5 Best JivoChat Alternatives in 2026
Updated September 7, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
JivoChat has 20,000+ active installs on WordPress.org. These 5 plugins share its category or its tags on WordPress.org, are actively maintained, and each has at least 100 active installs. They are ordered by how closely they match, not by our opinion.
The 5 closest alternatives to JivoChat
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3CX Free Live Chat, Calls & Messaging
Closest match4.6 (821) 100,000+ active installsChat with your website visitors in real-time for free! Engage with your customers and increase sales.
Shares the free live chat, wordpress live chat tags on WordPress.org. About 5 times the installs, rated 4.6 against 4.9, last updated June 29, 2026.
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Pure Chat – Live Chat & More!
4.1 (45) 3,000+ active installsPure Chat provides a Live Chat plugin with Unlimited Chats for your website!
Shares the WordPress chat tag on WordPress.org. 3,000+ installs against 20,000+, no update since February 24, 2025.
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4.6 (142) 100,000+ active installs(OFFICIAL tawk.to plugin) Instantly chat with visitors on your website with the free tawk.to chat widget. Website: http://tawk.to
Shares the free live chat tag on WordPress.org. About 5 times the installs, rated 4.6 against 4.9, last updated January 14, 2026.
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Tidio – Live Chat & AI Chatbots
4.7 (396) 70,000+ active installsAdd Tidio Live Chat to your WordPress for free to answer customers’ questions, engage website visitors, generate leads, and increase sales.
Shares the free live chat tag on WordPress.org. About 3.5 times the installs, rated 4.7 against 4.9, last updated 6 days ago.
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Crisp – Live Chat and Chatbot
4.6 (73) 20,000+ active installsA Free, one-click-to-install, Live Chat and chatbot plugin. No coding skills are required. Used by more than 30 000 customers on WordPress.
Shares the free live chat tag on WordPress.org. A similar number of installs, rated 4.6 against 4.9, no update since April 14, 2025.
Switching from JivoChat: common questions
What is the best alternative to JivoChat?
3CX Free Live Chat, Calls & Messaging is the closest match: it shares the same WordPress.org tags and has 100,000+ active installs with a 4.6 out of 5 rating.
Which JivoChat alternative has the most users?
3CX Free Live Chat, Calls & Messaging, with 100,000+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which JivoChat alternative is rated highest?
Tidio, rated 4.7 out of 5 by 396 reviewers. Only plugins with at least 50 reviews are counted.
Are these JivoChat alternatives free?
Every plugin listed here is free to install from WordPress.org. Where WordPress.org marks a plugin as commercial, the developer also sells a paid version or add-ons, and that is shown on each plugin.
How are alternatives chosen?
Automatically, from WordPress.org data: plugins that share a category top 10 with JivoChat score highest, then plugins that appear in the same WordPress.org rankings, then plugins with the same tags, weighted so rare tags count more than common ones. Plugins by the same author and plugins rated under 4.0 are left out.
How we choose these alternatives
Nothing on this page is picked by hand. Every day we walk the whole WordPress.org directory, then score every plugin against JivoChat on three signals: sharing a category top 10 counts most, then appearing in the same WordPress.org rankings, then carrying the same tags, with rare tags counting for more than common ones like "wordpress". Plugins by the same author are excluded, so an author's own add-ons cannot fill the list, and so is anything rated below 4.0 or with fewer than 100 active installs. The ten highest scores are what you see, in that order. Full methodology.
The bottom line
3CX Free Live Chat, Calls & Messaging is the closest match to JivoChat by the data we track, and 3CX Free Live Chat, Calls & Messaging has the widest reach with 100,000+ active installs. Tidio shipped the most recent release, on September 1, 2026. The list is rebuilt every day from WordPress.org, so a plugin that stops being maintained drops out on its own.
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