Business, Finance & Professional Work · verified 4 September 2026

Best AI for Customer Service

6 tools 5 with a free plan 3 built for this Prices verified 4 September 2026

The 6 that fit

Zapier

By ZapierRemote, United States1 product across 1 category

Built for this. Connects thousands of apps and now runs agents across them. The integration count is the moat — an agent is only as useful as what it can touch.

Free plan
Yes
Free forever plan, 100 tasks a month; unlimited Zap workflows, Tables and Forms, two-step Zaps
Month to month
$29.99/mo
Professional
Billed yearly
$19.99/mo
Professional plan −33%

Watch out: Free tier caps task volume quickly. Debugging a broken multi-step automation is genuinely tedious.

All plans (4)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0Free forever plan, 100 tasks a month; unlimited Zap workflows, Tables and Forms, two-step Zaps and Zapier Copilot
Professional$29.99/mo · $19.99/mo yearlymulti-step Zaps, unlimited premium apps, webhooks, AI fields, conditional form logic
Team$103.50/mo · $69/mo yearly25 users, shared workflows and app connections, SAML SSO, priority support
EnterpriseCustomunlimited users, advanced admin and app controls, annual task limits, observability, a technical account manager. Every paid tier is priced from a task volume you choose, so the price rises with the tasks
Open Zapier Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

ChatGPT

By OpenAISan Francisco, United States3 products across 8 categories

Built for this. Broad professional coverage with strong spreadsheet and chart handling. Good default for analysis you would otherwise do by hand.

Free plan
Yes
Ad supported; unlimited everyday text chats, limited image creation, memory and voice
Month to month
$8/mo
Go
Billed yearly
—
No yearly price published

Watch out: Same caution on liability. Check the numbers rather than trusting the presentation.

All plans (6)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0Free tier, ad supported; unlimited everyday text chats, limited image creation, memory and voice
Go$8/mo
Plus$20/moadvanced models, higher quality image creation, Work agent, Codex, 20GB of storage
Pro$100/mo
Business standard seat$25/mo · $20/mo yearly
Business premium seat$125/mo · $100/mo yearly5x the usage and no five-hour limit
Open ChatGPT Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

Claude

By AnthropicSan Francisco, United States3 products across 7 categories

Built for this. The general option most used for professional work — strategy memos, contract reading, financial reasoning over documents you upload.

Free plan
Yes
Free tier with daily caps
Month to month
$20/mo
Pro
Billed yearly
$17/mo
$200 a year, Pro plan −15%

Watch out: It is not a lawyer or an accountant and will state wrong things confidently. Verify anything that carries liability.

All plans (6)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0Free tier with daily caps
Pro$20/mo · $17/mo yearly
Max$100/mo
Team standard seat$25/mo · $20/mo yearly
Team premium seat$125/mo · $100/mo yearly
Enterprise$20/mo
Open Claude Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

HubSpot

By HubSpotCambridge, United States1 product across 2 categories

Strong fit. The free CRM is genuinely usable rather than a demo, and the AI reaches across contacts, email and content once you pay.

Free plan
Yes
Free plan at $0/month for up to 2 users, free indefinitely rather than a trial and no card
Month to month
$10/mo
Marketing Hub Starter
Billed yearly
$7/mo
Marketing Hub Starter plan −30%

Watch out: The free tier is the on-ramp and the jump to paid is steep. The listed prices cover Marketing Hub; the Sales, Service, Content and Data hubs are each priced separately.

All plans (4)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0Free plan at $0/month for up to 2 users, free indefinitely rather than a trial and no card required
Marketing Hub Starter$10/mo · $7/mo yearly1,000 marketing contacts, 500 HubSpot credits, and the free tools with their limits raised and HubSpot branding removed
Marketing Hub Professional$890/mo · $800/mo yearly3 core seats included and further seats at $45/month annually or $50 month to month, 2,000 marketing contacts and 3,000 HubSpot credits, with omni-channel campaigns, automation and reporting
Marketing Hub Enterprise$3600/mo5 core seats included and further seats at $75/month, 10,000 marketing contacts and 5,000 HubSpot credits. Every tier is quoted for Marketing Hub alone and rises with the marketing contacts and core seats you add; Sales, Service, Content and Data Hub are priced on their own tabs
Open HubSpot Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

Bitrix24

By Bitrix24Alexandria, United States1 product across 1 category

Can do it. The largest genuinely free tier in this category — CRM, tasks, chat and telephony for a whole team without paying.

