Chatbase vs Typebot Comparison 2026
Chatbase trains an agent to answer questions from your own content, from $32 a month for 700 message credits. Typebot builds a conversational form instead, one question at a time with branching on the answers, from $39 a month for 2,000 chats, and the whole thing can be self-hosted for free since it is open source. Chatbase answers open questions. Typebot walks a flow you wrote yourself.
At a glance
- Chatbase starts cheaper, at $32.
- Both have a genuinely free tier.
Side by side
Chatbase | Typebot | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price (they differ) | From $32 | From $39 |
| Pricing model | Free plan, paid tiers | Free plan, paid tiers |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Billing | Monthly or annual | Monthly or annual |
| Free trial | 7 days | Not stated |
| API | Yes |
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.
Typebot
Conversational forms, open source
Typebot builds a form that behaves like a chat: one question at a time, branching on the answers, embedded in a page or sent as a link. The free plan runs two hundred conversations a month with no cap on how many bots exist. It is open source, so the whole thing can be self-hosted instead of subscribed to. Pricing counts chats rather than seats, which means a bot that gets popular costs more even if nobody else joins the team.
Why people weigh these two
- Typebot instead of Chatbase
- Typebot is the open source route to a chat widget, framed as conversational forms, with a free tier and paid from $39.
- Chatbase instead of Typebot
- Chatbase trains an AI agent on existing pages to answer questions, from $32, answering from what is already written rather than a flow you build by hand.
Which one should you pick
Chatbase suits a site where visitors ask varied questions that already have answers written down somewhere: $32 a month for 700 credits, with an API and handover to a person built in for when the agent is out of its depth.
Typebot is worth the extra seven dollars a month for more volume, 2,000 chats against Chatbase's 700, and for the option to self-host and remove the meter entirely. It suits lead capture, onboarding and quizzes better than open support, because it answers from a flow you designed rather than from a trained knowledge base. Anybody needing a support inbox with a person behind it is looking at the wrong tool here.
Common questions
- Which gives more usage for the money?
- Typebot: 2,000 chats a month for $39, against Chatbase's 700 credits for $32. Typebot can also be self-hosted for free, which removes the meter entirely.
- Which one answers open questions from my own content?
- Chatbase. It is trained on your site, documents or help centre and answers from that. Typebot follows a branching flow you build yourself rather than answering freely.
- Can either be self-hosted instead of subscribed to?
- Typebot can, since it is open source; the software costs nothing if you run your own server. Chatbase is a hosted subscription only.
- Which is better for a multi-step form or quiz rather than support?
- Typebot. It asks one question at a time and branches on the answer, which is closer to a form than a support agent. Chatbase is built to answer support questions, not to walk somebody through a flow.
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