whatsapp.com
Who runs WhatsApp, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest instant messaging alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Part of whatsapp.net
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Viber
Measured from WhatsApp’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit WhatsApp01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs WhatsApp
WhatsApp whatsapp.com
Use WhatsApp Messenger to stay in touch with friends and family. WhatsApp is free and offers simple, secure, reliable messaging and calling, available on phones all over the world.
Wikidata: Meta Platforms-owned mobile instant messenger and social media service
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Part of
- whatsapp.net Runs this domain’s DNS
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What WhatsApp 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 19 alternatives below has fewer; 9 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
We found no trackers, ad pixels or third-party embeds on WhatsApp’s homepage.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to WhatsApp
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to WhatsApp, thumbs down if it isn’t.
1 of the 60 sites closest to WhatsApp matches.
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Boost productivity and save time with Slack — the AI work platform for managing projects, automating workflows, and connecting teams securely. Start working smarter today.
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles WhatsApp’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones WhatsApp 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 WhatsApp 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 and search numbers · 7 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,217
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 38 ms
Built with
- Email hosting
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms22994725
- Proofpoint MX mxb-00082601.gslb.pphosted.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Adobe TXT adobe-idp-site-verification=a0d9793b-fc40-430b-9ab4-d3c75e4dcfba
- Dropbox TXT dropbox-domain-verification=lfq0o9x85s8s
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=MXbDGih8wW-64G5maXGw8iIkFbH7iv_vLobZd-kxdNo
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=ziojpt80hl1748lx6agku0kpttifb2
- Slack TXT slack-domain-verification=nRBGtO4znsPRYjkw5QqoXTNMh0Um600moF3unj2I
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 15/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on whatsapp.com 7/20
- Microsoft 365 7/20
- Atlassian · not on whatsapp.com 6/20
- Google Workspace · not on whatsapp.com 6/20
- Cloudflare · not on whatsapp.com 6/20
- Amazon SES · not on whatsapp.com 5/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on whatsapp.com 5/20
- Stripe · not on whatsapp.com 5/20
- Zendesk · not on whatsapp.com 5/20
- nginx · not on whatsapp.com 4/20
- Apple Business · not on whatsapp.com 4/20
- Google Fonts · not on whatsapp.com 3/20
- OneTrust · not on whatsapp.com 3/20
- PHP · not on whatsapp.com 3/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on whatsapp.com 3/20