Fin by Intercom vs. LiveChat

LiveChat

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Fin by Intercom	Score 8.5 out of 10	N/A	Fin is Intercom’s AI Agent for customer service, designed to deliver high-quality answers, even for complex queries. It works with any helpdesk, or it can be paired with Intercom’s next-generation Helpdesk to get the full Intercom Customer Service Suite.	$0.99 one-time fee per 1 resolution
LiveChat	Score 9.3 out of 10	Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)	LiveChat serves as a customer service platform with live chat support, help desk and web analytics functionalities, with the goal of allowing users to provide 24/7 support to customers. The core feature of the software is its chat tool, where both service and sales team can answer customers' questions in real time. Online businesses can interact with customers on their website, to be more accessible. With LiveChat, users can identify people on the website and engage them…	$20 per month, billed annually per user

Pricing

Fin by Intercom

LiveChat

Editions & Modules

Fin with your current helpdesk: $0.99
one-time fee per 1 resolution
Copilot add-on: $35
per month per user
The Early Stage program: $65
per month (6 support seats)
Proactive Support Plus add-on: $99
per month
Fin with Intercom’s Helpdesk: from $39 + $0.99 per Fin resolution
per month per seat

Starter: $20
per month, billed annually per user
Team: $41
per month, billed annually per user
Busniess: $59
per month, billed annually per user
Enterprise: Request Quote from Sales

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Fin by Intercom	LiveChat
Free Trial
Yes	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

Fin comes with a 90-day money-back guarantee. Here's how it works: Use Fin in at least 250 conversations within the first 90 days after trial. If you're not satisfied, you can request a refund of up to $1M. Refund requests must be submitted within 90 days of starting the subscription.

