ChatBot.com charges $25/user/month and caps you at 10 AI resolutions on the starter plan. BYOKChat is $19/month flat with unlimited conversations.
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Price comparison
ChatBot.com
$25–$499+/mo
+ AI markup on every message
Free to start
$19/mo
Zero AI markup — ever
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| Feature | BYOKChat | ChatBot.com |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price | $19/mo flat | $25/user/mo |
| 2-person team cost | $19/mo | $50/mo |
| AI conversations per month | Unlimited | 10 resolutions (Essential) |
| AI markup on usage | None — you pay OpenAI directly | Yes |
| Bring your own API key | Yes ✓ | No ✗ |
| Knowledge base training | Yes — PDFs, URLs, text | Yes ✓ |
| Lead capture | Yes ✓ | Yes ✓ |
| Visual flow builder | No ✗ | Yes ✓ |
| Setup time | ~10 minutes | Hours (flow building required) |
No credit card. Create your chatbot in 30 seconds.
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Step-by-step guide →Paste URLs or upload PDFs. BYOKChat trains the AI on your knowledge base.
Copy it from the Embed tab. Paste on your site. Done.
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Why BYOK saves money
You pay OpenAI directly at $0.001–0.003/conversation at current GPT-4o mini rates.
Yes, for the AI chatbot use case. BYOKChat trains on your content and answers visitor questions autonomously. Key differences: BYOKChat has no AI resolution caps (ChatBot.com's Essential gives 10/month for $25), charges $19/month flat instead of $25 per user per seat, and uses a bring-your-own-key model so you pay OpenAI directly. ChatBot.com has a visual flow builder that BYOKChat does not.
An AI resolution in ChatBot.com means a conversation fully handled by AI without human escalation. Their Essential plan ($25/user/month) gives 10 per month — that's $2.50 per resolved conversation. BYOKChat has no resolution concept. Every conversation is handled by AI, and you pay your OpenAI key at cost. 200 conversations on BYOKChat costs roughly $0.20–0.60 in API fees plus $19 platform fee.
No. BYOKChat's chatbot is knowledge-base-driven: you upload your docs and URLs, and the AI answers questions from that content. There's no visual builder for scripted conversation trees. If you need complex if/then branching logic, ChatBot.com is better suited. If you want an AI that reads your content and answers naturally, BYOKChat is designed for that.
About 10 minutes. Sign up free, paste your OpenAI or Anthropic API key, add your website URL or upload documents, customize the widget, then copy one script tag onto your site. No flow building required.
Yes. 50 conversations per month, unlimited messages, train on up to 200 pages. No credit card required.
No credit card. No AI markup. Train on your content and embed on your site in 10 minutes.
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