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
  1. 01
    Odnoklassniki ok.ru Top 1K English 2 trackers

    OK social network. Communication with friends on OK. Your meeting place with classmates

    OK is a social network where you can find your old friends. Communication, online games, send gifts and cards to friends. Come to OK, and share your emotions with friends, colleagues and classmates.

    Compare Odnoklassniki with VK →
  2. 02
    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 →
  3. 03
    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 →
  4. 04
    500px 500px.com Top 10K English No trackers

    photo sharing website

    Compare 500px with VK →
  5. 05
    fandom.com Top 1K English

    wiki hosting service and domain

    Compare fandom.com with VK →
  6. 06
    TikTok tiktok.com Top 100 English 1 tracker

    TikTok - Make Your Day

    video-focused social media platform

    Compare TikTok with VK →
  7. 07
    Meetup meetup.com Top 10K English 1 tracker

    Meetup | Find Local Groups, Events, and Activities Near You

    Find Meetup events, join groups, or start your own. Make new friends and connect with like-minded people. Meet people near you who share your interests.

    Compare Meetup with VK →
  8. 08
    wiki.gg Top 10K English 1 tracker

    Welcome to wiki.gg!

    wiki.gg hosts MediaWiki sites about common-interest topics. With over 800 wikis and an indie, editors-first mindset, we're a great place to host your wiki and we'd love to have you!

    Compare wiki.gg with VK →
  9. 09
    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 →
  10. 10
    Product Hunt producthunt.com Top 10K English

    product discovery website

    Compare Product Hunt with VK →
  11. 11
    Tumblr tumblr.com Top 1K English 1 tracker

    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.

    Compare Tumblr with VK →
  12. 12
    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 →
  13. 13
    9GAG 9gag.com Top 10K English 5 trackers

    9GAG - Best Funny Memes and Breaking News

    Your daily dose of funny memes, GIFs, videos and weird news stories. We deliver hundreds of new memes daily and much more humor anywhere you go.

    Compare 9GAG with VK →
  14. 14
    IMVU imvu.com English 2 trackers

    IMVU - #1 3D Avatar Social App, Virtual Worlds, Virtual Reality, VR, Avatars, Free 3D Chat

    IMVU's Official Website. IMVU is a 3D Avatar Social App that allows users to explore thousands of Virtual Worlds or Metaverse, create 3D Avatars, enjoy 3D Chats, meet people from all over the world in virtual settings, and spread the power of friendship.

    Compare IMVU with VK →
  15. 15
    Imgur imgur.com Top 1K English 3 trackers

    Imgur: The magic of the Internet

    Find, rate and share the best memes and images. Discover the magic of the Internet at Imgur.

    Compare Imgur with VK →
  16. 16
    GameBanana gamebanana.com Top 10K English 3 trackers

    GameBanana | The Game Modding Community - Since 2001

    Mods, Tutorials, Sprays, Works In Progress, Sound Mods and more for video games

    Compare GameBanana with VK →
  17. 17
    Farcaster farcaster.xyz English No trackers

    Farcaster

    A decentralized social network

    Compare Farcaster with VK →
  18. 18
    Letterboxd letterboxd.com Top 10K English

    social network service for films

    Compare Letterboxd with VK →
  19. 19
    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 →
  20. 20
    Dailymotion dailymotion.com Top 1K English No trackers

    Dailymotion

    video streaming site

    Compare Dailymotion 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 = 20
Sites searched
9,200
Vector
384-d
Query
40 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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