# Chatbot pricing in 2026: what a chatbot costs, and the five ways vendors charge A chatbot costs anywhere from nothing to a five-figure contract, and the number matters less than what it is attached to. Seats, conversations, resolutions, a flat fee or booked meetings: here is what each model means for your bill, with the published prices. This is the Markdown version of https://www.meetdarwin.ai/blog/chatbot-pricing, published by Darwin and generated on 19 September 2026. Written by Darwin team in the AI chat topic. Published 19 September 2026. ## What to take away - The honest range is $0 to a quote. Free plans are real, per-seat plans start around the price of a lunch per person, and the enterprise tools do not print a number. - The model matters more than the sticker. Per seat punishes coverage, per conversation punishes traffic, per resolution punishes success at support, and quote-only punishes anyone who wants to know before the call. - AI is usually an add-on. Many chat tools sell the seats first and the AI agent separately, so the price on the pricing page is rarely the price of the chatbot. - One model charges only when the chat does its job. Darwin bills per booked meeting, starts free, and gets better at booking on its own. Ask a vendor what a chatbot costs and you get a number. Ask a finance team six months later and you get a different one. The gap is the pricing model: what the vendor counts, and what happens when the count goes up. This guide covers both. The published starting prices for ten tools, and the five ways those tools decide what to bill you for. A disclosure before the numbers. We make Darwin , which is AI website chat that books meetings and charges per meeting it books. That is one of the five models below and we obviously prefer it. Every price here comes from the vendor's own pricing page, carries the date we last checked it, and updates in this article when that page changes. If you only read one paragraph: a chatbot on a live chat product is priced per seat, so it costs what your team costs. A standalone AI chatbot is priced per conversation or message, so it costs what your traffic costs. The support platforms have started charging per resolution, so it costs what your success costs. The enterprise sales tools charge by quote. And Darwin charges per booked meeting, so it costs what your pipeline costs, and nothing when it produces none. **Chatbot pricing models at a glance** | Model | What the bill tracks | Published examples | |---|---|---| | Free plan | Nothing, until you hit the branding, seat or message cap | tawk.to: The live chat product is free, with unlimited agents. HubSpot: Free tools include live chat and a limited chatbot with HubSpot branding. | | Per seat | How many people can answer chats | LiveChat $25/agent/mo, Intercom $39/seat/mo, Zendesk $69/agent/mo | | Per conversation or message | How much the bot talks | Tidio $29/mo for 100+ conversations; Chatbase from $0/mo, by message credits | | Per resolution or outcome | How often the bot finishes the job on its own | Intercom: Fin pricing starts at $0.99 per outcome. Help Scout: AI Answers costs $0.75 per resolution as an add-on. | | Flat fee | Nothing that scales; one price per workspace | Crisp $45/mo | | Per booked meeting | Meetings the chat puts on your calendar | Darwin $20/booking after the first 5 free bookings | | Quote only | Whatever the sales call decides | Drift, Qualified: no published price | ## Free chatbots: what free actually covers Free is real, and it is worth starting with, because several serious products have a free tier that runs a website chat for a small team indefinitely. What changes between free and paid is rarely the chat widget. It is the branding, the number of people who can answer, the AI, or the volume. tawk.to is the purest version: The live chat product is free, with unlimited agents. The catch is the AI and the badge, both paid add-ons: AI Assist answers chats from your knowledge base from $29 per month; removing the Powered by tawk.to branding is $29 per month. HubSpot's free tools include a chatbot too, with the HubSpot logo on it and a rule-based builder rather than an AI agent. Tidio, Crisp, Freshchat and Chatbase all have free plans with a cap that a busy site will hit in a week: The Free plan is $0 with 50 message credits a month and one member. Free is the right answer for a site with light traffic and no need for AI answers. The moment you want the bot to answer from your content, or to take the badge off, you are on a paid plan, and then the model you land in matters. ## Per seat: you pay for people, not for the bot This is the live chat model, and it is where most chatbots on the market actually live, because most of them are a feature of a live chat or helpdesk product. LiveChat's Starter plan is $25/agent/mo. Intercom's Essential seat is $39/seat/mo. Zendesk Suite Team is $69/agent/mo. Freshchat's Growth plan is $23/agent/mo, with a free tier below it. The number looks small because it is per person, and the bill grows with coverage rather than with chats. Two people on a working day is two seats. Evenings and weekends are more people. A team of eight on Intercom