Freshchat vs tawk.to

Freshchat helps organizations handle customer conversations across websites, mobile apps, and messaging channels. Its shared inbox lets agents assign, respond to, and resolve conversations, including messages from web and mobile chat, email, social messengers, SMS, WhatsApp, LINE, and Google Business Messages. Businesses can deploy no-code Freddy AI chatbots to answer common questions. The free plan includes a web and mobile chat widget, shared inbox, email connection, and roles and permissions for up to 10 agents. Freshchat also has Android and iOS apps for responding, assigning conversations, adding private notes, resolving chats, and receiving notifications. The 14-day trial provides Enterprise access and requires no credit card. Paid plans start at $19 a month, billed annually. Listed higher-tier options include multilingual conversations, custom dashboards, intelligent routing, and audit logs. Connectors and APIs support integrations and workflow automation. Freshchat says its standalone data stores are encrypted in transit and at rest.

tawk.to combines website chat, live agent chat, visitor tracking, and a website chatbot. Its listed chat channels cover websites and messaging, and it runs on web, Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android. The free Hobby plan includes 100 monthly message credits, one AI chat agent, and 100 crawled web pages. Growth costs $29 a month and includes 1,000 monthly message credits, three AI chat agents, 500 crawled pages, and up to 1,000 API calls. Business costs $99 a month, with 5,000 message credits, five AI chat agents, 2,000 crawled pages, and 5,000 API calls. Enterprise costs $399 a month and lists 20,000 message credits, 10 AI chat agents, 10,000 crawled pages, and 10,000 API calls. Other options include Whitelabel at $29 a month per property, Voice Agents from $49 a month plus usage, and Data Enrichment from $59 a month, scaling with volume. The maker was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States.