2 categories · RankedDiscord
Standing by category
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Community platforms | Customer | 11% | 5 of 74 | 14% | 14 | accepted challenger |
| In-app messaging and customer communications | Customer | 0% | 88 of 113 | 67% | 3 | under 10 labels · led by Intercom at 20% |
Movement
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
By framing
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“$0/month: Discord, Facebook Groups, or Slack free tier ... The free tier is very robust with no message limits” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Community · budget prompt · first choice
“Discord: A popular platform for building communities, with features like chat, voice, and video channels.” Llama 4 Maverick · Community · budget prompt · first choice
“If you have ZERO budget: Start with Discord to test your community concept and validate demand.” Mistral Small · Community · budget prompt · first choice
“the best customer community platform is usually Discord if you want the lowest cost” Perplexity Sonar · Community · budget prompt · first choice
And against it
Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.
“Why to avoid for business communities: Not designed for professional use” Mistral Small · Community · negative prompt · hard negative
“lacks E2EE for text messages (only voice/video). High data visibility to non-contacts” Grok 4.1 Fast · In-app messaging · negative prompt · soft negative
“Approach Telegram, Discord, and Snapchat with extreme caution” Mistral Small · In-app messaging · negative prompt · soft negative
“useful for real-time chat, but they can be a poor fit” Perplexity Sonar · Community · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
What carried it into the answer
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 8 of the 62 answers that named Discord and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Forty-seven of the forty-seven domain citations in answers naming Discord came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
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