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Communicate

Support Board alternative

The Support Board alternative when you want the AI set up for you, not a kit to assemble.

Support Board is cheaper: its cloud plans start at $5 a month, and you can buy the code to run on your own server. Communicate is a ready AI support chat: add your pages, and the Agent answers with sources and hands hard chats to your team. Starter is $39 a month. Try it for a one-time $1.

Start with 100 creditsBook Demo

One-time $1 activation · 100 credits included · No automatic subscription

SourcesLive

The AI works on day one.

No apps to add.

Your help center. Your inbox. Your team.

Compare Communicate and Support Board row by row

Communicate vs Support Board

Every row, as each one publishes it.

Support Board wins on price, self-hosting with source code, unlimited agents, and many messaging apps. Communicate wins on cited AI answers, Member-required Actions, and MCP and CLI. All of it is below.

How you start

Communicate$1 once: 100 credits that never expire, nothing renews
Support BoardFree cloud tier, 100 messages a month

Entry paid plan

CommunicateSolo: $19 a month
Support BoardCloud: $5 a month, 5,000 messages

Self-hosting

CommunicateNot offered
Support Board$49 one-time license, with source code

Seats

Communicate1, 3, or 10 by Plan
Support BoardUnlimited agents

Messaging apps

CommunicateWebsite chat and email; WhatsApp and Messenger coming soon
Support BoardWhatsApp, Messenger, Telegram, and more

Actions a person approves

CommunicateMember-required Actions
Support BoardNot listed on its pricing page

MCP and CLI

CommunicateBoth on every Plan
Support BoardNot listed on its pricing page

Support Board figures come from board.support/pricing, checked on 3 October 2026. Apps on the self-hosted version are sold separately; on cloud they are included. “Not listed” means the pricing page does not show it.

Start with 100 credits

What each one costs

The cheaper tool, and the finished one.

From board.support/pricing and our Plans, checked on 3 October 2026.

  1. 01 · $39

    Communicate Starter

    3,000 AI replies, about 1,000 chats, and 3 seats a month.

  2. 02 · $5

    Support Board Cloud

    5,000 messages a month, from a free tier of 100 messages.

  3. 03 · Support Board wins

    On price and control

    Self-host on your server with source code, or use cloud plans from $5.

What changes

Support Board wins on price. Communicate wins on a finished AI flow.

Support Board packs live chat and many messaging apps at a very low price. If you want an AI Agent that answers with sources and takes approved Actions, without wiring it up, Communicate is built for that.

  1. 01

    Answers with sources

    Every AI answer links to the page it came from.

  2. 02

    Actions with approval

    Look up orders or call your API. Mark risky Actions Member required.

  3. 03

    MCP and CLI

    Work with Conversations and Agents from an AI assistant or the terminal.

Used in production

Already answering customer questions.

  • Teams building software
  • Teams making content
  • Teams running everyday tools
  • Autoposting
  • Vrid
  • Niyam
  • FAAD Network
  • Nimblocity
  • Pure Digital
  • QCall
  • Serri
  • The Medical Insurance Exchange

How it works

From sign-up to answers in one sitting.

About 5 minutes to a first answer. Nothing to install or host.

  1. Knowledge

    Connected

    • Website

      Ready for answers

    • Product PDF

      Ready for answers

    • FAQ doc

      Ready for answers

  2. Handoff rules

    Saved

    • Complaint

      Hand off

    • Refund

      Member required

    • Opening hours

      Agent answers

  3. Widget

    Live

    • Site

      yourbrand.com

    • Agent

      Answering

    • Inbox

      Watching

Designed for the edge cases

What you get on every Plan.

Plans differ only in credits, seats, and Agents.

01

AI Agents with sources

Answers grounded in your website and files.

Removessetting up AI yourself.

02

Shared Inbox

Assign and take over chats with full history.

Removesswitching tools for handoff.

03

In-App Messages

Reach the right people inside your product.

Removesa separate nudge tool.

04

Hosted for you

No server, no updates to run.

Removesserver upkeep.

AI Agents with sources
Shared Inbox
In-App Messages
Hosted for you
Every feature here runsthrough the same Agent.

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What Support Board buyers ask before they choose.

Including the cases where Support Board is the better fit.

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