AI live chat software

Live chat, rebuilt for the AI era.

Pengo learns your business, answers customers in seconds, sorts out orders and refunds, and calls your team in when it matters.

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Also on WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger, Slack, email and SMS, all in one inbox.

Animation: the Pengo chat widget on an outdoor store. A customer's new boots are too small and she asks to exchange them. Pengo Intelligence answers from the store's returns policy and asks for her order number, finds the order in Shopify, requests the exchange, which a teammate approves, and confirms it with a returns label. When she asks about a group discount, it brings in Hannah from the team.

01 How it works

One conversation, from first click to five stars

The chat at the top of this page, as your team sees it in Pengo.

  1. 01

    A visitor lands

    Your site loads a 4.7 KB launcher with zero layout shift. Your team sees the visitor arrive live: where they’re from, which page, which visit.

  2. 02

    They ask a question

    The chat opens instantly with your greeting. Their message lands in the shared inbox the moment they press send.

  3. 03

    Pengo Intelligence answers

    Replies come from your own help articles, with the source attached. Your team can watch every answer, but doesn’t have to.

  4. 04

    Your team takes over

    When a question needs a person, the AI hands the chat over with a summary, so your teammate picks up mid-conversation, not from zero.

  5. 05

    Resolved, rated, measured

    The customer rates the chat. Each AI answer used 1 AI credit from your plan’s monthly allowance, and replies from your team are always free.

02 The platform

One product for every customer conversation

AI, a shared inbox, live visitors, a help center and analytics, designed as one product instead of five bolted-together tools.

An AI agent that knows your business, and knows when to stop

Pengo Intelligence learns from your website, docs, PDFs, Q&A and past chats. It answers with source links, and hands off to a human the moment its confidence drops.

  • Cited answers from your own content
  • Confidence-scored handoff with a summary for the agent
  • Pengo Actions: look up and cancel orders, skip payments, open tickets, book meetings
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03 Built for support teams

The details that make support feel effortless

Everything your team touches a hundred times a day, fast and exactly where you expect it.

04 Pengo Intelligence

Meet Pengo Intelligence. Your always-on teammate.

One AI that answers customers, assists agents and gets smarter from every resolved conversation, priced at cents, not dollars per resolution.

3,000
AI credits a month on Team
6
kinds of training source
1
AI credit per AI reply

AI agent

Resolves common questions end to end, around the clock, with sources your customers can click.

Agent copilot

Suggested replies with citations, rewrites, translation and catch-up summaries inside the composer.

Self-learning knowledge

Crawl your site, upload docs, add Q&A or YouTube. Well-rated chats become new knowledge automatically.

Knowledge gaps

See the questions AI could not answer and the topics customers ask about most.

Pengo Actions

Looks up and cancels orders, skips payments, opens tickets and books meetings in Shopify, Stripe, HubSpot and your calendar. You decide what needs a yes.

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Your own AI key

On Enterprise, run Pengo Intelligence on your own OpenAI, Anthropic or Google key, encrypted with AES-256-GCM.

Human replies and live chat are never metered. AI that is unsure always hands off.

05 Pengo Actions

AI that doesn’t just answer. It gets it done.

Pengo refunds, cancels, edits orders, opens tickets and books meetings in the conversation. You decide what it does on its own and what waits for your yes.

  1. Connect your tools Connect Shopify, WooCommerce, Stripe, HubSpot and your calendar in Settings › Integrations, or your own backend with a signed connector. Pengo Actions appear for each one.
  2. Choose how Pengo acts Set each action to Auto, Ask first or Off, add guardrails like “auto up to $50, ask above”, and pick who approves.
  3. Pengo acts in the conversation Pengo acts as it chats, or asks first. While your team chats, the Actions button ranks the next best actions for one-click runs.

ShopifyWooCommerceStripeHubSpotBooking

06 Omnichannel

Every channel. One inbox. One history.

Customers reach you wherever they are. Your team answers from one place, with the whole conversation history next to every reply.

