🆚 Discourse vs. Discuz!
- 📈 Discourse is slightly more popular than Discuz!.
- 🌎 Discourse is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌍 Discuz! is more popular in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Type
Internet forum software
Internet forum software
About
Discourse is an open-source community platform built on 
Ruby on Rails.
It supports 
Markdown, BBCode, and 
HTML formatting in posts, infinite scrolling discussions, real-time chat, AI automation for detecting toxic and NSFW content, single sign-on and social login, and the topic summarization features.
Discuz! is a Chinese Internet forum software written in 
PHP.
Headquarters
Dover, Delaware, United States
Hefei, China
Pricing
Free version ✔️Self-hosted, open source
Hosted
Starter (20K pageviews)$20/month
Pro (100K pageviews)$100/month
Business (500K pageviews)$300/month
Free version ✔️
Enterprise Edition18,800+ RMB
Categories
Internet Forum Software › Rank #6
Internet Forum Software › Rank #8
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Discourse Internet forum software is 1.3 times more popular than Discuz!.
Total websites
Market share
Internet Forum Software
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Discourse is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom, while Discuz! is more popular in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.
United States
China
Germany
Hong Kong
United Kingdom
Canada
Taiwan
France
Australia
Ireland
Awards
- 🥉 Third most popular in Canada in the Internet Forum Software category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in the United Kingdom in the Internet Forum Software category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in the United States in the Internet Forum Software category.
- 🥇 Most popular in China in the Internet Forum Software category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Hong Kong in the Internet Forum Software category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Taiwan in the Internet Forum Software category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Discourse is more popular among sites focused on technical, business forums, business, and marketing and merchandising, while Discuz! is more commonly used on forum, bulletin boards, entertainment, and portal sites sites.
Forum/Bulletin Boards
Technical/Business Forums
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Entertainment
Portal Sites
Blogs/Wiki
Internet Services
Sports
Software/Hardware
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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- 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 3,361,290 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.