🆚 vBulletin vs. WoltLab Suite
- 📈 vBulletin is three times more popular than WoltLab Suite.
- 🌎 vBulletin is more popular in the United States, Russia, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌍 WoltLab Suite is more popular in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Type
Internet forum software
Internet forum software
About
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.
WoltLab Suite is a commercial software package designed for creating and managing online communities.
Headquarters
El Segundo, California, United States
Potsdam, Germany
Pricing
Free version ❌Free 7-day trial
VBulletin 6$179
VBulletin Cloud$224.8+/year
Branding Removal$289
Free version ❌
WoltLab Suite Forum€129.99
Branding Free€279.99
WoltLab Cloud
Starter (600K pageviews)€39.95/month
Professional (2.5M pageviews)€79.95/month
Business (5M pageviews)€249.95/month
Categories
Internet Forum Software › Rank #5
Internet Forum Software › Rank #9
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The vBulletin Internet forum software is 2.7 times more popular than WoltLab Suite.
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 the United Kingdom, while WoltLab Suite is more popular in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.
Germany
United States
Russia
United Kingdom
Netherlands
France
Poland
Turkey
Australia
Canada
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.
- 🥇 Most popular in Germany 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 recreation and hobbies, while WoltLab Suite is more commonly used on public information and real estate sites.
Forum/Bulletin Boards
Technical/Business Forums
Recreation/Hobbies
Entertainment
Marketing/Merchandising
Games
Motor Vehicles
Business
Software/Hardware
Sports
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
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🗃️ 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.