Intercom Alternative
Your Intercom bill went from $300 to $2,000. Ours is $99. Forever.
Same inbox. Same AI. Same integrations. Flat $99 a month. No extra fees when your AI does more work.
It answers from the help center you already wrote, tells every customer it’s an AI, and hands the conversation to your team the moment someone asks for a person.
Teams save up to $25,000+/year switching from Intercom
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Works with Slack, Salesforce, HubSpot, Stripe and 28 more.
Savings promise
If your first Corebee bill isn’t at least half your Intercom bill, I’ll refund it and our team will spend up to 4 hours helping you move back to Intercom.
— Jonathan, founder
Six rows, two of them Intercom’s
The whole comparison, including what we lose. If one of those two rows is what you are buying on, the section under the table says so.
| Feature | Corebee | Intercom |
|---|---|---|
| AI Resolution Pricing | Included: Unlimited — included | Not included: $0.99 per resolution* |
| Monthly Starting Price | Included: $99/month flat | Not included: From $29/seat + AI fees* |
| Setup Time | Included: Under 15 minutes | Not included: 10–30 hours typical |
| Self-Learning KB | Included: Auto-learns from docs | Not included: AI-assisted, team-managed |
| Integrations | Not included: 32+ integrations | Included: 450+ integrations |
| Market Maturity | Not included: Growing fast | Included: Established leader |
AI Resolution Pricing
CorebeeCorebeeUnlimited — included
Intercom$0.99 per resolution*
Monthly Starting Price
CorebeeCorebee$99/month flat
IntercomFrom $29/seat + AI fees*
Setup Time
CorebeeCorebeeUnder 15 minutes
Intercom10–30 hours typical
Self-Learning KB
CorebeeCorebeeAuto-learns from docs
IntercomAI-assisted, team-managed
Integrations
IntercomCorebee32+ integrations
Intercom450+ integrations
Market Maturity
IntercomCorebeeGrowing fast
IntercomEstablished leader
Corebee wins 4 of 6 categories
67% advantage
Corebee: 4Intercom: 2
Where Intercom leads
Integrations, Market Maturity
*Intercom pricing sourced from intercom.com/pricing, April 2026. Prices may vary by plan and billing cycle. Worked example behind the headline figure: a 12-seat team running 1,500 Fin resolutions a month saves about $25,000 over a year; a 5-agent team at 1,200 resolutions a month saves about $14,400.
When Intercom is the better buy
Three situations where we would tell you to stay.
- You need 450+ native integrations
- Intercom's marketplace is far larger than our 32+. If your stack leans on niche tools, check our list before you switch.
- You need phone or SMS
- Intercom carries phone, SMS and social natively. Corebee covers chat, email and WhatsApp today.
- You want an established ecosystem
- Intercom has been in market since 2011, with the community and third-party material that comes with it.
The objection
“We’re too deep in Intercom to move.”
Nothing has to move. Corebee answers from the help centre you already publish, so there is no export, no macro rewrite and no import script — most teams are live in under fifteen minutes. Your Intercom history stays in your Intercom account, and you can run both platforms at once until you are satisfied.
30-day money-back guarantee. Cancel from the dashboard — no call, no retention queue.
Watch it hand a conversation to a personLive in under fifteen minutes
Paste your help centre URL or upload your docs, then drop the widget into your site. No manual training, no import scripts, no downtime.
Run both platforms in parallel
Embed Corebee on a subset of pages, or route one channel to it, while Intercom stays live on the rest. Pull the old snippet when you are ready.
Your Intercom history stays in Intercom
Corebee does not require importing old conversations. Export from Intercom’s admin panel first if you need the record for compliance.
This is the whole product, running.
It answers from the help centre you already have — no script to write and no flowchart to draw. Two things about it are not configurable:
Conversation limits
Recorded demo
Do you cap how many AI conversations we get each month?
AI
No cap — conversations are unlimited on the $99/mo flat plan, with nothing charged per conversation.
Corebee AIAnswered from our pricing page
So a busy month costs the same as a quiet one?
AI
The same $99. And if a customer wants a person instead of me, they just ask and I hand the chat over.
Corebee AIAnswered from your docs
AI
Or pick a question
A recorded conversation, not a live agent.
Pick a question, or type your own.
It tells every customer it’s an AI.
On every conversation, and you can’t switch that off.
Anyone can ask for a person and get one.
It hands the whole thread to your team the moment they do.
Try it on your own docs
Free for 14 days. No credit card to start, and you can cancel in one click.
Three numbers, and what each depends on
The only figures on this page that are not a price, each with the condition it depends on.
- Up to 86%Resolved without a human
- On a well-populated knowledge base. Content coverage and question mix move the number.
- Under 15 minFrom signup to answering
- Point it at the help center you already wrote. No export, no flowchart to draw.
- 32+Native integrations
- Fewer than Intercom’s 450+. Check the list first if your stack leans on niche tools.
Connects to the tools you already run support on
- Slack
- HubSpot
- Stripe
- Salesforce
- Zendesk
Confidence and handoff
It scores every answer, and it stops when the score drops.
The percentage on each reply is the model’s own confidence in what it just said. Under your threshold it does not guess — it hands the conversation to a person, with the thread intact.
Handoff threshold on this account: 60%
- Corebee AIWeb chat10:02
You are talking to Corebee’s AI assistant. Ask for a person at any point and this conversation goes to the team.
- Customer10:02
Checkout keeps rejecting my card. Do you take anything other than Visa?
- Corebee AI94% confidence10:02
Your published payments page lists Visa, Mastercard, Amex and Apple Pay, so any of those will go through at checkout. It also says a card is declined if the billing address does not match the one on file.
- Handed to your teamEscalated39% confidence10:04
They are now asking for a refund two months after renewal, and your help centre does not say whether that is allowed.
Below the handoff threshold — a person picks it up with the thread, the account and the pages already checked attached to it.
Product interface. Sample conversation, not a customer account.
Questions we get asked
Everything teams ask before moving off Intercom.
Q1How much does Intercom cost in 2026?
Intercom pricing in 2026 starts at $29/seat/month (Essential, annual) or $39/seat/month (monthly), plus $0.99 per AI resolution via Fin (source: intercom.com/pricing, April 2026). A team of 5 agents handling 2,000 AI resolutions per month would pay ~$2,125/month ($145 seats + $1,980 Fin fees) on Essential annual. With Corebee, the same team pays $99/month total.
Q2What's included in Corebee's $99/month flat fee — and are there any per-seat or per-resolution charges?
Everything is included: unlimited AI resolutions, unlimited conversations, unlimited agent seats, AI chatbot, shared inbox, self-learning knowledge base, voice AI, analytics dashboard, ticket automation, custom workflows, CRM integration, email campaigns, help center, white-label SDK, and 32+ integrations. There are no per-seat fees, no per-resolution charges, no hidden costs, and no usage caps — whether you have 1 or 50 agents handling 100 or 100,000 AI resolutions per month.
Q3Is Corebee better than Intercom for small teams?
Many small teams find Corebee is better than Intercom when it comes to value and simplicity. A 3-person team on Intercom pays at least $87/month in seat fees (annual) or $117/month (monthly) — before any AI resolution charges. With Corebee, that same team gets unlimited seats, unlimited AI resolutions, and every feature for $99/month flat. There's no plan to upgrade to and no feature gating.
Q4What's the difference between Intercom Fin AI and Corebee AI?
Corebee uses a 3-tier AI architecture with self-learning capabilities that continuously improves from every conversation. Intercom Fin charges $0.99 per AI resolution and only works with pre-built knowledge bases. Corebee's AI automatically learns from your docs, past conversations, and customer interactions — most teams see up to 86% AI resolution rates (based on average across customer accounts) within the first two weeks, without any manual training.
Q5How do I switch from Intercom to Corebee, and how long does it take?
Most teams go live in under 15 minutes. Sign up, paste your help center URL or upload your docs, and drop the chat widget into your site. The AI starts learning immediately — no manual training, no import scripts, no downtime. There is no complex data migration required; just point your widget to Corebee and the AI begins resolving conversations the same day.
Q6Can I run Corebee alongside Intercom during migration?
Yes. Many teams run both platforms in parallel during the transition. You can embed the Corebee widget on a subset of pages or route specific channels to Corebee while keeping Intercom active on others. Once you are confident in the setup, remove the Intercom snippet and go fully live with Corebee.
Q7What happens to my Intercom conversation history?
Your Intercom conversation history stays in your Intercom account — Corebee does not require importing old conversations. The AI learns from your knowledge base, docs, and new interactions going forward. If you need historical data for compliance or reference, you can export it from Intercom's admin panel before cancelling your account.
Q8Does Corebee support omnichannel like Intercom?
Yes. Corebee supports live chat, email, WhatsApp, and web widgets out of the box — all included in the $99/month flat fee. All channels feed into a unified inbox so your team has full context regardless of how the customer reached out. No extra charges per channel.
Q9Does Corebee offer phone or SMS support?
Corebee currently supports live chat, email, and WhatsApp as core channels. Phone and SMS support are on the roadmap. In the meantime, teams that need voice can use the Voice AI feature for automated voice interactions through the web widget, and integrate third-party telephony tools via the REST API and webhooks.
Q10What SLA does Corebee guarantee?
Corebee targets 99.9% uptime for all customers on the $99/month plan. The platform is hosted on redundant infrastructure with automated failover. For enterprise teams that need contractual SLAs, dedicated infrastructure, or priority support channels, contact our team for a tailored plan.
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Pricing
Pricing
$99/mo flat
One flat price for the whole team, every channel and every conversation — no per-seat fee, no per-resolution meter, and no overage bill at the end of the month.
Proof
What we will not claim
No customer count.
We do not publish how many companies use Corebee. We are early, and a number chosen to sound larger than it is would be the only thing you remembered.
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No award graphics, no review-site medals, no borrowed logos anywhere on this page.
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