semafor.com
Semafor
Who runs Semafor, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest online news alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Axios
Measured from Semafor’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Semafor01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Semafor
Semafor semafor.com
Transparent, global reporting by Semafor journalists on politics, policy, business, finance, technology, climate, energy, media, entertainment, world affairs, China, Asia, Europe, Africa for US and international readers.
Wikidata: American news website
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Semafor 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
1 of the 11 alternatives below have fewer, 8 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 1 tool
Marketing and email tracking
Links visits to email campaigns and customer profiles.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Semafor
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Semafor, thumbs down if it isn’t.
5 of the 60 sites closest to Semafor match.
- 01
BBC Home | Breaking News, World News, US News, Sports, Business, Innovation, Climate, Culture, Travel, Video & Audio
Visit BBC for trusted reporting on the latest world and US news, sports, business, climate, innovation, culture and much more
Very close - 02
Fortune - Fortune 500 Daily & Breaking Business News
Unrivaled access, premier storytelling, and the best of business since 1930.
Very close - 03
News, Politics, Sports, Mail & Latest Headlines - AOL.com
Discover the latest breaking news in the U.S. and around the world — politics, weather, entertainment, lifestyle, finance, sports and much more.
Very close - 04
Checking your browser
Very close - 05
Digg - News, before it trends
See what's next in AI before it trends. Digg watches the people who move first.
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Semafor’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Semafor 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 Semafor 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 · 10 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,214
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 30 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Semafor’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
- CMS
- Sanity page source: cdn.sanity.io/
- JavaScript frameworks
- Astro page source: <astro-island
- Marketing automation
- HubSpot TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.intacct.com include:_spf.google.com include:48294…
- CDN
- Fastly header x-served-by: cache-ber1080059-BER
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms15150970
- DNS hosting
- Google Cloud DNS NS ns-cloud-b2.googledomains.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=8EJGwKp9CRNWPlEN
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=cNb/CjqpZwolvP0co0JnS1i53MmaTBAALeGpGdC…
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=HsKtYwtZqOBLhM_pGRvnrboZEUF271XlTALvQXM6EHQ
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 20/20
- Google Workspace 13/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on semafor.com 13/20
- Microsoft 365 13/20
- OpenAI · not on semafor.com 10/20
- Amazon SES · not on semafor.com 9/20
- Apple Business 9/20
- Adobe · not on semafor.com 9/20
- Atlassian 8/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on semafor.com 8/20
- Cloudflare · not on semafor.com 7/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on semafor.com 7/20
- Zoom · not on semafor.com 6/20
- Fastly 6/20
- Google Ad Manager · not on semafor.com 6/20
- GlobalSign · not on semafor.com 6/20