Wonderchat alternatives, compared plan by plan

Founders usually go looking for a Wonderchat alternative after one of four surprises. The free plan is 20 credits, and Wonderchat’s own FAQ puts a conversation at around 10 credits, so it covers about two. The free card lists a handover to a person, but the plan table crosses it out, and live chat starts on Basic, at $149 a month or $124 billed yearly. “Powered by Wonderchat” can’t be removed on any self-serve plan. And its terms give no refund when you cancel.

Below are eight alternatives, with each one’s free plan, first paid plan, what its meter counts and the first plan on which a person can take over a chat. Every price was read on the vendor’s own pages on 23 September 2026, and each one links there.

Deacon comes first because it’s ours, and because it’s built for founders who answer support themselves. It’s an AI customer support agent that answers your customers from your own docs in seconds, hands you the chat when someone needs a person, and shows you what customers are stuck on and what they want next. Every feature is on the free plan, which needs no card and has no end date.

Eight alternatives next to Wonderchat

Wonderchat is in the last row, so you can hold each one up against it.

Where Wonderchat’s plans stop

Wonderchat calls itself “the all-in-one platform to build AI customer support and AI conversion agents”. Its home page says it’s GDPR compliant and SOC 2 certified, and its Enterprise plan, which “Starts at $1499”, adds SSO and HIPAA. These are the limits a founder runs into below that, read from its pricing page, its guides and its terms.

The pricing page opens on yearly billing. Basic is $124 a month billed yearly, which is $1,488 a year by our arithmetic, or $149 a month once you switch to monthly billing, for 5,000 credits a month, 3 seats and 2 AI agents. Scale, which the comparison table calls Turbo, is $417 a month billed yearly or $499 monthly, with 25,000 credits on its card and 15,000 in the table.

A credit is one reply on the cheapest models and more on bigger ones, Wonderchat’s credits guide says, and unused credits expire at the end of each billing period. The pricing FAQ estimates around 10 credits for a conversation. That puts the free plan’s 20 credits at about 2 conversations and Basic’s 5,000 at about 500, by our arithmetic, while the cards promise about 10 and about 1,000 “resolutions”.

The free plan is thin in other ways too. Its card lists a human handover, but the comparison table crosses out live chat and human handover for Free and ticks them from Basic. The table also crosses out chat logs and every analytics row on Free. And the Free, Basic and Scale cards all carry the same “Start 7-day Free Trial” button, with nothing we could find on what happens to a free account after seven days.

At the limit, the pricing FAQ says “the chatbot will stop responding”, and you’re sent a notification. An extra 1,000 credits costs $29.99 once, and the credits guide adds that “Overage billing will apply”, at a rate we couldn’t find.

The rest is in the small print. Wonderchat’s technical FAQ says removing “Powered by Wonderchat” isn’t offered on its retail plans. Moving up a plan bills the full price at once, so going from Basic to Scale charges $499. And its terms give no refund when you cancel, “regardless of the reason”, and give you 90 days after you leave to ask for a copy of your data. Each plan’s names, the credit cost of each model and a founder’s month are in Wonderchat pricing.

Deacon

Deacon is an AI customer support agent for founders who handle support themselves, and its free plan is the whole product. Every feature is on every plan, so handing a chat to yourself, the full conversation history and the analytics are all on Free, with no trial clock, no card and no end date.

It goes on your site as one script tag. Point it at your help pages, files or pasted text, and it answers your customers in seconds, day and night, in their own language. It answers only from what your content says, and an answer from a page on your site often links to it. When your content doesn’t cover a question, Deacon says it doesn’t know and asks for the visitor’s email, and you’re emailed when they leave it or ask for a person. Your reply from the dashboard shows up in their chat while it’s still open.

Each question your docs didn’t cover gets an Answer this button. Write the answer once and press Save & check, and Deacon shows you the reply it now gives. Each answer becomes part of what Deacon knows, so it keeps getting better and needs you less.

Every conversation is kept in full and searchable by what visitors asked, on the free plan too. Topics group the questions, count how many people asked and label most of them, as a how-to, a feature ask, a bug report and so on. Analytics › Widget shows the messages, the people, the share Deacon answered and the languages people wrote in. The same script gives you website analytics, with visitors, sources, goals and funnels. So you see what customers are stuck on and what they want next, from the first day.

