🆚 Discuz! vs. vBulletin
- 📈 vBulletin is twice as popular as Discuz!.
- 🌎 vBulletin is more popular in the United States, Russia, and Germany.
- 🌍 Discuz! is more popular in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.
Statistics based on 3.5M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Type
Internet forum software
Internet forum software
About
Discuz! is a Chinese Internet forum software written in 
PHP.
vBulletin is a commercial forum software platform written in PHP that uses a MySQL or MariaDB database.
It includes built-in support for forums, groups, polls, and blogs, offers a customizable template-based interface, an AJAX-powered chat, an admin control panel with a granular user-group permissions system, and SEO optimization tools.
Headquarters
Hefei, China
El Segundo, California, United States
Pricing
Free version ✔️
Enterprise Edition18,800+ RMB
Free version ❌Free 7-day trial
VBulletin 6$179
VBulletin Cloud$224.8+/year
Branding Removal$289
Categories
Internet Forum Software › Rank #8
Internet Forum Software › Rank #5
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The vBulletin Internet forum software is 2.1 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.
vBulletin is more popular in the United States, Russia, and Germany, while Discuz! is more popular in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.
United States
China
Russia
Germany
Hong Kong
United Kingdom
Netherlands
France
Poland
Turkey
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 Turkey in the Internet Forum Software category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Australia in the Internet Forum Software category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Russia in the Internet Forum Software category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in the Netherlands in the Internet Forum Software category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Italy in the Internet Forum Software category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
vBulletin is more popular among sites focused on forum, bulletin boards, technical, business forums, and entertainment, while Discuz! is more commonly used on portal sites, Internet services, and travel sites.
Forum/Bulletin Boards
Technical/Business Forums
Entertainment
Marketing/Merchandising
Recreation/Hobbies
Games
Business
Pornography
Motor Vehicles
Portal Sites
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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Simple Machines Forum🗃️ 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 3,524,018 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.