What is the best AI comment moderation tool?
Social Moderator AI is our pick for brands, creators and agencies that want AI to hide spam and abuse on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, from €10 a month. Choose Respondology if you need human moderators around the clock, TrollWall AI if your data must stay in the EU, and NapoleonCat or Agorapulse if you also need publishing and reports.
- Social Moderator AI Our pick
Covers all four platforms, including comments on ads, explains every decision with its rule and reason, and publishes its prices with a 15-day trial.
Limitation: The cheapest plan, Plus, covers 2 pages, 1 seat and 250 AI actions a month; each hide, flag, approve or reply draft counts as one action. Source
From €10/mo (Plus plan)
- Respondology Best for human moderators
States a team of 1,000+ US-based human moderators working around the clock next to its automated hiding. Sold to large brands, agencies and sports teams.
Limitation: The cheapest plan is $999 per month and covers up to 10k comments per year and one social profile per network. Source
From $999/mo (billed yearly, Basic plan)
- TrollWall AI Best for EU data
States all data is stored on EU-based infrastructure, moderates all four platforms including dark posts, and names politics, sports, media and brands as its audiences.
Limitation: No public prices; all three plans end in a demo booking. Source
No public prices, demo first
The 16 tools at a glance
Each row shows the vendor's own claims and the date we checked them. Prices are the cheapest plan that moderates comments, billed monthly unless noted.
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| Tool | TikTok | YouTube | AI reads meaning | Auto-hide | Ad comments | Human team | Price from | Free trial | Checked | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Social Moderator AI Our pick | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | €10/mo Plus plan | 15 days | |
| Respondology | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | $999/mo billed yearly, Basic plan | None | |
| TrollWall AI | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Demo only | 7 days | |
| NapoleonCat | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Not stated | $109/mo Pro plan | 14 days | |
| Agorapulse | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partly | Yes | Yes | Not stated | $99/user/mo Standard plan | 30 days | |
| BrandBastion | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Demo only | 15 days | |
| Bodyguard | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partly | €1,000/mo Guardian plan | Not stated | |
| Replient.ai | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Not stated | €39/mo Lite plan | 14 days | |
| Statusbrew | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Not stated | $89/mo Lite plan | 14 days | |
| Smart Moderation | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Not stated | $99/mo Basic plan | Not stated | |
| CommentGuard | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | $29/mo Starter plan | 7 days | |
| FeedGuardians | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Not stated | €41/mo Starter plan | 7 days | |
| ReplyZen | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Not stated | $29/mo Basic plan | 14 days | |
| MyComments.io | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Not stated | $29.99/mo Starter plan | 7 days | |
| Sprout Social | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Not stated | $249/user/mo Standard plan | 30 days | |
| Hootsuite | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partly | No | Yes | Not stated | $99/user/mo billed yearly, Standard plan | 14 days |
Yes Yes Partly Partly or on some plans No No Not stated Not stated by the vendor
Respondology
Best for human moderatorsStates a team of 1,000+ US-based human moderators working around the clock next to its automated hiding. Sold to large brands, agencies and sports teams.
Respondology is an AI comment platform with three products, Moderate, Discover and Respond, which the vendor sells to consumer brands, fashion and beauty brands, marketing agencies, and sports teams and leagues, and which covers paid, organic and creator posts. Source
Respondology strengths
- States it has 1,000+ US-based human moderators available 24/7/365 who make a moderation decision in about 30 seconds, alongside the automated layer. Source
- Moderates comments on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube, LinkedIn, Threads and X, across paid, influencer and organic posts. Source
- Publishes plan prices rather than only a demo request, starting at $999 per month for the Basic plan. Source
- States it ships 30,000+ categorized keyphrases and emojis in 30+ preloaded categories across 100+ languages, which customers can edit and extend. Source
- A separate Respond product drafts replies for approval or answers automatically from a knowledge library, in one inbox. Source
Respondology limitations
- The cheapest plan is $999 per month and covers up to 10k comments per year and one social profile per network. Source
- Multilingual support and paid social moderation are listed only from the Premium plan at $4,499 per month; the Standard plan is described as English-only. Source
- No free trial or self-serve signup is offered; every plan ends in a Book a demo button. Source
- The stated language coverage is inconsistent: the Moderate page says 100+ languages while the sports page says 28 languages. Source
Respondology pricing
Checked on respondology.com/pricing
From $999 a month, billed yearly on the Basic plan, the cheapest that moderates comments.
- Free trial
- None
- Free plan
- No
TrollWall AI
Best for EU dataStates all data is stored on EU-based infrastructure, moderates all four platforms including dark posts, and names politics, sports, media and brands as its audiences.
TrollWall AI is an AI comment moderation and community management tool for social media teams, which the vendor says is used by heads of state, political parties, media, brands and sports clubs in 17 countries. Source
TrollWall AI strengths
- Moderates comments on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, and offers a developer API and an MCP server for AI assistants. Source
- States dark posts and ads can be moderated, and the Posts view can be filtered to paid ads. Source
- States the company is based in Slovakia, EU, is GDPR compliant and stores all data on EU-based infrastructure. Source
- States a 7-day free trial with no credit card required, extendable on request. Source
- Beyond hiding comments it scores sentiment on organic and dark posts, recommends an action per comment, and drafts replies from documents you upload. Source
TrollWall AI limitations
- No public prices; all three plans end in a demo booking. Source
- The Starter plan covers one language; multiple languages, sentiment analysis, AI reply suggestions and reporting are in the Pro plan. Source
- Does not offer human moderators as a service; the FAQ describes native-speaking annotators who train the models, not a moderation team. Source
- Only organisational pages can be connected, not personal profiles, which the FAQ attributes to Meta and TikTok restrictions. Source
TrollWall AI pricing
Checked on trollwall.ai/pricing
No public prices. Plans are quoted after a demo.
- Free trial
- 7 days
- Free plan
- No
NapoleonCat
A social media suite with an inbox, publishing and reports. Its Expert plan adds rules that hide or delete comments automatically.
NapoleonCat is a social media management platform that centralizes comments, messages and reviews into one inbox with auto-moderation and AI tagging; the vendor says it is for marketing and customer service teams. Source
NapoleonCat strengths
- Auto-moderation rules can hide or delete comments automatically on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn and YouTube, and the page states there is no limit on the number of rules or keywords. Source
- Moderates comments on paid posts: Facebook, Instagram and TikTok Ads moderation is in the Social Inbox from the Pro plan, and TikTok ads auto-moderation is on the Expert plan. Source
- The AI Assistant tags spam, hate speech and sentiment, and those tags can trigger auto-moderation actions such as hiding, deleting or forwarding content. Source
- Covers nine channels in one inbox: Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, LinkedIn, Google My Business, Apple App Store and Google Play, and states automatic translation in 100+ languages. Source
- States that for EU and UK users data in the application are processed in the European Economic Area. Source
NapoleonCat limitations
- The cheapest Standard plan has no Social Inbox; comment moderation starts on the Pro plan. Source
- Auto-moderation rules, automatic comment hiding and deletion, and AI-powered sentiment moderation are only on the Expert plan, which starts at 139 USD per month billed monthly. Source
- Each plan's entry price covers 5 social profiles and 2 users; more profiles or users move you up a priced tier. Source
- X (Twitter) is listed only under Publisher in the plan comparison, not under the Social Inbox or auto-moderation sections. Source
NapoleonCat pricing
Checked on napoleoncat.com/pricing
From $109 a month on the Pro plan, the cheapest that moderates comments. Automatic hiding starts on Expert, at $139 a month.
- Free trial
- 14 days
- Free plan
- Yes
Agorapulse
A suite for teams that also publish and report, with keyword moderation rules on every plan and data hosted in AWS Ireland.
Agorapulse is a social media management platform covering publishing, a shared inbox, listening and reporting, which the vendor says is used daily by over 31,000 social media managers and their teams. Source
Agorapulse strengths
- Moderates comments from one inbox on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Threads, LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and Google Business Profile reviews. Source
- Ad comment moderation covers paid posts on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and LinkedIn, and the vendor says it also synchronizes comments on Facebook dynamic ads. Source
- Automated Moderation rules that review, assign, hide, label or delete inbox items by keyword are included on every plan, including the cheapest. Source
- Public per-user prices for three of its four plans and a 30-day trial with no credit card required. Source
- States customer data are hosted in the AWS Ireland region. Source
Agorapulse limitations
- Ad comments moderation is not in the Standard plan; it starts on Professional at 149 USD per user per month billed monthly. Source
- Plans below Custom get 1 Automated Moderation rule per social profile with a single trigger condition; unlimited rules and AND/OR conditions are Custom only. Source
- AI reply suggestions are on the Custom plan only, which has no public price, and sentiment detection starts on the Advanced plan. Source
- Pricing is per user, and each plan below Custom covers 10 social profiles, with extra profiles at 15 USD each per month on monthly billing. Source
Agorapulse pricing
Checked on agorapulse.com/pricing
From $99 per user a month on the Standard plan, the cheapest that moderates comments.
- Free trial
- 30 days
- Free plan
- Yes
BrandBastion
Moderates comments on seven networks, including dynamic ad formats, with AI reply drafts and an Engage+ plan whose team answers comments 24/7. No public prices.
