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EzyConn vs Dante AI: What a Small Shop Pays
Dante AI meters replies in credits and puts the human hand-over on its $120 plan. EzyConn prices one workspace with people and messages included. We ran a small online tea shop through a month on both.
The short answer
Dante AI has a free plan and three paid ones: Starter at $40 a month, Advanced at $120 and Pro at $400, with two months free on yearly billing. It meters credits: a reply costs 1 credit on light models, about 10 on standard ones and 25 on premium ones. Handing a live chat to a person, the phone number and lead capture start on Advanced. EzyConn is priced per workspace, and Starter at $25 a month covers 4 people and 5,000 messages, with the hand-over to a person, WhatsApp and bookings in the chat. Our worked month for a three-person online shop comes to $120 on Dante. On EzyConn it comes to $25. Checked on 3 November 2026.
An online shop’s chat questions come in two kinds. Most are answered on the site already: delivery times, returns, whether the 250 g tin is back in stock. A few need a person, usually because a parcel went wrong. Both Dante AI and EzyConn answer the first kind from your own content. The second kind is where their pricing differs most, because each plan decides who is allowed to step in.
We read Dante AI’s pricing page and help centre as they stood on 3 November 2026, worked out what a credit buys, and priced one made-up shop’s month on both products, line by line.
Dante AI in brief
Dante AI is a Delaware company that builds an AI agent from your website. You type in your web address, it reads your pages, and you add price lists, policies, PDFs and anything you type. Dante calls the result your AI brain. The same brain answers as a chatbot on your website and, from the Advanced plan, as a voice agent on a phone number you rent through Dante, and it captures leads as it goes (dante-ai.com).
It writes for small businesses. The questions on its home page are about walk-ins on a Saturday, the price of a 60-minute session, gift vouchers and bank holiday hours. The free plan needs no card and has no end date, every paid plan can be cancelled from your own billing settings, and the agent answers in more than 100 languages on every plan.
Dante AI review: where it is strong
It fails gently on credits. When the balance runs low, the widget keeps answering on the cheapest 1-credit model while at least one credit is left, so visitors get a reply rather than silence. You can set a per-minute rate limit and a monthly credit ceiling, and auto-topup buys 1,000 credits for $20 when you hit zero, up to a number of top-ups you choose (Dante help centre, credits).
It reads a lot. Websites, PDF, Word, slides, spreadsheets, JSON, XML and HTML files, images through OCR, typed text and question and answer pairs, plus a synced Google Drive folder (knowledge sources). Paid plans re-read your site on a schedule, as often as weekly on Starter, every 3 days on Advanced and daily on Pro. Correct an answer once and every channel gives the corrected version, on every plan including Free.
Model choice is a setting. Paid plans open every model Dante offers, from the GPT-5 family to Claude Sonnet, Claude Opus and Gemini Pro, and switching takes one click with no retraining.
The handover is carefully built. A “Talk to a human” pill sits under every reply. The request lands in an inbox marked Awaiting, the AI goes quiet once a teammate clicks Take it, and Resolve hands the visitor back to the AI. A teammate’s replies still reach the customer even at a zero credit balance (Dante inbox guide).
Bookings and apps. From Starter it books real meetings inside the chat through Calendly, Cal.com, Google Calendar or Outlook, and Zapier connects it to more than 9,000 apps; Pro adds a REST API with webhooks (integrations). You also choose which websites may load your agent, and data deletion requests are built in on every plan.
What a Dante AI credit buys
Dante meters replies, not conversations. One live visitor turn, a message in and a reply out, costs 1 to 25 credits depending on the model, with tool calls on the same turn bundled in. The default model, GPT-5.4 Nano, costs 1 credit, so on it a credit is roughly one reply. Standard models cost about 10 credits a reply and premium models 25.
| Plan | Credits a month | Light models (1 credit) | Standard (about 10) | Premium (25) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | 100 | 100 replies | Light models only | Light models only |
| Starter | 2,000 | 2,000 replies | About 200 | 80 |
| Advanced | 8,000 | 8,000 replies | About 800 | 320 |
| Pro | 30,000 | 30,000 replies | About 3,000 | 1,200 |
Three details matter for a budget. Unused credits do not carry over. Paying yearly still gives you the monthly allowance once a month, not twelve months up front. And when the balance reaches zero, the agent stops replying until the reset or a top-up, though a teammate who has taken over a chat can still reply.
