Chatbase vs Landbot Comparison 2026
Chatbase trains an agent on your own pages from $32 a month for 700 message credits, all included in the price. Landbot builds conversations visually on a canvas, deployed to a website, Messenger or WhatsApp, from $45 a month for 500 chats, but AI chats cost an extra ten cents each on top of that. Landbot's own listing calls the $45 a floor rather than a ceiling.
At a glance
- Chatbase starts cheaper, at $32.
- Both have a genuinely free tier.
Side by side
Chatbase | Landbot | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price (they differ) | From $32 | From $45 |
| Pricing model | Free plan, paid tiers | Free plan, paid tiers |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Billing | Monthly or annual | Monthly or annual |
| Free trial (they differ) | 7 days | 14 days |
| API |
Chatbase
A support agent trained on your own pages
Chatbase builds a chat agent from your site, your documents and your help centre, then puts it on the page as a widget. Answers come from what you fed it rather than from the open web, which is the whole reason to use one of these rather than a general assistant. It also hands off to a person when the agent is out of its depth.
Our note
This is the cheapest sensible way to put a support agent on a site whose answers already exist in writing. Manychat and Chatfuel are the better fit when the conversation happens in Instagram or Messenger rather than on your own page.
Landbot
Chatbots you build by dragging blocks
Landbot is a visual builder for conversations, on a website widget, in Messenger or over WhatsApp, and the flow is a canvas rather than a script anybody has to write. Conditional logic, A/B tests and custom code blocks are there once the simple version stops being enough. Chats are metered per plan, so a bot that gets popular is a bot that needs the next tier.
Our note
Why people weigh these two
- Landbot instead of Chatbase
- Landbot builds chatbots by dragging blocks rather than training on documents, free tier included and paid from $45, better for scripted flows than open questions.
- Chatbase instead of Landbot
- Chatbase starts at $32, less than Landbot's $45, and trains itself on your own pages rather than a flow you draw, the better fit for answering support questions instead of qualifying a lead.
Which one should you pick
Chatbase is the simpler and cheaper choice when the job is answering questions from your own content: $32 a month with 700 credits included and nothing metered separately on top. It is a single-purpose support widget rather than a flow builder.
Landbot is worth the higher floor price when a conversation needs branching logic across a website widget, Messenger and WhatsApp from one visual canvas. Budget past the $45 headline, though: AI chats are metered at ten cents each and WhatsApp messages are priced separately, so a busy month costs more than the plan line suggests.
Common questions
- Which is cheaper?
- Chatbase, at $32 a month for 700 credits included. Landbot's Starter is $45 a month for 500 chats, and AI chats cost an extra ten cents each beyond that.
- Which one deploys to WhatsApp as well as a website?
- Landbot. The same visual flow deploys to a site widget, Messenger or WhatsApp, though WhatsApp messages are billed separately from the plan. Chatbase is built for a website widget only.
- Does either have a real free plan?
- Both do. Chatbase's free plan covers 50 messages a month but deletes idle agents after 14 days. Landbot's Sandbox covers 100 chats a month with one seat, no expiry mentioned.
- Which one is built as a visual, branching flow builder?
- Landbot. Conversations are drawn on a canvas with conditional logic and custom code blocks. Chatbase answers from trained content rather than a flow you design.
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