1 category · RankedDiscourse
Standing by category
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Community platforms | Customer | 13% | 4 of 74 | 11% | 37 | accepted challenger |
Movement
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
By framing
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“Choose Discourse if you want the absolute best customer support hub where community answers help deflect support tickets via Google Search” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Community · budget prompt · first choice
“Choose Discourse if your product is technical and complex, requiring a robust database of past solutions.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Community · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“the best customer community platform is Discourse (self-hosted open-source version)” Grok 4.1 Fast · Community · budget prompt · first choice
“| SEO & Support Ticket Deflection | Discourse | Higher Logic Vanilla |” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Community · comparative 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.
“avoid free/open-source (e.g., Discourse) for compliance/security” Grok 4.1 Fast · Community · direct prompt · hard negative
“Forum-first platforms (Discourse, NodeBB, Flarum, etc.) ... Why be cautious: Complex permission and moderation setups” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Community · negative prompt · soft negative
“requires technical resources to run and integrate... If not, avoid self-hosted Discourse” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Community · paraphrase prompt · soft negative
“Weak on events/ideation/analytics; self-hosting adds security burden.” Grok 4.1 Fast · 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 14 of the 104 answers that named Discourse and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Sixty-nine of the sixty-nine domain citations in answers naming Discourse came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
The company
- Website
- discourse.org
- Founded
- 2013
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