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Metacritic

Who runs Metacritic, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest review aggregator alternatives.

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

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs Metacritic

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Metacritic aggregates music, game, tv, and movie reviews from the leading critics. Only Metacritic.com uses METASCORES, which let you know at a glance how each item was reviewed.

Wikidata: website that aggregates reviews of music albums, games, movies, TV shows, DVDs, and formerly, books

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

02 · Privacy

What Metacritic 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.

trackers that follow visitors

7 of the 16 alternatives below have fewer, 6 have more.

Privacy-friendly alternatives →
Cookie banner
OneTrust
US company
3 tools

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to Metacritic

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

None of the 60 sites closest to Metacritic match these filters. We read imprints and pricing pages once a week, so more sites qualify as we get to them.

04 · History

What changed

Price and policy history →

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Metacritic 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 · 16 technologies
Neighbours
k = 60
Sites searched
9,221
Vector
384-d
Query
41 ms

Built with

JavaScript frameworks
  • Nuxt page source: __NUXT__
  • Vue.js implied by Nuxt (page source: __NUXT__)
Tag managers
Advertising
Cookie consent
  • OneTrust page source: cdn.cookielaw.org
Monitoring
  • Sentry page source: .ingest.sentry.io
CDN
Video
Authentication
Email hosting
Email delivery
  • SendGrid TXT v=spf1 a mx include:sendgrid.net include:_spf.google.com ~all
DNS hosting
SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
  • GlobalSign TXT _globalsign-domain-verification=SQONiBgTxRVzPPtIHjei_IUGCiAa0KxoVWFw1…
  • Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=ToKOLz4HFo4xPAM-UQDEM7ML8pdnj6bwjhlsfxc4AnE