Companies that use Discord (with their server links as proof)

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We also want to show some examples so you can see our data is accurate, and to show some interesting ways some companies are using Discord.

Postman

API Platform · San Francisco, CA · Discord

Postman is the world's leading API platform with around 4,000 employees. Their Discord server has around 17,500 members. It is actively staffed by community and DevRel team members, and the day-to-day is real-time developer help, live support, and weekly build challenges with cash prizes.

Discord is also a deliberate destination in their community strategy. Team members actively scout Reddit and other external forums for engaged Postman users and funnel them into the server.

It sits alongside a separate Discourse forum, with Discord handling real-time conversation and Discourse handling longer-form discussion. The two are treated as distinct channels serving different purposes.

DigitalOcean

Cloud Infrastructure · New York, NY · Discord

DigitalOcean is a cloud hosting platform popular with independent developers and startups. Their Discord server is one of the more thoughtfully structured on this list. When new members join, they're asked which notification categories they want -- Product Updates, Deploy Updates (for their annual developer conference), or Community Updates -- so they only get pinged for what's relevant to them.

The channel list reflects a genuine community rather than a broadcast channel: there's a #-maker-space for builders sharing projects, #-do-love for members to share appreciation, #-livestreams, dedicated Hacktoberfest channels (DigitalOcean's own annual open-source contribution event, now a major fixture in the developer calendar), and a #-projects channel for showcasing work.

Discord is named alongside YouTube as one of the two primary online community channels for their DevRel team, sitting at the top of their community strategy.

Cloudflare

Internet Infrastructure · San Francisco, CA · Discord

Cloudflare makes internet infrastructure -- the software that keeps websites fast, secure, and online. Their Discord server has one of the most thoughtful onboarding flows we've seen: new members pick exactly which channels they want, including blog posts, status updates, product releases, a Starboard for community highlights, Radar (their internet traffic insights tool), YouTube, and Project Alexandria -- their open source credits program.

What makes Cloudflare unusual is how deeply Discord is embedded in product work, not just community. Product managers across multiple teams are explicitly expected to engage on Discord as part of how they talk to developers and gather feedback -- not as a side task but as a core part of the job. One engineer role even lists "debug a developer's issue on Discord in the afternoon" as a literal example of a typical daily activity.

PrizePicks

Daily Fantasy Sports · Atlanta, GA · Discord

PrizePicks is a daily fantasy sports app -- you pick whether players will go over or under their stats. Their Discord server is one of the more sports-native uses of the platform on this list. Members link their PrizePicks account on join, and the onboarding flow lets them subscribe to specific announcement types: promotions, giveaways, esports news, and show announcements separately. There's also a dedicated | discord-madness-faq channel, suggesting they run March Madness bracket competitions through the server.

The community team is expected to be active in Discord during live games -- NFL Sundays, NBA tip-offs -- posting in real time alongside X and TikTok. It functions as a second screen for fans watching sports, not just a support or announcement channel. Their partnerships team also uses it to scout creators and micro-influencers to bring into their affiliate program.

Tenstorrent

AI Hardware · Toronto, Canada · Discord

Tenstorrent builds AI chips and is one of the more technical communities on this list. Their Discord server has around 4,500 members and doubles as the official support channel, organized by different parts of their open-source software stack. They also run a #bounties channel where developers can earn money by completing tasks on the open-source codebase.

Discord is also explicitly wired into their product team. They have a dedicated role whose primary job is to manage the Discord community and act as liaison between members and the AI Product team -- surfacing feedback directly into feature decisions. That role sits in Product, not Marketing, which is an unusual structural choice that signals how seriously they treat the server as a feedback channel.

Circle

Fintech · San Francisco, CA · Discord

Circle is the company behind USDC, the world's largest regulated stablecoin. Their Discord server -- called "Build on Circle" -- has around 136,000 members. Their developer X account links to it as the primary support destination, and their official documentation directs developers there for questions about integrating USDC and the Circle APIs.

