As far as I know, they tend to roll out updates and fixes more often, which can be handy if you don’t want to deal with maintaining everything yourself.
In my experience, if you’re just starting out or working with something small—like a project tied to pre-seed funding for startups—the Open Source version can be a solid choice. It’s cheaper (or free), and you can customize it if you’ve got someone tech-savvy on your team. But if you’re trying to scale or don’t have the time to tinker with plugins and stuff, paying for the Business version might save you a lot of hassle.
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There is a difference
A few points
https://success.vanillaforums.com/kb/articles/115-addon-master-list
(I might not be right on all as some plugins gets added to OSS version from time to time)
Advanced Search
Badges
Badgify Comments
Hosted Tours
Keyword blocker
Knowledge
Online
Polls
Ranks
Reactions
Reporting
Resolved
Role titles
Salesforce
Troll Management
Advanced analytics
Walk trough
Warnings
Zendesk
Groups and Events
(a few of these are however available in OSS community made plugins with similar functionality)
also
Update and fixes release frequence
https://success.vanillaforums.com/kb/docs
As far as I know, they tend to roll out updates and fixes more often, which can be handy if you don’t want to deal with maintaining everything yourself.
In my experience, if you’re just starting out or working with something small—like a project tied to pre-seed funding for startups—the Open Source version can be a solid choice. It’s cheaper (or free), and you can customize it if you’ve got someone tech-savvy on your team. But if you’re trying to scale or don’t have the time to tinker with plugins and stuff, paying for the Business version might save you a lot of hassle.