CommentGuard Pricing, September 2026: Four Plans and What Happens at the Cap

CommentGuard sells one thing and charges for it in one way: comment moderation for Facebook and Instagram, priced by how many comments you get. Four plans, monthly or annual billing, no per-seat fee.

That model is unusually clean. The one thing to check before buying is what happens when you go past your comment allowance. Here’s what each tier really covers, what happens when you go over, and what the higher-volume tiers cost – all read off CommentGuard’s own pricing page, FAQ and terms of service in September 2026.

• TL;DR: what CommentGuard costs in 2026
• What every plan includes, since they all include the same thing
• The cap is on comments, and that is the entire model
• What happens when you hit the cap
• The tiers above 50,000 run to $1,999 a month
• Annual billing is there, but only the FAQ says so
• The free trial ends by switching moderation off
• What the pricing table leaves out, and where to find it
• What CommentGuard costs a team
• Who this pricing is actually built for
• CommentGuard vs NapoleonCat: what you are actually choosing between
• So is CommentGuard worth the price?
• CommentGuard pricing FAQ

TL;DR: what CommentGuard costs in 2026

Every plan carries the same feature set. CommentGuard says so on the page: access to every feature without any limits, with plans scaling only on comment volume. What changes between $29 and $199 is one number.

Unlimited on every tier: Facebook and Instagram pages, Facebook and Instagram DMs, team members, and AI responses. CommentGuard makes a point of the last one, calling out that there are no AI credits to buy.

What every plan includes, since they all include the same thing

Because there is no feature ladder, the $29 plan is the product.

The moderation engine works on a set of triggers you can combine: profanity detection, negativity detection, URLs, images, mentions, emojis, your own keywords, email addresses and phone numbers, and a blanket rule that hides every new comment. Anything caught can be hidden or deleted outright, and CommentGuard says detection works in any language rather than English only.

On top of that, every tier gets AI replies with no credit system, saved replies, rotated reply variations so the same answer does not appear twice under one post, auto-replies on keyword triggers, private replies that move a conversation into DMs, translation, bulk actions, a whitelist, user blocking, exports, and moderation stats broken down by page and by team member.

Coverage runs across organic posts and ads, and you can point rules at posts, ads or both. That ad coverage is what the tool gets discussed for, and it is why connecting the tool asks Meta for ad account access.

The cap is on comments, and that is the entire model

Most social tools charge for seats or for connected profiles. CommentGuard charges for how many comments come in. You can connect every page you own and invite your whole team on the $29 plan, and none of it changes the bill.

Good news for an agency or a brand with a lot of pages and people. Bad news if your comment volume is spiky, because volume is the one thing you don’t control – one ad set that performs, one post that gets picked up, and the number that governs your invoice moves without you touching anything.

Work out the cost per thousand comments before you pick a tier.

Those rates assume you use the whole allowance. Buy a tier you only half fill and your real cost per comment doubles. Pro buys the cheapest comments at $3.96 per thousand, and Elite is marginally worse at $3.98 despite costing twice as much – the jump buys headroom, not efficiency.

For comparison, NapoleonCat’s Expert plan is $139 a month for 2 users, 5 profiles and 25,000 inbox interactions, which is $5.56 per thousand against CommentGuard’s $3.96 at the same volume. The ceilings aren’t counted the same way, so it’s not exact like-for-like, but on price per volume CommentGuard is cheaper. The difference buys five platforms instead of two, plus publishing, analytics and reporting.

For scale, CommentGuard says it has over 2,500 users and moderated over 5.3 million comments in the last 30 days. One is a user total and the other a rolling 30-day count, so together they can’t tell you how much a typical account moderates.

What happens when you hit the cap

On a moderation tool this is where the real risk sits.

CommentGuard’s FAQ says you get warned at 90% of your allowance, in the app and by email, and that this gives you time to upgrade and avoid service interruption.

So going over risks a service interruption. On a scheduling tool, that means a post goes out late. On a moderation tool, it means the spam, the scam links and the abuse under your ads stop being hidden until the allowance is raised.

And it stops at the worst moment – volume spikes when a campaign scales or a post goes wide, which is exactly when the spam accounts arrive.

