The UK-hosted Chatbase alternative built for support teams
Teams usually start looking for a Chatbase alternative for one of three reasons: they need live data lookups that never hallucinate, they need escalation that follows rules instead of a human watching a dashboard, or their compliance team asked where the data lives and did not like the answer.
SupportAi was built in the UK for exactly those teams. Here is what changes when you switch, and how to do it in an afternoon.
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Four things you get that Chatbase does not offer
Deterministic answers for reference numbers
Regex webhooks match order, booking or ticket numbers and fetch the real status from your system with no language model in the loop.
Escalation you can configure
Sentiment, keywords, fallback count and tool calls route conversations to your inbox and pause the AI automatically.
Every channel, every plan
Web, Slack, WhatsApp and email are never gated. One agent, one inbox, one knowledge base.
UK/EU hosting and GBP billing
Simpler DPA, simpler VAT, and a team in your timezone.
How to migrate from Chatbase
Most teams finish in an afternoon. Actions take longest; email us their definitions and we will set them up with you.
- 1
Export or list your Chatbase sources and paste the URLs into a new SupportAi agent
- 2
Upload the same PDFs and documents; indexing takes a few minutes
- 3
Re-create actions by describing the endpoint in plain English, or email us the definitions
- 4
Replace the Chatbase script tag with the SupportAi one
- 5
Turn on Slack, WhatsApp or email if you were waiting for them
- Your content is public or exportable
- You know which live-data questions matter most
- Someone can list your API endpoints for actions
- Your compliance team wants UK/EU hosting
Want the full feature grid? SupportAi vs Chatbase
Side by side
| Capability | SupportAi | Chatbase |
|---|---|---|
| Agent | ||
| Train on website, files and Q&A | ||
| Choice of OpenAI, Anthropic and Google models | ||
| Custom actions that call your APIs | ||
| Deterministic regex webhooks (no LLM in the loop) | ||
| Guardrails: blocked topics, injection and leak checks | Partial | |
| Playground with compare mode and saved scenarios | ||
| Channels & widgets | ||
| Website widget with streaming replies | ||
| Slack, WhatsApp and email on every plan | Higher tiers | |
| Rich widgets: cards, buttons, forms, status cards | Partial | |
| Lead capture with triggers and CSV export | ||
| Team | ||
| Shared inbox with human takeover | Basic | |
| Escalation rules: sentiment, keywords, fallbacks | Partial | |
| Roles: owner, admin, agent, viewer | ||
| Ask-your-data assistant (Backstage) | ||
| Business | ||
| UK/EU hosting by default | US | |
| Pricing in GBP with VAT invoices | ||
| Per-resolution or per-seat fees | None | None |
| Human support from the team who built it | Ticketed | |
Why teams leave Chatbase
The most common reasons we hear from teams switching from Chatbase:
- No deterministic webhook layer for order numbers and reference lookups
- US hosting only, which complicates UK GDPR data-processing documentation
- Escalation is manual rather than rule-driven
Who should stay on Chatbase
Solo founders who want a quick FAQ bot on a US-hosted stack and do not need UK data residency or GBP invoicing.
If that describes you, SupportAi may not be a better fit and we would rather say so than win a migration you regret.
What stays the same
Your knowledge sources, your embed location and your team. SupportAi crawls the same URLs, ingests the same documents and takes the same script-tag slot in your site. Conversation history for new visitors starts fresh; transcripts can be imported on request.
Frequently asked questions
Most teams are live the same afternoon. Knowledge is a paste-and-upload job; actions take a little longer if you have many.
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