10 Best LiveChat Alternatives in 2026
Updated September 7, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
LiveChat sits at #7 in the WordPress.org Live Chat Plugins ranking. 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 LiveChat
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Live Chat by Formilla
Closest matchLive 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.
#10 in the WordPress.org Live Chat Plugins ranking. About a quarter of the installs, rated 4.8 against 4.6, last updated 21 days ago.
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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.
#2 in the WordPress.org Live Chat Plugins ranking. About 7 times the installs, rated 4.7 against 4.6, last updated 6 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 💬
#4 in the WordPress.org Live Chat Plugins ranking. About 3 times the installs, rated 5.0 against 4.6, last updated 6 days ago.
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Smartsupp – live chat, AI shopping assistant and chatbots
4.7 (131) 20,000+ active installsBoost your sales and turn visitors into customers with live chat, AI tools and chatbots. Smartsupp is trusted by 100,000+ online stores.
#8 in the WordPress.org Live Chat Plugins ranking. About 2 times the installs, rated 4.7 against 4.6, last updated December 8, 2025.
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Buttonizer – Live Chat, AI Chatbot, Call, Chat, Contact Button
5.0 (23) 50,000+ active installsPowerful platform with Live Chat, AI Chatbots, and Real-Time Visitor Monitoring! Also, create Call, Email, SMS, & Contact buttons to increase conv …
#6 in the WordPress.org Live Chat Plugins ranking. About 5 times the installs, last updated 25 days ago.
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4.6 (821) 100,000+ active installsChat with your website visitors in real-time for free! Engage with your customers and increase sales.
#1 in the WordPress.org Live Chat Plugins ranking. About 10 times the installs, last updated June 29, 2026.
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HubSpot All-In-One Marketing – Forms, Popups, Live Chat
4.3 (207) 200,000+ active installsThe CRM, Sales, and Marketing WordPress plugin to grow your business better. Capture and engage web visitors with free live chat, forms, CRM, email ma …
#3 in the WordPress.org Live Chat Plugins ranking. About 20 times the installs, rated 4.3 against 4.6, last updated 14 days ago.
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4.8 (15) 40,000+ active installsWhatsApp Chat Button - Display the beautiful WhatsApp Sticky Button on the WordPress frontend.
#9 in the WordPress.org Live Chat Plugins ranking. About 4 times the installs, last updated 17 days ago.
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Floating Chat Widget: Contact Chat Icons, Telegram Chat, Line Messenger, WeChat, Email, SMS, Call Button – Chaty
5.0 (1,240) 300,000+ active installsWhatsApp chat, Facebook Messenger, Telegram, TikTok, Instagram, Email, Line, WeChat Phone call, SMS, 20+ live chat icons & WhatsApp chat pop up 💬
#5 in the WordPress.org Live Chat Plugins ranking. About 30 times the installs, rated 5.0 against 4.6, last updated 5 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 chatbot, live chat, livechat tags on WordPress.org. About 2 times the installs, no update since April 14, 2025.
LiveChat against each of them
Head to head on installs, ratings, reviews and updates. Each measure names its own leader; there is no overall winner.
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LiveChat vs Live Chat by Formilla10,000+ vs 2,000+ installs · 4.6 vs 4.8
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LiveChat vs Tidio10,000+ vs 70,000+ installs · 4.6 vs 4.7
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LiveChat vs Chatway Live Chat10,000+ vs 30,000+ installs · 4.6 vs 5.0
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LiveChat vs Smartsupp10,000+ vs 20,000+ installs · 4.6 vs 4.7
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LiveChat vs Buttonizer10,000+ vs 50,000+ installs · 4.6 vs 5.0
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LiveChat vs 3CX Free Live Chat, Calls & Messaging10,000+ vs 100,000+ installs · 4.6 vs 4.6
Switching from LiveChat: common questions
What is the best alternative to LiveChat?
Live Chat by Formilla is the closest match: it shares the Live Chat Plugins top 10 with LiveChat and has 2,000+ active installs with a 4.8 out of 5 rating.
Which LiveChat alternative has the most users?
Chaty, with 300,000+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which LiveChat alternative is rated highest?
Chaty, rated 5.0 out of 5 by 1,240 reviewers. Only plugins with at least 50 reviews are counted.
Are these LiveChat 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 LiveChat 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 LiveChat 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
Live Chat by Formilla is the closest match to LiveChat by the data we track, and Chaty has the widest reach with 300,000+ active installs. Chaty shipped the most recent release, on September 2, 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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