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Flarum vs Misago: catalog facts
Flarum	Misago
Free Free and open source under the MIT licence.	Free Free and open source under the GPL-2.0 licence.
Self-hosted	Web, Self-hosted
Large ecosystem of community extensions Group permissions and built-in moderation	Sign-in through more than 50 OAuth providers Markdown and BBCode posting
Needs a PHP server to host Version 2.0 is still a release candidate	Still on 0.x releases with features in active development Requires running a Python and Django stack
Self-hosted	Self-hosted
Open source	Open source
License: MIT	License: GPL-2.0
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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