Start here
Hobby is for proving fit
Use it for one personal site, a side project, or a private beta before you have real comment volume.
Pricing
Simple pricing. Free for personal sites, forever.
Pay only when you outgrow Hobby. No per-seat fees, no engagement surcharges, and soft usage limits with warning emails.
Pro is $19/mo — about a fifth of Disqus Pro, and unlike Disqus there are no ads on your free tier.
No credit card for Hobby Reply emails included free Warning emails before limit issues Spam-filtered comments do not count
Our promise
The Hobby tier is free for personal sites, forever — not a trial, and no credit card required. We'll never paywall a site you've already set up out from under you. No rug-pulls.
EchoThread is designed around EU consent standards and avoids the third-party cookies that major browsers increasingly restrict — so the same plan works for hobby blogs and EU-regulated publishers.
First paid step
Starter is for live growth
Pick Starter when your blog, docs, or changelog has repeat readers and you want more sites and traffic headroom.
Scale up
Pro and Business are for teams
Move up when you need more sites, a higher page-view limit, or unlimited comment volume. Enterprise is only about contracts and procurement — Business already has no ceilings.
Not sure how many page views you get?
One page view = one load of a page with the widget on it.
- Under 10,000
- A personal blog, portfolio, or side project.
- 10,000 – 100,000
- Documentation, a changelog, or a blog posting weekly to a regular audience.
- Above 100,000
- A daily publication, a busy forum, or several properties at once.
Rough guides, not rules. If you use analytics, the closest figure is its monthly pageviews for the pages that carry the widget — and guessing low is safe, because these limits are soft. Your billing page shows the real number once you have signed up.
Hobby
For personal sites and side projects.
Best if you are validating EchoThread on one site.
$0/month
- 1 site
- Up to 10,000 page views/month
- Up to 1,000 comments/month
- Every feature we make: threading, reactions, image uploads, link previews, ML spam filter, moderation dashboard, theming and data export
- Passkey, Google, GitHub, X and Facebook commenter sign-in
- Reply email notifications for commenters
- "Powered by EchoThread" footer
- Community support
Starter
For growing blogs and docs sites.
Best first paid plan for active blogs and documentation.
$5/month
Everything in Hobby, plus:
- 3 sites instead of 1
- 100,000 page views/month (10× Hobby)
- 10,000 comments/month (10× Hobby)
- Remove "Powered by EchoThread" footer
- Self-serve billing portal
Same features as every other plan — only the limits change.
Pro
PopularFor serious indie publishers.
Best for multi-site publishers that need unlimited comment volume.
$19/month
Everything in Starter, plus:
- 10 sites instead of 3
- 1,000,000 page views/month (10× Starter)
- Unlimited comments — no monthly comment ceiling
Same features as every other plan — only the limits change.
Business
For high-traffic publications.
Best for teams with traffic spikes and multiple publication properties.
$79/month
Everything in Pro, plus:
- Unlimited sites (fair-use)
- Unlimited page views — no monthly traffic ceiling
Same features as every other plan — only the limits change.
Enterprise
Same product as Business. Different paperwork.
Best when contracts or procurement need custom handling — not when you need more capacity.
Custom
Everything in Business, plus:
- Custom contracts and payment terms
- Procurement and security review support
- Account-level onboarding
- Custom support terms
Same features and same limits as Business — only the paperwork changes.
Switching from Disqus or WordPress?
Import your existing comments from a Disqus or WordPress (WXR) export in one step. Your old threads light up in EchoThread within minutes — no broken anchors, no orphan replies.
Import guideCompare every feature
Every plan includes every feature — including the free one. Paying moves the limits and removes our footer; it does not unlock the product.
Page-view and comment limits are soft — we email you before anything breaks. The site count is a hard cap; upgrade to add more sites.
| Feature | Hobby | Starter | Pro | Business | Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sites | 1 | 3 | 10 | Unlimited | Custom |
| Page views/month | 10K | 100K | 1M | Unlimited | Custom |
| Comments/month | 1K | 10K | Unlimited | Unlimited | Custom |
| Threading & reactions | |||||
| Image uploads & link previews | |||||
| Bold / italic / spoiler markdown | |||||
| ML spam filter (Siftfy) | |||||
| Moderation dashboard | |||||
| Reply email notifications | |||||
| Passkey sign-in (WebAuthn) | |||||
| Widget theming | |||||
| Data export (JSON/CSV) | |||||
| Google, GitHub, X, Facebook, or guest commenting | |||||
| Remove "Powered by EchoThread" footer | |||||
| Self-serve billing (Stripe Customer Portal) | |||||
| Custom contracts | |||||
| Custom usage limits |
Pricing questions
- What happens if I exceed my limits?
- For page views and monthly comments, comments keep working — we email you at 90% of your tier limit, and again if you go over, and nothing is hidden or deleted in the meantime. You can see exactly where each of your sites stands on your billing page at any time. The site count, however, is a hard cap: if you try to create more sites than your plan allows you will be asked to upgrade first.
- Business is already unlimited. What is Enterprise for?
- How you buy, not what you get. Business has unlimited sites, page views and comments, so Enterprise adds no capacity — it exists for custom contracts and payment terms, procurement and security review, account-level onboarding, and negotiated support terms. If none of those apply to you, Business is the top of the ladder.
- How do I know how many page views I have?
- We count one page view each time a page with the widget on it loads. If you use analytics, the closest match is monthly pageviews for the pages that carry comments. If you are guessing, guess low: page-view and comment limits are soft, so passing one emails you instead of switching anything off, and you can move up at any time. Once you have signed up, your billing page shows the real figure for every site, updated as you go.
- Can I downgrade?
- Yes, anytime. Downgrades take effect at the end of your current billing cycle. If your usage exceeds the new tier's limits, we'll email you with options before anything breaks.
- Do you charge for spam-filtered comments?
- No. Comments our spam filter catches never count toward your monthly comment limit — you're only metered on comments that clear the filter.
- Are reply email notifications free?
- Yes. Reply email notifications are included on Hobby because they help commenters return to the discussion. Paid plans are for more sites, more usage headroom, brand removal, and team or support needs.
- Refund policy?
- Cancel any time from the Stripe billing portal. If you need a refund on an unused portion of the current month or year, email us and we will review it promptly.
- I joined before launch. Does my free Hobby plan change?
- No. Early adopters who joined before launch keep the Hobby tier free for life on every site they had at launch — even if Hobby limits change later. New sites added after launch follow current pricing.
- Why no annual-only plans?
- Annual is a discount, not a requirement. Indie buyers shouldn't have to commit a year up-front to get fair pricing. Pick what works.
Start on Hobby. Upgrade when you outgrow it.
Hobby is free for your first site, forever. No credit card required.
Get started free