🆚 Discourse vs. Flarum

Statistics based on 3.8M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Discourse
Flarum

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.

Flarum is an open-source discussion platform written in PHP.

Headquarters

Dover, Delaware, United States
Arnhem, Netherlands

Website

discourse.org #180,837
flarum.org #154,359

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 ✔️ Open source
Managed hosting €50+/month

Categories

Internet Forum Software › Rank #6
Internet Forum Software › Rank #13

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Discourse Internet forum software is 10 times more popular than Flarum.
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 Canada, while Flarum is more popular in Turkey and Slovakia.
United States
Germany
Canada
United Kingdom
France
Ireland
China
Netherlands
Switzerland
Finland

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Discourse is more popular than Flarum in all market segments.
Forum/Bulletin Boards
Technical/Business Forums
Business
Software/Hardware
Blogs/Wiki
Sports
Marketing/Merchandising
Entertainment
Education/Reference
Games

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#24,253
#37,489
#57,228
#65,033
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Name
Rank
#43,469
#187,364
#209,877
hacksnation.com
#328,527
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See also

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