🆚 Discuz! vs. XenForo
- 📈 XenForo is four times more popular than Discuz!.
- 🌎 XenForo is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌍 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.
XenForo is a commercial Internet forum software based on PHP and MySQL.
It includes built-in support for question and answer threads, articles, media embedding, 
Markdown and BBCode editing, a robust add-on ecosystem with thousands of extensions and custom themes, and a full REST API for external integrations.
Headquarters
Hefei, China
London, United Kingdom
Pricing
Free version ✔️
Enterprise Edition18,800+ RMB
Free version ❌
XenForo License$195
Branding Removal$350
XenForo Cloud
Starter (400K pageviews)$60/month
Standard (1M pageviews)$100/month
Business (4M pageviews)$250/month
Categories
Internet Forum Software › Rank #8
Internet Forum Software › Rank #2
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The XenForo Internet forum software is 4 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.
XenForo is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom, while Discuz! is more popular in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.
United States
China
Germany
United Kingdom
Russia
Vietnam
Turkey
Hong Kong
Netherlands
Canada
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.
- 🥇 Most popular in Vietnam in the Internet Forum Software category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Turkey in the Internet Forum Software category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in the United States in the Internet Forum Software category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Canada in the Internet Forum Software category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
XenForo is more popular among sites focused on forum, bulletin boards, recreation and hobbies, and technical, business forums, while Discuz! is more commonly used on portal sites sites.
Forum/Bulletin Boards
Recreation/Hobbies
Technical/Business Forums
Marketing/Merchandising
Games
Sports
Business
Blogs/Wiki
Internet Services
Entertainment
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.