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Searching for the best WordPress AI chatbot plugins to create your own AI-powered chatbot? 🤔
With these plugins, you can use AI models like OpenAI’s GPT-3 and GPT-4 to implement your own conversational AI chatbot that’s aware of your site’s content.
For example, you could train your chatbot on your site’s knowledge base so that it can answer users’ questions and direct them to relevant material. That way, you can offer quality live chat support 24/7 without lifting a finger.
Thanks to the growth of AI and tools like ChatGPT, there are now a bunch of native WordPress plugins that let you create and train your chatbot without needing to pay a monthly fee to a SaaS AI chatbot tool. 😎
In this post, we’ve collected our picks for the four best WordPress AI chatbot plugins. All of these plugins support OpenAI’s models and many of them have a free version 💸 that you can try before you buy.
Here are our picks for the best 🔥 WordPress AI chatbot plugins:
AI Engine is one of the best WordPress AI chatbot plugins in the WordPress.org directory – and among the most popular. It’s a full-service solution for integrating AI into your site, including creating content with AI, generating images, and – you guessed it – creating an AI chatbot.
One of the great things about AI Engine is that it also lets you train your own chatbot model and make it aware of your site’s content.
For example, you could train your chatbot to answer users’ questions based on your knowledge base content.
You can also train your chatbot by entering your own dataset, which is essentially a CSV document containing potential prompts and answers. Here’s an example of what the training data might look like:
The developer also has a guide on how to train your own AI model, which makes it easy to get started. It’s one of the better documented WordPress AI chatbot plugins that we found, which is great if this is your first step into the space.
AI Engine has a free version at WordPress.org that lets you create an AI chatbot.
However, you’ll need the Pro version to make the chatbot content-aware for the page that the user is currently on. The Pro version also gives you more tools for training and fine-tuning your chatbot.
It starts at $49 for use on a single site.
AI Power is another popular all-purpose WordPress AI plugin that includes chatbot functionality as part of its feature set. Beyond the WordPress AI chatbot feature, you can also use it for content generation, image generation, text-to-speech, and more.
In terms of the chatbot functionality, it also does a good job of letting you train your chatbot on your WordPress site’s content and fine-tune everything as much as needed. You also get lots of options to customize how your chatbot interacts with visitors.
AI Power has a basic free version at WordPress.org that does let you create a chatbot.
If you want more features, the premium version adds more chat-related ones such as moderation, the ability to make it aware of custom post type content, and more.
The Pro version costs $7.99 per month or $71.88 per year. There’s also a $219 lifetime option.
Unlike the previous two plugins, WPBot is exclusively a WordPress AI chatbot plugin – hence the name.
One notable difference with WPBot is that it also supports Google’s DialogFlow in addition to OpenAI models, whereas the previous two plugins exclusively use OpenAI.
Or, you can skip the models entirely and just build your own native button-menu chatbot without relying on any of them. While that doesn’t really count as “AI,” it might be a nice option to have in some situations.
It also has some integrations with other messenger apps like Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp, which goes beyond what the previous two plugins offer.
WPBot has a limited free version at WordPress.org. However, you’ll want the premium version if you’re serious about creating a WordPress AI chatbot because you need it to access the best AI models.
WPBot Pro starts at $49 and goes up to $189 depending on the features that you want to access.
AiBudWP is another all-in-one AI plugin that includes a WordPress AI chatbot feature as part of its AI-focused feature set. Beyond the chatbot, you can also use it to create content and images using different AI models.
It also gives you tools to train and refine your chatbot. However, it doesn’t support any chatbot functionality in the free version, so it’s probably not the best choice if you’re on a tight budget.
While there is a free version of AiBud WP at WordPress.org, you can only access the chatbot feature with the premium version.
The premium version starts at $5 per month or $50 per year. There’s also a lifetime option that costs $150.
That wraps up our curated list of the best WordPress AI chatbot plugins.
If you’re not sure where to get started, Jordy Meow’s AI Engine makes a great beginning point, though all of the other plugins also have something to offer.
Beyond offering a solid feature set, AI Engine is also very well-documented and includes lots of information to help you train and refine your AI chatbot model. If you’ve never worked with an AI chatbot before, having this detailed documentation is super handy.
If you don’t need a native WordPress plugin solution, you also might want to check out our list of the best AI chatbot tools, which includes AI chatbots with more of a SaaS approach. While these tools generally cost more, they can be easier to use.
Or, if you think you could be better served by a traditional live chat experience, you also might want to read our roundups of the best WordPress live chat plugins or the best live chat software. 🧩
Do you still have any questions about how to choose between the best WordPress AI chatbot plugins? Let us know in the comments section!
Colin Newcomer is a WordPress power user who has been writing about WordPress for over seven years and using the WordPress software since all the way back in 2006. He also has hands-on experience with SEO, content marketing, affiliate marketing, and other digital marketing areas.

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Colin Newcomer is a WordPress power user who has been writing about WordPress for over seven years and using the WordPress software since all the way back in 2006. He also has hands-on experience with SEO, content marketing, affiliate marketing, and other digital marketing areas.
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