Two practical consequences: if you run ads, buy a tier with real headroom rather than one that just covers last month’s volume, and treat the 90% email as an operational alert, not a billing notice. None of this is specific to CommentGuard – moderation tools that charge by volume generally stop rather than bill you for the overspill, NapoleonCat included. What differs is how early you’re warned and how much headroom the vendor sells.

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The tiers above 50,000 run to $1,999 a month

The pricing page ends at Elite. The FAQ does not.

Ask about going past 50,000 comments a month and CommentGuard lists nine further steps through the billing portal: 100,000 for $399, 150,000 for $599, 200,000 for $799, 250,000 for $999, 300,000 for $1,199, 350,000 for $1,399, 400,000 for $1,599, 450,000 for $1,799 and 500,000 for $1,999 a month. Above that it is a custom plan.

The per-thousand rate barely moves across that range, from $3.99 at 100,000 comments to $4.00 at 500,000, so scale doesn’t buy a better rate.

Annual billing is there, but only the FAQ says so

The pricing table quotes monthly rates only and carries no billing toggle. The FAQ underneath it confirms you can pay annually instead, and that annual billing comes with two months free.

Two months free works out at about 17% off, in the same range as the annual discounts elsewhere in this category.

Cancellation runs through a Stripe self-serve portal and takes effect at the end of the billing period you cancel in. Upgrades are charged pro rata for the rest of the current cycle, with the full rate applying next period. Downgrades wait until the cycle ends.

The free trial ends by switching moderation off

Seven days, full access, no credit card – and nothing charges you when the week is up.

What happens at the end is stated plainly in CommentGuard’s FAQ: the trial expires, CommentGuard stops moderating your comments and stops sending replies. No read-only mode, no grace period. Whatever rules you built during the week simply stop running, and your comment sections revert to unmoderated on day eight.

If you’re testing during a live campaign, plan the trial so it doesn’t end in the middle of one.

What the pricing table leaves out, and where to find it

Four things a buyer needs before signing off a budget, none of them in the pricing table itself. Three are in the FAQ underneath it and one is in the terms of service.

• Prices above 50,000 comments. In the FAQ, not the pricing table. The nine steps are set out above.
• Payment methods. Card only, through Stripe, stated in the FAQ.
• Refund policy. Not on the pricing page at all. It is in the terms of service: refunds on subscriptions longer than a month, cancelled within 30 days of the start or renewal date.
• What counts as a comment. Defined in the FAQ, not the table: every comment received on your posts or ads counts, whatever the tool then does with it. Incoming DMs do not count.

What CommentGuard costs a team

This is where the model is genuinely strong.

Unlimited users are included at every tier. A 20-person team on the $29 plan pays $29. Admins, managers, moderators and outside contractors all cost nothing extra, and CommentGuard sells that as a way to stop sharing Facebook passwords with freelancers.

On that specific dimension nothing else here comes close, NapoleonCat included. Ten people and twenty profiles on NapoleonCat Expert is $369 a month; ten people on CommentGuard Starter is $29.

The catch is the one already noted: your bill is set by comment volume instead of headcount, and volume is less predictable.

Who this pricing is actually built for

The pricing model tells you who the customer is. A tool that charges nothing for seats or pages, and everything for comment volume, is priced for someone running paid social at scale on two platforms.

That matches where the tool gets discussed. In our sweep of 69 Reddit threads, the conversation about CommentGuard sits in the advertising subreddits rather than the social media management ones, and the recurring problem people bring is spam and scam comments under Facebook ads eating their conversion rates.

If that’s your job, the pricing is well shaped for you, volume-spike caveat aside. If you’re a social media manager balancing six platforms and a content calendar, it isn’t priced for your work – covering the rest of your platforms means a second subscription on top of the $29.

CommentGuard vs NapoleonCat: what you are actually choosing between

Both tools do rule-based auto-moderation on Facebook and Instagram, organic posts and ads, and both answer common questions automatically. The pricing models are opposites, and so is the scope.

The real question is not which is cheaper. It is whether Facebook and Instagram are the whole job.

