Ultimate Discord statistics for 2025

Jason Citron and Stanislav Vishnevskiy first launched Discord in 2015 as a way for gamers to communicate while playing games online. Fast-forward to 2025 and Discord is among the top ten social apps in the world.  

Boasting over 656 million registered users, Discord is where people hang out for over 4 hours a day, talking and building relationships. In fact, over 4 billion server-conversation minutes happen daily.

If you’re curious about what makes this online platform tick, keep reading. We’ve put together 80+ Discord statistics covering growth, revenue, users, and more.

Discord company snapshot

Discord is a decentralized, ad-free online community platform that allows users to create servers and communicate through voice, text, video, media and files.

Discord’s history

• 2015: On May 13, Discord was launched by Founders Jason Citron (CEO) and Stanislav Vishnevskiy. The app initially had only text and audio communication. By the second quarter of the year, the company had raised over $9 million in funding.
• 2016: Discord hit 25 million registered users sending over 100 million messages daily and launched its GameBridge API¹.
• 2017: Discord added video calling² and screen sharing. The platform also reached a new milestone of 130 million unique registered³ users, adding a Trust and safety team to counter harmful content.
• 2018: Discord Nitro and a games storefront were launched.
• 2019: The free games feature was scrapped due to low profitability and a lack of interest. Users under 13 were barred from the platform, and Discord started releasing transparency reports. Meanwhile, the user base grew to more than 150 million active users per month, with close to 80% of all users logging in from outside the US. 
• 2020: Due to the pandemic, user numbers surged by 47% between February and July. Discord raised nearly $500 million over 10 rounds and generated 188% more revenue ($130 million) compared to the previous year.
• 2021: Discord rebranded and changed its slogan from ‘Chat for Gamers’ to ‘Chat for Communities and Friends’. The company also doubled in value, going from a valuation of $7 billion to over $14 billion. It also turned down a $12 billion acquisition offer from Microsoft.
• 2022: Discord launched server subscriptions allowing creators to charge subscribers up to $3,500 per month. Although the app’s growth slowed slightly, it still raked in over $400 million in revenue. 
• 2023: Discord acquired Gas, a social app in January and shut it down⁴ on November 7. The social platform also revamped its mobile app for a new seamless experience.
• 2024: Discord released the App Launcher and a new advertising solution called Quests.
• 2025: In April, Jason Citron stepped down as Discord CEO, passing the reins to Humam Sakhnini. The company also launched its first-ever mobile ad format.

Discord business statistics

As of May 2025, Discord had close to 900 employees. 

• This was up 20% from 750 employees in 2024⁵
• In January 2024, Discord laid off 17% or 170 employees across various departments to help Discord operate more efficiently⁶.
• In August 2024, Discord laid off 4% or 40% of its employees due to company restructuring, bringing the employee count to 870 people⁷.

In 2024, around 2% of employees held executive leadership positions.

The demographics were as follows:

• 35% are women and 65% are men.
• 63% are White.
• 12% Hispanic or Latino.
• 10% Black/African American. 

The average Discord salary was $104,283 per year or $50.14 hourly in 2024. On Comparably, however, it was slightly higher at $130,262 per year or $62 hourly⁸.

Across departments, estimates were:

• Engineering: $154,622
• Product: $164,623 
• Operations: $118,159
• Admin: $61,393

Overall, considering that the average salary in the US was $65,470 in 2024, Discord offered employees above-average compensation⁹.

Discord’s ERG leads dedicated 10% of their work time to promote belonging in and outside of the company in 2023¹⁰.

In line with its ongoing commitment to diversity and inclusion, Discord has Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) dedicated to empowering members of underrepresented groups and allies.

Discord feature statistics

Discord’s main draw is that its key features (VoIP, text, and video communication) are free. On the Discord app, users have access to the following:

• Unlimited high-quality chat with low-latency voice channels.
• Instant messaging 
• Unlimited, low latency HD video (mobile and PC)
• Multiple Streams
• Group video calls
• File sharing
• Server bots for extra functionality

The app is also compatible with multiple operating systems such as Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android. 

