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Substack
Who runs Substack, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest newsletter publishing platform alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Ghost
Measured from Substack’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Substack01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Substack
Substack substack.com
Substack is the app for independent voices: a free newsletter, video, and podcast hosting platform with paid subscriptions built in.
Wikidata: American online newsletter platform
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Substack 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 16 alternatives below has fewer; 11 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 Substack
None of the 60 sites closest to Substack 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 Substack 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
- 9,216
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 249 ms
Built with
- Fonts
- Google Fonts page source: fonts.gstatic.com
- Live chat & support
- Zendesk TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:mailgun.org include:mail.zende…
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a562fa19ab1962d2-HAM
- Languages & backends
- Express header x-powered-by: Express
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:mailgun.org include:mail.zende…
- Email delivery
- Mailgun TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:mailgun.org include:mail.zende…
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS ali.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=FfNIQIxsRHpj3Y7E_d3N6GFqGgWDZ-sfYojqCilwtqE
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=8vbxp2ntmkudc6is3h5r840c9fwo7f
Sitemaps
, 16,184 of them guides, blog or magazine pages.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 19/20
- Google Workspace 16/20
- Cloudflare DNS 11/20
- Cloudflare 11/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on substack.com 8/20
- Zendesk 8/20
- Meta Business Suite 7/20
- Apple Business · not on substack.com 6/20
- Next.js · not on substack.com 6/20
- React · not on substack.com 6/20
- Stripe · not on substack.com 6/20
- HubSpot · not on substack.com 6/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on substack.com 6/20
- OneTrust · not on substack.com 5/20
- OpenAI · not on substack.com 5/20
- SendGrid · not on substack.com 5/20