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

rishabh
Tue, 10 Feb 2026 19:37:41 +0000
Announcements

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

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!

What are the features and limitations on Free?

On Free sites, you get:

Unlimited topics, chat and members

Social logins via Discourse ID

Horizon Theme

Same usage limits as our Starter plan, except that you can have:

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. 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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