🆚 Flarum vs. Simple Machines Forum
- 📈 Simple Machines Forum is much more popular than Flarum.
- 🌎 Simple Machines Forum is more popular in the United States, Germany, and Russia.
- 🌍 Flarum is more popular in China, Vietnam, and Slovakia.
Statistics based on 3.5M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Simple Machines ForumType
Internet forum software
Internet forum software
About
Flarum is an open-source discussion platform 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
Arnhem, Netherlands
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
Pricing
Free version ✔️Open source
Managed hosting€50+/month
Free ✔️Open source
Categories
Internet Forum Software › Rank #13
Internet Forum Software › Rank #7
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Simple Machines Forum technology is 7 times more popular than Flarum.
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 Flarum is more popular in China, Vietnam, and Slovakia.
United States
Germany
Russia
United Kingdom
Netherlands
France
Thailand
Poland
Finland
Turkey
Awards
- 🥈 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 France in the Internet Forum Software category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in the Netherlands in the Internet Forum Software category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Poland 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 than Flarum in all market segments.
Forum/Bulletin Boards
Games
Marketing/Merchandising
Recreation/Hobbies
Sports
Technical/Business Forums
Entertainment
Software/Hardware
Motor Vehicles
Blogs/Wiki
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
🗃️ 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.