⚡ Commenting Systems

Commenting systems allow websites to add interactive comment sections where visitors can post responses and ask questions.

These services often include social login options, moderation tools, spam filters, and support for threaded discussions.

According to our research, commenting systems are used on 0.3% of all websites.
99.6% of these sites use only one commenting system, 0.3% use two.

Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the leading commenting systems in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is Disqus, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 72.6% share.
It is followed by Facebook Comments with 12% and wpDiscuz with 4.1%.

Disqus 72.6%
Facebook Comments 12%
wpDiscuz 4.1%
Coral 2.9%
IntenseDebate 2.9%
OpenWeb 1.5%
VK Comments 1.4%
Cackle 1.3%
Hyvor Talk 0.7%
Commento 0.3%
HTML Comment Box 0.2%
Gitalk 0.2%
Remark42 0.1%
CommentBox.io 0.08%

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✨ Best Commenting Systems

Below is a more detailed list of 15 commenting systems we detect, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	Disqus New York, United States A networked community platform that provides embedded commenting systems for websites to host discussions and user feedback under articles and pages. Free$12+/month	72.6%
2	Facebook Comments Menlo Park, California, United States A website plugin that lets visitors post and reply to comments using their Facebook accounts. Free	12%
3	wpDiscuz Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States A WordPress comment plugin that extends the native commenting system with real time interactions and enhanced discussion features. Free	4.1%
4	Coral New York, United States An open-source commenting platform developed by Vox Media that websites and publishers can self-host to manage on-site discussions. FreeOpen source	2.9%
5	IntenseDebate San Francisco, California, United States A cloud-based commenting system for blogs and websites such as WordPress, Tumblr, Blogger, and custom sites that enhances native comment sections with discussion features. Free	2.9%
6	OpenWeb Tel Aviv, Israel A unified, end-to-end suite for building a community.	1.5%
7	VK Comments Moscow, Russia Adds a block with comments for users of VK social network.	1.4%
8	Cackle Saint Petersburg, Russia A Russian-developed commenting system for websites that replaces native comments with a hosted discussion platform focused on visibility and moderation. 1,900 RUB/month	1.3%
9	Hyvor Talk Paris, France A a privacy-focused platform for comments, newsletters, and memberships. €12+/month	0.7%
10	Commento San Francisco, California, United States An open-source, lightweight, privacy-focused commenting widget that can be used in a self-hosted or cloud version. FreeOpen source$10+/month	0.3%
11	HTML Comment Box Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada A website comment widget that provides web designers and developers with an easy way to receive comments from visitors on web pages. Free$5+/month	0.2%
12	Gitalk An open-source, serverless commenting component that stores comments as GitHub issues. FreeOpen source	0.2%
13	Remark42 A self-hosted, lightweight, privacy-focused comment engine. FreeOpen source	0.1%
14	CommentBox.io A hosted commenting platform with no ads and no tracking. Free$10/month	0.08%
15	Heyoya A voice comments platform that seems to have gone out of business.	0.06%

🗃️ About This Data

We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
This report is based on the analysis of 3,359,906 websites.
We currently track the presence of 15 commenting systems across the web.
Statistics were last calculated on April 4, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.