Free SiteGPT alternatives and what they count

SiteGPT’s pricing page holds four surprises for a founder. There’s no free plan, and the 7-day trial takes your card and charges it on the last day unless you cancel. Starter’s 4,000 messages a month are counted on GPT-4.1 mini, and on GPT-4.1 the same plan gives 400. Taking “Powered by SiteGPT” off is an add-on that costs as much as Starter itself. And a second person on the account waits for Growth, at $129 a month.

The seven alternatives below all have a free plan. For each you get that free plan, the first paid plan, how much the AI model changes what a plan buys, and what it costs to take the badge off your site. We read every price on the vendors’ own pages on 23 September 2026, and each one links to where we read it.

Deacon is ours, and it comes first. It’s an AI customer support agent for founders who handle support themselves. It learns from your site, answers your customers in seconds and shows you what they’re stuck on and what they want next. Its free plan needs no card and has no end date, and every plan answers with the same model, so the number on your plan is the number of answers you get.

Seven free SiteGPT alternatives, side by side

SiteGPT is in the last row, with the trial it offers in place of a free plan.

What SiteGPT’s plans count, and what costs extra

SiteGPT does the core job well. It learns from your website, a sitemap or files, lets a visitor hand the chat to your team, and on a paid plan it keeps answering past its quota rather than cutting visitors off. It goes on as a script tag, an inline embed, an iframe or a WordPress plugin. The catches are in the detail of its pricing page, its billing guide and its terms.

There’s no free plan. The 7-day trial needs a card, a chatbot on the trial pauses at the trial’s limit, and the terms say your card is charged on the trial’s last day unless you cancelled.

Each side of a chat is a message, so a visitor’s question and its answer use 2, and how many you get depends on the model. Starter’s card says up to 4,000 a month, which is 4,000 on GPT-4.1 mini or 400 on GPT-4.1, and SiteGPT’s own calculator warns that “your real message count can vary by 10× on the same plan”. Growth’s 10,000 is 1,000 on GPT-4.1, and Scale’s 40,000 is 4,000. SiteGPT pricing works out what that means for a founder’s month.

Past the quota, your chatbots keep answering visitors, but every chatbot page in your dashboard is blurred behind a card that reads “Message Limit Reached!” and asks you to buy the Extra Messages add-on. To stay inside your plan you upgrade or add a pack of 5,000 messages, at $59 a month or $39 billed yearly. The terms also carry a fair usage policy, under which going past its limits “could lead to restricted or reduced service access, with or without prior warning”.

Starter is built for one person, with 1 member, 1 chatbot, 1,000 pages and basic analytics. A second member waits for Growth, at $129 a month or $79 billed yearly, which also brings the integrations, the API, the iOS app and a monthly re-read of your site. AI insights and webhooks start on Scale, at $429 a month or $259 billed yearly.

Removing “Powered by SiteGPT” is an add-on on every plan, and no plan includes it. It costs $59 a month, or $39 billed yearly, the same as Starter itself.

Deacon

Deacon is an AI customer support agent for founders who do support themselves, and you can start it without a card or a trial clock. Give Deacon your site’s address and it reads your home page and the pages visitors ask about first, such as pricing and help, so it’s ready within a minute or so. It then answers your visitors in seconds, from what those pages say, in whatever language they write in. Other pages go in by their link, and files and pasted text cover anything that isn’t on your site.

There’s no model to choose, because every plan answers with the same one. So there’s no tenfold swing in what your plan buys, and one reply is one answer. Nothing is billed past your plan’s answers, and no plan upgrades itself. If a month’s answers run out, visitors get a short reply saying Deacon can’t look into it right now and are asked for their email, unless they already left it in that conversation.

When your pages don’t cover a question, Deacon tells the visitor it doesn’t know instead of guessing, and asks for their email. You get an email when they leave it or ask for a person, and your reply from the dashboard appears in their chat if it’s still open. Then write the answer once. It joins what Deacon knows, so Deacon can answer the next visitor who asks, and it needs you less with every answer you write.

SiteGPT’s AI insights start on Scale. Deacon’s Topics are on the free plan. They gather what visitors asked, count the people who asked and label most groups, as a how-to, a bug report or a feature ask, for example, so you can see what to fix and what to build next. Every conversation is saved and searchable by what visitors asked, and the same script runs your website analytics, with visitors, sources, goals and funnels.

Every feature is on every plan, and the plans differ only in answers, knowledge, pages from your website and seats. Free has 50 answers a month and 1 seat, holds about 67 pages of docs and reads 10 pages a month from your website. Starter is $50 a month, or $40 a month billed yearly, for 1,000 answers a month and 3 seats. Growth is $150 a month, or $120 a month billed yearly, for 4,000 answers a month and 10 seats. No plan has a “powered by” line, so there’s nothing to pay to remove.

Chatbase

Chatbase is SiteGPT’s nearest match, a chatbot you train on your site, and it has the free plan SiteGPT doesn’t. Free gives you 50 message credits a month, 1 member and 1 MB of training content, though Chatbase deletes a free agent after 14 days without use. Hobby is $40 a month, or $32 billed yearly, for 700 credits and 2 members.

Its meter moves with the model too, if less steeply. A reply costs 1 to 6 credits by model, and an action can double that. Where SiteGPT keeps answering past its quota, Chatbase stops at zero and tells visitors “This AI Agent is currently unavailable. If you are the owner, please check your account.”, unless you’ve switched on auto recharge at $40 for every 1,000 credits. Removing “Powered By Chatbase” is a $99 a month add-on. There’s more in Chatbase alternatives.

