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# Tidio

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> Tidio is a customer service suite with help desk, live chat, chatbot, and AI agent options. Lyro, it's conversional AI chatbot, is capable of resolving up to 64% of incoming issues. Sign up for a free 7-day trial.
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> Verdict: Rated **4.7/5** by 590 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**.

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## Overview

### Key benefits of Tidio

 Automation triggers include visitors opening a new page, visiting the site for the first time, returning to the site, spending a certain amount of time on a single page, or when an operator doesn’t respond to a message. &#10;&#10; Automation actions include sending emails or chat messages, and adding or removing tags from customer profiles.&#10;&#10; Live chat can be offered as a widget, sidebar, or dedicated page, which can be customized with different colors, button positions, status messages, and display options.&#10;&#10; Pre-chat surveys can be added to collect visitors’ names, phone numbers, email addresses, and more before a chat starts.&#10;&#10; Quick responses to common questions can be set up with short messages, links to other content, or full articles, and searched for or selected from a list.

## Quick Stats & Ratings

| Metric | Rating | Detail |
| **Overall** | **4.7/5** | 590 Reviews |
| Ease of Use | 4.7/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Customer Support | 4.6/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Value for Money | 4.5/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Features | 4.6/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Recommendation percentage | 90% | (9/10 Likelihood to recommend) |

## About the vendor

- **Company**: Tidio
- **Location**: London, UK
- **Founded**: 2013

## Commercial Context

- **Starting Price**: US$0,00
- **Pricing model**: Flat Rate (Free version available) (Free Trial)
- **Pricing Details**: All accounts come with a 7-day free trial period. The Free plan is free forever.&#10;You can upgrade the number of visitors you reach with Flows and the number of monthly Lyro conversations.&#10;Flows are chatbot automations that follow defined rules. Lyro conversations are AI chatbot conversations that are trained on your knowledge base and frequently asked questions. The the pricing page on the Tidio website to model your potential usage.
- **Target Audience**: Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1 000, 1 001–5 000, 5 001–10 000, 10 000+
- **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based, Mac (Desktop), Windows (Desktop), Linux (Desktop), Android (Mobile), iPhone (Mobile), iPad (Mobile)
- **Supported Languages**: Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English, European Portuguese, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Traditional Chinese, Turkish
- **Available Countries**: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, American Samoa, Andorra, Angola, Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belgium, Belize and 202 more

## Features

- AI Copilot
- AI Summarization
- AI/Machine Learning
- API
- Access Controls/Permissions
- Activity Dashboard
- Activity Tracking
- Alerts/Escalation
- Alerts/Notifications
- Application Management
- Assignment Management
- Audience Targeting
- Augmented Analytics
- Automated Responses
- Automated Routing
- Autoresponders
- Batch Communications
- CRM
- CSAT Survey Structure
- Campaign Segmentation

## Integrations (45 total)

- Adobe Commerce
- Agile CRM
- BigCommerce
- Brevo
- Campaign Monitor by Marigold
- Capsule
- Drupal
- Ecwid
- FreshBooks
- GetResponse
- Google Analytics 360
- Highrise
- HubSpot CRM
- Insightly
- Instagram

... and 30 more integrations

## Support Options

- Email/Help Desk
- FAQs/Forum
- Knowledge Base
- 24/7 (Live rep)
- Chat

## Category

- [Customer Service Software](https://www.getapp.za.com/directory/231/customer-service/software)

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## Reviews

### "2 years + and still using Tidio." — 5.0/5

> **Bryce** | *03 July 2025* | E-Learning | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: Great product always happy. Tried using multiple different options before now being with tidio for over 2 years.
> 
> **Cons**: The fact that if you have high traffic website you need to go on a custom plan. Most of our traffic is non converting traffic and we dont want to go a custom plan so it is a little annoying but overall still happy.

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### "Perfect live chat support tool for solo founders" — 4.0/5

> **Anonymous User** | *17 June 2025* | Information Technology & Services | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: The installation was quick and easy. I loved how easy it was to personalize the chat widget to suit my website. The free plan is generous for someone like me, and the interface is clean and intuitive.
> 
> **Cons**: It's disappointing that you can't initiate a chat with visitors in an active manner unless you have a paid plan. That's just a fundamental feature, particularly for startup founders who are looking to interact with users without paying money upfront.
> 
> I've had a great experience with Tidio on my TrackIt website. It was easy to set up and integrate. I don't want AI or bots, I just wanted a good live chat solution, and Tidio provides that spot on. It's light, responsive, and gets the job done without bombarding me with options I don't want.

