Chatbase

Chatbase is a no-code platform for building AI support agents trained on your own content and deployed across your website, WhatsApp and Instagram. It uses credit-based pricing where each response consumes message credits, and is notable for being a bootstrapped company that reportedly scaled past $10M ARR with a small team.

Chatbase lets you build custom AI agents by uploading your content, whether that is website pages, PDFs, help docs or other files, and then deploying a chat widget that answers questions using that knowledge. The typical use case is customer support: the agent resolves common questions, hands off to a human when needed, and can take actions through integrations. The platform runs on a credit-based model where each AI response consumes message credits, and higher-end models cost more credits per reply. It supports multiple deployment channels including an embeddable website widget, WhatsApp and Instagram, plus integrations and workflow actions. Add-ons cover extra message credits, additional AI agents and removing Chatbase branding. Chatbase is notable as a bootstrapped, capital-efficient company. Founded by Yasser Elsaid and reported to have scaled past roughly $10 million in annual recurring revenue with a small team and no outside venture funding, it has become one of the more widely used AI chatbot builders. It is a strong fit for support and lead-generation use cases, though credit consumption and per-agent add-on costs are worth modeling before scaling.