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Coral vs Artalk: catalog facts
Coral	Artalk
Best for: News organisations and publishers running moderated comment sections	Best for: Site owners who want a feature-rich comment section they host themselves
Free Free and open source under the Apache-2.0 license; setup and integration help is available from the Coral team.	Free Free and open source under the MIT license.
Self-hosted	Self-hosted
Moderation tools designed for newsroom workloads No ads, trackers or marketing scripts All 4 strengths for Coral Moderation tools designed for newsroom workloads No ads, trackers or marketing scripts Integrates with existing user registration GraphQL API for customisation	Lightweight client that works with any framework Built-in moderation, captcha and spam filtering All 4 strengths for Artalk Lightweight client that works with any framework Built-in moderation, captcha and spam filtering Manages several sites from one installation One-step Docker deployment
More complex to deploy than lightweight blog comment systems Aimed at publishers rather than small personal sites	Much of the community discussion is in Chinese Requires running and maintaining your own server
Self-hosted	Self-hosted
Open source	Open source
License: Apache-2.0	License: MIT
Not stated if an account is needed	Not stated if an account is needed
Not stated if it works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Sources for Coral coralproject.net github.com/coralproject/talk Catalog checked October 2, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Sources for Artalk artalk.js.org github.com/ArtalkJS/Artalk Catalog checked October 2, 2026

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