The server grew fast: it was around 1,000 members in early 2023 and hit 8,000 by February 2024 after they invested heavily in staffed community management. It now sits at 136,000, which reflects how central Discord has become to the crypto/Web3 developer world more broadly. The community team runs interactive workshops, a grants and bounties program for builders, and regional engagement specifically targeting developers in Latin America -- with Spanish and Portuguese-speaking community managers hired for that purpose.

Mollie

Payments · Amsterdam, Netherlands · Discord

Mollie is a European payments company with around 850 employees. Their developer Discord has around 2,100 members and does more than most -- someone on the community team is dedicated to routing issues raised in the server directly to engineering. Feature requests get their own structured forum channel with status tags (In Review, Planned, In Progress, Done, Rejected, Duplicate) so developers can see exactly what's being acted on.

They also run quarterly in-person developer meetups, coordinated through the server.

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Nonprofit · Monterey, CA · Discord

Monterey Bay Aquarium has around 2,750 members on their Discord server. The entire server is written in ocean puns: rules are "reguloceans," introductions go in "introdoceans." Channels include #memeterey-bay-aquarium, #the-pixel-palace for member photos potentially featured on their social channels, and #deep-sea-december for a month-long community art challenge with MBARI and FathomVerse.

Staff promote LinkedIn Live events with researchers and aquarists through server announcements. They've written publicly that Discord is their best channel for reaching a younger audience because posts go directly to members with no algorithm.

Chess.com

Gaming · San Francisco, CA · Discord

Chess.com has over 150,000 members on their Discord server -- one of the larger gaming communities on the platform. New members link their Chess.com account on join, and staff hold Grandmaster roles as a nod to chess culture. Tournament announcements go out here first ($250,000 Chess.com Open, $2,500 Atomic Chess Championship), and they run a live Q&A with their Chief Chess Officer where members submit questions in a Discord thread and the best get answered on Twitch.

Their recruiting team also uses Discord as a sourcing channel, looking for candidates in gaming and chess communities there.

Rockstar Games

Gaming · New York, NY · Discord

Rockstar Games -- the studio behind Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption -- opened their Discord server to the public in February 2025, though the account itself had been sitting dormant since 2019. The timing was widely read as a sign that GTA VI news was coming. Within half an hour of opening, it had 12,000 members; it now sits at around 770,000.

The server is organized by game, with dedicated sections for GTA Online and Red Dead Online, and a channel specifically for the upcoming GTA VI. One of the more practical features is a set of LFG (Looking for Group) channels, where players can find others to team up with in-game -- Rockstar actually called this out in their launch announcement as a primary use case.

Members who link their Rockstar and Discord accounts can claim in-game rewards through a dedicated #discord-rewards channel, a program formal enough that Rockstar has a full FAQ page for it on their support site.

ThinkMarkets

Online Trading · Melbourne, Australia · Discord

ThinkMarkets is an online trading platform. Their Discord server functions as a full trading education hub -- the channel list includes #signals, #trader-classroom, #youtube-market-analysis, and #market-news, organized under a "Trading Floor" section. There's also a #thinkcreators channel for their ambassador program, and a #promotions-and-rewards channel tied to a points-based loyalty system where traders earn rewards for completing community tasks.

A community manager is actively present in the server, clarifying how the rewards program works and fielding questions in real time. Their influencer team also uses Discord as one of several channels to identify and manage trading influencers globally, with specific focus on markets in MENA and LATAM.

NHL Breakaway

Sports Digital Collectibles · New York, NY · Discord

NHL Breakaway is the NHL's official digital collectibles program. Their Discord server has around 2,900 members. They run Pick'ems competitions (predict game outcomes for a chance to win packs), maintain a test crew with early feature access, and explicitly credit community feedback for product changes like increased trade sizes and better quest sorting.

Contentstack

Headless CMS · San Francisco, CA · Discord

Contentstack makes a headless CMS -- software that lets companies manage and publish content across websites, apps, and other digital channels. Their Discord server has around 2,550 members and is treated as a core business tool, managed alongside their CRM and other operational software rather than as a side project.

The server is their main hub for developer engagement: they run a Community Author Program where developers contribute tutorials and guides, with Discord used to source and coordinate contributors. They also used it heavily for Techsurf, their student developer hackathon, coordinating AMA sessions, webinars, and YouTube livestreams through the server.

