Clare AI answers your customers instantly — 24/7, in any language, powered by the newest LLMs. It resolves up to 98% of the front line on its own and passes only the hard cases to a person — so one to three supervisors do the work of a whole department. It plugs into your existing systems, pulls the data it needs, and answers instantly — no waiting.
The big platforms charge you every single time their AI answers a customer — and that bill grows for as long as you use it. Here's what one resolved ticket costs, on their public 2026 rates.
Drag the slider to your real support volume. See your Clare AI cost against what Intercom, Zendesk, and Salesforce would bill you — every month, forever.
Competitor figures use publicly listed 2026 rates — Intercom Fin $0.99/resolution, Zendesk $1.50/resolution (committed), Salesforce Agentforce $2.00/conversation — applied to the volume you set, and exclude their seat/add-on fees, so real bills tend to run higher. Clare AI ongoing cost estimated at ~$0.01/conversation in AI model usage on today's cheapest models (Claude Haiku 4.5, GPT-5-mini), billed by your own provider, plus the one-time $1,999 license. Illustrative; your numbers will vary.
Every install ships with a full agent back office: a live queue, AI-vs-human resolution analytics, a knowledge-base manager, and a human-approval step for anything sensitive. Connected to your systems, it looks up real order and account data and answers on the spot — no waiting.
Representative interface — email us to see it running on your own use case.
A live meter shows exactly what your AI has cost since your last top-up — every conversation, to the cent. Reload your model credit and it resets. You always know your run rate, and we never bill you for a single token.
Same job — resolving customer conversations with AI. Completely different economics.
| Clare AI | Intercom Fin | Zendesk | Salesforce | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | One-time from $1,999 | Per resolution | Per resolution | Per conversation |
| Cost per AI answer | ~$0.01 model usage | $0.99 | $1.50–$2.00 | $2.00 |
| Recurring platform fee | None | 50 resolutions/mo min. | +$50/agent/mo add-on | Pre-purchased credits |
| AI agents | Unlimited | Metered | Metered | Metered |
| Where it runs | Your server | Vendor cloud | Vendor cloud | Vendor cloud |
| Who owns the data | You do | Vendor | Vendor | Vendor |
| Languages | Any | Varies | Varies | Varies |
| 3-yr cost @ 5,000/mo | ~$3,799 | ~$178,200 | ~$270,000 | ~$360,000 |
3-year totals assume 5,000 AI-resolved conversations/month at each vendor's listed per-resolution/-conversation rate; seat licenses and add-ons excluded. Ada, Sierra and Decagon are custom enterprise contracts (~$30k–$150k+/yr platform fees plus a separate helpdesk) and don't publish rates.
Full head-to-head: Clare AI vs Intercom · vs Zendesk · vs Salesforce · vs Gorgias · vs Ada · vs Freshworks
Eight of the biggest names in AI customer service — and what each bills a growth-stage business (2,000 messages/day) every single month. Then Clare AI, at the same volume.
Growth tier = 60,000 messages/mo ≈ 12,000 conversations at ~70% AI resolution. Ada, Sierra and Decagon don't publish list prices; figures use reported mid-range rates and exclude platform fees, seats and implementation — so real invoices run higher. Clare AI = your own model usage, no platform fee, no per-resolution charge, no seats.
Not a friendly chatbot. An engine that resolves the routine 24/7 and hands the exceptions to a human — so your people spend their time only where it matters.
Every customer gets an instant, accurate reply at 3am or during a launch-day spike — grounded in your own knowledge base, never guessing.
The AI knows its limits. Complex, sensitive, or high-stakes conversations go straight to a supervisor with full context attached.
Self-hosted on infrastructure you control. Customer conversations never live in someone else's cloud — a real advantage in finance, gaming, and healthcare.
Connect ChatGPT, Claude, or another provider with your own API key. Switch anytime. You're never locked to one vendor's model or one vendor's price.
Instead of hiring a support department, a small team supervises the AI, trains it, and handles the escalations. Headcount stays flat as volume grows.
Upload your FAQs, policies, and past chats. Clare AI learns your business and answers in your voice — no engineers required to keep it current.
One-time setup on your own infrastructure. We connect your model API, your channels, and your existing systems — CRM, orders, bookings — so it pulls live data and answers instantly.
Drop in your documents and past conversations. The AI grounds every answer in your real policies.
Monitor live from any device. The AI handles the volume; your team steps in only on escalations.
Because you host it, nothing runs through a third-party vendor — a real advantage in finance, healthcare, and gaming.
Deploy on your own VPS or cloud. Customer conversations and records stay entirely inside your infrastructure — never a vendor's.
The AI can look up account facts but can never change, approve, or expose them. It won't invent account actions it didn't take.
Anything sensitive is queued for a person to approve before it executes — so the AI is fast and safe, not reckless.
