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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.
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
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 - 04
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 - 05
DEV Community
A space to discuss and keep up software development and manage your software career
Very close - 06 Very close
- 07
Publications / My feed / Habr
collaborative blog
Very close - 08
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 - 09
product discovery website
Very close - 10
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 - 11
Yours for the making
Instructables is a community for people who like to make things. Come explore, share, and make your next project with us!
Very close - 12
Guilded - Chat for Gaming Communities
Guilded upgrades your group chat and equips your server with integrated event calendars, forums, and more – 100% free.
Very close - 13
GameBanana | The Game Modding Community - Since 2001
Mods, Tutorials, Sprays, Works In Progress, Sound Mods and more for video games
Very close - 14
Tumblr
Tumblr is the place you go to be yourself on the internet. No performance, no perfection. Just you, and the people who get it.
Close - 15
Hackaday.io | The world's largest collaborative hardware development community.
Discover. Get inspired. Repeat. Hack things for the better. Learn and grow from the example of others. Pass it on by showing off your own hardware adventures.
Very close - 16
Discourse | One platform. Any community.
Discourse is the customizable, scalable community platform powering more than 22,000 communities that create knowledge through conversation.
Very close - 17
Full Disclosure
Very close - 18
wiki hosting service and domain
Very close - 19
Find the right job for you. Or get found!
Over 1 million jobs ✓ 20,000 recruiters ✓ Salary ranges ✓ Employer reviews. Set your job preferences and do your XING!
Very close - 20
Meetup | Find Local Groups, Events, and Activities Near You
Find Meetup events, join groups, or start your own. Make new friends and connect with like-minded people. Meet people near you who share your interests.
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
- 9,199
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 34 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
Built with
- 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