Discord Statistics 2026: Users, Servers, Nitro and Safety

Discord had more than 90 million daily active users as of Q2 2026, according to the company’s advertising announcement. Discord had more than 200 million monthly active users, according to its February 2026 release. Monthly counts well above that line come from outside estimates, so these Discord statistics lean on the company’s own disclosures.

Discord’s 2026 Transparency Report, covering March 2025 through March 2026, shows 47,832,832 accounts disabled for spam or spam-related offenses. The figures below come from Discord’s newsroom, its transparency filings, its public server directory, and Pew Research Center surveys. They cover users, teens, servers, Nitro, Quests, moderation, age checks, and the regional data Discord does publish.

Key Takeaways

• Over 90% of Discord users play video games, per Discord internal data from December 2025.
• Monthly users rose from more than 100 million in 2020 to more than 200 million by April 2025.
• Age assurance prompts in the UK, Australia and Brazil rose from 750,229 users in July 2025 to 1,460,513 in March 2026.
• Players using Discord voice channels played games an estimated 66% more days during the three months ended December 31, 2025.
• Quests delivered a 97% median ad completion rate, per Discord internal data from June 30, 2026.
• About three-in-ten US teens (28%) used Discord, according to Pew Research Center’s 2023 survey.

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• Daily active users: More than 90 million as of Q2 2026.
• Monthly active users: More than 200 million, per the February 2026 release.
• Gaming hours: A combined 1.9 billion hours playing games each month.
• Non-spam reports received: 34,304,587 in the 2026 Transparency Report.
• Large public server listed in Discord’s directory: Midjourney, with 18,544,090 members.
• ID photos that may have been exposed in the 2025 vendor breach: Approximately 70,000 users.

How many people use Discord?

• The 2026 Transparency Report describes more than 90 million people spending time on Discord every day, the same floor as the newsroom’s Q4 2025 figure.
• In April 2025, Discord reported more than 200 million monthly active users who spend 2 billion hours playing games each month.
• Discord says ~40% of PC players start a game within an hour, averaged across all months of 2025.

Source: Discord Newsroom 2026, Discord press releases 2025 to 2026, Discord Support 2026, Discord blog 2020

About This Data

Figures here come from 23 sources. They include 21 Discord publications (12 press releases, 3 blog posts, 2 transparency reports, 2 company pages, 1 support article, and 1 server directory) and 2 Pew Research Center publications. Source dates run from June 2020 to October 2026. Only first-party Discord disclosures and independent survey data qualified. The page is reviewed on a rolling basis, and figures are updated when sources publish new editions.

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Is Discord growing or shrinking?

Discord grew from more than 100 million monthly active users in June 2020 to more than 200 million in April 2025. Its daily figure held at a 90 million floor in Q4 2025 and more than 90 million in Q2 2026. Both daily readings are floors, so they show daily use stayed above 90 million without showing whether it grew.

Discord Usage Among US Teens

• 44% of teen gamers say they use Discord, far higher than video game players who don’t identify as gamers.
• In Pew’s 2023 survey, 28% of US teens ages 13 to 17 said they ever use Discord, against 93% for YouTube and 63% for TikTok.
• Discord’s share was higher than WhatsApp at 21%, X (Twitter) at 20%, and Twitch at 17% in the same 2023 survey.
• Snapchat reached 60% of US teens and Instagram 59% in 2023.
• In Pew’s 2023 data, the gap between 44% of teen gamers and 28% of all teens shows how closely Discord use still tracks gaming, a pattern visible in our social media demographics by platform.

What percentage of people use Discord?

About three-in-ten US teens (28%) used Discord, and 44% of teen gamers said they did, per Pew Research Center’s 2023 survey. Discord does not publish a share of the adult population, so Pew’s teen survey is the clearest independent read on penetration.

Recent Developments

• September 29, 2026: Discord launched Ads Manager and Video Quests, with fully self-serve access planned for early 2027.
• September 22, 2026: Discord said more than 90% of users won’t be asked to confirm their age after launching age assurance in more places, including Texas and Brazil.
• September 17, 2026: Discord submitted its first ECA Digital report for Brazil, covering January 1 to June 30, 2026.
• August 20, 2026: Discord introduced Play Quest+, set to launch with EA’s Battlefield 6 in September.
• July 22, 2026: Discord announced its first Quest activation with Resident Evil; Mission Quests average 90% brand recall among users who complete them, in a December 2025 Discord survey of about 2,500 Mission Quest users.