Discord is also where they gather developer feedback to feed into product direction -- a deliberate loop between community and product team.

We scanned the homepages of 1.5 million company domains, ranked by employee count, and checked whether each one linked to a public Discord server or Slack community. Here is what the data shows.

How we figured this out

When a company builds a public community, they almost always link to it from their homepage. A "Join our Discord" button, a "Join our Slack" badge, a direct invite link. These are publicly visible to anyone who knows what to look for.

We scanned the homepages of 1.5 million websites, ranked by number of employees, and checked whether each one contained a link to a Discord server or a Slack community workspace. No surveys, no self-reported data. Just the raw links companies chose to put on their own websites.

The Results

Discord has won the public community market, and it is not close. Out of 18,284 companies linking to a public community platform, 17,108 chose Discord. That is a 93.6% market share, nearly a 15-to-1 ratio over Slack's 1,176 communities.

Part of that is just gravity. Discord is free, an invite link takes seconds to drop on a homepage, and the communities that exploded over the last five years, crypto projects, gaming studios, open source tools, all built on Discord from day one. It became the default before Slack even entered the conversation.

Slack's 6.4% is concentrated almost entirely in B2B software companies. Security tools, data infrastructure, developer platforms. Companies whose customers already spend their whole workday in Slack and find it natural to join a community there too.

Analysis based on homepage link detection across 1,500,000 company domains ranked by employee count. Data collected and analyzed by Bloomberry.com.

We broke down all 17,108 Discord communities by sector, company size, region and funding stage to build a profile of the typical Discord company.

Sector

Software and gaming companies make up the core. Software Development is the single biggest sector at 1,676 companies, followed by Technology and Internet at 1,251, and Computer Games at 761. But raw counts don't tell the full story. Computer Games companies are 46x more likely than average to have a Discord community. Blockchain Services companies are 76x more likely. Mobile Gaming is 30x more likely.

Company Size

These are tiny companies. 63% have fewer than 50 employees. The most common size band is 11 to 50, followed by 2 to 10. Companies with 1,000 or more employees are nearly absent from the list.

Funding Stage

Early stage, or no funding at all. Seed is the most common funding stage at 1,541 companies, Pre-seed at 815. A large share have no funding data, consistent with the open source projects, DAOs, and bootstrapped game studios that make up a big chunk of the list. Initial Coin Offerings appear as a distinct category with 90 companies, a funding type that is almost exclusive to Discord.

Region

The US leads but the list is genuinely global. US companies account for 2,830 Discord communities, followed by the UK at 445, Canada at 266, Singapore at 250, India at 241 and France at 231. The most over-indexed countries are offshore crypto incorporation jurisdictions. British Virgin Islands companies are 70x more likely than average to have a Discord community. Cayman Islands companies are 35x more likely. Seychelles is 55x more likely.

Analysis based on homepage link detection across 1,500,000 company domains ranked by employee count. Data collected and analyzed by Bloomberry.com.

I decided to ask a couple of people who have used Discord in a workplace setting about their experiences. Here's what some of them had to say.

"Discord can work for smaller, less formal teams where people are already comfortable with it, but it's a poor fit for enterprise use. It lacks proper admin controls, anyone can invite outsiders making it hard to secure, and Discord clearly has no plans to build an enterprise tier despite demand."

Mike - VP of Engineering, mid-size tech firm

"Our team eventually switched to paid Slack. The only people who liked Discord were gamers, and even they adapted fine. Discord has more features than Slack on paper, but the experience feels rougher — like constant Nitro Boost prompts interrupting the flow."

OJ - VP of Engineering, mid-size tech firm

"Tried Discord after using Slack for a dev project, but found Slack keeps conversations more organized and easier to follow. Returning to Discord after time away means wading through a lot of noise, especially in shared channels with bots."

Brek - Staff Engineer, small startup

"The biggest thing I missed was threaded conversations. Outside of that, Discord worked better than expected for workplace chat, even if it felt a bit out of place."

Dan - Senior Engineer, mid-size tech firm