Discourse vs. Mastodon

Discourse

10 Reviews and Ratings

Mastodon

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Discourse	Score7.1 out of 10	N/A	Discourse is a community management and moderation product.	$20 per month
Mastodon	N/A	N/A	Mastodon is an open source social networking platform that enables users to join or create servers built around topics of interest, built by the company of the same name in Berlin. Mastodon provides users with the possibility of managing an audience without middlemen. Mastodon deployed on one's own infrastructure allows the user to follow and be followed from any other Mastodon server online, without a middleman. It is free to use and to establish a Mastodon server, under a AGPL-3.0 license.	$1

Pricing

Discourse

Mastodon

Starter: $20
per month unlimited members and 2 staff
Pro: $100
per month unlimited members and 5 staff
Business: $500
per month unlimited members and 15 staff
Enterprise: Contact Sales

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Pricing Offerings
Discourse	Mastodon
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Best Alternatives
	Discourse	Mastodon
Small Businesses	Higher Logic Thrive Score7.7 out of 10	Higher Logic Thrive Score7.7 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	Higher Logic Vanilla Score6 out of 10	Higher Logic Vanilla Score6 out of 10
Enterprises	Verint Community Score9.9 out of 10	Verint Community Score9.9 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	Discourse	Mastodon
Likelihood to Recommend	8.9 (3 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Discourse	Mastodon
Likelihood to Recommend	Civilized Discourse Construction Kit Inc. [Discourse is by] far the best online forum platform in the industry. It may be a little pricey for people looking for a cheap option for their hobby forum, but for any type of business that relies on a forum, the pricing is more than fair. Incentivized Padraic Ryan Community Manager Read full review	Mastodon No answers on this topic
Pros	Civilized Discourse Construction Kit Inc. User Privileges : Teams, Trust Levels, Moderation, Private and Public Threads make it possible to have as much transparency, privacy or power decentralization as one wishes. Gamification: Badges and Achievements can be customized for User Activity and frequent readers and writers. Mailing List mode: Users can choose to use forum threads without the User Interface by subscribing via mailing list mode. Incentivized Elio Qoshi Creative Lead Read full review	Mastodon No answers on this topic
Cons	Civilized Discourse Construction Kit Inc. Some configuration UIs are difficult to follow Not well-suited for managing workflows (grant management as an example) Bulk operations across multiple threads either impossible or difficult to figure out Incentivized David McCann Software Engineer Read full review	Mastodon No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	Civilized Discourse Construction Kit Inc. Vanilla's mobile functionality was downright awful and it felt like it was stuck in the 2000s. While they have similar features, Discourse blows them away in almost every department. We don't regret switching at all. Incentivized Padraic Ryan Community Manager Read full review	Mastodon No answers on this topic
Return on Investment	Civilized Discourse Construction Kit Inc. Community Members are eager to jump into the discussion. Conversations can be tracked easier without the risk of being lost in a sea of messages as people tend to construct their posts more carefully than on any workspace messenger. It's open source and configurable with many other add-ons to help integration with other services. Incentivized Elio Qoshi Creative Lead Read full review	Mastodon No answers on this topic
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