Hyvor Talk alternatives and pricing compared

Hyvor Talk pricing in 2026

Hyvor Talk dropped its free plan on September 5, 2020. You get a 14-day trial with every feature except a custom email domain, no credit card required, then you pick a paid plan. Prices as of October 2026:

• Personal: EUR 5/month, billed yearly at EUR 50, for 1 website, 1 moderator and 2,500 credits a month.
• Premium: from EUR 12/month for up to 10 websites, unlimited moderators and 100,000 to 5,000,000 credits, with monthly billing.
• Business: from EUR 40/month (250,000 credits and up) for up to 50 websites, user SSO, a custom email domain, webhooks and no Hyvor branding.
• Enterprise: custom pricing with OIDC SSO, an SLA and dedicated Slack support.

Hyvor bills in credits, not pageviews. A comment embed load costs 1 credit, a comment count 0.5 and a Data API call 0.25, and bot traffic isn't counted. If you go over your credits two months in a row, embeds pause until next month or until you upgrade.

Note: Spam checks use credits too. You get 1,000 free checks a month per 100,000 credits; after that, Akismet checks cost 10 credits and HYVOR's FortGuard checks cost 20.

If you sell reader memberships through your own Stripe account, HYVOR takes 5% on Premium, 3% on Business and 0% on Enterprise, on top of Stripe's 1-3% fees.

Who Hyvor Talk fits

Hyvor Talk suits sites that want hosted comments with a strong privacy stance and EU hosting. HYVOR, a bootstrapped company founded in 2020 and based in Paris, runs its servers in ISO 27001 certified data centers in Frankfurt, offers a Data Processing Agreement and promises: "We never add affiliate links, tracking codes, or ads to your site." Guest commenting is on by default.

The trade-offs: your site's own SSO needs the Business plan, the WordPress plugin has 90+ active installs, and Talk is closed source for now. In December 2025, HYVOR said it "remained closed-source" and plans an AGPLv3 release "in the coming years."

The 9 best Hyvor Talk alternatives

CommentCamp

CommentCamp gives independent publishers, bloggers and WordPress sites free comments and community spaces, funded by optional member Pro for readers instead of ads. It will launch with a WordPress plugin, a universal embed script and spam filtering, with WordPress comment import and full data exports on the roadmap. It's in private early access with a waitlist.

• Price: $0 for site owners, free forever.
• Free plan: Yes, with no hidden tiers.
• Best for: Comments plus community features.

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FastComments

FastComments says "We only add functional cookies for logging in, and do not add any tracking cookies." It imports Hyvor Talk files directly, along with Disqus, Commento, IntenseDebate and WordPress, and its Creators plan covers 3 sites and 500,000 page loads a month.

• Price: Flex from $0.99/month; Creators $5.99/month; Pro $99/month.
• Free plan: No; 30-day trial, no credit card.
• Best for: The most direct move off Hyvor Talk.

Disqus

Disqus has a free Basic plan, but it requires ads, and its privacy policy says "Advertising is the predominant way Disqus makes money." If that's a dealbreaker, see these Disqus alternatives.

• Price: Plus $12/month, or $11/month billed yearly, for 100,000 pageviews; Pro from $115/month.
• Free plan: Yes, with required ads.
• Best for: Sites that accept ads in exchange for a $0 plan.

GraphComment

GraphComment's hosted free plan has no ads and covers up to 1,000,000 data loads a month. There's no guest commenting, so every reader needs a GraphComment account.

• Price: Starter $29/month ($25 billed yearly); Pro $59/month ($51 billed yearly).
• Free plan: Yes, up to 1,000,000 data loads a month.
• Best for: Busy sites that want a free hosted plan.

ReplyBox

ReplyBox promises "No ads. No user tracking." It supports Google and Twitter login, and its WordPress plugin imports and syncs comments.

• Price: $13/month billed yearly for 100,000 pageviews across unlimited sites.
• Free plan: No; 14-day trial, no credit card.
• Best for: Several small WordPress sites under one quota.

Remark42

Remark42 is a free, MIT-licensed Go server with one embedded data file. It says it "doesn't spy on users," supports social, email and anonymous login, and imports Disqus and WordPress comments; v1.18.0 shipped on October 11, 2026.

• Price: Free; you pay for the server.
• Free plan: Yes, open source.
• Best for: Self-hosters who want social logins.

Comentario

Comentario is free, MIT-licensed and self-hosted on PostgreSQL or SQLite, with a 20 KB gzipped embed and no tracking scripts or ads. It supports anonymous, local, social and OIDC login.

• Price: Free; you pay for the server.
• Free plan: Yes, open source.
• Best for: Self-hosters who need SSO.

Isso

Isso is a lightweight Python server on SQLite (MIT) with anonymous comments and no accounts. It imports Disqus and WordPress comments.

• Price: Free; you pay for the server.
• Free plan: Yes, open source.
• Best for: Minimal blogs.

giscus

giscus keeps comments in GitHub Discussions and promises "No tracking, no ads, always free," but every commenter needs a GitHub account. It's a common pick for comments for static sites.

• Price: Free.
• Free plan: Yes, open source.
• Best for: Developer blogs.

Hyvor Talk vs the alternatives

Tools to skip

Older roundups still recommend Commento and Cusdis. Commento's hosted service is gone (commento.io returns a 404 error), and its code was last updated on February 28, 2021. Cusdis's repository is archived, and its README says "Cusdis is deprecated now."

How to move off Hyvor Talk

1. In the Hyvor Talk Console, open Tools > Export.
2. Choose Hyvor Talk JSON (a full backup) or WordPress format. Individual reactions, ratings and votes aren't exported in either.
3. Import the file into your new tool. FastComments imports Hyvor Talk files directly; for tools with a WordPress importer, such as Remark42, Comentario or Isso, try the WordPress-format file, and keep the JSON as a backup.
4. Swap the Hyvor Talk embed or plugin for the new one, and keep your page URLs unchanged.

Free comments and community, no credits

CommentCamp is $0 for site owners, with unlimited comments, replies and threads and no hidden tiers. It's in private early access: join the CommentCamp waitlist and we'll email your invite as rollout expands.