Every doc, FAQ and past ticket you add widens what the AI answers alone, so deflection climbs and escalations fall. Stable knowledge is prompt-cached at a fraction of the cost — so your effective price per chat drops month after month while quality rises. The exact opposite of a per-resolution bill.
Every big support platform charges you again each time it answers a customer — a tax that grows exactly as you do. We think that's backwards. You should own the machine that runs your front line, keep your customers' data on your own servers, and pay only the few cents the AI actually costs. That's the whole reason Clare AI exists: buy it once, run it forever, on your terms.
Businesses across iGaming, e-commerce and F&B using Clare AI to answer their customers — 24/7, in any language.
In iGaming our players won't wait — and Clare AI answers them the second they message, day or night, on deposits, withdrawals and bonuses, in their own language. It's taken a huge load off my team, who now only step in on the real disputes.
Most of our messages are 'where's my order?', returns and stock — and Clare AI now answers them in seconds, in English, Malay and Chinese, pulling the real order details. My team finally has time for the customers who actually need a person.
Clare AI handles our order confirmations, delivery updates and menu questions around the clock, so we're not stuck on the phone during the dinner rush. It just keeps replying to customers while we focus on the kitchen.
A one-time license — no seats, no per-ticket meter, no renewal that creeps upward. Your only ongoing cost is your own model usage, about a cent per conversation.
Every plan is self-hosted — your server, your data, your model keys.
If your Clare AI isn't live and answering your customers within 30 days, we'll fix the deployment ourselves — or refund your license in full. Either way, you don't lose.
Read the exact termsDelivered within a week of payment · 30-day money-back guarantee · hosting & model fees billed at cost
Hosting and any third-party fees are billed to you at cost, with a receipt — never marked up. No hidden charges, ever.
Add the care planWe get you live and resolving tickets — or your money back. No lock-in, no long-term contract, and you can cancel the care plan anytime.
Clare AI is new — and that's your edge. Our first customers get founding-customer pricing, a direct line to the team that builds it, and real influence over the roadmap. With the 30-day money-back guarantee, trying it is close to risk-free.
The honest answers serious buyers ask before they commit.
You do — with your own API key (bring-your-own-key). It's roughly a cent per conversation on today's cheapest models (Claude Haiku, GPT-mini), billed directly by your provider. We never touch it or mark it up. That's the entire ongoing cost.
Because for grounded support they're the fastest and cheapest — and they win. Your knowledge base does the heavy lifting: the AI looks up your real answers instead of reasoning from scratch, so a small, fast model is accurate without a frontier model's cost or lag. And it compounds — the more you feed it, the more it answers from cache and short context, so cost per conversation drops the longer you run it. Bigger models are slower and many times more expensive for no better result on this job. It's tested in production at about a cent a conversation. You can still switch to any model you like — most customers never need to.
The license is one-time and yours forever — the software keeps running with no recurring fee. The care plan is optional: it's for us to host-manage, update, patch, and support it for you. Prefer to self-maintain with your own team? Skip it entirely — nothing stops working.
Because it's self-hosted on your server with your keys, it keeps running no matter what — you're not renting access that can be switched off. Professional and Enterprise tiers include the source code and deployment scripts, so you're never locked in or stranded.
Yes. The tier price is a one-time software license. Your only ongoing cost is your own model usage (~1¢/conversation) and your own hosting. No per-resolution fees, no per-seat fees, ever. Any third-party costs we set up on your behalf are billed to you at cost, with a receipt.
There is no per-seat or per-resolution metering in the software itself. Your volume is bounded only by your own model-API limits and your server capacity — both of which you control and can scale.
Professional and Enterprise include the full source + deployment scripts — self-hostable and yours to modify. Starter ships as a self-hosted deploy package. Either way the data and the running system live entirely on your infrastructure.
Your knowledge base defines the domain, so the same system serves e-commerce, finance, hospitality, healthcare, logistics, gaming and more. The AI replies natively in 50+ languages — no translation layer, no extra cost.
A confirmation right away, then delivery within a week: Clare AI deployed on your server (Starter ships as a ready-to-deploy package), your knowledge base loaded, the chat widget ready to embed, the admin console, and a written handover. Professional and Enterprise also include the full source code and deployment scripts.
Simple: if your deployment isn't live and answering customers within 30 days of purchase, email us. We'll either fix it ourselves or refund the license in full — your choice. The exact wording is in our Terms of Service.
No. Prices are public and the buttons are real — you can buy directly, today. Want to check fit first? Message us on WhatsApp or send the form; a real person answers within 24 hours. We don't do pressure demos.
Not sure it's the right fit, want to know more, or prefer to talk to a real person? Send us a message and we'll get back to you within 24 hours.
We set up and manage your hosting, apply updates and security patches, and fix issues fast — billed at cost, with a receipt, never marked up.
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