The free WordPress chatbot with no per-message tax.

Yes. The free PressBot tier is the full visitor chatbot, on every site, forever — no credit card, no trial timer, no per-message fee, no external SaaS dashboard. The only money you spend is on your own AI provider (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, DeepSeek, or Ollama Cloud), at the provider's listed API rate.

For a typical small business site running on a Haiku-class or Flash-class model, the monthly token bill is usually a few dollars. Heavier-traffic sites or richer models scale that up linearly. The exact figure depends on conversation length and which model you pick — check the FAQ below for current rough ranges and your provider's pricing page for the authoritative numbers.

Free forever. The free tier is the public chatbot — including External Knowledge / RAG — and we have no plans to change that. Our paid tier (PressBot Pro, $29/year for one site) is a separate product on top: the admin agent (up to 128 tools), Plugin Guardian, Shield, Telegram bridge, GA4, lead capture, and MCP write tools. The free plugin keeps its read-only MCP server. The free chatbot does not depend on the paid product for any of its core features.

The catch is that you have to bring your own AI key. We do not provide a hosted model, we do not resell tokens, and we do not charge a per-message fee — which means we cannot subsidize your usage either. You sign up directly with Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, or DeepSeek, paste the key into PressBot, and the bot talks to that account.

For most site owners this is a feature, not a catch — you keep full control over which model you use, when you switch providers, and what conversations are logged where.

It depends on which model tier you pick and how long a typical conversation runs. The published per-token rates live on each provider's pricing page (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, DeepSeek) and they update those numbers regularly — we deliberately do not parrot the figures here, because they would go stale fast.

The order-of-magnitude shape: the cheap tier (Claude Haiku 5.5, Gemini 3.8 Flash, GPT-6 Luna, DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash) is typically about a cent or less per visitor reply. GPT-6 Sol is the balanced agentic OpenAI pick at $2/$10 per MTok for visitor chat and the Admin Agent. The flagship tier (Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Astra) is a meaningful multiple of the cheap tier. Most “free WordPress chatbot” use cases work great on the cheap tier; reserve flagship spend for the admin agent in Pro. GPT-5.6 Luna, Terra, and Sol remain selectable as previous.

Any of them, and you can switch at any time. The free chatbot supports Anthropic Claude (Haiku 5.5, Sonnet 5.5, Opus 5.5), OpenAI GPT-6 Luna and Sol (GPT-5.6 Luna, Terra, and Sol remain as previous), Google Gemini 3.8 Flash, DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash, and Ollama Cloud. Switching providers is two clicks in the WP admin. DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash is the canonical DeepSeek model for public chat; on Pro it is also a Budget Admin Agent option.

Yes. The free visitor surface includes WooCommerce-aware grounding — the bot can answer product, shipping, and order questions out of the box. Native Woo tools that let the bot place a refund or edit an order live in the paid Pro tier (the admin agent), but the visitor-side chat handles read-side queries on the free plan.

"Free trial" plugins gate the actual chatbot behind 14 days or a small monthly quota, then bill per visitor reply once you exceed it. PressBot Free is the real product, no timer, no quota, no per-message fee — you only pay your AI provider, at their published rate, with no markup from us.