🆚 Max vs. WhatsApp
- 📈 WhatsApp is much more popular than Max.
- 🌍 WhatsApp is more popular in all countries.
- ⭐ Max is particularly popular in Russia.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Max
WhatsAppType
Instant messaging app
Instant messaging app
About
Max is an instant messaging app from Russia, integrated into the country's national IT ecosystem.
WhatsApp is an instant messaging and Voice over IP (VoIP) service owned by Meta.
It allows users to send text and voice messages, share photos, videos, documents, and locations, make voice and video calls including group calls, supports end-to-end encryption, and provides a Business API for large-scale messaging and automation.
Headquarters
Moscow, Russia
Menlo Park, California, United States
Pricing
Free ✔️
Free ✔️
WhatsApp Business, US rate per conversation
Free version ✔️1,000 free service conversations/month
Marketing$0.025
Authentication$0.0135
Utility$0.004
Service$0
Categories
Instant Messaging › Rank #14
Instant Messaging › Rank #1
Social Media › Rank #40
Social Media › Rank #5
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The WhatsApp instant messaging app is 123 times more popular than Max.
Total websites
Market share
Instant Messaging
Social Media
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
WhatsApp is more popular than Max in all countries.
Brazil
India
Russia
Spain
Turkey
Indonesia
Italy
Thailand
Argentina
Iran
Awards
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Russia in the Instant Messaging category.
- ⭐ 10th most popular in Russia in the Social Media category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Brazil in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥇 Most popular in India in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Spain in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Turkey in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Indonesia in the Instant Messaging category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
WhatsApp is more popular than Max in all market segments.
Online Shopping
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Internet Services
Travel
Education/Reference
Fashion/Beauty
Health
General News
Blogs/Wiki
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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Meta company profile🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,375,483 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.