PHP Chatbot Assistant vs CiteWidget

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PHP Chatbot Assistant compared with CiteWidget
Detail	PHP Chatbot Assistant	CiteWidget
What it does	A free chatbot you run on your own server	AI answer widget that cites the exact page from your PDFs and website
Stage	Not given	Not given
Founded	2023	Not given
Based in	US	Not given
Pricing model	Open source	Freemium
Pricing	Free. You only pay for the services you use to run it: your server, the AI provider's models, and any third-party service for reading PDF and Word files.	Free: 100 verified answers per month (forever). Starter: $12/month (billed yearly, $19 monthly). Pro: $49/month (billed monthly). Catalog: $299/month (billed monthly). Extra answers on paid plans: $0.01 each, up to $10/month.
Key features	Support for multiple AI providers Website widget with customizable colors and positioning Data stays on your own server and database	Answers from PDF datasheets, manuals and website pages Page-level citations with highlighted PDF passages Claim-by-claim verification against source documents Refusal when answers cannot be found in documents Visitor-to-team contact messaging Weekly Monday email with analytics and unanswered questions Reads scanned and table-based PDFs Dashboard customization of colors and greeting Answers in visitor language
What makes it different	Data stays in your control on your own server Built for multi-client hosting with forced row-level security	Every answer is checked claim-by-claim and cites the exact page it came from Refuses to guess; tells visitors when information is not in documents Reads what you already publish with no tagging or rewriting required Pay only for verified answers; refusals and tests are always free Handles tables and scanned PDFs with cell-level highlighting
Free plan	Not given	Not given
Open source	Not given	Not given
Platforms	Not given	Not given
Public API	Not given	Not given
Community votes	0	0
DR (Domain Rating by Ahrefs)	1 no change since last check	Not checked yet no change since last check
Trust Flow (Majestic)	1	0
Citation Flow (Majestic)	10	0
Referring domains (Majestic)	7	0

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