🆚 Flarum vs. vBulletin
- 📈 vBulletin is much more popular than Flarum.
- 🌎 vBulletin is more popular in the United States, Russia, and Germany.
- 🌍 Flarum is more popular in China, Indonesia, and Slovakia.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Type
Internet forum software
Internet forum software
About
Flarum is an open-source discussion platform 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
Arnhem, Netherlands
El Segundo, California, United States
Pricing
Free version ✔️Open source
Managed hosting€50+/month
Free version ❌Free 7-day trial
VBulletin 6$179
VBulletin Cloud$224.8+/year
Branding Removal$289
Categories
Internet Forum Software › Rank #13
Internet Forum Software › Rank #5
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The vBulletin Internet forum software is 14 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.
vBulletin is more popular in the United States, Russia, and Germany, while Flarum is more popular in China, Indonesia, and Slovakia.
United States
Russia
Germany
United Kingdom
Netherlands
France
Poland
Turkey
Italy
Australia
Awards
- 🥈 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 the United States 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.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
vBulletin is more popular than Flarum in all market segments.
Forum/Bulletin Boards
Technical/Business Forums
Entertainment
Recreation/Hobbies
Marketing/Merchandising
Games
Motor Vehicles
Software/Hardware
Business
Pornography
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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Technologies with similar characteristics.
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 3,361,290 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.