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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.
1 of the 60 sites closest to Medium matches.
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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GitBook is a knowledge platform that connects your docs, product and users, answers user questions, and identifies knowledge gaps. Docs-as-code support & AI insights included.
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 and search numbers · 12 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,199
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 57 ms
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