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Chatwoot is an open-source customer communication platform designed as an alternative to Intercom. Launched in November 2023, it provides businesses with tools to manage customer conversations across multiple channels.… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. AI-powered open-source alternative to Intercom launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Chatwoot▲329

    Chatwoot is an AI-powered, open-source customer support platform. Self-host or use our cloud to manage live chat, email, WhatsApp, and social conversations.

    2021 · chatwoot.com · its alternatives →

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    Open-source live-chat, email support, omni-channel desk. An alternative to Intercom, Zendesk, Salesforce Service Cloud etc. 🔥💬 - chatwoot/chatwoot

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Open-source live-chat, email support, omni-channel desk. An alternative to Intercom, Zendesk, Salesforce Service Cloud etc. 🔥💬 - chatwoot/chatwoot

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Open-source live-chat, email support, omni-channel desk. An alternative to Intercom, Zendesk, Salesforce Service Cloud etc. 🔥💬 - chatwoot/chatwoot

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    ChatSpot▲293

    The all-In-One AI chat tool for growing better

    2023 · hubspot.com · its alternatives →

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    The first open source alternative to ChatGPT

    2023 · huggingface.co · its alternatives →

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    A SaaS AI chatbot, live chat customized for your website

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    Intervo▲382

    The open-source platform for conversational AI

    2025 · intervo.ai · its alternatives →

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    Open source Intercom and Drift alternative

    2021 · papercups.io · its alternatives →

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    Client library for Minimal Chat. Contribute to minimalchat/client development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    WebWhiz▲214

    Custom ChatGPT for your website, open source, free self-host

    2023 · webwhiz.ai · its alternatives →

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    WhisperFusion builds upon the capabilities of open source tools WhisperLive and WhisperSpeech to provide a seamless conversations with an AI chatbot.

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Papercups▲227

    Open source Intercom Alternative

    2020 · papercups.io · its alternatives →

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    Bloc▲360

    Turn your knowledge base to AI chat in 2 minutes and share

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    A free Intercom/Zendesk chat altnerative

    2023 · spryngtime.com · its alternatives →

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    Collaboration platform where teams work with AI together

    May 2026 · mantle.chat · its alternatives →

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    I previously did a Show HN late Dec 2020: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25470672 That was a great experience and in the past year I continued to develop the site to bring it to a level of stability and maturity that I felt necessary for it to have a chance to succeed. Sqwok is all about answering the question: Can we have better open conversations on the internet? I wasn’t satisfied with the existing means of discussing topics such as culture, history, politics, and technology through threaded comments, and was simultaneously impressed with Slack bringing the IRC…

    2022 · sqwok.im · its alternatives →

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    Not just another ChatGPT user-interface

    2023 · chatpad.ai · its alternatives →

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    Flot AI▲259

    Your ChatGPT copilot across any app or website

    2023 · flot.ai · its alternatives →

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    Open-source chatbot and AI tools creation platform

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Automated and human assisted customer experience chats

    2024 · kore.ai · its alternatives →

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    Open-source live-chat, email support, omni-channel desk. An alternative to Intercom, Zendesk, Salesforce Service Cloud etc. 🔥💬 - chatwoot/chatwoot

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Custom ChatGPT agents with your own data

    2023 · chaindesk.ai · its alternatives →

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