In January 2023, it was estimated that Discord had approximately *** million monthly active users (MAU), up by ***** percent compared to the *** million users registered as of September 2021. In 2020, the year in which Discord started onboarding new users eager to communicate due to the disruptions caused by the global COVID-19 pandemic, Discord counted an estimated 100 million MAU. Discord's monthly active users were reported to grow by ** million between 2020 and 2021, while estimates for 2022 and 2023 appear to show a slowing growth trend. Discord, which was launched in 2015, is a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) platform and social media where users can create thematic or regional-based groups, called servers.

Social and VoIP platform Discord was launched in 2015 as a gamers-friendly communication platform, but it also acquired popularity among non-gaming audiences in recent years. The platform allows users to create or join thematic communities called servers, and as of August 2025, the Midjourney server was the most popular community on Discord, with over ***** million members. Midjourney is an AI-powered text-to-image tool, which is accessible via a Discord bot on the official Discord server of the program. The second most popular Discord server was Viggle, with **** million members. Not just a gamers’ space: Discord for communities While gaming servers are still among the most popular online spaces on the platform – with communities such as Marvel Rivals and the official Genshin Impact server amassing more than **** and *** million users respectively as of mid-2025 – Discord is also a space for several different communities to come together. Educational servers, which have been growing on the platform since the outbreak of the global COVID-19 pandemic, range from language learning to hacking and programming, with the server “MikaParadise” counting over *** million Discord users, and the server for Sui counting over *** thousand users, respectively. Cross-platform communities include online spaces in which users share content from other social media, such as affiliated Reddit servers and TikTok-based communities. As of April 2024, Lofi Girl and Dadscord were the most popular music servers on Discord, with ***** thousand and ***** thousand registered resharing content from the popular social video platform. Discord servers: the challenge of providing self-managed online spaces As Discord is composed by both public and private groups, moderating servers and enforcing the company’s Terms of Services represents a challenge. According to Discord, ** percent of the company’s employees are assigned to safety and moderation. However, servers on the platform are also moderated in their day-to-day activity by volunteer moderators. While Discord has repeatedly reported they do not have access to the four billion messages users exchange daily on the platform, in 2017 the company attracted global attention when it was revealed that it was used by alt-right groups in the United States to plan and organize the “Unite the Right 2.0” rally in Virginia, which culminated with a terroristic attack that left one dead and several wounded. Since then, Discord has engaged in several campaigns to remove servers classified as promulgating violent extremism: during the fourth quarter of 2023, *** servers were proactively removed from the platform due to violent extremism by the company’s safety and moderation team, while ** servers were reactively removed after users’ report.

Introduction

Discord Statistics: Discord is a popular communication app where people can chat using text, voice, or video. You can talk one-on-one or join groups called “servers†to chat with others. Over time, Discord has become a popular place for all types of online groups, including gamers, students, artists, and social circles. Today, it has more than 150 million active users each month and is widely used by businesses and content creators to connect with their communities. Discord was released on May 13, 2015, and was created by Jason Citron and Stanislav Vishnevskiy.

This article presents several analyses from different perspectives, including features such as servers, channels, and screen sharing. Discord offers a flexible space for people to interact, collaborate, and build online communities in real time.

Introduction

Discord Statistics: Jason Citron and Stanislav Vishnevskiy originally introduced Discord in 2015 to facilitate communication among gamers during online gameplay. Fast-forwarding to 2025, Discord has secured a position among the top ten social applications globally. With more than 656 million registered users, Discord serves as a platform where individuals spend over 4 hours daily engaging in conversations and developing relationships.

In fact, there are over 4 billion minutes of server conversations happening each day. This year, Discord is anticipated to have around 29 million daily active users. Projections suggest an expected growth rate of 18.86% in daily active users from 2023 to 2025. Discord is a complimentary application that allows for chatting, voice calls, video calls, and even streaming games and videos for friends or followers to view.

It holds the #8 position in the US Play Store, with approximately 30.26% of all Discord users residing in the United States.

It started in a tiny corner of the internet. Just a few gamers, tired of clunky voice apps, are looking for a smoother way to chat. Discord wasn’t built in a boardroom; it was born in a gaming forum. Fast forward to 2025, and Discord is no longer just for...

How many people are registered on Discord?

Between May 2017 and June 2020, the gaming chat app increased its registered user number from ** million to over *** million. In comparison, approximately *** million Discord users were active on the platform every month in September 2021. According to surveys conducted among messenger users in July 2022, ** percent of respondents in the United States, as well as ** percent of respondents in the United Kingdom reported engaging with Discord.

A gamers-first communication platform Discord is a social and voice-over-internet platform (VoIP) that was tailor-made to answer the needs of online gamers. The platform, which was launched in 2015, allows users to join or create their communities (called ‘servers’) in which they can add specific channels for voice, video, and text communication. Having seen its origins, it does not come as a surprise that over six in ** Discord users listed technology and gaming as their main interests. Additionally, the most popular servers on the platforms are dedicated to popular online games Valorant and Apex Legend, with *** thousand and *** thousand members in August 2022.

Discord Inc. While Discord has not released its revenue numbers, the company has secured almost one billion U.S. dollars in funding across ** rounds as of March 2022. In April 2021, Discord was offered ** billion U.S. dollars from Microsoft, but rejected the offer and has been estimated to be looking to enter the public market in the next years. The platform’s business model does not include online advertising, as Discord monetizes exclusively by direct user subscriptions to its premium product Discord Nitro. In 2021, Discord generated ** million U.S. dollars in revenues from its mobile app alone.

