For teams tired of doing credit math before every reply
Chatling alternative and Chatling alternatives priced per conversation
InChat is an AI chatbot for your website that trains on your pages, help articles and PDFs, answers visitors around the clock and hands the chat to your team when a person is needed. You pay for AI conversations, so a stronger model or a long chat never changes the bill.
- $24/mo
- Starter billed yearly, 500 AI conversations
- $0
- extra to remove our branding, it is off from Starter
- 1
- conversation counted, whatever model answers
The short answer
Chatling bills in AI credits, and the number of credits per reply depends on the model: 1 credit on light models such as GPT-6 Luna, 5 on GPT-6 Sol, 12 on Claude Sonnet 5 and 25 on GPT-6 Astra. Starter is $25 a month (1,750 credits), Growth $75 (6,000) and Scale $295 (35,000), extra credits are $10 per 1,000 a month and removing the Chatling badge costs $35 a month below Scale. InChat is a Chatling alternative that counts whole conversations: $24 a month billed yearly for 500, $74 for 2,000 and $249 for unlimited, with no badge and human handoff on every plan.
See it answer
Six replies on a strong model, one conversation on the bill
A buyer asking detailed questions is exactly where you want the best model. On a credit plan each answer is priced by the model that writes it. On InChat the whole chat counts once, and the quote request lands in your team inbox with the transcript.
- One conversation counted, not credits per reply
- Answers name the page they came from
- Handoff to a person on every plan
Ask us anything
AI answers from this site, a person when you need one
Quote request handed to Dana with address, building count and phone collected
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Chatling vs InChat, what the same workload costs each month
Five setups priced from each vendor's public pricing page with monthly billing. We assume 5 AI replies per conversation, a common length for a pre-sales chat, and a business that does not want the vendor's badge on its website. Where Chatling is cheaper, the table says so.
| What you need on one site | Chatling | InChat | Difference |
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| About 300 conversations a month on a 1-credit model, 2 people, no vendor badge | Starter $25 with 1,750 credits plus $35 branding removal, so $60 | Starter at $49 with 500 AI conversations and 3 team members | About $11 less with InChat |
| About 1,000 conversations on a 1-credit model, 3 people, no badge | Growth $75 with 6,000 credits plus $35 branding, so $110 | Plus at $149 with 2,000 AI conversations | Chatling about $39 less |
| About 2,000 conversations on a 1-credit model, 5 people, no badge | Growth $75 plus 4,000 extra credits at $40 plus $35 branding, so $150 | Plus at $149 | About the same |
| About 2,000 conversations on a 5-credit model such as GPT-6 Sol | 50,000 credits, so Scale $295 plus 15,000 extra credits at $150, so $445 | Plus at $149, the model does not change the price | About $296 less with InChat |
| About 6,000 conversations on a 1-credit model, 8 people | Scale at $295 with 35,000 credits, badge included | Pro at $499 with unlimited AI conversations | Chatling about $204 less |
Chatling prices from chatling.ai/pricing, checked in October 2026: Free $0 (200 AI credits, 1 agent, 1 seat), Starter $25 a month or $21 billed yearly (1,750 credits, 2 agents, 2 seats), Growth $75 or $63 yearly (6,000 credits, 5 agents, 5 seats, round robin routing), Scale $295 or $246 yearly (35,000 credits, 7 agents, 10 seats, no Chatling branding). Add-ons: extra AI credits $10 a month per 1,000, branding removal $35 a month, extra seat $10, extra agent $3. Credits per reply by model as listed on the same page, for example GPT-6 Luna 1, GPT-6 Sol 5, Claude Sonnet 5 12, GPT-6 Astra 25. InChat yearly billing is $24, $74 and $249 a month.
Why teams switch
What changes when you count conversations instead of credits
One price per conversation
A visitor who asks about service area, then pricing, then booking is one conversation. You size the plan from the number of people who chat with you, which you already see in your analytics.
Model choice does not change the bill
There is no credit multiplier for a stronger model, so you never trade answer quality against the size of the invoice.
Your brand, not ours, from $24
The InChat badge is off on every paid plan. On Chatling the Powered by Chatling line stays below Scale unless you add the $35 a month removal.
Handoff and routing from Starter
Human handoff with agent routing comes with the $24 plan. Your agent sees the full transcript and a short summary, so the visitor never repeats the question.
Answers with the source attached
InChat answers from your pages, help center and uploaded PDFs and shows the page it used, so your team can fix the source when an answer is thin.
Room for the team
Starter includes 3 team members, Plus 10 and Pro unlimited, with an omnichannel inbox for email, WhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram from Plus.
How it works
Move from Chatling in one afternoon
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Paste your website URL
InChat reads your public pages, FAQ and help center. Upload the same PDFs and docs you added to your Chatling knowledge base.
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Replay your real questions
Take the questions visitors ask most often from your Chatling conversation history and ask them here. Where an answer is thin, add a page or a short instruction and ask again.
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Swap the embed code
Remove the Chatling script and paste the InChat script tag before the closing body tag. On Shopify and WordPress it is the same single line.
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Invite the people who take handoffs
Add the teammates who answer escalated chats, set routing, and switch the widget on before your Chatling renewal date.
What is the best alternative to Chatling?
