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Open-source alternatives to Intercom

3 open-source projects are offered as replacements for Intercom. chatwoot is the most starred. Running one yourself trades the subscription for your own hosting and upkeep, so the table below leads with what decides that trade: whether the project is alive, what its licence lets a business do, and whether there is a container command to start from.

1 / 3
Pushed in the last 90 days
0 / 3
With a container command
1 / 3
Permissive licence
Intercom’s own site ↗

Side by side

Open-source alternatives to Intercom
ProjectStarsActivityLicenceSelf-hostLanguage
chatwoot37,946ActiveNot identified○Ruby
Papercups6,116QuietPermissive○Elixir
chaskiq3,574SlowingNot identified○TypeScript

Each one, briefly

  • chatwoot37,946 stars · not identified · active

    Open-source live-chat, email support, omni-channel desk. An alternative to Intercom, Zendesk, Salesforce Service Cloud etc. 🔥💬

  • Papercups6,116 stars · permissive · quiet

    Open-source live customer chat

    Also replaces Zendesk

  • chaskiq3,574 stars · not identified · slowing

    A full featured Live Chat, Support & Marketing platform, alternative to Intercom, Drift, Crisp.

Where this comes from

Which projects are offered against Intercom comes from opensourcealternative.to, re-read weekly. Every figure in the table is read from the project’s own repository. We have not run these projects, and we hold no price for Intercom. Browse every open-source alternative.