Best European Chatbot & Conversational Marketing

Looking for a GDPR-compliant alternative to Drift, Intercom or Qualified? European chatbot and conversational-marketing tools put a bot on your website to trigger proactive conversations, qualify leads and book meetings — distinct from plain support live-chat — while keeping visitor data under EU jurisdiction.

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9 European Chatbot & Conversational Marketing Tools

Landbot

Barcelona no-code chatbot builder for web, WhatsApp and Messenger, from HELLO UMI S.L. since 2015

#1 of 9 in this category
Spain Free tier; paid plans from €32/month
Chatbot-first visual, no-code flow designerNative HubSpot, Salesforce and Pipedrive lead pushDeploys one flow to web, WhatsApp and Messenger

Tiledesk

Italian open-source chatbot builder with AI lead qualification and self-hosting, from Tiledesk S.r.l.

#2 of 9 in this category
Italy From €124/month billed annually
Genuine self-hosting or private-cloud deploymentExplicit AI-driven lead qualification and routingMulti-channel: web, WhatsApp, Messenger, SMS, voice

Crisp

French shared inbox with a visual AI chatbot builder and proactive lead-capture messages

#3 of 9 in this category
France Free tier (2 agents); paid from $45/month
Visual AI chatbot builder with conditional logicCustom input fields for structured lead captureFully autonomous AI agent on the Plus tier

LiveChat

Polish messaging platform with proactive campaigns and a companion ChatBot.com builder, from Text S.A.

#4 of 9 in this category
Poland From $19/month billed annually
Proactive chats and recurring visitor campaignsChatBot.com: a separate bot-builder product from the same companyText AI Agent turns service conversations into revenue

Userlike

German messaging platform, now rebranded Lime Connect, with an AI agent, Workflows and WhatsApp Campaigns

#5 of 9 in this category
Germany Free tier; paid plans from €105/month
Connect AI Agent add-on, up to 90% resolution claimedNo-code Workflows builder for custom automationsGDPR-compliant WhatsApp Campaigns with reported 80% open rates

Trengo

Dutch omnichannel inbox built around WhatsApp, with AI Journeys and proactive broadcast campaigns

#6 of 9 in this category
Netherlands From €299/month billed annually
AI Journeys: multi-step automated conversation flowsBuilt around the WhatsApp Business API from the startDedicated "Trengo for Sales" lead-qualification module

Smartsupp

Czech live chat with Mira, an autonomous AI shopping-assistant agent for ecommerce

#7 of 9 in this category
Czech Republic Free tier; paid plans from $17/month
Mira: autonomous 24/7 AI shopping-assistant agentProduct recommendations from a catalogue of up to 30,000 itemsResolves up to 80% of inquiries without a human, per the vendor

LiveAgent

Slovak helpdesk with proactive chat invitations and a 24/7 AI support agent, from Quality Unit s.r.o.

#8 of 9 in this category
Slovakia From $15/agent/month billed annually
Proactive, behaviour-triggered chat invitations on every tier24/7 AI support agent with human handoffTicketing, chat and call centre in one Slovak-run product

Kindly

Norwegian AI chatbot with a 100+ language visual dialogue builder, aimed at high-volume conversational commerce

#9 of 9 in this category
Norway Quoted per organisation, session-based
Widest language coverage in this category: 100+ languagesDeep CRM, helpdesk and order-management integrationsDeployed across chat, voice, in-app and WhatsApp

Key takeaways

  • Landbot ranks #1 because it is chatbot-first by design, with a visual no-code flow builder and native CRM push integrations, rather than a live-chat tool with a bot added on.
  • Tiledesk is the only tool in the category offering genuine self-hosting, relevant for a team with strict data-residency requirements.
  • Every tool here publishes real pricing, and four (Landbot, Crisp, Userlike, Smartsupp) offer a genuine free tier rather than only a trial.
  • Userlike has been rebranded Lime Connect following an acquisition by Lime Technologies; the operating entity remains a German GmbH, so the EU-jurisdiction picture is unchanged.
  • Tidio, though widely marketed as Polish, is excluded from this page: its primary contracting entity, Tidio LLC, is registered in San Francisco, and only a joint-controller subsidiary sits in Szczecin, Poland.
  • Kindly, from Oslo, Norway, has the widest language coverage of any tool here (100+ languages) but is the only one without published pricing, which is why it ranks last despite strong integration depth.

