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.
18 of the 60 sites closest to Yandex match.
- 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
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
Mojeek
Mojeek is a web search engine that provides unbiased, fast, and relevant search results combined with a no tracking privacy policy.
Very close - 06
Russian online marketplace
Very close - 07
Russian web portal
Very close - 08
ByteDance - Inspire Creativity, Enrich Life
ByteDance develops products and services that empower people and organizations to create, connect, and discover.
Very close - 09
Исследовательская компания Mediascope – официальный сайт
Mediascope – технологичная исследовательская компания, лидер российского рынка медиаисследований и мониторинга рекламы и СМИ.
Very close - 10
Captcha
Very close - 11
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.
Very close - 12
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.
Very close - 13
AdRiver — Система управления и аудита интернет-рекламы
Very close - 14
Ghostarchive, a website archive
web archiving site
Very close - 15
Shodan Search Engine
Search Engine for the Internet of Things
Very close - 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
Very close - 17
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.
Very close - 18
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;
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 = 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
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
Sitemaps
, 636 of them guides, blog or magazine pages.
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