A free website chatbot answers questions from your pages, and suits a business with a few chats a week. LeadGenie is an AI chatbot for website enquiries that also asks your questions, takes a name and books the job, and we set it up for you. Starter is A$199 a month plus A$999 set-up, ex GST.
It’s 9:14pm. Someone asks the chatbot on your website for a price. It answers in two seconds, from your own price list, and it’s right. Then it asks “Anything else?”, they say no thanks, and they leave to get two more quotes. Many chatbot tools count that as a resolved chat. You have no name, no email and no booking.
Example business: Harbourline Cleaning, on Starter. The answer is already on the website, where a chatbot is strongest.
Example only: Harbourline is an invented business, and A$380 and A$440 are example rates, not LeadGenie prices.
In 30 minutes we run your kind of enquiries through it and show you where it takes the name and the booking.
A chatbot can be live this afternoon. We take 7 to 10 business days, because we write and test it first.
The questions that turn a chat into a job, like the inspection date, aren’t on your website. We write them in.
If most chats are existing customers asking about orders or opening hours, a support chatbot is the right buy.
Ours asks for a name and email when it helps, to hold a time or send a quote.
With a chatbot you change it yourself, straight away. With us you ask, and we change it at no charge.
Many chatbots can book if you build that step. Ours books into your calendar as part of the set-up.
A typical chatbot is about A$120 a month with no set-up fee: about A$1,900 cheaper than Starter in year one.
Many enquiries go quiet after the price. A chatbot waits. Ours follows up by email.
Taken from the tools’ own published pricing, converted from US dollars.
Most tools have one: around fifty conversations a month, a few AI replies and their name in your chat box.
About A$40 a month (US$29) for live chat with a hundred or so conversations. The AI is often limited or extra.
From about A$54 a month (US$39) for fifty AI conversations; unused ones expire. Website-trained tools run from about A$56 (US$40) for five hundred message credits to about A$209 (US$150) for four thousand.
“Powered by” branding stays unless you pay: about A$28 a month (US$20), up to about A$138 (US$99) on some.
Most bill in US dollars, so the cost rises when the dollar falls. Figures use the exchange rate of 11 September 2026.
Larger support platforms charge about A$1.38 (US$0.99) per resolution, and a visitor who leaves counts as resolved.
Choosing a tool, writing the answers, building the booking step, testing it, then reading the chats every week. Call it a weekend to start and an hour or two a month after. It’s nowhere on the invoice.
None of this says chatbots are clumsy. The good ones answer a factual question as well as ours does. We’re comparing what each is built to finish, not how clever it is.
Where these figures come from: the published pricing pages of widely used chat and chatbot tools as at September 2026, in US dollars, converted at A$1.3951 to the US dollar and rounded. We haven’t named the tools because their plans change often, so check current prices before you decide. Card fees, GST and your own hours are left out, which understates the chatbot’s column. What our side costs, in full →
The chatbot is priced as a typical small business would set it up: live chat, the AI on, the logo off. Ours is our published price. The chatbot is the cheaper column.
A worked example, not a claim. A busier website will outgrow fifty AI conversations, but even the four-thousand-credit plan, about A$209 a month, is about A$2,510 a year: still under our first year. No dollar value is put on a booked job or your hours. Work out what missed enquiries cost you →
Starter (Answer my messages): A$199 a month plus A$999 set-up. The AI answers web chat, Facebook, Instagram and email in up to 3 seconds. Unlimited conversations, fair use applies.
Not included: phone calls and texts. Those start on Growth.
Prices ex GST · Locked in for your first 12 months · Month to month, no lock-in, 30 days’ notice to cancel
Answers web chat, Facebook, Instagram and email in up to 3 seconds. Asks your questions, quotes your prices and books into your calendar. No phone line. Plus A$999 set-up.
Adds an AI receptionist that answers your phone on the first ring, with an Australian mobile number included. Calls and texts are billed by use: about A$30 to A$70 a month for most businesses (an estimate). Plus A$1,999 set-up. How Growth works →
See how long your business takes to reply to a new enquiry. Free, no sign-up. Run the speed test →
Nothing below Growth has a phone line: Get Found (A$29), Get Organised (A$59), Get Connected (A$89) and Starter (A$199) send alerts by email. Growth (A$499) and Pro (from A$799) include an Australian mobile number: calls A$0.03 a minute, texts A$0.11 sent and A$0.02 received. Set-up: A$999 on Starter, A$1,999 on Growth, from A$2,499 on Pro, none on Smart Tools. It isn’t refundable, except where the law requires it or for a billing error. AI plan prices →
A chatbot is the right pick in these cases.
Not sure which fits? Ask us in a free demo.
In a way, yes: an AI assistant in a chat box. The difference is that it’s set up to ask your questions, take a name and book the job, on Facebook, Instagram and email too. And we keep it current. What the Starter assistant does →
It writes in your words, from answers you approve, and always tells people it’s an AI assistant. Anyone who asks for a person is passed to you by email.
Not on day one. Count how many of last month’s chats ended with a name you could reply to. If most did, keep it. If not, we can start on Facebook, Instagram and email first, then compare.
It answers only from what you’ve approved. If it isn’t sure, it takes their details and passes the chat to you. We change its answers when you ask, at no extra charge.
No. Month to month, no lock-in, no exit fee, 30 days’ notice to cancel. Prices are locked in for your first 12 months. The A$999 set-up fee isn’t refundable, except where the law requires it or for a billing error.
Starter is A$199 a month plus A$999 set-up, ex GST, with unlimited conversations, fair use applies. Calls and texts need Growth, A$499 a month plus A$1,999 set-up. A typical chatbot is about A$120 a month. AI plan prices →
An AI chatbot for website visitors is a chat box where AI answers questions in writing, at any hour. Most answer from your pages. LeadGenie’s also takes a name and books the job. Website chat options →
A 30-minute video call, no obligation. Bring a rough count of last month’s chats, and we’ll show you which option fits.
