Freestar vs Outbrain

Freestar is used by more websites in our catalog: 1,803 use Freestar and 1,760 use Outbrain.

Outbrain sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Freestar: 58, Outbrain: 59).

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Freestar went from 0.28% to 0.20% of all tracked sites, while Outbrain went from 0.28% to 0.20%. Outbrain is gaining ground faster in our index.

12 websites in our catalog use both Freestar and Outbrain.

Adoption is counted from Site Stats Database's own crawl; Domain Rating comes from Ahrefs and traffic from DataForSEO. Figures reflect the sites we track and refresh at least monthly.