Companies Using Asgaros Forum

We detect Asgaros Forum on 2,068 domains, including Bigbasket, Tel Aviv University, Nova Scotia Municipal Finance Corporation. A detection means the technology is present on that domain, which for large organisations is often a single storefront or subdomain rather than a company-wide deployment. Among domains we matched to a company with a resolved industry, the most common is Non-profit Organizations (6.2%).

We detect 2,068 domains running Asgaros Forum across our monthly crawl of live business domains. Company data could be matched for 1,114 of them (53.9%), and every company-size, industry and country breakdown on this page describes that matched subset rather than the full detected base. A further 252 domains carried a Asgaros Forum detection previously and no longer do.

Asgaros Forum holds 0.73% of the Community & Comments category, ranking #9. This is a share of the domains we detect running a platform in this category — not a share of all websites, and not a share of spending — so it is not directly comparable to figures published on other denominators.

The top alternatives to Asgaros Forum include Livefyre (80.11% market share), Disqus (4.6% market share), XenForo (2.78% market share), phpBB (2.31% market share) — measured as a share of the domains we detect running a platform in this category.

The United States leads with 277 matched companies but only 24.9% of the base, unusually low by our standards. Germany (138) is a strong second, then France (115), the United Kingdom (86), Spain (44), Canada (30), the Netherlands (28), Poland (25) and Italy (25). Asgaros is developed in Germany and distributed entirely through the WordPress plugin directory, so adoption follows that reach rather than any sales territory.

The most common company size is 1-10 employees, representing 70.68% of the Asgaros Forum domains we could match to a company record and size — a subset of 1,114 matched companies, not of all 2,068 detected domains. This is followed by 11-50 employees (16.27%) and 51-200 employees (6.63%).

Among the Asgaros Forum domains we could match to a company with a known founding date, most were founded in the 2020s (19.05%), followed by the 2010s (41.16%). That matched subset is drawn from 1,114 companies and is not representative of all 2,068 detected domains. This suggests Asgaros Forum is most popular among relatively young companies.

The ideal Asgaros Forum customer is: Company Size: 1-10 employees, Location: US, France, Germany, Founded: 2010-2019, Company Age: ~10-15 years old, Type: Nonprofit or Educational — based on our analysis of 1,114 enriched companies at TechnologyChecker.io.

Yes. Asgaros Forum is open source and free of charge, with no premium tiers or hidden fees. The developer confirms this directly on the project support forum, noting it's developed and maintained by volunteers as a community-driven WordPress plugin. That makes it one of the most accessible forum options for small websites and nonprofits.

For its intended use, yes. It installs into an existing WordPress site with no separate platform to run, no premium tier gating basic features and no developer required. Our data shows who that suits: non-profits and civic organisations lead its industry table at 11.55% combined, and 86.9% of matched companies have fewer than 50 employees. If your community is the product rather than an addition to an existing site, a standalone platform like Discourse (3,760 domains) is the better fit.

Our August 2026 crawl detects Asgaros Forum on 2,068 active domains, of which 1,114 match a company record. The base is unlike other forum software: Non-profit Organizations lead at 6.2% and Civic and Social Organizations at 5.35%, together 11.55%, followed by training and coaching (4.06%), wellness and fitness (3.42%) and higher education (2.35%). These are membership organisations, and 86.9% of them employ fewer than 50 people.

Asgaros Forum is simpler and faster to set up than bbPress, with a cleaner interface and built-in features like user reputation and file attachments. Our migration data shows 59 companies switched from bbPress to Asgaros Forum, often citing ease of use. However, bbPress has deeper WordPress integration for more complex use cases.

Yes — because it runs inside WordPress rather than as a separate platform, it integrates with WordPress membership and user-role plugins directly, which is its main architectural advantage over standalone forum software. That fit shows in the customer base: non-profits (6.2%) and civic and social organisations (5.35%) lead its industry table, and training and coaching businesses (4.06%) and higher education (2.35%) follow — all membership organisations where forum access typically needs to follow membership status.

Yes, and our data shows it actively gaining users: 2,068 active domains as of August 2026, with 19.05% of identifiable owners being companies founded in the 2020s — the youngest customer base in the Community & Comments category, against 0.65% for vBulletin and 2.37% for Invision Power Board. Its 12.2% churn reflects the trial-and-abandon cycle free plugins invite rather than the product being abandoned.

Asgaros Forum has basic spam prevention built in, but many users pair it with dedicated anti-spam plugins. Our data shows 38.2% of Asgaros Forum sites use reCAPTCHA for bot prevention, and 39.3% use Contact Form 7 with spam filtering. For high-traffic forums, third-party spam tools are recommended.

Based on 1,114 enriched companies, 70.68% have 1-10 employees and 16.27% have 11-50, so 86.9% sit under 50 people — the most small-business-concentrated profile in the forum category. A free plugin that adds a discussion board to an existing WordPress site suits organisations that want community features without running a second platform, and the size distribution reflects exactly that.

Yes. Asgaros Forum supports multilingual setups through WordPress translation plugins like WPML and Polylang. The plugin itself is translation-ready and supports many languages. Given that 40%+ of users are in non-English European markets, multilingual compatibility matters for international communities.

Yes, though migration tools vary by destination platform. Our data shows 36 companies moved from Asgaros Forum to bbPress, 24 to Ultimate Member, and 10 to BuddyBoss over five years. Manual export/import via WordPress database tools is typically required, since automated migration plugins are limited.

Within WordPress, bbPress is the main comparison. Outside it, the standalone platforms are Discourse (3,760 domains) for modern open-source communities, XenForo (7,881) and phpBB (6,550) for self-hosted PHP forums, and Disqus (13,033) if you want comments rather than a forum. The distinction that matters is architectural: Asgaros lives inside your WordPress site, while the others replace that part of your architecture and require migrating or starting fresh.