Intercom
AI-powered customer service platform that combines human agents with intelligent automation across all communication channels
- Vendor
- Intercom
- Also known as
- intercom
Available worldwide · Popular in: US
What is Intercom?
A unified customer service platform integrating AI agents and human support teams with omnichannel communication. Provides shared inboxing, AI-assisted ticketing, live chat, email, phone, SMS, and social messaging, all accessible from a single workspace.
Intercom pricing
Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.
From $85/seat/month. 14-day free trial. Fin priced per outcome (minimum 50/month).
Essential
AI-powered support for individuals, startups, and small businesses with Fin AI Agent included
- Fin for service, sales & ecommerce
- Messenger
- Shared inbox and ticketing system
- Pre-built reports
- Public help center
Advanced
Automation tools and AI features for growing support teams
- lite_seats
- 20
- All Essential features
- Multiple team inboxes
- Workflows automation builder
- Round robin assignment
- Private and multilingual Help Center
- 20 free Lite seats
Expert
Collaboration, security, and multibrand features for large support teams
- lite_seats
- 50
- All Advanced features
- SSO & identity management
- HIPAA support
- Service level agreements (SLAs)
- Multibrand Messenger / Help Center
- 50 free Lite seats
Add-ons
- Copilot$29/agent/mo
- Pro$99/mo
- Fin Outcomes$0.99 per outcome
- Messenger$99/mo
What Intercom does
The capabilities that matter for customer support, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Ticket / case management
- ✓
- Live chat
- ✓
- Shared inbox
- ✓
- Omnichannel (email+chat+social+voice)
- ✓
- Voice / telephony
- ✓
- Self-service knowledge base
- ✓
- SLAs, triggers & routing
- ✓
- Automation / macros
- ✓
- AI agent / copilot
- ✓
- Reporting & dashboards
- ✓
- Hosting
- Cloud only
- SSO / SCIM
- ✓
- Public API
- ✓
- Free tier
- ✓
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- iOS
- Web
- Android
- Cloud / SaaS
Integrations (33)
Independently observed- Slack⇄•
- Salesforce⇄•
- HubSpot⇄•
- Attio⇄•
- Jira⇄•
- Linear←•
- Asana←•
- Shopify⇄•
- GitHub⇄•
- WhatsApp⇄•
- SMS⇄•
- Phone⇄•
- Stripe←•
- Guru←•
- Confluence←
- Notion←
- Glean⇄•
- Sentry←•
- PostHog←•
- Pendo←•
- Fullstory←•
- Zendesk←
- ChatGPT⇄
- Claude⇄
- Zapier⇄
- Email⇄•
- Freshdesk
- Freshchat
- Salesforce Service Cloud
- HubSpot Service Hub
- Fullview←•
- Statuspage←•
- REST API⇄•
Intercom FAQ
Common questions about Intercom, answered from independent, dated evidence.
What is Intercom?
An omnichannel customer service platform where support teams and AI agents (Fin and Copilot) collaborate through a shared inbox, handling customer conversations with built-in ticketing, workflow automation, and real-time analytics. It is indexed under Customer Support.
Source: https://www.intercom.com
How much does Intercom cost?
Intercom is a paid product; published pricing starts at $29 per user per month. It is sold across 3 plans (Essential, Advanced and Expert). There is no free tier. Prices are published openly on the vendor's own pricing page. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.
Source: https://www.intercom.com/pricing
What platforms does Intercom support?
We have confirmed browser-based access to Intercom. That is the extent of what we could verify from public sources, so it may well offer desktop or mobile clients we have not indexed.
Source: https://www.intercom.com/pricing
Can Intercom be self-hosted?
We have only confirmed a cloud / SaaS deployment for Intercom, so it appears to be vendor-hosted. If a self-hosted option exists we have not found it documented publicly.
Source: https://www.intercom.com/pricing
What does Intercom integrate with?
We have confirmed 11 integrations for Intercom, including Freshdesk, Freshchat, Salesforce Service Cloud, HubSpot Service Hub, Slack, Jira, Shopify and GitHub, plus 3 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.
Source: https://www.intercom.com
What security certifications does Intercom have?
We have independently confirmed SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA and GDPR for Intercom. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Intercom not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.
Where is Intercom available?
Intercom is available worldwide. Its primary markets are Ireland, the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and Germany. The vendor is headquartered in Ireland.
Source: https://www.intercom.com/pricing
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Compare Intercom
Side by side against other customer support, attribute by attribute, with a source on every value.
The vioscaleAI score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Intercom, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing transparency | 100 | 0.08 | 8.4 | ✓ |
| Security posture | 85 | 0.07 | 6.2 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 100 | 0.05 | 4.9 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 50 | 0.07 | 3.7 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 76 | 0.04 | 3.1 | ✓ |
| Price level | 25 | 0.05 | 1.3 | ✓ |
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All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Content
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Faq | 7 items | mediumsource · 2026-09-10 · 62% |
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | Hosting: cloud · Ai agent: Yes · Sso scim: Yes · Free tier: Yes · Live chat: Yes · Ticketing: Yes | mediumsource · 2026-10-05 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 450 | mediumsource · 2026-10-05 · 60% |
Market
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Availability | PrimaryMarkets: … · AvailabilityScope: global · AvailableCountries: … · NotAvailableCountries: … | mediumsource · 2026-10-05 · 50% |
Pricing
Reliability
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Status page | Yes | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |
Security
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosure policy | Yes | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |
| Hipaa | Yes | mediumsource · 2026-10-05 · 60% |
| Iso27001 | Yes | highsource · 2026-08-03 · 75% |
| Soc2 | Yes | highsource · 2026-08-03 · 75% |
| Gdpr | Yes | highsource · 2026-09-03 · 75% |
| Trust center | https://www.intercom.com/legal/privacy | mediumsource · 2026-09-03 · 60% |
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