Looking for a GDPR-compliant alternative to Drift, Intercom or Qualified? European chatbot and conversational-marketing tools put a bot on your website to trigger proactive conversations, qualify leads and book meetings — distinct from plain support live-chat — while keeping visitor data under EU jurisdiction.

European Chatbot & Conversational Marketing tools compared

European Chatbot & Conversational Marketing tools compared on position, country, entry price and best use
PositionToolCountryEntry priceBest for
#1 Landbot Spain Free tier; paid plans from €32/month A marketing team designing lead-qualification bot flows without an engineer
#2 Tiledesk Italy From €124/month billed annually A technical team that wants to self-host its chatbot and conversation data
#3 Crisp France Free tier (2 agents); paid from $45/month A small team wanting a chatbot builder bundled with a shared inbox
#4 LiveChat Poland From $19/month billed annually A team that wants a mature live-chat product plus an optional dedicated bot builder
#5 Userlike (Lime Connect) Germany Free tier; paid plans from €105/month German-speaking companies wanting AI Agent automation and WhatsApp Campaigns
#6 Trengo Netherlands From €299/month billed annually Teams whose marketing bot needs to live primarily on WhatsApp
#7 Smartsupp Czech Republic Free tier; paid plans from $17/month Ecommerce stores wanting an autonomous AI shopping-assistant bot
#8 LiveAgent Slovakia From $15/agent/month billed annually A support team that wants proactive bot triggers inside a full helpdesk
#9 Kindly Norway Quoted per organisation, session-based A multilingual retailer or marketplace running high-volume conversational commerce

Every European chatbot & conversational-marketing tool reviewed

#1 Landbot

Barcelona, Spain Founded 2015 Free tier; paid plans from €32/month Free tier available

Best for: A marketing team designing lead-qualification bot flows without an engineer

  • Operating company. HELLO UMI, S.L.
  • Jurisdiction. EU (Spain)
  • Where the data sits. GDPR-compliant, SOC 2 certified
  • Source code. Closed source
  • Replaces. Drift, ManyChat, Chatfuel

Landbot is a Barcelona-built, chatbot-first conversational marketing tool, made by HELLO UMI, S.L. since 2015. Rather than a live-chat tool with a bot bolted on, its entire product is a visual, no-code flow builder for structured bot conversations, deployed across a website widget, WhatsApp and Messenger from one design, with A/B testing, conditional branching and native pushes of qualified leads into HubSpot, Salesforce or Pipedrive.

Pricing runs Free (100 chats/month, 1 seat), Starter at €32/month (500 chats, 100 AI chats, 2 seats), Professional at €80/month (2,500 chats, 300 AI chats, 3 seats, removes branding), Professional WhatsApp at €160/month, and Business from €400/month for custom volumes. There is no ticketing or call-centre module, so a support team will still need a second product alongside it — the trade-off for being the most dedicated marketing-bot builder on this page.

#2 Tiledesk

Galatina (Lecce), Italy Founded Not stated by the vendor From €124/month billed annually No self-serve free tier

Best for: A technical team that wants to self-host its chatbot and conversation data

  • Operating company. Tiledesk S.r.l.
  • Jurisdiction. EU (Italy)
  • Where the data sits. Self-hosting or private cloud available; GDPR-compliant
  • Source code. Open source
  • Replaces. Drift, Intercom, Chatfuel

Tiledesk pairs a visual Design Studio flow builder with a genuine self-hosting option, rare among chatbot-builder products and relevant to a European buyer who wants conversation and lead data to stay on infrastructure it controls. The Design Studio builds AI agents for specific roles — sales, support, onboarding — with explicit AI-driven lead qualification and routing, deployed across web, WhatsApp, Messenger, SMS, email and voice.

Pro is €149/month (€124/month billed annually) for 3 users and 3,000 conversations/month; Business is €499/month (€416/month annually) for 5 users and 5,000 conversations; Enterprise is custom-priced and unlimited. There is no self-serve free tier for commercial use, only free access for qualifying open source projects through an application process.