If they are, CommentGuard is a focused tool at a low entry price, and the unlimited-users model is hard to beat. Matching it in NapoleonCat means the Expert plan at $139 a month, because Standard doesn’t moderate and Pro only moderates by hand. If your brand also answers comments on TikTok, YouTube, LinkedIn or Google Business Profile, CommentGuard can’t see them. Running both is a real option – Starter at $29 plus NapoleonCat Expert at $139 is $168 a month.

Both tools meter volume, and both stop when you reach the ceiling. Neither bills an overage: CommentGuard calls the consequence a service interruption, and NapoleonCat stops pulling new interactions into the Social Inbox, which stops auto-moderation along with it. With CommentGuard you upgrade or wait for the cycle to reset. NapoleonCat can also be topped up without changing plan.

What differs is the counting and the warning. CommentGuard counts comments received on posts and ads, and its FAQ says incoming DMs do not count. NapoleonCat counts every interaction pulled into the Inbox, DMs, reviews and mentions included, which is a wider net on the same kind of ceiling. Neither tool charges a comment twice for being hidden and answered. NapoleonCat warns earlier, at 70% rather than 90%, and lets you top capacity up three times before you have to change plan. CommentGuard publishes far more headroom overall, with tiers running to 500,000 comments a month and custom plans above that. How the two compare feature by feature is set out under CommentGuard alternative.

So is CommentGuard worth the price?

CommentGuard makes sense if:

• Facebook and Instagram are the only places you get comments
• your comment volume is predictable, or comfortably under a tier you can afford
• you have a big team or a lot of contractors, and per-seat pricing is what hurts
• you want moderation only, and already have separate tools for publishing and reporting
• you want to test something properly without giving anyone a card

Look elsewhere if:

• you moderate TikTok, YouTube or LinkedIn company pages as well, or handle Google reviews in the same place – CommentGuard covers Facebook and Instagram on every tier
• you need publishing, analytics or a customer history alongside moderation
• you need moderation reporting that goes beyond page and team-member stats

CommentGuard pricing FAQ

How much does CommentGuard cost per month?

From $29 a month for up to 5,000 comments. The published plans are Starter at $29 for 5,000 comments, Growth at $49 for 10,000, Pro at $99 for 25,000 and Elite at $199 for 50,000. All prices are monthly, checked in September 2026.

Does CommentGuard have a free plan?

No. There is a 7-day free trial with full access to every feature and no credit card required, but no permanently free tier. When the trial ends, CommentGuard stops moderating comments and sending replies.

Does CommentGuard charge per user?

No. Every plan includes unlimited team members at no extra cost, along with unlimited Facebook and Instagram pages and unlimited DMs. The only thing that scales the price is how many comments you receive.

What happens if I go over my comment limit?

CommentGuard warns you at 90% of your allowance in the app and by email so you can upgrade. Its FAQ describes what happens if you do not upgrade as a service interruption, which on a moderation tool would mean comments stop being hidden or answered until you move up a plan.

Can I get more than 50,000 comments a month?

Yes. Its FAQ lists nine steps through the billing portal, from 100,000 comments at $399 a month up to 500,000 at $1,999, with a custom plan above that. The per-thousand rate stays flat at about $4 across the whole range.

Does CommentGuard offer annual billing?

Yes. The pricing table shows monthly rates, but the FAQ underneath confirms annual billing with two months free, roughly 17% off. You can cancel any time through a Stripe self-serve portal, and the subscription runs to the end of the billing period you cancel in.

Is CommentGuard cheaper than NapoleonCat?

Yes, and by more than the headline suggests. CommentGuard starts at $29 a month and moderates from that first plan. NapoleonCat’s $89 Standard plan does not moderate at all: it is publishing, analytics and reporting. The Social Inbox starts on Pro at $109, and automatic moderation, the thing CommentGuard actually does, starts on Expert at $139 a month, or $119 billed annually. The like-for-like comparison is $29 against $139, for a much broader product that auto-moderates Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and LinkedIn company pages, and adds publishing, analytics, reporting and a social CRM.

Which platforms does CommentGuard support?

Facebook and Instagram only, including comments on organic posts and on ads, plus Facebook and Instagram direct messages. It does not cover TikTok, YouTube, LinkedIn, X or Google Business Profile. If you’re still working out what CommentGuard is, start there.

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