Invision Community is a mature, full-featured suite trusted by big communities. Its cloud pricing grows with your activity though, so success gets expensive. ForumSpark stays flat: unlimited members on every plan, and storage is the only thing that scales.
| Invision Community | ForumSpark | |
|---|---|---|
| Yearly cost | Cloud plans that grow with your pageviews, or classic self-hosting | ✓Flat from €5/mo, unlimited members on every plan |
| Pricing model | Scales up as your community grows | ✓Flat plans, storage is the only thing that scales |
| Updates & security patches | Managed on cloud, yours if classic | ✓Automatic, zero downtime, never your job |
| Themes | Marketplace + theme developers | ✓Theme Studio: no code, AI Smart Start included |
| AI answers & summaries | Not built in | ✓Built in, sourced from your own board with citations |
| Selling downloads & resources | Included, but cloud pricing scales with your activity | ✓Marketplace built in from Launch: sell downloads, services and merch, paid straight to you |
| Spam defense | Manual moderation tooling | ✓Trust Levels: autonomous, zero moderation overhead |
Also switching from: XenForo · vBulletin · phpBB · Discourse
Yes. Every member arrives with their username, email, join date and post history. Depending on the platform, passwords either migrate directly or members set a new one with a single reset on first login.
Old topic URLs redirect to their new homes, so every link that ever pointed at your community keeps working and your search rankings carry over instead of resetting.
Most communities switch over a single weekend. We import everything to a private staging board first, you review it and pick a theme, and your current forum keeps running untouched until you flip your domain.
Nothing. We run the import for free on any plan. You only ever pay your flat monthly plan, starting at €5/mo with a 30-day free trial. Email [email protected] and we take it from there.
Start a free 30-day trial, then email [email protected] and we will plan your move together.
Start free trial
