Speedrun.com vs WildStack

Speedrun.com hosts communities for thousands of games, bringing together leaderboards, rules, moderators, and participants. Runners can use rankings to track progress, while fans can follow communities. Listed tools include game customization, news, forums, guides, resources, videos, streaming, moderation features, profiles, messages, and notifications. The site also provides a public API and supports account creation with Discord, Twitch, or Google. Speedrun.com lists 20 million yearly visitors, 6.4 million speedruns, 3 million registered users, and 54.6 thousand game communities. Core community features are available on the free plan. Supporter benefits include ad-free browsing, beta features, a supporters-only forum, username animation, an extra badge, and Boosts. A Boost gives three members of a game community 30 days of ad-free access; monthly subscribers receive one every 30 days and annual subscribers receive two. Supporter does not provide speedrunning or game-community management advantages. The API may be revised or discontinued without notice.

WildStack is a web gaming community and matchmaking platform for finding groups and players across games. Match offers are scored using goals, playstyle, schedule and timezone, and users can search for teammates live or set a search for later. Groups can be public, allowing discovery and request-based joining, or private. Each group has a hub for chat, voice, polls, scheduling and sessions, along with a shared availability heatmap to show when members are free. WildStack says its built-in voice channels need no separate app or setup, and that it supports almost all released games, with queues for one or several games at once. The web service has a free plan at free for matchmaking, groups, chat and voice. Its beta is open. The site says the service works in modern desktop and mobile browsers, while native Android and iOS apps are coming soon. An optional Pro plan with extras such as higher group limits is also described as coming soon. WildStack says it does not sell personal information or share it for advertising; account deletion is available through web or mobile settings, though some messages and moderation records may remain or be anonymized.