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3 self-hosted Crisp alternatives

Crisp is a customer messaging and support platform providing live chat, shared inbox, chatbots, knowledge base, and contact/CRM features to manage sales and support conversations across multiple channels.

Alternatives to Crisp

Chatwoot is an open-source customer support platform with a shared inbox for live chat, email, and messaging channels, plus automation, reporting, and a help center.

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36.5k stars8.8k forkslast commit Actively maintained

Self-hosted live chat and customer support platform with website widgets, operator console, chatbots, omnichannel integrations, and optional voice/video/screensharing.

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2.2k stars740 forksApache-2.0last commit Actively maintained

Open-source conversational platform to build AI chatbots, multichannel live chat, and human-in-the-loop customer support with knowledge base and RAG capabilities.

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315 stars112 forksMITlast commit Actively maintained

What replacing Crisp actually involves

Every option on this page is open source and free to run on your own hardware, so you own the data and there is no subscription to cancel. 3 of 3 shipped a commit in the last six months. Licences in this list: Apache-2.0, MIT. In exchange you take on hosting, backups and updates yourself.

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