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No. SiteGPT does not offer a permanent free plan. It offers a 7-day free trial. After the trial, the lowest paid option is Starter at $39/month. saavos has a forever-free tier — 50 messages per month, no expiry, no credit card required. For founders who want to evaluate on real traffic before committing to a subscription, the difference matters.
At the entry paid tier, yes — saavos Starter is $19/month vs SiteGPT Starter at $39/month, a $20/month difference. The honest caveat: SiteGPT Starter includes 4,000 messages per month vs saavos's 1,000 at $19. For low-volume sites under ~1,000 conversations per month, saavos is the cheaper pick. For higher-volume sites, SiteGPT's message ceiling changes the calculation.
SiteGPT uses GPT-4.1-mini and GPT-4.1 — two OpenAI models you can switch between. saavos uses Claude Sonnet 4.6 on all paid plans. Neither platform supports the other's model family. SiteGPT confirmed these models on their features page as of May 2026; saavos runs the Anthropic API natively.
No. SiteGPT API access is on the Growth plan at $79/month and above. saavos includes API access on Starter at $19/month — $60/month less for the same capability. If you're a developer who needs programmatic access, this gap is significant.
One. SiteGPT Starter ($39/month) includes 1 chatbot. Getting a second bot at SiteGPT means upgrading to Growth at $79/month. saavos Starter ($19/month) includes 2 bots. For founders running two products or wanting separate bots for different parts of a site, this is a meaningful difference.
Three scenarios favor SiteGPT: your site handles more than ~1,000 conversations per month (SiteGPT Starter gives 4,000 messages for $20 more); your audience is non-English-speaking (SiteGPT supports 95+ languages, saavos is English-only until Q3 2026); or you have a large knowledge base with hundreds of documents (SiteGPT Starter processes up to 1,000 pages vs saavos's 10 sources per bot).
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