Free covers 50 answers a month for one person, with room for about 67 pages of docs, and nothing is deleted if you go quiet. Starter is $50 a month, or $40 a month billed yearly, for 1,000 answers and 3 seats. Growth is $150 a month, or $120 a month billed yearly, for 4,000 answers and 10 seats. The plans differ only in answers, knowledge, pages from your website and seats.

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’ve left it already. There’s no “powered by” line on any plan, so there’s nothing to pay to remove.

Chatbase

Chatbase works much as Wonderchat does, training an agent on your content and charging credits by the model you pick, and it reaches WhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram from its first paid plan. It suits a founder who wants those channels, or actions such as bookings, beside the answers.

Free gives you 50 message credits a month and one member, and Chatbase deletes a free agent after 14 days without use. Hobby is $40 a month, or $32 a month billed yearly, for 700 credits, at 1 to 6 credits a reply. Handing a chat to a person runs through its Helpdesk, which the pricing page lists from Standard, at $150 a month or $120 billed yearly. At zero the agent shows “This AI Agent is currently unavailable”, unless you’ve bought auto recharge at $40 per 1,000 credits. Removing “Powered By Chatbase” is a $99 a month add-on. There’s more in Chatbase alternatives.

Chatling

Chatling has the lowest printed paid plan here and puts a person in reach on every plan, since its live chat comes with the free one. Its AI agent answers from your content, and its chatbot builder lays out scripted flows on a canvas.

Free gives you 200 AI credits a month and 1 seat. Starter is $25 a month, or $21 a month billed yearly, for 1,750 credits and 2 seats. A reply costs 0.5 to 25 credits by model, and at zero visitors see an “Insufficient AI credits” error until you buy more. Removing “Powered by Chatling” is a $35 a month add-on. Where Wonderchat refunds nothing, Chatling’s pricing FAQ offers “a 7-day moneyback guarantee for initial purchases”, though its terms say your content is deleted soon after a subscription ends. There’s more in Chatling alternatives.

SiteGPT

SiteGPT is a chatbot trained on your website, like Wonderchat, and its docs describe a human takeover with no plan attached. A visitor can hand the conversation to your team, and you reply in the widget in real time, SiteGPT’s docs say.

There’s no free plan, and the 7-day trial takes a card and charges it on the last day unless you cancel. Starter is $59 a month, or $39 a month billed yearly, which is the price the page opens on, for 1 chatbot, 1,000 pages and 1 member. It counts a question and its reply as a message each, with ten times as many messages on its lighter model as on its stronger one. Past the quota, your chatbots keep answering, but every chatbot page in your dashboard is blurred behind a card asking you to buy more messages. Removing its branding is an add-on at $59 a month, or $39 a month billed yearly. There’s more in SiteGPT pricing and SiteGPT alternatives.

DocsBot AI

DocsBot AI is built around documentation, and it learns from 28 or more kinds of source. Free gives you 1 bot, 50 source pages and 100 AI credits a month, with no card, for personal use. Personal is $49 a month, or $41 a month billed yearly, for 5,000 credits, starting at one a message.

Its handoff is a ticket or a link rather than a live chat. DocsBot’s comparison page lists “Escalation tickets, Help Scout workflows, links, and custom integrations”, and escalation tickets start on Standard, at $149 a month. When the credits run out, the bot “stops responding and shows visitors a friendly error message”, unless you’ve turned on auto-add. A widget without DocsBot’s branding needs Business, at $499 a month, and the pricing FAQ offers a 14-day money-back guarantee. There’s more in DocsBot alternatives.

CustomGPT.ai

CustomGPT.ai is priced for large knowledge bases, with 60 million words of storage on its first plan, so it fits a company with a lot of content to search. There’s no free plan. Its 7-day trial needs a card, which CustomGPT says “helps us reduce fraud”, and charges for the plan you picked when it ends.

Standard is $99 a month, or $89 a month billed yearly, for 10 agents, 1,000 queries a month and 3 team members. At the limit, its pricing FAQ says the system will “stop responding to queries”, and 2,500 more queries cost $375 a month. We found no way for a person to take over a chat, since its “Live Chat” is the name of its chat widget. Removing “Powered by CustomGPT” needs Premium, at $499 a month.

