What are prompt engineering communities?

Communities for practitioners working on crafting effective prompts for AI systems like ChatGPT, Midjourney, and other LLMs. Active Discord servers and tool-specific communities share prompt techniques, results, and frameworks across different creative and professional use cases.

Where do most prompt engineering communities live?

Discord is the most common platform in this report (35% of 23 listings).

Are most of these communities free?

83% are free to join. The rest require payment, an application, or both.

How big is a typical prompt engineering community?

Among listings with public size data, the average is 831K members and the median is 38K. The median is usually the better signal for a typical group because a few large ones inflate the average.

What do these communities usually include?

Forum is the most common (65%). Others that show up often include courses, live chat, and newsletter.

How does Hive Index collect this data?

Listings are submitted by community builders and researchers, reviewed for relevance, and updated with platform, feature, member, review, and traffic data where available.

Where can I see the full list?

The full directory is on Hive Index's Prompt Engineering topic page, where you can filter by platform, size, features, and more.

Prompt Engineering Communities Report: Stats, Platforms,...

Executive Summary

We analyzed 23 prompt engineering communities listed on Hive Index to understand where people gather, what these groups offer, and which communities attract the most interest.

The big picture: prompt engineering communities are broad and fragmented, with many small groups and a few very large outliers.

Source: Hive Index community database · Updated periodically

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Communities: 23
Platforms: 5
Avg members: 831K
Median members: 38K

Where Prompt Engineering Communities Are Hosted

Discord
8(35%)
Independent Platforms
7(30%)
Reddit
6(26%)
Facebook
1(4%)
Telegram
1(4%)

Format mix

Forum / feed-based
14(61%)
Chat communities
9(39%)

Forum / feed-based is most common (61%), but chat communities is also well represented (39%).

Discord leads, but Independent Platforms and Reddit also represent meaningful shares.

Audience Size & Access

Community size

Tiny
<20 members
0(0%)
Small
20-100 members
1(4%)
Medium
100-1,000 members
1(4%)
Large
1,000-10,000 members
4(17%)
Huge
10,000-100,000 members
6(26%)
Massive
100,000-1M members
5(22%)
Gigantic
1M+ members
2(9%)

4 communities have unknown member counts.

Free vs paid

The average is much higher than the median (831K vs 38K), which usually means a few large groups are pulling the average up.

How Prompt Engineering Differs From Other Categories

Prompt Engineering is larger than typical Hive Index topics.

Metric	Prompt Engineering	Hive Index average
Free to join	83%	84%
Median members	38K	25K
Average members	831K	668K
Paid or apply-to-join	17%	16%
Live chat	43%	41%
Discord share	35%	18%

Feature Mix

Common features appear in at least 15% of listings.

Common Features

Forum
65%
Courses
43%
Live Chat
43%
Newsletter
30%
Paid Community
17%

Niche Features

Requires Application
9%
Job Board
4%
Online/Offline Events
4%
Tools
4%

Forum appears on 65% of listings.

What Visitors Click

Outbound clicks / mo: 102

Platform supply vs. clicks

Platform	Communities	Share of communities	Outbound clicks	Share of clicks
Discord	8	35%	59	58%
Reddit	6	26%	8	8%
Facebook	1	4%	8	8%
Telegram	1	4%	27	26%

Share is calculated within this topic.

Discord hosts 35% of listings and 58% of clicks, so supply and interest line up.

Most-clicked formats

Chat communities
86(84%)
Forum / feed-based
16(16%)

Most-clicked features

Live Chat
83(81%)
Forum
28(27%)
Newsletter
14(14%)
Courses
13(13%)
Job Board
3(3%)
Online/Offline Events
3(3%)

Most-clicked size ranges

Huge
53(52%)
Large
30(29%)
Massive
15(15%)
Gigantic
3(3%)
Small
1(1%)

Top-clicked listings

Civitai
38(37%)
The Prompt Index
27(26%)
ChatGPT Community
8(8%)

Most clicks go to chat communities and forum / feed-based communities.

Trends

Founded year

Not enough founding-year data to chart yet.

Methodology & FAQ

Methodology

This report uses communities in the Hive Index database tagged as Prompt Engineering. We exclude removed or suppressed listings. Member counts, traffic, features, reviews, and ratings may vary by source and are updated periodically.

•This is a smaller slice of Hive Index's database, so read trends as directional.

FAQ

: Communities for practitioners working on crafting effective prompts for AI systems like ChatGPT, Midjourney, and other LLMs. Active Discord servers and tool-specific communities share prompt techniques, results, and frameworks across different creative and professional use cases.
: Discord is the most common platform in this report (35% of 23 listings).
: 83% are free to join. The rest require payment, an application, or both.
: Among listings with public size data, the average is 831K members and the median is 38K. The median is usually the better signal for a typical group because a few large ones inflate the average.
: Forum is the most common (65%). Others that show up often include courses, live chat, and newsletter.
: Listings are submitted by community builders and researchers, reviewed for relevance, and updated with platform, feature, member, review, and traffic data where available.
: The full directory is on Hive Index's Prompt Engineering topic page, where you can filter by platform, size, features, and more.

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