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Community Pulse
	Fin by Intercom	LiveChat
Considered Both Products	Fin by Intercom Verified User Anonymous Chose Fin by Intercom We're using another AI agent too. Fin AI is a little behind, as it needs to start learning from either testing or real conversations, so it can better advise users with accurate information - whereas the other AI agent is learning very fast and needs little to no adjustment of … Incentivized Helpful? SO Scott Olinger Application Support Analyst Chose Fin by Intercom I did not choose which platform our support teams used. But I did not like NetSuite because it sent out a lot of email updates and required the client to reply to the correct email in order to have everything tracked. ServiceNow was pretty similar. The reports in ServiceNow … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Fin by Intercom HubSpot CRM, HubSpot Marketing Hub and Zendesk Suite Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Fin by Intercom I used Zendesk briefly but found it difficult to navigate — I often couldn’t tell what was going on or how to simply reply to a ticket. In contrast, Intercom is much more intuitive and user-friendly. Its clean interface and support for multiple communication formats like … Incentivized Helpful? Lorrayne Soares Líder de Produtos Chose Fin by Intercom As explained previously, most of these platforms were focused on tickets, most reports only work with tickets, there is no way to postpone a service without turning it into a ticket, and since our response time target is a maximum of 2 minutes, these platforms were unable to … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Fin by Intercom Sprinklr Social, Zendesk Sunshine Conversations, Clarabridge (discontinued), Engagor (discontinued) and Qualtrics XM for Customer Frontlines Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Fin by Intercom Honestly, we haven't really looked at this, but we do use it for another team because a third-party works with it. Otherwise, I am extremely happy with Intercom and have not looked towards another software. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Fin by Intercom It was a long debate before we switched from Crisp to Intercom, but we never regretted that decision. Intercom looks and looks sleeker, works smoother, and has the knowledge base feature, which was our main need to switch. The transition took very little time, so no bumps on … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Fin by Intercom Way better than all of them - especially the workflow tool which I don't think Help Scout or Crisp even had. Really easy to manage capacity too through snoozing conversations and customers receiving emails after a response. With HubSpot, there was no way for our users to return … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Fin by Intercom Dialpad Support, Talkdesk and SnapEngage Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Fin by Intercom This is the first one we tried. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Fin by Intercom My main concern at the moment is how the integration looks to the users and Intercom just looks modern and up-to-date. HubSpot is missing this. In the background it always comes down to how you organize your team and processes. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Fin by Intercom Odoo was, in my opinion, terrible - a jack of all trades and master of none, which is why all teams in the business moved away to bespoke software. Freshdesk - an easier and more organisable way of creating and managing tickets. Although Intercom now has tickets, we're still … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Fin by Intercom At the moment, I only use Supademo to record screen tours. It is very intuitive, has a browser extension, and is perfect for recording the onboarding of new features. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Fin by Intercom Intercom as a tool is well suited to manage our key metrics with the help of its reports. We have evaluated a lot of tools but Intercom remains the best in terms of report. It helps us maintain OKR's for the support team and track whenever needed. FinAI also has the reporting … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Fin by Intercom Personally I have not used any other platforms like Intercom and do not wish to search as of right now. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Fin by Intercom The intercom is more intuitive and provides easier management and personalization of our conversations. It's been a while since I used Zendesk, so this might have changed, but Intercom provides a bigger catalog of functionality targeted to product marketing, such as emails, … Incentivized Helpful? Barry Pepper VP of Customer Experience Chose Fin by Intercom Noone has been able to standup to the level of service and product that Intercom gives us. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Fin by Intercom To compete with Salesforce, the main point is the pricing. Intercom has a very different budget when it comes to start ups and up and coming companies, which helps. To compete with other platforms, Intercom has a more developed interface and a super completa arrange of tools, … Incentivized Helpful? Ray Zwankhuizen Product Manager Chose Fin by Intercom No idea, see above. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Fin by Intercom Several factors as pricing, customisation, ease of use, popularity, user-friendly and the continuous online support as well improvements helped us make this choice. Onboarding new colleagues to Intercom does not even take one day, it is so efficient and intuitive. If the … Incentivized Helpful? Agne Caunt Head of Customer Success Chose Fin by Intercom Intercom is much more flexible and modern than Zendesk, UI is better. Zendesk is better at multiple brand experience and localisation. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Fin by Intercom All tools that we used in the past, have a lot of problems on the chat app, our the syncing data between integrations, Intercom has too, but is very less than others. Incentivized Helpful? Samuel Linge Senior Sales Associate Chose Fin by Intercom Intercom has more polish. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Fin by Intercom We used Aircall for many years and it was a great tool, however as we scaled down our phone support usage it became expensive and cumbersome. Intercom phones offered a cheaper solution that turned out to be more efficient for our team to use as well. Incentivized Helpful?	