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24 alternatives to Kucos: open-source Serverless Comments/Kudos server for static websites

Open source comments and kudos server for static websites

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier. Kucos: open-source Serverless Comments/Kudos server for static websites launched in 2020; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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Commento: Lightweight, open source, tracking-free alternative to Disqus▲233
A fast, bloat-free comments platform (Github mirror) - adtac/commento
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
2IM
I'm working on a open-source, self-hosted alternative to Disqus▲436
2021 · cusdis.com · its alternatives →
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OpenRemark▲14
An open-source comment system for static websites
Jun 2026 · open-remark.zeon.studio · its alternatives →
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Converse.js▲126
A free and open-source chat client for your website
2014 · conversejs.org · its alternatives →
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Beautiful Open▲132
Beautiful sites for Open Source projects
2014 · beautifulopen.com · its alternatives →
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Lect.io▲60
MOOCs contextualized comments for lectures.
2014 · its alternatives →
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KORE.io▲88
A fast SPDY capable web server for web development in C
2015 · kore.io · its alternatives →
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Cusdis▲122
Open-source, lightweight comment system for your website
2021 · cusdis.com · its alternatives →
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Self-hosted comment-system for static sites▲10
External comments for static HTML pages, a lightweight self-hosted disqus alternative. - skx/e-comments
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Urubu▲70
A micro CMS for static websites
2016 · urubu.jandecaluwe.com · its alternatives →
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Decentralized P2P comments on every webpage, opensource▲5
2022 · licom2.surge.sh · its alternatives →
12EA
Epiverse – a comment system for all webpages▲9
2016 · epiverse.co · its alternatives →
13IA
Isso - a commenting server similar to Disqus▲5
2013 · posativ.org · its alternatives →
14
Kullish – Bring your own links (BYOL) comment aggregation▲7
2020 · kulli.sh · its alternatives →
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A statically-rendered, integrated comment system for Jamstack blogsfree tier, from $5/mo▲5
A blog comment service and Disqus alternative that won
2021 · jamcomments.com · its alternatives →
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Winds▲9
An open source RSS reader
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Cactus▲30
A fast, easy and free static site generator
2014 · its alternatives →
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Open-source Knowledge Base site▲8
2014 · github.com · its alternatives →
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The Say Thanks Project▲5
Spreading Thankfulness in Open Source
2017 · saythanks.io · its alternatives →
20BC
Blog comments, nice looking, open source – Talkyard▲23
Disqus alternative. License: AGPL. Uses a bit much memory (2 GB min, 4 better), should be possible to get below 0.5 GB if pre-compiling JVM stuff. There's SaaS hosting. Long term (2027+ ?), the idea is that inactive blogs (those that don't get comments) pay 1? 2? EUR / month. Then, one wouldn't need to feel stressed up about having an inactive blog — it'd cost about the same as the domain name. Previously on HN: (as you can see, I've been working on this for a while — had another job in between, and, sleepiness health problems, making things take longer, plus, being generally clueless…
2025 · blog-comments.talkyard.io · its alternatives →
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Headless▲7
The static website CMS
2017 · its alternatives →
22GB
Git-Based Static Website CMS for Jekyll Websites▲6
2015 · staticwebsitemanager.com · its alternatives →
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Commento – a lightweight, tracking-free comment engine in Go▲10
A fast, bloat-free comments platform (Github mirror) - adtac/commento
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
24SH
Self-hosted comment engine powered by leveldb, with oauth support▲8
2017 · apps.dyuproject.com · its alternatives →

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