BrandBastion is an AI platform that moderates and answers social media comments, with plans up to Engage+, where its own team handles replies 24/7; the vendor says it is trusted by Fortune 1,000 and fast-growing DTC brands. Source
BrandBastion strengths
- Moderates comments on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, plus X, LinkedIn and Threads. Source
- Covers ad comments, including dynamic product, dynamic language and dynamic experience ads, and TikTok Spark and influencer ads. Source
- Its Engage+ plan is a managed service: BrandBastion's team handles moderation, replies and escalations 24/7 using playbooks you sign off in advance. Source
- Every plan includes unlimited users and unlimited social profiles. Source
- Lists 194 language entries for classifying and tagging conversations. Source
BrandBastion limitations
- No public prices: each of the three plans on the plans page ends in a Book a demo button. Source
- Auto-reply workflows, the ready-to-send queue, reply approvals and replies from your help center are not on the entry Reputation+ plan. Source
- The privacy policy says personal data of people in the EU may be transferred outside the EU, and no hosting region is stated. Source
BrandBastion pricing
Checked on brandbastion.com/plans
No public prices. Plans are quoted after a demo.
- Free trial
- 15 days
- Free plan
- No
Bodyguard
Contextual AI that reads each comment with its post, on eight networks including Twitch and Discord. Plans start at €1,000 a month and are sold through a quote.
Bodyguard is a contextual AI moderation tool for text, images and usernames, sold as a social media moderation platform for brands, agencies and public organizations and as an API for social platforms, games, dating apps and marketplaces. Source
Bodyguard strengths
- Moderates comments on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube as well as LinkedIn, X, Twitch and Discord, and every supported network is included in every plan. Source
- Reads each comment together with the post it sits under, so the same comment can be kept on one post and removed on another. Source
- Covers comments on dark posts and paid partnership posts on Facebook and Instagram, Direct Sponsored Content on LinkedIn and non-Spark ads on TikTok. Source
- States 46 languages, including six premium languages, and accounts for local expressions by country. Source
Bodyguard limitations
- The cheapest plan, Guardian, starts at 1,000 EUR a month and leaves out paid and organic filtering, custom classifications, Shield Mode and Individual Protector. Source
- Every plan, including Guardian, is sold through a Get a quote request rather than a self-serve sign-up. Source
- On YouTube only top-level comments on videos and Shorts are moderated, and on X no action is taken on comments, only on their authors. Source
- The privacy policy says personal data may be transferred outside the EEA, and no page states EU-only hosting. Source
- The vendor names less client-side rule configuration as a trade-off, because improvements rely on its own experts and model updates. Source
Bodyguard pricing
Checked on bodyguard.ai/en/social-media/pricing
From €1,000 a month on the Guardian plan, the cheapest that moderates comments.
- Free trial
- Not stated
- Free plan
- No
Replient.ai
AI moderation on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and LinkedIn, replies to Google and app store reviews, and EU hosting on every plan. Billed by AI credits.
Replient.ai is an AI comment manager for social media and ads that replies to and hides comments across eight channels, which the vendor says has been used by over 900 companies since late 2023 and is operated from Austria. Source
Replient.ai strengths
- Covers eight channels from one dashboard: comments on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn and YouTube, plus replies to Google Reviews, Apple App Store and Google Play Store reviews. Source
- Its FAQ states it moderates comments on both organic posts and paid Meta ads, hiding spam, trolls and hate under ad creatives. Source
- On TikTok ads it can reply, hide and like comments on running ads from the ad accounts you select, and rules can be set to apply to ad posts only. Source
- Every plan includes EU hosting and a data processing agreement under Article 28 GDPR, and the operator is replient.ai Software GmbH in Lichtenberg, Austria. Source
- Public euro prices on three of four plans from 39 EUR per month, and a 14-day trial with the Pro features, 4,000 credits and one brand without a credit card. Source
Replient.ai limitations
- Billing is by credits, not by comment volume: a processed comment costs 0.1 credit and 1 credit with an AI reply draft, plan credits do not roll over even on yearly billing, and when they run out automations and AI replies pause until the next month or a credit pack is bought. Source
- Hiding is listed only for Facebook, Instagram and TikTok. The YouTube FAQ says the YouTube API does not support hiding, likes or direct messages, so YouTube moderation runs through automatic deletion. Source
- The cheapest plan, Lite at 39 EUR per month, has 1,000 credits, one brand, no team access and no DM inbox or DM automations; extra brands and seats cost 15 EUR each per month from the Pro plan. Source
- The privacy policy names no hosting country or provider, says data of EEA users may be transferred outside the EEA to countries without the same level of protection under Standard Contractual Clauses, and states comment and DM text is processed using AI providers including OpenAI, Anthropic and Google Gemini. Source
Replient.ai pricing
Checked on replient.ai/en/pricing
From €39 a month on the Lite plan, the cheapest that moderates comments.
- Free trial
- 14 days
- Free plan
- No
Statusbrew
A suite whose rules hide or delete comments automatically on seven networks, including Facebook, Instagram and TikTok ad comments. Data is hosted in the US.
