Customer support: cheapest modeled plans
Eligible plans ordered by monthly equivalent at the workload below. A low subscription fee alone does not establish the cheapest total.
What this comparison covers
One email/chat workspace. No AI, outbound campaigns, SMS, WhatsApp or phone charges. Crisp counts stored profiles; Help Scout counts customers helped each month. Enter these separately.
Evaluating 3 products from 3 published in this category. USD monthly equivalents, before tax. Features and service compatibility need separate evaluation.
- Billable people
- 5 people
- Stored customer profiles
- 1,000 profiles
- Customers helped
- 100 per month
- Shared inboxes
- 1 inboxes
- Help center sites
- 1 sites
Cost ranking at this workload
3 eligible products. Quote-only, expired and unsupported configurations are excluded from cost rankings.
Help Scout
Support seats with inbox and Docs-site allowances.
$0 / month
Free
Official pricing · Checked 2026-10-06
Cost breakdown and exclusions
- Monthly subscription: $0
- Taxes, promotions, prorations, negotiated contracts and optional add-ons.
Free: $0/month at reference usage.
Crisp
Workspace bundles with stored-profile allowances.
$95.00 / month
Essentials
Official pricing · Checked 2026-10-06
Cost breakdown and exclusions
- Monthly subscription: $95.00
- Stored profiles are not monthly helped contacts. Inbox and help-center requirements are not evaluated for Crisp.
- Taxes, promotions, prorations, negotiated contracts and optional add-ons.
- AI credit consumption.
Essentials: $95.00/month at reference usage.
Intercom
Human support seats without AI outcomes.
$145.00 / month
Essential · annual commitment · Annual commitment $1,740.00
Official pricing · Checked 2026-10-06
Cost breakdown and exclusions
- Monthly subscription: $0
- Billable seats: $145.00
- Annual commitment. The comparison shows its monthly equivalent; seats and workload are held constant for the full year.
- Full human support seats only. Inbox and help-center requirements are not evaluated for Intercom.
- Taxes, promotions, prorations, negotiated contracts and optional add-ons.
- Fin service/sales outcomes, outbound campaigns, phone, SMS and WhatsApp.
Essential · annual commitment: $145.00/month at reference usage.
Questions before you decide
Which Customer support product is cheapest?
Help Scout has a lowest modeled cost among the eligible products shown at reference usage. Ties share a rank. This is not a claim about every vendor or workload.