# You're invited to try the Discourse Free plan beta!

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/youre-invited-to-try-the-discourse-free-plan-beta/395632
**Category:** Announcements
**Tags:** free-plan
**Created:** [February 10, 2026, 7:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/youre-invited-to-try-the-discourse-free-plan-beta/395632 "2026-02-10T19:37:41Z")
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### Author: ![rishabh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/rishabh/32/179446_2.png) [@rishabh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rishabh)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2026, 7:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/youre-invited-to-try-the-discourse-free-plan-beta/395632/1 "2026-02-10T19:37:41Z")

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From the very early days of Discourse, our mission has always been to empower communities of all sizes and budgets. Today, we are making it even easier to get started with Discourse on our brand new Free plan!

## Getting started 🚀

We will outline the details on our website soon, but you can set up a Free site right now using this link → **[https://id.discourse.com/create-site](https://id.discourse.com/create-site)**

You’ll be prompted to create a Discourse ID account or login if you have one, and then enter a your site’s name and chosen domain. That’s it, your new free Discourse instance will be ready in under 2 minutes!

 ![CleanShot 2026-02-10 at 14.31.24@2x](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/6/f/2/6f24be80e7f5abb6899c0d8d1728c2013b2ed9ab.jpeg)

 ![CleanShot 2026-02-10 at 14.32.23@2x](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/4/c/e/4ce9656d3ee8b0e40e3eaed4530c5071a0ba3190.jpeg)

 ![CleanShot 2026-02-10 at 14.33.07@2x](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/4/3/6/4366e4724f336f5d619c0701b64018a15aeebe36.jpeg)

## What are the features and limitations on Free? ✨

On Free sites, you get:

- Unlimited topics, chat and members
- Social logins via [Discourse ID](https://id.discourse.com/)
- [Horizon Theme](https://meta.discourse.org/t/horizon-theme/360486)
- 2 staff seats, 5GB storage
- 100k AI daily credits, 2 content translation languages
- Additional limits compared to higher plans:
  - Up to 10 categories
  - No custom groups or private categories
  - No tags
  - No digest emails or default notification levels
  - Support via public topics on Meta only

The Free tier also includes a Discourse Hosted LLM, [pre-configured & ready to use](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unlock-all-discourse-ai-features-with-our-hosted-llm/390985). Designed to save you time and effort, so that you can focus on what matters most; your community 🤝

## How can you help? 🧪

As an early adopter of our Free plan, we would love to hear about any feedback, questions or problems that you run into as a reply to this topic.

For general support with Free sites, please post on #Support.

> ⭐ Pro tip: When posting for support, be sure to mention that your site is on our Free hosted tier and use the #free-plan tag. This will help our Community tailor the advice they give to fit your experience.

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