Kelma vs Chatling
Chatling alternative: Kelma vs Chatling
Chatling's credits burn 0.5–14× faster depending on the model. Kelma's tokens cost the same whatever answers your customers.
Chatling is one of the friendlier budget AI chatbot builders — a real free tier, a visual flow builder, and a big menu of AI models. Its catch is the credit system: one AI reply costs anywhere from 0.5 to 14 credits depending on which model you pick, so the "3,000 credits" on the $29–40/month Starter plan might be 3,000 answers on a bargain model or a few hundred on a top-tier one. Figures from Chatling's public pricing as of July 2026.
Kelma prices in tokens that don't depend on a model menu: €15/month for 5M message tokens — roughly 1,500–2,500 AI replies, with branding removal included from the first paid plan — on Chatling, removing "Powered by Chatling" requires the top Ultimate plan at $99–140/month.
Kelma vs Chatling at a glance
| Feature | Kelma | Chatling |
|---|---|---|
| Entry paid plan | Starter — €15/mo | Starter — $29–40/mo |
| AI replies on entry plan | ~1,500–2,500 (5M tokens, model-independent) | 3,000 credits ÷ 0.5–14 credits per reply depending on model |
| Free plan | 1 agent, 50K tokens/mo, never deleted | 2 bots, 100 AI credits/mo |
| Remove branding | All paid plans | Ultimate only ($99+/mo) |
| Visual flow builder | No — instruction-driven agent + custom actions | Yes |
| Channels | Web, WhatsApp, Messenger, Instagram, Telegram, Slack, SMS, email | Web widget + integrations |
| Human takeover inbox | Yes — presence, routing, live replies | Basic handoff |
| Knowledge sources | Website, PDFs, Notion, Google Docs, YouTube, Q&A | Website, documents, text |
| API + webhooks | All paid plans | From Starter |
| Currency & VAT | EUR, no VAT added | USD + VAT where applicable |
Chatling figures from chatling.ai/pricing, checked July 2026: Free $0 (100 AI credits, 2 agents), Starter $40/mo or $32/mo annual (3,000 credits, 2 seats), Plus/Ultimate $99–140/mo (12,000–15,000 credits, branding removal). Credits per AI reply vary by model, roughly 0.5 (small models) to 14 (frontier models).
Choose Kelma if…
- Predictable capacity: €15/month for 5M message tokens — roughly 1,500–2,500 AI replies, regardless of which model answers.
- Branding removal from €15/month — Chatling keeps its badge on Free and Starter; only the $99+/month Ultimate plan removes it.
- WhatsApp, Messenger, Instagram, Telegram, Slack, SMS and email channels included on paid plans.
- Human takeover inbox with team presence and routing, plus lead capture with webhooks and Zapier/Make.
- Knowledge from website crawls, PDFs, Notion, Google Docs, YouTube and Q&A pairs, with strict answer-from-content mode.
- EUR pricing, no VAT added.
Choose Chatling if…
- You want a visual drag-and-drop flow builder and enjoy picking between dozens of AI models per bot.
- You need many bots cheaply — Chatling Ultimate allows 35 chatbots.
- Your chats are mostly non-AI scripted flows, which Chatling doesn't meter at all.
Try the difference on your own content
Paste your website address, watch Kelma learn it, and ask it your customers' hardest questions — free, no card, and your agent is never deleted.
Frequently asked questions
Chatling charges per reply at a rate set by the model you chose — a frontier-model reply can cost ~28× a budget-model reply, so capacity is hard to predict. Kelma meters the actual text processed (tokens), so a typical exchange costs roughly the same 2,000–4,000 tokens every time and €15/month reliably covers ~1,500–2,500 replies.
At entry level they look similar (€15 vs $29–40), but Kelma includes branding removal, all messaging channels, and the team inbox at that price — on Chatling, branding removal alone means the $99+/month Ultimate plan.
No. Kelma's agent is instruction-driven: you write plain-language instructions and add custom actions/tools instead of drawing flows. It's faster to set up and doesn't break when conversations go off-script, but if you specifically want hand-drawn decision trees, Chatling's builder is the better fit.
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