From the very early days of Discourse, our mission has always been to empower communities of all sizes and budgets. Today, we are making it even easier to get started with Discourse the brand new Free plan!
Getting started 
We will outline the details on our website soon, but you can set up a Free site right now using this link → https://id.discourse.com/create-site
You’ll be prompted to create a Discourse ID account or login if you have one, and then enter a your site’s name and chosen domain. That’s it, your new free Discourse instance will be ready in under 2 minutes!
What are the features and limitations on Free? 
On Free sites, you get:
- Unlimited topics, chat and members
- Social logins via Discourse ID
- Horizon Theme
- Same usage limits as our Starter plan, except that you can have:
- Up to 10 categories
- No custom groups or private categories
- No tags
- No digest emails or default notification levels
- Support via public topics on Meta only
The Free tier also includes a Discourse Hosted LLM, pre-configured & ready to use. Designed to save you time and effort, so that you can focus on what matters most; your community 
How can you help? 
As an early adopter of our Free plan, we would love to hear about any feedback, questions or problems that you run into as a reply to this topic.
For general support with Free sites, please post on #support::category.
Pro tip: When posting for support, be sure to mention that your site is on our Free hosted tier. This will help our Community tailor the advice they give to fit your experience.
Last edited by @suen 2026-02-11T02:13:56Z
