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
Measured from Meetup’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Meetup01 · 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
Tag manager
Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Meetup
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Meetup, thumbs down if it isn’t.
14 of the 60 sites closest to Meetup match.
- 01
Luma
Discover and host memorable events effortlessly with Luma. Invite friends, sell tickets, and find great events happening near you.
Very close - 02
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.
Very close - 03
Instagram
Create an account or log in to Instagram - Share what you're into with the people who get you.
Very close - 04
photo sharing website
Very close - 05
DeviantArt - The Largest Online Art Gallery and Community
DeviantArt is where art and community thrive. Explore over 650 million pieces of art while connecting to fellow artists and art enthusiasts.
Very close - 06
Mastodon.online
A newer server of Mastodon, operated by Mastodon GmbH for the common good.
Very close - 07
YouTube
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
Very close - 08
Hornet | Hornet, the Queer Social Network
Meet, chat and connect with 100 million+ queer men worldwide
Very close - 09
The Something Awful Forums
comedy website founded by Richard Kyanka
Very close - 10
Hot Questions - Stack Exchange
Stack Overflow – 180+ community-powered knowledge sites.
Very close - 11 Very close
- 12
Guilded - Chat for Gaming Communities
Guilded upgrades your group chat and equips your server with integrated event calendars, forums, and more – 100% free.
Very close - 13
AniList: Track, Discover, Share Anime & Manga
Track, discover, and share anime and manga with AniList. Discover top-rated and popular shows through reviews and recommendations. Sign up for free!
Very close - 14
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Very close
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
What changed
Price and policy 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 = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,216
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 41 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
Built with
- JavaScript frameworks
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/ns.html?id=GTM-
- Live chat & support
- Zendesk TXT v=spf1 include:mail.zendesk.com include:_spf.google.com include:_spf.…
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX smtp.google.com
- Email delivery
- SparkPost TXT v=spf1 include:mail.zendesk.com include:_spf.google.com include:_spf.…
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-919.awsdns-50.net
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- DocuSign TXT docusign=0a856615-3cca-4967-af2e-aa849ca42de2
- GlobalSign TXT _globalsign-domain-verification=hnJMGmZ5nxkDzoVy5--BmuTT2DIF9hm5OQ87d…
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=JU1AoGj_pC_wB0Jxu62NnaIktGqrX8wTvBo9i8XRwHw
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=rgyjx6tabxhbz0vs8jznk3h7kw9igq
Sitemaps
, 155 of them guides, blog or magazine pages.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 18/20
- Google Workspace 15/20
- Meta Business Suite 10/20
- Atlassian · not on meetup.com 8/20
- Cloudflare · not on meetup.com 8/20
- DocuSign 7/20
- Amazon Route 53 7/20
- Zendesk 6/20
- Apple Business · not on meetup.com 5/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on meetup.com 5/20
- Next.js 4/20
- OpenAI · not on meetup.com 4/20
- React 4/20
- Amazon SES · not on meetup.com 4/20
- nginx · not on meetup.com 4/20
- Stripe · not on meetup.com 4/20