Dante AI pricing, plan by plan
Four plans, each a step up in credits, agents, seats and features. Dante’s plans guide says that if a feature is not listed for a plan, that plan does not include it, which makes the list below easy to trust.
| Plan | Monthly | Yearly | AI agents | Seats | Knowledge | What it adds |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | $0 | 1 | 1 | 150K characters | Website chat on light models |
| Starter | $40 | $400 a year ($33.33 a month) | 1 | 2 | 25M characters | Every model, Zapier, bookings, weekly re-sync |
| Advanced | $120 | $1,200 a year ($100 a month) | 3 | 3 | 50M characters | Human Handover, lead capture, a rented phone number, no Dante branding |
| Pro | $400 | $4,000 a year ($333.33 a month) | 10 | 5 | 200M characters | API, 3 phone numbers, daily re-sync |
Add-ons are billed monthly on any paid plan (add-ons): another AI agent is $20 a month, 1,000 extra credits are $20 a month, and removing the Dante branding on Starter is $50 a month, which takes Starter to $90. Seats are not sold as an add-on, so more people means a higher plan, and Human Handover is sold only as part of Advanced and Pro. Renting the phone number is billed monthly on top of the plan; the pricing page does not show that price.
EzyConn’s plans, and why the price tags differ
EzyConn prices the workspace, not the person or the reply. Each plan includes people, monthly messages and AI credits, each capped per plan, and the AI agent is in every plan.
- Free: free, no card, no end date. 2 people, 500 messages and 1,000 AI credits a month.
- Starter: $25 a month (₹2,499 at checkout). 4 people, 5,000 messages and 10,000 AI credits a month, with bookings in the chat and the phone line on your own Twilio number.
- Professional: $95 a month (₹6,499 at checkout). 11 people, 25,000 messages and 50,000 AI credits a month.
- Enterprise: talk to us.
Paid plans start with one month free, and annual billing saves 20%. Checkout bills in Indian rupees, which is why each dollar price has a rupee amount beside it.
That makes the headline numbers hard to set side by side. A Dante credit is one reply whose cost depends on the model. EzyConn’s allowance is a count of messages. Dante’s plans also decide who can join the conversation, because seats are fixed per plan and the handover starts on Advanced. The fair test is one month, priced both ways.
One online shop’s month, both ways
Saltmarsh Tea is an online tea shop we made up for this example. It sells loose tea and tins on WooCommerce, and three people answer customers: the owner and two part-timers. The website chat gets about 700 conversations a month, mostly about delivery times, returns, caffeine and whether a tea is in stock. About 1 in 7, 100 a month, need a person: a dented tin, a parcel stuck at the depot, a refund outside the policy.
Our assumptions: each conversation has about 3 customer messages and 3 replies, and a teammate who takes one over writes about 4 messages. The shop also gets WhatsApp messages, which we leave out so both columns price the same job.
On Dante AI
The shop needs a person to take over order problems, and Human Handover starts on Advanced: $120 a month, or $100 a month billed yearly. Advanced has 3 seats, exactly the three people who answer, and includes lead capture.
Credits: at most 700 × 3 = 2,100 turns a month, a few fewer because a teammate’s replies use none. On the default 1-credit model that is about a quarter of Advanced’s 8,000. On a standard model at about 10 credits a turn it is 21,000 credits, 13,000 over the allowance: 13 extra-credit packs at $20 each, $260, take the month to $380, close to Pro at $400 with its 30,000 credits and 5 seats.
Dante’s Starter plan would cover the answers alone. 2,100 turns is just over its 2,000 credits, so one $20 pack makes $60. Starter has no Human Handover, though: a visitor who asks for a person is shown a form that takes their name and email for a follow-up.
On EzyConn
The month fits Starter, $25 a month (₹2,499 at checkout), which covers 4 people. Counted the cautious way, with customer messages and AI replies both against the allowance, the chat uses 700 × 6 = 4,200 messages. The teammates’ 4 messages on each of the 100 conversations they take over add 400, so the month uses 4,600 of 5,000 messages. If the shop grows past that, Professional at $95 includes 25,000 messages and 11 people.
