🆚 Discourse vs. Invision Community

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 Invision Community is twice as popular as Discourse.
🌎 Invision Community is more popular in the United States, Russia, and the United Kingdom.
🌍 Discourse is more popular in Canada, Ireland, and Finland.

Type

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.

Invision Community is a commercial, customizable community software built with PHP and MySQL.

It includes discussion forums, a drag-and-drop page builder (introduced in version 5), progressive web app (PWA) support with push notifications, built-in commerce for subscriptions and digital products, reputation and achievement systems, and integrations with Zendesk, Salesforce, Zapier, and PayPal.

Headquarters

Dover, Delaware, United States

Richmond, Virginia, United States

Website

discourse.org #180,837

invisioncommunity.com #202,931

Pricing

Free version ✔️Self-hosted, open source

HostedStarter (20K pageviews)$20/month
Pro (100K pageviews)$100/month
Business (500K pageviews)$300/month

Free version ❌Free 30-day trial

Creator (500 GB)$99/month

Creator Pro (1,750 GB)$169/month

Team (3,000 GB)$259/month

Business (6,500 GB)$619/month

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Invision Community Internet forum software is 1.9 times more popular than Discourse.

Total websites

Market share

Internet Forum Software

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Invision Community is more popular in the United States, Russia, and the United Kingdom, while Discourse is more popular in Canada, Ireland, and Finland.

United States

Russia

United Kingdom

Germany

France

Poland

Canada

Netherlands

Brazil

Italy

Awards

🥉 Third most popular in Canada in the Internet Forum Software category.
⭐ 6th most popular in the United States in the Internet Forum Software category.
⭐ 6th most popular in the United Kingdom in the Internet Forum Software category.

🥈 Second most popular in Russia in the Internet Forum Software category.
🥈 Second most popular in Poland in the Internet Forum Software category.
🥈 Second most popular in Brazil in the Internet Forum Software category.
🥉 Third most popular in France in the Internet Forum Software category.
🥉 Third most popular in Italy in the Internet Forum Software category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Invision Community is more popular among sites focused on forum, bulletin boards, games, and sports, while Discourse is more commonly used on business and software and hardware sites.

Forum/Bulletin Boards

Games

Sports

Technical/Business Forums

Marketing/Merchandising

Entertainment

Recreation/Hobbies

Blogs/Wiki

Business

Education/Reference