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
Stack Overflow for Teams pricing, and the public alternative
Stack Overflow for Teams is Q&A for developers, priced per user. We are the public, customer-facing version of the same shape, on your own domain.
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 Stack Overflow for Teams
What Stack Overflow for Teams is, and who buys it
Stack Overflow for Teams brings the Stack Overflow format inside a company. Questions, votes, and one accepted answer, in a private space for a team.
Developers already know how to use it, and that is the strongest thing about it. Engineers ask, engineers answer, and the good answers rise.
It fits internal knowledge and developer audiences best. If most of your questions come from engineers, it is a sensible pick.
Pricing
Stack Overflow for Teams pricing, in plain words
Stack Overflow for Teams is priced per user on tiered plans, so the bill grows as you add people. We have no sourced figure to quote, so we will not print one.
Ours is not per user, which is the difference to weigh. $9 one time on a Forumcat subdomain, or $99 a month for your own domain. Seats on Pro are unlimited, under a quiet fair-use backstop.
Your customers are never seats. Reading and searching are open to everyone, and signing in is only for asking, replying, and voting.
What your customers see
The portal, in your brand
Votes and an accepted solution, in a page your customers can read without signing in.
Side by side
Stack Overflow for Teams 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.
| Stack Overflow for Teams | Forumcat | |
|---|---|---|
| Setup time | Sign up and invite the team | About five minutes |
| Price shape | Per user, per plan | $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 | Private to the team by design | |
| 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 Stack Overflow for Teams is the right pick
Stay when the audience is your own engineers, or a developer community that already lives in that format. Familiarity gets people asking, and that is half the battle.
Private internal knowledge is also a job we do not aim at. Our portal is public first, with private questions for the one-to-one cases.
Why teams move
When teams pick Forumcat instead
Teams come to us when the questions are from customers, in public, on a domain they own. Reading needs no account, and every answered question becomes a page search engines and AI engines can read.
The Q&A shape is the same one your team already likes. Ask, reply, vote, and one accepted solution pinned under the question. The audience is what changes.
- Public pages with QAPage structured data and a markdown view
- No per-user price for your customers
- Private questions and private categories when needed
- Five roles, so agents answer and finance only sees billing
A closer look
See it before you decide
Connect an AI agent with one URL, on every plan, with no add-on.
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.
Can we keep some questions private?
Answer
Yes. Staff can mark any question private, and a whole category can be private, so everything posted there starts private. Only the asker and your team can open it.
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.
The customer-facing half
Keep the internal Q&A you have, and give customers a public one of their own.
Create your portalFree for 7 days. No credit card. Live in about five minutes.
