10 Best Pure Chat Alternatives in 2026
Updated September 7, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
Pure Chat has 3,000+ active installs on WordPress.org. These 10 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 10 closest alternatives to Pure Chat
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LiveChat
Closest matchLiveChat – Live Chat Plugin for WP Websites
4.6 (98) 10,000+ active installsBest live chat and help desk plugin for WordPress websites. Add the LiveChat widget to engage visitors and provide real‑time customer support! 🚀
Shares the chat widget, live chat tags on WordPress.org. About 3.3 times the installs, last updated May 25, 2026.
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Chat Widget: Floating Customer Support Button for 30+ Channels, Supporting SMS, Calls, and Chat – Bit Assist
4.9 (111) 10,000+ active installsFloating sticky chat button for WhatsApp Chat, Facebook Messenger, Telegram, Instagram, SMS, Call, Discord chat, TikTok, Line & 30+ channels
Shares the chat widget tag on WordPress.org. About 3.3 times the installs, last updated July 29, 2026.
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Live Chat by Formilla – Real-time Chat & Chatbots Plugin
4.8 (116) 2,000+ active installsLive chat software with real-time visitor monitoring and chatbots! Live chat with your visitors for free or use a chatbot to automate self-help.
Shares the live chat tag on WordPress.org. About half the installs, last updated 21 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 live chat tag on WordPress.org. About 6.7 times the installs, no update since April 14, 2025.
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4.5 (212) 3,000+ active installsSupport your customers via Facebook Messenger Live Chat conveniently from your own website.
Shares the live chat tag on WordPress.org. A similar number of installs, no update since April 14, 2025.
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Live Chat Plugin for WooCommerce – LiveChat
4.5 (22) 1,000+ active installsLive chat and help desk software plugin for WooCommerce. Add live chat to your WooCommerce store to connect immediately with customers.
Shares the live chat tag on WordPress.org. About a third of the installs, last updated May 25, 2026.
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Chat Button & Custom ChatGPT-Powered Bot by GetButton.io
4.5 (175) 20,000+ active installsFloating button for chatting with your visitors via WhatsApp, Messenger, Contact form, and more.
Shares the live chat tag on WordPress.org. About 6.7 times the installs, last updated October 6, 2025.
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WPBot – AI ChatBot for Live Support, Lead Generation, AI Services
4.7 (123) 5,000+ active installsAI ChatBot for WordPress WPBot - Automated 24/7 Live Chat Customer Support. NATIVE, AI Actions, Lead Generation, Forms, Gemini, ChatGPT, OpenRouter
Shares the live chat tag on WordPress.org. About 1.7 times the installs, last updated 4 days ago.
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Boei – AI Chatbot, Live Chat & 50+ Channels
5.0 (30) 1,000+ active installsEuropean AI chatbot for WordPress. 95+ languages, captures leads, hands off to your team. GDPR-safe, shared inbox. Free 7-day trial, no card.
Shares the live chat tag on WordPress.org. About a third of the installs, last updated 28 days ago.
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Chatway Live Chat – AI Chatbot, Customer Support, FAQ & Helpdesk Customer Service & Chat Buttons
5.0 (754) 30,000+ active installsAI chatbot agent & human live chat for customer support, FAQ, chat buttons including WhatsApp with Chatway live chat. iOS & Android apps available 💬
Shares the live chat tag on WordPress.org. About 10 times the installs, last updated 6 days ago.
Switching from Pure Chat: common questions
What is the best alternative to Pure Chat?
LiveChat is the closest match: it shares the same WordPress.org tags and has 10,000+ active installs with a 4.6 out of 5 rating.
Which Pure Chat alternative has the most users?
Chatway Live Chat, with 30,000+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which Pure Chat alternative is rated highest?
Chatway Live Chat, rated 5.0 out of 5 by 754 reviewers. Only plugins with at least 50 reviews are counted.
Are these Pure Chat 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 Pure Chat 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 Pure Chat 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
LiveChat is the closest match to Pure Chat by the data we track, and Chatway Live Chat has the widest reach with 30,000+ active installs. WPBot shipped the most recent release, on September 3, 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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