🆚 Discourse vs. WoltLab Suite
- 📈 Discourse is twice as popular as WoltLab Suite.
- 🌎 Discourse is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada.
- 🌍 WoltLab Suite is more popular in Germany, Austria, and Belgium.
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.
WoltLab Suite is a commercial software package designed for creating and managing online communities.
Headquarters
Dover, Delaware, United States
Potsdam, Germany
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 ❌
WoltLab Suite Forum€129.99
Branding Free€279.99
WoltLab Cloud
Starter (600K pageviews)€39.95/month
Professional (2.5M pageviews)€79.95/month
Business (5M pageviews)€249.95/month
Categories
Internet Forum Software › Rank #6
Internet Forum Software › Rank #9
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Discourse Internet forum software is 1.7 times more popular than WoltLab Suite.
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, the United Kingdom, and Canada, while WoltLab Suite is more popular in Germany, Austria, and Belgium.
Germany
United States
United Kingdom
Canada
France
Ireland
Switzerland
Austria
Australia
Netherlands
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 Germany 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 sports, while WoltLab Suite is more commonly used on forum, bulletin boards, recreation and hobbies, and games sites.
Forum/Bulletin Boards
Technical/Business Forums
Business
Sports
Marketing/Merchandising
Software/Hardware
Recreation/Hobbies
Blogs/Wiki
Education/Reference
Games
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
Khoros Communities🗃️ 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 3,361,290 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.