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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 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, higher page-view limits, unlimited comment volume, or custom procurement.
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
- All core features (threads, reactions, images, link previews)
- Built-in theming controls
- ML spam filter (Siftfy)
- Moderation dashboard
- Passkey sign-in (Face ID, Touch ID, hardware keys)
- Google, GitHub, X, and Facebook commenter sign-in
- Data export (JSON/CSV) — no lock-in, even on free
- "Powered by EchoThread" footer
- Community support
Starter
For growing blogs and docs sites.
Best first paid plan for active blogs and documentation.
$5/month
- 3 sites
- Up to 100,000 page views/month
- Up to 10,000 comments/month
- Built-in theming controls
- Data export
- Google, GitHub, X, and Facebook commenter sign-in
- Moderation dashboard
Pro
PopularFor serious indie publishers.
Best for multi-site publishers that need unlimited comment volume.
$19/month
- 10 sites
- Up to 1,000,000 page views/month
- Unlimited comments
- Built-in theming controls
- Data export
- Google, GitHub, X, and Facebook commenter sign-in
- Moderation dashboard
Business
For high-traffic publications.
Best for teams with traffic spikes and multiple publication properties.
$79/month
- Unlimited sites (fair-use)
- Unlimited page views and comments
- Built-in theming controls
- Data export
- Google, GitHub, X, and Facebook commenter sign-in
- Moderation dashboard
Enterprise
For custom contracts and procurement.
Best when procurement or account-level support needs custom handling.
Custom
- Custom contracts
- Custom usage limits
- Account-level onboarding
- Procurement support
- Custom support terms
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
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 | |||||
| Passkey sign-in (WebAuthn) | |||||
| Widget theming | |||||
| Data export (JSON/CSV) | |||||
| Google, GitHub, X, Facebook, or guest commenting | |||||
| 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 send a warning email at 90% of your tier limit so you have time to upgrade before limits become a problem, and nothing is deleted in the meantime. 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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