Chatling

Chatling offers 29 models and prices each in credits, from 0.5 a reply to 25. Its free plan needs no card and gives you 200 AI credits a month and 1 seat, on three models that cost 2.5 to 5 credits a reply, which comes to 40 to 80 replies. Starter is $25 a month, or $21 billed yearly, for 1,750 credits and 2 seats.

Like SiteGPT, it lets a person take over a chat, and on Chatling that’s on every plan, the free one included. At zero, visitors see an “Insufficient AI credits” error until you buy more or upgrade. Removing “Powered by Chatling” is a $35 a month add-on. There’s more in Chatling alternatives.

Dante AI

Dante AI’s free plan keeps its meter simple. Its three free models each cost one credit a turn, so 100 message credits a month is 100 turns, with no card and no end date. Starter is $40 a month, or $33 billed yearly, for 2,000 credits and 2 seats, and there a turn costs 1 to 25 credits depending on the model you pick.

The catch is further up the plans. A person can take over a chat only from Advanced, at $120 a month, which is also where leads and knowledge gaps start. At zero credits your widget says “This AI agent is offline at the moment.” Removing the Dante mark is a $50 a month add-on on Starter, by Dante’s help centre. There’s more in Dante AI alternatives.

DocsBot AI

DocsBot AI is built around documentation and reads more than 28 kinds of source. Its free plan, meant for personal use and with no card, gives you 1 bot, 50 source pages and 100 AI credits a month. Personal is $49 a month, or $41 billed yearly, for 5,000 credits and 5,000 source pages.

A message starts at one credit and rises with the model, to 20 on GPT-5.6 Sol. At the monthly limit the bot stops and shows visitors an error. Free keeps no chat history, a second team user waits for Standard at $149 a month, and a widget without DocsBot’s name for Business at $499. There’s more in DocsBot alternatives.

Botpress

Botpress counts conversations, not messages, so the model doesn’t change how many you get. A conversation is any exchange with at least two messages from the visitor in the month. Free gives you 25 conversations and 3 seats, with no card. Plus is $189 a month, or $150 billed yearly, for 250 conversations and $25 of AI usage, and it takes the Botpress branding off the webchat.

The model shows up in a second meter instead, AI usage, which is what calling the model costs. When that nears its limit, Botpress buys $10 grants of AI spend for you, at cost. It also adds a pack of 100 conversations for $65 at 95% of your quota, which you can’t switch off. And you build the agent yourself. There’s more in Botpress alternatives.

tawk.to

tawk.to’s AI counts one credit for every message it sends, so the model never changes the count. Its live chat is free for any number of agents, and AI Assist’s Hobby tier is free too, with 100 message credits a month and up to 100 of your web pages crawled. No card is needed to start. Growth is $29 a month, or $290 a year, for 1,000 credits and 500 pages, and Business is $99 a month for 5,000 credits and 2,000 pages, crawled every 12 hours.

AI Assist can’t pass a chat to your team until Growth, where “Escalations to human agents” start. Past its credits it finishes the conversations it’s in and joins no new ones until you buy more, at $30 for 1,000, or the month resets. Removing the “Powered by tawk.to” line is $29 a month for each website.

Which SiteGPT alternative fits you

Start from what you want to stop paying for.

If you like how SiteGPT works and only want a free plan to begin on, Chatbase and Chatling work much the same way, with credits priced by model. If you want a meter that doesn’t move with the model, tawk.to counts one credit a message and Botpress counts conversations. If your content is mostly documentation, DocsBot AI reads more than 28 kinds of source. If you want a person able to take over on a free plan, Chatling allows it.

If you answer support yourself, Deacon fits best. It answers from your site in seconds on one model, so the number on your plan is the number of answers you get. It lets you step into any chat, and it shows you what customers are stuck on and what they want next. The free plan needs no card, and there’s no badge to pay to remove.

Questions about SiteGPT and its alternatives

Does SiteGPT have a free plan?

No. SiteGPT’s pricing page answers “No, there is no free plan”, and offers a 7-day trial instead. The trial needs a card, and on its last day the card is charged for the plan you picked unless you cancelled first. A chatbot on the trial pauses at the trial’s limit.

How does SiteGPT compare with Chatbase?

Chatbase has a free plan with 50 message credits a month, and SiteGPT has none. At the first paid step, SiteGPT’s Starter is $59 a month, or $39 billed yearly, for 4,000 messages on GPT-4.1 mini, and Chatbase’s Hobby is $40, or $32 billed yearly, for 700 credits at 1 to 6 a reply. On a paid plan SiteGPT keeps answering past its quota, while Chatbase’s agent goes unavailable at zero unless you’ve bought auto recharge. Removing the badge costs $59 a month on SiteGPT and $99 on Chatbase.

How do I leave SiteGPT without another charge?

Cancel in Billing before your next renewal. Cancelling stops the renewal at the end of the paid period, and your chatbots keep working until then. Deleting the account is a separate step. SiteGPT’s guide says to email its support from your account’s address, and it lists CSV exports for chat history, leads and your content, so take those first.

Can I move my SiteGPT chatbot to Deacon?

There’s no import, but if your SiteGPT chatbot learned from your website, Deacon can read that directly. Give it your site’s address and it reads your home page and the pages visitors ask about first, such as pricing and help. Other pages can go in by their links. Upload your files as PDF, Word (.docx), Markdown, text, CSV or HTML, up to 10 MB each, paste in anything else, and add question and answer pairs with Add Q&A.

Does Deacon connect to Slack, Crisp or Zendesk?

No. Deacon has no integrations, so your team replies from Deacon’s own dashboard. The visitor sees your reply in their chat if it’s still open, or gets it at the address they left in that conversation. SiteGPT connects Slack, Crisp, Messenger, Google Chat, Freshdesk and Zoho from Growth, and adds a Zendesk AI Agent from Scale.