Here is a list of the most popular dating sites. We pick the dating sites based on size, usability, success rate, and more. Check the list below and find one that suits you the best.
General Dating Site
Chemistry.com – A sister premium matchmaking service of Match.com with more than 8 million members. It offers “3 day free trial” before becoming a paying member.
EliteSingles.com – A dating service for educated singles and professionals! Aong its 13 million users, 71% of them are university graduates.
eHarmony – A dating site and dating app, one of the most well-known dating services in the United States. It owns around 33,000,000 users in the world. Offer free trial, minimum monthly fee is $19.95.
FriendFinder – A general social dating community with around 400,000 members.
Girlsdateforfree.com – UK’s top dating site with also many members from the USA. It has 1.6 million members. Girls can date for free.
Mamboo – A general dating site with 300,000 members around the world. Users need to buy “credits” to use advanced fetures.
OKCupid – It has 4 million registers. It welcomes all sorts of people.
Sex Dating Sites
AdultFriendFinder.com – A sex dating site which claims over 60 million members from various countries. You can find things like groups, one-on-one sex and more. male members need to pay to find a hookup for a date.
GetItOn.com – A casual sex and hookup dating sites, with 31 million members and the majority is from the USA.
Fling.com – An adult hookup sites with lots of hot-looking singles, it boasts 50 million users. Each register can enjoy 3 months free of premium service.
Hornymatches.com – An online sex dating site with 7 million members, a good place to find an erotic or sex date.
Flirt.com A casual dating site to help people enjoy casual hookups, it has about 70 million members.
Sexsearch.com – A good place for adults to find casual sex. It boasts more than 60 million members. Android version app is available. Members mainly from United States, Canada, United Kingdom and Australia.
Affairs Dating
Gleeden.com – A top international dating site for married people, Free for women and men are evaluated by women. It boasts 2.5 million members worldwide and a large number of male users from the United States.
CDate.com – A casual sex dating site for married people. Users will receive date suggestions based on preferences, desires and expectations. It has about 23 million members world wide.
UnTrue.com – An affairs dating site for married people and singles. It boasts 10 million users.
Victoriamilan.com – An international affair dating site aimed at married people who are carving for an affair outside of their current relationship. It boasts more than 5 million users worldwide.
Gay Dating
Gay.com – One of the largest online community for gay men with 3 million gay members. Android and iPhone apps are available. Free to sign up and premium membership at $11.90/month.
Manhunt.net – An old gay dating for gay and bisexual men with 4 million members, many users are from the USA . It is available on both website and mobile app on iOS and Android.
PlanetRomeo – An international gay, bisexual and transgender man dating site with 6 million members. Most gay singles are from German-speaking countries.
Adam4Adam.com – It is a gay and bisexual dating and hookup site, primarily focuses on sex. Most members are from the USA nearby countries. A good place to find a hookup in a city when on the go.
Grindr App – A popular free mobile dating app for gay men, service only available on mobile. with about 4 million members worldwide.
Lesbian Dating
PinkCupid.com – One of the best lesbians dating sites in the world. The site is popular in the USA, Canada, the UK, and Australia. Users can contact each other by instant messaging, email and video communication. Member costs starts from $8.33/month.
Swingers
BDSM & Swingers The best site for swingers, BDSM, bondage and other kinds of fetish dating. It has about 1 million online every day.
sdc.com – A swingers dating site primarily used by couples. It has around 3 million members and many are from the United States Netherlands, Germany and the UK.
TheAdultHub.com – A swingers’ dating primarily for couples to find people of the same preferences. 1.8 million members but less in the USA compared with sdc.com.
Fabswingers.com help swingers to find one other, there are about 16,000 users online at the same time.
Russian
AnastasiaDate.com – Founded in 1993, An international dating site for men from English-speaking countries to find women from Eastern European countries, especially Russia.
The USA and Canada
AshleyMadison.com – An Canadian affair dating service with more than 50 million affair seekers from Canada and the USA. Users need to pay credits to get specific functions.
Coffee Meets Bagel – A dating app based in USA. It focuses on quality over quantity and recommend just one match for every member every day.
