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Patreon
Who runs Patreon, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest creator membership platform alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- ko-fi.com
Measured from Patreon’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Patreon01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Patreon
Patreon patreon.com
Build a community, share exclusive work, and turn your passion into a thriving business with Patreon. Get started today!
Wikidata: American crowdfunding platform
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Patreon 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 14 alternatives below has fewer; 7 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- OneTrust
- US company
- 1 tool
Privacy-friendly analytics
Counts visits without cookies or personal profiles.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Patreon
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Patreon, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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web patronage service
Very close - 02
Memberful | Build a membership that’s truly yours
Sell subscriptions, share content, and connect with your audience, all on your own website or app.
Very close - 03
Buy Me a Coffee
Buy Me a Coffee is the best way for creators and artists to accept support and membership from their fans.
Very close - 04
Substack
Substack is the app for independent voices: a free newsletter, video, and podcast hosting platform with paid subscriptions built in.
Very close - 05
Fanvue
The creator subscription platform for the future. Take home 80% of your earnings from day 1. Earn from your fanbase faster with the No1 AI monetisation platform for creators.
Very close - 06
Earn your first dollar online with Gumroad
Start selling what you know, see what sticks, and get paid. Simple and effective.
Very close - 07
Hotmart — Learn what you want, teach what you know
Learn more about Hotmart, the leading platform for selling and distributing digital products.
Very close - 08 Kajabi kajabi.com
California-based SaaS technology company that develops a platform for creators and entrepreneurs to create, market and sell digital content
Very close - 09
US-based crowdfunding platform
Very close - 10
Online Community Platform for Creators & Coaches | Heartbeat
The online community platform for creators and coaches. Run memberships, courses, events and payments in one place you own. 37,000+ communities built.
Very close - 11
Stan - Your Creator Store
We work 1-on-1 with the Top Creators to monetize their business
Very close - 12
Circle | The complete community platform
Build a home for your community, events, and courses — all under your own brand.
Very close - 13
Eduzz — Tudo para criar, vender e crescer no digital
Uma comunidade que ajuda você a transformar conhecimento em impacto.
Very close - 14
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online platform for people and organizations to create custom social networks
Very close - 16
Ghost: The best open source blog & newsletter platform
Beautiful, modern publishing with email newsletters and paid subscriptions built-in. Used by Platformer, 404Media, Lever News, Tangle, The Browser, and thousands more.
Very close - 17
American crowdfunding website
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Diply — The operating system behind creator growth
You create. Diply operates what happens next: people, distribution, strategy, analytics, monetization and technology behind creator growth. Apply today.
Very close - 19 MyMiniFactory myminifactory.com
website
Very close - 20
Ulule
Ulule makes it easy to take action and develop creative, sustainable projects. Crowdfunding, certified training courses and a store of sustainable brands.
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Patreon’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Patreon 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 Patreon 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 · 20 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 37 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Patreon’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
- Analytics
- Cloudflare Web Analytics asset https://static.cloudflareinsights.com/beacon.min.js
- Live chat & support
- Zendesk TXT v=spf1 mx include:_u.patreon.com._spf.dmarclb.com include:mail.zendes…
- Cookie consent
- OneTrust TXT onetrust-domain-verification=79b8a3167f8c41eea099b2892a54e62f
- Payments
- Stripe TXT stripe-verification=38627dce42881d55ace3509f1cabd9f32fb036720f2556f25…
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a562fd8b8d52fcbb-HAM
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms22586888
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS will.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Adobe TXT adobe-idp-site-verification=95a6bb7782cd6e91261a68e351c4afef00e16c3bb…
- Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=LN0DZMrJW4aMhP7l
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=fglxbv5n6seaVJXLuMNONEmIr7OF0Hw+10FY2NH…
- Canva TXT canva-site-verification=TigT-ZJgiej3HkZK4cBECg
- Dropbox TXT dropbox-domain-verification=hrveirsuxymz
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=Kn7Jf0jDTQDvdUZYiNLfPdlOZwlJ80kI02B_lj9zGWQ
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=cz1qrs4uk6yd5nfqm04op173z45tqw
- Notion TXT notion-domain-verification=iYzjIW41GC5Nj3LgiIdQBsPeNkX0xy6UszUPXIuzqID
- OpenAI TXT openai-domain-verification=dv-oZwFviofpoTYnuKjOkCrd9GQ
- Slack TXT slack-domain-verification=lUDc1eel2HuMtE16wX2D0sO9YdkmqBVSsFGrNB1C
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 20/20
- Google Workspace 17/20
- Cloudflare 13/20
- Cloudflare DNS 13/20
- Zendesk 10/20
- Meta Business Suite 9/20
- Microsoft 365 8/20
- HubSpot · not on patreon.com 7/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on patreon.com 7/20
- Google Analytics · not on patreon.com 5/20
- Next.js 5/20
- Notion 5/20
- React 5/20
- Stripe 5/20
- Amazon SES · not on patreon.com 5/20
- Google Fonts · not on patreon.com 5/20