Chatbase vs Typebot Comparison 2026
Both cover dm & comment automation. Here is what separates them on price, billing, what you can take with you, and coverage.
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 | Yes |
| Data export | Not stated | Not stated |
| Their cut | None | None |
| Runs on |
Shaded rows are where the two answers disagree and both listings have answered. A row where one side has not stated a fact is left plain, because silence is not a difference.
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.
Our note
Estimate conversations rather than seats when choosing a tier, since a single bot on a busy page will pass 2,000 chats long before a second person needs an account. If you already run your own infrastructure, self-hosting removes the meter entirely and is the reason to prefer this over the closed alternatives.
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