the numbers
SUpost is the Stanford student marketplace: posting requires a stanford.edu email, so listings and replies come from people affiliated with Stanford. The statistics below are mined from the production database and analytics of SUpost (supost.com), the Stanford marketplace run by the Capmus team, and every figure is stated as of June 2026. Rates are all-time conservative floors and use medians, never averages.
Verified Stanford community
- 50,000+ verified Stanford students, alumni & staff have posted on SUpost since 2005 — counted as unique verified stanford.edu email addresses, including subdomains such as alumni.stanford.edu.
- About 68,000 verified Stanford people have used the marketplace all-time (posted a listing or replied to one).
- 6,500+ verified members posted or replied in the past year.
- Monthly audience: about 20,500 users, 67,000 sessions and 435,000 pageviews (trailing 30 days, June 2026).
Do listings get responses?
A response is one on-platform contact-the-poster message tied to a listing. Rates cover all listings ever published — including posts from before on-site messaging existed — so every rate below is a conservative floor; recent listings do as well or better.
| Category | Listings (all-time) | Get ≥1 direct response | Median responses | First response ≤24h |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| For sale All for-sale listings (bikes, furniture, electronics, cars…) | 309,943 | 56% | 3 | 69% |
| Housing offered Rooms & shares, apartments, sublets near Stanford | 115,796 | 61% | 5 | 77% |
| Housing wanted “Looking for housing” posts by Stanford students & staff | 12,324 | 77% | 4 | 68% |
| Jobs Employer listings: campus & off-campus jobs, research, tutoring | 5,810 | 68% | 3 | 39% |
- 860,000+ buyer inquiries have been sent to for-sale posters all-time.
- 725,000+ renter & roommate inquiries have been sent to housing posters all-time.
- 133,000+ candidate responses have been sent to job posters all-time.
Frequently asked questions
How many people use SUpost?
50,000+ verified Stanford students, alumni & staff have posted on SUpost since 2005, and about 68,000 have posted or replied to a listing. The site currently reaches about 20,500 people and 435,000 pageviews per month (as of June 2026).
How is a SUpost user verified?
Posting requires a stanford.edu email address (including subdomains like alumni.stanford.edu), so every poster is affiliated with Stanford. The only exception is paid off-campus job listings by employers.
How likely is a listing to get a response on SUpost?
Across all time, 56% of for-sale listings get a direct buyer inquiry, 61% of housing listings get a renter inquiry, 77% of housing-wanted posts get a reply, and 68% of job posts get a candidate response. These are conservative floors: they include 20-year-old posts that predate on-site messaging.
How fast do posts get responses on SUpost?
For listings that get a response, the first one arrives within 24 hours for 77% of housing listings, 69% of for-sale listings, and 39% of job posts. Medians per responded post: 5 interested renters for housing, 3 buyers for for-sale items, and 3 candidates for jobs.
Methodology
- Source: the SUpost production database (listings and on-platform messages, live and archived) plus Google Analytics for the monthly-audience figures. Last refreshed June 2026.
- Verified people are unique stanford.edu email addresses, deduped across posting and replying — not registered accounts.
- Medians, never averages: averages are skewed by a handful of outlier posts.
- The jobs row counts employer-relevant listings (campus & off-campus jobs, research, tutoring).