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TikTok
Who runs TikTok, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest short-form video social media alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Triller
Measured from TikTok’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit TikTok01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs TikTok
TikTok tiktok.com
Wikidata: video-focused social media platform
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What TikTok 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.
tracker that follows visitors
10 of the 14 alternatives below have fewer, 0 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 1 tool
Marketing and email tracking
Links visits to email campaigns and customer profiles.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to TikTok
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to TikTok, thumbs down if it isn’t.
We can’t read tiktok.com’s homepage (too little text on the homepage), so it’s compared on what Wikidata and Wikipedia say about it.
- 01
American video-sharing and social networking service
Very close - 02
Page Not Available - Likee
Likee is a Short Video Community that allows you to explore more content of your interests and make more like-minded friends.
Very close - 03
Instagram
Create an account or log in to Instagram - Share what you're into with the people who get you.
Very close - 04
YouTube
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
Very close - 05
Make Everyone Shine
Kwai is a social network for short videos and trends. Discover funny short videos. Contribute to the virtual community with recordings, videos of your life, playing daily challenges or likes the best memes and videos. Download the app to share your life with short videos and choose from dozens of magical effects and filters for them.
Very close - 06
former Chinese social media service
Very close - 07
Snapchat - Say It In A Snap
Chat, send Snaps, explore Stories, and try Lenses on desktop, or download the app on mobile! See how to connect & create with friends on Snapchat, wherever you are.
Very close - 08
Make Everyone Shine
Kwai is a social network for short videos and trends. Discover funny short videos. Contribute to the virtual community with recordings, videos of your life, playing daily challenges or likes the best memes and videos. Download the app to share your life with short videos and choose from dozens of magical effects and filters for them.
Very close - 09
short-video platform
Very close - 10
Make Everyone Shine
Kwai is a social network for short videos and trends. Discover funny short videos. Contribute to the virtual community with recordings, videos of your life, playing daily challenges or likes the best memes and videos. Download the app to share your life with short videos and choose from dozens of magical effects and filters for them.
Very close - 11
Chinese social media app
Very close - 12 Dubsmash dubsmash.com
video sharing social media service
Very close - 13
American online social media and social networking service
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.
Very close - 15
KICK
KICK is a streaming platform that makes it easy for you to find and watch your favorite content.
Very close - 16
online video sharing, live streaming, and cloud services platform
Very close - 17 pinterest.com Top 100
American photo sharing and publishing website
Very close - 18
Bitchute
Bitchute is a video service that prioritizes creators and champions users' freedoms and privacy.
Very close - 19
Tango Live - Live Stream & Video Chat
Tango is your free video chat and live streaming platform to meet new people, stream live, and connect in real time, anytime. Join now and start chatting.
Very close - 20
Dailymotion
video streaming site
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles TikTok’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones TikTok 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 TikTok 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
- 9,193
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 31 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to TikTok’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
- Marketing automation
- HubSpot TXT hubspot-developer-verification=YzdjZDc2ZDEtMDRmNS00MWQyLWJlNzUtY2Q4Ym…
- Live chat & support
- Zendesk TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:mail.zendesk.com include:spf.b…
- Web servers
- nginx header server: nginx
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:mail.zendesk.com include:spf.b…
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms80039204
- DNS hosting
- Akamai Edge DNS NS a9-66.akam.net
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=hXgMRIDdysM4HJYw
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=-pibSb_VhK-cZP1CQSaH7s43WbBkpzjhUwAgyc3YDH4
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=iec6txjjw8r35xhq5swdem8tpa5mzw
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 16/20
- Google Workspace 9/20
- Zendesk 8/20
- GlobalSign · not on tiktok.com 7/20
- Meta Business Suite 7/20
- Microsoft 365 7/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on tiktok.com 6/20
- Apple Business 5/20
- Atlassian · not on tiktok.com 5/20
- Nuxt · not on tiktok.com 3/20
- Vue.js · not on tiktok.com 3/20
- Canva · not on tiktok.com 3/20
- HubSpot 3/20
- Miro · not on tiktok.com 3/20
- OneTrust · not on tiktok.com 3/20
- OpenAI · not on tiktok.com 3/20