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

20 of the 60 sites closest to Yandex match.

  1. 01
    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 →
  2. 02
    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 →
  3. 03
    Lycos lycos.com Top 10K English 1 tracker

    Home – Lycos

    search engine and web portal

    Compare Lycos with Yandex →
  4. 04
    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 →
  5. 05
    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 →
  6. 06
    cian.ru Top 10K English 1 tracker

    Are you not a robot?

    Finds everything

    Compare cian.ru with Yandex →
  7. 07
    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 →
  8. 08
    Perplexity perplexity.ai Top 1K English 1 tracker

    Perplexity

    Perplexity is a free AI-powered answer engine that provides accurate, trusted, and real-time answers to any question.

    Compare Perplexity with Yandex →
  9. 09
    Mail.ru mail.ru Top 100 English No trackers

    Russian web portal

    Compare Mail.ru with Yandex →
  10. 10
    superjob.ru English No trackers

    Captcha

    Compare superjob.ru with Yandex →
  11. 11
    tenor.com Top 10K English No trackers

    Tenor GIF Keyboard - Bring Personality To Your Conversations

    Say more with Tenor. Find the perfect Animated GIFs and videos to convey exactly what you mean in every conversation.

    Compare tenor.com with Yandex →
  12. 12
    Grok grok.com Top 10K English 1 tracker

    Grok

    Grok is an AI assistant built by SpaceXSI. Chat, create images, write code, and get real-time answers from the web and X.

    Compare Grok with Yandex →
  13. 13
    Serpstat serpstat.com English 2 trackers

    Serpstat – Marketing Tool for SEO and Content Tasks

    Boost your online presence with Serpstat ➤ A powerful tool for ✓ Backlinks Analysis ✓ Rank Tracking ✓ Keyword Research ✓ Competitor Analysis ✓ Site Audit

    Compare Serpstat with Yandex →
  14. 14
    Similarweb similarweb.com Top 10K English 3 trackers

    Similarweb: AI-Powered Digital Data Intelligence Solutions

    Similarweb is an AI-powered digital data company providing real-time market intelligence, competitive insights, and consumer trends to accelerate business growth.

    Compare Similarweb with Yandex →
  15. 15
    Moz moz.com Top 10K English 1 tracker

    Moz - SEO Software for Smarter Marketing

    Backed by the largest community of SEOs on the planet, Moz builds the tools that make SEO, content marketing, market research, digital PR, and local SEO easy. Start your free trial today!

    Compare Moz with Yandex →
  16. 16
    Ionos ionos.co.uk English 1 tracker

    IONOS UK » Websites. Domains. Cloud.

    IONOS » Your digital partner for websites, domains and cloud. We are a leading UK web host and a specialist in cloud solutions.

    Compare Ionos with Yandex →
  17. 17
    AOL aol.com Top 1K English No trackers

    News, Politics, Sports, Mail & Latest Headlines - AOL.com

    Discover the latest breaking news in the U.S. and around the world — politics, weather, entertainment, lifestyle, finance, sports and much more.

    Compare AOL with Yandex →
  18. 18
    Transifex transifex.com English 2 trackers

    Home Page - Transifex

    Home Page - Transifex

    Compare Transifex with Yandex →
  19. 19
    Shodan shodan.io Top 10K English No trackers

    Shodan Search Engine

    Search Engine for the Internet of Things

    Compare Shodan with Yandex →
  20. 20
    Registry charlestonroadregistry.com Top 10K English 1 tracker

    Expanding the online frontier | Google Registry

    More and more people make websites every day, but not everyone knows how to stay safe and secure online. Learn what you need to be aware of to keep your data safe online.

    Compare Registry 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 = 60
Sites searched
9,212
Vector
384-d
Query
37 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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Sitemaps

, 636 of them guides, blog or magazine pages.