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Tribe, a powerful alternative to Stack Overflow for Teams

Select a fully customizable, integrated, and white-label community platform. Save budget on software to invest in your Q&A community.

Comparison

What’s the difference between
Tribe and Stack Overflow for Teams?

Stack Overflow, as a Q&A site on the public web, is a key part of developers’ daily life. Although it has well-thought features, the offering for companies doesn’t offer a white-label experience, powerful customization capability, and comprehensive API access. The per-member subscription fee makes it harder for companies to scale when the team size increases.

Tribe is designed to offer a fully customizable community platform via a highly modular, API-driven, and white-label approach. Also, Tribe is not based on per member subscription fee, comes with 20+ direct third-party integration, SSO (with SAML), and enterprise-grade security. The generous free plan supports your custom domain without any restrictions on the number of members and content.

Tribe vs. Stack Overflow for Teams

Tribe Stack Overflow
Pricing
Free plan
Premium plan
$299/month for 25,000 members
$600/month for 50 members
Reviews
Capterra rating 4.8/5 4.7/5
Features
Community platform
Fully customize the community components and showcase them exactly the way you need
Embeddable widgets
Plug in valuable social elements of the community inside the product.
Activity feed
Activity feed that delivers personalized content and keeps members hooked.
Webhooks
Trigger actions in third-party apps based on community events.
Discussions/forums
Enable members to share views and discuss topics.
Spaces
Build sub-communities of members with shared passion.
Gamification
Badges, points, and leaderboard system.
Limited
Reporting and analytics
In-built dashboard to track key metrics. Integration with analytics tools to track member behavior at a granular level.
Native video player
Allow members to upload videos directly to the community
API
Build custom integrations and automate processes
Not comprehensive
Apps
Valuable apps such as virtual coins and push notifications
Third-party integrations
20+ integration with popular apps including Zapier
Only Slack and Microsoft Teams
SSO
SAML, JWT, OAuth2.0, and more
Moderation tools
Automate moderation with minimum reputation requirements, keyword blacklisting, and more.
Limited
Newsletter and notification
Drive contextual communication and increase member retention.
Branding
UI customization option
Fully customize the look and feel with CSS. Integrate with product or site navigation.
White-label solution
Mobile
Mobile app
Mobile responsive and tight integration with messaging apps.
Responsive interface
Internationalization
Multi-lingual
Allow community members to select their preferred display language
Localization
In-built support for 27 languages

Immediate Access. No Credit Card Required.

Tribe helped us build a unified community with continuous experience for learners and create a robust communication channel.

Mariah Olson

Head of Community, Schoolhouse

5x

your customer retention


80%

of your customers engaged

Modern design
for modern users

Tribe’s design philosophy and engagement tools are inspired by popular social networks which makes it familiar to community members.

Embeddable widgets

Deliver immersive social experience right inside your product, app or website with widgets. Some of the prominent examples can be enabling user discussions under the product listing and showcasing user-generated content when users browse through different features of your product.

Highly engaging apps

Tribe offers some of the most compelling modern apps such as incentivization system via virtual currency that can be used to get desired user action, easy user management, and powerful analytics.

It’s your brand.
Fully customizable.

Tribe is a white-label social network solution. It is designed to adopt your brand and engineered to integrate with your website. You can even add your site header/footer to seamlessly blend it with your site navigation.

Stack Overflow does a good job with the public Q&A site. On the downside, the Stack Overflow for teams offering doesn’t offer complete customizations, comprehensive API, valuable apps, integrations, and advanced moderation tools. The per teammate-based subscription model is a major deterrent to scalability as well.

Tribe offers a customizable community platform, valuable apps, extensive API, webhooks, and white-label solution at extremely efficient pricing. Tribe also delivers better customer support via live chat and dedicated success team.

Hence, select Tribe, if you are looking for a robust and customizable platform with better customer support. Save yor budget and resources to invest in community development.

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