yandex.com
Yandex
Who runs Yandex, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest web search engine alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
Measured from Yandex’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Yandex01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Yandex
Yandex yandex.com
Yandex finds anything: webpages, images, music, good. Solve any problem — from everyday to a scientific one. Search by text, voice or image.
Wikidata: Russian technology company
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Yandex 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
6 of the 17 alternatives below have fewer, 3 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- Russian company
- 1 tool
Visitor analytics
Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Yandex
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Yandex, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
Google
search engine by Google LLC
Very close - 02
Search - Microsoft Bing
Search with Microsoft Bing and use the power of AI to find information, explore webpages, images, videos, maps, and more. A smart search engine for the forever curious.
Very close - 03
Chinese web services company
Very close - 04
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.
Very close - 05
Яндекс — быстрый поиск в интернете
Яндекс, найдётся всё: сайты, изображения, музыка, товары. Решайте любые задачи — от повседневных вопросов до научной работы. Можно искать текстом, голосом или по картинке.
Very close - 06
Kvasir - En smartere måte å lete på
Kvasir gir deg raskt en oversikt - en smartere måte å lete på!
Very close - 07
Home – Lycos
search engine and web portal
Very close - 08
web search engine and browser
Very close - 10
Yahoo | Mail, Weather, Search, Politics, News, Finance, Sports & Videos
Latest news coverage, email, free stock quotes, live scores and video are just the beginning. Discover more every day at Yahoo!
Very close - 11
Mojeek
Mojeek is a web search engine that provides unbiased, fast, and relevant search results combined with a no tracking privacy policy.
Very close - 12
DeepL AI Platform: Translation, Voice & API
Explore our AI suite and get more done: Translate speech, text, and media, or integrate the DeepL API.
Very close - 13
Are you not a robot?
Finds everything
Very close - 14
Opera Web Browser | Faster, Safer, Smarter | Opera
Faster, safer and smarter than default browsers. Fully-featured for privacy, security, and so much more. Get the faster, better Opera browser for free.
Very close - 15
Russian web portal
Very close - 16
Web Analytics Made Easy - Statcounter
StatCounter is a simple but powerful real-time web analytics service that helps you track, analyse and understand your visitors so you can make good decisions to become more successful online.
Very close - 17
Рамблер — медийный портал: новости России и мира, почта, поиск, погода
Рамблер — последние новости сегодня, развлекательные и коммуникационные сервисы: поиск информации в интернете, электронная почта, гороскопы, прогноз погоды, телепрограмма
Very close - 18
Russian streaming service
Very close - 19
RuStore — каталог мобильных приложений и игр для Android
Ищите и скачивайте популярные приложения и игры в официальном магазине RuStore. Удобный поиск, категории и ежедневные подборки.
Very close - 20
Ahrefs—AI Marketing Platform Powered by Big Data
We help marketers drive visibility across AI search, SEO, content, and social – with the largest AI and search databases online.
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Yandex’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Yandex 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 Yandex 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 · 6 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 34 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Yandex’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
- Yandex Metrica page source: mc.yandex.ru/metrika
- Email hosting
- Yandex Mail MX mx.yandex.ru
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Bing Webmaster Tools meta msvalidate.01: 0A9E50D4F67EA7BB8CB934F63C41A83C
- GlobalSign TXT _globalsign-domain-verification=LUbMcUb0Zdviv4wd-A5JeHEzy5xZYZSWQQ0cx…
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=FVk3gum7zZLdkqi96ypScROFMew0wMetq1Gpu4rkzPI
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=gy3xj2e9mxu0vtcdgqcznoaxoaiv63
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 17/20
- GlobalSign 9/20
- Meta Business Suite 8/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on yandex.com 7/20
- Google Workspace · not on yandex.com 6/20
- React · not on yandex.com 6/20
- Cloudflare · not on yandex.com 6/20
- Next.js · not on yandex.com 5/20
- OpenAI · not on yandex.com 5/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on yandex.com 5/20
- Apple Business · not on yandex.com 4/20
- Yandex Metrica 4/20
- nginx · not on yandex.com 3/20
- Stripe · not on yandex.com 3/20
- Zoom · not on yandex.com 3/20
- Yandex Webmaster · not on yandex.com 3/20