A Stack Overflow for Teams alternative
You can a bit think of Talkyard as StackOverflow for Teams (https://stackoverflow.co/teams/), but open source.
Talkyard is for Q&A, just like Stack Overflow, but also intended for ideation & bigger open-ended discussions. And works for creating public communities (not only company internal) around your products (or hybrid partly-public-partly-internal).
Stack Overflow is primarily for Q&A, although you can use it for open-ended discussions too. It has more integrations and better support and uptime guarantees, content and users analytics, and compliance related enterprise features. It's a bigger company, less risky.
Both Stack Overflow and Talkyard are threaded. Stack Overflow limits the threading depth to two (answers and flat comments), which can make Stack Overflow simpler to understand and use, but can also be a small hinderance to larger discussions.
Talkyard has partly implemented anti-cognitive biases features that deal with things like group think, appeal-to-authority (these features are optional), anchoring bias.
Below, €4 means that the feature on that row,
is included in Talkyard's €4 price plan
(that is, €4 per active employee and month).
And $0 in Stack Overflow's column,
means that the feature is free at Stack Overflow, for up to 50 employees. – means
the feature is missing.
(Last updated in January 2025. Tell us if you find errors? support@talkyard.io)
Price and Hosting
$6.5 per coworker up to 250. Then $13.5.
If on-premise. SaaS always auto upgrades.YesYes
Authentication
Groups & Permissions
Configure everyone in a group at the same time, e.g. subscribe them to a category.€4?
Grant read and write permissions on categories to user groups.€4$13 (edit permissions, no read permissions)
Teamworking
Post a question to a user group, without knowing who is the best person to ask.€4$0
Post a question to those who know a lot about a specific topic.–$0
Blog comments
Discussions & Content
Large Discussions
Q&A and Knowledge Base
Ideation
So you won't judge an idea based on who posted it.€4–