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Open edX

Who runs Open edX, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest learning management system alternatives.

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

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs Open edX

Open edX openedx.org

Discover how Open edX delivers inspiring learning experiences on any scale. Trusted by top organizations worldwide. Join over 55 million learners today!

Wikidata: a MOOC-type e-learning platform created in 2012 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Harvard University

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

02 · Privacy

What Open edX 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

16 of the 19 alternatives below have fewer, 0 have more.

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Cookie banner
OneTrust
US company
4 tools
  • Session recording

    Records clicks, scrolling and typing so the company can replay visits.

  • Marketing and email tracking

    Links visits to email campaigns and customer profiles.

  • Tag manager

    Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.

  • Third-party embeds

    Videos, maps or fonts from other companies, which receive the visitor’s IP address.

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to Open edX

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

Fewer trackers than Open edXNo ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in English
  1. 01
    Moodle moodle.org Top 10K

    e-learning platform

    Compare Moodle with Open edX →
  2. 02
    Sakai LMS sakailms.org English No trackers

    Sakai Learning Management System | Sakai LMS

    Sakai is a robust open-source learning management system created by higher ed for higher ed. Sakai creates the best learning outcomes for university faculty and students. It is the best LMS for higher ed in terms of learning outcomes.

    Compare Sakai LMS with Open edX →
  3. 03
    edX edx.org Top 10K English 2 trackers

    edX | Online Courses, Certificates & Degrees from Leading Institutions

    Find the online learning path for you, delivered by world-class institutions like Harvard, Google, Amazon, and more.

    Compare edX with Open edX →
  4. 04
    OpenInfra Foundation openinfra.dev English 3 trackers

    OpenInfra Foundation: We build communities who write software that runs in production - OpenInfra Foundation

    The OpenInfra Foundation is an open source foundation supporting a global community of 110,000 individuals to build and operate open infrastructure software.

    Compare OpenInfra Foundation with Open edX →
  5. 05
    O3DE o3de.org English 2 trackers

    Home - O3DE

    MEET O3DE An open source, real-time 3D engine DOWNLOAD Learn More

    Compare O3DE with Open edX →
  6. 06
    Instructure instructure.com Top 1K English 2 trackers

    Instructure: Leading EdTech for K–12, Higher Ed & Business

    Empower learning with Instructure’s LMS and edtech solutions for K–12, higher education, and businesses. Discover Canvas, Impact, and Mastery to drive success.

    Compare Instructure with Open edX →
  7. 07
    OSF osf.io Top 10K English 1 tracker

    OSF

    tools that make open science practice easier

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  8. 08
    FreeBSD freebsd.org Top 10K English No trackers

    The FreeBSD Project

    free Unix-like operating system

    Compare FreeBSD with Open edX →
  9. 09
    Joomla joomla.org Top 10K English 1 tracker

    Joomla Content Management System (CMS) - try it! It's free!

    Joomla! is the mobile-ready and user-friendly way to build your website. Choose from thousands of features and designs. Joomla! is free and open source.

    Compare Joomla with Open edX →
  10. 10
    Blackboard blackboard.com Top 10K English 3 trackers

    AI-Powered LMS for Transformational Teaching & Learning | Blackboard

    Discover Blackboard's AI-powered LMS designed for higher education, businesses, and government - enabling personalized learning, accessibility, and better outcomes worldwide. Contact us!

    Compare Blackboard with Open edX →
  11. 11
    Linux Foundation linuxfoundation.org 2 trackers

    Linux Foundation - Decentralized innovation, built with trust

    Helping open technology projects build world class open source software, communities and companies.

    Compare Linux Foundation with Open edX →
  12. 12
    EBA eba.gov.tr Turkish 1 tracker

    EBA

    Türkiye'nin en büyük dijital eğitim platformu

    Compare EBA with Open edX →
  13. 13
    X Window System x.org English No trackers

    xorg

    graphics controller and network protocol for UNIX-like systems

    Compare X Window System with Open edX →
  14. 14
    Eclipse Foundation eclipse.org Top 10K English 3 trackers

    Eclipse Foundation | Powering Open Innovation

    The Eclipse Foundation hosts 450+ open source projects with vendor-neutral governance, enabling global collaboration in automotive, IoT, cloud, and emerging …

    Compare Eclipse Foundation with Open edX →
  15. 15
    MariaDB mariadb.org Top 10K English 1 tracker

    MariaDB Foundation - MariaDB.org

    database management system, relational, open source, community developed fork of MySQL

    Compare MariaDB with Open edX →
  16. 16
    KDE kde.org Top 10K English 1 tracker

    Home - KDE Community

    KDE is an open community of friendly people who want to create a world in which everyone has control over their digital life and enjoys freedom and privacy.

    Compare KDE with Open edX →
  17. 17
    LibreTexts libretexts.org English No trackers

    Home | LibreTexts

    open access educational resource collection

    Compare LibreTexts with Open edX →
  18. 18
    Coursera coursera.org Top 10K English No trackers

    Coursera | Online Courses, Certificates, & Degrees

    Learn job-ready skills with online courses, Professional Certificates, Specializations, and degrees from Google, Meta, Anthropic, DeepLearning.AI, Stanford, and more. Start learning today.

    Compare Coursera with Open edX →
  19. 19
    OpenStack openstack.org English No trackers

    Open Source Cloud Computing Infrastructure - OpenStack

    Deployed by thousands. Proven production at scale. OpenStack is a set of software components that provide common services for cloud infrastructure.

    Compare OpenStack with Open edX →
  20. 20
    NetBSD netbsd.org English No trackers

    The NetBSD Project

    Compare NetBSD with Open edX →

Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Open edX’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Open edX 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 Open edX 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 · 14 technologies
Neighbours
k = 20
Sites searched
9,192
Vector
384-d
Query
26 ms

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to Open edX’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.

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CMS
JavaScript libraries
  • jQuery asset https://openedx.org/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.min.js?ver=3.7.1
Fonts
  • Google Fonts asset https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Roboto:100,100italic,200,200italic,300,300italic,…
Analytics
Tag managers
Marketing automation
Cookie consent
  • OneTrust page source: cdn.cookielaw.org
Web servers
  • nginx header server: nginx
Languages & backends
  • PHP implied by WordPress (meta generator: WordPress 7.1.4)
Email hosting
Email delivery
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DNS hosting
SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
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