Same price? No. vBulletin is $250 for a lifetime license. Xen Foro is $140 for lifetime license. Free doesn't cut it, I mean there's so much more in commercial software. I have money, I can pay the one time $140 and be done with it, and sell my vBulletin license for $150.

Here's the story behind Xen Foro. The lead developers Kier Darby and Mike Sullivan of vBulletin, wanted the 4.0 version of vBulletin to be Web 2.0. The CEO was not wanting to go this way as he did not want to rewrite vBulletin from scratch, he wanted to change the look, and add MORE features onto what already was a complicated forum software. This caused the lead developers to split ways and create what is now known as Xen Foro. vBulletin spent years working on vBulletin 4.0 and when it first came out, it still had bugs, even in the stable edition. Yet, Xen Foro, when they first hit, their bug forum was dead. Now it's at a stable release, and they still have yet to have any further bugs reported.

Xen Foro gets rid of unwanted features, and kept, and added more need features, plus gave it a more professional look than vBulletin ever could have.

So if anyone wants the vBulletin license, just PM me.