As part of its unique business model, Discord’s premium subscription service offers users various perks such as bigger file sharing, HD streaming and more.

Nitro - $9.99 monthly or $99.99 yearly

• 500 MB uploads
• Unlimited Super Reactions
• Custom and animated emoji 
• 2 Free Boosts, plus a 30% discount

Nitro Basic - $2.99 or $29.99 yearly

• 50 MB uploads
• Custom and animated emoji
• Nitro Badge on profile
• Shop member pricing and exclusive items
• Messages up to 4000 characters

Server Boosting - $4.99 per month each or $49.99

• 100 to 250 emojis 
• 720P 60FPS (Level 1) to 1080P 60FPS (Level 3) streams 
• Custom server Invite Background
• 128 Kbps to 384 Kbps Audio Quality

The Shop - special member pricing for Nitro members
Discord’s Shop has a variety of items users can buy and collect to customize their profiles. This includes:

• Avatar decorations
• Profile effects

To keep users updated on what's new, Discord releases a regular changelog on its blog. As of March 2025:

• In-game Overlay received upgrades like more customizability, functionality and even more games supported¹¹.
• Desktop got a freshened-up look with four new themes, centralized buttons and resizable channel lists.

Discord had filed 22 patents, with the 3 most popular being social networking services, community websites and computer memory as of May 2025¹².

In February 2024, Discord had 4 patents and 4 other filed patents. These included detecting online contextual evolution of linguistic terms and expanding semantic classes via user feedback. 

According to CB Insights, Discord’s 3 most popular patent topics included:

• Computer memory
• Computer storage devices
• Computer storage media

Since its inception in 2015, the Discord mobile app has always been about the Discord experience on the go.

In March 2025, Discord optimized its mobile app for a faster user experience. The following improvements were made: 

• Virtualized Server lists: Users with 100+ servers saw a 14% reduction in memory usage at startup and a 10% decrease in overall startup time¹³.
• Optimized Native chat performance: Users saw a 60% reduction in slow frames and 12% less memory usage in the chat list component.
• Rebuilt the emoji picker natively for Android.
• 60FPS animated WebP emojis.
• Eliminated Blanking in ChannelList.

Discord server statistics

As of May 2025, there were 31,531 communities split across 5 main categories on Discord Servers. 

• The gaming category had 23,679 or 75% of communities.
• The entertainment category had 13,229 or 42% of communities.
• The education category had 2,504 communities, or 8% of communities.
• The science and tech category had 2,401 communities, or 8% of communities.
• The music category had 2,270 communities, or 7% of communities.

In May 2025, Discord’s top 5 most popular servers were:

• Midjourney - Over 21.1 million members¹⁴
• Viggle - 4.3 million members 
• Marvel Rivals - Over 4.1  million members
• LimeWire - Over 2.1 million users
• Blox Fruits - Over 2 million users 
• Valorant - Over 1.4 million users

The most popular education server on Discord, as of May 2025, was Sui, with over 923,000 members¹⁵.

This was followed by Study Together with 823,211 members and English with 785,576 members. 

The most popular gaming server was Marvel Rivals, the official community for the Marvel Rivals game, with over 4.1 million members.

This was followed by Genshin Impact Official with over 2.1 million members and Blox Fruits with 2 million members.

The most popular entertainment server was Midjourney with over 21 million members.

This was followed by Viggle with over 4.3 million members. These two servers were also the most popular in the science and tech category.

Meanwhile, the most popular music server was LimeWire with over 2.1 million users.

This was followed by Lofi Girl with close to 1 million.

MEE6 was the top Discord bot based on a server count of over 21.3 million in May 2025¹⁶.

This was followed by:

• Rhythm - 15.2 million servers
• Carl-bot - 10.9 million servers
• Groovy - 10.1 million servers 
• Dyno - 9.9 million servers

In January 2024, Discord had over 19 million active servers per week¹⁷. 

