/vs/social-intents
spookat
vs social intents.
Social Intents is a live chat you answer from Microsoft Teams, Slack, Google Chat, Zoom or Webex, with an AI chatbot included, priced per account in tiers by seats, widgets and conversations. Spookat is a chat widget that makes 0 requests to our API before the click and lands every chat in Slack, Discord or our inbox and its phone app. Here's the honest version.
the short version.
pick social intents if
your team lives in Microsoft Teams or Google Chat, or you want a hosted AI chatbot in the price.
pick spookat if
your team is on Discord or Slack, or answers from a phone, and you want one price per site with no cap on chats.
side by side.
| what | spookat | Social Intents |
|---|---|---|
| cheapest paid plan | $4.99 a site a month, $9.99 after early access | Lite, $29/month for 1 seat, 1 widget and 60 conversations ($21 billed yearly). source for Social Intents, cheapest paid plan (opens in a new tab) |
| your team | Unlimited, all included. We charge per site. | 1 seat on Lite, 4 on Starter, unlimited from Basic ($69/month). source for Social Intents, your team (opens in a new tab) |
| their AI | No bot of ours to sell you. No per-answer fees. | A chatbot on ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini, trained on 200 to 10,000 of your pages depending on the plan. source for Social Intents, their AI (opens in a new tab) |
| your own AI agent | Webhooks, a reply API and MCP on cool guy ($14.99 in early access). | API access on every plan, per their pricing page. source for Social Intents, your own AI agent (opens in a new tab) |
| remove their logo | On cool guy ($14.99 in early access). | White label from Pro, $99/month. source for Social Intents, remove their logo (opens in a new tab) |
| answer from Slack | A thread per chat, reply in the thread. Every paid plan. | Native on every plan. Each chat gets its own Slack channel, or a thread in threaded mode. source for Social Intents, answer from Slack (opens in a new tab) |
| answer from Discord | A thread per chat, or a post in a forum channel. Reply in it. Every paid plan. | No native integration; notifications through Zapier. source for Social Intents, answer from Discord (opens in a new tab) |
| before anyone clicks | One launcher script under 4 kb gzipped. 0 requests to our API. | Not measured yet. source for Social Intents, before anyone clicks (opens in a new tab) |
| cookies | None. | Cookies or local storage keep the conversation going, per their privacy policy. source for Social Intents, cookies (opens in a new tab) |
| visitor IPs | Never stored. | Collected, with an approximate location, per their privacy policy. source for Social Intents, visitor IPs (opens in a new tab) |
| free plan | No. 14-day trial, no card. | No. 14-day trial. source for Social Intents, free plan (opens in a new tab) |
Social Intents's side comes from their public pages, checked 2026-10-02. "measured" means we loaded their widget on a test page ourselves and counted what arrived before any click. Prices change: spot something outdated and we'll fix it.
where social intents wins.
- Answers from Microsoft Teams, Google Chat, Zoom and Webex, not only Slack.
- An AI chatbot on ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini, trained on your pages.
- WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger can land in the same channel.
- Office hours, and /livechat online and offline commands in Slack.