# Adverts on the Discourse hosted Starter plan
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/adverts-on-the-discourse-hosted-starter-plan/376944
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** advertising
**Created:** [August 1, 2025, 10:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/adverts-on-the-discourse-hosted-starter-plan/376944 "2025-08-01T22:09:32Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@skate](https://meta.discourse.org/u/skate)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2025, 10:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/adverts-on-the-discourse-hosted-starter-plan/376944/1 "2025-08-01T22:09:32Z")
I don’t want to run ads, I’m asking if Discourse places ads on forums? I saw a few ads on forums where Discourse was promoting its own products, but can’t tell how that looks once one has a forum up and running. i.e. is the Start plan forum ad-free?
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### Author:  [@ondrej](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ondrej)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2025, 10:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/adverts-on-the-discourse-hosted-starter-plan/376944/2 "2025-08-01T22:40:07Z")
I trialled the starter plan a while ago and there are no ads. 😉
What you see in the [Plans and Features](https://discourse.org/pricing#plans-features) for the starter plan is what you get. Nothing more nothing less.
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### Author:  [@skate](https://meta.discourse.org/u/skate)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2025, 12:03am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/adverts-on-the-discourse-hosted-starter-plan/376944/3 "2025-08-02T00:03:14Z")
cheers, that makes sense.
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### Author:  [@Bas](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Bas)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2025, 6:55am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/adverts-on-the-discourse-hosted-starter-plan/376944/4 "2025-08-02T06:55:58Z")
> [@skate](#):
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> is the Start plan forum ad-free?
Yes, 100%
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We host a few forums for free for various reasons, on those (with the consent of the admins) you might see some ads. Currently they are for Discourse hosting. You also see these ads here on Meta.
This is an experiment that Discourse is running, the ads are very very limited in scope and fully under our control. They are only shown to anonymous (non-logged in) users.
Another reason you might see ads is that admins can choose to show ads for their own communities benefit, using the [Discourse Advertising Plugin (Ads)](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-advertising-plugin-ads/33734)
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### Author:  [@skate](https://meta.discourse.org/u/skate)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2025, 11:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/adverts-on-the-discourse-hosted-starter-plan/376944/5 "2025-08-02T23:16:27Z")
thanks Bas, that’s a great and pretty interesting approach 👍
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### Author:  [@NateDhaliwal](https://meta.discourse.org/u/NateDhaliwal)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2025, 12:13am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/adverts-on-the-discourse-hosted-starter-plan/376944/6 "2025-08-03T00:13:59Z")
> [@Bas](#):
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> You also see these ads here on Meta.
> This is an experiment that Discourse is running, the ads are very very limited in scope and fully under our control. They are only shown to anonymous (non-logged in) users.
Ooh, just noticed this 👀. It’s not jarring, more like a seamless insertion between content. Looks great!
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2025, 7:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/adverts-on-the-discourse-hosted-starter-plan/376944/7 "2025-09-17T19:21:34Z")
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