Each Discord server was limited to 500 channels, 50 categories and 1000 active threads.

In October 2023, Discord optimized its platform to serve over 1 million users in a single server while maintaining responsiveness¹⁸.

Discord carried out these optimizations to improve performance for Midjourney and other massive servers.

As of 2022, 90% of Discord’s private servers had fewer than 15 people¹⁹.

According to CTO and Co-founder Stanislav Vishnevskiy, the small servers were where people “developed true connections and belonging.” 

Discord growth statistics

As of May 2025, Discord had 200 million monthly active users, up 30% from 154 million in 2023.

The platform's impressive growth from 10 million monthly active users in 2016 to over 154 million monthly active users in 2023 and then 200 million users in 2025 was fueled by:

• The growing popularity of eSports and gaming.
• The pandemic, which ushered in a new wave of remote work and collaboration. 
• Social media shifts and hyper-personalized community experiences.

Between 2013 and 2023 Discord’s valuation increased by 650%.

From around 2.3 billion in 2013, Discord is now valued at around $15 billion.

Discord acquired a total of 4 organizations at undisclosed amounts between 2018 and 2025²⁰.

• In January 2023, Discord acquired Gas, a compliments-based social media app for teens²¹.
• In July 2021, Discord acquired Sentropy Technologies, a startup offering AI-based tools to detect harassment online²².
• In June 2021, Discord acquired Ubiquity6, an augmented reality startup²³.
• In November 2018, Discord acquired Blitz Esports to help grow its game store and subscription service²⁴.

As of 2025, Discord had raised over $1 million in funding over 15 rounds and 33 investors²⁵.

According to Crunchbase, the company’s most recent funding was raised on March 12, 2022, from a Secondary Market round²⁶.

At the end of 2020, Discord raised $100 million and was valued at $ 7 billion. By September 2021, Discord had raised $500 million in funding and was valued at $14.7 billion. 

Between 2020 and 2023, Discord’s workforce grew 5x.

During the hiring boom of 2020, Discord more than doubled its workforce to 650 people. However, according to the CEO, this led to the company taking on more projects and becoming less efficient.

In 2023, Discord ranked 18th on CNBC’s Disruptor 50 list, the second year in a row that the company made it into the list’s top 20 (In 2022, it ranked 13th)²⁷.

CNBC’s Disruptor 50 list looked at private companies that were chasing the market’s biggest opportunities and growing even amid tough economic conditions.

Discord revenue statistics 

As of 2025, Discord generated revenue through:

• Subscription packages and server boosting: $2.99 per month or $29.99 per year for Nitro Basic and $9.99 per month or $99.99 per year for Nitro.
• Distribution fees, stickers and Discord merchandise:  10% share of the titles sold by game developers through verified servers. 
• Ad Revenue: Through rewarded ad formats for advertisers in gaming, media and entertainment.

In March 2024, Discord launched its first ad product, Play Quests. This was followed by a second ad product, Video Quests, in October²⁸.

Premium CPM ad rates fell within the $25 to $30 depending on format, region and reach. For 2024, Discord’s ad revenue amounted to $600 million.

In 2024, Discord generated over $879 million in revenue, down 7% from $938 million in 2023²⁹.

Between 2019 and 2024, Discord’s revenue increased by 19.5x or a whopping 1850% from $45 million to $879 million.

Discord’s yearly net revenue from its mobile apps on the App Store and Google Play was $140 million in 2024³⁰.

Between 2019 and 2023, Discord’s mobile app revenue increased by a massive 4,600%.

In 2023, Discord generated an estimated $207 million from direct Nitro sales across the globe³¹.

• This represents a 196% increase from 2019’s revenue of $70 million.
• Discord experienced its highest jump in Nitro revenue between 2019 and 2020 due to the pandemic and platform growth.
• Revenues increased by over 70% from 70 million to 120 million in 2020.

Discord user statistics

As of May 2025, Discord had 200 million monthly active users³².

