Comparison · Updated September 2026
Anchor Co AI vs. Elfsight: one chatbot vs. one widget in eighty.
Elfsight's AI Chatbot Widget starts cheaper than ours — but their logo stays on the widget until you reach their Enterprise tier. Ours doesn't, on any plan, including free.
The honest 30-second summary
Elfsight
Elfsight sells 80+ no-code website widgets — reviews, galleries, forms, popups — and the AI Chatbot Widget is one of them. Its Basic plan lists at $6/mo, cheaper than most of this category. But the Elfsight badge stays on your chatbot through Free, Basic, Pro, and Premium; removing it requires an Enterprise plan starting at $42/mo, and the plan is metered on chatbots, messages, and site pageviews simultaneously.
Anchor Co AI
A chatbot built specifically for local service businesses — salons, contractors, clinics, boutiques. Trains on your website URL in minutes, answers customer questions 24/7, and texts back missed callers within 60 seconds. Your branding, not ours, on every plan — including the free one. $29/mo to start.
Side-by-side
| Feature | Anchor Co AI | Elfsight |
|---|---|---|
| Entry paid plan | $29/mo (Starter) — 1,000 messages/mo, 2 bots | $6/mo (Basic, list price) — 3 chatbots, 300 messages/mo, 5,000 pageviews/mo |
| Cost to remove their branding | Included on every plan, including Free — no add-on, ever | Not available on Free, Basic, Pro, or Premium at any price. Only the Enterprise tiers remove it, starting at $42/mo (list) |
| What the plan is metered on | Messages only — one clear number | Chatbots, messages, AND site pageviews all at once — a low-traffic month can still burn through the pageview cap |
| Free plan | Yes — 1 bot, 20 messages/mo, no credit card | Yes — 1 chatbot, 50 messages/mo, 200 pageviews/mo, bug-fix support only, no credit card |
| What it's built for | A chatbot for local service businesses — trains on your site, captures leads | One widget inside a marketplace of 80+ website widgets (reviews, galleries, forms, popups, and more) |
| Missed-call text-back | Yes — texts a missed caller within 60 seconds | No phone or SMS automation |
| Setup without a sales call | Yes — sign up, paste URL, embed script. Live same day. | Yes — self-serve signup, embed the widget code |
| Contract required | No — month-to-month, cancel anytime | No — month-to-month; annual billing available at a discount |
| Free trial on paid plans | Yes — 14 days, no credit card | Not stated on their pricing page as retrieved |
Elfsight pricing per elfsight.com/ai-chatbot-widget/pricing/ (list prices; a site-wide promotional discount was active at retrieval and is not quoted here since it may expire). Anchor Co AI pricing at anchorcoai.com/pricing.
Our honest recommendation
If you already use Elfsight widgets elsewhere on your site and just want a cheap chatbot bolted on — and you don't mind their logo showing, or you're prepared to pay Enterprise pricing to remove it — their Basic plan is a genuinely low entry price.
If you run a local service business and want a chatbot that looks like it's yours from day one, with no branding asterisk and no pageview cap to watch, Anchor Co AI was built for exactly that. $29/month, self-serve setup, missed-call text-back included.
Where these numbers came from
- Elfsight: elfsight.com/ai-chatbot-widget/pricing/ — 23 dollar figures retrieved on 2026-09-13.
- Anchor Co AI: anchorcoai.com/pricing — our own published prices.
Prices move. We re-read every vendor page named on this tier and rewrite what has changed; if a figure here disagrees with the vendor's own page today, theirs is right and ours is stale — tell us and we'll fix it.