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· Hire Chat Agents

Real humans on chat, from $1 an hour.

Trained by us. Working for you. Recruited in the Philippines, vetted by tawk.to (we don't outsource our hiring), and on shift the hours your visitors are awake.

· 24/7 coverage· From $1/hr· No lock-in
· Live coverage
Your team, on shift.
LIVE
  • A
    Agent · A.
    Up to 2 chats
    On chat
    On chat
  • J
    Agent · J.
    Native English
    Online
    Available
  • S
    Agent · S.
    Up to 2 chats
    On chat
    On chat
  • D
    Agent · D.
    Native English
    Online
    Available
· 24/7 cover · No lock-inONLINE
· Why hire

Your site is open 24/7. Your team isn't.

Visitors who don't get answered don't stick around. They check a competitor, abandon the cart, leave the tab. A trained agent on chat means someone's there at 2am — when the next sale is just a question away.

  • ·Carts abandoned because nobody replied at checkout
  • ·Pre-sale questions left unanswered overnight
  • ·Leads going cold while you sleep
  • ·Repeat questions eating your team's actual work hours
· What you get

A trained team — not a bot, not a script.

Hired agents are real, full-time staff. tawk.to recruits, vets, and trains them. You point them at your product.

Real humans on chat.

Bots can route. They can't close a sale or read frustration. Our agents are people — empathetic, curious, useful.

Native English speakers.

Live answering is currently English-only. Native speakers also work in Italian, German, French, and Spanish across the wider team.

Cover the hours you can't.

Pick a 40-hour shift, run a double shift, add weekends, or hand us the whole 168.

From $1 an hour.

Volume is global, the team is full-time, and the math just works. The cost of one shift is shared across thousands of customers.

Trained on your product.

Agents are onboarded on your docs, your tone, and your edge cases. tawk.to does the recruitment and the training in-house.

Up to 2 concurrent chats.

Each agent handles up to two simultaneous conversations — focus stays high, response time stays low.

· The math

Save up to 97% on coverage.

Direct-hiring a team for 24×7 coverage means roughly five people on rotation. Here's the per-hour breakdown tawk.to publishes — and what 24×7 ends up costing.

·
Direct hire
tawk.to
Hourly rate
$20.00 / hr
$1.00 / hr
Recruitment & HR (7%)
+$1.40 / hr
Included
Training (2%)
+$0.40 / hr
Included
Benefits (35%)
+$7.00 / hr
Included
Overhead (5%)
+$1.00 / hr
Included
Payroll tax (12%)
+$2.40 / hr
Included
Absence cover (13%)
+$2.60 / hr
Included
· Total / month
$25,404 / mo
$728 / mo

Direct-hire total based on the breakdown tawk.to publishes for 24/7 coverage (five staff rotating). Hired Agents 24×7 plan: $1.00/hr × 168 hrs/wk = $728/mo.

· Pricing

Pick the shift. Pay by the hour.

Month-to-month with no lock-in. Upgrade, downgrade, or cancel any time.

· Part Time
10 hrs / week
$3.00 / hr
≈ $129 / mo
  • Two hours a day
  • Cover the busiest window
  • Easiest place to start
· Full Time
40 hrs / week
$2.20 / hr
≈ $380 / mo
  • One agent, one shift
  • Pick your hours
  • Cover business hours
· Double Shift
80 hrs / week
$1.50 / hr
≈ $520 / mo
  • Two agents rotating
  • 16-hour daily coverage
  • Weekday focus
· Days + Weekends
128 hrs / week
$1.10 / hr
≈ $610 / mo
  • Weekday + weekend cover
  • Days, evenings, weekends
  • Best for ecommerce
· Best value
· 24×7 · 365
168 hrs / week
$1.00 / hr
≈ $728 / mo
  • Round-the-clock coverage
  • Every hour, every day
  • Lowest hourly rate

· All plans include training, management, replacement guarantees, knowledge base access, CRM integrations, and 24/7 customer success support.

· What's included

Everything's in the rate.

No add-ons, no per-chat surcharges, no charges for lead capture. Recruitment, training, benefits, equipment, taxes, and time off — all on us.

  • Recruitment & vetting
    Agents are recruited and vetted by tawk.to in the Philippines — we don't outsource our hiring.
  • Training on your product
    We onboard agents on your docs, your tone, and your edge cases before they take a chat for you.
  • Benefits & overhead
    Health, equipment, office — handled by us, not added to your bill.
  • Payroll & taxes
    Payroll tax and employment costs are folded into the rate. No surprises.
  • Absence cover
    Vacation, sick days, holidays — covered, so you never lose coverage.
  • Lead capture, no charge
    Capturing details for sales follow-up is part of the job, not a surcharge.
  • CRM integrations
    Conversations and captured leads flow into your existing CRM via the tawk.to platform.
  • 24/7 customer success
    A real point of contact at tawk.to — reachable around the clock if anything's off.
· FAQ

Frequently asked questions.

Still have questions?
Talk to a specialist →

You sign up, tell us the shift you want covered, and we onboard agents on your product. Once trained, they take chats for you — handling pre-sales questions, support, and lead capture.

· Get started

More chats answered. More sales closed.

Tell us your hours and your product. A specialist will be in touch — capacity for new customers is limited, so it's worth getting on the schedule.

· Enquire

Hire chat agents

Drop your details. A specialist will reach out — no auto-responder, an actual person.

· No auto-responder. A real specialist replies.
· From $1/hr· No lock-in contracts· Limited new-customer capacity