is paying for eight seats before a single AI answer. And the AI is usually not in the seat price. LiveChat sells it as a separate product: The customer-facing AI Agent is a separate Text product from $19 per user per month. Intercom's Fin is metered on top of the seats. Freshchat bundles a session allowance and then meters: Freddy AI Agent costs $49 per 100 sessions after the free allowance. So the per-seat price on the pricing page is the price of the humans; the chatbot is the line under it. ## Per conversation or message: you pay for traffic Standalone AI chatbot builders mostly count conversations or message credits. Tidio's paid plans are sized by billable conversations, starting at $29/mo, and its AI agent is sold in its own quota: Lyro AI Agent quota starts at $39 per month for 50 conversations on monthly billing. Chatbase counts message credits: Hobby is $40 per month with 700 message credits; Standard $150 with 4,000; Pro $500 with 15,000. Jotform's AI agents are tiered by monthly conversations, from a free plan up: Bronze is $39 per month with 1,000 conversations; Silver $49 with 2,500; Gold $129 with 10,000. This model is fair on a quiet site and expensive on a busy one, and the definition of a conversation decides everything. Some vendors count a conversation the moment the widget opens, others only when a visitor types, and AI replies can burn several credits each. Read the definition before you compare two prices, because a cheaper plan with a stricter definition costs more. The other thing to check is what happens at the cap. Some tools stop answering, some charge an overage, some quietly upgrade you. All three are on the pricing page in small type. ## Per resolution: you pay when the bot succeeds at support The support platforms have moved to charging for outcomes. Intercom's Fin is the best-known example: Fin pricing starts at $0.99 per outcome. Help Scout's AI Answers works the same way: AI Answers costs $0.75 per resolution as an add-on. HubSpot's customer agent spends credits instead: The customer agent uses 50 HubSpot Credits per resolved conversation. Zendesk bills automated resolutions beyond a plan allowance. The logic is sound for support. You pay when a ticket did not reach a human, which is the thing you wanted. The caution is that a resolution is defined by the vendor, usually as a conversation the visitor did not escalate, and a visitor who gave up is hard to tell from a visitor who was helped. Ask how the resolution is measured and whether you can dispute it. For a sales site this model does not fit. A resolved conversation is not the goal. A booked meeting is, and none of these tools price on that. ## Flat fee and quote-only: the two ends A few tools charge one price per workspace regardless of volume. Crisp is the clearest: A flat rate per workspace regardless of conversation volume. Its Mini plan is $45/mo, with AI credits included per plan. Flat is easy to budget and generous for a busy small team, and it usually comes with seat limits that push a growing team up a tier. At the other end are the enterprise sales chat tools that do not publish a price at all. Drift never did, and Qualified does not: No published price; plans are quoted. Plans are quoted after a demo and typically run on annual contracts. The price is real and often justified for a large Salesforce-based team, but you cannot compare it to anything on this page without a call, and you will not know your renewal quote until it arrives. If you are on one of these, our Drift alternatives post covers the migration; the Darwin vs Qualified page covers the trade-off. ## Per booked meeting: you pay for the outcome you actually wanted Darwin uses this model, and going by the pricing pages we have checked, nobody else in chat does. You start on Origin, which costs $0/mo, and the first five meetings are on us: The first five bookings are included once. After that, Origin charges $20 per booked meeting after the introductory allowance. When you would rather have a predictable base, Adapt starts at $99/mo with a monthly allowance, and the extras get cheaper as you go up: Extra bookings cost $15 on Adapt, $10 on Evolve and $5 on Apex. What we like about it, beyond the obvious, is that the bill and the pipeline move together. A quiet month costs the base fee or nothing at all. A busy month costs more, and you will not mind, because busy means the calendar filled up. Nobody is on shift, so there are no seats. Answering questions is how the meetings get booked, so there is no conversation cap either. There is one honest limit, and it is scope. Darwin is website chat for sales. It is not a helpdesk. If your chat is a support queue with tickets and agents, one of the seat or resolution models above is the right shape, and paying per meeting would mean paying for the wrong thing. ## Darwin Best suited to B2B sites that want chat priced on meetings booked, with nothing to pay until it books them. Less suited to teams whose chat is mainly a support channel with tickets, queues and agents. How it charges: Yes; starting price: $0/mo; free plan or trial: 5 free bookings; books in the chat: Via integration (facts checked 11 September 