Conversational agents that answer support questions, qualify leads and write results back to your CRM
Best for: SMBs replacing an FAQ page with a bot that can escalate to a human
ai-for / support-chatbot
As of , EffectHub tracks 15 AI tools for support chatbot; 11 of the 15 have a free tier, and paid plans run from $5 to $199 a month.
Chattitude, Dewstack and FiveMinChat lead the list on click-through. 11 of the 15 ship a public API.
ranked by click-through
Conversational agents that answer support questions, qualify leads and write results back to your CRM
Best for: SMBs replacing an FAQ page with a bot that can escalate to a human
Turns conversations, recordings and files into a hosted knowledge base with a built-in answer bot.
Best for: Support teams publishing a customer-facing knowledge base with a self-service bot
Trains a GPT-4o mini chatbot on your documents or site content and embeds it as a website widget.
Best for: Small businesses wanting an FAQ bot trained on their own site or docs
No-code AI chatbot trained on your own docs to answer support questions and hand off to a human when stuck.
Best for: Small e-commerce or SaaS teams wanting a doc-trained support bot without engineering effort
Embeddable AI support widget that answers from your own content and escalates to a human when needed.
Best for: Products wanting a support widget that won't answer from outside the crawled content
AI chatbot built only for WooCommerce that answers order-tracking and product questions from live store data.
Best for: WooCommerce stores wanting order-tracking and product-question automation
Builds website chatbots that cite sources and score their own answer confidence.
Best for: Sites wanting citation-backed chatbot answers instead of unsourced replies
AI support agent that answers only from your own docs and site content, with human handoff and lead capture.
Best for: Businesses on WordPress, Framer, Bubble, Vercel, or WHMCS wanting a native plugin instead of a raw embed
Train a support chatbot on your site, docs and PDFs, then embed it to answer questions, capture leads and book meetings
Best for: Small and mid-size businesses automating first-line support from existing docs
Dutch customer-service AI agent covering chat, email, WhatsApp and social from one inbox, with EU data hosting.
Best for: EU e-commerce teams that need GDPR-safe support automation
Trains a support chatbot on your docs and help center, then embeds it on the site or in Slack
Best for: Support teams with existing documentation they want to make answerable
A lightweight live-chat widget you answer from Gmail or your phone, with an optional pay-per-conversation AI assistant.
Best for: Agencies running the same chat widget across many client sites
Trains a chat agent on your website, PDFs, and docs, then embeds it to answer questions, qualify leads, and book demos.
Best for: Small businesses wanting a trained support agent on their site
Support agents built on your Jotform forms, deployable to chat, phone, SMS, WhatsApp and kiosks.
Best for: Existing Jotform customers adding a support layer
Support agent trained on your site and docs, embedded with one line of code, priced per conversation
Best for: Shopify and WordPress stores wanting support coverage without a helpdesk rollout
| Tool | Price | Free plan | API | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chattitude | from $99/mo | No | Not confirmed | Active |
| Dewstack | from $32/mo | No | Yes | Active |
| FiveMinChat | from $5.99/mo | Yes | Not confirmed | Active |
| Bot9 | from $199/mo | No | Yes | Active |
| Deacon | from $40/mo | Yes | Not confirmed | Active |
| Storebird | from $42/mo | No | Yes | Active |
| AccuChats | from $39/mo | Yes | Yes | Active |
| AssistLoop | from $29/mo | Yes | Yes | Active |
| SiteSpeakAI | from $29/mo | Yes | Yes | Active |
| Watermelon | from $115/mo | Yes | Yes | Active |
| DocsBot | from $49/mo | Yes | Yes | Active |
| GhostChat | from $5/mo | Yes | Yes | Active |
| sensai | from $29/mo | Yes | Not confirmed | Active |
| Jotform AI Agents | from $39/mo | Yes | Yes | Active |
| intoCHAT | from $19/mo | Yes | Yes | Active |
11 of the 15 AI tools for support chatbot on EffectHub's list have a free tier — FiveMinChat, Deacon, AccuChats and AssistLoop; the rest are paid, from $5 a month.
As of October 26, 2026, paid plans for the 15 AI tools for support chatbot on EffectHub's list run from $5 to $199 a month. Each card shows the pricing model and the cheapest paid plan as EffectHub last verified it; 11 of the 15 can be started for free.
11 of the 15 AI tools for support chatbot on EffectHub's list ship a public API, including Dewstack, Bot9, Storebird and AccuChats. The API badge on each card is re-checked against the vendor's documentation.
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As of October 26, 2026, EffectHub tracks 15 AI tools for support chatbot; 11 of the 15 have a free tier, and paid plans run from $5 to $199 a month. (EffectHub, “AI Support Chatbots”, Oct 2026, https://effecthub.net/ai-for/support-chatbot)
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