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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

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01 · 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.

No ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree plan

20 of the 60 sites closest to Twitch match.

  1. 01
    KICK kick.com Top 1K English 1 tracker

    KICK

    KICK is a streaming platform that makes it easy for you to find and watch your favorite content.

    Compare KICK with Twitch →
  2. 02
    YouTube youtube.com Top 100 English No trackers

    YouTube

    Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

    Compare YouTube with Twitch →
  3. 03
    Bigo Live bigo.tv English 1 tracker

    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.

    Compare Bigo Live with Twitch →
  4. 04
    douyu.com Chinese No trackers

    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。

    Compare douyu.com with Twitch →
  5. 05
    Bigo live bigolive.tv Top 10K English 1 tracker

    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.

    Compare Bigo live with Twitch →
  6. 06
    Tango tango.me Top 10K No trackers

    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.

    Compare Tango with Twitch →
  7. 07
    sooplive.com Top 10K Korean No trackers

    South Korean internet streaming platform

    Compare sooplive.com with Twitch →
  8. 08
    LiveMe liveme.com English 1 tracker

    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.

    Compare LiveMe with Twitch →
  9. 09
    pscp.tv Top 10K 1 tracker

    Watch LIVE

    Explore the world through the eyes of somebody else.

    Compare pscp.tv with Twitch →
  10. 10
    Periscope periscope.tv 1 tracker

    Watch LIVE

    Explore the world through the eyes of somebody else.

    Compare Periscope with Twitch →
  11. 11
    Dailymotion dailymotion.com Top 1K English No trackers

    Dailymotion

    video streaming site

    Compare Dailymotion with Twitch →
  12. 12
    SoundCloud soundcloud.com Top 1K English 2 trackers

    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.

    Compare SoundCloud with Twitch →
  13. 13
    nicovideo.jp Top 10K English 2 trackers

    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!

    Compare nicovideo.jp with Twitch →
  14. 14
    Mixcloud mixcloud.com Top 10K English No trackers

    Mixcloud - This is Audio Culture

    Join a global community where creators craft a deeper listening experience.

    Compare Mixcloud with Twitch →
  15. 15
    Rutube rutube.ru Top 10K Russian 1 tracker

    RUTUBE - смотрите видео онлайн, бесплатно.

    RUTUBE — ведущий российский видеопортал, предлагающий к просмотру тв онлайн, кинофильмы, сериалы, мультфильмы и пользовательское видео. Смотри. Создавай. Загружай.

    Compare Rutube with Twitch →
  16. 16
    Bitchute bitchute.com No trackers

    Bitchute

    Bitchute is a video service that prioritizes creators and champions users' freedoms and privacy.

    Compare Bitchute with Twitch →
  17. 17
    Bilibili bilibili.com Top 1K Chinese No trackers

    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。

    Compare Bilibili with Twitch →
  18. 18
    Fubo fubo.tv Top 10K English 1 tracker

    American over-the-top internet television service

    Compare Fubo with Twitch →
  19. 19
    Prime Video primevideo.com Top 1K English No trackers

    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.

    Compare Prime Video with Twitch →
  20. 20
    Restream restream.io English 1 tracker

    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.

    Compare Restream with Twitch →

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

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

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Email hosting
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DNS hosting
SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
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Sitemaps

, 2,806 of them guides, blog or magazine pages.