2026). Give Darwin your URL and it reads your site, drafts the assistant and writes the first opening line for each page. A prospect gets an answer from your own content, and when they are interested, a time on your team's calendar through Calendly, RevenueHero or HubSpot Meetings, confirmed inside the chat. Then it does the thing none of the tools above do at any price. Darwin tries different opening lines on each page, keeps the ones that lead to more meetings, drops the rest, and tests again. Nobody schedules the experiments. The booking rate goes up on its own. Origin costs $0/mo and includes 5 free bookings. After that you pay $20/booking, or move to a plan starting at $99/mo. Adapt includes 5 bookings, Evolve 20 and Apex 60 per month. Run your own numbers on the pricing page , or see the whole flow in how Darwin works . Strengths: Priced per booked meeting: no seats, no conversation cap; Starts free, and stays free until the chat books something; Books the meeting inside the chat, on the scheduler you already use; Gets better on its own: the only tool in this comparison that does. Limitations: Website chat only: no helpdesk, no ticketing, no email sequences; Not built for support queues or human handoff; A young product with a shorter track record than the incumbents. If the thing you want from chat is meetings, this is the only pricing model that charges for exactly that. Not the pick if what you need is a support inbox. **Ten chatbot tools, priced** Sorted from outcome-based to seat-based. The first column is the one that decides your bill in month six. Hover a cell for the full finding and its check date. | Tool | How it charges | Starting price | Free plan or trial | Books in the chat | |---|---|---|---|---| | Darwin | Yes | $0/mo | 5 free bookings | Via integration | | HubSpot | Seats + credits | $0/mo | Free tools | Yes | | tawk.to | Free + add-ons | $0/mo | Free forever | Not documented | | Tidio | Conversation-based | $0/mo | 7 day trial | Via integration | | Chatbase | Message credits | $0/mo | Free plan | Calendly or Cal.com in chat | | Crisp | Flat per workspace | $0/mo | Free plan | Not documented | | LiveChat | Per agent | $25/agent/mo | 14 day trial | Link to scheduler | | Freshchat | Seats + sessions | $0/mo | 14 day trial | Via integration | | Intercom | Yes | $39/seat/mo | 14 day trial | Via integration | | Zendesk | Seats + resolutions | $69/agent/mo | 14 day trial | Not documented | Values come from shared product facts checked between 11 September 2026 and 16 September 2026. ## What each tool costs, one at a time The table gives you the shape. The sections below give you the bill, tool by tool, with the add-ons that turn a starting price into a monthly invoice. Each one names what it is good for and what it is not, because a cheap plan for the wrong job is the most expensive chatbot there is. ## HubSpot chatbot pricing Best suited to teams already on HubSpot CRM who want a chatbot for free and can live with the badge. Less suited to anyone expecting the AI customer agent to be included in the seat price. How it charges: Seats + credits; starting price: $0/mo; free plan or trial: Free tools; books in the chat: Yes (facts checked 11 September 2026). HubSpot is the free option most B2B teams already own. Free tools include live chat and a limited chatbot with HubSpot branding. The paid path is the hubs themselves, and the seat price is the CRM price: Sales Hub Starter lists $20 per seat per month. The AI agent is a separate meter. The customer agent uses 50 HubSpot Credits per resolved conversation. Starter includes none of that usage, so the free bot stays rule-based until you are on a Professional hub: Professional includes 3,000 HubSpot Credits; Starter includes no customer-agent usage. Booking runs through a meetings link rather than a slot picked in the chat, and the opening message is whatever you typed into the chatflow on the day you built it. Side-by-side: Darwin vs HubSpot . Prices from HubSpot's sales pricing page . Strengths: Free live chat and a rule-based bot inside a CRM you may already pay for; The customer agent can learn from your website pages; A meetings link built into the chatflow. Limitations: Customer agent usage costs credits and is not included on Starter; HubSpot branding on the free widget; Openings are written once and never tested. Free if you are already in HubSpot and only need a scripted bot. The moment you want AI answers, the price is credits on a Professional hub, which is a different conversation. ## tawk.to pricing Best suited to small teams that want a human-staffed chat widget for nothing. Less suited to teams that want the bot to answer on its own without buying add-ons. How it charges: Free + add-ons; starting price: $0/mo; free plan or trial: Free forever; books in the chat: Not documented (facts checked 16 September 2026). tawk.to is the one genuinely free live chat. The live chat product is free, with unlimited agents. There is no trial to expire because there is nothing to pay for. The business model is the add-ons. AI Assist answers chats from your knowledge base from $29 per month; removing the Powered by tawk.to branding is $29 per month. And