GetFoxChat
GetFoxChat vs HubSpot
As of October 26, 2026, HubSpot's live chat connects website visitors to the right people on your team, routes inquiries to service and passes leads to sales, inside HubSpot's CRM (HubSpot's own page, September 30, 2026). GetFoxChat's operator highlights the element that answers the question, or walks the visitor through a multi-step tour on the page.
GetFoxChat and HubSpot, feature by feature
Each HubSpot cell links the page on HubSpot's own site that shows it (hover for the words found there) and the date we checked; "Not found" means we did not find it on their pages, not that it cannot exist. Prices are left out: see our plans.
| Feature | GetFoxChat | HubSpot |
|---|---|---|
| Lights up the spot on the page it is talking about | Yes: Rings the exact button, link or field in its answer our page | Not found on their pages (checked 20 Oct 2026) |
| Step-by-step guided tours | Yes: Walks a visitor through a task one step at a time, across pages our page | Not found on their pages (checked 20 Oct 2026) |
| Answers from your own pages | Yes: Reads your site and help articles and answers from them our page | Yes: Customer agent is trained on your knowledge base and website. their page (checked 20 Oct 2026) |
| Replies in the visitor's language | Yes: Answers in the language the visitor writes in our page | Yes: Customer agent works in all HubSpot-supported languages. their page (checked 20 Oct 2026) |
| Spam kept out of the inbox | Yes: Spam is filtered and filed under its own inbox filter our page | Yes: Allow/deny lists and automatic spam marking in the conversations inbox. their page (checked 20 Oct 2026) |
| Walkthrough video recorder | Yes: Record a how-to by clicking through it, no code our page | Not found on their pages (checked 20 Oct 2026) |
| Changelog or product announcements | Yes: in-app announcements on the pages you choose, and your AI Operator answers what shipped from your own changelog our page | Not found on their pages (checked 20 Oct 2026) |
| Install on WordPress, Wix, Shopify, Webflow, Framer | Yes: WordPress, Wix, Shopify, Webflow, Framer | WordPress, Wix, Shopify Webflow, Framer: not found on their pages (checked 20 Oct 2026) |
| Free plan or free trial | Yes: First month free on every plan our page | Yes: Free live chat and chatbot tools; 14-day trial of paid service tools. their page (checked 20 Oct 2026) |
| Integrations | Yes: Slack alerts; imports from Zendesk, Intercom, Crisp, Help Scout and Freshdesk; site-builder plugins our page | Yes: 2,000+ integrations their page (checked 20 Oct 2026) |
Where GetFoxChat is ahead: it lights up the spot on the page it is talking about, and it walks visitors through a task step by step; we did not find that on HubSpot's pages (checked 20 Oct 2026). Where HubSpot is stronger: a full CRM and marketing suite with 2,000+ integrations, and an AI agent working across chat, email, voice and messaging apps.
HubSpot offers free live chat and a chatbot builder tied to its CRM, and sells an AI customer agent inside the paid Service Hub editions. GetFoxChat is website chat whose AI operator answers from your own pages and shows visitors where to click. Below, every HubSpot fact is quoted from HubSpot's own pages and linked.
How this page is made: each HubSpot line below is taken from HubSpot's own public pages, with a link to the page and the date we checked it (30 Sep 2026). If we could not read something on HubSpot's pages, we do not state it.
What does HubSpot offer, by its own pages?
Who it is for
- HubSpot pitches its Starter Customer Platform at startups and small businesses.hubspot.com/products/crm/live-chat, checked 30 Sep 2026
How it installs
- On a website not hosted on HubSpot, the HubSpot tracking code must be added to your pages before the live chat will appear.knowledge.hubspot.com/chatflows/create-a-live-chat, checked 30 Sep 2026
Languages
- Each chatflow has a language setting that can be changed from English to another language.knowledge.hubspot.com/chatflows/create-a-live-chat, checked 30 Sep 2026
Pricing
- HubSpot's live chat and chatbot builder can be started for free with no credit card required; premium features come with the paid editions.hubspot.com/products/crm/live-chat, checked 27 Sep 2026
Trial and free plan
- HubSpot offers a 14-day free trial of its customer service tools.hubspot.com/products/service, checked 27 Sep 2026
AI agent
- The chatbot builder creates bots that qualify leads, book meetings and answer common questions, with no coding required.hubspot.com/products/crm/live-chat, checked 27 Sep 2026
- The customer agent requires the Professional or Enterprise edition of HubSpot and runs on HubSpot Credits.hubspot.com/products/artificial-intelligence/ai-customer-service-agent, checked 27 Sep 2026
- HubSpot says the customer agent is trained on your knowledge base, website, CRM data and historical conversations.hubspot.com/products/artificial-intelligence/ai-customer-service-agent, checked 27 Sep 2026
Inbox and helpdesk
- Each chat is stored in a universal inbox in HubSpot's free CRM, where the team can reply, take notes, send emails, make calls and create support tickets.hubspot.com/products/crm/live-chat, checked 27 Sep 2026
Channels
- Teams can get chat notifications and reply through HubSpot's Slack integration or the HubSpot mobile app.hubspot.com/products/crm/live-chat, checked 27 Sep 2026
- Service Hub supports phone support with interactive voice response phone trees, team routing and transfers.hubspot.com/products/service, checked 27 Sep 2026
- HubSpot says the customer agent handles inbound calls, and works on WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger as well as chat and email.hubspot.com/products/artificial-intelligence/ai-customer-service-agent, checked 27 Sep 2026
- HubSpot's live chat connects website visitors to the right people on your team, routes inquiries to service and passes leads to sales, inside HubSpot's CRM.hubspot.com/products/crm/live-chat, checked 30 Sep 2026
Other
- The chat widget can be styled to match your brand, with targeted welcome messages for different pages or audience segments.hubspot.com/products/crm/live-chat, checked 30 Sep 2026
Showing visitors around the page: does HubSpot do it?
