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Flarum vs Habitat: catalog facts
Flarum	Habitat
Free Free and open source under the MIT licence.	Free Free and open source under the AGPL-3.0 licence.
Self-hosted	Self-hosted
Large ecosystem of community extensions Group permissions and built-in moderation	Discussions tied to specific local locations No ads or data harvesting
Needs a PHP server to host Version 2.0 is still a release candidate	Small, young project with a limited community Each instance serves one local area
Self-hosted	Self-hosted
Open source	Open source
License: MIT	License: AGPL-3.0
No account needed	Not stated if an account is needed
Needs internet	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026

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