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Misago vs Flarum: catalog facts
Misago	Flarum
Free Free and open source under the GPL-2.0 licence.	Free Free and open source under the MIT licence.
Web, Self-hosted	Self-hosted
Sign-in through more than 50 OAuth providers Markdown and BBCode posting	Large ecosystem of community extensions Group permissions and built-in moderation
Still on 0.x releases with features in active development Requires running a Python and Django stack	Needs a PHP server to host Version 2.0 is still a release candidate
Self-hosted	Self-hosted
Open source	Open source
License: GPL-2.0	License: MIT
Not stated if an account is needed	No account needed
Not stated if it works offline	Needs internet
Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026

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