With the WooCommerce catalogue connected, the AI answers product, price and stock questions from the shop’s live catalogue. The 100 order problems go through the hand-over: the AI offers a person, the customer accepts, a teammate is assigned with the whole conversation, and the AI pauses until it is handed back. On annual billing the year costs $240.
| Line | Dante AI | EzyConn |
|---|---|---|
| Plan priced | Advanced | Starter |
| People who can answer | 3 seats | 4 people |
| Usage this month | About 2,100 credits of 8,000 on the default model | 4,600 of 5,000 messages |
| A person takes over | Human Handover, included on Advanced | The AI offers a person; a teammate gets the whole conversation |
| Product and stock answers | From the pages it has crawled | From the WooCommerce catalogue |
| Billed monthly | $120 ($380 on a standard model) | $25 (₹2,499 at checkout) |
| Billed yearly | $1,200 a year | $240 a year |
The gap is mostly structure. Dante ties the handover and the third seat to its $120 plan. EzyConn’s Starter plan includes both. On Dante the model you choose also moves the bill: the same month costs more than three times as much on a standard model as on the default one.
Feature by feature
The table covers what a small team asks first. Dante’s cells come from its pricing page and help centre; EzyConn’s are read from its own plan data.
Four moments from the shop’s week
Tuesday, 22:15: “Is the Darjeeling second flush back in 100 g?”
EzyConn answers from the WooCommerce catalogue, with the product, its price and its stock as they are when the customer asks. Dante answers from the pages it has read, and re-reads the site as often as every 3 days on Advanced.
Wednesday, 11:00: “My tin arrived dented. Can I get a new one?”
The shop’s written policy covers damage, but the owner wants a person to approve each replacement. On EzyConn the AI offers one, and once the customer accepts they see “Thanks, I’m connecting you to a support specialist now. Please hold for a moment.” The part-timer who was last active is assigned and notified with the whole conversation, and the AI pauses. If nobody is free, the customer sees “All our agents are currently busy. We’ll notify you shortly.” On Dante’s Advanced plan the customer taps “Talk to a human”, the chat waits in the inbox as Awaiting, and whoever clicks Take it replies live.
Friday, 19:30: a wholesale question on WhatsApp
A café owner asks on WhatsApp whether the shop sells 1 kg bags at trade prices. EzyConn answers on WhatsApp from the same content as the website chat, and the conversation sits in the same inbox. The owner, out at dinner, replies from a Slack thread that goes straight back to the customer. Dante’s help centre covers connecting a WhatsApp Business number through Meta.
Monday, 09:00: the owner reads the week
Both products show what the AI could not answer. Dante ranks knowledge gaps by how many people asked, from Advanced. EzyConn reports the reasons the AI could not answer and the topics it does worst on, and when a teammate answered one of those questions, the reply waits as a draft answer for the owner to approve. Reports and the customer list export to CSV.
Which one fits the shop
Three people share the replies and the budget is tight
EzyConnStarter covers 4 people and 5,000 messages a month at $25, priced per workspace.
Order problems need a person the same evening
EzyConnThe AI offers a person, the customer accepts, and a teammate is assigned and notified with the whole conversation, in the inbox or in a Slack thread that replies to the customer.
Stock and price questions on a WooCommerce shop
EzyConnThe WooCommerce catalogue connection lets the AI answer from your products, prices and stock.
Customers book a consultation or a tasting in the chat
EitherDante books through Calendly, Cal.com, Google Calendar or Outlook from Starter. EzyConn books from Starter against Google Calendar or Microsoft 365, and the customer gets a confirmation.
Where EzyConn fits
EzyConn is an AI agent for customer conversations, a product of Omegaswift, built for small and mid-size businesses that want an affordable way to answer every customer. The AI is in every plan. It answers from your website, which it scans while you keep the pages you want, from PDF, Word, plain text, Markdown and CSV files, from text you write, and from exact questions and answers you set, which it uses first. Each answer shows its source, it answers in multiple languages, and GPT is included, or you can bring your own OpenAI, Anthropic or Google key.
