🆚 NodeBB vs. PunBB
- 📈 NodeBB is slightly more popular than PunBB.
- 🌎 NodeBB is more popular in the United States, China, and the Czech Republic.
- 🌍 PunBB is more popular in Russia, Poland, and France.
Statistics based on 3.8M+ analyzed websites. About this data
NodeBBType
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 such as Redis, 
MongoDB, and 
PostgreSQL, and a REST API.
PunBB is a fast and lightweight 
PHP-based open-source discussion board.
Headquarters
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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 1.2 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.
NodeBB is more popular in the United States, China, and the Czech Republic, while PunBB is more popular in Russia, Poland, and France.
Russia
United States
China
Czech Republic
United Kingdom
Germany
India
Poland
Finland
Canada
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
PunBB is more popular than NodeBB in all market segments.
Forum/Bulletin Boards
Portal Sites
Recreation/Hobbies
Internet Services
Education/Reference
Games
Sports
Fashion/Beauty
Business
Public Information
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 3,827,339 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.