As of October 9, 2026, Vanilla Forums is used by 41,237 websites in the TechLeads index: 53.7% of all Forum Software detections, the 1st most-used of 19 Forum Software technologies.
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<a href="https://techleads.fyi/technology/vanilla-forums/market-share">Vanilla Forums market share (TechLeads data)</a>Websites using each technology in the TechLeads index, and its share of all Forum Software detections.
| # | Technology | Websites | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vanilla Forums | 41,237 | 53.7% |
| 2 | phpBB | 12,292 | 16.0% |
| 3 | XenForo | 9,774 | 12.7% |
| 4 | Discourse | 4,856 | 6.3% |
| 5 | vBulletin | 3,373 | 4.4% |
| 6 | Burning Board | 1,833 | 2.4% |
| 7 | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | 1,077 |
Based on country-code domains (such as .de or .co.uk); websites on .com and other generic domains are not assigned a country.
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TechLeads scans public websites and detects Vanilla Forums from signals in the page HTML, scripts, cookies, HTTP headers and DNS records. Market share is Vanilla Forums's website count divided by the website counts of all Forum Software technologies we track; a site using two Forum Software tools counts for both. Counts were last refreshed on October 9, 2026 and update daily.
| 1.4% |
| 8 | Flarum | 766 | 1.00% |
| 9 | Mastodon | 617 | 0.80% |
| 10 | NodeBB | 428 | 0.56% |
| 11 | Misskey | 155 | 0.20% |
| 12 | Invision Power Board | 126 | 0.16% |
| 13 | BetterMode | 107 | 0.14% |
| 14 | Ultimate Bulletin Board | 78 | 0.10% |
| 15 | Web Wiz Forums | 64 | 0.08% |
Rows link to each competitor's market share page where one exists. The table lists the 15 most-used technologies; ranks are by website count.