One table, six vendors, no asterisks. Every row verified against public pricing pages. We included a “where saavos loses” section because honest comparison pages earn trust with the people actually reading them.
| Feature | saavos | Chatbase | Tidio | Intercom Fin | Crisp | Botpress |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time to first answer | 5 min | 15–20 min | 10–15 min | 30+ min | 10 min | Hours |
| Pricing model | Flat $19/mo | $32/mo Hobby | $29–$99/mo | Per-resolution $0.99 | $25/mo | $89/mo Plus |
| AI model | Claude Sonnet 4.6 (all paid plans) | Multi-model (paid tiers) | Proprietary | Fin-specific model | Proprietary | Bring your own |
| Free tier | Yes — forever, no card | 14-day trial | 7-day trial | No | 5 features only | Open-source self-host |
| Custom domain | Roadmap | $79+ plan | $59+ plan | Enterprise | $25+ plan | DIY |
| API / SDK | REST API ✓ | REST | REST + JS | REST | REST | DIY |
| Multi-source ingest | URL + PDF + text ✓ | URL + file | URL + chat | URL + file | URL + file | DIY |
| Voice mode | beta (mic input only) | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | DIY |
Pricing verified 2026-05-19. Found something wrong? Email us.
Paste a URL. Wait five minutes. Your bot is live. No workflow builder, no template picker, no ticketing integration to configure first. The closest competitor on setup speed is Crisp at ~10 minutes — and Crisp is live-chat-first with a chatbot bolted on. We are the bot, with chat as an option.
Claude Sonnet 4.6 ships on the $19 Starter plan. Chatbase offers multi-model selection on Hobby+ (GPT-4o, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, Meta) but at $32/mo annual ($384 upfront) vs our $19 with no commitment. Intercom Fin uses a proprietary model tuned for their platform. We give you a well-calibrated frontier default — no model picker, no tier-gating.
Intercom Fin charges $0.99 per resolved conversation on top of seat costs. Handle 500 resolutions a month and you owe $500 in resolution fees before seats. saavos is $19/month regardless of how many conversations your bot resolves. Your bill is predictable. No surprises at the end of a good month.
Honest comparison means naming the real gaps, not softening them into euphemisms.
Intercom was founded in 2011 and has built fifteen years of enterprise tooling: CRM integrations, SLA management, CSAT tracking, escalation routing, and deep Salesforce/HubSpot connectors. If you run a 50-person support team with a mature CRM workflow, Intercom Fin is the mature choice. saavos is a better fit for teams under ~10 who want AI coverage without ops overhead.
Botpress is open-source. You can run it on your own infrastructure, own every byte of your data, and never depend on our uptime. saavos is a hosted SaaS — we run the infrastructure. If your compliance requirements mandate on-prem or air-gapped deployment, Botpress is the right answer and we are not.
saavos currently serves English-language knowledge bases and conversations. Tidio and Crisp both offer multi-language support. If your audience speaks Spanish, French, German, or other languages as a primary interface, we are not the right choice today. Multi-language support is on the roadmap for Q3 2026.
saavos is purpose-built for this use case: flat $19/month, no annual commitment, a permanent free tier, and a five-minute setup that requires zero workflow configuration. FastBots Essential starts at $39/month. Chatbase Hobby is $32/month but requires annual payment ($384 upfront). SiteGPT Starter is $39/month with no free plan. For founders who want a production-ready AI bot without the ops overhead, saavos is the lowest-friction, lowest-cost entry in the category.
FastBots Essential is $39/month — saavos Starter is $19/month for a similar use case. Chatbase Hobby is $32/month, annual-only ($384 upfront), with a multi-model picker. SiteGPT Starter is $39/month, no free plan. Botpress Plus is $89/month — a developer platform for building custom flows, not a finished product. Intercom Fin charges $0.99 per resolved conversation on top of seat costs. saavos is flat $19/month with Claude Sonnet 4.6 on every paid plan and a forever free tier.
saavos at $19/month is the lowest flat-rate paid plan in this comparison. SiteGPT and FastBots both start at $39/month. Chatbase starts at $32/month but requires an annual commitment. Intercom Fin has no flat monthly price — it charges $0.99 per resolved conversation, which can exceed $19 after just 20 resolutions. saavos also offers a permanent free tier (50 messages/month, no card) that none of the others match.
Yes, significantly. Intercom Fin charges $0.99 per resolved conversation on top of existing Intercom seat costs (typically $99+/seat/month). A support team handling 300 resolved tickets a month pays ~$300 in resolution fees alone, before seats. saavos is $19/month flat regardless of resolution count.
Chatbase Hobby is $32/mo — annual billing only, $384 upfront. No monthly billing option is currently offered. saavos Starter is $19/mo with no annual commitment. Chatbase Hobby includes multi-model selection (GPT-4o, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, Meta). saavos uses Claude Sonnet 4.6 natively on every paid plan — no model picker.
Tidio Starter is $24.17/month for live chat — but AI chatbot capability requires adding Lyro AI at $32.50/month, bringing the all-in price to $56.67/month for the equivalent of what saavos's $19/month Starter covers. saavos is AI-native from day one; Tidio's AI is an add-on to a live-chat platform.
They solve different problems. Botpress Plus is $89/month and is a developer platform — you build flows, host infrastructure, wire your own AI. saavos is a finished product: paste URL, get a production-ready bot in 5 minutes. If you want control at the cost of time, Botpress. If you want speed at the cost of flexibility, saavos.
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Last verified: 2026-05-19. Competitor data taken from public pricing pages and may change. Email us if something is wrong.