Statusbrew is a social media management platform built around Publish, Engage and Report; its Engage inbox handles organic and paid conversations from 10+ social, messaging and review channels, and the vendor says it is used daily by 5157+ teams. Source
Statusbrew strengths
- Moderates comments on seven networks: hide and delete on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube, hide only on TikTok, X replies and Threads, and delete only on LinkedIn, with bulk hide and delete on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube. Source
- Rule Engine rules act on incoming comments in real time and can hide, unhide or delete them, using keyword sets with exclusion keywords, link and attachment counts, sentiment, or an AI condition that matches messages by meaning. Source
- Facebook and Instagram ad comments sync into the inbox with instant notifications, including comments on regular and dynamic ads, and all comments on an ad can be hidden, deleted or disabled. Source
- TikTok ad comments can be hidden and replied to in the inbox, including comments on dark post ads, which take text-only replies of up to 150 characters. Source
- Manual comment moderation and creating or editing automation rules are both listed on all plans, so the cheapest plan is not cut off from rule-based moderation. Source
Statusbrew limitations
- AI sentiment analysis, the only stated AI reading of what a comment means, is on the Premium and Enterprise plans only; Premium is 299 USD per month billed monthly. Source
- Actions are uneven by network: TikTok, X replies and Threads comments can only be hidden, never deleted, and LinkedIn comments can only be deleted, never hidden. Source
- States that customer data is hosted in the United States, in AWS's us-east-1 region, and the privacy policy says Statusbrew is based in the United States and relies on Standard Contractual Clauses for transfers out of the EEA. Source
- AI replies need the Premium plan, and on Facebook and Instagram comments the AI reply is sent as a private message to the commenter; the AI public reply is stated for Google reviews. Source
Statusbrew pricing
Checked on statusbrew.com/pricing
From $89 a month on the Lite plan, the cheapest that moderates comments.
- Free trial
- 14 days
- Free plan
- No
Smart Moderation
AI moderation with unlimited comments on every plan, for Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and website comments. No TikTok.
Smart Moderation is an AI comment moderation app for Facebook, Instagram and YouTube comments plus website and blog comments, sold to brands, public profiles and agencies. Source
Smart Moderation strengths
- Publishes its prices, with two self-serve plans from $99 per month and a free trial signup. Source
- Lists Facebook Ads and Instagram Ads among supported platforms, so comments on paid posts are covered. Source
- Auto-hide of unwanted comments and AI flagging are included in every plan, including the cheapest. Source
- Offers a custom keyword blacklist that it states also catches misspelled and creatively spaced variants of each word. Source
- Also moderates comments outside social networks, on Disqus, HubSpot blogs, the Facebook Comments Plugin and through an API. Source
Smart Moderation limitations
- TikTok is not in its list of supported platforms. Source
- The cheapest plan covers 1 social profile and 1 user; 4 or more profiles move you to a custom Enterprise price. Source
- A free trial is offered but the site does not state how long it lasts. Source
- The site describes AI moderation only and lists no human moderation service in any plan. Source
Smart Moderation pricing
Checked on smartmoderation.com/pricing
From $99 a month on the Basic plan, the cheapest that moderates comments.
- Free trial
- Not stated
- Free plan
- No
CommentGuard
Facebook and Instagram only, but every plan includes unlimited pages, team members and AI replies, priced by comment volume.
CommentGuard is a comment and message moderation tool for Facebook Pages and Instagram Business accounts, which the vendor says it built for advertisers, small businesses, agencies, non-profits and teams working with VAs or clients. Source
CommentGuard strengths
- Public prices on every plan, and plans are limited only by monthly comment volume: pages, team members, Facebook and Instagram DMs and AI responses are unlimited on all of them. Source
- Moderates comments on Facebook and Instagram ads launched through Ads Manager as well as organic posts, and lets you choose to moderate posts, ads or both. Source
- Can delete comments rather than only hide them, and offers filters for URLs, images and GIFs, mentions, emojis, keywords, email addresses and phone numbers, plus a whitelist for keywords that are never hidden. Source
- States it fully supports all languages across every feature, and it can translate incoming and outgoing comments. Source
- Seven-day free trial with no credit card, including up to 1,000 comments and unlimited pages, DMs, team members and AI responses. Source
CommentGuard limitations
- Covers Facebook and Instagram only. Its help center says YouTube is not supported and TikTok is handled by a separate spin-off app in beta. Source
- Only comments received after an account is connected are moderated; comments that existed before the integration are not imported or moderated. Source
- The cheapest plan, Starter at 29 USD per month, covers up to 5,000 comments per month. Source
- The privacy policy names no legal entity, registered address, hosting country or cloud provider, and gives no general data retention period. Source
CommentGuard pricing
Checked on commentguard.io/pricing
From $29 a month on the Starter plan, the cheapest that moderates comments.
- Free trial
- 7 days
- Free plan
- No
FeedGuardians
AI moderation and replies for Instagram, Facebook, TikTok and Bluesky, including Meta and TikTok ad comments, with unlimited users on every plan. No YouTube.
