9wkEOkhmXqRBAGd-khcIS0h_3_MftBSA
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=a9f7w4y37ydo5g3q0tfydbey3kwxad
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 18/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on lulu.com 13/20
- Google Workspace 10/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on lulu.com 10/20
- Atlassian · not on lulu.com 9/20
- Zendesk · not on lulu.com 7/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on lulu.com 6/20
- jQuery · not on lulu.com 6/20
- Adobe · not on lulu.com 6/20
- GlobalSign · not on lulu.com 5/20
- Bootstrap · not on lulu.com 5/20
- Cloudflare 5/20
- Apple Business 5/20
- Meta Business Suite 5/20
- Proofpoint · not on lulu.com 5/20
- Google Fonts 4/20