#3 Crisp

Nantes, France Founded Not stated by the vendor Free tier (2 agents); paid from $45/month Free tier available

Best for: A small team wanting a chatbot builder bundled with a shared inbox

  • Operating company. Crisp IM SAS
  • Jurisdiction. EU (France)
  • Where the data sits. GDPR-compliant, EU-based
  • Source code. Closed source
  • Replaces. Drift, Intercom

Crisp bundles a shared team inbox with a visual, AI-powered chatbot builder for automation flows across channels, conditional logic and keyword-based triggers. Proactive chat messages engage visitors automatically on behaviour, and custom input fields collect structured lead data inside the conversation itself — separate from ordinary support chat. The Plus plan adds a fully autonomous AI agent that can handle a conversation end to end.

Pricing runs Free ($0, 2 agents), Mini ($45/month, 4 agents), Essentials ($95/month, 10 agents) and Plus ($295/month, 20+ agents), each with an AI credit allowance that scales with the tier.

#4 LiveChat

Wrocław, Poland Founded Not stated by the vendor From $19/month billed annually No permanent free tier

Best for: A team that wants a mature live-chat product plus an optional dedicated bot builder

  • Operating company. Text S.A.
  • Jurisdiction. EU (Poland)
  • Where the data sits. GDPR-compliant, EU-based
  • Source code. Closed source
  • Replaces. Drift, Intercom, Zendesk

LiveChat's marketing-facing layer sits on top of a mature support-chat core: proactive chats and recurring or one-time campaigns engage visitors on specific pages, and pre-chat surveys gather visitor information before a conversation starts. For a dedicated bot builder, the same company (Text S.A.) sells ChatBot.com as a separate product, alongside a built-in Text AI Agent aimed at turning service conversations into revenue.

Annual billing runs Starter $19/month, Team $49/user/month and Business $79/user/month, with Enterprise quoted; monthly billing is higher across the board.

#5 Userlike

Cologne, Germany Founded Not stated by the vendor Free tier; paid plans from €105/month Free tier available

Best for: German-speaking companies wanting AI Agent automation and WhatsApp Campaigns

  • Operating company. Lime Connect (Userlike) GmbH
  • Jurisdiction. EU (Germany)
  • Where the data sits. ISO 27001-certified European servers
  • Source code. Closed source
  • Replaces. Drift, Intercom

Userlike has been rebranded Lime Connect (ex Userlike) after an acquisition by Lime Technologies, though the operating entity remains the same German GmbH (HRB 73211, Cologne). The Connect AI Agent add-on (€99/month) claims up to 90% resolution; a no-code Workflows builder (€50/month for 1,000 runs) automates multi-step sequences; and GDPR-compliant WhatsApp Campaigns (€20/month plus Meta's own fees) push proactive marketing messages.

The core plan is Free (1 seat, 1 channel, 200 conversations) or Pro at €105/month (€87/month billed annually, minimum 3 seats, unlimited channels and conversations, 10 WhatsApp numbers), with Enterprise quoted.

#6 Trengo

Utrecht, Netherlands Founded Not stated by the vendor From €299/month billed annually No free tier

Best for: Teams whose marketing bot needs to live primarily on WhatsApp

  • Operating company. Trengo B.V.
  • Jurisdiction. EU (Netherlands)
  • Where the data sits. GDPR-compliant, EU-based
  • Source code. Closed source
  • Replaces. Drift, Intercom

Trengo was built around the WhatsApp Business API from the start, and its AI Journeys feature automates multi-step conversations and workflows across channels rather than a single scripted reply. A broadcasting add-on sends proactive campaigns via messaging platforms, and a dedicated "Trengo for Sales" module adds automated lead-qualification specifically for revenue teams, on top of the shared-inbox core.

Boost is €299/month billed annually (€349/month monthly) for 10 users and 6,000 conversations/year; Pro is €499/month annually (€599/month monthly) for 20 users and 18,000 conversations/year; Enterprise is custom-priced.

#7 Smartsupp

Brno, Czech Republic Founded Not stated by the vendor Free tier; paid plans from $17/month Free tier available

Best for: Ecommerce stores wanting an autonomous AI shopping-assistant bot

  • Operating company. Smartsupp.com, s.r.o.
  • Jurisdiction. EU (Czech Republic)
  • Where the data sits. GDPR-compliant, EU-based
  • Source code. Closed source
  • Replaces. Drift, Intercom, Zendesk

Smartsupp's conversational-marketing case rests on Mira, an autonomous AI shopping-assistant agent (from $16/month) that operates 24/7 without a human, learns a store's product catalogue — up to 30,000 items, per the vendor — for recommendations and upsell, and claims to resolve up to 80% of inquiries independently before escalating. It leans more toward automated ecommerce support than a dedicated lead-qualification bot builder like Landbot or Tiledesk.