Discord Statistics on Engagement and Gaming

• Users spend a combined 1.9 billion hours playing games each month across thousands of game titles.
• Users play more than 8,000 unique games per month on PC alone.
• 92% of users play games while hanging out in voice, the chart’s top figure in Discord’s 2025 ten-year recap.
• Sessions are 3 times longer with friends on Discord voice, and 7 times longer when playing with a friend.
• PC players spent a median of eight times longer playing with three friends in December 2025.
• Players using voice channels played an estimated 66% more days during the three months ended December 31, 2025.
• Discord’s May 2025 ten-year recap says 28% of users launch the same game within an hour of watching someone stream it. Its August 2025 Social SDK release gives a higher figure: over 40% of players on Discord join the same game within an hour of watching a friend stream. The two figures come from different releases and count different groups (all users in the recap, players in the release), so they do not compare directly.
• The same recap says that after a game ends, 59% of users listen to music and 49% watch movies or shows together, the two after-game figures in the chart. It also says 2/3 stick around to watch videos, which the chart does not show.

Why it matters: Discord found PC players spent a median of six times longer playing when at least one friend was present on Discord in December 2025. For studios, that turns Discord’s voice channels into a retention lever, which is why its advertising and SDK products now sell access to those social sessions.

Discord Server Statistics

• In June 2020, users spent 4 billion minutes in conversation daily across 6.7 million active servers.
• On a weekly basis, that was 26 billion server conversation minutes across 13.5 million active servers.
• 90% of all activity on Discord happens in small, intimate servers, per Discord’s 2025 ten-year recap.
• Discord’s server directory lists 18,544,090 members for the official Midjourney server, covered in our Midjourney statistics.
• Marvel Rivals built a 4+ million-member Discord community.
• The directory showed 31,773 results across all categories.

How to see Discord statistics for a server?

Discord’s server directory shows each public server’s online and total member counts, and it notes that server stats are approximate. For a server outside the directory, its own member list is the place to check.

Discord Nitro Statistics

• Discord introduced Nitro in early 2017.
• Discord launched Nitro Rewards on May 11th, 2026, adding partner benefits at no added cost.
• Nitro members receive 250 Orbs automatically each month and earn 20% more Orbs when completing Quests.
• Members can play 50+ games like Fallout 4, Stardew Valley, and Day Z across PC and Xbox consoles, and Xbox Game Pass also includes 10 hours of cloud gaming each month, a tie-in covered in our Xbox Game Pass subscriber data.
• Over 90% of Discord users play video games, per Discord internal data from December 2025.

Source: Discord, Nitro Rewards announcement, May 2026

Discord Advertising and Quests Statistics

• In 2024, the company refocused on its gaming roots and began pursuing advertising, micro-transactions, and social infrastructure for game developers.
• Quests held a 96% median ad completion rate, per Discord internal data from March 31st, 2026.
• More than 50% of users who have seen or interacted with a Quest in the past month say Quests improve their experience, in a 2025 survey of ~1,000 Quests users.
• Mission Quests drive a median of seven minutes of engagement per Mission.
• 82% of users in a September 2024 Discord survey said they would want to earn a virtual currency on Discord, and 46% said it would improve their experience.
• During its beta, Orbs drove a 16x increase in first-time Shop purchasers over the seven-week pilot.
• Video Quests pay out after approximately 15 seconds of viewing.

Source: Discord press releases, 2025 to 2026

Key finding: A second Quest campaign that used AppsFlyer and Discord’s player-based mobile targeting drove a 30% performance lift over the first Quest. Measurement partners matter here because rewarded formats are easy to fill and hard to prove, and third-party attribution is what lets advertisers compare Quests with other channels.

Discord Social SDK and Commerce Statistics

• Across more than 15 games that integrated the Social SDK since December 2024, linked players showed a median 25% increase in game launch days.
• Play sessions for linked players grew by a median of 16%.
• In the December 2025 Marvel Rivals pilot, 41% of purchases were gifts, and 25% of gift buyers were lapsed or non-players.
• Around 20% of all Shop purchases are gifts, rising to nearly 30% during the holidays, a pattern our in-game purchases statistics track across platforms.
• Account linking drives up to 48% longer playtime.
• Facepunch’s Game Shop reached 1 in 5 active Rust players in the first week, with nearly 1 in 4 first-week buyers returning.