  • Website chat Every plan
  • Email Every plan
  • Slack Two-way threads
  • WhatsApp Cloud API
  • Messenger Facebook pages
  • Instagram Direct messages
  • SMS Via Twilio
  • Mobile apps iOS & Android

Website chat and email on every plan · Slack from Starter · WhatsApp, Messenger, Instagram and SMS on Business · All channels →

07 Solutions

Built for the way your business talks to customers

Turn product questions into orders

Answer shipping, sizing and returns instantly, look up Shopify orders without leaving the chat, and nudge hesitant shoppers before they leave.

  • AI answers order FAQs 24/7
  • Shopify order lookup in the sidebar
  • Proactive offers on high-intent pages
  • Revenue attributed to chat
Pengo for ecommerce
08 Multiple websites

Every website you run. One dashboard.

Run a few stores, a family of brands or a roster of client sites? Add each one to Pengo in a minute and answer all of them from the same place.

  • A widget for each site

    Its own look, greeting, language and hours.

  • AI that knows each site

    Separate Pengo Intelligence knowledge per website.

  • One inbox for all of them

    Every conversation tagged with its website.

  • The right people on each site

    Give teammates all websites or just theirs.

See how multiple websites work
09 Install

Live in 5 minutes. Light as a feather.

One snippet on any stack. A widget so small your page speed score won’t notice it’s there.

Open the HTML template or layout shared by every page of your site. Paste the snippet just before the closing </body> tag. Deploy, then open your site to confirm the chat bubble appears.

<!-- Pengo -->
<script>
  (function () {
    window.pengo = window.pengo || function () { (window.pengo.q = window.pengo.q || []).push(arguments); };
    window.pengo.propertyId = 'YOUR_PROPERTY_ID';
    var s = document.createElement('script');
    s.async = true;
    s.src = 'https://app.pengo.chat/embed.js?v=2';
    document.head.appendChild(s);
  })();
</script>

Widget weight

4.7 KB

gzipped facade. The full chat loads only when someone wants to talk.

  • Zero layout shift
  • No impact on your Core Web Vitals
  • Accessible, keyboard friendly, 8 languages
See how it stays light

Works with your stack

Slack Shopify WhatsApp Zapier · Make · n8n HubSpotCal.comCalendlyGoogle CalendarOpenAIAnthropic
All integrations and the API
10 Security & enterprise

Enterprise-grade by default. Not as an upsell.

Security controls are part of the product on every plan. Enterprise adds SSO, audit logs, white-label, custom terms and a named contact.

Tenant isolation

Row-level security policies on every table, enforced in the database itself.

Encrypted secrets

Integration credentials and customer AI keys sealed with AES-256-GCM.

Private realtime

Signed, short-lived visitor tokens on private channels. No public broadcast.

2FA, SSO and SAML

Two-factor sign-in for every agent, plus single sign-on for your identity provider on Enterprise.

Audit logs

On Enterprise, a record of every admin action, ready for your security review.

GDPR tooling

Export or erase a visitor’s data on request, with retention you control.

  • GDPR ready Export & erasure
  • AES-256-GCM Secrets at rest
  • SSO / SAML + 2FA
  • Audit logs Every admin action
  • Row-level security Tenant isolation
  • TLS 1.2+ Encrypted in transit
11 Pricing

Simple plans. Your whole team included.

Seats, websites and monthly AI credits for one flat price. Start free forever, and never pay per resolution.

Compare every plan

Free

Live chat and a shared inbox for one website, free for good.

$0$0forever

No card needed

Start free
seats
1 seat included Just you
websites
1 website
credits
No AI agent Starts on Starter
conversations
50 conversations a month

Starter

An AI agent that answers from your content, for a small team.

$24$29/ mo

Billed yearly · $290/yrBilled monthly

Start with Starter
seats
2 seats included +$19 each, up to 3
websites
1 website
credits
700 AI credits a month ≈ 175 AI-handled chats
conversations
Unlimited conversations

Business

Every channel, Advanced AI and automation for high-volume support.