the AI answers from a knowledge base you build by hand, not from your site: AI Assist uses your knowledge base and shortcut FAQs, not website crawling. No meeting booking is documented. For a sales site that makes it a free chat window with a person behind it, or a paid FAQ bot, and neither of those books anything. Prices from tawk.to's pricing page . Strengths: Free with unlimited agents; No card and no trial clock; AI Assist is a fixed monthly add-on, not a meter. Limitations: Branding removal costs as much as the AI add-on; No meeting booking documented; AI uses a hand-built knowledge base rather than your website. The cheapest way to put a human chat on a site, and honest about it. Not a sales chatbot at any price. ## Tidio pricing Best suited to small businesses and online stores that want support chat with an AI agent, priced by conversations. Less suited to high-traffic sites, where two conversation quotas add up quickly. How it charges: Conversation-based; starting price: $0/mo; free plan or trial: 7 day trial; books in the chat: Via integration (facts checked 11 September 2026). Tidio starts free and then sells conversations. Its Starter plan is $29/mo, and what that buys is a quota: Starter includes 100 billable conversations; Growth starts at 250. The AI agent, Lyro, has its own quota on top. Lyro AI Agent quota starts at $39 per month for 50 conversations on monthly billing. So a busy site pays twice for volume, once for the human conversations and once for the bot's. Lyro learns from URLs you paste and can hand out a Calendly link through an action, which is a link rather than a booking inside the chat. Tidio describes itself as customer-service chat for small businesses and stores, and the pricing agrees. Side-by-side: Darwin vs Tidio . Prices from Tidio's pricing page . Strengths: Free plan, then a 7-day trial of paid features without a card; Lyro learns from website URLs you add; Clear per-plan conversation counts. Limitations: Two quotas to watch: conversations and Lyro conversations; Booking is a Calendly link, not a slot in the chat; Built for support and ecommerce, not B2B sales. Well priced for a small store with modest traffic. For a B2B site with real traffic, count your conversations before you count on the price. ## Chatbase pricing Best suited to teams building a support agent on their own documents who want cheap message credits to start. Less suited to sites that want a fixed bill; credits burn with every AI reply. How it charges: Message credits; starting price: $0/mo; free plan or trial: Free plan; books in the chat: Calendly or Cal.com in chat (facts checked 16 September 2026). Chatbase sells message credits. The Free plan is $0 with 50 message credits a month and one member. Paid plans step up by credit volume: Hobby is $40 per month with 700 message credits; Standard $150 with 4,000; Pro $500 with 15,000. Extra agents and branding removal are paid add-ons, which is how a small plan gets bigger. It trains on files, websites and Notion pages, and it can book through Calendly or Cal.com inside the chat, which is more than most builders at this price manage. What it does not do is test its own openings. The greeting is yours to write, and yours to keep. Prices from Chatbase's pricing page . Strengths: Free plan to prototype on; Books meetings in the chat through Calendly or Cal.com actions; Trains on websites, files and Notion pages. Limitations: Credits, not conversations: long AI answers cost more; Branding removal and extra agents are add-ons; No experiments on the opening message. The best value in the builder category if you watch the credits. It is a support agent that can book, not a sales chat that learns to book more. ## Crisp pricing Best suited to small teams that want a flat bill and a shared inbox. Less suited to teams that need documented meeting booking or a clear answer on what the AI trains on. How it charges: Flat per workspace; starting price: $0/mo; free plan or trial: Free plan; books in the chat: Not documented (facts checked 16 September 2026). Crisp is the flat-fee option. A flat rate per workspace regardless of conversation volume. The free plan covers two seats, and Mini is $45/mo. AI comes as credits inside each plan rather than as a separate meter: AI credits are included per plan: $5 on Mini, $25 on Essentials, $75 on Plus. That keeps the bill predictable, and it also means a busy month can run the credits down before the month ends. The pricing page does not document meeting booking or what the AI agent trains on. For a sales site those are the two questions to ask on the demo. Prices from Crisp's pricing page . Strengths: Flat rate per workspace regardless of conversation volume; Free plan plus a 14-day trial without a card; AI credits included per plan. Limitations: Meeting booking not documented; AI training sources not documented on the pricing page; Seat limits push growing teams up a tier. Easy to budget and generous for a small support team. For selling, the two blanks in the table are the problem. ## LiveChat pricing Best suited to support and sales teams staffing the chat with people, who want agent tooling and reporting. Less suited to teams