[skrebbel]

Hey there, it's Egbert from TalkJS.

Thanks for the feedback! While I disagree that the pricing is insane, you and other commenters here made me realize that maybe we presented it badly.

TalkJS is 10 cents per conversation per month, plus a fixed monthly fee.

I think our mistake has been that we made the fixed monthly fee also include a small number of conversations, which is where all the confusion comes from. It makes it seem like a single conversation costs $2.

The idea behind our pricing is that with a small app you can go live with TalkJS with pretty much the fixed monthly $49 or $249. Once your traffic increases, the price-per-conversation takes over and it's really just 10 cents per conversation, period.

Note that we also offer large bulk discounts for large sites - do get in touch!

[zackify]

I think you need more features to be competitive. In the span of a week by using socket.io I accomplished live chat on our site plus sending the mouse position and changing the current page a user visits on our site. It's not worth using something paid when building it yourself can be so easy.