Talkyard compared to Utterances

Utterances (https://utteranc.es) is blog comments, built on GitHub issues. One needs a GitHub account to post comments, but not to read. Comments are flat (not thereaded), sorted by time.

Utterances is free. They write that it's open source; it uses GitHub though, which is not open source.

Talkyard works with social login, like Gmail and Github, and password and guest login. Ty by default shows the more interesting comments first, and people can discuss sub topics related to one's blog post, in sub threads.

Below, $0 means Free (Utterances is free). Talkyard's prices are per coworker and month.

TalkyardUtterances

Price and Hosting

Price per month€4 per coworker ("/c")$0

External usersUnmeteredUnmetered

Install on-premiseOpen source (open core)

Automatic upgrades
If on-premise. SaaS always auto upgrades.Yes

Authentication

Password + email login€4–

Social login€4$0 Only GitHub

Guest login€4–

OpenID Connect (OIDC)€4–

Microsoft ActiveDirectory€4–

Microsoft AD FSvia OIDC?–

Oktavia OIDC–

Groups & Permissions

Yes

Teamworking

Yes

Blog comments

Blog comments€4$0

Sort Best First€4–

Many comment areas, same page€4–

Search€4$0 (via GitHub?)

Large Discussions

Sub threads€4–

Find latest comments€4

Jump to parent comment & back€4

Summarize large topics€4 (very basic)

Q&A and Knowledge Base

Yes

Ideation

Yes

Chat

Yes

Misc widgets

Link previews€4 (limited)

Reactions–$0

Notifications

Email notifications€4$0

Integrations

Read API€4$0

Write API€4$0

Webhooks€4$0

Embed forum
Embed a forum in an <iframe> on your website.€4 wip, demo

Custom themes

Custom colors and logos€4 (edit CSS)$0 (dark theme)

Support

Support via forum€0$0

Support within approx a business day€4–

Business hours support€12 min €300–

On-call support, weekends & holidayscontact sales–

Uptime SLAcontact sales–

Customer Success Managercontact sales–