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Medium
Who runs Medium, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest blogging platform alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Couldn’t check
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Ghost
Measured from Medium’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Medium01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Medium
Medium medium.com
Wikidata: online publishing platform
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Medium tracks
We couldn’t read medium.com’s homepage (bot protection page), so we can’t say what it loads.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Medium
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Medium, thumbs down if it isn’t.
We can’t read medium.com’s homepage (bot protection page), so it’s compared on what Wikidata and Wikipedia say about it.
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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 - 02
Substack
Substack is the app for independent voices: a free newsletter, video, and podcast hosting platform with paid subscriptions built in.
Very close - 03
Vocal
Vocal is a platform for supporting, discovering and rewarding creators.
Very close - 04
Blogger.com - Create a unique and beautiful blog easily.
Publish your passions your way. Whether you’d like to share your knowledge, experiences or the latest news, create a unique and beautiful blog.
Very close - 05
Hashnode: a blog that gets cited by ChatGPT, Google and Perplexity
Get cited by AI. Start a blog on your own domain, written by you or your agents, and built so Google, ChatGPT and Perplexity can read it and cite it. Free to start.
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DEV Community
A space to discuss and keep up software development and manage your software career
Very close - 07
Publications / My feed / Habr
collaborative blog
Close - 08
Wattpad - Stories to obsess over
Wattpad connects a global community of millions of readers and writers through the power of story
Very close - 09
Flipboard: Your Social Magazine
One place for all the stories you care about. Join the Flipboard community to discover and share what inspires you.
Very close - 10
dating website
Very close - 11
WordPress.com: Everything You Need to Build Your Website
Create your WordPress website with built-in hosting, premium themes, and powerful tools. No technical setup required. Start building today—free plan available.
Close - 12
online video sharing, live streaming, and cloud services platform
Very close - 13
Fanvue
The creator subscription platform for the future. Take home 80% of your earnings from day 1. Earn from your fanbase faster with the No1 AI monetisation platform for creators.
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
Client Challenge
American hosting service, owned by Scribd, for professional content including presentations, infographics, documents, and videos
Very close - 17
photo sharing website
Very close - 18
Where Creator Communities Thrive — Patreon
Build a community, share exclusive work, and turn your passion into a thriving business with Patreon. Get started today!
Very close - 19
Buttondown — Newsletter software for people like you
Buttondown is the last email platform you'll migrate to. We're focused on your success, not on bleeding you dry.
Very close - 20
Hotmart — Learn what you want, teach what you know
Learn more about Hotmart, the leading platform for selling and distributing digital products.
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Medium’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Medium 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 Medium 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 · 12 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 39 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Medium’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
- Live chat & support
- Zendesk TXT v=spf1 include:amazonses.com include:_spf.google.com include:mail.zen…
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a562f8115d3b83bd-HAM
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Email delivery
- Amazon SES TXT v=spf1 include:amazonses.com include:_spf.google.com include:mail.zen…
- SendGrid TXT v=spf1 include:amazonses.com include:_spf.google.com include:mail.zen…
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS alina.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=Ls6JkesM8aOd8xyQ
- Dropbox TXT dropbox-domain-verification=d7wsnlvbz6l3
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=TUaeSBwTARWW1ntR_TLK0FwD5WKnFCpB5gYVuXkBmlg
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=eqviiajbkkhum35vciytgngt69oan0
- Notion TXT notion-domain-verification=FPUVTTLhldYnVqE4496kGbBhDpf54Y4O7eA8SxkbAHk
- OpenAI TXT openai-domain-verification=dv-G8sPcKCsIq9tKkWTNFJZh3RE
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 18/20
- Google Workspace 12/20
- Cloudflare DNS 7/20
- Meta Business Suite 7/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on medium.com 6/20
- Apple Business 5/20
- React · not on medium.com 5/20
- Amazon SES 5/20
- Mailgun · not on medium.com 4/20
- Amazon CloudFront · not on medium.com 4/20
- GlobalSign · not on medium.com 4/20
- Google Analytics · not on medium.com 4/20
- Atlassian · not on medium.com 4/20
- Cloudflare 3/20
- Google Fonts · not on medium.com 3/20
- Zendesk 3/20