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Tidio is an AI heavy customer messaging and chatbot platform for ecommerce and SMB teams, used by support and sales teams at small business and ecommerce brands to run live chat, AI chatbots, ticketing, and visitor engagement across the customer support program, with the Lyro AI agent and AI features layered across the established Tidio product line that the team has built around small business chat and chatbots for years.

Tidio fits small business and ecommerce support teams that want an affordable customer messaging and AI chatbot platform with a free starting tier, rather than an enterprise tool with sales led pricing across the customer support program at scale today across global SMB markets. Public reviews note Lyro AI is a strong addition for SMB. Pricing has free and published paid tiers across global customer support markets and customers today.

Chatbase is an AI native chatbot and AI agent platform built on large language models, used by small business, growth stage teams, and product teams to build AI chatbots trained on website content, documents, and knowledge sources for support deflection and engagement, with AI agent capability built across the platform that the team has built around AI chatbots for several years across global SMB and growth stage customers today globally.

Chatbase fits small business, growth stage teams, and product teams that want an affordable AI native chatbot platform that trains on website content and knowledge sources, rather than a traditional rule based chatbot tool with limited AI capability across the chatbot program at scale today. Smaller user base relative to Zendesk and Intercom AI features. Pricing has free and published paid tiers aligned to message volume and AI features today.