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AI Chatbot for Your Website: Add One With One Script Tag (2026)

·BotEmbed Team

An AI chatbot for a website should answer from the pages you already published. It should not require a live-chat team, a flow builder, or a $40–$150/mo credit plan on day one. This page is the short version of how to add a chatbot to a website with BotEmbed, and where it is the wrong product.

What you get

Sign up, add your site URL, paste one script tag. We crawl your site (same host, up to 25 pages). You can upload documents. Chat uses that plus the page the visitor is on. If the answer is not on your site, we connect the visitor to your team — we do not recommend another company.

  • Starter — $9.99/mo (1 bot, 1,000 messages)
  • Pro — $19.99/mo (5 bots, 10,000 messages)
  • Scale — $29.99/mo (unlimited bots, 50,000 messages)
  • 14-day trial; a card is required. No free forever plan.

Scale removes branding and raises limits. It does not include an API, custom domains, a dedicated account manager, or custom integrations. See pricing before you subscribe.

What you do not get

  • No live-chat inbox, tickets, or social messaging suite
  • No crawl of other domains, and no promise past 25 pages on your host
  • No free forever plan. The trial needs a card and ends after 14 days.

If you need humans in an inbox, look at a help desk. Public Tidio list prices (September 2026) start at Free (50 billable conversations), then Starter around $24.17/mo billed annually and Growth around $49.17/mo billed annually, with Lyro and Flows as add-ons. Chatbase (September 2026) lists Free at 50 credits, Hobby at $40, Standard at $150, and Pro at $500. Those are different products. Side by side: BotEmbed vs Tidio vs Chatbase.

How to add it

  1. Start a trial and copy the script tag from the dashboard.
  2. Paste it in your site header, footer, or tag manager so it loads on the pages you care about.
  3. Ask a question that is actually answered on those pages. If the page does not say it, the bot should not invent it.

WordPress-specific paste steps (Customizer, a header/footer plugin, or the theme) are in How to add an AI chatbot to WordPress. If you are choosing between a plugin and a script tag, see WordPress chatbot plugin vs a script-tag widget.

BotEmbed is a site-aware AI chat widget. We crawl your site. 14-day trial, card required. Start a trial or compare plans.

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