Open Source Alternatives

Alternatives to Intercom

Customer messaging and support platform.

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Updated Mar 2026

Drop-in Replacements

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Chatwoot

1575% coverage

Open source live-chat and support desk

If you need a live chat widget on your website and a support inbox behind it — where your team can see conversations from chat, email, Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, and Telegram all in one place — Chatwoot is the open source Intercom/Zendesk alternative. Customer messages come in from any channel, your team responds from one dashboard.

28.1k ★+123/wkRubyMIT License

Building Blocks

Intercom is a platform — it bundles multiple capabilities into one subscription. These tools each cover one piece. Teams often assemble 2–3 of them instead of paying for the full suite.