Build Custom AI Chatbots with Stackbear
Stackbear is a powerful platform that allows you to create AI-powered chatbots in minutes, without needing any coding experience. This guide will walk you through Stackbear's features, pricing, and how it works.
Key Features
- Customizable Chatbots: Build chatbots based on your own content, fully customizable to match your brand and needs.
- Cost-Effective: Use your own OpenAI API key to keep costs low. Stackbear charges a small monthly fee for infrastructure, not per message.
- Natural Language Understanding: Create chatbots that understand complex queries and converse naturally.
- Knowledge Base Integration: Upload content from your website or import documents to create a knowledge base chatbot.
- Human Escalation: Seamlessly hand off conversations to human agents when needed.
- Personalization: Customize chatbot personality and behavior for various purposes (support, marketing, sales, etc.).
- Multilingual Support: Engage with a global audience by creating multilingual chatbots.
- Lead Capture: Collect email addresses through interactive conversations.
- Simple Setup: Activate a chatbot on your site with just a URL. Easy copy-and-paste embed code.
Use Cases
Stackbear's versatility makes it suitable for a wide range of applications:
- Customer Support: Dramatically reduce support load by answering common questions instantly.
- Marketing: Engage website visitors with personalized conversations and capture leads.
- Sales: Automate lead qualification and provide instant responses to prospects.
- Internal Tools: Improve team efficiency by embedding chatbots into internal tools.
How it Works
Creating a chatbot with Stackbear is a three-step process:
- Add Your Content: Provide your website URL, and Stackbear's AI will scan your content to train your bot.
- Personalize Your Bot: Preview and adjust settings to match your brand and desired behavior.
- Launch Your Bot: Copy and paste the embed code into your website to go live.
Pricing
Stackbear offers a flexible pricing structure:
- Free: 1 bot, unlimited messages, 400K characters/chatbot, 3-day message retention.
- Starter: $19/month, 5 bots, unlimited messages, 11M characters/chatbot, 90-day message retention, lead capture, conversation history, human escalation.
- Business: $99/month, 10 bots, unlimited messages, 11M characters/chatbot, unlimited message retention, lead capture, conversation history, human escalation, email integration, removal of Stackbear branding.
Frequently Asked Questions
- Why use my own OpenAI API key? To keep costs low and provide control over usage. You're billed directly by OpenAI.
- How to get an OpenAI API key? Sign up on the OpenAI website.
- What model does it use? Defaults to GPT-3.5, with GPT-4 as an option.
- Are there other costs? OpenAI charges for embeddings used to train the chatbot.
- What happens if I run out of OpenAI funds? Your chatbot will stop working until you top up your account.
- Why are there character limits? To optimize chatbot efficiency.
- What is human escalation? The chatbot detects when a user needs human assistance and hands off the conversation.
- What are private/public bots? Private bots are accessible only to you; public bots are accessible to anyone on the internet.
- What does email integration do? Allows responding to escalated conversations and following up with offline users.
- What type of content can I upload? FAQs, product details, or any text data.
- Does it use ChatGPT? Yes, leveraging ChatGPT technology.
- Can I cancel anytime? Yes, with access until the end of the billing period.
- What can I use it for? Customer service, sales support, data gathering, and more.
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