Freshchat versus Tidio

Freshchat by Freshworks is a best-in-class live chat software built to delight customers across support, sales, and marketing with smarter conversational engagement.

Freshworks makes it fast and easy for businesses to delight their customers and employees. They do this by taking a fresh approach to building and delivering software-as-a-service that’s affordable, quick to implement, and designed for the end user.

Unlike legacy software, Freshworks builds tech that works for everyone, making it easy for IT, customer service, sales, marketers, and HR to do their job and delight their customers.

More than 60,000 companies use Freshworks’ SaaS to enable a better customer experience (CX, CRM) and employee experience (ITSM, HRSM).

Freshchat fuels businesses to have:

Intelligent conversations, anywhere

1. Unify messaging channels and personalize self-service on your website, in-app, and across digital messaging channels (WhatsApp, SMS, and more!)
2. Simplify customer experience with no-code, easy-to-build chatbots
3. Bring insights to action with native AI to power next-generation messaging

Simplified and contextual agent experiences

1. Give agents real-time context to perform faster and with ease
2. Respond to conversations from a single screen, wherever your customers message you
3. Give your agents complete customer context to boost CSAT with every conversation

Modern, cost-effective support

1. Fuel growth, while reducing your costs to serve 
2. Enable high rates of zero contact resolution and scale effortlessly
3. Drive value faster with pre-built templates for chatbots and journeys

Tidio is a provider that offers a lot of value for startups and smaller companies. There are plenty of success stories from small founder teams with Tidio, including Wicklewood and Whisker Bag.

With a free forever plan that includes 3 agents as well as numerous upgrades and chatbots, they pack quite a punch!

Unique about Tidio is that you can initiate a chat with a user on your website in real-time as well as have a chatbot answer questions for you.