vk.ru

VK

Who runs VK, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest social networking alternatives.

Who’s behind it
Not stated
Online since
Unknown
Trackers
Prices
No pricing page
Last price change
–
Closest alternative
Odnoklassniki

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs VK

VK vk.ru

Wikidata: social networking service from Russia

Company
No imprint we could read
Online since
Not in the Internet Archive
Audience
In English

02 · Privacy

What VK 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

4 of the 12 alternatives below have fewer, 2 have more.

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Cookie banner
None found
US company
1 tool
  • Visitor analytics

    Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to VK

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to VK, thumbs down if it isn’t.

Fewer trackers than VKNo ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in English

20 of the 60 sites closest to VK match.

  1. 01
    Instagram instagram.com Top 100 English No trackers

    Instagram

    Create an account or log in to Instagram - Share what you're into with the people who get you.

    Compare Instagram with VK →
  2. 02
    LinkedIn linkedin.com Top 100 English No trackers

    LinkedIn: Log In or Sign Up

    1 billion members | Manage your professional identity. Build and engage with your professional network. Access knowledge, insights and opportunities.

    Compare LinkedIn with VK →
  3. 03
    kwai.com Top 10K English No trackers

    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.

    Compare kwai.com with VK →
  4. 04
    500px 500px.com Top 10K English No trackers

    photo sharing website

    Compare 500px with VK →
  5. 05
    Mail.ru mail.ru Top 100 English No trackers

    Russian web portal

    Compare Mail.ru with VK →
  6. 06
    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 VK →
  7. 07
    Farcaster farcaster.xyz English No trackers

    Farcaster

    A decentralized social network

    Compare Farcaster with VK →
  8. 08
    mastodon.online English No trackers

    Mastodon.online

    A newer server of Mastodon, operated by Mastodon GmbH for the common good.

    Compare mastodon.online with VK →
  9. 09
    Wallpaper Cave wallpapercave.com English No trackers

    Wallpaper Cave

    Wallpaper community sharing hundreds of cool wallpapers daily! Free downloads - More than 7 million wallpapers!

    Compare Wallpaper Cave with VK →
  10. 10
    Guilded guilded.gg English No trackers

    Guilded - Chat for Gaming Communities

    Guilded upgrades your group chat and equips your server with integrated event calendars, forums, and more – 100% free.

    Compare Guilded with VK →
  11. 11
    Stack Exchange stackexchange.com Top 10K English No trackers

    Hot Questions - Stack Exchange

    Stack Overflow – 180+ community-powered knowledge sites.

    Compare Stack Exchange with VK →
  12. 12
    DeviantArt deviantart.com Top 1K English No trackers

    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.

    Compare DeviantArt with VK →
  13. 13
    Hornet hornet.com English No trackers

    Hornet | Hornet, the Queer Social Network

    Meet, chat and connect with 100 million+ queer men worldwide

    Compare Hornet with VK →
  14. 14
    SlideShare slideshare.net Top 1K English No trackers

    Client Challenge

    American hosting service, owned by Scribd, for professional content including presentations, infographics, documents, and videos

    Compare SlideShare with VK →
  15. 15
    Dailymotion dailymotion.com Top 1K English No trackers

    Dailymotion

    video streaming site

    Compare Dailymotion with VK →
  16. 16
    Steam Community steamcommunity.com Top 1K English No trackers

    Steam Community

    Community Hubs are collections of all the best community and official game content as rated by users.

    Compare Steam Community with VK →
  17. 17
    AniList anilist.co English No trackers

    AniList: Track, Discover, Share Anime & Manga

    Track, discover, and share anime and manga with AniList. Discover top-rated and popular shows through reviews and recommendations. Sign up for free!

    Compare AniList with VK →
  18. 18
    superjob.ru English No trackers

    Captcha

    Compare superjob.ru with VK →
  19. 19
    DuckDuckGo duckduckgo.com Top 1K English No trackers

    DuckDuckGo - Protection. Privacy. Peace of mind.

    The Internet privacy company that empowers you to seamlessly take control of your personal information online, without any tradeoffs.

    Compare DuckDuckGo with VK →
  20. 20
    gazeta.ru English No trackers

    Document

    Russian state-controlled website

    Compare gazeta.ru with VK →

Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles VK’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones VK 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 VK 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 · 7 technologies
Neighbours
k = 60
Sites searched
9,215
Vector
384-d
Query
52 ms

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to VK’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.

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