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Stack Overflow
Who runs Stack Overflow, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest Developer Q&A community alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Couldn’t check
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Stack Exchange
Measured from Stack Overflow’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Stack Overflow01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Stack Overflow
Stack Overflow stackoverflow.com
Wikidata: website for professional and enthusiast programmers
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Stack Overflow tracks
We couldn’t read stackoverflow.com’s homepage (bot protection page), so we can’t say what it loads.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Stack Overflow
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Stack Overflow, thumbs down if it isn’t.
1 of the 60 sites closest to Stack Overflow matches.
We can’t read stackoverflow.com’s homepage (bot protection page), so it’s compared on what Wikidata and Wikipedia say about it.
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GitLab - Speed with control for agentic software engineering
Teams and agents ship trusted software faster with GitLab, the intelligent orchestration platform with context and governance for the entire software lifecycle.
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Stack Overflow’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Stack Overflow 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 Overflow 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 · 15 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,201
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 41 ms
Built with
- Live chat & support
- Zendesk TXT v=spf1 ip4:52.38.191.241 include:_spf.google.com include:mailgun.org …
- Cookie consent
- OneTrust TXT onetrust-domain-verification=e445562296a64c649ae3d520230b8c4c
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a562fa9ae9f4b1e5-HAM
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms52592611
- Email delivery
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS sureena.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Adobe TXT adobe-idp-site-verification=25ba5203f3687c9cd6ee3223ee5de1528917828d1…
- Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=O9jlnJXAQ7sNSZqC
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=byLeZgl3MIcfOqwWuMhq8Fhr/1zem/jIaouJegv…
- DocuSign TXT docusign=4262531d-29f4-4a62-9f33-ae9f66f5247b
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=2Bi6SYw5skkRexdtdLPL2gpxeIhLxnYVqITVP9Htl3w
- OpenAI TXT openai-domain-verification=dv-GLNufzbWDzAq0fDXHD6jxeCK
- Zoom TXT ZOOM_verify_AbkNwz5bBl0eurcDKyhhuk
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 16/20
- Google Workspace 12/20
- Cloudflare DNS 7/20
- Cloudflare 6/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on stackoverflow.com 6/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on stackoverflow.com 5/20
- Apple Business 4/20
- Mailchimp · not on stackoverflow.com 4/20
- DocuSign 4/20
- Amazon SES · not on stackoverflow.com 3/20
- GlobalSign · not on stackoverflow.com 3/20
- Microsoft 365 3/20
- OneTrust 3/20
- Google Analytics · not on stackoverflow.com 3/20
- Google Fonts · not on stackoverflow.com 2/20
- jQuery · not on stackoverflow.com 2/20