Free AI chatbot for your business website
BotDesk (botdesk.studio) reads your website and answers visitors' questions about your hours, prices, services and location, day or night. The Free plan costs $0, needs no card and covers 50 conversations a month.
✓ $0 a month, no end date ✓ 50 conversations a month ✓ Set up in a few minutes
The Free plan
What you get for $0
A working AI chatbot on your own site, trained on your own pages, with no trial clock running.
Trained on your website
Paste your web address and BotDesk reads up to 5 pages of your site. The bot answers from what those pages say about your services, prices, hours and policies.
Keeps itself up to date
Auto-Sync checks your website's key pages every few hours and re-learns your site when something changes, plus a full refresh every week. In a hurry? Press Check my site now or Scan my site in your dashboard and the bot updates on the spot.
50 conversations a month
One conversation is one visitor's chat, however many messages they send. The count resets on the 1st, and your dashboard shows how many you've used.
One line of code
Paste one snippet into WordPress, Wix, Squarespace, Shopify, Webflow, GoDaddy or a hand-built site. You don't need a developer.
The limits
What the free plan doesn't do
Know these four limits before you sign up.
10 leads a month
The bot collects up to 10 visitors' names and phone numbers a month and emails them to you. After that it keeps answering questions until the 1st. Starter takes unlimited leads at $29/month.
A hard cap at 50
After the 50th conversation in a month, the bot stops answering until the 1st. Visitors see a short note asking them to browse your site or contact you directly, with your phone and email if you've added them. Visitors can still leave their name and number in a short form, up to that month's 10 leads, and we email you once.
A "Powered by BotDesk" badge
The badge stays on Free and Starter. Growth and Pro remove it.
Reads 5 pages
For a bigger site, Starter reads 15 pages, Growth 50 and Pro 500.
Who it's for
Is a free chatbot enough for your business?
Fifty conversations a month works out to one or two a day. Use that number to decide.
A good fit if
- You run a local business with a small site: a salon, a plumber, a tutor, a café.
- Your site gets a chat or two a day, not ten.
- You want to watch an AI chatbot answer your real customers before you pay for one.
Probably not a fit if
- You need every enquiry turned into a name and number. Start on Starter instead.
- Your site gets several chats a day. You'd hit the cap mid-month.
- Your services and prices sit across dozens of pages.
How it works
Set it up in three steps
Setup takes a few minutes, and you can get free help by email if you get stuck.
Create a free account
Click Start free and sign in with Google or your email. We don't ask for a card.
Enter your website address
BotDesk scans your pages and builds the bot's knowledge from them, and you confirm your business type with one tap. Ask it a few test questions in your dashboard, where the bot sits live in the corner, and fix anything it gets wrong.
Free vs paid
Free vs paid plans, side by side
Every paid plan removes the conversation cap. The table shows what else each one adds.
Scroll sideways to see every plan.
| Feature | Free$0, no end date | Starter$29/mo | Growth$59/mo | Pro$99/mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conversations | 50 a month | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Website pages it learns | Up to 5 | Up to 15 | Up to 50 | Up to 500 |
| Answers visitor questions 24/7 | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Auto-Sync when your site changes | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Lead capture (name and phone emailed to you) | 10 a month | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Price estimates from your own prices | Not included | Not included | Included | Included |
| Sales-call routing | Not included | Not included | Included | Included |
| Team inbox and live takeover | Not included | Not included | Included | Included |
| Booking through your Calendly, Acuity or Square link | Not included | Not included | Not included | Included |
| "Powered by BotDesk" badge | Shown | Shown | Removed | Removed |
| Card needed | No | At checkout, 30-day trial | At checkout, 30-day trial | At checkout, 30-day trial |
Free plan: no card. Paid plans: 30-day free trial, card at checkout, no charge until day 31, cancel anytime. Upgrades are prorated. Full plan details sit on the chatbot pricing page.
Upgrading
When should you upgrade?
Stay on Free for as long as it covers you. These four signs mean it no longer does.
- You get more than 10 leads a month. Free stops taking names and numbers after the third. Starter ($29/month) collects every visitor's name and phone and emails them to you.
- You hit the 50-conversation cap. If the "free conversations used up" email arrives two months running, your bot goes quiet for part of every month. Any paid plan removes the limit.
- You want the chat to carry only your brand. Growth ($59/month) removes the BotDesk badge and adds instant price estimates from your own price list.
- You take bookings online. Every paid plan, from Starter ($29/month), sends visitors to your own Calendly, Acuity or Square booking page.
Your setup carries over when you upgrade, so you don't start from scratch.
FAQ
Questions about the free AI chatbot
Yes. The Free plan costs $0 a month and has no end date. It covers 50 conversations a month, answers questions from your website and shows a "Powered by BotDesk" badge. You pay nothing unless you choose a paid plan.
No. You create a Free account without a card. You only enter a card if you start a paid plan, which comes with a 30-day free trial: Stripe takes the card at checkout and charges it on day 31 unless you cancel first.
Your bot stops answering for the rest of that calendar month. Visitors who open the chat see a short message asking them to browse your site or contact you directly, and we email you once so you know. Nothing in your setup is lost, and the count resets on the 1st. A conversation is one visitor's chat, however many messages it has. Any paid plan removes the limit.
Yes, up to 10 a month. When a visitor wants a callback or a quote, the bot takes their name and phone and emails them to you. After the 10th lead in a month it keeps answering questions and gives visitors your phone number and email instead of taking their details, until the 1st. Starter ($29/month) takes unlimited leads.
Not on Free or Starter. The Growth ($59/month) and Pro ($99/month) plans remove it.
Yes. You paste one line of embed code, and it runs on WordPress, Wix, Squarespace, Shopify, Webflow, GoDaddy and hand-built sites. We publish a step-by-step guide for each platform, starting with the WordPress guide.
No. BotDesk doesn't train or fine-tune an AI model on your content. Your pages are stored as your own bot's knowledge so it can answer questions about your business. Chat messages go to OpenAI (the bot runs on gpt-4o-mini) to write each reply, and BotDesk doesn't use them to train AI models. Details are in our privacy policy.
Yes. Paste your web address into the live demo and BotDesk builds a test bot from your real site, usually in a minute or two, with no signup.
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Start on Free, watch what your visitors ask, and upgrade only if the numbers tell you to.
✓ $0 a month ✓ No card ✓ 50 conversations a month Paid plans from $29/mo