Comparing Giscus to Basin
Compare Giscus with Basin for adding forms to your static site.
Giscus
A comments system powered by GitHub Discussions
Overview
Inspired by Utterances but uses GitHub Discussions instead of issues; self-hosting available
+ Pros
- No ads
- no tracking
- open source
- data in GitHub Discussions
- themes
- multiple languages
- reactions
− Cons
- Requires GitHub login
- no responses display widget
- ties to GitHub ecosystem
- still actively developed
Basin
Build forms that work; without all the work
Partial free
Overview
Made in Canada by Moonshot Ventures; AI-powered spam filtering via SpamCheck.ai; Postmark for email delivery
+ Pros
- No code form builder
- AI spam detection
- Lead Agent AI
- multi-step forms
- 35,000+ users
- spam protection
- GDPR-ready
- 10GB file storage
− Cons
- Limited free tier
- form builder may be overkill for simple HTML forms
- pricing is mid-range