How to Self-Host Chatwoot in 2026 (After the Cloud API Paywall)

Self-hosted Chatwoot is free under the MIT licence and keeps full API and webhook access. On Chatwoot Cloud, the free plan lost both on 16 July 2026. To self-host it you need four things: the Chatwoot Community Edition image ( chatwoot/chatwoot:<version>-ce ), PostgreSQL with the pgvector extension, Redis, and a Sidekiq worker next to the Rails server. The Docker Compose file below starts…