Dante AI

Dante AI gives you a free plan that lasts, with 100 messages a month, 1 seat and 150,000 characters of knowledge, no card, and no expiry. A credit is one answer on its lighter models. Starter is $40 a month, or $33 a month billed yearly, for 2,000 messages and 2 seats.

A person takes over a chat from its inbox on Advanced, at $120 a month or $100 billed yearly, which also drops the Dante branding. On Starter, removing the branding is $50 a month, a price its help centre gives and its pricing page doesn’t. At zero, the agent tells visitors “This AI agent is offline at the moment”. Like Wonderchat, its terms make paid fees non-refundable. There’s more in Dante AI alternatives.

tawk.to

tawk.to gives its live chat away, with no limit on team members, so a person can answer your visitors without paying anything. Its AI, AI Assist, is sold on top, and each message the AI sends costs one credit.

The free AI tier, Hobby, gives you 100 message credits a month, but the AI can’t hand a chat to your team until Growth. Growth is $29 a month, or $290 a year, for 1,000 credits and three AI agents. When the credits run out, AI Assist finishes the conversations it’s in and joins no new ones until you buy more, at $30 per 1,000, or the month resets. Removing “Powered by tawk.to” costs $29 a month for each site.

Which one fits you

Start from what you’re paying Wonderchat for.

If you like how Wonderchat works but want a lower first step and a badge you can remove, Chatbase and Chatling work the same way. If you want a person to step in on a small plan, Chatling’s live chat is on its free plan and tawk.to’s live chat is free. If you have a very large knowledge base, CustomGPT.ai is priced for it, and if your support is mostly documentation, DocsBot AI is built for it. If you’d rather the AI kept answering past its quota, SiteGPT does on its paid plans.

If you answer support yourself, Deacon is the one built for you. It answers your customers from your docs in seconds, hands you only the questions that need you, and shows you what customers are stuck on and what they want next. Every feature is on the free plan, handoff and analytics included, and it needs no card.

Questions about Wonderchat alternatives

How much does Wonderchat cost?

Wonderchat’s free plan has 20 credits, and its card doesn’t say whether they renew. Basic is $124 a month billed yearly, which is $1,488 a year, or $149 a month billed monthly, for 5,000 credits a month. Scale is $417 a month billed yearly, or $499 monthly, and Enterprise “Starts at $1499”. An extra 1,000 credits cost $29.99 once, and unused credits expire at the end of each billing period. There’s more in Wonderchat pricing.

Is there a free Wonderchat alternative?

Yes. Deacon’s free plan gives you 50 answers a month with every feature, handoff and analytics included, no card and no end date. Chatling gives you 200 AI credits a month with live chat, and Dante AI 100 messages a month. DocsBot AI gives you 100 AI credits a month for personal use, and tawk.to 100 AI message credits a month beside free live chat. Chatbase gives you 50 message credits a month, but deletes a free agent after 14 days without use. SiteGPT and CustomGPT.ai have trials that take a card rather than free plans.

Can I remove the “Powered by Wonderchat” line?

Not on its self-serve plans. Its technical FAQ says Wonderchat doesn’t offer this on its retail plans and asks you to contact it. Elsewhere, removing the badge is an add-on of $29 a month on tawk.to, $35 on Chatling, $50 on Dante AI’s Starter, $59 on SiteGPT, or $39 billed yearly, and $99 on Chatbase. DocsBot AI and CustomGPT.ai drop it on plans at $499 a month. Deacon has no “powered by” line on any plan.

Can I move my Wonderchat chatbot to Deacon?

You bring the content, not the chatbot. Deacon reads the site you sign up with, taking its home page and main pages, such as pricing and help. Take out any page you don’t want, add a single page by its link, upload PDF, Word (.docx), Markdown, text, CSV or HTML files of up to 10 MB each, or paste text in. Your question and answer pairs go in with Add Q&A. There’s no import from Wonderchat, and its terms give you 90 days after you leave to ask for a copy of your data.

Does Deacon answer on WhatsApp or by voice?

No. Deacon answers in a chat widget on your website, and you reply from its dashboard. Wonderchat ticks WhatsApp on every plan and adds a voice agent on Scale, so if you need those channels, it and Chatbase cover them.