CBOT vs Chatbase

CBOT is an enterprise conversational AI company founded in 2017 and based at Istanbul Teknokent in Avcılar, Istanbul. Led by CEO Mete Aktaş, it builds voice and chat AI agents for large organisations, mainly in banking, insurance, telecom and retail. Its customers include Ziraat Bankası, Halkbank and Garanti BBVA, and QNB's mobile banking assistant Q runs on the CBOT Platform. Gartner featured the company in its Competitive Landscape: Conversational Solutions 2025 report.

The CBOT Platform is used to build, operate, monitor and improve AI agents alongside human teams. Voice agents handle calls for collections, identity verification, appointments and customer service; digital agents work across web, WhatsApp, Instagram and SMS or run behind the scenes to trigger workflows and update records. A customer service workspace gives human agents cross-channel history, live answer suggestions and summaries. It also sells packaged digital employees such as TAHSİLDAR for collections, plus its own LLM. Guardrails, observability and evaluation are built in, and it can be deployed in public cloud, private cloud, on-premises or hybrid. Pricing is not published.

CBOT fits regulated enterprises that need Turkish-language voice automation and on-premises deployment. It is not a self-serve tool: Botpress and Voiceflow let small teams build bots on a free tier, and Landbot is simpler for marketing chatbots.

Buying tip: ask for sector references and start with a pilot on one high-volume use case, such as collections calls.

Chatbase is a no-code platform for creating AI agents trained on a company's own content. Launched in 2023 as one of the first 'ChatGPT for your data' products, it lets a business point the tool at its website, upload PDFs and documents or connect help center content, and within minutes get an AI agent that answers questions in a branded chat widget.

Beyond answering questions, agents can perform actions such as booking meetings through calendar tools, looking up order information, capturing leads and creating support tickets, and they can hand conversations over to a human. Agents can be embedded on websites and connected to channels such as WhatsApp, Messenger, Instagram and Slack, and teams can choose among models from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google. Pricing is credit-based with no permanent free plan: a 7-day trial, then Hobby, Standard and Pro plans that add message credits, seats, integrations and advanced analytics.

Chatbase suits small and mid-sized businesses that want a website support or sales assistant quickly without designing conversation flows. Answer quality depends heavily on the source content, and teams that need tested multi-step flows, deep integrations or strict control will find more room in Botpress or Voiceflow. Companies already running a help desk may get better results from built-in agents such as Intercom Fin or Zendesk AI, which share ticket history and customer context.