About Khoros
Khoros is a vendor of customer engagement software, with a long history in brand communities and social media management. Its current homepage frames the product as AI-native, with two main platforms covering community and social conversations.
Aurora AI is described as the evolution of the Khoros community platform, with a focus on technical overview, benefits and a CommunityGuard feature, and a comparison with its classic product. Iris AI unifies social listening and publishing to turn large volumes of social posts into signals brands can act on. The company also targets industries such as financial services, retail, technology, telecom and travel.
Khoros is a commercial, vendor-hosted enterprise product sold through sales conversations, with training, product coaching and a developer portal available to customers.
Key features
- Aurora AI customer community platform
- Iris AI social listening and publishing
- CommunityGuard moderation capabilities
- Developer portal and APIs
- Training and product coaching for customers
Good fit for
- →Large brands running a customer support community
- →Monitoring social conversations about a brand
- →Publishing across social channels from one platform
- Tags
- community
- social-media
- customer-engagement
- social-listening
- enterprise
- ai
Khoros: questions and answers
- What is Khoros used for?
- Khoros is a customer engagement platform spanning community software (Aurora AI) and social listening and publishing (Iris AI) for large brands. It is a good fit for large brands running a customer support community, monitoring social conversations about a brand and publishing across social channels from one platform.
- How much does Khoros cost?
- Khoros doesn't publish fixed prices; pricing is quoted on request.
- Is Khoros open source?
- No. Khoros is proprietary (closed-source) software and can't be self-hosted. Open-source alternatives to Khoros include Discourse, NodeBB and Flarum.
- What are some alternatives to Khoros?
- Khoros competes with Higher Logic, Bettermode and Sprinklr. For open-source options, see Enlisted's ranked list of open-source Khoros alternatives.
Open-source alternatives to Khoros
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Discourse
Forums & Communities
A platform for community discussion. Free, open, simple.
GPL-2.0vs Reddit★ 48k
NodeBB
Forums & Communities
Node.js based forum software built for the modern web
GPL-3.0vs Reddit★ 15k
Flarum
Forums & Communities
Simple forum software for building great communities.
MITvs Circle★ 6.8k
Talkyard
Forums & Communities
A community discussion platform: Brings together the main features from StackOverflow, Sla
AGPL-3.0vs Quora★ 1.8k
Apache Answer
Forums & Communities
A Q&A platform software for teams at any scales. Whether it's a community forum, help cent
Apache-2.0vs Quora★ 16k
Lemmy
Forums & Communities
🐀 A decentralised discussion platform for communities.
AGPL-3.0vs Reddit★ 15k
SaaS alternatives to Khoros
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Higher Logic
Forums & Communities
Community and engagement platform for associations and customer communities
SaaS
Bettermode
Forums & Communities
Customizable community platform for customer, product and creator communities
SaaS
Sprinklr
Customer Support
Customer experience platform covering social media, care and marketing
SaaS
Sprout Social
Social Media
Social media management suite with publishing, inbox and reporting
SaaS
Hootsuite
Social Media
Hootsuite is a social media management suite that combines scheduling, content creation, analytics, listening and a social inbox in one dashboard.
SaaS
Emplifi
Social Media
Social media management and analytics platform with listening and commerce tools
SaaS

