ChatBot vs. LiveChat

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
ChatBot
Score 9.0 out of 10
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
ChatBot is an all-in-one platform to create, deploy, and track chatbots across channels. With it the vendor states users can create chatbots in minutes with diverse templates and automate key tasks right away, or easily drag-and-drop new elements to adapt any template to your needs. ChatBot is ready to work out of the box, while AI algorithms help users improve responses over time. Design conversational experiences to build better relationships with customers.…N/A
LiveChat
Score 7.1 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
LiveChat serves as a customer service platform with live chat support, help desk and web analytics functionalities, with the goal of allowing users to provide 24/7 support to customers. The core feature of the software is its chat tool, where both service and sales team can answer customers' questions in real time. Online businesses can interact with customers on their website, to be more accessible. With LiveChat, users can identify people on the website and engage…
$25
per month per user
Pricing
ChatBotLiveChat
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
Starter
$25
per month
Team
$59
per month per person
Business
$89
per month per person
Enterprise
Contact Sales
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
ChatBotLiveChat
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsDiscount available for annual billing.
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
ChatBotLiveChat
Considered Both Products
ChatBot
Chose ChatBot
LiveChat is not a competitor to ChatBot, but it's their bot solution itself. I did not evaluate any other bot solutions.
LiveChat
Chose LiveChat
We had to move away from Intercom as it changed it pricing model and the pricing that it came to us with was out of our budget.

LiveChat gave us a better product at a lesser price.
Features
ChatBotLiveChat
Chat Analytics and Reports
Comparison of Chat Analytics and Reports features of Product A and Product B
ChatBot
7.8
2 Ratings
7% below category average
LiveChat
-
Ratings
Chat history and transcripts9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Chat reporting7.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Chat and web analytics7.52 Ratings00 Ratings
Best Alternatives
ChatBotLiveChat
Small Businesses
Front
Front
Score 9.1 out of 10
Gist
Gist
Score 9.5 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
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Score 10.0 out of 10
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Score 10.0 out of 10
Enterprises
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Genesys DX (discontinued)
Score 10.0 out of 10
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Genesys DX (discontinued)
Score 10.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
ChatBotLiveChat
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(4 ratings)
8.0
(44 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.0
(1 ratings)
7.3
(3 ratings)
User Testimonials
ChatBotLiveChat
Likelihood to Recommend
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Most suited: Frequent duties can be automated. services can be improved by analyzing customer feedback. Load and Heavy tasks can be reduced. Less workforce is required. Less Suited: Specific product queries and their proper answers. When the user uses those words that are misspelled or have a long sentence it finds difficulty in giving them proper information.
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We needed a mechanism in place to make contact with visitors to our website easier. What we discovered is that it's an excellent tool for creating reports and dashboards that show how soon issues are handled. Our website can now be updated in real-time, and all of our internal teams are really excited to use this fantastic technology. I really recommend [LiveChat] to many friends and past colleagues.
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Pros
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  • Routing rules
  • no code workflows
  • UI/UX is excellent for a newbie to start on
  • Their Chat support is very helpful
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  • The most important factor of Livechat is their own chat support, I had many requirement from the Sales Head, Support Head to implement features that I was unsure if the product could do. However, as I did the implementation one by one I constantly used the chat support which helped me step by step all the way.
  • The UX of the product is pretty simple and intuitive to use. There are quite a few features that we could easily plug and play. We tried going to the market to find a solution that could help us but they did not have as many out of the box features and simple to use
  • Their integration between LiveChat and Chatbot is pretty seamless and since both of them are from the same company, it's works pretty well.
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Cons
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  • Having enough conversational data to train the chatbot.
  • Really understanding intent.
  • Understanding emotion.
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  • It has a limited amount of agents, so when you have many customer care employees during one shift it is hard to manage the quantity of active agents.
  • When system is overloaded and many customers are waiting in a queue it starts to works slowly (sometimes the program even lags) and you need to refresh the system to write a message.
  • Occasionally when you open a new tab, you might lose your current conversation.
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Likelihood to Renew
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As long as budget is not an issue - we renewing this solution.
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Usability
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Since I deployed this solution end to end for my organisation, I would speak from my experience that since I was a newbie to this platform I took ample support from their team, their training resources. However, the product's UI/UX was simply very intuitive that it helped me to get a lot of hand-on practice on the product well. This helped me with the timely deployment of this solution.
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Support Rating
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Full end-to-end support is critical to maintain the ongoing service, robustness, training and customer service Chatbot offers.
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The only issues I have had with LiveChat are the technical glitches within the program. These are not common as in everyday occurrences but when the glitches do happen they tend to have very negative repercussions. This is due to chats with customers being dropped, this may be an internal server issue though and may not happen for everyone.
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Alternatives Considered
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ChatBot is more stable and enhanced as compared to other rivals which are new in this segment and also provides a lot of details which is missing in other products like report etc. Also, chatBot is more commonly used so support wise it is also great and you can find multiple examples on the internet and from your peers as well.
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Overall very similar in design, but LiveChat had a better interface, better reporting and analytic tools, better mobile support, and just an easier overall feel. The two products are very much alike in the vast majority of ways, but I ended up preferring this product overall. Price points were similar as well, as well as the allowed number of users.
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Return on Investment
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  • Connecting to DB.
  • Customizable dashboards.
  • Automated reporting.
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  • We have a small team so the overall impact is that it is easy for one or two employees to handle a large number of tickets without hiring more people. Plus, you can use this software remotely, save a ton on traveling to and from and office.
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ScreenShots

ChatBot Screenshots

Screenshot of Chatbot conversations are automatically archived, allowing users to analyze and improve their story flows.Screenshot of With ChatBot you can control the entire conversation flow.Screenshot of Improve your chatbot day by day using the training tool.Screenshot of Save your time importing a ready to use template and turn it into your own bot assistant.Screenshot of Stories are an intuitive way to tell the bot how to react to different situations. Create Stories for frequent questions and cases to save more time for the difficult ones.Screenshot of To create a fully operating chatbot you don’t need any other tools or apps. The scenario tree structure and drag and drop interface are very intuitive.

LiveChat Screenshots

Screenshot of Chat Widget and Agent AppScreenshot of Customer detailsScreenshot of Traffic sectionScreenshot of ReportsScreenshot of Team managementScreenshot of Chat Widget customization