How fast can we be live?
Answer
About five minutes. Sign in, name your portal, and it is online at yourcompany.myforumcat.com. Nothing to install.
Compare
Khoros pricing, and the simple alternative
Khoros Communities is built for big brands with a community team. We are the focused version: a public customer Q&A portal at one flat price.
Free for 7 days. No credit card. Live in about five minutes.
5 minfrom sign-up to a live portal
0servers to run or patch
$9one time for a working portal
7 daysfree, no card needed
About Khoros
What Khoros is, and who buys it
Khoros sells Khoros Communities as an enterprise customer community and support forum. It sits in a wider product line for brands that also run social channels and messaging.
Big brands buy it when one community carries many products, several languages, and a moderation load that never stops. It is built for that scale, and it holds up at it.
There is a real vendor team behind it too: onboarding, community strategy, and support. For a company with a dedicated community team, that is worth paying for.
Pricing
Khoros pricing, in plain words
Khoros does not publish a price list, so nothing on this page is a Khoros price. It is quote based, sold by a sales team, normally as an annual contract with a rollout attached.
The honest answer to a khoros pricing question is that the number depends on your size and what you bundle. Plan for a procurement cycle, not a card.
Ours is printed on the pricing page and does not change with your size. $9 one time, or $99 a month, with 7 days free to try it and no card.
What your customers see
The portal, in your brand
The whole product is the question, the answer, and finding both again.
Side by side
Khoros and Forumcat, line by line
Our column is what we ship today. Their column is sourced or plainly descriptive, and says so when we cannot source it.
| Khoros Communities | Forumcat | |
|---|---|---|
| Setup time | Sold with a rollout, per contract | About five minutes |
| Price shape | Enterprise, quote based. No public price list. | $9 one time, or $99 a month |
| Who hosts it | The vendor | We do |
| Your own domain | Check with the vendor | Yes, on Pro, with SSL set up for you |
| REST API and MCP on every plan | Check with the vendor | |
| Private questions and categories | Check with the vendor | |
| Roles for the support team | Check with the vendor | Five: owner, admin, agent, finance, member |
Sources as of Jul 2026. We only print a competitor number when a public source gives one. Otherwise the cell says "check with the vendor". Unlimited seats and questions on Pro carry a quiet fair-use backstop, lifted for any real portal that reaches it. Page views are fair-use limits, not a meter.
Fair to them
When Khoros is the right pick
Stay with Khoros when the community is a program rather than a page. Many brands, moderators working in shifts, and social channels in one view are good reasons to buy a suite.
If you need a vendor to sit in planning meetings with you, that is a service we do not sell.
Why teams move
When teams pick Forumcat instead
Teams come to us when the job is smaller and the calendar is shorter. One support team, one product, and a public place for customer questions that has to exist this week.
What you get is one thing done plainly: ask, answer, and accept a solution. The page is then found by search engines and AI engines.
- No contract and no procurement cycle
- One flat price you can read before you sign in
- Moderation built in, with bulk actions on the dashboard
- GDPR erasure as a self-serve action
A closer look
See it before you decide
One plan, one price, and the limits written down where you can see them.
Pricing
Two plans. Both flat.
The bill does not grow with traffic, questions, or seats. Pick a plan, and that is the price.
| Basic | Pro | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $9 one time | $99 a month, or $990 a year |
| Portal address | yourcompany.myforumcat.com | Your own domain, SSL included |
| Team seats | 2 | Unlimited |
| Registered members | 1,000 | 10,000 |
| Questions | 10,000 | Unlimited |
| Media storage | 1 GB (≈2,000 images) | 50 GB (≈100,000 images) |
| Page views a month (fair use) | 100,000 | 1,000,000 |
| Search, votes, accepted solutions | ||
| Structured data, sitemap, markdown view | ||
| REST API and MCP server | ||
| Google sign-in under your brand | ||
| Analytics and search log | ||
| Free trial | 7 days, no card | 7 days, no card |
Unlimited seats and questions on Pro carry a quiet fair-use backstop, lifted for any real portal that reaches it. Page views are fair-use limits, not a meter.
FAQ
Questions buyers ask at this stage
What does it cost in month twelve?
Answer
The same as month one. $9 one time for a portal on a Forumcat subdomain, or $99 a month for your own domain. The bill never grows with traffic or questions.
Is this an enterprise platform?
Answer
No. Forumcat is a focused Q&A portal at a flat price. Single sign-on with SAML is a contact-sales conversation, not something you can switch on today.
Can we import our old forum or help docs?
Answer
Not today. There is no importer. Most teams start fresh and let the new questions build the archive, which is live in minutes.
What happens to our answers if we leave?
Answer
They are yours. Every question and answer is readable through the REST API, so you can pull it all out any time.
Does it replace our help desk?
Answer
No. Keep your help desk for one-to-one work. Forumcat is the public place beside it where the answers many customers share get written once.
Start smaller than a suite
Create a portal, answer one real question, and see whether you need more than this.
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