medscape.com

Medscape

Who runs Medscape, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest Medical information and CME alternatives.

Who’s behind it: Not stated
Online since: Unknown
Trackers
Prices: No pricing page
Last price change: –
Closest alternative: healio.com

Measured from Medscape’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 Medscape

Medscape medscape.com

Wikidata: educational website (1995-)

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

02 · Privacy

What Medscape 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

1 of the 15 alternatives below have fewer, 13 have more.

Privacy-friendly alternatives →

Cookie banner: OneTrust
US company: 1 tool

Tag manager

Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.
- Adobe Experience Platform TagsUS

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to Medscape

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

Fewer trackers than Medscape No ad trackers Registered in the EU Free plan Only in English

6 of the 60 sites closest to Medscape match.

01
UpToDate uptodate.com English No trackers

UpToDate

medical software company
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Very close
02
Myspace myspace.com Top 1K No trackers

Featured Content on Myspace

Featured Content on Myspace
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Very close
03
Fortune fortune.com Top 10K English No trackers

Fortune - Fortune 500 Daily & Breaking Business News

Unrivaled access, premier storytelling, and the best of business since 1930.
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Very close
04
Digg digg.com Top 10K English No trackers

Digg - News, before it trends

See what's next in AI before it trends. Digg watches the people who move first.
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Very close
05
Refinery29 refinery29.com English No trackers

Refinery29 UK

Where style meets substance - fashion, entertainment, news, and wellness daily
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Very close
06
AOL aol.com Top 1K English No trackers

News, Politics, Sports, Mail & Latest Headlines - AOL.com

Discover the latest breaking news in the U.S. and around the world — politics, weather, entertainment, lifestyle, finance, sports and much more.
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Very close

Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Medscape’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Medscape 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 Medscape 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 = 60
Sites searched: 9,216
Vector: 384-d
Query: 59 ms

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to Medscape’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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Live chat & support: Zendesk TXT v=spf1 ip4:98.158.192.0/20 include:_spf.google.com include:mail.zende…
Cookie consent: OneTrust page source: cdn.cookielaw.org
CDN: Cloudflare header cf-ray: a56310428b6262e6-HAM
Email hosting: Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms38444379
DNS hosting: Cloudflare DNS NS tim.ns.cloudflare.com
SaaS tools (verified in DNS): Adobe TXT adobe-idp-site-verification=273cee5ce44db359754043668120f4ccf0076e55a…
GlobalSign TXT globalsign-domain-verification=-8kpivpbgMACeanB8hk0ansSLujEnFA_i1ukkw…
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What competitors use

Across the 20 closest sites.