musicbrainz.org
MusicBrainz
Who runs MusicBrainz, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest online music database alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- AllMusic
Measured from MusicBrainz’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit MusicBrainz01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs MusicBrainz
MusicBrainz musicbrainz.org
Wikidata: online music metadata database
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What MusicBrainz 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
None of the 10 alternatives below has fewer; 7 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
We found no trackers, ad pixels or third-party embeds on MusicBrainz’s homepage.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to MusicBrainz
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to MusicBrainz, thumbs down if it isn’t.
20 of the 60 sites closest to MusicBrainz match.
- 01
Home - Encyclopaedia Metallum: The Metal Archives
website on heavy metal bands
Very close - 02
Welcome - TheTVDB.com
wiki-like site for TV series
Very close - 03
IMSLP: Free Sheet Music PDF Download
project for the creation of a virtual library of public domain music scores
Very close - 04
AZLyrics - Song Lyrics from A to Z
music online lyrics database
Very close - 05
PostgreSQL: The world's most advanced open source database
The official site for PostgreSQL, the world's most advanced open source database
Very close - 06
Wikidata
free multilingual online knowledge graph
Very close - 07
Welcome to Open Library | Open Library
Open Library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published. Read, borrow, and discover more than 3M books for free.
Very close - 08
OpenAlex: The open catalog to the global research system
OpenAlex indexes half a billion scholarly works, with their authors, institutions, sources and topics, and makes them free to search, analyze and reuse through our web app, API and bulk download.
Very close - 09
Home - CookieSearch
CookieSearch is an open-source database of 100,000+ pre-categorized cookies. Find information on web cookies - category, URL, script and description.
Close - 10
Home - DBpedia Association
DBpedia provides a platform for data, tools and services. Explore current projects and applications and learn about DBpedia datasets.
Very close - 11
Wikimapia - Let's describe the whole world!
Wikimapia is an online editable map - you can describe any place on Earth. Or just surf the map discovering tonns of already marked places.
Close - 12
Song Meanings at Songfacts
Songfacts - the stories and meanings behind the songs, with songwriter interviews and lyrics.
Close - 13
An analytical SQL database management system – DuckDB
DuckDB is a SQL OLAP database management system. Simple, feature-rich, fast & open source.
Very close - 14
Schema.org - Schema.org
Schema.org is a set of extensible schemas that enables webmasters to embed structured data on their web pages for use by search engines and other applications.
Close - 15
The Lens - Patent and Scholarly Search and Analysis
The Lens serves all the patents and scholarly work in the world as an open and secure digital public good, with user privacy a paramount focus.
Very close - 16
peer-reviewed open-access journal
Close - 17
Zenodo
research data repository
Close - 18
Internet Meme Database | Know Your Meme
Know Your Meme is a website dedicated to documenting Internet phenomena: viral videos, image macros, catchphrases, web celebs and more.
Close - 19
Our World in Data
Research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems.
Close - 20
SQLite Home Page
serverless relational database management system (RDBMS)
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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles MusicBrainz’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones MusicBrainz 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 MusicBrainz 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 · 3 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,214
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 301 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to MusicBrainz’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
- Monitoring
- Sentry page source: .ingest.de.sentry.io
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=G4fF3tLLdINKF_4i0uJim28YqjjcD9Cwj6d5SJXAQxE
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 18/20
- Google Workspace 14/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on musicbrainz.org 8/20
- Cloudflare · not on musicbrainz.org 7/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on musicbrainz.org 7/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on musicbrainz.org 6/20
- nginx · not on musicbrainz.org 6/20
- Google Analytics · not on musicbrainz.org 5/20
- SendGrid · not on musicbrainz.org 4/20
- GlobalSign · not on musicbrainz.org 4/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on musicbrainz.org 4/20
- Amazon CloudFront · not on musicbrainz.org 4/20
- Zendesk · not on musicbrainz.org 3/20
- Font Awesome · not on musicbrainz.org 3/20
- Google Fonts · not on musicbrainz.org 3/20
- Apple Business · not on musicbrainz.org 2/20