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
Google

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01 · 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.

Fewer trackers than YandexNo ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in English
  1. 01
    Google google.com Top 100 German No trackers

    Google

    search engine by Google LLC

    Compare Google with Yandex →
  2. 02
    Microsoft Bing bing.com Top 100 English No trackers

    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.

    Compare Microsoft Bing with Yandex →
  3. 03
    Baidu baidu.com Top 100

    Chinese web services company

    Compare Baidu with Yandex →
  4. 04
    DuckDuckGo duckduckgo.com Top 1K English No trackers

    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.

    Compare DuckDuckGo with Yandex →
  5. 05
    Yandex Search ya.ru Top 1K Russian 1 tracker

    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.

    Compare Yandex Search with Yandex →
  6. 06
    Kvasir kvasir.no English 2 trackers

    Kvasir - En smartere måte å lete på

    Kvasir gir deg raskt en oversikt - en smartere måte å lete på!

    Compare Kvasir with Yandex →
  7. 07
    Lycos lycos.com Top 10K English 1 tracker

    Home – Lycos

    search engine and web portal

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  8. 08
    Ecosia ecosia.org Top 10K

    web search engine and browser

    Compare Ecosia with Yandex →
  9. 09
    Naver naver.com Top 1K Korean No trackers

    NAVER

    네이버 메인에서 다양한 정보와 유용한 컨텐츠를 만나 보세요

    Compare Naver with Yandex →
  10. 10
    Yahoo yahoo.com Top 100 English 1 tracker

    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!

    Compare Yahoo with Yandex →
  11. 11
    Mojeek mojeek.com English No trackers

    Mojeek

    Mojeek is a web search engine that provides unbiased, fast, and relevant search results combined with a no tracking privacy policy.

    Compare Mojeek with Yandex →
  12. 12
    DeepL deepl.com Top 1K English 1 tracker

    DeepL AI Platform: Translation, Voice & API

    Explore our AI suite and get more done: Translate speech, text, and media, or integrate the DeepL API.

    Compare DeepL with Yandex →
  13. 13
    cian.ru Top 10K English 1 tracker

    Are you not a robot?

    Finds everything

    Compare cian.ru with Yandex →
  14. 14
    Opera opera.com Top 100 English 1 tracker

    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.

    Compare Opera with Yandex →
  15. 15
    Mail.ru mail.ru Top 100 English No trackers

    Russian web portal

    Compare Mail.ru with Yandex →
  16. 16
    Statcounter statcounter.com Top 10K 1 tracker

    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.

    Compare Statcounter with Yandex →
  17. 17
    Rambler rambler.ru Top 10K Russian 1 tracker

    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

    Compare Rambler with Yandex →
  18. 18
    Okko okko.tv Top 10K English

    Russian streaming service

    Compare Okko with Yandex →
  19. 19
    RuStore rustore.ru Top 1K Russian 2 trackers

    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.

    Compare RuStore with Yandex →
  20. 20
    Ahrefs ahrefs.com Top 10K English 7 trackers

    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.

    Compare Ahrefs with Yandex →

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

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

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