🆚 Flarum vs. PunBB
- 📈 Flarum is twice as popular as PunBB.
- 🌎 Flarum is more popular in the United States, Germany, and China.
- 🌍 PunBB is more popular in Russia, the Czech Republic, and Poland.
Statistics based on 3.5M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Type
Internet forum software
Internet forum software
About
Flarum is an open-source discussion platform written in PHP.
PunBB is a fast and lightweight PHP-based open source discussion board.
Headquarters
Arnhem, Netherlands
Pricing
Free version ✔️Open source
Managed hosting€50+/month
Free ✔️Open source
Categories
Internet Forum Software › Rank #13
Internet Forum Software › Rank #15
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Flarum Internet forum software is 2 times more popular than PunBB.
Total websites
Market share
Internet Forum Software
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Flarum is more popular in the United States, Germany, and China, while PunBB is more popular in Russia, the Czech Republic, and Poland.
Russia
United States
Germany
France
China
United Kingdom
Czech Republic
Netherlands
Poland
Austria
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Flarum is more popular among sites focused on games, while PunBB is more commonly used on forum, bulletin boards sites.
Forum/Bulletin Boards
Games
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Entertainment
Finance/Banking
Web Mail
Software/Hardware
Technical/Business Forums
Potential Illegal Software
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
See also
🗃️ 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 3,522,912 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.
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