Complete product, on your server
ZChat is self-hosted live chat software for teams that want modern support tooling without recurring hosted-seat pricing. Live chat is free with unlimited agents: deploy it on infrastructure you control, and keep the data, branding, routing, and AI decisions inside your own stack. Premium adds the AI assistant, custom roles, automation and extra channels at $19 per agent per month; Enterprise adds single sign-on and advanced SLA policies. Compare tiers.
Control the deployment
Run on Windows or Linux, in containers, or behind the web stack you already trust.
Bring your own AI
Use OpenAI, Claude, Ollama, or no AI at all. ZChat does not force a provider or markup.
Support teams move faster
Operators get live chat, routing, transcripts, analytics, and visitor context in one self-hosted system.
Everything included
No separate analytics product and no seat limit. The capabilities below ship together and run on your own server; the AI features are part of Premium, and everything else listed here is free.
Feature directory
Every feature below is part of the same self-hosted product, and reporting is included, so no separate reporting product is needed to understand your own support traffic. The pricing page marks which features are Premium or Enterprise.
Real-time messaging with self-hosted deployment, AI flexibility, and support data kept on your server.
Invite visitors at the right time using rules you control inside your own deployment.
See live visitor context before a conversation begins and respond with better precision.
Give operators a practical workspace for live sessions, routing, and follow-up support.
Manage teams, widget behavior, AI settings, and operations from one control surface.
Measure service quality and workload trends without exporting your support data to a hosted vendor.
Keep searchable conversation history in your own environment for follow-up, QA, and governance.
Brand the widget, configure the flow, and shape the support experience to fit your product.
Capture the business-specific context your team needs before the chat starts.
Keep support traffic inside infrastructure, policies, and data boundaries you already trust.
Run encrypted chat over HTTPS and secure WebSockets using certificates you control.
Run it on Windows or Linux, behind IIS, Nginx or Docker, and embed the widget anywhere.
Let visitors reach a person the moment they need one, without leaving the page.
One embeddable snippet drops live chat into a marketing site or a single-page app alike.
A clean agent dashboard, a one-line widget snippet, and a one-command local setup.
ZChat is for teams that want to self-host, keep their data on their own server, and keep deployment choices in-house while still delivering a current live chat experience.
ZChat gives you the installable server, web dashboard, website widget, and desktop agent tools in one self-hosted product, with live chat free to run. Run it on infrastructure you trust and connect AI only if and how you want it.
Deployment
Install on Windows or Linux, behind IIS or Nginx, in a VM, or in Docker if that fits your stack.
Commercial model
Live chat is free with unlimited agents. Only the optional AI assistant is billed, per agent per month.
AI Flexibility
Use Ollama locally or connect OpenAI and Anthropic with your own provider accounts.