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Stack Exchange

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.

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01 · 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

No ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in English

None of the 60 sites closest to Stack Exchange match these filters. We read imprints and pricing pages once a week, so more sites qualify as we get to them.

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 and search numbers · 9 technologies
Neighbours
k = 60
Sites searched
9,222
Vector
384-d
Query
58 ms

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JavaScript libraries
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Fonts
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DNS hosting
SaaS tools (verified in DNS)