Speedrun.com vs Toornament

Speedrun.com hosts communities for thousands of games, bringing together leaderboards, rules, moderators, and participants. Runners can use rankings to track progress, while fans can follow communities. Listed tools include game customization, news, forums, guides, resources, videos, streaming, moderation features, profiles, messages, and notifications. The site also provides a public API and supports account creation with Discord, Twitch, or Google. Speedrun.com lists 20 million yearly visitors, 6.4 million speedruns, 3 million registered users, and 54.6 thousand game communities. Core community features are available on the free plan. Supporter benefits include ad-free browsing, beta features, a supporters-only forum, username animation, an extra badge, and Boosts. A Boost gives three members of a game community 30 days of ad-free access; monthly subscribers receive one every 30 days and annual subscribers receive two. Supporter does not provide speedrunning or game-community management advantages. The API may be revised or discontinued without notice.

Toornament is a web and API platform for creating, running, sharing and joining tournaments. Its organizer lineup includes Free, Boost, Community, Circuit and Arena. Free supports up to 32 participants across games and competition formats; Boost is a single payment of 19.00 EUR for one tournament with up to 4096 participants. Circuit is aimed at large competitions, with circuit management, customization and leaderboards. Arena adds custom publishing tools, API access and a dedicated website. Participants can check tournaments and matches, check in, then report scores with screenshots and notes. The API covers tournament setup, registrations, participants, custom fields and match locations. Calls require an API key, and private data also requires OAuth 2 authorization with scopes; an API application can access only tournaments from its own project. Community and higher plans offer paid registrations through PayPal, with no share or fee taken by Toornament. The responsive participant site works on desktop and mobile. The Brawl Stars integration can automate lobbies and results for teams with at least three members.