LavaLife.com – About 2 million members with the majority from the United States and Canada.
Asian
AsianDating.com – It has around 2.5 million members, with 2000 online on average. Free to register but need to upgrade to get unlimited communications at affordable prices.
AsiaFriendFinder.com – With more than than 6 million members, it is one of the largest hookup and chat sites to find Asian women. It offers both Chinese and English language.
iDateAsia.com – An online niche dating site to find ladies from Southeast Asia. Users need to pay for credits to message and use other features.
AsianDate.com – With about 2 million members, help men from western countries seek Asian women.
AsiaMe – Focusing on bring foreigners together with Asian ladies. There are around 5,000 members online on average. Users need to buy credits and each message or call costs a certain amount.
Japanese Dating
Japancupid.com – Many members are from Japan and wanted to date foreigners. You can create a fee account to look around and decide if you want to upgrade to a paying account.
JapaneseFriendFinder.com – Help people date Japanese singles.
Chinese Dating
Chinalovecupid.com – the leading Chinese dating site with more than 1 million members worldwide. Most members can speaking English.
Chinalovematch.net – dedicated to introducing quality Western men to quality Chinese and other Asian Ladies. The site has less scammers as the site staff will spend hours a day to find scammers and remove them.
JiaYuan.com (世纪佳缘) – biggest domestic Chinese dating sites with 170 million members, the site has only Chinese version.
Zhenai.com – Founded in 2005 with 100 million members, Chinese version only, the second largest domestic Chinese dating site.
Youyuan.com – Established in 2007, a site aiming at help young people find their love. It is a fast growing and the third largest dating site in China.
Indian Dating
Indiancupid.com – Help people find partner from India or those with Indian background such as from the USA, UK, Canada, Australia.
Shaadi.com – A popular matchmaking site for Indian singles with 3 million members.
Jeevansathi.com – An Indian matchmaking site with millions of users, most from India, some from the USA and other countries.
Social Network
Badoo – a popular social dating site and an online dating app with more than 333 million members. It is a good place for casual dating, romance or just companionship.
MeetMe.com – A social network which can help you find local contacts and about 40 million users. Users have to buy credits to use many of its features.
Facebook.com (free) – the most well-known social networking site and also a good place for you to find your love.
LinkedIn.com – A social networking site with 200 million professionals. A good place to exchange business ideas and find like-minded people.
DateMatch.com – more like a social network, about 30,000 members.
FirstMet – A dating app with over 30 million registered members, most of them are in the 35+ age range.
Tinder – A flirt app extremely popular in the USA. With playful, fast, easy functions and a lot of fun out there. It has attracted more than 50 million users, most are at ages of 28 and 35 years. You can download it on both Android and iOS phones.
Happn App – A new dating app available on both Android and iOS. Popular in countries like France and Germany. Users need to sign in with Facebook account.
Skout.com – A location-based social network app with 5 million users in more than 100 countries. Available on both iPhone and Android devices.
Christian Dating
ChristianMingle.com – Help those who are interested in Christian dating and find love who can share their faith. A popular dating site with more than 10 million members.
Christiancafe.com – A matching site for Christian singles to find like-minded individuals, there are about 200 online users on average. Registers can enjoy a 7 day free premium membership.
BigChurch.com – An online faith-based community to help people look for love with Christians. Caimis to have 500 million members with many from the United States.
MyFunkyFish.com – A christian dating site with 24000 singles, most are located in Germany and Netherlands.
Jdate – The most popular Jewish dating site with around 450,000 members, with 50:50 male-to-female ratio. The premimum membership is $19.99/month.
Black People Dating
BlackCupid.com An interracial dating site which is aimed at at black singles and people who hope to date them. Free to register and search for standard memberers, users need to pay affordable fee to contact other members.
BlackPeopleMeet.com Mainly focues on African-American and Black singles. Dating app is available on both Andriod and iPhone.
Cougar & Sugar
CougarLife.com – A cougar dating site to match younger men and older women. It boasts about 7 million people with equal ratio of males to females. Men need to use it by buying credits, free for women
OlderWomenDating.com – It primarily brings younger men together with older women, about 2 million members.
