# Discourse vs Circle

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-vs-circle/166935
**Category:** Comparison
**Created:** [October 12, 2020, 12:31am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-vs-circle/166935 "2020-10-12T00:31:39Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![pfaffman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pfaffman/32/120154_2.png) [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2021, 7:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-vs-circle/166935/64 "2021-03-23T19:51:44Z")

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> [@sjmscott](#):
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> He had to hire a consultant on a monthly basis to update, deal with problems, and answer questions

How’s that different from paying Circle $39-79/month? I’d guess that he was paying the consultant something very similar.

> [@RickThrivingNow](#):
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> I’m extremely wary at this point of building anything within someone else’s tech platform where I don’t have options to “go elsewhere.”

That’s the biggest one to me. Move to Circle (or Squarespace) because it’s “easy.” But good luck when they don’t upgrade their software, decide to chase some other shiny thing and shut down, or change their prices (there was some other Circle topic that got started when they raised their prices).

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### Author: ![deeplow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df788c/32.png) [@deeplow](https://meta.discourse.org/u/deeplow)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2021, 5:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-vs-circle/166935/69 "2021-05-13T17:43:25Z")

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> [@RickThrivingNow](#):
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> - If it weren’t for the option of managed hosting at a start-up price ($20) so I didn’t have to be sysadmin AND community builder, I would not have chosen Discourse. Ever. At $20-$40/month I can have a roaring and successful Discourse community

Where is this pricing stated? I can’t find it on the [pricing page](https://discourse.org/pricing).

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### Author: ![RickThrivingNow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/rickthrivingnow/32/119287_2.png) [@RickThrivingNow](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RickThrivingNow)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2021, 7:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-vs-circle/166935/70 "2021-05-13T19:21:08Z")

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It’s a different service provider – [https://www.communiteq.com/](https://www.communiteq.com/)

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### Author: ![awesomerobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/awesomerobot/32/142900_2.png) [@awesomerobot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/awesomerobot)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2022, 1:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-vs-circle/166935/71 "2022-03-27T13:45:28Z")

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