discourse.org
Discourse
Who runs Discourse, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest community forum software alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Flarum
Measured from Discourse’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Discourse01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Discourse
Discourse discourse.org
Discourse is the customizable, scalable community platform powering more than 22,000 communities that create knowledge through conversation.
Wikidata: open source Internet forum software application
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Discourse tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
trackers that follow visitors
10 of the 15 alternatives below have fewer, 2 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 2 tools
Marketing and email tracking
Links visits to email campaigns and customer profiles.
Tag manager
Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Discourse
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Discourse, thumbs down if it isn’t.
20 of the 60 sites closest to Discourse match.
- 01
The extensible community framework - Flarum
Free, open-source forum software built by the community. Beautiful, fast, and extensible — made for communities of all sizes.
Very close - 02
Circle | The complete community platform
Build a home for your community, events, and courses — all under your own brand.
Very close - 03
Blog Tool, Publishing Platform, and CMS | WordPress.org
Open source software which you can use to easily create a beautiful website, blog, or app.
Very close - 04
Open Source ERP and CRM | Odoo
From ERP to CRM, eCommerce and CMS. Download Odoo or use it in the cloud. Grow Your Business.
Very close - 05
Nextcloud - Open source content collaboration platform
The most popular open source content collaboration platform for tens of millions of users at thousands of organizations across the globe
Very close - 06
HubSpot | Software & Tools for your Business - Homepage
HubSpot's customer platform includes all the marketing, sales, customer service, and CRM software you need to grow your business.
Very close - 07
IONOS » Hosting Provider | Websites. Domains. Server.
IONOS, your digital partner for cloud solutions and web hosting, supporting your needs from websites, domains, servers, and more.
Very close - 08
Ghost: The best open source blog & newsletter platform
Beautiful, modern publishing with email newsletters and paid subscriptions built-in. Used by Platformer, 404Media, Lever News, Tangle, The Browser, and thousands more.
Very close - 09
Build Your Own Branded Community App
Create your own branded community app with Disciple. Bring your people, content and commerce together in one place. Available on iOS, Android & web.
Very close - 10
Mattermost | Operational and AI Sovereignty for Critical Infrastructure and National Security
Zero-trust collaboration, automation and AI in private cloud, self-hosted, and air-gapped environments. Built for national security, critical infrastructure, and regulated enterprises.
Very close - 11
Front | Customer service platform, powered by AI
Deliver exceptional service with Front, the platform where support, sales, operations, and AI agents come together to resolve complex customer work.
Very close - 12
Appwrite · The open-source cloud for developers and agents
Appwrite is an open-source developer platform with Auth, Databases, Storage, Functions, Messaging, and Sites. The open-source cloud for agents and developers.
Very close - 13
Archbee — The First Knowledge Portal Platform
Build beautiful knowledge portals that are easy to navigate, search, share and contribute to: user guides, API docs, knowledge bases and SOPs in one platform.
Very close - 14
One platform to connect | Zoom
Modernize workflows with Zoom's trusted collaboration tools: including video meetings, Zoom Chat, VoIP phone, webinars, whiteboard, contact center, and events.
Very close - 15
Compare B2B Software, Download, & Develop Open Source & Business Software - SourceForge
SourceForge is the complete software discovery platform. SourceForge is the largest B2B software review and comparison site in the world, and features the largest business software directory, as well as free & fast open source software downloads and development.
Very close - 16
Agentic commerce platform built for top brands | Gladly
Gladly brings agentic commerce to your site for premium ecommerce support. See how it works.
Very close - 17
Slack | AI Work Platform & Productivity Tools
Boost productivity and save time with Slack — the AI work platform for managing projects, automating workflows, and connecting teams securely. Start working smarter today.
Very close - 18
The AI Customer Support Platform for Every Business - Crisp
Crisp is the ultimate all-in-one AI-powered multichannel messaging platform that helps businesses connect instantly with their customers or leads who are waiting for support. With its quickly evolving set of tools, Crisp is leading businesses through the AI-driven revolution by using conversations to unlock hypergrowth.
Very close - 19
Interactive presentation & audience engagement tool - Mentimeter
Engage your audience with live polls, quizzes, and Q&A. Create interactive presentations in minutes. Perfect for meetings, classes, and events.
Very close - 20
Online Course Platform to Sell Courses and Communities | Thinkific
Build and sell online courses and communities with Thinkific, an all-in-one online course platform with a drag-and-drop builder, payments, and LMS tools.
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Discourse’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Discourse uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Discourse adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 9 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,209
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 49 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Discourse’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- JavaScript libraries
- GSAP asset https://www.discourse.org/a/js/gsap.min.js?v=20261026164621
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- Marketing automation
- HubSpot page source: js-eu1.hs-scripts.com
- CDN
- Amazon CloudFront header x-amz-cf-id: YBlGYcp28tW1oQ3ADMu0G8jije-9YAlvjV1xjK8r0XDs8oFkHCvyVw==
- Hosting
- Amazon Web Services header server: AmazonS3
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Email delivery
- Amazon SES TXT v=spf1 include:metal._spf.discoursemail.com include:_spf.google.com i…
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-1205.awsdns-22.org
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console meta google-site-verification: z6KuRa5cN6Yu88B-7QVm-Zsi_O-Ea1KbzrmLNUCl4tQ
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 18/20
- Google Workspace 13/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on discourse.org 12/20
- Cloudflare · not on discourse.org 10/20
- HubSpot 6/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on discourse.org 6/20
- Apple Business · not on discourse.org 6/20
- Atlassian · not on discourse.org 6/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on discourse.org 6/20
- OpenAI · not on discourse.org 6/20
- Zendesk · not on discourse.org 5/20
- SendGrid · not on discourse.org 4/20
- Canva · not on discourse.org 4/20
- Next.js · not on discourse.org 4/20
- React · not on discourse.org 4/20
- Vercel · not on discourse.org 4/20