Olark versus Watermelon

Founded in 2008, Olark has seen the rise of chat software for over a decade. After getting funding from the famous YCombinator incubator Olark launched their first live chat platform.

Olark is committed to developing accessible software and is actively testing improvements of assistive technologies. It’s awesome to see a provider care about this often overlooked aspect of customer service.

Besides live chat, Olark also markets as customer metrics company. Since putting a widget on your platform gives you a lot of valuable data.

To ensure that every user always gets the right answer, the chatbot can transfer to a human employee at any time. This Human Handover is possible via Live Chat or E-Mail.

Olark offers a free plan that offers little features and is limited to a single seat and 20 chats per month, which will not be sufficient for most use cases.

Their paid plans start at $29 per month per seat. Free trials are available. Unfortunately, credit card information is required for the trial and you will be billed automatically if you don’t cancel the trial in time.

As a customer-focused company, Olark may want to consider offering a no-credit-card-required trial so potential customers are more likely to fully experience all their features.

Additional subscriptions are available for “Powerups” like co-browsing, live chat translation, and visitor insights.

Watermelon is a Dutch no-code chatwidget platform.

They let you experience AI chatbot technology as never before. A GPT-4 supported communication tool to help your customers, empower your team and reduce your workload.

Their integrated conversation builder interface allows you to create advanced dialog sequences to automate your customer’s optimal flow into your organization.

Watermelon’s payment model is based on a platform fee that starts at $149 per month for a monthly subscription, a fixed price per chatbot, and a small charge ($0.07) per conversation.