Comparing Utterances to Basin
Compare Utterances with Basin for adding forms to your static site.
Utterances
A lightweight comments widget built on GitHub issues
Overview
Uses GitHub OAuth; bot creates issues per page; no database needed
+ Pros
- No ads
- no tracking
- open source
- data stored in GitHub issues
- Markdown support
- dark theme
- lightweight
− Cons
- Requires GitHub login for commenters
- no responses display widget
- tied to GitHub ecosystem
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