LiveChat JA Joshua Alhat Operations Manager, Sales Chose LiveChat We had to move away from Intercom as it changed it pricing model and the pricing that it came to us with was out of our budget. LiveChat gave us a better product at a lesser price. Incentivized Helpful? RP Renan P Technical Support Engineer Chose LiveChat There are many other options available on the market and of course they are all competing against each other, however, LiveChat really shines more than the others due its simple user interface and the real-time typing that your user is doing on his side, we can easily see the … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose LiveChat WhatsApp Business Incentivized Helpful? Helen Kinnear Client Success Team Manager Chose LiveChat Live chat provides customers with quicker replies than WhatsApp and ensures queries are either answered or passed on efficiently and effectively. Incentivized Helpful? Tigran Petrosyan Risk Management Specialist Chose LiveChat I have not used other program similar to LiveChat, so it would be hard for me to answer this question. Incentivized Helpful? MD Mark DiNallo Service Director Chose LiveChat Overall very similar in design, but LiveChat had a better interface, better reporting and analytic tools, better mobile support, and just an easier overall feel. The two products are very much alike in the vast majority of ways, but I ended up preferring this product overall. … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose LiveChat Ease of setup and use is very light and delightful on LiveChat. Quality of support provided by them is amazing. Admins can easily work on newly added features and functionality. Gives almost everything I need. Pleasurable in terms of doing business with them. This software is … Incentivized Helpful? Ashia Ackov Game Producer Chose LiveChat I haven't use ZenDesk in a few years so I can't remember any pros or cons there, they were both pretty easy to use from what I recall, but we just so happen to use LiveChat now because of the user interface and instant reports. Maybe, set-up for ZenDesk was easier. Incentivized Helpful? Cristina Gonzales Senior Manager Customer Care Chose LiveChat LiveChat is very similar to LiveAgent Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose LiveChat We have also used WhatsApp Business, however this proved not to be as user friendly and we experienced several glitches and lost chats. However, WhatsApp Business does allow clients to contact us directly from a mobile app they are already likely to have and allows clients to … Incentivized Helpful? MP Michelle Penix Member Advocate Chose LiveChat This is the only job I have used a LiveChat type of program for customer service. The other employers I have worked for used phones or face to face contact in order to assist customers in the daily workplace. I believe the company chose to use LiveChat because of its efficiency … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose LiveChat Transfer chats from one agent to another. It also supports agent groups, where users can easily select the department they want to talk to. Shows basic information, such as country, IP address and visited pages. Incentivized Helpful? Jason Shindler Director Of Technology Chose LiveChat These products don't load on the user's own web site and aren't as easy to use as LiveChat. We've been happy with Livechat and really haven't explored other options that much because it just works well. I wish there was a free open source product that worked well that we could … Incentivized Helpful? Dominic Johnson Sales Chose LiveChat We haven't used a similar product. Incentivized Helpful? Miguel Brito Dj, Emprendedor y Community Manager en Eventos CAR-YAN Chose LiveChat It is the first time that we've used a program of this type. Actually the result has been positive. It is very difficult to identify a problem, when the experience has been positive. We believe that this type of chat platform has the strength of contact with customers. That … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose LiveChat The software allowed us to leverage additional Sales Team activity from our web traffic - letting us increase engagement with customers and drive additional sales. The chat routing functions allowed me to segment traffic on particular pages to relevant parts of the sales team. … Incentivized Helpful? CYNTHIA AVEH CEO Chose LiveChat MailChimp, Twitter Ads and Skype Incentivized Helpful? Marlon Seijas analista Chose LiveChat We only compare the utility for the business that is to say better for us at this time to address the concerns of our customer. According to this, the management will decide to brainstorm with the staff in charge of implementing or managing the chat. The personal responded and … Incentivized Helpful? Jordan Linford Digital Marketing Director Chose LiveChat The other ones are good too, but ultimately it was the app and ease of use that lead us to LiveChat. Incentivized Helpful? Deborah Ewenla Engineer Chose LiveChat whatsapp, Microsoft Azure, Balsamiq, Dynamic Interactive and WordPress Incentivized Helpful? Akinyinka Natasha Adeyinka Business intelligence analyst Chose LiveChat LiveChat is specifically a help desk tool and it does a good job around this niche market. Intercom tries to be a sales, help desk and marketing tool and isn't top-notch in any of these markets. LiveChat provides more support agent styled features than Intercom. Incentivized Helpful? Abiola Adeniyi Junior Software Developer Chose LiveChat While userlike is now free, (it wasn't free when we used it), we had issues with navigating around this program as it's user interface wasn't self explanatory, and they didn't provide as much support resources like videos and article which Livechat provides. Incentivized Helpful? Suyi Harrison Iwalewe Co-founder Chose LiveChat Livechat had an easy to understand user interface; unlike User like whose user interface takes a while to get around.Livechat provides better analytics too. Incentivized Helpful? Chamakhe Maurieni CEO Chose LiveChat LiveChat has an attractive user console. Userlike's User console put us off.It was simply unattractive and took us a while to even get around. Incentivized Helpful? Sue Farrance Head Of Customer Success Chose LiveChat I have used two other products that are similar but neither felt as straightforward as LiveChat, and some costs were prohibitive in themselves. Incentivized Helpful?

