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

16 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
    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 →
  4. 04
    Mail.ru mail.ru Top 100 English No trackers

    Russian web portal

    Compare Mail.ru with Yandex →
  5. 05
    superjob.ru English No trackers

    Captcha

    Compare superjob.ru with Yandex →
  6. 06
    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 →
  7. 07
    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 →
  8. 08
    Shodan shodan.io Top 10K English No trackers

    Shodan Search Engine

    Search Engine for the Internet of Things

    Compare Shodan with Yandex →
  9. 09
    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 →
  10. 10
    Nullschool nullschool.net English No trackers

    Nullschool Technologies Inc.

    Compare Nullschool with Yandex →
  11. 11
    Wolt wolt.com Top 10K English No trackers

    Wolt Delivery | Food, Groceries and more in 30 minutes | Germany

    When people try Wolt, they love it! The joy of food, groceries and more from local stores and restaurants, delivered in 30 minutes. Try the most-loved delivery app now.

    Compare Wolt with Yandex →
  12. 12
    Pinduoduo pinduoduo.com Top 10K English No trackers

    Pinduoduo - Together, More Savings, More Fun

    Pinduoduo - Together, More Savings, More Fun

    Compare Pinduoduo with Yandex →
  13. 13
    Alibaba Group alibaba.com Top 1K English No trackers

    Alibaba.com: Manufacturers, Suppliers, Exporters & Importers from the world's largest online B2B marketplace

    Find quality Manufacturers, Suppliers, Exporters, Importers, Buyers, Wholesalers, Products and Trade Leads from our award-winning International Trade Site. Import & Export on alibaba.com

    Compare Alibaba Group with Yandex →
  14. 14
    Eventbrite eventbrite.co.uk Top 10K English No trackers

    Eventbrite - Discover the Best Local Events & Things to Do

    Eventbrite - Discover the Best Local Events & Things to Do

    Compare Eventbrite with Yandex →
  15. 15
    British Broadcasting Corporation bbc.com Top 1K English No trackers

    BBC Home | Breaking News, World News, US News, Sports, Business, Innovation, Climate, Culture, Travel, Video & Audio

    Visit BBC for trusted reporting on the latest world and US news, sports, business, climate, innovation, culture and much more

    Compare British Broadcasting Corporation with Yandex →
  16. 16
    Digg digg.com Top 10K English No trackers

    Digg - News, before it trends

    See what's next in AI before it trends. Digg watches the people who move first.

    Compare Digg 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
9,214
Vector
384-d
Query
61 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.

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