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6 tools that solve a similar problem. Compare what each costs and what it covers.
A support bot trained on pages you point it at
Chatling trains a bot on the pages you point it at rather than routing to a live person, from $40, the pick when the goal is answering without staffing a chat.
A support agent trained on your own pages
Chatbase trains an AI agent on your own pages to answer instead of a live human, from $32, automation where tawk.to is a live widget waiting for someone to type.
Live chat with the price printed both ways
LiveChat has no free tier at all, from $19, but is built as a live chat product from the ground up rather than free with paid extras layered on.
One inbox for email, chat and social
Re:amaze combines email, chat and social replies into one inbox instead of a single website widget, starting at $29 with no free tier.
Open-source inbox for every channel at once
Chatwoot is open source and pulls every channel, not just website chat, into one inbox from $19, for a team that wants to self-host rather than rent the widget.
Works with Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp
Shared inbox priced per workspace, not per seat
Crisp prices per workspace instead of per seat, from $45, and adds the ticketing, SLAs and reporting a support team's manager would actually read.
Works with Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp