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| Dimension | Smartsupp | tawk.to |
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The verified USD annual-billing state lists Solo at USD 17, Plus at USD 25, Expert at USD 83, and Ultimate from USD 280 per month. Annual billing is explicit, but no non-cancellable annual commitment is inferred. Full profile |
Core live chat is free. AI Assist ranges from a free Hobby tier to paid Growth, Business and Enterprise subscriptions; Remove Branding is USD 39 monthly or USD 348 annually per property. These add-ons are not treated as paid core-software editions. Full profile |
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| Source check | 98/100 | 98/100 |
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| Category buying score | 73Joint highest score | 73Joint highest score |
| Rank | #4 | #5 |
| Context | Customer Service & Support / Live Chat Software | Customer Service & Support / Live Chat Software |
| Real-time chat experience | 81The product supports live chat on the website and also handles WhatsApp and Messenger, which makes it suitable for real-time customer conversations, while scope still varies by plan limits. | 80The product is a hosted live-chat platform with unlimited chat volume and website coverage, which supports real-time customer conversations at the core product level; the supplied facts do not add evidence of advanced latency or SLA controls. |
| Routing and agent productivity | 75Provides agent assignment and shortcuts to organize incoming chats, though organized agent groups require the Expert plan. | 77Departments, transfers, visitor-selected routing, a shared inbox, and unlimited agents can improve queue coverage and handoffs for multi-agent teams on the free core. |
| Automation and AI handoff | 73Includes built-in AI reply assistance scaling from 50 to 500 assists per month, while reserving autonomous conversational agents for a paid add-on. | 71AI Assist is available as a separate add-on with monthly message credits and human takeover, which supports automation use cases; the score is moderated because capacity is quota-based and the core product does not establish broader AI workflow controls. |
| Customer context and integrations | 77Context and integrations are supported by conversation history, visitor activity, customer details, segmentation, e-commerce integrations, REST API, tokens, and webhooks, but integration continuity and sync quality are not established. | 71Contact profiles, notes, and history plus REST API, webhooks, and website integrations can connect chat context to external systems, subject to request-based API use. |
| Security and governance | 55The supplied facts do not establish public SSO, audit, or SLA entitlement details, so the product should be treated as only partially evidenced for governance-heavy procurement. | 49Advanced enterprise identity, audit, residency, and workforce governance controls are not established in public materials, which limits fit for buyers with strict compliance mandates. |
| Usability, support, and total cost | 75The pricing ladder starts with a free plan and then scales from low-entry paid tiers to higher annual-billed plans, but TCO can rise with additional operators and separately metered Mira AI Agent usage. | 84Unlimited free agents, chats, and websites keep core live-chat software cost at zero, with AI Assist and Remove Branding only adding cost when those optional capabilities are required. |
| Analytics and service quality | 71Analytics includes basic and team chat statistics and a Google Analytics connection, with more team statistics on Expert, but the facts do not show a broader reporting warehouse or custom analytics layer. | 74Agent, chat, ticket, knowledge-base, and AI usage reports give the product a useful reporting base for service operations, while the facts do not establish deeper BI-style analytics or advanced governance over metrics. |
| Full profile | Full profile | Full profile |
Comparison summary
These are the stored dimension rationales returned with each score. They explain the buyer conditions behind the gap without speculating about hidden model reasoning.
Research basis
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