Zoho SalesIQ or Tidio, for a small business site. Zoho SalesIQ's free plan gives 3 operators and visitor insights for 10,000 visitors a month, and its paid plans add WhatsApp and a chatbot that can handle up to 25,000 bot sessions a month. Tidio has a free plan, Starter at $24.17 a month billed yearly, and a Lyro AI agent that answers from your knowledge base, with the first 50 conversations free. To train a bot on your own pages and documents, Chatbase's Hobby plan is $32 a month billed yearly for 700 message credits. Once support is a person's job, put AI on a helpdesk: Freshdesk Growth is $19 per agent a month billed yearly with the first 500 Freddy AI Agent sessions included, and Fin, Intercom's agent now owned by Salesforce, charges $0.99 per outcome. Many Indian customers would rather message than use a site widget, so Interakt (₹2,799 a month plus taxes) runs the same answers on WhatsApp. The rule: start free, then pay per resolved conversation once volume proves it.
Zoho SalesIQ's plans for website chat. The free plan gives 3 operator licences and visitor insights for 10,000 visitors a month; paid plans add a chatbot handling up to 25,000 bot sessions a month and WhatsApp and social messaging channels; 15-day free trial.
Tidio's plans for live chat and its Lyro AI agent. Free is $0; Starter is $24.17 a month billed yearly for 100 billable conversations; Lyro answers from your knowledge base, the first 50 conversations are free and it costs from $32.50 a month on its own.
Chatbase's plans for an AI agent trained on your own pages and documents. Hobby is $32 a month billed yearly for 700 message credits, Basic $120 for 4,000; there is a 7-day trial and no free plan.
Freshdesk's plans. Growth is $19 per agent a month billed yearly and includes the Freddy AI Agent with the first 500 sessions; more sessions are $49 per 100; Pro is $55.
Fin, the AI support agent that grew out of Intercom and now belongs to Salesforce, charges $0.99 per outcome and works on top of Freshdesk, Zendesk, Salesforce or Intercom's own helpdesk at $19 per seat a month.
Interakt's rupee plans for WhatsApp Business messaging. Growth is ₹2,799 a month plus taxes with unlimited agents, a shared inbox, FAQ automations and chatbot flows, plus Meta's per-message charges.