Rocket.Chat versus Watermelon

Rocket.Chat is a SaaS and genuine Free Open Source Software platform. They are developing an impressive range of communication and collaboration solutions for a wide variety of organizations, catering to industries like financial services, healthcare, and governments.

Open Source

Rocket.Chat, being Open Source, lets you review the code yourself or contribute to the project in their GitHub Repository. Unlike most providers, Rocket.Chat holds an MIT license, granting you full ownership and control over your code, data, privacy, and security. Detailed documentation for developers is available on the Rocket.Chat website, allowing you to build upon their framework and customize integrations.

One of their core products is Team Collaboration which you can set up as a privately hosted alternative to Slack. Of course, the use case for their software highlighted here is Customer Service and Engagement.

With Rocket.Chat you can manage live chat, email, SMS, and social media channels in a single security-oriented hub. The options and features at hand are mostly limited by your imagination.

Watermelon is a Dutch no-code chatwidget platform.

They let you experience AI chatbot technology as never before. A GPT-4 supported communication tool to help your customers, empower your team and reduce your workload.

Their integrated conversation builder interface allows you to create advanced dialog sequences to automate your customer’s optimal flow into your organization.

Watermelon’s payment model is based on a platform fee that starts at $149 per month for a monthly subscription, a fixed price per chatbot, and a small charge ($0.07) per conversation.