FeedGuardians is an AI comment moderation and auto-reply tool for Instagram, Facebook, TikTok and Bluesky, which the vendor says covers organic posts and paid ad campaigns on Meta Ads and TikTok Ads, and which it aims at ecommerce brands, creators and agencies. Source
FeedGuardians strengths
- Moderates comments on paid ads as well as organic posts: the vendor says coverage includes paid ad campaigns on Meta Ads and TikTok Ads, and that it deletes spam and competitor links from ad comment sections. Source
- Unlimited moderation rules with regex support and blocklist import, matching keywords, phrases, phone numbers, email addresses, links and hashtags, with hide, delete or flag set per rule. Source
- AI replies can be posted automatically or held in an approval queue, with escalation rules that route sensitive comments to your own team, and the vendor says replies are written in 50+ languages matching the commenter's language. Source
- Every plan includes unlimited connected channels and unlimited users, and a 7-day free trial with no credit card required. Source
- One comment inbox across Instagram, Facebook, TikTok and Bluesky with assignment to team members, internal notes, tags and filters by platform, sentiment and status, plus separate workspaces per client from 3 workspaces on the Growth plan. Source
FeedGuardians limitations
- Covers Instagram, Facebook, TikTok and Bluesky only. The FAQ says YouTube is not supported because its comment API has limitations that prevent reliable moderation, and that X (Twitter) API pricing makes it cost-prohibitive in standard plans. Source
- The privacy policy names no legal entity, registered address, hosting country, cloud provider or international transfer mechanism, and mentions no DPA, while the home page shows SOC 2 and GDPR badges. Source
- Published prices conflict across the site: the pricing table shows Starter at 41 EUR per month while the home page FAQ says plans start at 49 USD per month and lists different plan names and interaction limits. No page defines what counts as an interaction. Source
- The cheapest plan, Starter at 41 EUR per month, covers up to 5,000 interactions and a single workspace; API access starts on Growth at 83 EUR per month, and the largest published plan stops at 50,000 interactions per month. Source
FeedGuardians pricing
Checked on feedguardians.com/pricing
From €41 a month on the Starter plan, the cheapest that moderates comments.
- Free trial
- 7 days
- Free plan
- No
ReplyZen
AI decides whether to hide or reply to each comment on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok, ads included, with monthly caps on replies and moderations. No YouTube.
ReplyZen is an AI comment tool for Facebook, Instagram and TikTok that analyses each comment and decides whether to hide it or reply to it. The vendor positions it at advertisers and brands who want comments on their ads and organic posts handled without doing it by hand. Source
ReplyZen strengths
- Moderates and replies to comments on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok, on paid ads as well as organic posts, from one inbox that filters by status, platform, tag, social profile and agent. Source
- Reads each comment with AI before acting: it analyses the post text, images and video, scrapes links in the post, can search the web, and judges the comment's intent and sentiment, then decides whether to hide it or reply. Source
- You choose how much runs by itself. With Auto-Publish off every AI reply waits as a draft for approval; with it on you pick All replies or High confidence, and the confidence bar is set to 50, 65, 80 or 95 percent. Source
- Public monthly prices on all four tiers from 29 USD per month, and the vendor says every tier includes all AI-powered features with unlimited agents, pages and team members. Source
- Detects the language of each comment and replies in that language, which the vendor says covers dozens of languages worldwide. Source
ReplyZen limitations
- Covers Facebook, Instagram and TikTok only, with no YouTube and no other network. TikTok is the most constrained of the three: hide only, no deleting other users' comments, no DM automation and replies capped at 150 characters. Source
- Every plan caps AI replies and moderations per month. The cheapest, Basic at 29 USD per month, covers up to 500 AI replies and up to 2,500 moderations, and the biggest listed tier, Ultra at 249 USD per month, covers up to 10,000 replies and 50,000 moderations. Source
- Moderation is driven by instructions written in natural language. The help center documents no keyword, phrase or blocklist field, so there is no plain word list to maintain or audit. Source
- The privacy policy says Hetzner hosts application servers in the EU, but it also says Vercel handles serverless functions globally, gives no location for Supabase or OpenAI, has no GDPR section, names no international transfer mechanism and states a retention period only for OpenAI, at 30 days. Source
ReplyZen pricing
Checked on replyzen.ai
From $29 a month on the Basic plan, the cheapest that moderates comments.
- Free trial
- 14 days
- Free plan
- No
MyComments.io
Built for Facebook and Instagram ad comments, including dark posts, with unlimited Pages and team members on every plan. It hides comments but never deletes them.
