LiveChat vs Smartsupp

LiveChat provides website live chat for customer support, lead qualification, and sales, with visitor tracking and omnichannel messaging. Conversations can show browsing activity, live cart contents, recent orders, and payment status. Its Inbox brings chats, tickets, and AI Agent handoffs together, with views for assigned, queued, unassigned, supervised, and archived work. The AI Agent answers common questions using a knowledge base and rules, and can pass complex requests to a teammate with context. Additional AI tools suggest replies, summarize conversations, refine wording, and propose tags. LiveChat lists 200 integrations, including Shopify, WooCommerce, WordPress, Webflow, WhatsApp, Messenger, Instagram, and Klaviyo. It is available on web, Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android. Starter costs $19 a month (billed billed annually), Team costs $49 a month (billed billed annually), and Business costs $79 a month (billed billed annually). There is no free plan, but a 14-day trial is offered; all plans include 24/7/365 support.

Smartsupp combines live-agent chat, a website chatbot, and visitor tracking for customer conversations. Its listed channels include live chat, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, and connected email. The service runs on web, iOS, and Android; it also offers a mobile SDK and a business mobile app. Teams can group agents, assign roles, and track performance from one dashboard, while administrators can limit agent access to settings such as billing or chat-box design. Smartsupp lists more than 80 platform integrations. AI features include agents, reply assistance, MCP connections, and automation workflows. Mira can recommend products, answer common questions, and hand conversations to human agents. The free plan includes one operator, 25 conversations per month, one website, and 14-day history. Paid plans start at $17 a month billed annually. Paid customer service plans include a 14-day trial without a credit card; annual billing is offered with savings of up to 30%. Prices exclude VAT, calculated by billing country. Smartsupp is headquartered in Brno, Czechia, and says it serves more than 100,000 customers.