expecting the AI agent in the seat price. How it charges: Per agent; starting price: $25/agent/mo; free plan or trial: 14 day trial; books in the chat: Link to scheduler (facts checked 11 September 2026). LiveChat is the classic per-seat product. Starter is $25 per person per month on monthly billing. There is a 14-day trial without a card, and every plan is sized by agents. The bot is a different product. The customer-facing AI Agent is a separate Text product from $19 per user per month. Nothing in the seat plans includes AI conversations, so the chatbot price is the seat price plus that. Copilot can crawl your site to help agents rather than to answer visitors, and the welcome screen links out to a scheduler instead of booking in the chat. Side-by-side: Darwin vs LiveChat . Prices from LiveChat's pricing page . Strengths: Mature agent tooling, queues and reporting; Trial without a card; Copilot learns from your website pages to assist agents. Limitations: AI agent sold separately per user; Booking is a link to an external scheduler; Greetings and campaigns are written by hand and tested by hand. Fair pricing for a human chat team. If the reason you are here is a chatbot, the seat is only the first line of the bill. ## Freshchat pricing Best suited to support teams that want a free tier with room to grow and an AI agent with a session allowance. Less suited to sales teams: booking is a shared calendar, and the AI is metered by session after the allowance. How it charges: Seats + sessions; starting price: $0/mo; free plan or trial: 14 day trial; books in the chat: Via integration (facts checked 11 September 2026). Freshchat gives away more than the other seat products, with a free plan for up to ten agents, and its Growth plan is $23/agent/mo when you outgrow that. Freddy is the AI agent, and it is where the meter lives. Paid plans include 500 free Freddy AI Agent sessions. Past that point you pay by the hundred: Freddy AI Agent costs $49 per 100 sessions after the free allowance. Freddy learns from public web pages you add as URLs. Visitors can pick a slot from a shared Google Calendar without leaving the chat, which gets closer to real booking than most support tools bother with. Side-by-side: Darwin vs Freshchat . Prices from Freshchat's pricing page . Strengths: Free plan for up to ten agents; 500 Freddy sessions included on paid plans; Slot picking in the chat from a shared calendar. Limitations: Sessions are metered after the allowance; Built for support teams; bots are operator-built flows; No experiments on openings. Strong value for a support team. The session meter is the number to model before you commit. ## Intercom pricing Best suited to support organisations that want the leading AI agent and will pay per outcome for it. Less suited to small teams pricing a chatbot: seats plus Fin usage adds up fast. How it charges: Yes; starting price: $39/seat/mo; free plan or trial: 14 day trial; books in the chat: Via integration (facts checked 11 September 2026). Intercom charges twice, by design. Seats first: Essential starts at $39 per seat per month on monthly billing. Then Fin, the AI agent, on top: Fin pricing starts at $0.99 per outcome. Per outcome means you pay when Fin resolves something without a human. That is the right incentive for support and a strange one for sales, where the outcome you want is a meeting. Fin for Sales can qualify and book in Messenger, so the capability is there; the pricing is still built around resolutions. Intercom documents A/B testing of messages, but the operator writes the variants and pauses the loser. Nothing runs on its own. Side-by-side: Darwin vs Intercom , or the Intercom alternatives post. Prices from Intercom's pricing page . Strengths: The most complete AI agent in the support category; Fin can use your website content; Fin for Sales can book in Messenger. Limitations: Seats plus per-outcome usage: two meters; A 14-day trial and no free plan; Message tests are manual. The premium option, priced like one. Model seats and Fin outcomes together before comparing it to anything on this page. ## Zendesk pricing Best suited to support teams that need ticketing first and messaging AI second. Less suited to anyone buying a website chatbot on its own; the Suite is the unit of purchase. How it charges: Seats + resolutions; starting price: $69/agent/mo; free plan or trial: 14 day trial; books in the chat: Not documented (facts checked 11 September 2026). Zendesk sells the Suite, and chat comes with it. Suite Team is $69 per agent per month on monthly billing. AI agents are then billed by automated resolution beyond an allowance the pricing page does not state: Suite plans include an automated-resolution allowance; the amount is not shown on the pricing page. The AI agent can crawl your website as a knowledge source, and the widget is a serious support channel. Meeting booking is not documented for messaging AI agents, which tells you what the product is for. Prices from Zendesk's pricing page . Strengths: Full ticketing and messaging in one Suite; AI agent learns from crawled website pages; A 14-day trial. Limitations: Highest starting seat price in this comparison; Resolution