Customers write on the website chat, WhatsApp, Telegram and email (AI replies on email come with Professional), and call your own Twilio number from Starter: the AI answers with your greeting and one of six English voices, and every call is saved as a conversation. Your team replies from a shared inbox or from Slack threads that reply to the customer, and the portal works on phones. A pre-chat form can ask for a name, email, phone, department and consent, and Zapier, signed webhooks and Google Analytics 4 pass what happens on to the rest of your tools.
For a shop on WooCommerce, our WooCommerce chatbot guide and the retail page show the set-up, the WhatsApp page covers the second channel, and every limit is on the pricing page. The quickest test is your own: put a free AI chatbot on your website, or start free and ask it the ten questions your inbox gets most.
EzyConn vs Dante AI: common questions
Is there a free Dante AI alternative?
Yes. EzyConn’s Free plan covers 2 people, 500 messages and 1,000 AI credits a month, with the AI agent included, no card and no end date. Dante AI has a free plan too: 1 AI agent, 100 credits a month and 1 seat, on its light models.
How much does Dante AI cost?
On 3 November 2026 Dante AI listed Free at $0, Starter at $40 a month, Advanced at $120 and Pro at $400. Yearly billing is ten months for twelve: $400, $1,200 and $4,000 a year. Add-ons on paid plans are $20 a month for another AI agent, $20 a month for 1,000 extra credits and $50 a month to remove the Dante branding on Starter. Prices exclude local sales tax.
What is a Dante AI credit?
One live visitor turn, a message in and a reply out, costs 1 to 25 credits depending on the model. Light models such as the default GPT-5.4 Nano cost 1, standard models about 10 and premium models 25, so Starter’s 2,000 credits buy up to 2,000 replies on light models, about 200 on standard and 80 on premium. Credits reset monthly and do not roll over.
Which Dante AI plan includes human handover?
Advanced and Pro. Human Handover adds a team inbox where a teammate takes a live chat over, and it is not sold as an add-on. On Free and Starter, a visitor who asks for a person can be shown a form that takes their name and email for a follow-up.
Does Dante AI answer the phone?
Yes, from Advanced. You rent a phone number inside Dante, billed separately from the plan, and point it at your agent; Advanced includes 1 number and Pro 3, with voice insights on calls. Dante also lists realtime voice on every plan, with Starter going beyond the Free plan’s 10 minutes a month.
Can Dante AI book appointments?
Yes, from Starter. It connects Calendly, Cal.com, Google Calendar or Outlook, shows live openings in the chat and books the slot the visitor picks.
Is EzyConn a good Dante AI alternative?
For a small team that wants people, messages and the hand-over in one low price, yes. Starter covers 4 people and 5,000 messages a month, answers on the website chat, WhatsApp, Telegram and your own phone number, books appointments in the chat and hands a conversation to a teammate once the customer accepts. Paid plans start with one month free.
Dante AI review: is it any good?
For getting an AI agent onto a small business website, yes. Setup starts from your web address, it reads a wide range of file types, keeps answering on the cheapest model when credits run low, and its human handover is carefully built. The main thing to plan for is that the handover, the phone number and lead capture start on the $120 Advanced plan.
Bottom line
Dante AI is a tidy, well-documented product for putting an AI agent on a small business website, and its help centre is unusually clear about how credits, seats and the handover work. Its pricing climbs in steps: the person who can take over a chat, the third seat and the phone number all arrive with the $120 plan, and the model you choose decides how far the credits go.
For a shop or service business where a few people share the replies and some conversations always need a person, EzyConn puts the people, the messages and the hand-over in one plan priced per workspace, starting free. Price your own month both ways before you decide.
The comparison hub covers the rest of the category, and three neighbours of Dante are compared in EzyConn vs Chatbase, EzyConn vs SiteGPT and EzyConn vs Botsonic.
Keep reading
- AI chatbots for e-commerce
- Live chat for online shops
- AI support pricing models compared
- How a chatbot hands a conversation to a person
- Free AI chatbots with no credit card
Pricing and features for EzyConn and Dante AI were checked on each vendor’s published pages on 3 November 2026.