404ops AI Comment Moderator

Spam filtering that uses a model you choose, paid for at your provider's rates, with your comments going straight from your server to that provider — never through us.

Free

• Bring your own key — OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, OpenRouter, Ollama, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint including self-hosted ones.
• Your comments never reach our servers. There is no 404ops relay in the path and no per-check fee, because we are not in the path to charge for.
• WordPress's own moderation lists are honoured — the disallowed-keys and moderation-keys lists you already maintain are matched locally, before any AI call, so a decision you have already made is never spent on a model or silently overturned by one.
• Reason codes on every decision, so you can see why a comment was held.
• Commenter reputation scoring from each commenter's approval and spam history.

What Pro adds

• Remote site sync — pull comments in from other WordPress sites you administer, over their REST API with an application password you supply, and moderate them from one dashboard.
• Reputation analytics — a dashboard over the reputation scores the free plugin already tracks: totals, averages and the most-trusted and lowest-scoring commenters.
• Weekly digest email — a summary of comments processed, decisions taken and reputation trends.

Pro is an add-on to the free plugin, so install the free plugin first. In WordPress it is listed as AI Comment Moderation.

On the free tier elsewhere

The best-known alternative restricts its free plan to non-commercial sites; a commercial site needs a paid plan. There is no such restriction here — the free tier is the same on a hobby blog and a business site.