YakWP — a self-hosted AI chatbot plugin for WordPress, BYOK and no subscription
YakWP is a WordPress plugin that puts an AI chatbot on your site without adding a monthly SaaS fee. Install it on your own hosting, connect any provider key — Google Gemini (free tier), OpenAI, OpenCode Go, or OpenRouter — and it answers visitors from your actual posts, pages, and products via RAG and semantic search.
The free tier is the full product, not a trial: four chat modes (Sales, Support, Explain, Custom prompt), lead capture, webhook export to n8n/Zapier/Make, and all data stored in your own WordPress database. On WooCommerce it's product-aware and quotes real prices, SKUs, and categories.
Pro adds white-label and CSV export as a separate paid download — €2.99/month, €29.90/year, or €64 lifetime. Released July 2026, currently v2.5.0. Self-hosted, so a site on Gemini's free tier can run it at $0.
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The free tier is unusually complete, so the interesting question seems to be what actually creates the upgrade. Have users been asking for white-label/CSV specifically, or was that Pro boundary set before you had enough usage data to see where willingness to pay sits?
The free download lives on the YakWP site — search "YakWP WordPress AI chatbot" and it's the first result. Requires WP 6.0+ (tested to 7.0), PHP 7.4+.