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AVA (Asterisk Admin) vs Chatgbot

Bottom line

AVA (Asterisk Admin) is free, while Chatgbot has a free plan plus paid upgrades. AVA (Asterisk Admin) is open source and Chatgbot is not. You can run AVA (Asterisk Admin) on your own machine or server; Chatgbot is hosted by the vendor.

Which one should you try?

AVA (Asterisk Admin)

Free

Best for Asterisk/FreePBX administrators

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Chatgbot

Freemium

Best for Users seeking multiple AI models without managing separate accounts

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Pricing, capabilities and platforms side by side. Prices are as of the "Pricing checked" date in the table.

AVA (Asterisk Admin)

AVA (Asterisk Admin)

The admin interface is the management layer for the AVA (AI Voice Agent for Asterisk) project, letting Asterisk and FreePBX administrators configure STT, LLM, and TTS providers through a UI rather than raw config files. You set up AI personalities, define contexts, and watch system metrics and live logs from one panel. The tool is open-source and self-hosted only — no cloud option exists. Where it breaks is scope: this is purpose-built for Asterisk deployments, and teams running other telephony stacks or needing multi-tenant management will hit the ceiling fast. Those teams generally move to a broader voice AI platform with its own telephony abstraction layer.

Chatgbot

Chatgbot

Chatgbot aggregates frontier models (GPT-5, Claude Opus 4.7, DeepSeek, Grok, Mistral) behind a single login, letting you send the same prompt to all of them at once or continue a thread across different models without losing context. Web search, PDF summarization, and image generation are included in the same interface. The ceiling appears when you need API access for your own application — there is none. No self-hosting option exists, so your data flows through Chatgbot's servers and you accept their retention policies wholesale. Teams that graduate from 'comparing outputs manually' to 'building a product on top of this' will need a different architecture.

AttributeAVA (Asterisk Admin)Chatgbot
PricingFreeFreemium
Pricing checkedNot checked yetNot checked yet
Free trialNot statedNot stated
Open sourceYesNo
Has APINoNo
Self-hosted optionYesNo
PlatformsDocker, Linux, self-hostedWeb
Pros
  • UI-driven STT, LLM, and TTS provider configuration, so administrators swap or reconfigure pipeline components without editing files or restarting services manually.
  • Live log and system metrics monitoring built into the same interface, which means a misconfigured provider or a hung pipeline shows up in the dashboard instead of requiring a terminal session to diagnose.
  • AI personality and context configuration exposed through the admin panel, so iterating on agent behavior does not require a developer to modify and redeploy config files for each change.
  • Fully open-source and self-hosted, so there is no dependency on a vendor's uptime, no data leaving your infrastructure, and no paid tier gating core functionality.
  • Built specifically for Asterisk and FreePBX, which means the configuration model maps directly to how those systems handle call routing — no abstraction layer translating between a generic UI and Asterisk-specific concepts.
  • Compare mode sends one prompt to every available model at once, so you get a real output difference in seconds instead of running the same question across five open tabs.
  • Conversation history carries across model switches within a thread, so multi-step drafting workflows don't require you to re-paste context every time you change models.
  • Web search with cited sources and PDF summarization are included in the same interface, so students and researchers don't need a separate tool just to ground answers in documents.
  • New flagship models from major labs are added under the existing subscription when they ship, according to the vendor, so you don't face a separate upgrade decision every time a lab releases a new model.
  • A single subscription covers access for all team members across all available models, so teams avoid the overhead of managing, billing, and credentialing separate accounts per model per person.
Cons
  • The tool is Asterisk-only. Teams running Twilio, Voip.ms, or any non-Asterisk telephony stack cannot use this admin UI at all — they move to a platform-agnostic voice AI management layer from the start.
  • Multi-tenant management is not described anywhere in the project scope. A deployment serving multiple customers or business units with isolated configurations has no documented path here; teams in that scenario maintain separate deployments per tenant or switch to a platform that handles tenancy natively.
  • Because the admin UI and the core AVA agent live in the same repository, a breaking change in the agent layer can break the admin interface — operators running production deployments absorb all upgrade risk with no vendor support path.
  • The project's documentation surface, based on available repository content, is thin. Administrators configuring edge cases in provider pipelines or debugging unexpected behavior have community forums and source code as their primary resources — not official guides.
  • No API is available, so any team that needs to route model outputs programmatically into their own application — a pipeline, a product feature, an internal tool — hits a hard wall immediately and needs a provider like OpenAI or Anthropic directly, or a routing layer like OpenRouter.
  • There is no self-hosted or on-premises option, meaning all prompts and responses pass through Chatgbot's infrastructure; teams with data residency requirements or enterprise security reviews that prohibit third-party intermediaries cannot use this tool at all.
  • The interface is built for manual, human-driven comparison — there are no agents, no task automation, and no tool-use loops described; teams whose workflow has moved beyond 'read and pick an output' to 'run a task end-to-end' will find nothing here to support that and will move to a platform that does.

Made up your mind?

AVA (Asterisk Admin)

Free

Best for Asterisk/FreePBX administrators

Visit AVA (Asterisk Admin) See full review

Chatgbot

Freemium

Best for Users seeking multiple AI models without managing separate accounts

Visit Chatgbot See full review

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