AI Engine — WordPress Live Chat Plugin
AI Engine – The Chatbot, AI Framework & MCP for WordPress
by Jordy Meow · WordPress.org page · Website
AI Engine has 100,000+ active installs on WordPress.org and 7,597,770 downloads all time. We have tracked it since September 4, 2026; download trends appear after 30 days of data. The last update was on September 5, 2026, tested up to WordPress 7.1.
AI Engine at a glance
Is AI Engine well maintained?
Features
The feature list from the plugin's own readme on WordPress.org, trimmed to the essentials.
- AI Forms: Create dynamic forms that generate answers, images, or files using AI
- Embeddings & Vector Databases: Build knowledge bases from your content and PDFs for semantic search
- Content-Aware: Let AI use your post and page content as context for smarter responses
- Function Calling: Connect AI to WordPress functions, WooCommerce, or any custom API
- Cross-Site Chatbots: Embed your chatbots on external websites
- Editor Assistant: An AI sidebar in the post editor that can read, rewrite, insert, and rearrange your content blocks through chained function calls
- Realtime Audio: Voice-based conversations on OpenAI’s GA Realtime API, with the latest voice reasoning capabilities
- Statistics & Usage Control: Track usage, set limits per role, and monitor costs
- Extra MCP Tools: Adds plugin, theme, database, Polylang, and WooCommerce management to the MCP server
- Priority Support: Get faster help from the Meow Apps team
AI Engine reviews and ratings
864 reviews on WordPress.org, with the most recent ones as their authors posted them.
864 reviews
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Absolute Game-Changer for AI + WordPress! 🚀
I cannot say enough good things about AI Engine Pro! If you are looking to integrate AI into your WordPress site, stop searching right now—this is the only plugin you need. Jordy has created an absolute masterpiece. The plugin is incredibly powerful, yet surprisingly intuitive and easy to set up. Within minutes, I had a fully functional, highly intelligent chatbot running on my site. What really sets AI Engine Pro apart, though, is the attention to detail and the sheer breadth of features. It handles everything from complex AI interactions to seamless integrations with models like GPT-5-chat, all while remaining lightweight and fast. It's not just an AI plugin; it's a complete upgrade to how your website operates. Worth every single penny. Highly, highly recommended! 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
rshepard -
Very simple
Simple and powerfull !
alysbrussels -
Ai Engine the future is today, great and easy plugin, extraordinary staff
So much to say as this plugin is great, easy to handle, and allows to make truly clever and good looking chatbots, in many ways, on-site, cross-sites and so on. Also coming with automation for social production and publications, and around a billon more (a little bit less in fact) of stuff possibilities, you just can't imagine before installing it. Try it today on your WordPress site, if you don't know yet why, you'll soon discover it. Most of all, the kind, gentle, efficient JM's team as to be noticed. I begun with the free version and now I'm eager to purchase a paying plan as I absolutely want to cell various developments based on AI ENGINE to all my clients. Special thanks to Valentin, but I guess they're all great helpers
jcljcl75 -
Easy to use highly customizable plugin
The plugin is easy in use, offering advanced functionalities. Making it very easy to integrate AI functionalities directly into our website.
jgroen -
Versatile and intuitive
Fairly simple to use right out of the box even though it is highly configurable. Adding an AI is really taking the resources on my webpage to a new level.
Søren Nolsøe -
The best MCP implementation, and the best support from any author
I run AI Engine Pro as an MCP server across several production WordPress sites, and I've built more than a dozen custom plugins on top of its MCP layer to expose Formidable, WooCommerce, WPBakery, BeTheme, TheGem, LiteSpeed, UpdraftPlus, and others as tools. I depend on this plugin the way you'd depend on a framework, and I audit every release before it reaches a client site. Two things earned this review. The extension contract is genuinely stable. Everything I've built binds to exactly two filters, mwai_mcp_tools and mwai_mcp_callback. I've diffed every release from 3.4.7 through 3.7.0, and I have never once had to change a line in my own plugins to survive an update. When the dispatch signature was extended, it was extended backward-compatibly. For anyone building on top of an MCP server, that discipline is worth more than any feature list. The support is the best I've had from any plugin author, paid or free. I've filed four detailed reports. The record: An 8-item memo on the native MCP tools. Jordy triaged all eight in a single reply, honestly split into fixed / not ours / deferred, shipped four fixes in the next release — and volunteered a bug I hadn't even reported. A follow-up with four more questions. All four landed in the next release the following day. A three-part report on the post-write path silently mangling content and double-serializing array meta. He fixed all three, verified them against real content, and told me they were shipping — the same day I sent it. His write-up back to me was clearer than my original report. A hook whose documentation and its code disagreed. Fixed by the next morning, and implemented better than I proposed: he inverted the rule rather than patching the symptom, so any future tool is covered the day it lands instead of the day someone notices. And once, when I reported something and was wrong about the cause, he ran the code, came back with evidence, and pushed back — politely, but firmly. He was right: the bug was in my
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Where AI Engine ranks on WordPress.org
The rankings we track that AI Engine appears in, and how its position changed over 30 days.
| Ranking | WordPress.org placement | Position | 30 days |
|---|---|---|---|
| Best Live Chat Plugins | #6 by tag, #81 in search | #18 | – |
| Best QR Code Plugins | #20 in search, not tagged | #40 | – |
| Best Social Media Plugins | #39 in search, not tagged | #74 | – |
| Best LMS Plugins | #52 in search, not tagged | #84 | – |
AI Engine alternatives
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Details
AI meets WordPress. Your site can now chat, write poetry, solve problems, and maybe make you coffee.
The full description, screenshots and every review live on the WordPress.org page.
Rankings AI Engine competes in
Tags
- AI
- chatbot
- Claude
- mcp
- openai
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- Version
- 3.7.6
- Last updated
- Sep 5, 2026
- First published
- Dec 27, 2022
- Requires WordPress
- 6.0
- Tested up to
- 7.1
- Requires PHP
- 8.1
- Pricing
- Free on WordPress.org
AI Engine FAQ
What does AI Engine do?
According to its WordPress.org readme, AI Engine offers AI Forms: Create dynamic forms that generate answers, images, or files using AI, Embeddings & Vector Databases: Build knowledge bases from your content and PDFs for semantic search, Content-Aware: Let AI use your post and page content as context for smarter responses, Function Calling: Connect AI to WordPress functions, WooCommerce, or any custom API and Cross-Site Chatbots: Embed your chatbots on external websites.
How many active installs does AI Engine have?
WordPress.org reports 100,000+ active installs for AI Engine as of September 7, 2026.
Is AI Engine still maintained?
Yes. The last release was on September 5, 2026 and it is tested up to WordPress 7.1.
Does AI Engine have good support?
On the WordPress.org forum, 22 of 22 recent support threads for AI Engine are marked resolved. That is the developer's free support; a paid version usually comes with its own channel.
Is AI Engine free?
AI Engine is free to install from WordPress.org. Many plugins also sell a paid version or add-ons.
Where does AI Engine rank among Live Chat Plugins?
AI Engine is #18 in the WordPress.org Live Chat Plugins ranking.