YouTube AI Comment Moderation Tool That I Open Sourced

Moderaty — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 19:55:16 +0000

I started a YouTube channel and saw far too many hate comments for my comfort level.

There’s a problem and I want to do something about it. That’s why I made Moderaty. I want trolls dealt with without having to personally read and react to every shitty thing they leave.

AI reads your comments and handles toxic ones automatically. Borderline comments wait for your decision. You can add specific rules, but you don’t have to build a blacklist to get started.

I don’t intend to start my next channel without it.

What you get:

Automatic AI moderation
Optional custom rules for specific words, patterns, or users.
Feedback digests grouping questions, criticism (constructive), corrections (constructive), and requests, so you can hear what viewers think without reading everything individually.
Free previews: One moderation preview and one feedback preview per channel - it won't make changes, just let you know what would happen if you used Moderaty.
Even more already here and to come...

Hosted subscription: $5/month with 100 comments included.

Early-user offer: $49 one-time for lifetime hosting with access to every new feature for the first 1,000 users. BYOK and pay your AI usage separately (it costs almost nothing).

Free open source self-hosting with your own OpenAI key.

Run a free preview on your channel and see what Moderaty would do before it changes any comments.

Oh, this is also a community-run project. Ask for whatever features you want and if people upvote, it gets made.

There's also going to be MCP server support.

DEV Community: Moderaty

YouTube AI Comment Moderation Tool That I Open Sourced