⚡ 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.
⭐ Most Popular in 2026
The following chart shows the leading commenting systems in 2026, based on market share.
The most popular is Disqus 74% share.Facebook Comments wpDiscuz
You can also drill down by country:
🚀 Country Highlights
Here is a list of systems that are especially popular in certain countries.Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.
✨ 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
74%
2
Facebook Comments Menlo Park, California, United States A website plugin that lets visitors post and reply to comments using their Facebook accounts.
Free
11.4%
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 $$$
4.3%
4
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
3%
5
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.
Free Open source
2.2%
6
OpenWeb Tel Aviv, Israel A unified, end-to-end suite for building a community.
1.8%
7
VK Comments Moscow, Russia Adds a block with comments for users of VK social network.
1.4%
8
Hyvor Talk Paris, France A a privacy-focused platform for comments, newsletters, and memberships.
€12+/month
0.8%
9
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
0.5%
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.
Free Open source $10+/month
0.2%
11
Gitalk An open-source, serverless commenting component that stores comments as GitHub issues.
Free Open source
0.2%
12
Remark42 A self-hosted, lightweight, privacy-focused comment engine.
Free Open source
0.2%
13
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%
14
CommentBox.io A hosted commenting platform with no ads and no tracking.
Free $10/month
0.07%
15
Heyoya A voice comments platform that seems to have gone out of business.
0.05%
🗃️ 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 3,655,631 websites.
We currently track the presence of 15 commenting systems across the web.
Statistics were last calculated on August 20, 2026
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer .
Disqus, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 74% share.
Facebook Comments with 11.4% and 
wpDiscuz with 4.3%.
IntenseDebate 3%
Coral 2.2%
OpenWeb 1.8%
VK Comments 1.4%
Hyvor Talk 0.8%Cackle 0.5%
Commento 0.2%Gitalk 0.2%
Remark42 0.2%
HTML Comment Box 0.2%
CommentBox.io 0.07%