What is Discord?
Discord is great for playing games and chilling with friends, or even building a worldwide community. Customize your own space to talk, play, and hang out.
Discord pricing
Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.
Free tier available. Nitro is a paid subscription tier.
Nitro
What Discord does
The capabilities that matter for collaboration software, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Messaging
- ✓
- Video meetings
- ✓
- Whiteboard
- ✓
- Screen sharing
- ✓
- Recording / transcription
- -
- End-to-end encryption
- -
- SSO / SCIM
- -
- Guest / external access
- ✓
- Compliance controls
- -
- Hosting
- Cloud only
- Max participants
- -
- App marketplace
- ✓
- Public API / bot framework
- ✓
- Free tier
- ✓
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- iOS
- Web
- Android
- Windows
- Cloud / SaaS
Integrations (32)
Independently observed- Wordle
- Roll20
- Rythm
- Watch Together
- Whiteboard
- Chess In The Park
- Codenames Online
- Farm Merge Valley
- Farm Merge Valley
- Poker Night
- Blackjack
- ERTH Poker
- BattleTabs
- Hideout
- Lofi
- Letter League
- Daily Sudoku Together
- Daily Word Wheel
- Death by AI
- Banana of Doom
- The Last Show
- MergeVille
- Mergest Kingdom
- Solitaire Home Story
- Bobble League
- Poxel.io
- Smash Karts
- Krunker Strike FRVR
- Kour.io
- Red Bull Crate Quest
- Hex Puzzle Adventure
- Blazing 8s
Discord alternatives
Other collaboration software we track, ranked by the same independent score.
The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Discord, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | 92 | 0.19 | 17.1 | ✓ |
| Price Level | 80 | 0.06 | 4.6 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 44 | 0.10 | 4.6 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 50 | 0.07 | 3.5 | ✓ |
| Pricing Transparency | 25 | 0.09 | 2.4 | ✓ |
| Security Posture | 10 | 0.07 | 0.0 | - |
Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.
All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | {"hosting":"cloud","free_tier":true,"messaging":true,"api_access":true,"whiteboard":true,"screen_sharing":true,"video_meetings":true,"app_marketplace":true,"guest_external_access":true} | mediumsource · 2026-08-05 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 32 | mediumsource · 2026-08-05 · 60% |
Pricing
Reliability
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Status page | Yes | mediumsource · 2026-08-05 · 60% |