This is up 30% from January 2023, when Discord had 154 million monthly users³³, 33% from 150 million in September 2021 and 239% from 59 million active users in 2019³⁴. 

As of February 2025, Discord monthly active users made up 2.3% of the population aged 13+ and 1.8% of the total population³⁵.

In addition, male users accounted for over 66% of total Discord users, while female users accounted for 33%. 

The same report found that among Discord active users:

• 86% also used YouTube, down from 87% in 2024.
• 87% also used Instagram, up from 86% in 2024
• 76% also used Facebook, just like in 2024.
• 75%  also used WhatsApp, up from 74% in 2024.

As of April 2025, users between the ages of 18 to 24 years made up 42% of Discord’s worldwide user base³⁶.

Meanwhile, users between the ages of 25 and 34 made up 28% of Discord’s user base. Discord was therefore one of the top platforms for Gen Z consumers.

In terms of global registered users, Discord had over 656 million in January 2025, up 17% from 563 million in 2023.

This represents an impressive 87% increase from June 2020. Between 2017 and 2020, Discord experienced a meteoric growth rate of 566% between 2017 and 2020 when its registered user base grew from 45 million users to over 300 million.

Discord use case statistics

As of May 2025, 93% of Discord users played games on the platform³⁷.

This was around 2 billion hours of gaming each month. Users played more than 8000 unique games per month on PC alone. 

92% of users played games while hanging out in voice.

When playing with friends on Discord, sessions were 3x longer.

After watching someone stream a game, 28% launched that same game within an hour.

If playing with a friend, gameplay sessions were 7x longer.

After gameplay, over 66% of users stuck around to watch videos.

59% listened to music, and 49% watched movies or shows together.

90% of all activity on Discord happened in small, intimate servers. 

Additionally: 

• Users spent time in 3 different friend servers per month.
• The average voice call had 4 users.

As of 2023, over 78% of Discord’s monthly active users use the platform to hang out with friends and communities centered around their interests³⁸.

This echoed earlier findings that approximately 80% of Discord’s user base used the platform for non-gaming or a combination of non-gaming and gaming³⁹. 

While organic posts on social platforms are seen by 1-6% of followers, all members of a Discord group can see and interact with posts that are perfectly in line with their interests.

Discord has emerged as a key marketing platform for brands looking to build a sense of community. 

In 2022:

• Samsung turned to Discord to build its metaverse strategy, attracting more than 200,000 members to its server⁴⁰.
• Gucci created its own server as part of a NFT strategy and gained over 28,000 members in two days⁴¹.

Discord engagement statistics

As of February 2025, active users logged onto Discord’s Android app an average of 130 times per month.

The average session duration was 1 minute and 26 seconds.

On average, active users spent 3 hours and 6 minutes on Discord’s Android app.

The app also had a daily open rate of around 30% per month.

As of May 2025, Discord had a 4.7-star rating on Capterra, a leading business software review site⁴².

Over 504 customers reviewed Discord favorably, describing it as a versatile and easy-to-use platform for work and entertainment alike.

To drive engagement and interact with users, Discord maintained its presence on major social networking platforms. 

As of May 2025, Discord was on:

• Facebook with 742,00 likes and over 1 million followers.
• X (formerly Twitter) with over 4.7 million.
• Instagram with over 2.4 million followers.
• YouTube with over 1.6 million subscribers.
• TikTok with over 4.9 million followers and 47 million likes.

As of May 2025, over 70% of Discord users were from outside the United States⁴³. 

Meanwhile:

• 30% were from the US, up from 23% in 2024.
• 4.4% were from Brazil, up from 3.7% in 2024.
• 4% were from the UK.
• 4% were from Canada.

As of May 2025, Discord had over 444K followers on LinkedIn, up 15% from 387K followers in 2024⁴⁴.

Discord used its presence on the world’s largest professional network to keep followers updated on company developments and job openings.

According to Semrush, Discord had 730 million visits in April 2025, down 19% from March 2025⁴⁵. 

