Chatra versus Tawk.to

Chatra, a live chat solution targeted mostly at small and medium-sized businesses, was bought by Sendinblue in 2021. It’s been announced that Chatra will merge into Sendinblue’s complete digital marketing and e-commerce suite.

The company profiles itself with its personal approach to customers, although they report having over 45,000 customers. Chatra hosts a self-published book and guides section on the website to help you improve your customer relation game.

Tawk.To is different. It offers the full app for free. Yes, there is no bullsh*t, a free chat widget.

Tawk.to is the centipede among the chatwidget providers. They offer many features and add-ons. Their Agent software runs on mobile phones as well ask native desktop applications.

The level of supoort on Tawk.to’s website is excellent, especially considering the app is free. For most questions the Help Center will cover you and you can find extensive documentation and code snippets for developers who want to leverage Tawk.to’s JavaScript API and Webhooks.

Free comes often at the price of performance, although this is not necessarily noticeable when top-notch developers integrate the widget.

The few paid add-ons are Video + Voice Chat for $29 per month and to remove the “Powered by tawk.to” branding. The white label will set you back $19 per month.

Tawk.to also has Chat Agents for hire to man your chat for $1 per hour. You can try this service for 7 days for free.