Articles about pricing
This pricing archive collects 2 EchoThread articles about pricing for publishers, developers, and site owners. Start here when you need practical guidance on comment systems, moderation workflows, spam reduction, privacy requirements, performance tradeoffs, or reader-engagement decisions, then open the linked guides for implementation details and supporting references.
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Reference points used across these guides include Google Core Web Vitals, HTTP Archive Page Weight, EU ePrivacy Directive Article 5(3), GDPR Article 7 consent conditions.
Questions about pricing
What does the pricing archive cover?
It collects 2 EchoThread guides about pricing, with links to practical articles for publishers, developers, and site owners.
Who should read these pricing guides?
They are written for teams choosing, migrating, moderating, or improving website comment systems without adding ad-funded tracking or heavy frontend code.
Where should I start with pricing?
Start with the newest or most specific article in the list, then follow the related-guide links for setup details, source references, and adjacent comparison pages.
How to Add a Comment System to a Headless CMS Without Breaking Your Build
Learn how to wire a comment system into a headless CMS build, and how to run the moderation queue that shows up two weeks later — with the checks that actually decide the purchase.
Read moreEchoThread pricing changes on 1 October 2026: what stays free, what changes for new sites
Three things change: comment caps are gone on every plan that existed on 1 October 2026, sites created on or after 1 October 2026 carry a monthly page-view allowance instead, and Starter stays at $5 (the rise to $9 announced on 3 September was withdrawn on 19 September). One thing does not: a site you set up before that date keeps unmetered page views for as long as it exists. Here is the whole change, with the numbers.
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