$166$199/ mo

Billed yearly · $1,990/yrBilled monthly

Start with Business
seats
15 seats included +$19 per extra seat
websites
10 websites +$10 per extra website
credits
8,000 AI credits a month ≈ 2,000 AI-handled chats
conversations
Unlimited conversations
12 How Pengo compares

Built to win on what matters

Lighter widget, flat pricing and AI included. Hover a row to see where each number comes from.

Feature Pengo Typical incumbents
Widget footprint < 5KB gzipped facade ↗ Often 50KB+ on first load

Source: /performance/

Layout shift Zero (fixed position) ↗ Varies by vendor

Source: /performance/

Pricing model Free plan, then flat plans with seats included (5 on Team) ↗ Often per seat with no free plan

Source: /pricing/

AI billing AI credits included in every paid plan, at one fixed, published rate ↗ Often per outcome or per conversation, plus per seat

Source: /pricing/

Human chat Never metered ↗ Sometimes capped by plan

Source: /pricing/

Remove branding Team and up ↗ Often mid-tier or higher

Source: /pricing/

Pengo vs Intercom → · Pengo vs Zendesk → · Pengo vs Drift → · Pengo vs LiveChat → · Pengo vs Crisp → · Pengo vs Tidio → · Pengo vs Smartsupp → · Pengo vs HelpCrunch → · Pengo vs Olark →

Switch in an afternoon

Built-in importers bring your contacts and conversation history over. Every tool has a step-by-step guide, and your old widget stays live until Pengo is ready.

13 Questions

Answers

How fast can I get Pengo running?
Copy one script tag, paste it before </body>, and the chat bubble appears on your site. Most teams finish setup in a few minutes, and there are guides for WordPress, Shopify, Webflow, Next.js and Google Tag Manager. No developer required for the default install.
Is there a free plan?
Yes. Free covers one person and one website with 50 conversations a month, forever. Team adds a 14-day trial with every Team feature and the AI agent included.
Can I use Pengo on more than one website?
Yes. One Pengo workspace runs all your websites, with 3 included on Team and 10 on Business, and more at $10 a month each. Every site gets its own widget, AI knowledge and settings, and every conversation lands in one shared inbox, tagged with its website.
How is Pengo different from Intercom, LiveChat or Crisp?
A real free plan, then flat plans with seats, websites and AI credits included, and no per-resolution fees. Our widget is a facade under 5KB gzipped that lazy-loads on visitor intent. You get AI, a shared inbox, live visitors, a help center and mobile apps in one product.
What can Pengo Intelligence learn from?
Your website (by URL or sitemap), uploaded files (PDF, DOCX, TXT, Markdown), plain text, Q&A pairs and YouTube videos. Sources refresh on a schedule, and well-rated resolved chats can be turned into new knowledge automatically.
What happens when the AI does not know the answer?
It hands off. When confidence drops, or the customer asks for a person, the conversation goes to your team with a summary, and the AI stops replying. Knowledge-gap reports then show you what to add.
What channels does Pengo support?
Website chat and email on every plan. Starter adds Slack and Shopify order lookups. Team adds webhooks for Zapier, Make and n8n. Business adds WhatsApp, SMS, Messenger and Instagram DMs. All channels route into the same team inbox.
How does AI billing work?
Starter, Team and Business include the AI agent with 700, 3,000 and 8,000 AI credits a month. An AI reply uses 1 AI credit, so a typical AI-handled chat uses about 4. Need more? Add 2,000 AI credits for $40 a month. Human replies and live chat are always free.
Can I move from my current live chat tool?
Yes. Pengo has built-in importers for Intercom, Crisp, Tidio and Tawk.to that bring over contacts and conversation history, and a generic CSV option for everything else. Each competitor has a step-by-step switch guide.
Do you have mobile apps?
Yes. Agents can reply, assign and resolve from iOS and Android apps with push notifications, so nothing slips while you are away from your desk.
Is Pengo secure?
Data is encrypted in transit, integration secrets and AI keys are encrypted at rest with AES-256-GCM, and row-level security enforces tenant isolation in the database. 2FA and GDPR export and erasure are on every plan, and Enterprise adds SSO/SAML and audit logs. Our security page lists every control.

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