🆚 Discuz! vs. Simple Machines Forum

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 Simple Machines Forum is slightly more popular than Discuz!.
🌎 Simple Machines Forum is more popular in the United States, Germany, and Russia.
🌍 Discuz! is more popular in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.

Discuz!

Simple Machines Forum

Type

Internet forum software

About

Discuz! is a Chinese Internet forum software written in PHP.

Simple Machines Forum (SMF) is open-source PHP forum software used to host and manage online community discussion boards with a SQL database backend.

It provides an advanced permission and user management system, support for themes and extensions, email notifications, attachment handling, topic and post tracking, moderation tools, over 45 interface languages, and compatibility with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite databases.

Headquarters

Hefei, China

Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

Website

discuz.vip #1,088,246

simplemachines.org #69,396

Pricing

Free version ✔️

Enterprise Edition18,800+ RMB

Free ✔️Open source

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

Simple Machines Forum technology is 1.1 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.

Simple Machines Forum is more popular in the United States, Germany, and Russia, while Discuz! is more popular in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.

China

United States

Hong Kong

Germany

Russia

United Kingdom

Thailand

Netherlands

France

Taiwan

Awards

🥇 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.

🥈 Second most popular in Thailand in the Internet Forum Software category.
⭐ 6th most popular in Russia in the Internet Forum Software category.
⭐ 6th most popular in the Netherlands in the Internet Forum Software category.
⭐ 6th most popular in France in the Internet Forum Software category.
⭐ 7th most popular in the United States in the Internet Forum Software category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Simple Machines Forum is more popular among sites focused on games, marketing and merchandising, and sports, while Discuz! is more commonly used on forum, bulletin boards, technical, business forums, and entertainment sites.

Forum/Bulletin Boards

Technical/Business Forums

Games

Entertainment

Marketing/Merchandising

Business

Internet Services

Sports

Portal Sites

Blogs/Wiki