Wonderchat alternatives under $50 a month

Wonderchat’s first paid plan, Basic, was $124 a month on 20 September 2026 if you paid for the year, and $149 paid monthly. Billed by the year, that comes to $1,488, by our arithmetic. Wonderchat’s pricing page opens on the yearly figure.

Four plans from other vendors start under $50 a month. Our own tool, Deacon, answers visitors from your pages and costs nothing up to 50 answers a month.

Four plans that start under $50 a month

1. Chatling’s Starter is $25 a month with 1,750 AI credits and two seats, and Free has 200 credits (Chatling’s pricing page).
2. Chatbase’s Hobby is $40 a month with 700 message credits, and Free has 50 (Chatbase’s pricing page).
3. Dante AI’s Starter is $40 a month for 2,000 credits, though a handoff to a person starts on its $120 plan (Dante AI’s pricing page).
4. DocsBot AI’s Personal costs $49 a month, with one seat and a limit of 5,000 credits (DocsBot’s pricing page).

A seat is a login for one teammate. A handoff is the bot passing a chat to someone on your team. What Chatling’s credits come to in replies is worked out in Chatling alternatives.

Basic is $124 a month on a yearly bill, and $149 without one

The monthly prices appear once you switch the page’s toggle. Live chat, a handoff to a person, email escalation and lead capture all start on Basic, the page’s comparison table says. So do HubSpot, Zapier and Shopify integrations.

The Free, Basic and Scale cards all carry the same button, “Start 7-day Free Trial”. Nothing we read says what happens to a free account once the seven days are up.

Wonderchat’s article on upgrading says you are billed immediately for the full cost of the new plan when you move up.

Deacon

Deacon is free up to 50 answers a month on one seat. No card is asked for, and the plan has no end date. Each reply Deacon writes counts as one answer.

Its first paid plan costs more than any of those four on monthly billing. Deacon’s pricing page has the figure for monthly and for yearly billing, and it shows the yearly one first, as Wonderchat’s does.

Wonderchat’s comparison table ticks Chat History for its free plan and crosses out Chat Logs and every row under Analytics.

Deacon has no voice agent, no helpdesk integrations and no routing or rota for live chat. You can reply inside any conversation from the dashboard.

The bot stops when the credits are spent

The chatbot stops responding once you reach your credit limit, and you are sent a notification, the pricing FAQ says. An extra 1,000 credits is a one-time $29.99. Unused credits expire when the billing period ends. Wonderchat’s guide to message credits also says overage billing will apply, and we found no rate for it.

Removing “Powered by Wonderchat” is not offered on the self-serve plans, Wonderchat’s technical FAQ says.

No refunds, and 90 days to ask for your data

Wonderchat’s terms of service say it gives no refund to a user who cancels, whatever the reason. A cancellation starts at the end of the billing period, which on a yearly plan can be months away.

The same terms give you 90 days after leaving to ask for a copy of your data, including the bot’s questions and answers. They also let Wonderchat use anonymised customer data to improve its services, including the content of your visitors’ chats.

The cards and the FAQ give different counts

The Free card says 20 credits is about 10 resolutions a month, and the Basic card says 5,000 credits is about 1,000. The pricing FAQ says a conversation uses around 10 credits. That makes 20 credits about 2 conversations and 5,000 about 500. Both divisions are ours.

The same page’s comparison table gives the $417 plan 15,000 credits where its card says 25,000. The Free card also lists a handoff to a person, which the comparison table crosses out for Free.