Additionally:

• The average visitor spent 18 minutes on the site, over an average of 8 pages. 
• Desktops drove over 74% of visits, while the remaining 26% was driven by mobile devices.
• Visitors on Discord.com primarily came from Direct/Typing Discord’s URL directly into the browser (81%), followed by Google (4%).
• Organic search traffic was over 45 million, while paid traffic decreased by 91%. 

In 2024, Discord’s mobile app was downloaded 90 million times across Google Play and the Apple App Store combined⁴⁶.

The app’s downloads have remained stable at around 90 million since 2022. 

Meanwhile:

• 2020 saw the largest number of downloads at over 140 million.
• Overall, since 2017, Discord has amassed close to 700 million downloads in total.

Since 2022, Discord users have exchanged over 4 billion messages daily.

This represents a 370% increase from the 850 million daily messages sent on the platform in 2018 and a staggering 9,900% increase from the 40 million messages exchanged in 2016.

Discord developer and creator statistics 

Discord offers creators the opportunity to monetize their servers through server subscriptions, one-time purchases of digital server products and more, through its own Server Shop⁴⁷.

However, as of May 2025, server monetization tools were only available for US-based servers.

Creators make 90% per subscription or per every one-time product sale. Key success stories as per Discord’s website include:

• The Club Banana Story which went from $0 to $15,000 a month.
• No Hesi which rakes in $52,000 per month.
• D2 Checkpoint which makes $7000 a month.

In May 2025, the official Discord Developers server had over 265,000 community members.

DDevs is a community that provides resources for building on and off Discord.

In 2024, Discord introduced new monetization features for app developers⁴⁸.

This included halving the 30% platform fee for the first $1 million developers made in cumulative gross sales.

Since 2023, Discord has offered a way for eligible developers across the UK and Europe to earn money by building apps on top of the platform and offering subscriptions.

This service is already available in the US, where developers make 70% per subscription sale.

The subscriptions feature isn't the only way to earn money on Discord - check out our making money on Discord guide to learn more!

Discord market statistics

Discord’s product offerings spanning chat, video, audio and more, mean that the company has diverse competitors across areas such as gaming (Steam Chat), social networks (Facebook), and productivity/messaging (Slack).

In terms of its key features, Discord’s main competitors include:

• TeamSpeak: A voice and text app that targets the eSports space.
• Steam Chat: A text and voice messaging service designed for gamers.
• Slack: A team messaging app designed for businesses of all sizes.
• Clubhouse: A social audio and messaging app for personal use.
• Telegram: An instant messaging and video calling app that prioritizes privacy.
• Element: A video, text and voice app that focuses on end-to-end encryption and user privacy.
• Microsoft Teams: A communication and collaboration platform designed for professional use.

As of May 2025, Discord was #2 in the social networking category on the App Store⁴⁹.

The app had a near 5-star rating as determined by over 3 million reviews. 

Discord had a 30% market share in game development, up from 22.75% in 2023⁵⁰.

Within this category, Discord ranked 1st, overtaking Unity with 25% market share and Unreal Engine with 15%.

Discord.com was ranked #43 globally and #48 in the US as of April 2025⁵¹.

In terms of its ranking in the social media networks category, Discord was number 8 behind:

1. Facebook
2. Reddit
3. Instagram
4. X 

Discord had a fame level of 77% in the US, meaning over three-quarters of people polled knew about the platform in 2025⁵².

In the UK, Discord’s popularity was lower at 49%

In the US, 34% of people had a positive opinion of Discord.

This was lower at 23% in the UK.

31% of people had neutral feelings towards the app in the US.

Meanwhile, 19% held neutral feelings in the UK.

Discord was disliked by 13% of people in the US.

This was compared to 8% in the UK.

As of Q1 2025, Discord ranked 27th in terms of fame and popularity in the Social Apps and Websites category⁵³.

This was ahead of popular apps like Google Hangouts, Twitch, Threads and Bluesky.

In the Social Networks category, Discord ranked 14th over the same period⁵⁴. 

