🆚 PunBB vs. XenForo
- 📈 XenForo is much more popular than PunBB.
- 🌍 XenForo is more popular in all countries.
- ⭐ PunBB is particularly popular in Russia.
Statistics based on 3.5M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Type
Internet forum software
Internet forum software
About
PunBB is a fast and lightweight 
PHP-based open source discussion board.
XenForo is a commercial Internet forum software based on PHP and MySQL.
It includes built-in support for question and answer threads, articles, media embedding, 
Markdown and BBCode editing, a robust add-on ecosystem with thousands of extensions and custom themes, and a full REST API for external integrations.
Headquarters
London, United Kingdom
Pricing
Free ✔️Open source
Free version ❌
XenForo License$195
Branding Removal$350
XenForo Cloud
Starter (400K pageviews)$60/month
Standard (1M pageviews)$100/month
Business (4M pageviews)$250/month
Categories
Internet Forum Software › Rank #15
Internet Forum Software › Rank #2
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The XenForo Internet forum software is 55 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.
XenForo is more popular than PunBB in all countries.
United States
Germany
Russia
United Kingdom
Vietnam
Turkey
Netherlands
France
Spain
Canada
Awards
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Russia in the Internet Forum Software category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Vietnam in the Internet Forum Software category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Turkey in the Internet Forum Software category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in the United States in the Internet Forum Software category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Canada in the Internet Forum Software category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
XenForo is more popular than PunBB in all market segments.
Forum/Bulletin Boards
Recreation/Hobbies
Marketing/Merchandising
Technical/Business Forums
Games
Sports
Business
Blogs/Wiki
Internet Services
Entertainment
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
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 3,522,912 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.