Free plan
Yes
Free plan for an unlimited number of users, covering CRM, tasks, chat and telephony
Month to month
$89/mo
Basic Vibe+
Billed yearly
$59/mo
Basic Vibe+ plan −34%

Watch out: Free is generous and the interface is dense in proportion. Paid plans are priced per organisation with a fixed number of users included rather than per seat, so the bundle is what to compare.

All plans (5)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0Free plan for an unlimited number of users, covering CRM, tasks, chat and telephony
Basic Vibe+$89/mo · $59/mo yearly5 users included, with the Vibecode app builder, unlimited market apps and the REST API, and AI for everyday work
Standard Vibe+$199/mo · $120/mo yearly50 users included, about $2.39 a user, and the tier where unlimited AI in Bitrix24 starts
Professional Vibe+$399/mo · $240/mo yearly100 users included, about $2.39 a user
Enterprise Vibe+$799/mo · $480/mo yearly250 users included, about $1.92 a user, on a selector that raises the price as you add more. All four are the Vibe+ tab; a separate Essentials tab is priced on its own, and every figure is per organisation rather than per seat
Open Bitrix24 Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

Intercom

By IntercomSan Francisco, United States1 product across 1 category

Strong fit. Answers customer questions from your own help content and hands over to a person when it cannot, inside the support inbox.

Free plan
No
Paid from the start
Month to month
$39/mo
Essential
Billed yearly
$29/mo
Essential plan −26%

Watch out: 99 a Fin outcome on top of every seat, so cost scales with volume rather than headcount. The entry price advertised is a new-customer offer against a $29 to $39 seat, and Fin can be bought on its own with no seats if you already run a helpdesk.

All plans (4)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Essential$39/mo · $29/mo yearlyevery plan also meters Fin at $0.99 or more per outcome on top of the seat price. Fin across service, sales and ecommerce, the Messenger, a shared inbox and ticketing, pre-built reports and a public help centre
Advanced$99/mo · $85/mo yearlymultiple team inboxes, the workflows automation builder, round robin assignment, a private and multilingual help centre, and 20 free Lite seats
Expert$139/mo · $132/mo yearlysingle sign-on and identity management, HIPAA support, service level agreements, a multibrand Messenger and help centre, and 50 free Lite seats
Fin AI Agentsold on its own for teams that already run a helpdesk such as Salesforce, with no seats required at all and nothing charged but that per-outcome rateit answers email, live chat and phone, takes action on external systems and sets up in under an hour
Open Intercom Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

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Every AI tool we track

All 750 products, one page each.

How to read this list

Two things separate these and both are on every card.

Fit

Whether a tool is built for this job, a strong fit for it, or able to do it without that being its focus.

Free plan

Whether there is a tier you can keep using rather than a trial that expires.

The order

Fit first, then a free plan, then alphabetical. There is no score, no weighting we decline to publish, and nothing on this site a company can buy.

Questions

What is the best ai for customer service?

There is no single answer, which is why this page lists 6 rather than one: Intercom, Zapier, ChatGPT, Claude, HubSpot, Bitrix24. 3 of them are built for this kind of work rather than able to do it. Start with a free one.

Which of these have a free plan?

5 of the 6: Zapier, ChatGPT, Claude, HubSpot, Bitrix24. Free means a real free tier you can keep using, not a trial that expires.

How was this list chosen?

By hand, from the 750 products this site tracks, and it is checked against the catalogue on every build — a product renamed or removed breaks the build rather than quietly disappearing from here. Nothing on this site can be paid for: no listing, no position, no wording.