Community Forum Software
Every community forum platform we track, compared on member-based pricing, hosting options, and data export.
Branded customer community priced per site
$399/mo
Community
A hosted community platform with Q&A, discussions, events and polls under a custom domain, priced per community against member caps from $399 a month billed annually rather than per seat.
Creator community with courses and paid memberships
$89/seat/mo
Community
A hosted community platform with courses, events, live streams and paid memberships, published at $89 a month on annual billing with unlimited members, a percentage of membership revenue and a long list of metered add-ons.
Self-hosted open source forum on Laravel
Free
Community
An MIT licensed forum platform built on Laravel and extended through a community package ecosystem, self-hosted with no vendor, no plans and no metering of members, staff or posts.
Open source community forum, hosted or self-run
Free, then $100/mo
Community
A GPLv2 forum priced per site at $100 or $500 a month on Discourse hosting, with unlimited members and capped staff seats at every tier, or run free on your own server.