Snapshot
Continue to About ↓- What it does
- Discourse is a customizable, scalable community and forum platform that turns threaded discussion into a searchable, durable knowledge base.
More detail
- It combines long-form topics, real-time chat, private messaging, moderation, and AI features in one hosted or self-hosted product.
- Best for
- Technology companies building developer, product-feedback, or support communities, and teams that want peer support, idea voting, or an AI-citable, SEO-indexed knowledge base.
- Pricing
- SaaS subscription in USD: Free ($0
More detail
- 2 staff seats, 500k monthly page views, 20k emails, 10 categories, 5GB storage, 100k AI daily credits, 2 translation languages), Pro ($100/month
- 5 staff seats, 500k page views), Business ($500/month
- 15 staff seats, 1M+ page views), and Enterprise (custom quote
- Main limitation
- Groups that only want ephemeral, informal chat, or free-plan users with high traffic who will hit the 500k monthly page view and 2 staff-seat caps.
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About
- Discourse is a customizable, scalable community and forum platform that turns threaded discussion into a searchable, durable knowledge base.
- It combines long-form topics, real-time chat, private messaging, moderation, and AI features in one hosted or self-hosted product.
What it helps with
- Conversations scattered in chat tools that are not searchable or durable
- Repeated support questions that could be answered peer-to-peer
- Spam, bad actors, and low-quality posts
- Product feedback spread informally with no voting or status tracking
- Community knowledge that AI assistants cannot find or cite
- Concern about vendor lock-in and loss of community data
Capabilities
A practical view of what is available and where limitations apply.
| Offering | Available | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Long-form discussion forum | Yes | Flat topics with just-in-time loading, wiki posts, polls, and file attachments. |
| Real-time chat and private messaging | Yes | Built-in chat channels; chat messages can be quoted into topics. DMs included. |
| Moderation and trust system | Yes | Trust levels, flag queue, inline/bulk moderation, post approval, invite-only sites. |
| AI features (Discourse AI plugin) | Yes | Spam detection, topic summaries, Ask AI, translations up to 49 languages; usage metered by daily credits per tier. |
| SEO and LLM-friendly structured markup | Yes | Per-topic URLs, QAPage schema for solved topics, semantic search, crawlable metadata. |
| Auth and integrations | Yes | SSO, social login, API access, webhooks, GitHub mirroring; SAML on Enterprise. |
| Open source | Yes | Full codebase on GitHub under GPL; export data anytime and self-host or migrate away. |
| Enterprise SLA and compliance | Limited | 99.9% uptime guarantee and GDPR/CCPA-compliant hosting are Enterprise-tier only. |
| Migrations | Limited | Standard migration services on Business require one year of hosting paid in advance; custom migrations on Enterprise. |
| AI usage beyond daily credits | Unknown | Pricing for additional AI credits is not disclosed in the evidence. |
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- Primary source
- discourse.org
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