PlayCougar.com – A popular online dating site to help young men find older women, or the opposite. It is a relatively new dating service with just around 50,000 members.
DateaCougar.com – A MILF hookup community to bring younger guys and older women together, members are mainly from the USA.
Toyboy.com – A cougar dating site to help older successful ladies find young men. Members are mainly located in the USA, the UK, Australia, South Africa, Canada and Ireland.
International dating
Interracial Cupid a well-known dating site for people of different ethnic groups to find their love. It has around 30 million members worldwide. Basic member is free, a premium membership starts from $8.33/month.
Match.com – One of the best known dating sites in the world with around 60 million users. The site will remove users who haven`t logged in for past 6 months. Member fee is 26.99/month for a 3 months package.
be2.com – Originally a German dating site, now an international dating site with 36 million members.
Zoosk.com – It boasts about 38 million members. Users can get connect with their Facebook account, this reduce the risk of fake profiles.
Free Dating Sites
Mingle2.com – A free social dating site. App is available on both iOS and Android platforms. It is free but there are a lot of advertisements.
Oasis.com – Oasis dating is a totally free dating site with 5 million members.
PlentyOfFish – It is the biggest free online dating site in the English-speaking world. There are about 3 million active users every day.
Serious Dating
Destidyll.com – A serious dating site and a good place for those who are looking for long-lasting love relationship. It has about 700,000 active members worldwide and most male and female members are 39/38 years old.
WhatsYOURprice – A serious dating site to help find high quality dates. You can always find about 10,000 members online. They promise never employ fake profiles. The site is recommended by Forbes, Times and Daily Mail.
Single Parent Dating
Singleparentmatch.com – A single parent dating site with more than 2 million members worldwide. Basic membership is free, premium membership starts from 15.95/month.
Localsinglemoms.com – A niche dating site to help single mom with child to find another half.
Senior Dating
Senior FriendFinder – A senior dating site for 40+ singles with 6 million registered users worldwide.
SeniorMatch.com – A popular senior dating site for mature 50+ singles. It has good quality control and seems to be very few fakes.
SeniorsMeet -A quality dating site for seniors over 50+ wordwide.
OurTime.com – A dating site for older singles who are usually at their fifty and onward. App is available for both Android and for iOS. The membership fee starts from $14.99/month.
Millionaire dating
EstablishedMen.com – A top sugar daddy dating site. It boasts over 1.2 million members with high ratio of women to men.
Millionairematch.com – Instead of a sugar daddies dating site. Millionairematch focues on helping successful and wealthy people find one another. The site won the Best of the Web Award. It has around 3 million members and many are from United States, Australia, the United Kingdom and Germany.
Millionairemate.com – A millionaire dating service to match up wealthy men with the young and attractive women. Boasts 500 million members worldwide. Member fes starts from $42.78/month.
Sugardaddie.com – A well-known dating site to help Sugar Daddy/Mommy to find and spoil Sugar Baby. There are lots of legitimate users with more women than men. All users need to pay $24.99/month to get full access.
SeekingArrangement.com – A sugar daddy or sugar mommy dating site, it has 3.6 million members worldwide. One time member fee is $50. Monthly membership fee starts from $39.99.
Uniform Dating
Uniformbuddies.net – A uniform dating site which focuses on people who work in “uniforms”. About 1.5 million members. Fee is from $16.95/month
Uniformdating.com – Users are mainly professionals who work ‘uniformed’ jobs. Most are from the USA and UK. You can find many legitimate users who work as soldiers, as nurses or doctors, police or other jobs. More female members than male members.
Special Interests
Upforit.com – A naughty flirt and dating site with 2 million members
WooPlus – A plus-size mobile dating app to find BBW (big, beautiful women) and BHM (big, handsome men).
XXXDating.com – A good place to find one-night stand and casual relationships. It boasts around 33,000 members and most are located in the United States.
BeNaughty.com – A flirt and chat site with around 9 million members. App is available on Android.
Alt.com – BDSM, bondage & fetish dating sites