🆚 AliExpress vs. Taobao

Type

Online marketplace
Online marketplace

About

AliExpress is a China-based global retail marketplace owned by Alibaba Group.

Taobao is a Chinese online consumer-to-consumer e-commerce marketplace where individual sellers and small businesses list a massive assortment of products for buyers to browse and purchase.

It hosts over a billion product listings across diverse categories, integrates personalized recommendations, live-stream shopping, user reviews and direct seller communication, and leverages Alipay payments with buyer protection.

Headquarters

Hangzhou, China
Hangzhou, China

Website

Categories

Marketplaces › Rank #29
Marketplaces › Rank #9

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Taobao marketplace is 2.6 times more popular than AliExpress.
Total websites

Market share

Marketplaces

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Taobao is more popular in China, Hong Kong, and Indonesia, while AliExpress is more popular in the United States, Russia, and Japan.
China
Hong Kong
Indonesia
United States
Russia
Korea
Japan
Singapore
United Kingdom
Spain

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Taobao is more popular among sites focused on business, blogs and wiki, and marketing and merchandising, while AliExpress is more commonly used on entertainment and personal pages sites.
Business
Online Shopping
Blogs/Wiki
Marketing/Merchandising
Internet Services
Portal Sites
Forum/Bulletin Boards
Entertainment
Technical/Business Forums
Software/Hardware

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

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Rank
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Rank
#1,233
#5,993
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See also

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