Every price on this page was fetched from the vendor, on the record
Most "best chatbot" lists are affiliate rankings with prices copied from a blog post two years old. The table below was compiled by reading each vendor's own public pricing page on 29 July 2026. Where a meter is confusing we say so; where a competitor is the better buy we say that too. Vendors change prices — always confirm on their site before you commit.
| Tool | Free tier | What is metered | Entry paid price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flocci Chat | 500 credits on signup (≈500 answered messages) | Answered visitor messages only — 1 credit each | Credit packs in ₹; platform Pro ₹499/mo or Pro+ ₹2,999/mo covering every Flocci app |
| Chatbase | 50 message credits/mo | Message credits; premium models consume several per reply | $32/mo (500 credits); +$40 per 1,000; branding removal $1,188/yr |
| Intercom Fin | Trial only | "Outcomes" — $0.99 each; a conversation counts once | ≈$49/mo standalone minimum (50 outcomes) plus Intercom seats |
| Tidio (Lyro AI) | 50 conversations/mo + 50 lifetime Lyro conversations | Three meters: billable conversations, Lyro AI conversations, Flows visitors | $24.17/mo (100 conversations); Lyro add-on from $32.50/mo per 50 |
| Crisp | Free plan, 2 seats, no AI credits | Seats per workspace plus bundled dollar-denominated AI credits | $45/mo Mini (4 seats, ≈90 AI conversations); extra seats $10 |
| SiteGPT | Trial | Messages plus indexed page caps; model choice multiplies message cost | $39/mo (4,000 messages, 1,000 pages); +$39/mo to remove branding |
| SiteSpeakAI | 30 message credits/mo, 10 training sources | Message credits plus training-source and agent caps | $29/mo (1,000 credits, 200 sources); +$25 per 1,000 |
| Tawk.to | Free live chat, unlimited agents | Human hours (hired agents) and paid AI add-on | Free; AI Assist billed as an add-on |
| ChatMaxima | Trial | Messages pooled across 8 channels; workspace and member caps | ₹1,499/mo (10,000 messages, 3 members) |
| Helply | None | $1 per ticket, unlimited seats | $250/mo minimum (250 tickets); $3,000 annual minimum |
| eesel AI | $50 free usage | Tasks — $0.40 a support ticket or chat session, $4.00 heavy tasks | Pay-as-you-go; 100 tickets ≈ $40/mo; $250 default spend cap |
Prices read from each vendor's public pricing page on 29 July 2026 and may have changed since. Flocci Chat pricing is current.
Match the tool to the situation
- You have a human support team and want AI to assist them: Tidio, Crisp or Helply — inbox-first products where AI is one lane.
- You are an enterprise on omnichannel Intercom already: Fin, without hesitation. The integration is the value.
- You want to A/B different LLMs from one console: Chatbase or SiteSpeakAI, both with wide model menus and BYOK options.
- You already run Zendesk or Freshdesk and want AI on top: eesel AI, which trains on existing ticket history.
- Your customers message on WhatsApp and Instagram more than on your site: ChatMaxima or another multichannel inbox.
- You want your website to answer for itself, accurately, with sources, in rupees: Flocci Chat — the rest of this page explains why that framing is different.
The three questions that actually separate these tools
1. Can it read your site as visitors see it? Crawl-only trainers fetch the server's HTML. On React, Vue, Angular and many no-code builds that is an empty shell, so whole sections silently never enter the knowledge base. Flocci Chat's widget reads the rendered DOM after scripts run, which is why it covers SPA sites — see chatbots for React and SPA websites.
2. What does it do when it doesn't know? This is where trust is won or lost. Ask any shortlisted tool something your site never covered. An improvised confident answer is a future refund dispute. Flocci Chat's confidence gate answers, asks a clarifying question, or offers a human and opens a ticket with the transcript — never a guess. See chatbots that cite sources.
3. Can you predict the bill? Credits that vary by model, "outcomes" judged by the vendor, three overlapping meters, or minimum commitments of $250–$3,000 all make forecasting hard. One credit per answered visitor message is arithmetic anyone can do. The mechanics of every pricing model in this market are broken down in how AI chatbot pricing models compare.
What Flocci Chat is, in one paragraph
An embeddable AI support widget built by Flocci Technologies in Ranchi, India, and used in production across 13+ Flocci products including this page. One script tag; the knowledge base fills itself by crawl and passive page learning; hybrid vector plus full-text retrieval with diversity reranking; answers stream with citations; low confidence clarifies or escalates into a built-in ticket inbox; verified logged-in users unlock agentic actions against your own API; optional web search for time-sensitive questions. 500 free credits, then one credit per answered visitor message, billed in rupees.