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Chatbotkit
✓ verifiedFreemium
Developer-focused platform to build and deploy AI agents across widgets, messaging apps, and SDKs, with security and observability.
59K visits/mo19K saves
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Arena
✓ verifiedFreemium
Engagement suite adding live chat, comments, polls and live blogs to publisher and brand sites to grow and monetize audiences.
145K visits/mo
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Rispose.com
✓ verifiedFreemium
Lets businesses embed a ChatGPT-based support widget trained on their own site content, files and connected apps.
387 visits/mo
Pricing
Free: $0 (3 bots, 50K tokens/mo)
Basic: $25/mo (5 bots, 1M tokens)
Pro: $65/mo (25 bots, 2M tokens)
No public pricing
Free: $0/mo
Starter: $49/mo
Professional: $249/mo
Business: $999/mo
Free trial available
No public pricing
Free: $0/month (100 messages/month without own API key, unlimited with own key)
Pro: $29/month (2,000 messages/month without own key)
Growth: $59/month (5,000 messages/month without own key)
Free trial available
Core features
- ✦Build agents from datasets, skillsets, integrations
- ✦Embeddable widgets and SDKs
- ✦Messaging channels (Slack, Discord, WhatsApp, Telegram)
- ✦OAuth and MCP integrations
- ✦Bring-your-own model support
- ✦Whitelabel and custom branding
- ✦Observability, security, governance
- ✦Lifelike voice AI agents
- ✦24/7 availability
- ✦Customer-led conversational platform
- ✦Integration with enterprise systems
- ✦Threaded comments
- ✦Real-time group chat
- ✦Live blog streams
- ✦AI polls and moderation
- ✦First-party data capture
- ✦No-code website embed
- ✦Immersive simulations
- ✦AI-powered practice sessions
- ✦Personalized coaching
- ✦Data-driven insights
- ✦Skills gap analysis
- ✦Embeddable chat widget for any website
- ✦Training on up to 1,000 uploaded documents
- ✦Connections to remote tools via MCP (Shopify, Notion, etc.)
- ✦Custom instructions to set agent tone and behavior
- ✦Conversation history and performance metrics
- ✦Bring-your-own OpenAI API key option for unlimited messages
Use cases
- →Building custom AI agents for support or leads
- →Embedding AI widgets on websites and apps
- →Deploying agents across messaging platforms
- →Answering customer service calls
- →Providing information and support
- →Resolving customer issues
- →Automating call center operations
- →Live event coverage
- →Growing on-site community
- →Monetizing audience with ads
- →Capturing first-party data
- →Improving customer service skills through simulated interactions
- →Developing leadership competencies with practice-based scenarios
- →Enhancing sales performance through realistic sales simulations
- →Training healthcare professionals in patient communication and care
- →Preparing educators for classroom management and student engagement
- →Adding automated customer support chat to an ecommerce site
- →Answering product and policy questions from a knowledge base
- →Embedding an AI assistant on Shopify or WordPress sites
- →Tracking chatbot usage and interaction metrics over time
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