MyComments.io is an automated comment moderation tool for Facebook Pages and Instagram Business accounts, which the vendor says it built for brands, agencies and performance marketers to hide spam, hate speech and competitors' links on posts and ads. Source
MyComments.io strengths
- Unlimited Facebook Pages and unlimited team members on every plan, including the cheapest at 29.99 USD per month, so the price does not rise with accounts or seats. Source
- Covers comments on Facebook ads including dark posts, meaning ads that are not visible on the Page timeline, as well as Instagram posts, reels and sponsored ads. Source
- AI sentiment analysis works without a banned keyword, which the vendor says catches sarcasm and toxic intent, next to toggle rules for spam, links, profanity and negativity. Source
- An AI agent can reply publicly to comments that look like customer questions, answering from business details, FAQs, prices and a tone you enter yourself. Source
- For agencies, the vendor states separate rule sets and client-specific keyword lists per client, per-client comment logs for reporting, and team access to all client accounts without separate logins. Source
MyComments.io limitations
- Facebook and Instagram only. The vendor says it currently focuses on those two networks through the Meta Graph API, and its own review page lists TikTok, YouTube and LinkedIn as not supported. Source
- It hides comments and does not delete them. The FAQ says hidden comments stay visible to the commenter and their friends, and calls hiding the method Meta permits for automated moderation. Source
- The two cheaper plans cap the comments scanned each month at 1,000 on Starter and 5,000 on Growth, and custom keyword blocklists are listed only from the Growth plan at 79.99 USD per month. Source
- The privacy policy names CBMG Digital LTD, registered in the United Kingdom, as data controller under the UK GDPR, and lists Stripe, Google Firebase for hosting and database and OpenAI for processing comment text, but states no hosting country or region and no fixed retention period beyond keeping data while the account is active. Source
MyComments.io pricing
Checked on mycomments.io
From $29.99 a month on the Starter plan, the cheapest that moderates comments.
- Free trial
- 7 days
- Free plan
- No
Sprout Social
A suite whose Smart Inbox covers nine networks and ad comments. Automatic hiding and AI spam detection need its Advanced plan.
Sprout Social is a social media management platform the vendor describes as powerful tools for social media management, covering publishing, a Smart Inbox for comments and messages, reviews, analytics and listening. Source
Sprout Social strengths
- Moderates comments in one Smart Inbox across Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, X, LinkedIn Company Pages, Threads, Reddit and Bluesky, alongside reviews from Apple App Store, Google Play Store, Glassdoor, Trustpilot and Yelp. Source
- Facebook and Instagram ads comment moderation is in every plan except Essentials, and a connected TikTok Ad Account brings comments on dark TikTok ads into the inbox as their own message type. Source
- Automated Inbox Rules can hide matching comments automatically on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok and X, with AND, OR and CONTAINS keyword logic, and hidden messages can be unhidden from the message actions menu. Source
- Universal Spam Detection classifies spam, scams and phishing without keyword lists, and its spam classification can be used as a rule criterion together with the Hide message action. Source
- Public per-seat prices for four of its five plans, a 30-day trial with no credit card required, and connected ad accounts that do not count against the plan's profile limit. Source
Sprout Social limitations
- Automatic hiding needs the Advanced plan: the inbox and cases rule builder, sentiment classification and automated message classifications are all listed as not included on Essentials, Standard and Professional, and Advanced costs 499 USD per seat per month billed monthly. Source
- The cheapest Essentials plan has no social inbox, no comment moderation and no ads comment moderation; comment moderation starts on Standard at 249 USD per seat per month billed monthly. Source
- The Hide message action does not work on LinkedIn profiles, and tracked Brand Keywords on X cannot be hidden because they are not tied to your own profile. Source
- Enhance Reply by AI Assist only rewrites a reply you have already typed into one of four tones, so there is no AI-written draft reply, and it needs the Advanced plan plus the OpenAI integration switched on. Source
Sprout Social pricing
Checked on sproutsocial.com/pricing
From $249 per user a month on the Standard plan, the cheapest that moderates comments. Automatic hiding starts on Advanced, at $499 per user a month.
- Free trial
- 30 days
- Free plan
- No
Hootsuite
A publishing suite whose inbox collects comments from seven networks, including Facebook and Instagram dark posts. Hiding is manual: its automation rules only tag, route and resolve.
Hootsuite is a social media management suite whose Nest inbox collects public comments, mentions and private messages from Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, X (Twitter), WhatsApp and Threads into one queue; YouTube comments are moderated in Streams instead. Source
Hootsuite strengths
- Public comments and private messages from Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, X (Twitter), WhatsApp and Threads land in one inbox, with YouTube comments monitored through Streams. Source
- Comments on Facebook and Instagram paid and dark posts arrive in the same inbox as comments on organic posts. Source
- Agents can hide and delete inbound public comments on Facebook and Instagram, hide comments on owned TikTok videos, and delete or approve YouTube comments from the Moderate stream. Source
- Inbox automations trigger on keywords and since 12 March 2026 let you pick exact matching or partial matching, so a rule for snow also catches snowflake. Source
- AI classifiers built from plain-English prompts categorize, tag and route incoming messages, and AI smart replies suggest context-aware responses. Source
Hootsuite limitations
- Inbox automation rules only apply tags and topics and resolve conversations; hiding or deleting a comment is a manual per-message action, and no rule that hides comments automatically is stated. Source
- YouTube comments are moderated in Streams rather than the inbox: Nest's messaging channels are Facebook, Instagram, X (Twitter), WhatsApp, TikTok, LinkedIn and Threads. Source
- Sentiment analysis and 60+ language detection sit in Advanced Inbox, which the vendor calls an Enterprise plan add-on with no public price, sold through its sales team. Source
- States content is hosted on AWS data centres in the United States, with no EU hosting or data residency option. Source
Hootsuite pricing
Checked on hootsuite.com/plans
From $99 per user a month, billed yearly on the Standard plan, the cheapest that moderates comments.
