Alternatives to LiveChat in 2026

LibreDesk abhinavxd

Open-source, self-hosted customer support desk in a single binary. A lightweight alternative to Intercom, Zendesk, Chatwoot.

Complete system Usable A small team wants a lightweight self-hosted Intercom or Zendesk replacement that is easy to deploy.

★ 3.1k AGPL-3.0 Go Active, pushed 7 days ago

Bytedesk Bytedesk

Open Souce IM with AI powered live-chat, email, ticket support, omni-channel customer service，alternative to slack + zendesk/intercom/hubspot/ada/decagon/sierra

Complete system Usable You want a self-hosted Intercom-style chat with AI agents and can operate a Java service.

★ 512 AGPL-3.0 JavaScript Active, pushed 11 days ago

Tiledesk Tiledesk

Install Tiledesk on your server using Helm for Kubernetes orchestration and Docker Compose for running multi-container Docker applications. Tiledesk provides an open-source solution comparable to Voiceflow, empowering you to create sophisticated LLM-enabled chatbots that seamlessly transition interactions to human agents when needed.

Complete system Usable You want an open-source Voiceflow or Intercom-style setup with bot-to-human handoff on your own servers.

★ 323 MIT Mustache Active, pushed 21 days ago

AgentDesk huabeitech

Open-source AI customer support system. AI-first support, human-ready operations.

Complete system Experimental You want a self-hosted AI-first support desk in Go and are comfortable with a young project.

★ 278 Apache-2.0 Go Active, pushed 27 days ago

Papercups papercups-io

Open-source live customer chat

Complete system Usable You already run it and it covers your needs.

★ 6.1k MIT Elixir Quiet, pushed 3 years ago

Chattermate.chat chattermate

Open-source AI customer support platform — AI chatbot with human handoff, Shopify & Slack integrations, visual workflow builder. Self-hosted alternative to Intercom & Zendesk. Apache-2.0.

Complete system Usable A small company wants a self-hosted Intercom or Chatbase alternative using its own LLM key.

★ 129 Apache-2.0 Python Active, pushed 24 days ago

Node-crisp-api crisp-im

:zap: Crisp API Node Wrapper

Integration Production-ready Your business uses Crisp and you want to automate it from JavaScript.

★ 113 MIT TypeScript Active, pushed 8 days ago

Goflylivechat taoshihan1991

开源在线客服系统GO语言开发GO-FLY,免费在线客服系统/GOFLY LIVE CHAT: open source self-hosted private cloud customer support live chat software by golang

Complete system Usable You want a minimal self-hosted chat widget and can read Chinese documentation.

★ 2.6k Apache-2.0 HTML Quiet, pushed 14 months ago

Intergram idoco

Free live chat widget linked to your Telegram messenger

Integration Experimental You run a small site and want free live chat answered from Telegram.

★ 1.4k MPL-2.0 JavaScript Quiet, pushed 3 years ago

Goch ribice

Self hosted live chat server written in Go

Building block Experimental You want a small Go chat backend to study or embed.

★ 199 MIT Go Quiet, pushed 2 years ago

AddChat Laravel classiebit

AddChat Laravel is a Laravel chat package. Live chat widget for Laravel that also includes multi-user chat, group permissions, customer support chat & more.

Building block Experimental Rarely; better-maintained chat options exist.

★ 139 MIT CSS Quiet, pushed 6 years ago

Chat21-web-widget chat21

Chat widget built on top of Firebase/MQTT to emebd chat features into your web/mobile apps.

Building block Usable You run Tiledesk or Chat21 and need to embed its widget.

★ 100 MIT TypeScript Quiet, pushed 4 years ago

Intercom Intercom, Inc.

Complete system Production-ready A SaaS or app business wants in-product chat and AI-first support with handoff to human agents.

Commercial

Tidio Tidio

See what your customer conversations earn. Lyro resolves questions instantly and turns the rest into sales, leads, and bookings you can attribute.

Complete system Production-ready A small e-commerce store wants a cheap chat widget that answers common questions automatically.

Commercial

Crisp Crisp IM

Complete system Production-ready A small startup wants chat and shared inbox for the whole team without per-seat pricing.

Commercial

tawk.to tawk.to

One free inbox for all your customer channels. Live chat, ticketing, knowledge base, AI assist, and CRM — all in one place. Trusted by 6M+ businesses.

Complete system Production-ready A small business wants website chat at no cost and can live with tawk.to branding.

Commercial