Website live chat · Help desk & shared inbox
Chatwoot
Open-source customer conversations.
open source self-hostable Chatwoot Inc. · USWebsite chat, e-mail and messengers in one inbox; self-host or the US cloud.
Website ↗ Source ↗ Plan “Website live chat” with itPlan “Help desk & shared inbox” with it
How you can run it
| Way | Where the data lives | Price basis | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|
| Host it myself | your own server or hardware | free | green — You run it yourself: no data leaves your own infrastructure. |
| Hosted outside Europe | servers outside Europe | ≈ €19/mo per seat | red — Hosted outside Europe: your data sits under non-European jurisdiction. |
Facts
| Company / project | Chatwoot Inc. (US) |
|---|---|
| Licence | MIT |
| Self-hosting footprint | 1024 MB RAM · 1 vCPU · 5 GB — small deployment: a household or a team of up to ~20 people |
| Commonly replaces | Intercom, Zendesk |
| Upstream (awesome-selfhosted-data) | 36,470 stars · updated 2026-09-03 · Ruby, Docker, K8S |
| Provenance | curated, verified 2026-09-04 |
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