Making the work
Growing an audience
Running the business
6 tools that solve a similar problem. Compare what each costs and what it covers.
Forum software you can host yourself
NodeBB runs on Node instead of PHP and offers its own hosted tier from $20 a month if self-hosting later feels like too much upkeep.
Forum software, hosted or run yourself
Discourse offers a hosted plan from $100 a month for anybody who does not want to run the server, alongside a free self-hosted tier like Flarum's own model.
Channels for a community that outgrew a group chat
Slack from $9 with a free tier gives a community channels rather than threads, hosted for you where Flarum expects a server.
Community software that looks like yours, not ours
Circle hosts the community for you and still looks branded as yours, no server to patch, though it costs $89 a month with no free tier.
Community, courses and memberships
Mighty Networks bundles courses and paid memberships around the same community, fully hosted, on a free trial before $79 a month.
Community, courses and a calendar in one paid space
Skool bundles the community, courses and calendar into one paid space from $9 a month, with no free tier to try it first.
