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Disqus
Who runs Disqus, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest website comment hosting alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Hyvor®
Measured from Disqus’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Disqus01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Disqus
Disqus disqus.com
More publishers trust us to engage, grow, and understand their audiences than any other. Build your on-site community with Disqus.
Wikidata: website comment hosting service
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Disqus tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
trackers that follow visitors
10 of the 17 alternatives below have fewer, 3 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 2 tools
Marketing and email tracking
Links visits to email campaigns and customer profiles.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Disqus
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Disqus, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
HYVOR® - Independent Software Foundry
Privacy-first website tools, crafted with care. Trusted by millions, from indie makers to enterprises.
Very close - 02
Viafoura | The Community Operating System for Publishers and Media Brands
CommunityOS is the community operating system trusted by 1,000+ media brands worldwide. Build direct audience relationships, boost registrations and revenue, and own your first-party data, all on infrastructure built for media brands.
Very close - 03
OpenWeb - The Community Engine of the Open Internet
OpenWeb powers communities across the Open Internet, turning real participation into direct audience relationships, actionable insights, and revenue.
Very close - 04
Home - Coral by Vox Media
Coral improves community on your website through smart technology, effective design, and strategies that work.
Close - 05
online platform for people and organizations to create custom social networks
Very close - 06
Infolinks - Premium Direct Demand and Supply
Discover what Infolinks smart ads can do for you and start making money from site or blog today! Join now free of charge and monetize your content with us.
Very close - 07
Home – Lycos
search engine and web portal
Very close - 08
Substack
Substack is the app for independent voices: a free newsletter, video, and podcast hosting platform with paid subscriptions built in.
Very close - 09
Create a blog or website for free and make money online - Altervista
Do you want to create a website for free? Find out how to do it on Altervista: open a blog or a website quickly and easily and start making money online. Altervista is free of charge forever
Very close - 10
Web Hosting Built for Growth - DreamHost
DreamHost offers domain names, web hosting, managed WordPress hosting, business email, and much more. 100% uptime guarantee, 24/7 support. Sign up today!
Very close - 11 Captivate captivate.fm
London-based podcast marketing, hosting, analytics and monetization platform
Very close - 12
Shareaholic | Content Marketing Platform & Website Traffic Tools
Shareaholic is a comprehensive set of marketing tools to engage with your audience, get found across search and social, and grow your following 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Trusted by over 300,000 creators.
Very close - 13 Very close
- 14
Webflow: The agentic web platform for modern businesses
Design, build, optimize, and rank in AI search — all in Webflow. Enterprise-grade security, CMS, hosting, and AEO built in. Trusted by over 300k teams.
Very close - 15
Website Builder – Easily Create Your Own Website — Squarespace
Create a website and grow your business with a free Squarespace trial. Start with customizable website templates, AI website builder tools, or a domain name.
Very close - 16
Monumetric - Home
Measure What Matters Grow your business through Full-Service Digital Advertising Technology Management. Empowered advertising done right.
Very close - 17
IONOS » Hosting Provider | Websites. Domains. Server.
IONOS, your digital partner for cloud solutions and web hosting, supporting your needs from websites, domains, servers, and more.
Very close - 18
Ghost: The best open source blog & newsletter platform
Beautiful, modern publishing with email newsletters and paid subscriptions built-in. Used by Platformer, 404Media, Lever News, Tangle, The Browser, and thousands more.
Very close - 19
Web Hosting Built to Grow With You | hosting.com
Web hosting that takes you from idea to website to a lasting business. Fast and secure, with free migration, real experts 24/7 and a 99.9% uptime SLA.
Very close - 20
Akismet: Spam Protection for Websites
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Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Disqus’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Disqus uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Disqus adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 10 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 52 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Disqus’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- Marketing automation
- Web servers
- nginx header server: nginx
- Email hosting
- Microsoft 365 MX disqus-com.mail.protection.outlook.com
- Email delivery
- Amazon SES TXT v=spf1 include:servers.mcsv.net include:429754.spf04.hubspotemail.net…
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-179.awsdns-22.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=VWUavCxXQBdA22BdIz4KQDlSXFLiCdhywIZhyap…
- Dropbox TXT dropbox-domain-verification=xgxriaywlrcv
- GlobalSign TXT _globalsign-domain-verification=_XCFILJ7eSiRq9rSWcB9wqJjbgKsGbvW2wQ9F…
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=bNxtittci6R0vzV6tO1HsHyQrydEZNZ5y1RgGoTEsHk
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 19/20
- Google Workspace · not on disqus.com 14/20
- Cloudflare · not on disqus.com 9/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on disqus.com 8/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on disqus.com 7/20
- Apple Business · not on disqus.com 6/20
- Google Fonts · not on disqus.com 6/20
- PHP · not on disqus.com 6/20
- Amazon Route 53 6/20
- WordPress · not on disqus.com 6/20
- Atlassian 6/20
- Zendesk · not on disqus.com 6/20
- Microsoft 365 5/20
- OpenAI · not on disqus.com 5/20
- Salesforce · not on disqus.com 5/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on disqus.com 5/20