Chatwoot vs Vivantio

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.

Vivantio is a service management platform for IT, customer service, HR, facilities, and other service teams. Its ITIL 4-aligned capabilities cover incident, problem, change, and service request management. No-code workflows trigger actions across tickets, approvals, notifications, and escalations. A configurable branded portal lets users find answers, log incidents, and raise requests from any device. Asset management tracks assets and configuration items through their lifecycle and links them to tickets and changes. FLEXBridge provides more than 600 built-in integrations, including Microsoft Teams, Slack, Azure Active Directory, Jira, and Tableau; every price point includes full API access. Vivantio offers SaaS and can provide on-premise deployment when regulatory requirements call for it. The company lists HIPAA, SOC 2, ISO 27001, and Cyber Essentials+ among its security credentials. Its data-processing addendum states that customer data is encrypted at rest with AES-256 and hosted on Microsoft Azure infrastructure. Pricing starts at $49 per agent per month, billed annually, and there is no free plan. Listed support includes dedicated onboarding, a customer success manager, and US and UK technical support. Vivantio was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Boston, with product and engineering in Bristol, UK.