The Best AI Receptionist for WordPress Websites

1SiteStaffr

Best for: Small businesses that want every website visitor answered by chat or voice, with the lead emailed to them

Price

$29, $69 or $129 a month. 30 day free trial, then a Free plan for AI text chat, no credit card

Voice on your website

Yes, on the website

• Unlimited AI text chat on every paid plan; only voice minutes are counted (100, 300 or 600 a month).
• Answers from your own website pages and emails you a recap of every conversation with the visitor’s name and email or phone.
• Limits: WordPress only, no live chat inbox for your staff, and the Free plan has no voice and is capped at 50 AI conversations a month.

2Tidio

Best for: Teams that answer chats themselves and want AI help on top, especially online stores

Price

Free plan. Lyro AI agent from $32.50 a month billed annually, for 50 AI conversations a month

Voice on your website

None listed

• Live chat, a shared inbox, Messenger, Instagram and email in one place, and a free plan with 10 seats.
• Rule-based Flows for pages like checkout, and a WooCommerce integration.
• Limits: the AI is priced by conversation, and Tidio’s site lists no voice agent.

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3tawk.to

Best for: Businesses with staff to answer chats who want it free

Price

Live chat free. AI Assist add-on from $29 a month per website

Voice on your website

None listed for the website. A phone Voice Agents add-on is waitlist only

• Free live chat with unlimited agents, plus free ticketing, a help center and mobile apps.
• AI Assist can be trained on your website, documents and FAQs, and hands off to your team.
• Limits: tawk.to does not publish what AI Assist plans include.

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4Chatbase

Best for: Businesses that want one AI agent across many channels and tools, with developers to set it up

Price

Free plan. Paid from $40 a month billed monthly, with 700 message credits

Voice on your website

Phone calls from the Standard plan ($150 a month); website voice is built by developers with its API

• Channels including WhatsApp, Slack, Messenger and Instagram, and actions in tools like Stripe, Shopify and Zendesk.
• Choose the AI model yourself, from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and others.
• Limits: every AI reply spends message credits, and voice spends the same credits.

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5AI Engine (Meow Apps)

Best for: Developers and tinkerers who want full control and many AI features inside WordPress

Price

Free plugin. Pro from $79 a year for one site. You also pay your AI provider for usage, with your own API key

Voice on your website

Yes, on the website, in Pro (realtime audio chatbot)

• Works with OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, Mistral and more, with forms, content writing and an MCP server beyond chat.
• Pro builds a knowledge base from your content so the chatbot answers from your site.
• Limits: you set it up and manage the API keys and costs yourself; its pages do not describe lead capture or lead emails.

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6Crisp

Best for: Teams that want a shared inbox across channels, with AI credits included

Price

Free plan with 2 agents and no AI. Paid from $45 a month with $5 of AI credits, which Crisp says is around 90 automated conversations

Voice on your website

None listed. Crisp’s Aircall phone integration, for your team’s calls, needs the Essentials plan ($95 a month) or higher

• Priced per workspace rather than per seat: 4 agents on Mini, 10 on Essentials.
• Includes an autonomous AI agent, with AI credits on every paid plan.
• Limits: AI use is metered by credits, about 90, 450 or 1,350 automated conversations on the three paid plans.

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