# XenForo Software Pricing, Alternatives & More 2026 | Capterra

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 XenForo Software Review 2026: Features, Reviews, Integrations, Pros & Cons

Last updated on November 6, 2025

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[Description](#description)[Use cases](#use-cases)[Alternatives](#alternatives)[Pricing](#pricing)[Support](#support)[Reviews](#reviews)

XenForo

## What is XenForo?

Community solution that businesses create forms and define control permissions to discuss relevant topics and record suggestions.

## What is XenForo used for?

[Community](https://www.capterra.com/community-software/)

Overall rating

Based on 2 user reviews

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## Compare with a popular alternative

Capterra selects software alternatives based on relevant features, verified user reviews and user interactions. Placement may be influenced by client status.

### XenForo

5.0 (2)

VS.

[### Peatix](https://www.capterra.com/p/176656/Peatix/)

[0.0](https://www.capterra.com/p/176656/Peatix/#reviews)

Starting Price

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Starting Price

$0.99

Per Feature

Free Trial

Free Version

Pricing Options

Free Trial

Free Version

Ease Of Use

5.0 (2)

Ease Of Use

0.0 (0)

Value For Money

5.0 (1)

Value For Money

0.0 (0)

Customer Service

5.0 (1)

Customer Service

0.0 (0)

## Pricing

Value for money

5.0 (1)

### Starting price

Contact vendor  
for pricing

Free trial  
not available

Value for money

5.0 (1)

5.0

Based on 1 reviews

## Support, customer service and training options

Customer Service

5.0 (1)

Support

-   Email/Help Desk
-   FAQs/Forum
-   Knowledge Base
-   Phone Support
-   24/7 (Live rep)
-   Chat

Training

-   In Person
-   Live Online
-   Webinars
-   Documentation
-   Videos

Deployment

-   Web
-   Android
-   iPhone/iPad

Typical users

-   Freelancers
-   Small businesses
-   Mid size businesses
-   Enterprises

Customer Service

5.0 (1)

5.0

Based on 1 reviews

## User reviews

Overall rating

5.0

Based on 2 reviews

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5(2)

4(0)

3(0)

2(0)

1(0)

Mentioned topic

Sorted by most recent

MH

Muzammal H.

Manager Operations

Banking

### "Review - XenForo"

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

5.0

5.0

Features

5.0

5.0

Customer Service

5.0

5.0

Likelihood to Recommend

9/10

August 24, 2022

It is a perfect community software you can ever ask for with plenty of options in your hands. its performance is fast and very easy for the admins and users to operate and manage.

Pros

It is very easy to use and have friendly user interface. We can easily restrict and grant rights and permissions to the users. Grouping user is relatively easy. You can also generate alerts via SMS and email. It has lot of styles and extension available which makes it more presentable and attractive. It performance is good i.e fast in operations.

Cons

One of the drawback is its price, I think its a bit expensive, its complete package should be under 500$. Another thing is it closed source and it only offers MySQL system.

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AP

Aakash P.

Accessibility Consultant

Information Technology and Services

### "Expensive to set up and manage, but well worth it"

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

5.0

5.0

Features

5.0

5.0

Customer Service

0.0

0.0

Likelihood to Recommend

9/10

July 16, 2022

Pros

XenForo is feature-packed from the get go. It is an extremely easy software to set up on your own server and the admin control panel is a breeze to navigate through. The multiple themes and addons available for XenForo is great and allows you to customise your site exactly how you want to.

Cons

XenForo is unfortunately a pretty expensive forum software to set up initially and manage. Renewals are not cheap and the majority of good addons will set you back a lot of money.

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