- Free trial
- 14 days
- Free plan
- No
How to choose
- Start with the platforms you need. CommentGuard and MyComments.io cover Facebook and Instagram only. Smart Moderation does not list TikTok, and FeedGuardians and ReplyZen do not cover YouTube. The other eleven moderate comments on all four platforms. Each platform has its own comparison: Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube.
- Decide who makes the call on borderline comments. Most tools here hide comments automatically. Hootsuite’s automation rules do not hide, and Sprout Social’s rules that hide need its Advanced plan. Social Moderator AI marks comments it is unsure about as Needs review instead of hiding them. Respondology states a human team makes a decision in about 30 seconds.
- Check what you pay for. The tools price on different units: pages and AI actions (Social Moderator AI), AI credits (Replient.ai), monthly comment volume (CommentGuard, MyComments.io), interactions (FeedGuardians), AI replies and moderations (ReplyZen), social profiles (Smart Moderation, NapoleonCat), bundles of users and profiles (Statusbrew), users (Agorapulse, Sprout Social, Hootsuite), yearly comment volume (Respondology) and followers on top of a platform license (Bodyguard). TrollWall AI and BrandBastion show no prices and start with a demo. The table below shows what automatic hiding costs.
- Ask where your data is processed. TrollWall AI, NapoleonCat, Agorapulse and Replient.ai state they store or process data in the EU. Hootsuite and Statusbrew state US hosting. Social Moderator AI’s privacy policy says data may be processed outside your country, including the United States, and Bodyguard’s and BrandBastion’s say data may be transferred outside the EU. If EU storage is a must, see multilingual teams and EU data.
What automatic hiding costs
The "from" price is the cheapest plan that moderates comments, but not every such plan hides comments by itself. This table puts each tool's cheapest plan next to its cheapest plan with automatic hiding, using the vendor's own pricing and feature pages. At NapoleonCat and Sprout Social, automatic hiding costs more than the "from" price.
| Tool | Price from | Automatic hiding from | Source | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Social Moderator AI | €10/mo Plus plan | €10/mo Plus plan | Pricing Hiding | |
| Respondology | $999/mo billed yearly, Basic plan | $999/mo billed yearly, Basic plan | Pricing Hiding | |
| TrollWall AI | Demo only | Demo only | Pricing Hiding | |
| NapoleonCat | $109/mo Pro plan | $139/mo Expert plan | Pricing Hiding | |
| Agorapulse | $99/user/mo Standard plan | $99/user/mo Standard plan | Pricing Hiding | |
| BrandBastion | Demo only | Demo only | Pricing Hiding | |
| Bodyguard | €1,000/mo Guardian plan | €1,000/mo Guardian plan | Pricing Hiding | |
| Replient.ai | €39/mo Lite plan | €39/mo Lite plan | Pricing Hiding | |
| Statusbrew | $89/mo Lite plan | $89/mo Lite plan | Pricing Hiding | |
| Smart Moderation | $99/mo Basic plan | $99/mo Basic plan | Pricing Hiding | |
| CommentGuard | $29/mo Starter plan | $29/mo Starter plan | Pricing Hiding | |
| FeedGuardians | €41/mo Starter plan | €41/mo Starter plan | Pricing Hiding | |
| ReplyZen | $29/mo Basic plan | $29/mo Basic plan | Pricing Hiding | |
| MyComments.io | $29.99/mo Starter plan | $29.99/mo Starter plan | Pricing Hiding | |
| Sprout Social | $249/user/mo Standard plan | $499/user/mo Advanced plan | Pricing Hiding | |
| Hootsuite | $99/user/mo billed yearly, Standard plan | No automatic hiding | Pricing Hiding |
Questions about comment moderation tools
What is a comment moderation tool?
Software that connects to your social media accounts and hides, deletes or flags comments that break your rules, such as spam, scams and abuse, without a person reading each one first. Most tools here use AI that reads the meaning of a comment rather than only matching keywords, and most also draft replies.
How much does a comment moderation tool cost?
Focused tools start at €10 a month (Social Moderator AI), $29 a month (ReplyZen) or $29 a month (CommentGuard). Suites start at $109 a month (NapoleonCat) and $99 per user a month (Agorapulse), Respondology at $999 a month, billed yearly and Bodyguard at €1,000 a month. Automatic hiding can need a higher plan: see what automatic hiding costs.
Which tools have a free trial?
Thirteen of the sixteen state one: Agorapulse and Sprout Social 30 days, Social Moderator AI 15 days, BrandBastion 15 days on its self-serve sign-up, NapoleonCat, Replient.ai, ReplyZen, Statusbrew and Hootsuite 14 days, and CommentGuard, FeedGuardians, MyComments.io and TrollWall AI 7 days. Respondology offers none, and Smart Moderation and Bodyguard do not state one. Agorapulse and NapoleonCat also list free plans.