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User Ratings
	Fin by Intercom	LiveChat
Likelihood to Recommend	8.4 (0 ratings)	8.0 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	10.0 (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)
Usability	8.8 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Availability	9.1 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Performance	9.1 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	5.7 (0 ratings)	7.3 (0 ratings)
Online Training	7.4 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	6.6 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Product Scalability	9.1 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Fin by Intercom	LiveChat
Likelihood to Recommend	While Fin is an awesome investment, the setup and tuning of responses to meet brand alignment and delivery have taken some time. If you prioritize not just resolution rate and accuracy, but style and delivery, it's a bigger lift. However, for the vast majority of businesses, the step and its impact on resource management are a worthy investment. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	We needed a mechanism in place to make contact with visitors to our website easier. What we discovered is that it's an excellent tool for creating reports and dashboards that show how soon issues are handled. Our website can now be updated in real-time, and all of our internal teams are really excited to use this fantastic technology. I really recommend [LiveChat] to many friends and past colleagues. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Great UI - everyone has their own inbox but can still see all incoming messages. Fin AI - we love the AI functionality, it saves tons of time of the team. Automated emails - we configured Intercom in a way that it uses a lot of information we have about our users (e.g. their subscription, date of upgrade, etc.) so that we can use it to automate communication. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	LiveChat has an easy to navigate UI. Most of the tabs you need are on the left and self explanatory. If the team itself has any issues with the software, there is a small help tab on the bottom right for immediate tech support. Not sure if it is 24/7 but quick response. There is also a "Reports" tab that makes it easy for the management department to keep track of tickets answered and task to assign. Incentivized Ashia Ackov Game Producer Read full review
Cons	Some things are repetitive. Ex: If you provide guidance to ask a follow-up question, it'll ask that follow-up question each time. It'd be cool to have a "vibe" check for auto-sorting. Ex: We have responses to our outreach feed into Intercom. It'd be cool to have a way to auto-sort based on if they ask a detailed question or just a plain "interested" response. It'd be cool if Fin by Intercom flagged conversations, like it a customer seemed agitated, for the team to review. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Price point is a little on the high side, making it difficult for some small businesses to justify. When monitoring chats from a manager standpoint, there seems to be an inherent delay; it does not appear to be instantaneous. Very minor, but the chat widget sound options can be annoying, and wish there were more available options in order to allow employees to differentiate their own sessions if their desks are near one another. Incentivized MD Mark DiNallo Service Director Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	It's currently a perfect fit for our needs, and we are customer-focused and small. When we grow, we may need to re-evaluate, but our current team finds it easy. Reviewing conversations is simple and allows for great training. The canned replies make service fast and easy. Smart suggestions remove the need to re-write technical walkthroughs and explanations for our FAQ Incentivized Ariana Thompson Support Operations Read full review	No answers on this topic
Usability	It takes a bit of getting used to. It's easy to start off with simple pieces of answering queries, etc. The real part is when one tries to use workflows with triggers and automation. Then, it can be a whole different experience. I would love to see it being much simpler in terms of usability there. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Reliability and Availability	always there Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Performance	works perfect Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Support Rating	Intercom is the premier customer support/engagement model and it definitely has one of the top tier customer support teams as well. I don't think I have ever waited more than 5 minutes to get the information I need or get help with an issue. They are incredible and I aim to model our customer service department after them. Incentivized LW Lukas Washack Operations Manager Read full review	The only issues I have had with LiveChat are the technical glitches within the program. These are not common as in everyday occurrences but when the glitches do happen they tend to have very negative repercussions. This is due to chats with customers being dropped, this may be an internal server issue though and may not happen for everyone. Incentivized MP Michelle Penix Member Advocate Read full review
Online Training	Easy to know the learning path Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating	The implementation was surprisingly easy but we are having to adapt from our old process to work well with Intercom. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	In my experience, what Intercom has done with Fin by Intercom is far more innovative and forward thinking than other tools I've used. It's intuitive, easy, and they are always releasing new things to make Fin by Intercom even more powerful. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	We had to move away from Intercom as it changed it pricing model and the pricing that it came to us with was out of our budget. LiveChat gave us a better product at a lesser price. Intercom did not provide us with chat support for the plan we were on - at times we had to wait 24 hours for a reply to a query on their chat. Livechat literally has chat support at all times. This really helped me with my Implemetation. Incentivized JA Joshua Alhat Operations Manager, Sales Read full review
Return on Investment	I like how I don't feel like I need to constantly be monitoring support, especially on weekends It's great that the user will get some response right away, I just need to hope that the response they do get is good enough if I'm awk Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	As I mentioned before, LiveChat can be used to evaluate the quality of the service provided by your employees. LiveChat can ease the work done by your Customer Care team. In addition, it is very easy and fast to learn how to work with LiveChat, so you would need less time to train your new customer care specialists. You can have much better customer care service and your clients will be much more satisfied. Incentivized Tigran Petrosyan Risk Management Specialist Read full review
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