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Twitch
Who runs Twitch, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest live streaming alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- KICK
Measured from Twitch’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Twitch01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Twitch
Twitch twitch.tv
Twitch is an interactive livestreaming service for content spanning gaming, entertainment, sports, music, and more.
Wikidata: American live-streaming platform
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
02 · Privacy
What Twitch 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 17 alternatives below has fewer; 11 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
We found no trackers, ad pixels or third-party embeds on Twitch’s homepage.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Twitch
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Twitch, thumbs down if it isn’t.
20 of the 60 sites closest to Twitch match.
- 01
KICK
KICK is a streaming platform that makes it easy for you to find and watch your favorite content.
Very close - 02
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 - 03
BIGO LIVE - Live Stream, Live Games, Chat Rooms Online
BIGO LIVE is a free live streaming platform that allows you to go live, watch live streams, live games, live shows, and video chat online.
Very close - 04
斗鱼 - 看见每种热爱
斗鱼 - 看见每种热爱 提供高清、快捷、流畅的视频直播和游戏赛事直播服务,包含英雄联盟lol直播、穿越火线cf直播、dota2直播、美女直播等各类热门游戏赛事直播和各种名家大神游戏直播,内容丰富,推送及时,带给你不一样的视听体验,一切尽在斗鱼 - 每个人的直播平台。
Very close - 05
BIGO LIVE - Live Stream, Live Games, Chat Rooms Online
BIGO LIVE is a free live streaming platform that allows you to go live, watch live streams, live games, live shows, and video chat online.
Very close - 06
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 - 07
South Korean internet streaming platform
Very close - 08
LiveMe - Live Streaming & Live Video Chat
LiveMe global live streaming community. Explore HD live broadcasts, chat with creators, make new friends and enjoy interactive live entertainment around the world.
Very close - 09
Watch LIVE
Explore the world through the eyes of somebody else.
Close - 10
Watch LIVE
Explore the world through the eyes of somebody else.
Very close - 11
Dailymotion
video streaming site
Very close - 12
Stream and listen to music online for free with SoundCloud
Discover and play over 320 million music tracks. Join the world’s largest online community of artists, bands, DJs, and audio creators.
Very close - 13
ニコニコ
日本最大級の動画サービス、ニコニコ(niconico)。動画にコメントを付けて楽しむニコニコ動画や、生放送番組にリアルタイムでコメントを付けられるニコニコ生放送のほか、イラスト・マンガ・最新ニュース・ゲームなど、エンターテイメントを全て無料で楽しめる!
Very close - 14
Mixcloud - This is Audio Culture
Join a global community where creators craft a deeper listening experience.
Very close - 15
RUTUBE - смотрите видео онлайн, бесплатно.
RUTUBE — ведущий российский видеопортал, предлагающий к просмотру тв онлайн, кинофильмы, сериалы, мультфильмы и пользовательское видео. Смотри. Создавай. Загружай.
Very close - 16
Bitchute
Bitchute is a video service that prioritizes creators and champions users' freedoms and privacy.
Very close - 17
bilibili
哔哩哔哩(bilibili.com)是国内知名的视频弹幕网站,这里有及时的动漫新番,活跃的ACG氛围,有创意的Up主。大家可以在这里找到许多欢乐。
Very close - 18
American over-the-top internet television service
Very close - 19
Prime Video | Watch movies, TV shows, Live TV, and sports
Watch now on Prime Video for a wide selection of movies, TV shows, live TV, and sports.
Very close - 20
Create and Multistream Live Video | Restream
Restream is a simple live video platform that empowers you to create beautiful videos and multistream them to your favorite channels.
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Twitch’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Twitch 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 Twitch 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 · 11 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,213
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 52 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Twitch’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=98fd69ef9979b0dcdc41fc6ea416633b9cd2e008a989b1c64…
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms29920882
- Email delivery
- Amazon SES TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:amazonses.com include:_spf.twi…
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-1778.awsdns-30.co.uk
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=PR1VWTa0H2FZsDQVhpCAAxSgaKScDpfZdEiDf46…
- Canva TXT canva-site-verification=vzTKIBrf2WFj6WrNz2tkCw
- DocuSign TXT docusign=79f74da0-0f98-4cdb-b2d3-93871ea127c8
- GlobalSign TXT _globalsign-domain-verification=PeBo1xAMkWVFOqJ28xB-APP6cLPZNF6oB7m4j…
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=hDc28WSCJ_PZVKa2N6OVyVvD2UqCbxUX81mmBP8QJn0
- Zoom TXT ZOOM_verify_tSqwymEhP9DPai0Q75XrR1
Sitemaps
, 2,806 of them guides, blog or magazine pages.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 19/20
- Google Workspace 11/20
- Amazon Route 53 10/20
- GlobalSign 9/20
- Microsoft 365 7/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on twitch.tv 6/20
- Apple Business · not on twitch.tv 6/20
- Cloudflare · not on twitch.tv 5/20
- Google Analytics · not on twitch.tv 5/20
- Amazon CloudFront · not on twitch.tv 5/20
- Zoom 4/20
- Express · not on twitch.tv 4/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on twitch.tv 4/20
- Atlassian 4/20
- Zendesk · not on twitch.tv 4/20
- Next.js · not on twitch.tv 3/20