Chatbase vs Younet

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

Younet

Younet's distinguishing feature is the payout side: you can put a price on an agent you built and let the platform bill for it, which almost no competing bot builder does. Underneath it is a fairly standard knowledge-trained agent with connectors, a widget and a Chrome extension. Credits, agent counts and phone minutes all move together up the Pro ladder, so cost rises in steps rather than smoothly, and the marketing sits on a heavy JavaScript site that shows nothing without scripts.

Pros

• +Creators can charge for access to their model, with Younet handling billing and payouts
• +Paid tiers span 18-plus models plus image and video generation on one subscription
• +Phone agents with bundled minutes are included from the $39 Pro tier
• +Ships a Chrome extension and an embeddable widget, not just a hosted chat page
• +Named Ontario company in the terms of service

Cons

• −Credit ladder jumps from $39 to $149 to $369, with no intermediate steps
• −Payouts run Net 30 with a 1% platform fee on top of Stripe's processing
• −No developer API is advertised
• −The site renders nothing without JavaScript, so plan details are hard to check before signing up

Is Chatbase cheaper than Younet?

On published entry prices, Younet starts lower — $14.99/mo against $32/mo for Chatbase. Entry price is the lowest paid plan as we last verified it; what each plan includes differs.

Does Chatbase or Younet have a free tier?

Younet has a free tier; Chatbase has paid plans only.

Which has a public API, Chatbase or Younet?

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