GetFoxChat: When the answer is a button, link or field on the page, the operator scrolls to it and draws a ring around it with a short note, instead of describing where it is. For a task with several steps, the operator runs a guided tour: step 1 of N with Next and Skip, moving on when the visitor clicks the highlighted element.
HubSpot: We found no claim of highlighting elements on the visitor's page or running guided tours for website visitors on the HubSpot pages we checked (live chat, chatbot builder, Service Hub and customer agent). HubSpot's chat routes visitors to people and bots answer questions. GetFoxChat's operator highlights the element that answers the question, or walks the visitor through a multi-step tour on the page.
Where does HubSpot have more than GetFoxChat?
- A CRM, with every chat logged against the contact. GetFoxChat keeps its own inbox of chats and is not a CRM.Source: hubspot.com/products/crm/live-chat, checked 27 Sep 2026
- Ticketing, including on the free Service Hub plan. GetFoxChat has a Talk to a person handoff, but no ticketing.Source: hubspot.com/products/crm/live-chat, checked 27 Sep 2026
- Phone support with call flows, and an AI agent that also answers calls, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger. GetFoxChat is website chat only.Source: hubspot.com/products/service, hubspot.com/products/artificial-intelligence/ai-customer-service-agent, checked 27 Sep 2026
- Replying from Slack or a mobile app. GetFoxChat operators reply from the GetFoxChat inbox.Source: hubspot.com/products/crm/live-chat, checked 27 Sep 2026
GetFoxChat is website chat. It has no ticketing system, no phone, SMS or WhatsApp channel, and no SSO.
When is GetFoxChat not the right pick?
Pick HubSpot if you already run your sales and service in HubSpot's CRM and want chat, bots, tickets and phone logged against each contact. GetFoxChat is not the right pick if you need a CRM, ticketing, phone or WhatsApp. Pick GetFoxChat if you want website chat whose AI operator answers from your own pages and shows visitors where to click.
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Pricing
| Product | What the pricing page says |
|---|---|
| GetFoxChat | Three plans, Starter, Pro and Agency, each one flat monthly price. Sign up with no card; the first month of any plan is free, and the checkout asks for a card. No per-conversation or per-resolution AI fee on any plan. See pricing |
| HubSpot | See the HubSpot pricing lines above, each linked to HubSpot's page. We do not copy other products' prices: see HubSpot's own pricing page. |
What the GetFoxChat AI Operator does on your site
The GetFoxChat AI Operator (that you name as you like) is website chat that answers from your own content.
- Learns from your own site. It reads your site's public pages to build its knowledge base, and can import published help-center articles from Zendesk, Intercom, Crisp, Help Scout and Freshdesk, or a CSV file.
- Visitor goals. You list why visitors come to your site (buy, book a demo, get support). The operator recognizes the goal from the pages a visitor views and what they click, can offer the first step, such as a tour, and you see how many reached the goal.
- A person when it matters. Visitors can press Talk to a person, and your team replies from the GetFoxChat inbox.
Tested every week, results published
Every week the operator is asked real questions on our own sites, and each answer is checked: that it answered, that it gave the right link, and that it pointed at the right button or started the right tour. Latest complete run, 13 October 2026: 90 of 148 questions passed across 4 sites. These are our own four sites. More than half of the misses in that run were how-to questions that should have started a step-by-step tour; the proof page shows every answer, misses included.
| Site | Latest complete run, 13 October 2026 |
|---|---|
| foxplug.com | 16 of 27 passed |
| getfoxchat.com | 19 of 29 passed |
| groupfinds.com | 29 of 38 passed |
| mentionfox.com | 26 of 54 passed |
Full results, question by question: getfoxchat.com/proof.
Pages we checked
- hubspot.com/products/crm/live-chat
- hubspot.com/products/service
- hubspot.com/products/artificial-intelligence/ai-customer-service-agent
- knowledge.hubspot.com/chatflows/create-a-live-chat
What we could not verify, so this page does not state it:
- The Service Hub pricing page renders its prices by script, so we read the plan prices from the Service Hub product page instead. hubspot.com/pricing/service
- The Starter edition price is shown as a limited-time new-customer discount next to the regular price, so no Starter price is stated here. hubspot.com/products/service
HubSpot changes its pages. We re-check every source monthly and update this page when a fact changes. Spotted something out of date? Email support@getfoxchat.com.