Chaport vs Chatwoot

Chaport is a customer messaging platform with live agent chat, a website chatbot, visitor tracking, and several contact channels. Customers can reach teams through live chat, email, Facebook, Telegram, or Viber. Its chatbots can answer common questions, qualify leads, and collect feedback around the clock; the product also includes a knowledge base and FAQ bot. Chaport runs on web, iOS, Android, Windows, and MacOS, with instant synchronization between devices. The Free plan includes two operators, 60 days of chat history, unlimited chats and websites, and one branded auto-invitation. It remains available after the 14-day Unlimited trial, with paid features disabled; the trial does not require a credit card. Unlimited includes teams, assignment rules, and shared saved replies. Chaport lists 4,000 integrations, SSL encryption, and GDPR compliance. The Free plan is shown at EUR 0 per free, while USD is not displayed. The maker identifies itself as Chaport Inc., founded in 2014, with headquarters in Alhambra, California.

Chatwoot is an open-source customer support platform that combines an omnichannel inbox with a knowledge base. The inbox brings website chat, email, WhatsApp, social and messaging services, voice, SMS, and API conversations together. Teams can use private notes, assignments, labels, canned replies, mentions, and activity logs to coordinate support. Captain, its built-in AI agent, can answer customer questions, suggest replies, summarize conversations, and draw on help-center content. The customizable knowledge base supports multiple portals, multilingual content, and AI-powered search. APIs, webhooks, and bot connections provide options for custom workflows, and Chatwoot can run in the cloud or on a customer’s own infrastructure. Its free Hacker plan allows up to two agents and 500 conversations per month, with 30-day data retention. Cloud plans start at $19 a month per agent, billed annually. Community Edition is free to self-host but does not include Captain AI, voice calls, or SSO/SAML. Chatwoot states that it is SOC 2 Type II certified and GDPR compliant.