allowance not published; No meeting booking documented. A helpdesk with a chatbot in it, priced as a helpdesk. Not the tool for a site whose chat exists to book meetings. ## The costs that are not on the pricing page Four things move a chatbot bill after you sign, and none of them are in the headline price. The AI add-on. On most live chat products the seat price buys humans; the bot that answers on its own is a second line, metered by session, resolution or credit. Branding removal. Free and entry plans often carry the vendor's badge on your widget. Taking it off is a paid tier or a paid add-on. Seat minimums and caps. Flat and per-seat plans cap how many people can answer; the next tier is usually a step, not a slope. Annual versus monthly. Most published prices are the annual rate. The monthly rate, which is what you pay before you are sure, runs higher, and the vendor pages quote whichever looks better. There is also the cost of building one yourself, which is what half the pages ranking for this query are about. A custom bot on your own model is a development project with a developer's price, and it still needs the pricing model question answered for the API behind it. That is a different article. ## How to choose a chatbot pricing model The way to choose is to name the thing you want the chat to produce, and then find the model that charges for that and for nothing else. Say you run a support team with three agents and a steady queue. Seats will suit you, and the AI add-on is the number to negotiate, because that is where the bill will actually grow. Say instead you run a high-traffic site where most questions are simple. Then per conversation can get expensive fast, so read how the vendor defines a conversation before you buy, or take a flat plan and stop counting. And if what you want is for the bot to close tickets on its own, per resolution is the fair deal, provided you agree up front on how a resolution gets counted. A sales site is different, and none of those three should be its bill. Seats charge you for coverage you do not need. Conversations charge you for the prospects you were hoping to talk to. Resolutions charge you for the wrong finish line. Pay for meetings, and make sure the tool books them inside the chat instead of handing out a link. Whichever model you land on, three questions before you sign: what exactly gets counted, what happens when you hit the cap, and what the monthly price is if you leave after month one. > **Read “Not documented” carefully** Where a table cell says Not documented, the vendor's public pages did not confirm the capability when we checked. That is not the same as the product lacking it. Ask the vendor, and treat a demo as the proof. ## Questions **How much does a chatbot cost?** Anywhere from nothing to a quote. tawk.to and HubSpot run a basic chatbot for free. Per-seat products like LiveChat, Intercom and Zendesk start between $25/agent/mo and $69/agent/mo, with the AI agent billed on top. Standalone AI bots such as Tidio and Chatbase sell conversation or message quotas from about $29/mo. Enterprise sales chat is quoted. Darwin starts free and charges $20/booking after the first five. **How much does an AI chatbot cost per month?** It depends on whether the AI is the product or an add-on. Where it is the product, plans are sized by conversations or credits. Hobby is $40 per month with 700 message credits; Standard $150 with 4,000; Pro $500 with 15,000. Lyro AI Agent quota starts at $39 per month for 50 conversations on monthly billing. Where it is an add-on to a live chat seat, you pay the seat and then a metered rate. Fin pricing starts at $0.99 per outcome. Freshchat bundles sessions and then meters them. Read the definition of a conversation before comparing two numbers. **Are there free chatbots for websites?** Yes, and some are good. tawk.to is free with unlimited agents, HubSpot's free tools include a rule-based bot, and Tidio, Crisp, Freshchat and Chatbase all have free tiers. What you give up is usually the AI answers, the vendor's badge on the widget, or the volume cap. Darwin's Origin plan is free too, and stays free until it has booked five meetings. **What does per-resolution chatbot pricing mean?** You pay each time the bot finishes a conversation without a human. Intercom's Fin, Help Scout's AI Answers and HubSpot's customer agent all work this way. Fin pricing starts at $0.99 per outcome. AI Answers costs $0.75 per resolution as an add-on. It rewards the bot for doing the support job, which is fair, as long as you agree with how the vendor decides a conversation was resolved rather than abandoned. **Is a chatbot worth the cost?** For support, usually, if it takes the repeat questions off a human and you are paying per resolution or a flat fee rather than per seat for coverage you did not need. For sales, only if it books meetings. A bot that answers beautifully and then asks for an email address has cost you the prospect, whatever the plan price. Measure it on meetings put on the calendar, and price it that way if you can. ## Sources tawk.to: [tawk.to Pricing](https://www.tawk.to/pricing/). 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