🆚 NodeBB vs. PunBB
- 📈 NodeBB is slightly more popular than PunBB.
- 🌎 NodeBB is more popular in the United States, Germany, and India.
- 🌍 PunBB is more popular in Russia, the Czech Republic, and Poland.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Type
Internet forum software
Internet forum software
About
NodeBB is an open-source forum software built with 
Node.js that supports real-time streaming discussions, instant notifications via 
WebSockets, multiple database backends (Redis, 
MongoDB, 
PostgreSQL), mobile-friendly responsive design, and a REST API.
PunBB is a fast and lightweight 
PHP-based open source discussion board.
Pricing
Free version ✔️Open source
Cloud
Starter
(50K pageviews)$20/month
(50K pageviews)$20/month
Hamlet
(500K pageviews)$100/month
(500K pageviews)$100/month
Village
(2M pageviews)$250/month
(2M pageviews)$250/month
City
(10M pageviews)$750/month
(10M pageviews)$750/month
Free ✔️Open source
Categories
Internet Forum Software › Rank #14
Internet Forum Software › Rank #15
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The NodeBB Internet forum software is 1.3 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.
NodeBB is more popular in the United States, Germany, and India, while PunBB is more popular in Russia, the Czech Republic, and Poland.
Russia
United States
Germany
Czech Republic
India
China
United Kingdom
Poland
Canada
France
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
NodeBB is more popular among sites focused on games, while PunBB is more commonly used on forum, bulletin boards sites.
Forum/Bulletin Boards
Games
Internet Services
Education/Reference
Portal Sites
Sports
Fashion/Beauty
Recreation/Hobbies
Business
Politics/Opinion
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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Zulip🗃️ 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.