This was ahead of social networks like Telegram, Threads and BlueSky.

Discord’s brand awareness was 56%, with a loyalty rate of 88% in the US in 2024⁵⁵.

The same report found that 16% of messenger platform users in the US used Discord. A further 14% said they were likely to use the app again.

As of May 2024, the US was the leading market for Discord, accounting for 66% of all the platform’s mobile in-app revenues⁵⁶.

Canada and the UK followed, accounting for 4% and 3% of mobile in-app revenues. 

Discord and AI statistics 

As of February 2025, Midjourney, a text-to-image AI server, had over 21.2  million members, making it the most popular AI server on the platform.

This represents an increase of close to 18% from 2024, when Midjourney had 18 million members.

The most popular AI apps on Discord as of May 2025, were:

• Midjourney
• Viggle
• Leonardo.ai

Over 10% of new Discord users joined specifically to access AI-based communities on the platform in 2024⁵⁷.

Additionally, over 30 million Discord users made use of AI-powered tools. 

As per a March 2023 Discord blog post, Discord’s AutoMod AI blocked over 45 million unwanted messages from servers even before they got posted, based on server rules⁵⁸.  

Discord introduced AutoMod AI in 2022 to take the load off manually moderating a server.

The same blog post reported the following regarding AI on the platform:

• Close to 3 million servers had at least one AI experience.
• Users had created over 1 billion unique images through AI apps on Discord.
• Discord had launched three free public AI experiments (Clyde, AutoMod AI and Conversation Summaries).

Discord security statistics 

According to Discord’s H1 2024 Transparency Report, around 15% of Discord employees worked in a cross-functional team dedicated to safety⁵⁹.

This was part of Discord’s commitment to ensuring a safe experience for users.

In the same report, Discord took action on 750 servers, 364,939 individual accounts and 3.6 million server members. 

The actions included warnings and temporary interventions.

Over the first half of 2024, 35.46 million accounts were disabled for spam and spam-related offences⁶⁰. 

This was an 80% increase from the 19.7 million spam accounts removed in 2021.

An additional 357,056 accounts were disabled for policy violations, not including spam, over the same period.

This was a decrease of 24% from over 470,000 accounts disabled in 2021.

41,002 servers were removed in H1 2024.

Of these:

• 15,107 or 37% were related to regulated or illegal activities.
• 7,462 or 18% were related to child safety.
• 4,785 or 12% were related to self-harm concerns.

Over the same period, Discord received over 29 million reports.

The largest category of reports (51%) was related to platform manipulation, which includes all reports for spam.

In the first half of 2024, Discord received 3,782 legal requests for information from federal and state authorities in the US.

85% of these requests were both legally valid and specific enough for Discord to produce relevant information.

Meanwhile, 545 international requests for information were received. 

23% were both legally valid and specific enough for Discord to identify an account and produce relevant information.

In terms of intellectual property removal requests, Discord received 2,927 valid DMCA takedown notifications.

70% were valid enough to be removed.

Discord fun facts

• The founders picked the name Discord because it sounds cool and has to do with talking⁶¹. Plus ‘discord’ in the gaming community was the problem they initially sought to solve.
• While in Alpha, Discord gained over 950 users in one week.
• As of May 2025, Discord had 39 discovered Easter eggs.

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FAQs

Why is Discord so popular?
Discord is so popular because it allows users to create servers or communities for free and easily connect over voice, video, and text. Plus unlike other major social networks, Discord is ad-free.

Is Discord OK for my 12-year-old?
Discord is not OK for your 12-year-old. In fact, Discord’s minimum age requirement is 13. This is because all content on Discord is user-generated, increasing the risk of minors being exposed to inappropriate material. 

Is Discord better than WhatsApp?
Whether Discord is better than WhatsApp depends on your needs. If you want a simple messaging app, WhatsApp may be the better option. However, if you want to be part of an online community related to your interests and enjoy features like chat, video, screen sharing and more, Discord is better than WhatsApp.

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