Choose Scriptus if
You want one branded knowledge product, built and maintained for you, with citations, a trial or free bot, and checkout on your rail. You do not want to own message packs or a support digest.
Scriptus vs SiteGPT
A support widget you train, or a knowledge product someone ships
SiteGPT trains a chatbot on your website, files, and connected drives, then embeds it for support, lead capture, and human escalation. That is a real job. Scriptus is a done-for-you book or methodology product: cited answers, entitlements, reader billing. If you want a widget your team will tune, SiteGPT is the more honest tool. If you want the book to work as a product, the widget is the start of the spend, not the end.
Last researched: 4 September 2026. SiteGPT’s homepage that day listed a 7-day free trial, cancel anytime, and a pricing URL. A first-party SiteGPT page (sitegpt.ai/resources/chatbase-alternative) listed Starter / Growth / Scale at $39 / $79 / $259 per month billed annually, or $59 / $129 / $429 month-to-month, plus $39/month to remove branding. Verify the live grid on sitegpt.ai/pricing — that URL did not return a clean public table to us the same day.
Choose SiteGPT if
You want a chatbot trained on your site in a few minutes. You want auto-sync, human escalation, lead capture, and a 7-day trial your team will operate. Support deflection is the job.
Side by side
| Decision | Scriptus | SiteGPT |
|---|---|---|
| Job | Done-for-you book / methodology bot on your site | DIY AI customer-service chatbot trained on your site and files |
| Who operates it | Scriptus builds and maintains; you own the offer | Your team syncs content, reviews the digest, and handles escalations |
| What you pay | $5,000 setup + $500/month. No message pack. No revenue share. | 7-day trial. SiteGPT’s own comparison page lists Starter $39/mo annual ($59 monthly), Growth $79 ($129), Scale $259 ($429), branding removal $39/mo. Confirm on sitegpt.ai/pricing. |
| What readers pay | You set it. Checkout on your rail | You assemble billing. SiteGPT is sold as support and lead-gen, not an author subscription product. |
| Citations | Cited answers, or it says it does not know | Trained on your content. Confirm current citation behavior in their product. |
| Sync and support | We ingest a corpus and maintain the tenant | URL / sitemap / files / Notion / Drive. Auto-sync by plan. Human handoff. Weekly digest. These are SiteGPT strengths. |
| Time to live | About one week after we have your material | Homepage: train and embed in three steps; trial is seven days |
| Proof | Ask Marcus Aurelius, Ask Nietzsche, Imbalance of Like (free) | SiteGPT publishes a live demo trained on sitegpt.ai and customer quotes on the homepage. |
Where SiteGPT is stronger
Speed to a site-trained widget. Auto-sync. Escalation to a human. Lead capture. A trial. If support deflection is the job, SiteGPT (or Chatbase) wins. Scriptus will not pretend it is a helpdesk.
Where Scriptus is stronger
Implementation is the product. Identity, entitlements, citations as the offer, reader commerce on your rail, no Scriptus cut. You are not buying message tiers. SiteGPT’s $39–$259 line is a support subscription. Scriptus’s $5,000 + $500 is an engagement for a different object.
Pricing, without theater
We quote SiteGPT’s own published comparison numbers and tell you to re-check /pricing. We will not invent a grid we could not load.
Even at $39/month, you still own training, sync, escalation, and any reader paywall. That is the point of a DIY widget.
Last verified: 4 September 2026 · Sources: getscriptus.com, sitegpt.ai, sitegpt.ai/resources/chatbase-alternative
Switching
There is no import of a SiteGPT bot into Scriptus. We train on your source material. Keep SiteGPT on marketing or help-center URLs if support deflection is still a job. Scriptus replaces the book-bot surface, not every widget on your domain.
Verdict
Choose SiteGPT if you want a DIY support chatbot. Choose Chatbase if you specifically want that credit-metered builder. Choose Scriptus if you want one book working as a product. If you only need anonymous Q&A over a PDF, use NotebookLM.
Questions people actually ask
Is Scriptus a SiteGPT alternative?
For a monetized book bot, it can be. For support automation, SiteGPT is the category product.
Does Scriptus take a cut of reader subscriptions?
No. Subscriber revenue is yours.
SiteGPT already captures leads. Why pay $5,000?
Lead capture is a widget feature. Scriptus is a reader product with entitlements and checkout on your rail. Different object.
Do you use SiteGPT behind the Scriptus embed?
No. Launch architecture is the Scriptus embed.