# Peeve vs Chatbase

Canonical: https://peeve.ai/vs/chatbase/

Chatbase is a self-serve chat widget that answers from your uploaded content and embeds on your site. Peeve is an in-product agent that navigates your real interface: it shows the user where a control is and clicks it, rather than describing where it lives. The honest axis between them is chat versus motion: Chatbase tells, Peeve shows. Chatbase is simpler to stand up on a marketing site; Peeve is built for questions asked inside a product.

| | Chatbase | Peeve |
|---|---|---|
| Surface | Chat widget | Cursor inside your product |
| Resolves by | Describing the answer | Showing it, doing it, or describing it |
| Knowledge source | Content you upload | Your live interface, re-verified each session |
| Acts in your UI | No | Yes |
| Self-heals on change | No | Yes |
| Serves users' agents | No | Yes, over scoped MCP |
| Pricing | Public, usage-based | From $40/mo, credit-metered |

## When Chatbase is the better choice

- A content-heavy site where answering from documents is enough
- A marketing or docs surface rather than an app with UI to navigate
- You want the simplest possible chat embed, fast

## Can you use both?

Rarely needed. Chatbase and Peeve solve the same self-serve job on different surfaces, so most teams pick one. If you run a content site and a separate product, Chatbase on the site and Peeve in the app is a coherent split.

If your questions are navigational (how do I do X in this product), motion resolves them where a description makes the user hunt. That's the case Peeve is built for.

## How is Peeve different from Chatbase?

Chatbase answers from content you upload and describes where things are. Peeve reads your live interface and navigates to the control, then clicks it. Both answer; only Peeve acts inside the product, and only Peeve re-verifies against the UI as it changes.

## Does Chatbase break when my product changes?

Its answers go stale the same way any content-based bot's do: it knows what you uploaded, not what the product now shows. Peeve is grounded in the live interface, so a renamed control resolves on the next session rather than waiting for a content update.

## Which is cheaper?

Both publish pricing, which already sets them apart in this category. The right comparison is per resolved question for your actual question mix; for navigational, in-product questions Peeve's motion resolves cases a chat description leaves the user to finish alone.