A Chatbase alternative built for small business websites
Chatbase sells AI chatbot plans by message credits, and removing its branding is a paid add-on. Corner counts whole conversations, includes live chat, an inbox and lead capture on every plan, and lets you turn off its badge on Builder and Studio.
Free forever: unlimited live chat and 30 AI conversations a month. No card.
We make Corner, so we're not neutral. Here is what each tool does well.
Corner fits if
- You run a small business website and want answers you can check, with the page behind each one.
- You want to see a monthly price in conversations, not credits.
- You want to step into chats yourself, from one inbox.
- You build sites for clients and want them in separate workspaces.
Chatbase fits if
- You have very high volume with short chats, where a large credit plan goes further.
- You already built and tuned an agent on Chatbase and it works well for you.
- Your chats rarely need more than one or two AI replies.
| At a glance | Corner | Chatbase |
|---|---|---|
| How it counts | AI conversations: one visitor chat with up to 10 AI answers, same model on every plan | Message credits (as of October 2026, source) |
| Entry paid plan | Starter: $19 a month for 100 AI conversations, 1 seat | Hobby: $40 a month ($32 a month yearly), 700 message credits (as of October 2026, source) |
| Middle plan | Builder: $49 a month for 400 AI conversations, 3 seats | Basic: $150 a month, 4,000 message credits (as of October 2026, source) |
| Larger plan | Studio: $249 a month for 2,000 AI conversations, 10 seats | Business: $500 a month, 15,000 message credits (as of October 2026, source) |
| Removing the branding | Included on Builder and Studio | An add-on, $1,188 a year (as of October 2026, source) |
Prices and features checked on October 29, 2026.
Same job, both prices
Monthly list prices, as of October 2026.
Say your website gets 400 AI conversations a month and you want your own brand on the messenger. We assume 3 AI replies in a chat and one credit for each reply, the lowest rate.
- Corner: Builder, $49 a month. The badge can be turned off at no extra cost.
- Chatbase: 1,200 credits needs Basic at $150 a month, plus the branding add-on at $1,188 a year (about $99 a month), so about $249 a month (as of October 2026, source).
With branding kept and 100 AI conversations a month, Corner Starter is $19 and Chatbase Hobby is $40 a month, or $32 a month paid yearly (as of October 2026, source).
Credits stretch further when chats are short. At one credit per reply, Business's 15,000 credits cover about 5,000 chats of 3 replies, more than Studio's 2,000 AI conversations. Corner isn't the cheapest chatbot per message; it is built to be easy to predict.
Where Corner is different
Conversations, not credits. Corner counts AI conversations. One holds up to 10 answers from Anthropic's Claude Sonnet, on every plan, with no multipliers. Your team's replies never count, and live chat is unlimited on every plan. See pricing
Answers you can check. It's built to answer from your own website and files, shows the pages it used under each answer, and says so when your site doesn't cover a question instead of guessing.
Leads and a person when it counts. When a visitor wants a quote or a call back, it asks for their name and email or phone (lead capture, on every plan). Every chat lands in one shared inbox, where you can take over. You get an email when someone asks for a person, and the dashboard works in your phone's browser.
Any website, and your AI tools. One line works on WordPress, Shopify, Wix, Squarespace, Webflow, Lovable and hand-built sites. Corner's MCP server lets you run it from Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor, with 18 tools.
For agencies
Building websites for clients? Studio is $249 a month for up to 10 assistants and 2,000 AI conversations shared between them, each client in its own workspace, under your brand and your own dashboard address. Corner for agencies
When Chatbase is the better choice
We make Corner, so weigh this with that in mind. Chatbase may suit you better if you have a lot of short chats: a large credit plan can cover more of them than Corner's plans do. It also makes sense to stay if you've already built an agent there that works, since moving takes some setup time.
Try both on your own website before you decide. Prices change, so check Chatbase's pricing page for today's numbers.
Switching from Chatbase
Try Corner on your own website first, with no sign up: it reads your pages in about a minute and you ask it what your customers ask. If you like the answers, switching takes about five minutes:
- Sign up on the Free plan, with no card, and type your website. Corner reads it while you watch.
- Upload the PDFs and Word files you gave Chatbase. There's no import tool, so answers you wrote by hand need teaching again.
- Paste Corner's one line into your site (see the install guide), and remove Chatbase's code.
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