Kelu and kapa.ai both index your docs and answer questions with citations. This page lists where they differ. The kapa.ai column comes from kapa’s public documentation at docs.kapa.ai.

Where answers appear

Surfacekapa.aiKelu
Website widget✓✓
Support form deflector✓✓
Slack bot✓✓
Microsoft Teams botNot listed✓
Assistant for your own team✓✓ Ask and the browser extension
Agent sidebar in Zendesk✓✓
Agent sidebar in IntercomNot listedComing later
Automatic replies on new ticketsExample code you run yourself (Zendesk, Front, Intercom Fin)Built in for Zendesk, Intercom, Freshdesk, HubSpot and Front. See Helpdesk automation
Rehearse deflection on past ticketsNot listed✓ Up to 100 resolved tickets a run, nothing sent
MCP server✓✓ MCP server
Chat and search API✓✓ API reference

Sources

Both cover docs sites, GitHub, Confluence, Notion, Google Drive, Jira, Zendesk, Salesforce, S3, OpenAPI, YouTube, file uploads and hand-written answers. Kelu also indexes OneDrive and Linear, which are not in kapa’s connector list. See Knowledge sources.

Account and billing

kapa.aiKelu
Creating a knowledge base (kapa: “project”)Set up by the Kapa teamYou create it in the dashboard
Deleting oneThrough Kapa supportYou delete it in the dashboard
PlansArranged with Kapa’s finance teamA Free plan, and a Pro plan you subscribe to yourself, with a 14-day trial the first time. See Billing & Plans
RolesOwner, Member, UserOwner, Admin, Member, User. See Roles & Permissions

Moving from kapa.ai

The widget reads kapa’s data-website-id attribute, so an existing embed keeps its shape. See Moving from kapa.ai.

Quickstart

Index your docs and add the widget.

Knowledge sources

Every source type Kelu can read.