Community Engine
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Community Engine, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Community Engine's own pricing page, checked 11 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Enterprise | £8,000 a year | SSO · Self-host or on-premise · White label · Compliance · SLA · From £8,000/yr |
| Directory API | £2,400 a year | Programmatic access to four directories · £2,400/yr |
| Market Intelligence | £6,000 a year | For vendor marketing, sales and recruitment teams · £6,000/yr |
| Core | Free | Self-hosted · Apache 2.0 · Free |
The facts
Each one read from Community Engine's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Accessibility
- Community Stack states a commitment to WCAG 2.2 AA across attendee and admin experiences.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Audit and privacy controls
- Engine describes append-only audit logs, consent records, GDPR subject access and erasure, retention policies, data residency selection, and SIEM streaming.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Community operations
- It provides governance and operations for a single meetup or portfolios of up to 200 chapters, including organiser succession and handover.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Custom domain
- Yeschecked 23 Sep 2026
- Data portability
- Core users can export all entities in JSON and CSV through self-service without a fee or support ticket.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Enterprise deployment
- Enterprise deployments can be managed cloud, self-hosted, on-premise or air-gapped, with dedicated environments, SLA, named support and custom development.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Event hosting
- Yeschecked 23 Sep 2026
- Events
- Event tools cover meetups, recurring series, multi-day and multi-track conferences, hybrid and online events, drag-and-drop scheduling, and conflict detection.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- The platform lists Stripe Connect, Meetup, Eventbrite, Bevy and Luma integrations or migration adapters, plus a versioned REST API, signed webhooks, and TypeScript and Python SDKs.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Moderation tools
- Yeschecked 23 Sep 2026
- Offline check-in
- Check-in, scanning and point of sale are described as working offline with local queueing.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Payments
- Ticketing supports tiered rates, allocation caps, waitlists, VAT handling, refunds and transfers through Stripe Connect, with no platform take rate.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- Engine is a unified platform for running communities at scale, with an open-source core and enterprise features.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Security
- Identity options include passkeys, magic links, OAuth, SAML 2.0, OIDC, SCIM provisioning and two-factor authentication.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Target users
- The enterprise edition is described for corporate guilds, DevRel teams and event businesses; the core edition is for any community or organisation.checked 11 Oct 2026
The company
- Founded
- 2025checked 28 Sep 2026
- Headquarters
- Barnsley, South Yorkshire, United Kingdomchecked 28 Sep 2026
- Maker
- Community Stack lists its headquarters as Barnsley and says it was founded in 2025.checked 11 Oct 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 23 Sep 2026
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