Userlike, LiveHelpNow, Social Intents and Rocket.Chat all put a chat box on your website. The interesting part is what happens to the conversation after a visitor hits send.

One built its whole pitch on German servers and GDPR. The other bet on an all-in-one inbox with honest per-agent pricing. Here is how the two live chat platforms actually differ.
From a free chat bubble in Scottsdale to a public company in New York and a $62.5 million bet out of Kuala Lumpur, four companies are chasing the same job - answer the customer - and AI is quietly rewriting who does the answering.