meetup.com

Meetup

Who runs Meetup, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest event discovery and community groups alternatives.

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

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs Meetup

Meetup meetup.com

Find Meetup events, join groups, or start your own. Make new friends and connect with like-minded people. Meet people near you who share your interests.

Wikidata: social network

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

02 · Privacy

What Meetup 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

4 of the 11 alternatives below have fewer, 1 have more.

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

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to Meetup

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

Fewer trackers than MeetupNo ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in English
  1. 01
    Eventbrite eventbrite.com Top 1K English 1 tracker

    Eventbrite - Discover the Best Local Events & Things to Do

    Eventbrite - Discover the Best Local Events & Things to Do

    Compare Eventbrite with Meetup →
  2. 02
    Facebook facebook.com Top 100

    American online social media and social networking service

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  3. 03
    Luma luma.com Top 10K English No trackers

    Luma

    Discover and host memorable events effortlessly with Luma. Invite friends, sell tickets, and find great events happening near you.

    Compare Luma with Meetup →
  4. 04
    MetaFilter metafilter.com

    general-interest community weblog

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  5. 05
    Peatix peatix.com Top 10K English 1 tracker

    Peatix: Tools for Communities and Events | Peatix

    Grow your communities through Groups, promote and manage your events using Peatix's robust tools on the web and the app. Simple, transparent, low fees. Customer-centric support.

    Compare Peatix with Meetup →
  6. 06
    Nextdoor nextdoor.com Top 10K

    social networking service for neighborhoods

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  7. 07
    Bumble bumble.com Top 10K English 1 tracker

    Bumble | Date, Chat & Meet New People

    Bumble is a social network that allows you to feel empowered while making connections, whether you're dating or looking for friends.

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  8. 08
    Product Hunt producthunt.com Top 10K English

    product discovery website

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  9. 09
    match.com Top 10K English

    dating website

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  10. 10
    LinkedIn linkedin.com Top 100 English No trackers

    LinkedIn: Log In or Sign Up

    1 billion members | Manage your professional identity. Build and engage with your professional network. Access knowledge, insights and opportunities.

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  11. 11
    Badoo badoo.com Top 10K English 1 tracker

    Best Free Online Dating Site & App - Friends, Chat, Flirt | Badoo

    Join Badoo’s community - the best free online dating app. Chat before you match, meet & date people in your area or make new friends from all over the world.

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  12. 12
    Instagram instagram.com Top 100 English No trackers

    Instagram

    Create an account or log in to Instagram - Share what you're into with the people who get you.

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  13. 13
    500px 500px.com Top 10K English No trackers

    photo sharing website

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  14. 14
    OkCupid okcupid.com

    an online dating platform

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  15. 15
    Reddit reddit.com Top 1K

    American social news aggregation website and discussion portal

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  16. 16
    TerraCaching terracaching.com English 1 tracker

    TerraCaching

    A growing group of innovative geocaching enthusiasts focused on creating quality experiences. Offer sponsorship to other members, create new caches, approve your sponsoree’s caches, view the status of your submitted caches, and edit your drafts. The TerraCaching Toolkit contains most of your functional needs.

    Compare TerraCaching with Meetup →
  17. 17
    Flickr flickr.com Top 1K

    American image and video hosting website

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  18. 18
    Tumblr tumblr.com Top 1K English 1 tracker

    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.

    Compare Tumblr with Meetup →
  19. 19
    Locanto locanto.com

    worldwide online classifieds network

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  20. 20
    Hackaday.io hackaday.io English 2 trackers

    Hackaday.io | The world's largest collaborative hardware development community.

    Discover. Get inspired. Repeat. Hack things for the better. Learn and grow from the example of others. Pass it on by showing off your own hardware adventures.

    Compare Hackaday.io with Meetup →

Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Meetup’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Meetup 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 Meetup 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 · 11 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 Meetup’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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