Plugin: axiachat-ai (Used by 22 domains)

The best AI Chatbot for WordPress. Like having ChatGPT trained on your content — turn your site into a 24/7 sales & support machine.

🤖 The best free AI Chatbot for WordPress

If you want more leads, more sales, and less repetitive support work, you need a powerful chatbot on your website.

AxiaChat AI is the best AI chatbot for WordPress designed to help you automate conversations, capture opportunities, and assist visitors instantly — 24 hours a day.

This is not just another basic chatbot.
This is a smart, business-ready chatbot built for real results — like having a private ChatGPT that knows your business inside out.

⚡ Why This Chatbot Is Different

Most WordPress chatbot plugins only provide simple scripted replies.

AxiaChat AI gives you a real AI-powered chatbot — backed by the same technology as ChatGPT — that understands context, learns from your content, and responds like a human assistant.

Your chatbot can:

✅ Answer product questions automatically, 24/7
✅ Guide customers to the right service or product
✅ Capture leads automatically — even when you’re offline
✅ Book appointments directly from the chat
✅ Analyze images & documents — visitors send photos or PDFs, the AI sees and responds
✅ Reduce support workload by handling repetitive questions
✅ Work 24/7 without breaks, staff costs, or delays

This chatbot becomes part of your team. That’s what real AI chat for WordPress looks like.

⭐ What Users Say

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “The only WooCommerce chatbot plugin that actually works”
“Congratulations to the developer for an excellent job. The plugin is well built, reliable, and delivers exactly what it promises.” — gabricp100, February 2026

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “My conversion rate went up thanks to this chatbot!”
“Perfect for small businesses. My conversion rate went up thanks to this chatbot!” — david25k, February 2026

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “Customizable and powerful”
“I love how customizable it is, you can train your own AI agent and make it fit your brand.” — queroamilys, March 2026

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “It works great!”
“We implemented it in the store and it works great.” — Antonio Aponte, February 2026

12 reviews on WordPress.org · 100% five-star ratings.
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📈 Built for Growth

Whether you run an eCommerce store, agency, SaaS, or local business, this chatbot helps you scale without hiring more staff.

Instead of answering the same questions every day, let your chatbot handle them.

Instead of missing leads after hours, let your chatbot capture them.

Instead of losing visitors, let your chatbot engage them instantly.

A smart chatbot increases conversions.
A fast chatbot improves user experience.
A trained chatbot builds trust.

🎓 Train Your Chatbot on Your Own Content

What makes this chatbot powerful is its ability to learn from your website.

You can train your chatbot using:

📘 Pages and posts
🛒 WooCommerce products (prices, stock, SKU — always up to date)
❓ FAQs
📄 PDFs
🧠 Custom knowledge bases
🌐 External web pages

And your visitors can send files directly in the chat:

📸 Photos & screenshots — the AI literally sees the image using vision AI
📄 PDF documents — text is extracted automatically and analyzed in context

Imagine a customer sending a photo of their broken appliance, or uploading a contract for the AI to summarize. That’s not future tech — it works today.

This means your chatbot gives accurate answers based on YOUR business — not generic internet responses.

Your visitors talk to a specialized chatbot, not a random AI. Genuine AI chat powered by your own knowledge base.

🎯 Designed for Conversions

This is not just a support chatbot.

It is also a sales chatbot.

Your chatbot can:

🎯 Collect names and emails
📧 Send notifications to your team
📅 Book appointments
👤 Escalate to a human agent
� Receive photos & documents from visitors and act on them
🔗 Trigger custom workflows including forwarding uploaded images securely

Every AI chat conversation with your chatbot becomes an opportunity.

⚡ Easy Setup in Minutes

You don’t need technical skills to launch your chatbot.

1. Install the plugin
2. Add your API key
3. Run the setup wizard
4. Activate your chatbot

In less than 5 minutes, your AI chatbot is live and your AI chat channel is open for visitors.

🎨 Fully Customizable Chatbot

Match your brand perfectly.

