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MedlinePlus

Who runs MedlinePlus, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest consumer health information alternatives.

Who’s behind it
Not stated
Online since
Unknown
Trackers
Prices
No pricing page
Last price change
–
Closest alternative
Mayo Clinic

Measured from MedlinePlus’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs MedlinePlus

MedlinePlus medlineplus.gov

Find information on health conditions, wellness issues, and more in easy-to-read language on MedlinePlus, the up-to-date, trusted health information site from the NIH and the National Library of Medicine.

Wikidata: online information service produced by the United States National Library of Medicine

Company
No imprint we could read
Online since
Not in the Internet Archive
Audience
In English

02 · Privacy

What MedlinePlus 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.

tracker that follows visitors

3 of the 14 alternatives below have fewer, 7 have more.

Privacy-friendly alternatives →
Cookie banner
None found
US company
1 tool

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to MedlinePlus

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to MedlinePlus, thumbs down if it isn’t.

Fewer trackers than MedlinePlusNo ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in English

17 of the 60 sites closest to MedlinePlus match.

  1. 01
    CDC cdc.gov Top 1K English No trackers

    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | CDC

    United States government public health agency

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  2. 02
    ClinicalTrials.gov clinicaltrials.gov Top 10K English No trackers

    ClinicalTrials.gov

    United States government registry of clinical trials

    Compare ClinicalTrials.gov with MedlinePlus →
  3. 03
    Medicare medicare.gov Top 10K English No trackers

    Welcome to Medicare | Medicare

    The official U.S. government website for Medicare, a health insurance program for people age 65 or older and younger people with disabilities.

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  4. 04
    Medicaid medicaid.gov English No trackers

    Medicaid.gov: The Official U.S. Government Site for Medicaid and CHIP Services | Medicaid

    United States social health care program for families and individuals with limited resources

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  5. 05
    CMS cms.gov Top 10K English No trackers

    Home - Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services | CMS

    United States federal agency

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  6. 06
    Inserm inserm.fr English No trackers

    Inserm

    L'Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale (Inserm) est le seul organisme de recherche public français entièrement dédié à la santé humaine. Notre objectif : améliorer la santé de tous par le progrès des connaissances sur le vivant et sur les maladies, l’innovation dans les traitements et la recherche en santé publique.

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  7. 07
    Belgium belgium.be Top 10K English No trackers

    Language selection | Belgium.be

    country in western Europe

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  8. 08
    Grants.gov grants.gov English No trackers

    Home | Grants.gov

    USA federal website

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  9. 09
    Internet Archive archive.org Top 1K English No trackers

    Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

    U.S. non-profit organization and digital archive

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  10. 10
    Wikimedia wikimedia.org Top 1K English No trackers

    Wikimedia

    The Wikimedia movement is a global community of people, projects, and activities working together to create and share knowledge freely.

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  11. 11
    DataCite datacite.org English No trackers

    DataCite – Connecting Research, Advancing Knowledge - DataCite

    international not-for-profit organization which aims to improve data citation

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  12. 12
    CIA cia.gov Top 10K English No trackers

    CIA

    national foreign intelligence agency of the United States

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  13. 13
    Government of the Netherlands government.nl English No trackers

    Information from the Government of the Netherlands | Government.nl

    executive administration body in the Netherlands

    Compare Government of the Netherlands with MedlinePlus →
  14. 14
    healthcare.gov English No trackers

    Welcome to the Health Insurance Marketplace® | HealthCare.gov

    Welcome to the Health Insurance Marketplace®. Official government website.

    Compare healthcare.gov with MedlinePlus →
  15. 15
    Privacy Guides privacyguides.org English No trackers

    Privacy Guides

    Established in 2021, Privacy Guides is the largest impartial, non-profit media outlet focused on finding privacy tools and learning about protecting your digital life.

    Compare Privacy Guides with MedlinePlus →
  16. 16
    ICANN icann.org Top 10K English No trackers

    Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)

    ICANN’s mission is to help ensure a stable, secure, and unified global Internet.

    Compare ICANN with MedlinePlus →
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    DOI.org query endpoint doi.org Top 1K English No trackers

    Home Page

    API endpoint

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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles MedlinePlus’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones MedlinePlus uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.

04 · History

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what MedlinePlus 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 · 6 technologies
Neighbours
k = 60
Sites searched
9,217
Vector
384-d
Query
233 ms

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to MedlinePlus’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

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