🆚 MyBB vs. vBulletin
- 📈 vBulletin is four times more popular than MyBB.
- 🌎 vBulletin is more popular in the United States, Germany, and Russia.
- 🌍 MyBB is more popular in Poland, the Czech Republic, and Indonesia.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Type
Internet forum software
Internet forum software
About
MyBB is an open-source, community developed bulletin board software built with 
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
El Segundo, California, United States
Pricing
Free ✔️Open source
Free version ❌Free 7-day trial
VBulletin 6$179
VBulletin Cloud$224.8+/year
Branding Removal$289
Categories
Internet Forum Software › Rank #10
Internet Forum Software › Rank #5
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The vBulletin Internet forum software is 4 times more popular than MyBB.
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, Germany, and Russia, while MyBB is more popular in Poland, the Czech Republic, and Indonesia.
United States
Germany
Russia
Poland
United Kingdom
Netherlands
Turkey
France
Canada
Italy
Awards
- 🥉 Third most popular in Turkey in the Internet Forum Software category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Poland in the Internet Forum Software category.
- ⭐ 9th most popular in Germany in the Internet Forum Software category.
- ⭐ 10th most popular in the United States 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 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 among sites focused on forum, bulletin boards, technical, business forums, and entertainment, while MyBB is more commonly used on Internet services sites.
Forum/Bulletin Boards
Technical/Business Forums
Entertainment
Recreation/Hobbies
Marketing/Merchandising
Games
Motor Vehicles
Software/Hardware
Business
Internet Services
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 3,361,290 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.