Your chatbot supports:

🎨 Custom colors and footer
🤖 Avatars (9 included + custom upload)
� File upload button (images & PDFs) with in-chat preview
�📱 Floating widget or inline embed via shortcode
✍️ Draggable, minimizable, and closable window
📲 Fully mobile responsive design

Make your chatbot look like it was built specifically for your site.

💰 Control Costs & Usage

Worried about AI costs?

Your chatbot includes:

🔢 Daily usage limits (global and per-user)
🚫 Per-IP and per-user restrictions
📊 Real-time cost tracking and token usage
📝 Optional conversation logging (on/off anytime)

You stay in control while your chatbot works for you.

🧠 Powerful AI Behind Your Chatbot

Your chatbot can connect to:

🟢 OpenAI — GPT-5.4, GPT-5.4 Mini, GPT-5.3, GPT-5, GPT-4.1 and all current models
🟢 Anthropic Claude — Opus 4.6, Sonnet 4.5, Haiku 4.5 and more
🟢 Google Gemini — 3.1 Pro, 3 Flash, 2.5 Flash, 2.5 Pro (free tier available)

You choose the AI engine for your chatbot.
You control how your chatbot behaves.
You decide what your chatbot knows.

Unlike SaaS platforms or using ChatGPT directly, this chatbot runs directly on your WordPress site.
Your data stays on your server. Your brand stays front and center. Your AI chat, your rules.

🔐 GDPR & Privacy Friendly

This chatbot includes built-in consent tools and privacy controls.

You can enable or disable conversation logging anytime.

Your chatbot respects your users and your compliance requirements.

✅ Perfect For

🛒 WooCommerce stores
🏢 Agencies
🚀 SaaS businesses
🏤 Corporate websites
🔧 Service companies
✍️ Bloggers
🎓 Online educators

If you want more engagement and automation, you need a professional chatbot and a reliable AI chat solution.

📚 Documentation & Technical Resources

Official website:
axiachat.org

Full documentation, tutorials and advanced configuration guides:
axiachat.org/help

Community support forum:
wordpress.org/support/plugin/axiachat-ai

🆓 Getting Started

The free version of this chatbot is fully functional and covers most business needs.

Start for free, explore all the core features, and grow at your own pace.

🚀 Stop Losing Opportunities

Every visitor that leaves your site without interacting is a missed opportunity.

A smart chatbot greets them.
A helpful chatbot answers them.
A proactive chatbot converts them.

Install the best AI chatbot for WordPress today — your own ChatGPT working exclusively for your business — and transform your website into a 24/7 growth engine.

Technical Features

Supported AI Models

OpenAI (GPT)
* GPT-5.4 — gpt-5.4 — 1M context, thinking + multimodal (recommended, new)
* GPT-5.4 Mini — gpt-5.4-mini — 400K context, thinking + multimodal (new)
* GPT-5.4 Nano — gpt-5.4-nano — 400K context, ultra-low cost $0.20/$1.25 per 1M tokens (new)
* GPT-5.3 Instant — gpt-5.3-chat-latest — 256K context, multimodal
* GPT-5.2 Instant — gpt-5.2-chat-latest — 256K context, multimodal
* GPT-5.2 Thinking — gpt-5.2 — adaptive reasoning mode
* GPT-5 — gpt-5 — 256K context, thinking + multimodal
* GPT-5 Mini — gpt-5-mini — 128K context, thinking
* GPT-5 Nano — gpt-5-nano — 64K context, ultra-low cost ($0.05/$0.40 per 1M tokens)
* GPT-4.1 / GPT-4.1 Mini / GPT-4.1 Nano — up to 1M context window
* GPT-4o / GPT-4o Mini — multimodal, vision capable
* GPT-4 Turbo — legacy, 128K context
* GPT-3.5 Turbo — legacy, cost-effective

Anthropic (Claude)
* Claude Opus 4.6 — claude-opus-4-6 — 200K context, thinking (Feb 2026)
* Claude Sonnet 4.5 — claude-sonnet-4-5 — 1M context, thinking (recommended)
* Claude Haiku 4.5 — claude-haiku-4-5 — 1M context, fastest
* Claude Opus 4.5 / Opus 4.1 / Opus 4 — 200K context, advanced reasoning
* Claude Sonnet 4 — 200K context, thinking
* Claude Sonnet 3.7 / Haiku 3.5 / Haiku 3 — legacy

