Chatbase vs Strictly

Chatbase

The fastest route from a folder of help docs to a working support widget, and priced accordingly once real traffic arrives. Credits are the whole story: 700 messages a month on Hobby ($40, or $32 billed yearly) is a small site's volume, and the plans that carry real traffic cost $150 and $500 a month. There is no free plan to fall back on, so budget from expected conversations, not from the feature grid.

Pros

• +Crawl-and-embed setup produces a usable widget in an afternoon with no retrieval plumbing to write
• +Actions and human handoff mean it degrades into a ticket rather than a dead end
• +Every paid plan carries a 7-day trial, and the yearly toggle takes 20% off

Cons

• −The free plan is gone, so evaluation is limited to a 7-day trial
• −API access is gated to Standard at $150/month ($120 billed yearly), several times the entry price
• −Overage at $40 per 1,000 credits is steep next to the in-plan rate on Pro
• −Each plan includes a single agent; more cost $300 per agent a year, and removing branding $1,188 a year

Strictly

Strictly is a fit for service businesses that want a done-for-them AI chat layer on their site rather than building one themselves. The lift numbers in its own marketing should be treated as a vendor claim rather than a verified benchmark, and the entry price is not trivial for a small local business.

Pros

• +Chat assistant is trained on the business's own content rather than a generic script
• +Bundles SEO optimization and lead management alongside the chat widget
• +Three tiers let a business scale up as conversation volume grows

Cons

• −No free tier; the free offering is limited to a one-time sample audit
• −Entry price of $195 a month is high relative to simple chatbot-only tools
• −The headline conversion-lift statistic is the company's own claim, not third-party verified

Is Chatbase cheaper than Strictly?

On published entry prices, Chatbase starts lower — $32/mo against $195/mo for Strictly. Entry price is the lowest paid plan as we last verified it; what each plan includes differs.

Which has a public API, Chatbase or Strictly?

Chatbase ships a public API, as of our last verification. A public API for Strictly is not confirmed by us — check its developer docs before you plan an integration.