thingiverse.com
Thingiverse
Who runs Thingiverse, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest 3D model repository alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Couldn’t check
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Creality Cloud
Measured from Thingiverse’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Thingiverse
Thingiverse thingiverse.com
Wikidata: website
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
02 · Privacy
What Thingiverse tracks
We couldn’t read thingiverse.com’s homepage (UND_ERR_CONNECT_TIMEOUT), so we can’t say what it loads.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Thingiverse
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Thingiverse, thumbs down if it isn’t.
We can’t read thingiverse.com’s homepage (UND_ERR_CONNECT_TIMEOUT), so it’s compared on what Wikidata and Wikipedia say about it.
- 01
Free 3D Printer Models & STL Files | Creality Cloud
Discover free 3D printer models, STL files and 3D print files on Creality Cloud. Download, print, create and share designs with millions of makers.
Very close - 02 MyMiniFactory myminifactory.com
website
Very close - 03
3D printing marketplace
Very close - 04
CGTrader - 3D Models And 3D Printing Marketplace
Explore 2M+ 3D models online for print, game, VR/AR & design projects. Download, customize, or hire 3D experts - all on CGTrader.
Very close - 05
design website
Very close - 06
Explore - SoFurry
Discover artwork, stories, music, games and more from the furry community. Join SoFurry and share your creations.
Very close - 07
Houzz for Pros and Homeowners | Build and Design Software | Try Free for 30 Days
Houzz has powerful software for construction and design professionals. For homeowners, find inspiration, products, and pros to design your dream home.
Very close - 08
product discovery website
Very close - 09
Home — Weasyl
online art gallery
Very close - 10
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 - 11
DeviantArt - The Largest Online Art Gallery and Community
DeviantArt is where art and community thrive. Explore over 650 million pieces of art while connecting to fellow artists and art enthusiasts.
Very close - 12 Rebrickable rebrickable.com
MOC-sharing website hosted by the LEGO Group
Very close - 13
Mix — Expand your mind
Discover the gems of the web, personalized to you.
Very close - 14
Ravelry
Ravelry is a community site, an organizational tool, and a yarn & pattern database for knitters and crocheters.
Close - 15 Hackster hackster.io
hacker/maker social network
Very close - 16
Vocal
Vocal is a platform for supporting, discovering and rewarding creators.
Very close - 17 unsplash.com Top 1K
website dedicated to sharing copyright-free photography under the Unsplash license
Very close - 18
Tinkercad
Tinkercad is a free, easy-to-use app for 3D design, electronics, and coding.
Very close - 19
photo sharing website
Very close - 20
Blender - The Free and Open Source 3D Creation Software — blender.org
The Freedom to Create
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Thingiverse’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Thingiverse 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 Thingiverse 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 · 4 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 65 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Thingiverse’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
- Payments
- Stripe TXT stripe-verification=20186a974224e34a336536db9f4302e0108e3008cea3dde1f…
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS lovisa.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=53lQSWc3Vmp7_WywK5SSuqlEaQCKobp_hP3OBI5vlSk
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 18/20
- Google Workspace 14/20
- Cloudflare · not on thingiverse.com 9/20
- Cloudflare DNS 9/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on thingiverse.com 8/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on thingiverse.com 6/20
- Mailchimp · not on thingiverse.com 5/20
- Cloudflare Web Analytics · not on thingiverse.com 4/20
- Amazon CloudFront · not on thingiverse.com 4/20
- Mailgun · not on thingiverse.com 4/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on thingiverse.com 4/20
- SendGrid · not on thingiverse.com 4/20
- GlobalSign · not on thingiverse.com 3/20
- Zendesk · not on thingiverse.com 3/20
- Amazon SES · not on thingiverse.com 3/20
- Yandex Webmaster · not on thingiverse.com 2/20