The €60/month Live-Chat Trap
If you run a dental clinic, local accounting practice, artisanal boutique, or niche agency, your website probably welcomes a few thousand visitors a month. A fraction of them want quick answers: "Do you take private health insurance?", "What are your opening hours this Saturday?", "Do you ship to Ireland?"
When you look for a chatbot to answer these simple queries around the clock, you are greeted with SaaS pricing models straight out of Silicon Valley: €49/month for an entry plan, plus €20/month per agent seat, plus arbitrary limits on custom rules. If your site has a quiet month, you still pay €600 to €1,200 a year for software that sits idle.
Why AI Now Costs Fractions of a Cent
Two years ago, hosting high-performance AI inference required expensive GPU clusters. In 2026, cutting-edge foundation models such as Google Gemini Flash process rich prompts with near-zero latency for fractions of a cent per request (€0.001–€0.003).
Charging small businesses €80/month for AI answering is pure margin extraction. Wibidi was built on the inverse philosophy: pass the actual compute efficiencies directly to the website owner.
How Wibidi's Pay-As-You-Go Credit System Works
Instead of locking you into monthly contracts:
- 10 Free Credits on Signup: Test your chatbot immediately on your real website. No credit card required.
- €2 Top-Up = 100 Credits: When you need more, €2 gives you 100 customer interactions. If you have 3 inquiries a day, €2 covers your entire month.
- Credits Never Expire: In a slow season, your balance stays intact. You never pay for unconsumed time.
- Volume Top-Ups: Need higher scale? €5 gives you 300 credits; €10 gives you 700 credits with automatic escalation features.
Comparison: Wibidi vs Traditional Chat Solutions
| Feature | Wibidi | Traditional Live Chat | Enterprise AI Bots |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starting Cost | €0 free / €2 top-up | €49 – €99 / month | €299 – €800 / month |
| Idle Month Cost | €0 (credits rollover) | Full monthly fee | Annual contract lock |
| Context Ingestion | ✓ Automatic URL Crawling | ✗ Manual decision trees | ✓ Complex vector DB |
| Installation | ✓ 2-line HTML snippet | ~ Heavy SDK plugins | ~ Developer integration |
| Hallucination Guard | ✓ Strict source-only bounds | ✗ N/A (human only) | ✓ Custom prompt config |
Strict Guardrails: No Hallucinations, No Surprises
Cost means nothing if the bot gives customers wrong answers or invents false discounts. Wibidi features built-in anti-hallucination protocols: the AI only answers questions using the exact facts discovered on your website. If a visitor asks something outside your domain, it politely clarifies its scope or offers an email escalation to you directly.
And integrating it takes two minutes. Check our step-by-step install guide for WordPress, Shopify, Squarespace, Wix, Webflow, and hand-coded HTML.