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Chatwoot

Deep Dive Analysis

Chatwoot is an open-source customer engagement suite covering live chat, shared inbox and social channels, self-hostable or cloud.

Target Audience

Teams that want a support inbox without per-seat commercial pricing.

The Final Verdict

"Strong value, particularly self-hosted. Expect to trade polish for control."

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What we checked

Public API
Offers a documented API you can build against.
Yes
Mobile app
Has a native app for iOS or Android, not just a mobile website.
Yes
Open source / self-hostable
Source is open and the tool can be run on your own infrastructure.
Yes
SSO (SAML)
Supports SAML single sign-on on at least one plan.
Yes

These are facts that can be checked, not opinions. Where we have not checked, it says so — we do not fill the gap with a guess.

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