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### "Tidio worked great until they doubled their prices in Dec 2024" — 1.0/5

> **Brendan** | *05 December 2024* | Events Services | Recommendation rating: 0.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: Tidio integrates with WordPress and facebook business very nicely it also provides CRM function with email.
> 
> **Cons**: Bad pricing, terrible mobile app and inhonest business practices
> 
> We used tidio for over 6 years in conjunction with our tourism website. We set up flows for FAQ and bots to collect people's contact information before an operator could take over.&#10;&#10;We shared the operator responsibility between three people which was nice.&#10;&#10;Unfortunately in December of 2024 Tidio changed their pricing structure and our bill doubled from $32 a month to $64 a month. This included some kind of promotion because the package we were being migrated to was actually $100 a month\! Our credit card was auto charged.&#10;&#10;Unfortunately we can't recommend a company that does a bait and switch like this as well as auto charging customers with such an extreme rate hike without notice.&#10;&#10;On a side note their android mobile app never really worked well and we missed many visitor chats on the mobile app.

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### "2025 Tidio Review Best Live Chat and Chatbot Tools for Businesses" — 4.0/5

> **KRISANPAL** | *25 September 2025* | Writing & Editing | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: The best thing I found about TIDIO is that it is an advanced level platform which helps small to big businesses.
> 
> **Cons**: While the downside is limited free chats (only 50 per month), advanced AI and marketing tools require a paid subscription. Small businesses may not be able to afford this easily.
> 
> Tidio is a very advanced and helpful customer communication platform which is very beneficial for every business. On this platform you can use Appive chat, email, social media messages, AI chatbots and etc. on a single platform. This platform has been created for those businesses which want to provide quick and better facilities to their clients and customers. The experience of using Tidio is very good and user friendly, due to which visitors coming to the website can easily connect and fast and with this you can also answer their questions. If you are busy or cannot attend live chatbots, Tidio Chatbots work for you by sending automated replies, such as showing you product suggestions, displaying lead generation forms, and answering FAQs. You can also customize these autoflows to suit your business needs, such as sending messages, updating orders, or setting appointment reminders. Tidio also provides multi-channel support, like email, WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook, you can receive and reply at the same place, on this platform you can also see analytics report like how many visitors have come to your platform, by stopping at which places, you can see from which country the visitors are, what have they come to see. The interface of Tidio is also very simple and easy, which can be used whether you are running the website on WordPress, Wix, Shopify or any other CMS. It has many advantages which include easy to use dashboard, options of free plans as well, AI chatbot automation, real time visitor monitoring and there are paid plans for the benefits as well, and if we talk about its disadvantages along with its advantages then there are many disadvantages as well in which only 50 free chats are available every month, for advanced tools or advanced AI one has to buy a paid tool which is not available in the free plans, and if we talk about the price then the free plan is suitable for basic needs and if you want a little advanced level chatbots email automation then you will have to buy a paid plan and the paid plan also keeps getting upgraded as per the features. After looking at everything, if someone asks for a final reply, I will say only one thing that Tidio is a very beneficial and helpful platform which can help small to big businesses, you just need to know how to use it and understand its plans, its dashboard is very easy to use, you will understand it easily which will help you in taking your customer support to the next level.

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### "Tidio: A Powerful Chat & Automation Tool for Education Systems" — 5.0/5

> **Monika** | *22 November 2025* | Information Technology & Services | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: As a Software Engineer working on an Education System project, I found Tidio extremely useful for improving student, parent, and teacher communication. The live chat helps users instantly ask queries about admissions, fees, results, timetables, and login issues. The AI chatbots easily handle common education-related FAQs, reducing manual support load. Its API and webhook integration allow us to trigger events from our portal, send automated messages, and track user behavior. Setting it up with LMS platforms like Moodle or Google Classroom was smooth, and the documentation was very developer-friendly.
> 
> **Cons**: During integration and testing, I didn’t face any major issues. Chatbot flows worked smoothly, API responses were consistent, and the system handled high traffic during admission season perfectly. So far, I haven’t found any significant cons.
> 
> Overall, Tidio is a great addition for education-based applications. It centralizes student/parent support, automates repetitive questions, enhances communication through emails and messages, and even helps teachers with internal support. From a developer and tester perspective, it is stable, scalable, and easy to integrate. I highly recommend it for mid-level companies working in the EdTech or education management domain.

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