DoorFee vs Flarum Comparison 2026
Both cover community platforms. Here is what separates them on price, billing, what you can take with you, and coverage.
At a glance
- Both have a genuinely free tier.
Side by side
DoorFee | Flarum | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price | From $28 | Free |
| Pricing model (they differ) | Free plan, paid tiers | Free |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Billing | Monthly or annual | Not stated |
| Free trial | Not stated | Not stated |
| API | Not stated | Not stated |
| Data export | Not stated | Not stated |
| Their cut | 2.5% of what you earn | Not stated |
| Runs on | Not stated | Web |
| Covers | Community Platforms, Memberships & Subscriptions, Monetization & Payments | Community Platforms |
Shaded rows are where the two answers disagree and both listings have answered. A row where one side has not stated a fact is left plain, because silence is not a difference.
DoorFee
Paid Discord memberships with a sales funnel
DoorFee sells access to a Discord server and gives you the pages and email that sell it, which is the half most access tools leave to you. Payments run through Stripe and roles are granted and revoked automatically. The page builder, affiliate program and coupon codes are what separate it from a bare paywall bot.
Only on this side
- Covers memberships & subscriptions
- Covers monetization & payments
- Works with Discord
Flarum
Forum software you host yourself
Flarum is forum software installed on your own server, so the discussion, the members and the domain belong to whoever runs it rather than to a platform. Extensions add what the core deliberately leaves out. There is no hosted tier and no monthly fee, which trades a bill for the work of running it. Anybody who does not want to think about PHP, a database and backups should buy hosted community software instead.
Our note
Price the hosting and an hour a month of your own time before calling this free, because that is what it actually costs and it is still far less than hosted community software. Choose it for ownership rather than for the saving, since the saving is real but the ownership is the part you cannot buy back later.
Ratings are the average of reviews readers left. The facts are stated by each tool’s own listing and are not verified by CloutStack. How we make money.