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
Measured from VK’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit VK01 · 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.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- 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.
18 of the 60 sites closest to VK match.
- 01
Instagram
Create an account or log in to Instagram - Share what you're into with the people who get you.
Very close - 02
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.
Very close - 03
photo sharing website
Very close - 04
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 - 05
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.
Close - 06
Farcaster
A decentralized social network
Close - 07
Mastodon.online
A newer server of Mastodon, operated by Mastodon GmbH for the common good.
Close - 08
Dailymotion
video streaming site
Close - 09
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.
Close - 10
Wallpaper Cave
Wallpaper community sharing hundreds of cool wallpapers daily! Free downloads - More than 7 million wallpapers!
Close - 11
Guilded - Chat for Gaming Communities
Guilded upgrades your group chat and equips your server with integrated event calendars, forums, and more – 100% free.
Close - 12
Hot Questions - Stack Exchange
Stack Overflow – 180+ community-powered knowledge sites.
Close - 13
Hornet | Hornet, the Queer Social Network
Meet, chat and connect with 100 million+ queer men worldwide
Close - 14
Steam Community
Community Hubs are collections of all the best community and official game content as rated by users.
Close - 16
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!
Close - 17
Russian web portal
Very close - 18
Wikimedia
The Wikimedia movement is a global community of people, projects, and activities working together to create and share knowledge freely.
Very close
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
What changed
Price and policy 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
- 9,216
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 37 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
Built with
- Analytics
- Comscore page source: .scorecardresearch.com
- Languages & backends
- PHP header x-powered-by: KPHP/7.4.127812
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- GlobalSign TXT _globalsign-domain-verification=BPFwddh_Xx8EN00syGSxrWpZqc_AMn-oc_WQd…
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=1VsatdhGM8bfwvyiVeSJc1uYX55nJCqV7K1DsG9jQWQ
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 18/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on vkontakte.ru 9/20
- Google Workspace · not on vkontakte.ru 9/20
- GlobalSign 8/20
- Yandex Webmaster · not on vkontakte.ru 8/20
- Atlassian · not on vkontakte.ru 7/20
- Yandex Metrica · not on vkontakte.ru 6/20
- Apple Business · not on vkontakte.ru 5/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on vkontakte.ru 4/20
- Cloudflare · not on vkontakte.ru 4/20
- DocuSign · not on vkontakte.ru 4/20
- Zendesk · not on vkontakte.ru 4/20
- Miro · not on vkontakte.ru 3/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on vkontakte.ru 3/20
- HubSpot · not on vkontakte.ru 2/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on vkontakte.ru 2/20