88Agents (formerly UseChat.ai) vs TypingMind

88Agents, formerly listed as UseChat.ai, is a chat bot builder for agencies that deploy customer-facing assistants across web widgets, Slack, and email. You bring your own API keys and pick models from OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google Gemini, so billing stays tied to the providers you already use. One configuration can start as a doc-trained chatbot and scale into agents that call APIs or query databases.

Most chatbot SaaS locks you to one model vendor and charges per message on top. 88Agents flips that with a bring-your-own-key setup and multi-channel deploy from a single bot config. The same knowledge base and personality can land on a site embed, a Slack workspace, or an IMAP inbox without rebuilding flows per channel.

Agency builders and technical teams use 88Agents when clients need reliable chatbots first and optional agent workflows later. Knowledge ingestion covers PDFs, site crawls, CSV datasets, YouTube transcripts, and FAQ pairs, with full conversation history for review.

TypingMind gives you one chat interface for ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, and other LLMs while you bring your own API keys. You pay a one-time license fee to TypingMind, then only for the tokens each model provider charges. Chats, folders, agents, and API credentials stay in local browser storage by default, so your conversations are not sent for model training.

Where ChatGPT Plus locks you into OpenAI and caps usage, TypingMind lets you switch models mid-conversation, run multi-model parallel chats, and connect MCP tools, RAG knowledge bases, and custom plugins. Prompt caching can cut token costs up to 90% on supported models. Over 50 pre-built agents cover coding, research, and marketing workflows out of the box.

TypingMind suits power users and teams who already pay for API access and want a richer UI than vendor defaults. More than 20,641 customers use it daily, and a separate TypingMind for Teams product adds admin controls, custom branding, and self-hosting for companies.