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Meet Discourse AI

Your community management assistant – Designed to save you time and effort, so you can focus on what matters most—your community

Moderation & Management

Discourse AI helps you keep your community safe, organized, and productive

Moderation made easy

Stay one step ahead of bad actors in your community. AI automation efficiently detects toxic content, applies tags, flags NSFW posts, and more.

Spam detection filters out unwanted posts before they impact other members. It’s easy to enable with a single click, and you can fine-tune it to suit your community’s needs.

Spend less time moderating and more time connecting with your community.

AI Assistants at your users’ fingertips

Let users engage with specialized AI personas through chat and personal messages.

Craft the perfect AI helpers with customizable system prompts, response parameters, and powerful tools that can search your forum, access the web, and retrieve information from your uploaded documents—all running securely in Discourse.

Get help when you need it

Proofreading, translation, and content optimization tools at your fingertips.

Generate summaries, captions, smart dates and more.

Engagement & Discovery

Discourse AI gives you the power to create better conversations and more

Communicate in any language

Break language barriers for your global community with automatic AI-powered translations.

Enable seamless participation for members from around the world. All community content is instantly available in your preferred language.

Search, but better

Revolutionize how users find content with semantic search that goes beyond basic keywords.

Quickly surface contextually relevant topics for deeper engagement and discovery.

Find related topics easily

Suggest relevant discussions to users at the end of every topic, encouraging continued engagement.

Powered by deep semantic similarity analysis for contextually accurate results.

Fast summaries to catch up faster

Quickly summarize lengthy conversations or chats for users who need succinct updates.

Stay informed and reduce catch-up time.

Insights & Analysis

Understand and optimize your community’s health and performance

Understand how your community is feeling

Monitor community health with sentiment and emotional scoring of discussions.

Gain insights into posts, topics, and trends to guide your decisions and strengthen community management.

Automatic reports to learn about community trends

Get automated reports detailing forum activity, trending discussions, and user insights.

Perfect for admins to analyze trends and enhance strategy.

Stay on top of AI usage and costs

Understand token usage and requests over time by model and AI feature.

Learn how your community is using Discourse AI.

I can’t emphasize how good the AI-based spam detection is. IT is 99% spot-on, and the few times it isn’t, the prompt is easily adjusted to handle it. 10+ days has cost us $0.15 of AI credit Read their success story here.

Colin Mueller

Community Manager at Sonar Source

Data Security

Discourse AI = Discourse

Data ownership

All AI data is stored alongside your Discourse content. You own it, always.

Flexible provider choice

Pick and choose the AI provider that fits your needs—you're in control.

Privacy by design

We use open-weight LLMs and never train on your data. Your content stays yours.

Model support that grows

Support for popular and custom models. AI evolves fast—and so do we.

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Start with the free plan or try any paid plan free for 14 days.