As of September 2021, Discord was counting approximately 150 million monthly active users (MAU) worldwide. This represents an increase of 50 million users from June 2020. Discord, which was launched in 2015, is a social and communication platform that allows users to make video and over-the-internet voice calls, as well as create invite-only communities called "servers." Thanks to its screen sharing and live streaming features, the platform is also used by gamers and mobile video games players worldwide to stream content to a selected audience.

In August 2022, communication and social platform Discord reported its users exchanged approximately ************ messages daily. This represents an increase from the *** million daily messages the platform saw in May 2018. The popular communication platform for gamers was launched in 2015 and counted around ** million messages exchanged after one year.

In January 2023, it was estimated that Discord had approximately *** million registered users, up by over ** percent compared to the *** million users reported in June 2020. Between 2017 and 2020, users registering to join the popular Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) platform and social media Discord grew from ** million to approximately *** million. Discord, which was launched in 2015, is known to be a gamers-first online space and community hosting platform, as it allows users to communicate both via chat and voice channels, as well as live stream gaming sessions.

During the third quarter of 2024, around 66.3 percent of Discord users were men. By comparison, women using the communication and social media platform were approximately 32.6 percent. In 2023, it was estimated that there were 19 million active servers on Discord.

We're excited to introduce SunoV1 Messages — a curated metadata and message dataset sourced from the sunov1 channel of the Suno Discord server. This dataset captures the raw creative energy of the Suno community, collecting shared AI-generated songs and discussions from its active users. Using responsible scraping practices, we’ve gathered 138,267 messages, covering all user activity up to June 30, 2025. We plan to release monthly updates to ensure the dataset stays fresh and reflective of the… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/sleeping-ai/sunoV1-discord.

According to a survey of online users conducted in September 2022 in the United States, 36 percent of respondents who played video games daily or weekly used Discord, while 64 percent of frequent gamers did not do so. Additionally, 16 percent of respondents who reported playing video games monthly or occasionally also used Discord. Discord is a social platform initially launched to supply gamers with voice and chat communication features not bounded to specific game experiences. As of September 2022, five percent of U.S. respondents who reported never playing video games were using Discord, a sign that the platform adoption among non-gaming community is improving compared to 2021.

In May 2023, an online survey in the United States found that ***** percent of Hispanic used voice-over-the-internet and communication social platform Discord multiple times per day. Around *** percent of Black respondents reported engaging with Discord multiple times a day, while ***** percent reported engaging with the platform once per week.

With the rise of social media, a rise of hateful content can be observed. Even though the understanding and definitions of hate speech varies, platforms, communities, and legislature all acknowledge the problem. Therefore, adolescents are a new and active group of social media users. The majority of adolescents experience or witness online hate speech. Research in the field of automated hate speech classification has been on the rise and focuses on aspects such as bias, generalizability, and performance. To increase generalizability and performance, it is important to understand biases within the data. This research addresses the bias of youth language within hate speech classification and contributes by providing a modern and anonymized hate speech youth language data set consisting of 88.395 annotated chat messages. The data set consists of publicly available online messages from the chat platform Discord. ~6,42\% of the messages were classified by a self-developed annotation schema as hate speech. For 35.553 messages, the user profiles provided age annotations setting the average author age to under 20 years old.

As of May 2024, the ************* was the leading market for social media and voice-over the internet provider Discord, with approximately ** percent of all the platform's mobile in-app revenues generated in the country. ****** and ****************** followed, generating approximately **** and ***** percent of Discord revenues, respectively. Discord, which was estimated to have around *** million monthly active users worldwide as of January 2023, is a free platform but offers users the possibility to subscribe for premium features and functionalities.

In March 2024, Discord.com saw approximately *** million monthly website visits from users worldwide. Launched in 2015, Discord is a social and group communication platform that allows users to create their invite-only communities called servers, or join dedicated thematic servers. While Discord was launched as a gamers-first communication platform, it experienced an increase in popularity also among non-gaming communities during the global COVID-19 pandemic.

In the first quarter of 2022, Facebook Messenger reported the largest share of daily active users in the United States among the leading streaming apps examined. The Meta-owned chat and call platform had a share of 52 percent of U.S. users engaging with the app daily, down from 58 percent in the same quarter in 2020. WhatsApp was the second most-used app, with 26 percent daily users share in the latest reported period, while daily active users on Discord experienced a modest increase between 2020 and 2021.

Discord was launched as a gamer-friendly communication platform, but this vibrant online environment has evolved to host much more than gaming. As of August 2025, Discord counted five distinct server categories, for a total of over 32,600 thousand servers. The largest number of servers on the platform were in gaming communities—approximately 24,600 thousand servers. Entertainment servers came in second, while education servers were around 2,500.

In May 2023, an online survey in the United States found that fiver percent of male users engaged with voice-over-the-internet and communication social platform Discord multiple times a day. Around two percent of female respondents reported using Discord a few times per month or a few times per week as of the examined period.

In May 2023, an online survey in the United States found that only one in ten respondents aged between 18 and 34 years used voice-over-the-internet and communication social platform Discord multiple times a day. Around 65 percent of respondents in the youngest examined demographic group reported never using Discord on monthly basis. Both frequency and overall usage of Discord decreased among older demographic groups.