Open-source alternative  ·  Live Chat

Replace Intercom with Chatwoot.

Open source customer engagement platform. Self-hosted Chatwoot provides live chat, email, social media, and WhatsApp in one inbox with team collaboration and automation.

You'd keep~R86 640 to ~R308 640/year

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Intercom

~R86 640 – ~R308 640/yr

10-user estimate

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Chatwoot

Self-hosted, R0 licence

You keep ~R308 640/yr

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Today's licence price

3 tiers. Intercom's prices.

Vendor-advertised pricing converted to ZAR, 10-user estimate. Pick the tier closest to what your team is on today.

Essential

R86 640/yr

R722/user/month

With Chatwoot

Keep R86 640/yr

Advanced

R219 840/yr

R1 832/user/month

With Chatwoot

Keep R219 840/yr

Expert

R308 640/yr

R2 572/user/month

With Chatwoot

Keep R308 640/yr

Enterprise and negotiated pricing varies. Book a free audit for your exact number.

Five years on the books

What the spend looks like compounding.

Intercom grows around 10% per year on average. Chatwoot hosting stays flat. Watch the gap open up.

R0kR137kR274kR411kR547kYear 0Year 1Year 2Year 3Year 4Year 5R498kR31k flatSalesforce (50 users, 10%/yr inflation)SuiteCRM (self-hosted, maintained)

Five-year cumulative saving

R2.20M

Salesforce alone, single tool, 50 users. Stack multiple tools and the maths compounds harder.

How this migration runs

IntercomChatwoot, in four moves.

01

Audit

Workflows, customisations, integrations, users. Mapped against the OSS feature set.

02

Plan

Migration sequence, rollback path, parallel-run schedule. You approve every step before we move.

03

Migrate

Federate, parallel-run, port over the history. Cutover happens in a maintenance window with rollback armed.

04

Operate

Documentation in your repo, monitoring on your infra. We stay on as the team that maintains and grows it.

Same category

Other live chat migrations.

Running one of these alongside? Same migration shop covers both.

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Free audit. 30 minutes. We map your current setup, surface the real licence costs, and show you the migration in time and rand.