Plans run Free ($0, 1 operator, 25 conversations/month), Solo ($17/month), Plus ($25/month), Expert ($83/month) and Enterprise ($280+/month), each adding more AI reply assists on top of the Mira add-on.

#8 LiveAgent

Slovakia Founded Not stated by the vendor From $15/agent/month billed annually No free tier (30-day trial)

Best for: A support team that wants proactive bot triggers inside a full helpdesk

  • Operating company. Quality Unit, s. r. o.
  • Jurisdiction. EU (Slovakia)
  • Where the data sits. GDPR-compliant
  • Source code. Closed source
  • Replaces. Drift, Intercom, Zendesk

LiveAgent is first a helpdesk — ticketing, live chat and a call centre together — with a conversational-marketing layer on top rather than as the whole product: proactive chat invitations trigger on visitor behaviour, and a 24/7 AI support agent answers routine questions with human handoff.

It has no visual flow designer for lead-qualification sequences the way Landbot or Tiledesk do, so it suits a team that wants a bot trigger bundled inside broader helpdesk software rather than a dedicated marketing-bot product.

Pricing is per agent, billed annually: Small Business $15, Medium Business $29, Large Business $49, Enterprise $69 (monthly billing runs higher), with a 30-day free trial and no permanent free tier.

#9 Kindly

Oslo, Norway Founded 2016 Quoted per organisation, session-based No published free tier

Best for: A multilingual retailer or marketplace running high-volume conversational commerce

  • Operating company. Kindly AS
  • Jurisdiction. EEA (Norway) — not EU, but treated as EU-equivalent under this site's EU/EEA/Switzerland standard
  • Where the data sits. GDPR-compliant; public trust centre
  • Source code. Closed source
  • Replaces. Drift, Intercom

Kindly is a Norwegian AI chatbot built around a visual, no-code dialogue builder with the widest language coverage of any tool in this category — more than 100 languages out of the box — deployed across chat, voice, in-app and WhatsApp from one design. Real-time personalisation draws on connected CRM, helpdesk and order-management data, aimed squarely at high-volume conversational commerce rather than a handful of daily conversations.

Pricing is session-based on an annual commitment and is not published anywhere on the vendor's site; every plan requires a sales conversation. That, combined with a clear enterprise-scale positioning, is why it sits at the bottom of this ranking despite genuinely strong language and integration depth.

Vendors we checked and excluded

Every tool on this page was checked against its own pricing, legal and imprint pages before publication. A handful of vendors that come up in searches for this category are deliberately not listed here, and we say why rather than silently leaving them out:

  • Tidio. Widely marketed as a Polish company, and it does have a genuine engineering office in Szczecin (Tidio Poland Sp. z o.o.). But its own privacy policy names Tidio LLC, registered in San Francisco, as the primary contracting entity that customers sign up with, with the Polish entity acting only as a joint controller. That US contracting relationship is enough to exclude it from a strictly EU-headquartered list.
  • HelpCrunch. Its privacy policy names HelpCrunch Corporation, registered in Wilmington, Delaware, as the operating entity — a US company regardless of where its team or origins are.
  • Freshchat. Operated by Freshworks Inc., a Delaware corporation headquartered in San Mateo, California.
  • Chatra. We could not verify a registered headquarters or legal entity from Chatra's own site after checking its homepage and terms pages; without that, it does not meet our verification bar for this page.
  • Drift. As of this review, drift.com redirects entirely to Salesloft's "1Mind" agentic offering, and Drift no longer appears to operate as an independent, evaluable product — so it is referenced here only as the US incumbent this category replaces, not reviewed as a listing.
  • Intercom. As of this review, intercom.com's own About page redirects to fin.ai, and the company states it renamed itself from Intercom to Fin in 2026, repositioning around an AI customer-service agent rather than website chat and conversational marketing. We did not list it under a name and product shape that is still actively changing.