🆚 bbPress vs. NodeBB
- 📈 bbPress is much more popular than NodeBB.
- 🌍 bbPress is more popular in all countries.
Statistics based on 3.6M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Type
Internet forum software
Internet forum software
About
bbPress is a free plugin that adds forum functionality to WordPress websites.
It offers simple forum setup, integration with WordPress user accounts, support for subscriptions, tags, search, and shortcodes, and is extensible through additional plugins.
NodeBB is an open-source forum software built with Node.js that supports real-time streaming discussions, instant notifications via
WebSockets, multiple database backends such as Redis,
MongoDB, and
PostgreSQL, and a REST API.
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Pricing
Free ✔️ Open source
Free version ✔️ Open source
Cloud
Starter
(50K pageviews) $20/month
(50K pageviews) $20/month
Hamlet
(500K pageviews) $100/month
(500K pageviews) $100/month
Village
(2M pageviews) $250/month
(2M pageviews) $250/month
City
(10M pageviews) $750/month
(10M pageviews) $750/month
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The bbPress Internet forum software is 71 times more popular than NodeBB.
Total websites
Market share
Internet Forum Software
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
bbPress is more popular than NodeBB in all countries.
United States
United Kingdom
Japan
Germany
France
Spain
Italy
Canada
Netherlands
Australia
Awards
- 🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Internet Forum Software category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the Internet Forum Software category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Japan in the Internet Forum Software category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Spain in the Internet Forum Software category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Italy in the Internet Forum Software category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
bbPress is more popular than NodeBB in all market segments.
Business
Blogs/Wiki
Marketing/Merchandising
Education/Reference
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Health
Sports
Internet Services
Online Shopping
Entertainment
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
See also
🗃️ 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 3,653,460 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.