The best alternative to Chatling for most small and mid-size businesses is a website chatbot that bills by conversation, so the answer quality you choose never changes the price. InChat covers 500 AI conversations, human handoff and 3 team members for $24 a month billed yearly, with no vendor badge. If you only need a light model on a low-traffic site and the badge does not bother you, Chatling Starter at $25 is hard to beat on price.
Buyers who search for Chatling alternatives usually hit one of these walls:
- Credit rates differ by model. GPT-6 Luna uses 1 credit per reply, Claude Sonnet 5 uses 12 and GPT-6 Astra 25, so the same 1,750 Starter credits can mean 350 conversations or 14.
- The badge costs extra. Removing Powered by Chatling is included only on Scale at $295, otherwise it is a $35 a month add-on.
- Seats are tight. Starter has 2 seats and Growth 5, and each extra seat is $10 a month.
How much does Chatling cost per month?
Chatling costs $25 a month for Starter, $75 for Growth and $295 for Scale on monthly billing, or $21, $63 and $246 a month billed yearly. There is also a free plan with 200 AI credits. Starter includes 1,750 AI credits, Growth 6,000 and Scale 35,000, and extra credits cost $10 a month per 1,000.
For the full plan table, credit rates by model and monthly totals at four traffic levels, read our Chatling pricing breakdown.
How many conversations do Chatling credits cover?
Chatling credits cover anywhere from a few dozen to a few thousand conversations a month, depending on the model. At 5 AI replies per conversation, Starter's 1,750 credits are about 350 conversations on a 1-credit model, 70 on a 5-credit model and 14 on GPT-6 Astra at 25 credits a reply. Chatling's pricing page also notes that credits reset monthly.
That is the number to check before you compare plans. A plan that looks cheaper per month can cost more per conversation once you pick the model that gives your visitors the best answers.
Is Chatling better than Chatbase or Tidio?
Chatling is closest to Chatbase: both train an AI agent on your website and bill in credits whose cost per reply depends on the model. Chatling is cheaper to start, at $25 a month against $40 for Chatbase Hobby. Tidio is a different shape, a live chat tool with its Lyro AI billed per conversation on top of the seat plan.
If you are comparing all three, see our Chatbase alternative and Tidio alternative pages, which price the same workloads the same way.
When Chatling is the better choice
Chatling is the better choice for a low-traffic site that is happy with a light model, does not mind the Chatling badge and needs only one or two people in the inbox. In that case Starter at $25 a month, or $21 billed yearly, costs less than any InChat plan. It also gives you up to 7 AI agents on Scale and a long list of models to choose from, which matters if you like to tune each agent.
InChat is the better choice when you want strong answers on every chat, your own brand on the widget, routing from day one, and a bill you can predict from your chat volume rather than from a model price list.
The model you pick sets the bill
Most people who look for a Chatling alternative like the product and the low entry price. The friction shows up later. Every model has its own credit rate, so moving from a light model to one that answers detailed product questions well can multiply the monthly credit burn by five, twelve or twenty-five. Add the $35 badge removal and extra seats and the cheap plan is no longer cheap. A conversation-priced plan lets you use the better answer without watching a meter.
Who it is for
Teams that switch from Chatling to InChat
Local service businesses
HVAC, plumbing, dental and legal practices get answers from their service and pricing pages, and every quote request reaches a person with the address and phone already collected.
SaaS and software companies
Trial users get setup answers from your docs on a strong model, and a buyer asking about an annual contract lands in your sales inbox with the whole conversation attached.
Agencies and service firms
Pro runs unlimited client domains from one account, each trained only on that site, with unlimited AI conversations and no vendor badge on any client widget.
FAQ
Chatling alternatives, common questions
Chatling has a free plan with 200 AI credits a month, one AI agent, one seat and a 500,000 character knowledge base. At 5 replies per conversation on a 1-credit model that is about 40 conversations a month, enough to test the bot but not to run a business website. Paid plans start at $25 a month.
It depends on the model. Chatling's pricing page lists 0.5 credits for the lightest models, 1 for GPT-6 Luna and Claude Haiku 4.5, 5 for GPT-6 Sol, 12 for Claude Sonnet 5 and 25 for GPT-6 Astra and Claude Opus 5 per AI reply.
It depends on the model and the badge. On a 1-credit model with the Chatling badge left on, Chatling is cheaper. With the badge removed at low volume, or on any mid-range or strong model, InChat costs less because a conversation is priced the same whatever model answers it.
Yes. Chatling includes branding removal on Scale at $295 a month, and on other paid plans it is an add-on at $35 a month. InChat shows no badge on any paid plan, starting with Starter at $24 a month billed yearly.
Yes. InChat trains on the same sources: your website URL, help center pages and uploaded files such as PDFs. Point it at the pages you used in Chatling, upload the same documents and test answers before you swap the embed code.
Yes. Paste your website URL above and InChat trains an agent on your content so you can ask it your own customer questions. A free account includes a one-time demo of 50 AI conversations, so you see real answers on your own pages before you pick a plan.
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Paste your URL, test the agent on your own pages and replace the Chatling widget with one script tag. Plans from $24 a month billed yearly with 500 AI conversations, 3 team members, human handoff and no vendor badge.