Chatbot software Category leader

Tidio

Live chat and AI chatbot for small online businesses

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Tidio combines live chat, a visual Flows builder and the Lyro AI agent for answering customer questions. It deploys on the website, Messenger, Instagram, WhatsApp and email, and has a free plan.

  • Knowledge-grounded answers
  • Human handoff
  • No-code bot builder
  • Multi-channel deployment
  • Help desk integration (not listed)
  • Automation actions (not listed)

Also includes

  • Multilingual
  • Conversation analytics
  • Custom personality
  • Proactive messages
  • API

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Free plan· $150/mo 2–500+ people

Visual builder for AI agents on web, WhatsApp and Slack

Key features

  • Knowledge-grounded answers
  • Human handoff
  • No-code bot builder
  • Multi-channel deployment
  • Help desk integration

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$32/mo 1–500 people

Build an AI support agent trained on your own content

Key features

  • Human handoff
  • Multi-channel deployment
  • Help desk integration
  • Automation actions