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Fider vs laravel-comments
Fider has 4,557 GitHub stars, 864 forks, 57 open issues and last shipped yesterday. laravel-comments has 602 stars, 98 forks, 4 open issues and last shipped yesterday. Fider leads on adoption by 657% (4,557 vs 602 stars). Fider is written in Go under AGPL-3.0; laravel-comments is written in PHP under MIT. Fider has attracted 19% as many forks as stars, laravel-comments 16%. laravel-comments was the more recently maintained of the two, and both are self-hostable with no licence fee.
Two open source projects, one decision. Both are free and self-hostable — the differences are community size, license terms, language stack and release pace.
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| Fider | laravel-comments | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 4.6K | ★ 602 |
| License | AGPL-3.0 | MIT |
| Written in | Go | PHP |
| Last push | 2026-10-02 | 2026-10-02 |
| Forks | ⑂ 864 | ⑂ 98 |
| Self-hosting | Yes | Yes |
| Data ownership | Your server | Your server |
pick Fider if
- You weight community size — 4.6K stars and counting
- You want the AGPL-3.0 license terms
- Your stack matches Go
- You value the larger contributor base for long-term maintenance
pick laravel-comments if
- You want the laravel-comments feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the MIT license terms
- Your stack matches PHP
- You evaluated both and laravel-comments fits your workflow better
About Fider
Fider is an open source, self hostable feedback portal, written in Go under the AGPL 3.0 licence, that lets a product team collect feature requests and suggestions from its customers and hear directly what they need.
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About laravel-comments
laravel comments is a PHP package for Laravel developers who want to attach an approval aware, nestable commenting system to their Eloquent models without building one from scratch.
read the full laravel-comments overview →
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Frequently asked questions
Is Fider or laravel-comments more popular?
Fider has 4,557 GitHub stars and laravel-comments has 602. Fider has the larger community by that measure.
Are Fider and laravel-comments free?
Both are open source. Fider is licensed under AGPL-3.0 and laravel-comments under MIT. Neither carries a licence fee.
What is the difference between Fider and laravel-comments?
Fider is written in Go and laravel-comments in PHP. The practical differences are community size, licence terms, language stack and release cadence — all compared in the table above.
Which should I choose, Fider or laravel-comments?
Choose Fider if you want the larger community (4,557 stars) or its AGPL-3.0 licence terms. Choose laravel-comments if its feature set, stack or MIT licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.