How were prices and features checked?
On each vendor's own website. Every row carries the date it was checked and links to the pages it came from. Anything a vendor does not state is marked as not stated.
Which tools moderate comments on paid ads?
All sixteen list ad comment moderation, but plans differ. NapoleonCat includes it from its Pro plan, Agorapulse from Professional, Sprout Social from Standard and Respondology from Premium. Hootsuite shows ad comments in its inbox but hides them only by hand. More in ad comments at scale.
Which tools have human moderators?
Respondology states it has 1,000+ US-based human moderators, and on BrandBastion's Engage+ plan its own team handles moderation, replies and escalations 24/7. Bodyguard's Shield Mode sends the most sensitive comments to its human moderation team. Social Moderator AI, TrollWall AI and CommentGuard are software only. The other tools do not say.
What happened to Elv.ai?
The elv.ai website states that elv.ai is now part of TrollWall AI and that logging in on elv.ai no longer works, so we compare TrollWall AI instead.
How we checked
Every price and feature on this page comes from the vendor's own website, and each one links to the page it came from. We record the date we checked it and re-check every tool at least every 60 days. Where a vendor does not say something, we mark it as not stated rather than guess.
We did not run our own tests on these tools, and we give no scores or star ratings. Read how we work.
Social Moderator AI
Our pickCovers all four platforms, including comments on ads, explains every decision with its rule and reason, and publishes its prices with a 15-day trial.
Social Moderator AI is a comment moderation tool that hides spam and abuse and drafts replies on Facebook Pages, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and Google Reviews, built for brands, creators, politicians, sports clubs, news media, e-commerce and agencies. Source
Social Moderator AI strengths
Social Moderator AI limitations
How Social Moderator AI works
Moderation rules are written in plain English
Rules are written as plain English lines or paragraphs, with no regex or decision trees, and each rule can say what to keep visible as well as what to hide. A draft can be run against recent comments to see what would be hidden, flagged or answered, and the page states that nothing changes on your pages until you publish. Every published version is kept so you can roll back. Rules apply to every page in a workspace, direct messages have their own rule set, and the site suggests separate workspaces when a brand needs different policies. A comment that matches no rule stays visible. Source
Every decision shows its rule, confidence and reason
Each action shows the matched rule, the confidence level and the reasoning in plain words. Comments the AI is unsure about are marked Needs review instead of being hidden, so a person decides. Any decision can be unhidden, approved or re-evaluated in one click, and both the action and the undo are recorded in a timestamped audit log that is available on every plan. The log records AI decisions, hides and unhides, likes and replies, and who or what performed each action, and can be filtered by action type, date range or page. Source
Reply drafts in a brand voice, with a draft mode first
You describe the brand, choose the reply language and add example replies, and the site says drafts follow your tone, your phrasing and the things you never say. One voice can cover a whole workspace, and individual pages can have their own. Draft mode requires approval of each reply before it is sent, and Auto mode sends only replies above a confidence threshold you set. On Pro and Agency you can add knowledge sources such as shipping, returns or opening hours, which the site says replies quote instead of guessing. Source
Five channels, including ads and DMs
The product covers Facebook Page posts, Reels, ads and Messenger; Instagram posts, Reels, ads and DMs; TikTok video comments, which the site says are checked every minute; YouTube channel comments, which move to the held-for-review queue in YouTube Studio when hidden; and Google Reviews, which get AI reply drafts on Pro and Agency. Facebook and Instagram comments are moderated within seconds through Meta webhooks, and ad comments appear in the same inbox as organic ones, filterable by page, post or status. Source
Free audit of recent comments, then a 15-day trial
The free audit scores the newest 50 comments from your 10 most recent Facebook posts against four starter rules, and the site says it takes about a minute, needs no card and changes nothing on your Page. The report gives four counters (would hide, would reply, flag for review, would like) and, for each comment, the verdict, the matching rule, the AI confidence and a one-line reason. It is read-only. Each workspace gets one audit and each Page can be audited once. A card is asked for only when you start the 15-day trial, and nothing is charged until the trial ends. Source
Plan limits are pages, AI actions and seats
Plus is 10 EUR per month billed monthly or 9 EUR billed yearly and covers 2 pages, 250 AI actions per month and 1 seat. Pro is 49 EUR monthly or 40 EUR yearly for 10 pages, 2,500 AI actions and 3 seats. Agency is 199 EUR monthly or 160 EUR yearly for up to 50 pages, 15,000 AI actions and 15 seats. Each moderation decision and each AI reply draft counts as one AI action, while viewing comments, hiding manually and editing drafts do not. Plus leaves out lead detection, Google Reviews, image and GIF moderation and political pages. Source
Social Moderator AI pricing
Checked on socialmoderator.ai
From €10 a month on the Plus plan, the cheapest that moderates comments.