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Who runs Stack Exchange, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest Q&A community network alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Stack Overflow
Measured from Stack Exchange’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Stack Exchange01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Stack Exchange
Stack Exchange stackexchange.com
Stack Overflow – 180+ community-powered knowledge sites.
Wikidata: network of question and answer websites
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Stack Exchange 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 11 alternatives below has fewer; 7 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 1 tool
Third-party embeds
Videos, maps or fonts from other companies, which receive the visitor’s IP address.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Stack Exchange
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Stack Exchange, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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website for professional and enthusiast programmers
Very close - 02
American question-and-answer website
Very close - 03
American social news aggregation website and discussion portal
Very close - 04
Experts Exchange | Verified Solutions from Real Technology Experts
Solve your toughest tech problems with expert-verified answers, not AI guesses. 30 years of trusted solutions from vetted professionals. Try it free.
Very close - 05
Answers - The Most Trusted Place for Answering Life's Questions
Answers is the place to go to get the answers you need and to ask the questions you want
Very close - 06
DEV Community
A space to discuss and keep up software development and manage your software career
Very close - 07 Very close
- 08
SegmentFault 思否
SegmentFault 思否是中国专业的开发者技术社区。我们以技术问答、技术博客、技术课程、技术资讯为核心的产品形态，为开发者提供纯粹、高质的技术交流平台。
Very close - 09
Chinese question-and-answer website
Very close - 10 MetaFilter metafilter.com
general-interest community weblog
Very close - 11 Brainly brainly.com
Polish educational technology company
Very close - 12
The Something Awful Forums
comedy website founded by Richard Kyanka
Very close - 13
Quotev
Read or write a story, book, quiz, survey, or poll. Follow others who share your interests
Very close - 14
Publications / My feed / Habr
collaborative blog
Very close - 15
LinkedIn: Log In or Sign Up
1 billion members | Manage your professional identity. Build and engage with your professional network. Access knowledge, insights and opportunities.
Very close - 16
network of software developers in China
Very close - 17
product discovery website
Very close - 18
Pantip - Learn, Share & Fun
ร่วมพูดคุยแลกเปลี่ยนความคิดเห็นในทุกประเด็น ทั้งบันเทิง หุ้น ความงาม ท่องเที่ยว รถยนต์ กีฬา โทรศัพท์มือถือ อาหาร การเมือง ครอบครัว บ้าน วิทยาศาสตร์ สุขภาพ ธุรกิจ
Close - 19
SongMeanings | Song Lyrics, Meanings & Discussion
SongMeanings is a community of thousands of music lovers who contribute song lyrics, discuss song meanings and interpretations, and connect over songs and artists they love!
Very close - 20 Indie Hackers indiehackers.com
podcast
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Stack Exchange’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Stack Exchange 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 Stack Exchange 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 · 9 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,195
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 29 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Stack Exchange’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
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- JavaScript libraries
- jQuery asset https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.7.1/jquery.min.js
- Fonts
- Google Fonts asset https://fonts.googleapis.com/
- Live chat & support
- Zendesk TXT v=spf1 ip4:52.38.191.241 include:_spf.google.com include:mailgun.org …
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a562fe340a42b2e7-HAM
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Email delivery
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS sureena.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=PbDz-gjfB8Zt-6fgjpPjyh5-Qo2HsJp95qHdq4E0Gvk
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 16/20
- Google Workspace 12/20
- Cloudflare 9/20
- Cloudflare DNS 9/20
- Apple Business · not on stackexchange.com 6/20
- DocuSign · not on stackexchange.com 6/20
- Atlassian · not on stackexchange.com 4/20
- OneTrust · not on stackexchange.com 4/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on stackexchange.com 4/20
- Amazon SES · not on stackexchange.com 4/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on stackexchange.com 4/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on stackexchange.com 3/20
- OpenAI · not on stackexchange.com 3/20
- GlobalSign · not on stackexchange.com 3/20
- Next.js · not on stackexchange.com 3/20
- React · not on stackexchange.com 3/20