vkontakte.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
Facebook

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs VK

VK vkontakte.ru

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 14 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

16 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
    500px 500px.com Top 10K English No trackers

    photo sharing website

    Compare 500px with VK →
  4. 04
    Triller triller.co No trackers

    American video-sharing and social networking service

    Compare Triller with VK →
  5. 05
    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 →
  6. 06
    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 →
  7. 07
    Farcaster farcaster.xyz English No trackers

    Farcaster

    A decentralized social network

    Compare Farcaster with VK →
  8. 08
    vkplay.ru Top 10K No trackers

    Russian-language online gaming service

    Compare vkplay.ru with VK →
  9. 09
    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 →
  10. 10
    Dailymotion dailymotion.com Top 1K English No trackers

    Dailymotion

    video streaming site

    Compare Dailymotion with VK →
  11. 11
    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 →
  12. 12
    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 →
  13. 13
    DTF dtf.ru Russian No trackers

    DTF — игры, кино, сериалы, разработка, сообщество

    Площадка для обсуждения игр и кино. Новости игровой индустрии, обзоры, аналитика, мемы. Создавайте свои записи, комментируйте чужие, оценивайте контент, который вам нравится.

    Compare DTF with VK →
  14. 14
    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 →
  15. 15
    telegram.org Top 1K No trackers

    Telegram Messenger

    Fast. Secure. Powerful.

    Compare telegram.org with VK →
  16. 16
    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 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 · 4 technologies
Neighbours
k = 60
Sites searched
9,221
Vector
384-d
Query
50 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.

similarity × popularity

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