🆚 Messenger Customer Chat vs. Skype
Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *- 📈 Messenger Customer Chat is slightly more popular than Skype.
- 🌎 Messenger Customer Chat is more popular in Vietnam, the United States, and Korea.
- 🌍 Skype is more popular in Thailand, China, and Russia.
Messenger Customer Chat
SkypeType
Legacy technology
Legacy technology
About
Messenger Customer Chat is the website chat widget from Meta that was retired in May 2024.
Skype was a communications platform for voice and video calls and sending instant messages that was retired on May 5, 2025 in favor of Microsoft Teams.
Headquarters
Menlo Park, California, United States
Redmond, Washington, United States
Website
Pricing
Free ✔️
Phone calls
World (unlimited mins)$16.79/month
USA (unlimited mins)$3.59/month
UK (30 mins)$1.79/month
Germany (100 mins)$3.59/month
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Messenger Customer Chat legacy technology is 1.1 times more popular than Skype.
Total websites
Market share
Legacy
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Messenger Customer Chat is more popular in Vietnam, the United States, and Korea, while Skype is more popular in Thailand, China, and Russia.
Thailand
Vietnam
China
United States
Korea
Russia
India
Poland
Italy
United Kingdom
Awards
- 🥇 Most popular in Vietnam in the Legacy category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the Philippines in the Legacy category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Mongolia in the Legacy category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Korea in the Legacy category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Bangladesh in the Legacy category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Thailand in the Legacy category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Cambodia in the Legacy category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in China in the Legacy category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Belarus in the Legacy category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Russia in the Legacy category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Messenger Customer Chat is more popular among sites focused on business, online shopping, and marketing and merchandising, while Skype is more commonly used on Internet services, software and hardware, and games sites.
Business
Online Shopping
Internet Services
Marketing/Merchandising
Travel
Education/Reference
Blogs/Wiki
Fashion/Beauty
Software/Hardware
Real Estate
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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