Capacity vs Stept
Capacity
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| Figure | Capacity | Stept |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | — | $19/mo |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | — | Yes |
| macOS | — | Yes |
| Linux | — | Yes |
| iOS | Yes | — |
| Android | Yes | — |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 6 | 3 |
| Spec score · AI Customer Service Agents | 8.5 (#3) | 8.4 (#4) |
| Spec score · Chatbot Builders | 8.5 (#54) | 8.8 (#29) |
| Free plan | No | Yes |
| Human handoff | Yes | Yes |
| Integrations | Capacity advertises more than 250 prebuilt integrations, with examples including Salesforce, Zendesk, HubSpot, Slack, Microsoft Teams and Google Workspace. | Listed channels include email, Slack, Telegram, WhatsApp, Messenger, Instagram, LINE, a web widget and API; knowledge sources include Notion, Confluence, Google Drive, Zendesk, GitHub and Microsoft 365. |
| Product | Capacity describes itself as a unified CX automation platform for contact centers, connecting knowledge, data, and systems to power AI agents and agent tools. | Stept describes itself as an open-source customer-support platform with a shared inbox, AI agent, help center, product tours and automation. |
| Security | Capacity states it uses AES-256 encryption at rest and TLS 1.2+ in transit and is GDPR, HIPAA, and SOC 2 Type II compliant. | The site lists role-based access control with custom roles, an audit log, scoped API keys and encrypted provider secrets. |
| Self-hosting | The public pricing and product pages describe a hosted platform and do not state that customers can self-host it. | The self-hosted version is MIT-licensed, can use Postgres or SQLite, supports offline operation with a mock AI provider and has no seat caps. |
Plans
Capacity
- CorePrice not published
- CorePriced on request
- EnterprisePrice not published
- EnterprisePriced on request
- ProPriced on request
- ProPrice not published
In their own words
Capacity
Capacity is a customer-experience automation platform for contact centers. It connects knowledge, data, and business systems to support AI agents and tools for human agents. Agents can handle chat, SMS, voice, and email, while the platform adds real-time agent assistance, automatic quality assurance, conversation intelligence, and outbound campaigns. Its AI Knowledge Orchestration Layer is described as the foundation that learns from interactions. Capacity targets mid-market and enterprise contact centers, typically those with 50 to 500 or more agents. Usage is measured by response for chat and email, minute for voice, message for SMS, and agent-time hour for assist and intelligence. The platform lists 273 integrations, including Salesforce, Zendesk, Slack, and Microsoft Teams. It offers API access, workflow actions, voice support, and human handoff. Capacity lists Core, Pro, and Enterprise plans with storage up to 100GB, 1TB, and 2TB; pricing is on request and there is no free plan.
Stept
Stept is an open-source customer-support platform with a shared inbox, AI agent, help center, product tours, and automation. Its AI agent can read company documents, guide visitors through an interface, and act on a page after the visitor opts in. Teams can select a model, configure the agent’s persona, and decide which tools run automatically, require approval, or stay off. Sensitive actions can require human approval; password fields are excluded, and actions are capped per run. Knowledge sources can be crawled, uploaded, or synced, then re-indexed on a schedule. The shared inbox includes assignment, snoozing, tags, notes, SLAs, macros, and team collaboration. Channels include email, Slack, Telegram, WhatsApp, Messenger, Instagram, LINE, a web widget, and API. Self-hosting is MIT-licensed and supports Postgres or SQLite, offline operation with a mock AI provider, and unlimited seats. Stept Cloud is free during early access; the listed Cloud and Business prices are marked as upcoming.