vBulletin

Name: vBulletin
Price: 14.99 USD

Place

#10 of 16

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Score

5.9

The facts below are what the maker publishes about vBulletin, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.

Plans and prices

From vBulletin's own pricing page, checked 9 Oct 2026.

Plan	Price	What it gives you
vBulletin Cloud	$14.99 a month	Hosted service with hosting and maintenance · Starts at $14.99/month
vBulletin 6 license	$179, paid once	Self-hosted installation · Includes one year of updates and one month of ticket support

Each one read from vBulletin's own pages, with the date it was checked.

Community tools: The manual describes forums, blogs, social groups, private messages, visitor messages, and user albums as channels.checked 9 Oct 2026
Customization: Administrators can change styles through the Style Generator and edit templates through the Style Manager.checked 9 Oct 2026
Hosting requirements: For self-hosting, the manual recommends PHP 7.3 or greater and MySQL 8 or greater.checked 9 Oct 2026
Integration: The vBulletin 6 announcement identifies Shopify integration as a new feature.checked 9 Oct 2026
Moderation: Inline moderation lets administrators and moderators manage threads and posts from forum pages.checked 9 Oct 2026
Operating systems: The manual says the software runs on any operating system using a modern web server.checked 9 Oct 2026
Product: vBulletin is forum and community publishing software.checked 9 Oct 2026
Search: The manual describes a search architecture designed to make all content searchable.checked 9 Oct 2026
Security: The manual says post requests are restricted to the site's domain unless other referrers are added to a whitelist.checked 9 Oct 2026
Site building: Site Builder uses drag-and-drop tools to create custom pages and includes a style generator.checked 9 Oct 2026
Support: The vBulletin 6 license announcement includes one month of ticket support and says the average ticket is answered within 24 hours.checked 9 Oct 2026