Companies Using Invision Power Board

We detect Invision Power Board on 3,001 domains, including Zeiss, Kaspersky Lab, HTC America Inc.. 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 Software Development (10.25%).

We detect 3,001 domains running Invision Power Board across our monthly crawl of live business domains. Company data could be matched for 520 of them (17.3%), and every company-size, industry and country breakdown on this page describes that matched subset rather than the full detected base. A further 120 domains carried a Invision Power Board detection previously and no longer do.

Invision Power Board holds 1.06% of the Community & Comments category, ranking #6. 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.

Within the same generation, XenForo (7,881 domains) is the largest commercial PHP forum and phpBB (6,550) the free option. For a modern platform, Discourse (3,760) is the standard choice — and the generational gap is stark, with 17.98% of Discourse's customers founded in the 2020s against Invision's 2.37%. Disqus (13,033) is larger than all of them but is a comment widget rather than a forum. Whichever you choose, migrating the archive is the real project.

United States leads with 195 matched Invision Power Board domains, followed by United Kingdom (44), France (28), Brazil (25), Germany (22). These are counts within the 520 domains we could match to a company record, not the full detected base.

The most common company size is 1-10 employees, representing 59.53% of the Invision Power Board domains we could match to a company record and size — a subset of 520 matched companies, not of all 3,001 detected domains. This is followed by 11-50 employees (23.34%) and 51-200 employees (9.85%).

Among the Invision Power Board domains we could match to a company with a known founding date, the largest group was founded in the 2000s (43.39%), followed by the 2010s (32.88%). That matched subset is drawn from 520 companies and is not representative of all 3,001 detected domains. This suggests Invision Power Board is most popular among established companies.

The ideal Invision Power Board customer is: Company Size: 1-10 employees, Location: US, UK, or France, City: Nashville, Vienna, Seattle, London, Founded: 2000-2009, Company Age: ~15-25 years old — based on our analysis of 520 enriched companies at TechnologyChecker.io.

Invision Power Board is owned by Invision Power Services, Inc. (IPS), founded in 2002 by Charles Warner and Matt Mecham after they left Jarvis Entertainment Group. IPS rebranded the product line to Invision Community in April 2017, but the IPB name still applies to the v4 codebase that most existing customers run.

No. Early versions (2002-2004) were free, but since v2.0.1 the software has been commercial per the Wikipedia history. Current published pricing runs from $89/month (Creator, annual) to $549/month (Business, annual), with a 30-day free trial available. IPS has phased out self-hosted perpetual licenses and now steers customers toward its hosted SaaS tiers.

Yes. Our August 2026 crawl detects it on 3,001 active domains, ranking #6 of 63 in the Community & Comments category, and it has aged notably better than its contemporary vBulletin — 39% larger by footprint with 4% churn against vBulletin's 9.9%. That said, it is being maintained rather than adopted: 43.39% of identifiable owners were founded in the 2000s and only 2.37% in the 2020s, against 17.98% for Discourse.

They're the same product line under different names. IPS renamed IPS Community Suite to Invision Community with the v4.2 release in April 2017, as detailed in the company's own decade-in-review post. The v4 codebase is still commonly called IPB by the community, while the 2024 platform is Invision Community 5. Our detection pipeline tracks each under a separate technology ID.

Invision Community is sold as a paid licence with cloud-hosted and self-hosted options, priced by feature set and applications rather than by a single tier. Its commercial model sits between free phpBB and enterprise vBulletin licensing, which historically made it the choice for communities wanting polish without enterprise pricing — and the customer data reflects that, with Computer Games at 7.74% and 82.9% of identifiable owners employing fewer than 50 people.

PHP, with a MySQL database, as with most forum software of its generation. Our detection data shows the front-end signature clearly: Mustache templating appears on 86.96% of Invision domains, which is effectively the product's own rendering rather than an independent choice. Modern JavaScript frameworks barely register — Vue.js on 2.03% and React on 1.61% — confirming these are traditionally server-rendered applications.

No. The company is very much active, but IPB version 4 is reaching end of life for hosted clients. Invision Power Services confirmed the transition in a community thread and is migrating customers to Invision Community 5. Separately, IPS retired its third-party marketplace as part of the IC5 shift.

As a maintained commercial product it receives regular security updates, which distinguishes it from forum software that has stopped shipping. Our data shows the base taking infrastructure security seriously: Cloudflare Browser Insights appears on 34.42% of Invision domains, an unusually high rate that reflects community sites needing DDoS protection. Its 4% churn rate, well below vBulletin's 9.9%, is consistent with a product whose users have not been forced off by maintenance problems.

Yes, and roughly 18% of its identifiable owners are software, technology and IT services companies doing exactly that. But the larger share of its base is hobbyist: Computer Games (7.74%), Spectator Sports (3.64%) and Entertainment Providers (2.73%) point to clan sites and fan forums. For a modern product support community, Discourse is the more common choice today, with 27.88% of its base in software development against Invision's 10.25%.

Among the 520 domains we can match to a company, Software Development leads at 10.25% and Computer Games follows at 7.74% — the highest gaming concentration in our recent refresh work. Technology and Internet (7.29%), IT Services (3.87%), Spectator Sports (3.64%) and Entertainment Providers (2.73%) fill out a picture of gaming clans, hobby communities and fan forums. Note enrichment is only 17.3%, so most boards have no company record at all.

Invision Community 4.x and 5.x ship responsive web interfaces that work on mobile browsers, and IPS announced native iOS and Android apps in late 2019. Most customers rely on the responsive web experience plus push notifications for engagement. Platforms that compete on mobile-first (notably Discourse, which ships first-party apps) are a common destination for IPB customers who want native apps.

The vendor cites Zeiss, Kaspersky Lab, Gibson Brands and HTC, and those are genuine — but unrepresentative of the installed base. Among the 520 domains we can match to a company, 82.9% have fewer than 50 employees and only 0.43% exceed 10,000. More than four in five Invision installations have no company record at all, because they are enthusiast communities rather than businesses.

Our v2 detection began in March 2026, so we cannot speak to the full history. Within that window we detect 3,001 active domains and 120 that have dropped it — a churn rate of 4%, low for forum software and well below vBulletin's 9.9%. The founding-decade data is the better guide to its trajectory: 43.39% of identifiable owners were founded in the 2000s, when the product was at its peak, and only 2.37% in the 2020s.