Google Gemini
* Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview — gemini-3.1-pro-preview — 1M context, thinking (new)
* Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Preview — gemini-3.1-flash-lite-preview — 1M context, efficient (new)
* Gemini 3 Flash Preview — gemini-3-flash-preview — 1M context, thinking
* Gemini 3 Pro Preview — gemini-3-pro-preview — shut down Mar 2026, use 3.1 Pro instead
* Gemini 2.5 Pro — gemini-2.5-pro — 1M context, reasoning
* Gemini 2.5 Flash — gemini-2.5-flash — 1M context, balanced (default, free tier available)
* Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite — gemini-2.5-flash-lite — ultra-efficient ($0.10/$0.40 per 1M tokens)
* Gemini 2.0 Flash / 2.0 Flash-Lite — legacy, deprecated Jun 2026

All models are managed through a centralised registry (filterable via aichat_model_registry hook). New models can be added by third-party add-ons without modifying core files.

Automation & Integrations

• REST API ready — every bot interaction is driven by a WordPress AJAX endpoint, making it straightforward to integrate from external systems
• Outbound webhook parameters — configure method (GET/POST), headers, body template with dynamic placeholders, and response mapping

Add-ons

• AI Tools — native function-calling tools (web search, calculations, date/time, etc.)
• File & Image Uploads — visitors can send photos (JPG, PNG, WebP) and PDF documents directly in the chat. Images are analyzed via AI vision; PDFs have text extracted automatically. Configurable per bot with file type and size controls
• Appointments — let the bot schedule appointments directly from the chat
• Lead Capture — collect and store visitor data (name, email, phone) inside the chat flow
• Web Scraper — fetch and summarise live web content as part of a bot response

RAG — Retrieval-Augmented Generation

• Local vector search using cosine similarity (no external dependency required)
• Pinecone vector database support for large-scale knowledge bases
• Embeddings via OpenAI text-embedding-3-small
• Advanced indexing options: excerpt, URL, featured image, taxonomies, custom meta keys
• WooCommerce enrichment — price, stock status and SKU injected at query time (no re-indexing needed on price changes)
• Featured image URLs included — the AI can render product images via Markdown in the chat

Security & Validation

• WordPress nonce (aichat_ajax) on every request
• Honeypot field — silent bot protection without CAPTCHA friction
• Pluggable CAPTCHA filter (aichat_validate_captcha)
• OpenAI Moderation API integration (aichat_run_moderation_checks)
• Per-IP burst rate limiting and spam heuristics
• Per-user and global daily usage limits with hard message-length cap (4 000 chars)
• System prompt never exposed — security policy injected first and enforced via refusal instructions
• Remote endpoint allowlist for Pinecone and webhook calls

Frontend & UI

• Floating widget (configurable position: bottom-right, bottom-left, etc.) or inline layout via shortcode
• Fully draggable, minimizable and closable chat window
• Voice chat mode (type="voice_text") with browser Web Speech API
• File upload button (📎) with drag-and-drop support, in-chat thumbnail preview, and admin log attachment indicators
• Automatic image optimization (resize + compress) to minimize API costs while preserving visual quality
• Markdown rendering including images, bold, lists, and code blocks
• Suggestion chips / quick-reply buttons
• WhatsApp CTA button inside the chat window (configurable per bot)
• Multi-bot support — create multiple bots with independent instructions, models, and context
• GDPR consent message injected as first bot message until visitor accepts (aichat_gdpr_ok cookie)
• Session UUID stored client-side for persistent conversation history across page reloads
• Automatic front-end translation — UI labels localised to the visitor’s browser language

Admin & Developer Tools

• Guided Easy Setup Wizard — fully working bot in under 2 minutes
• One-click AI-generated bot instructions — describe your use case, AI writes the system prompt
• Built-in prompt templates (Customer Support, Lead Generation, E-commerce, FAQ, etc.)
• Chat conversation logs with full transcript, token usage, and cost breakdown
• Email alerts on new conversations — full transcript or summary, per-conversation or digest mode
• Debug mode: define('AICHAT_DEBUG', true) for server-side verbose logging; ?aichat_debug=1 for JS console
• Filterable hooks for system policy (aichat_security_policy), model registry, endpoint allowlist, and more
• [aichat id="slug"] shortcode with 20+ data-attribute parameters (layout, position, colours, avatar, voice, etc.)