Discord Content Moderation Statistics

• An additional 47,832,832 accounts were disabled for spam or spam-related offenses.
• Discord disabled 1,457,752 accounts associated with platform manipulation and ban evasion-related activity.
• Discord disabled 861,627 accounts for Child Sexualization Content and filed 518,399 CyberTips with NCMEC.
• Discord took action on 3,084,168 accounts for Deceptive Practices and disabled 275,858.
• Discord took action on 263,393 distinct accounts for Hateful Conduct and disabled 1,548.
• Discord took action on 236,519 distinct accounts for Harassment and Bullying and disabled 16,288.

By the numbers: Discord disabled about 55 times as many accounts for spam as for child sexualization content between March 2025 and March 2026. Spam totals swamp every category in the chart above, so headline ban counts say more about bot traffic than about how often people break the rules.

Discord User Reports and Server Removals

• Discord received 34,304,587 reports relating to issues other than spam and 26,174,231 relating to spam.
• Harassment and bullying drew 11,104,146 reports, the top line in the report table, a theme our cyberbullying statistics follow.
• Appeals came from 585,307 unique accounts, and Discord removed interventions on 60,686, or 10.37% of them.

Reports show what users flag; removals show where Discord acted at the server level. The next table splits those server actions by community size. Discord removed 27,040 large servers with 200+ members and 209,482 servers with fewer than 200 members.

Discord Age Verification Statistics

• Discord launched age assurance in the UK in late July, followed by Australia in December, and Brazil in March 2026.
• Users prompted rose from 750,229 in July 2025 to 1,460,513 in March 2026, the chart’s peak month.
• In March 2026, 426,953 users completed the process; 293,685 passed by face scan and 143,126 by ID scan.
• About 29.2% of prompted users completed age assurance in March 2026.
• On February 24th, 2026, Discord delayed the global rollout of age assurance until the second half of 2026 after user feedback.
• In its 2026 Transparency Report, Discord said it was evaluating age assurance approaches for additional regions, including the United States, and by September 2026 it had launched age assurance in Texas.

The 2025 Customer Service Vendor Breach

The incident was a breach of a third-party service provider, 5CA, and approximately 70,000 users may have had government ID photos exposed. Discord says it has fully retired the manual review process with the customer service vendor that led to the September 2025 data breach, one of the incidents in our data breach statistics.

Discord Users by Country and Region

• The EU Digital Services Act requires platforms to publish average monthly active recipients in the European Union, and Discord reports its figure as a ceiling rather than an exact count.
• Brazilian users filed 1,123,283 reports on issues other than spam and 1,430,251 spam reports in January to June 2026.
• Age assurance data covers users in Brazil, the United Kingdom, and Australia.

Source: Discord Support 2026, Discord ECA Digital report 2026, Discord Transparency Report 2026, Discord blog 2026

What is the 13 rule on Discord?

Discord requires users to be at least 13 years of age, and it denies registration when a date of birth shows someone is under 13. Teen protections then apply to users aged 13 to 17, which is why the age checks above matter more than the sign-up gate.

Discord Law Enforcement and Legal Request Statistics

• Discord found 82.5% of the legal requests it received under non-national security investigative authorities both legally valid and specific enough to produce relevant information.
• Discord received 5,665 preservation requests and found 4,467 (79%) specific enough to preserve information.
• Photo or video content featured in 65.5% of the CyberTips Discord filed with NCMEC.

Source: Discord Transparency Report 2026

Can police track your Discord?

Discord found about 82.5% of the 10,046 legal requests it received legally valid and specific enough to produce information between March 2025 and March 2026. Valid legal process often yields account information, so users should not treat the platform as private from law enforcement.

Conclusion

Discord had more than 90 million daily active users as of Q2 2026, and its own reports now carry the detail that third-party counts lack: how many accounts it disables, how many users it asks to prove their age, and how often appeals succeed. Spam accounts make up most enforcement, and age checks have become a monthly operation measured in the hundreds of thousands.

Discord Ads Manager is available to a select group of advertisers, with fully self-serve access planned for early 2027. After its 2026 Transparency Report said it was evaluating age assurance for additional regions, including the United States, Discord launched age assurance in Texas by September 2026. Those two decisions will shape the next set of Discord statistics more than any change in user counts.