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For a small support team it replaces three or four separate subscriptions — chat, inbox, knowledge base, email marketing — and unlimited contacts on every plan avoids the contact-count trap that makes Intercom expensive. The knowledge base is competent rather than remarkable. The real friction is pricing: the plan cost only appears after you move a slider, and the AI capacity most teams actually want is an extra line item on top.
Pros
- Knowledge base articles double as training data for the AI agent and as self-service inside the chat widget
- Unlimited contacts on all plans, so cost does not scale with audience size
- REST API plus iOS and Android SDKs for embedding the widget
- Add-on pricing for AI conversations and data sources is published in exact dollars
Cons
- No static plan price on the page: a slider computes it from team members and email volume
- AI conversation capacity above the plan allowance costs $29 per 100 conversations on top
- AI agents are only included from the Pro tier upward, not on the entry plan