Tidio

Overview

Tidio is the fastest route to a chat widget that answers customers on its own. The widget is live in minutes, and Lyro — the AI agent — trains from a URL or imported help-center articles and resolves the repetitive questions a small store gets. Lyro can also be bought on its own and attached to an existing Zendesk or Salesforce desk, which is the more interesting purchase for a team that is not changing help desks. Pricing is published but has three meters: the plan is priced on billable conversations (Starter at $24.17 for 100, Growth from $49.17 for 250), Lyro is a separate add-on from $32.50 for 50 AI conversations, and Flows automation is a third add-on priced on visitors reached. Reviewers like the setup and the ratings are strong — G2 4.6 on nearly two thousand reviews — and the complaint is always the same: the bill is hard to predict once AI is used at scale, and customization and advanced features sit on the higher tiers. Buy Tidio if you are a small ecommerce or service business and want chat answered tonight. Buy Gorgias if you are Shopify-heavy and need order actions inside the ticket, or Intercom if you need a full support platform rather than a widget.

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