Simple, honest pricing

Start free with no card — a real assistant on your site from day one. Upgrade only when you outgrow it. Plans are priced by conversations a month, never per answer, and a busy month never means a surprise bill or a silent widget.

Free

A real assistant on one site, to get started.

Free forever
  • 50 conversations a month
  • Answers from your content, with the source shown
  • Email hand-off into your Inbox, never a dead end
  • One line embed widget
  • Shows the “Answered by PlainAnswer” badge
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Solo

The core plan for a small business.

£19 / month
  • 500 conversations a month
  • Remove the PlainAnswer badge
  • Custom avatar, colours & greeting
  • Turn any answer into a saved FAQ in one click
  • Answer-quality dashboard
  • Automatic content checks that flag pages that contradict each other
Start free

Growth

For a busier site.

£49 / month
  • 2,000 conversations a month
  • Monthly SEO optimisation report, emailed to you
  • Everything in Solo
Start free

Business

For a high-volume site.

£119 / month
  • 10,000 conversations a month
  • Hands-on support
  • Everything in Growth
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No nasty surprises. Each plan is for one website, and you are priced by conversations a month, not per page and not per answer. A busy month never means a shock bill or a widget that goes quiet, and your assistant stays sharp because it only ever answers from that one site's content.
Founding offer. Join before 15 September and we set your whole assistant up for you, free. That is our done-for-you setup, normally £149, on us. Use code FOUNDER at checkout.

Done-for-you setup

Not technical? We do the whole setup for you.

£149 one off
  • Free for founding customers with code FOUNDER, until 15 September
  • We install PlainAnswer on your website
  • We read your content and tune your first answers
  • We test it live so it is ready to go
  • All done remotely, you need do nothing
Add at checkout

Monthly SEO service

The done-for-you fix. We write and publish the improvements, so you do not have to.

£149 / month
  • We turn your customers' real questions into finished SEO pages and FAQs
  • The topics people search, in their own words
  • The pages your website is missing, written and published for you
  • Business shows you what to improve each month; this does it for you. Add it to any plan.
Add to any plan
No per-answer surprise bills, ever. Some tools charge you for every reply, so a busy month means a shock on your invoice. PlainAnswer gives you a set number of conversations a month for one flat price. If you have a busy month we keep answering, show you a friendly nudge to move up, and the visitor is always offered a hand-off — so you are never surprise-billed and your widget is never left silent.

Questions, answered plainly

Do I need a card to start?

No. The Free plan needs no card and is free for as long as you like. You add a payment method only if you choose to upgrade.

What if the answer is not on my website?

It does not have to be. As well as your website, the agent answers from any FAQs and information you give it, including things your site does not mention, so you can brief it like a new member of staff. And it gets richer over time: when a question comes up that nothing covers yet, it captures the customer's name, phone and email and drops the enquiry into your Inbox so nobody is left waiting. When you answer it there, you can save it as an FAQ in one click, and the agent handles it itself next time.

Can customers call me or get directions from the chat?

Yes. Add your phone number and address in your dashboard Settings, and the chat shows a tap-to-call “Call us” button and a “Get directions” button that opens the map to your door. It is the fastest way for someone who is ready to book or visit to reach you. Leave either field blank to hide that button.

Will it ever make something up?

No. Every answer is checked against your own content before it is sent. If it cannot be supported by your website or FAQs, the agent hands it to you instead of guessing.

Can I try it before signing up?

Yes. Paste your website address into the live demo and ask it anything a customer would, in about a minute, with no signup.

Can I change plan or cancel?

Yes. You can move up or down a plan, or cancel, at any time.

What plans do you offer and how much do they cost?

A free plan and three paid plans, priced by conversations a month: Free at £0 for 50 conversations, Solo at £19 for 500, Growth at £49 for 2,000, and Business at £119 for 10,000. Yearly billing gives you two months free. There is never a charge per answer.

How do I know which plan I need?

By how many conversations your site has, not by how big it is. A conversation is one visitor chat. If you are not sure, start on Free — it is a real, working assistant — and your dashboard shows you how many conversations you are having each month, so you upgrade only when you actually outgrow it.

What happens if I go over my conversations?

Nothing breaks and no customer is left waiting. We keep answering through a small grace buffer and show you a friendly nudge to move up. Only if you stay over does the widget switch to taking the visitor's email for you instead — still helpful, never silent — and you are never hit with a surprise bill.

What if I have more than one website?

Each plan is for one website. If you run more than one, you set each up on its own plan, so every site gets its own assistant tuned to just that site's content. That is deliberate: an assistant that answers from one focused site gives better, more trustworthy answers than one trying to cover several at once.

Do you set it up for me?

Yes. Our done-for-you setup is a one off 149 pounds. We install PlainAnswer on your website, read your content, tune your first answers, and test it live. It is all done remotely, so you do not need to be technical and you do not need to do anything yourself.

What do you need from me to set it up?

Mainly your website address, since PlainAnswer reads your site itself. To add the one line of code that shows the chat button, you either paste it yourself using our simple steps, or give us a temporary login to your website so we can add it for you. Optional extras that help are any FAQ document, your opening hours and contact email, and your brand colour.

What is the monthly SEO optimisation report on Growth and Business?

Every month, Growth and Business customers get a plain report built from their own agent's conversations: the real questions customers asked, the topics the website is missing, and simple content ideas to win more enquiries. It shows you exactly what to improve, in your customers' own words. It is included at no extra cost. If you would rather we did the work, the monthly SEO service below writes and publishes those improvements for you.

What is the monthly SEO service, and how is it different?

The report shows you what to improve; the service does it for you. For 149 pounds a month we turn the real questions your customers ask your agent into finished SEO pages and FAQs on your website: the topics people search for in their own words, and the pages your site is missing, written and published for you. It uses your own customer data, and you can add it to any plan.

Can everything be done remotely?

Yes. Both the setup and the monthly SEO service are done remotely. We never need access to anything beyond adding one line of code to your website, and we never ask for passwords by email or any payment details.