The List of Popular Premium and Free Forum Software

[Jason76]

Free Solutions:

• MyBB
• Simple Machines (SMF)
• phpBB
• WordPress (wpForo, bbPress etc.)
• ProBoards (free ad-supported version)

Paid Solutions:

• Vbulletin (VB)
• XenForo
• Burning Board
• Invision Power Board (IPB)
• ProBoards Premium
• Vanilla Forums

Anyone know of more? These are the most popular ones I think, but it's the tip of the iceberg.

 

[HK World]

More forum software I know about are:-
Wix forum (free)
Vanilla (free open-source version)
Flarum (free)
Discourse forum (free and paid versions)

 

[saoussen5766]

More forum software I know about are:-
Wix forum (free)
Vanilla (free open-source version)
Flarum (free)
Discourse forum (free and paid versions)

As I remember Vanilla is for the paid version or paid software version or paid cpanel so there is no free forum of Vanilla hoster this is meaning that you cannot create a free vanilla forum without paying for a license.

 

[HK World]

As I remember Vanilla is for the paid version or paid software version or paid cpanel so there is no free forum of Vanilla hoster this is meaning that you cannot create a free vanilla forum without paying for a license.

Vanilla forums have 2 versions. Business version (paid) and open-source forum (free)

Here is the link for confirmation:

https://vanillaforums.com/en/software/

 

[Nomad]

I have no experience with premium forum software, I have also never used free forum hosting services. Currently, I am running three forums and these three forums use three different software, SMF, phpBB and MyBB. I have also tried wordpress forum but currently I do not have a wordpress forum.

 

[Timgab]

Free Solutions:

• MyBB
• Simple Machines (SMF)
• phpBB
• WordPress (wpForo, bbPress etc.)
• ProBoards (free ad-supported version)

Paid Solutions:

• Vbulletin (VB)
• XenForo
• Burning Board
• Invision Power Board (IPB)
• ProBoards Premium
• Vanilla Forums

Anyone know of more? These are the most popular ones I think, but it's the tip of the iceberg.

I love Mybb in free aspect and Xenforo remains the premium which I like most.