Bundled Libraries

• Bootstrap (local)
• Bootstrap Icons (local)
• smalot/pdfparser (LGPLv3) for PDF extraction

External Services / Data Disclosure

This plugin can connect to the following third‑party APIs depending on which features you enable. You (the site owner) must supply the API keys. No keys are bundled and no traffic is proxied through a vendor server controlled by this plugin author.

1. OpenAI

Used for: chat completions / responses, embeddings (context indexing), moderation (safety checks).

Endpoints used (HTTPS):
* https://api.openai.com/v1/chat/completions (legacy Chat Completions)
* https://api.openai.com/v1/responses (Responses API – new unified endpoint if configured)
* https://api.openai.com/v1/embeddings (document/post/PDF embedding + wizard indexing)
* https://api.openai.com/v1/moderations (content moderation)

Data Sent:
* User prompt text (per message) and limited conversation history (trimmed for token control)
* System / policy instructions (security + privacy policy + bot instructions)
* Optional retrieved context snippets (only the selected top‑N chunks or page excerpt – never the full original document)
* Embedding requests: raw chunk text produced from your site’s content or uploaded PDFs
* Moderation: only the user prompt text (not the entire history)

Data Retention (Your Server):
* Conversation log rows (if logging enabled) including user prompt, model reply, timestamps, bot slug, session id, optional user id. IP (binary) only stored when per‑IP limits are turned on. Disable logging to stop storing new rows.
* Embeddings table stores numeric vectors generated from your content (not reversible plaintext) plus the original chunk text for retrieval.

Recommendations:
* Update your privacy policy to disclose sending user prompts and limited site content to OpenAI for processing.
* Disable logging or periodically purge if you process personal data.

Legal / Docs:
* Terms: https://openai.com/policies/terms-of-use
* Privacy: https://openai.com/policies/privacy-policy
* Usage Policies: https://openai.com/policies/usage-policies

Opt‑Out / Control:
* Remove the OpenAI API key in Settings to stop all OpenAI calls (bots will refuse to answer).
* Disable conversation logging.
* Limit context ingestion to non‑sensitive pages.

2. Anthropic (Claude)

Used for: alternative chat completions via Claude models (messages API) when a bot provider is set to Anthropic/Claude.

Endpoint used (HTTPS):
* https://api.anthropic.com/v1/messages

Data Sent:
* A rewritten message array: system instructions + user prompt + condensed prior turns (trimmed) + optional retrieved context snippets.
* Model identifier, max tokens / temperature style parameters.

Headers:
* x-api-key (your key) and anthropic-version (currently 2023-06-01 set in code).

Retention (Your Server):
* Same as OpenAI notes for conversation logging (the provider choice does not change local storage schema).

Legal / Docs:
* Terms: https://www.anthropic.com/legal/terms-of-service
* Privacy: https://www.anthropic.com/legal/privacy
* Usage Policy: https://www.anthropic.com/legal/aup

Opt‑Out / Control:
* Leave the Claude API key blank; those bots will fallback/refuse if provider requires it.
* Switch provider per bot back to OpenAI.

3. Pinecone (Optional Remote Vector Store)

Only used if you explicitly create a Context with remote type “Pinecone”. Local context mode (default) never contacts Pinecone.

Endpoint Pattern:
* Region/index specific HTTPS endpoints you enter (example placeholder: https://controller.pinecone.io and index query/upsert endpoints under *.pinecone.io). The plugin validates host against an allowlist containing pinecone.io (filter extendable).

Used For:
* Upserting embeddings (during context indexing / syncing)
* Querying similar vectors when answering a question in that context.

Data Sent:
* Vectors (embedding arrays) and associated metadata (post/page IDs, …