🆚 Discourse vs. Zulip
- 📈 Discourse is much more popular than Zulip.
- 🌍 Discourse is more popular in all countries.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
ZulipType
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.
Zulip is an open-source team chat and collaboration software available in cloud and self-hosted versions.
Headquarters
Dover, Delaware, United States
San Francisco, California, United States
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
Zulip Cloud
Free version ✔️5 GB, 10,000 messages of search history
Standard$8/user/month
Plus$12/user/month
Categories
Internet Forum Software › Rank #6
Internet Forum Software › Rank #19
Instant Messaging › Rank #26
Online Collaboration › Rank #36
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Discourse Internet forum software is 68 times more popular than Zulip.
Total websites
Market share
Internet Forum Software
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Discourse is more popular than Zulip in all countries.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
Canada
France
Ireland
Australia
China
Netherlands
Finland
Awards
- 🥉 Third most popular in Canada in the Internet Forum Software category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in the United States in the Internet Forum Software category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in the United Kingdom in the Internet Forum Software category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Discourse is more popular than Zulip in all market segments.
Forum/Bulletin Boards
Business
Technical/Business Forums
Software/Hardware
Sports
Marketing/Merchandising
Blogs/Wiki
Education/Reference
Entertainment
Technical Information
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 3,375,483 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.