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

18 of the 60 sites closest to Yandex match.

  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
    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 →
  4. 04
    Naver naver.com Top 1K Korean No trackers

    NAVER

    네이버 메인에서 다양한 정보와 유용한 컨텐츠를 만나 보세요

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  5. 05
    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 →
  6. 06
    AliExpress aliexpress.ru Top 10K No trackers

    Russian online marketplace

    Compare AliExpress with Yandex →
  7. 07
    Mail.ru mail.ru Top 100 English No trackers

    Russian web portal

    Compare Mail.ru with Yandex →
  8. 08
    ByteDance bytedance.com Top 10K No trackers

    ByteDance - Inspire Creativity, Enrich Life

    ByteDance develops products and services that empower people and organizations to create, connect, and discover.

    Compare ByteDance with Yandex →
  9. 09

    Исследовательская компания Mediascope – официальный сайт

    Mediascope – технологичная исследовательская компания, лидер российского рынка медиаисследований и мониторинга рекламы и СМИ.

    Compare Исследовательская компания Mediascope 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
    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 →
  13. 13
    AdRiver adriver.ru Top 1K Russian No trackers

    AdRiver — Система управления и аудита интернет-рекламы

    Compare AdRiver with Yandex →
  14. 14
    Ghostarchive ghostarchive.org No trackers

    Ghostarchive, a website archive

    web archiving site

    Compare Ghostarchive with Yandex →
  15. 15
    Shodan shodan.io Top 10K English No trackers

    Shodan Search Engine

    Search Engine for the Internet of Things

    Compare Shodan with Yandex →
  16. 16

    Онлайн-кинотеатр START — смотреть легальные фильмы, сериалы, мультфильмы онлайн. Интернет кинотеатр с хорошим качеством видео

    Онлайн-кинотеатр START.ru — это премьеры фильмов и сериалов в хорошем качестве по подписке. Вы можете смотреть интернет кинотеатр START на любых устройствах в любой точке мира. Смотрите премьеры до эфира на ТВ только на START

    Compare Онлайн-кинотеатр START with Yandex →
  17. 17
    DeepSeek deepseek.com Top 1K English No trackers

    DeepSeek | Into the Unknown

    DeepSeek is an AI research company focused on building world-leading general artificial intelligence. We develop and open-source frontier LLMs including DeepSeek-V4, DeepSeek-R1, and DeepSeek-Coder. Chat with DeepSeek AI or integrate via API.

    Compare DeepSeek with Yandex →
  18. 18
    Mobile TeleSystems mts.ru Top 1K Russian No trackers

    МТС - связь и экосистема цифровых сервисов - Частным клиентам | Официальный сайт МТС - Москва и Московская область

    Актуальные новости не только о тарифах и услугах связи, но и новых продуктах МТС: цифровых приложениях для работы и отдыха, ТВ и медиа, финансовых сервисах, технологиях для запуска и продвижения бизнеса и других сервисах компании - Москва и Московская область;

    Compare Mobile TeleSystems 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
9,216
Vector
384-d
Query
49 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

AdRiverAOLsuperjob.ruИсследовательская компания MediascopeMail.ruAliExpressMojeekNaverDuckDuckGoMicrosoft Bing

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