Overpriced.
Or, use these.

Zendesk $55–$115 per agent per month

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Achille.ai

Zendesk charges per seat and every ticket still hits a human. Achille.ai deflects the repetitive stuff on its own, hands the actually-hard tickets to your team with context attached, and gives you a report on what drove the volume so you can shrink it next quarter. Priced for founders, not for procurement.

Intercom From $39/seat/mo, real plans start ~$99

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Voicetta, Inc.

Intercom is a chat widget that ships you a per-seat bill and a fragmented view: a call in one tab, a WhatsApp thread in another, an SMS in a third. Voicetta unifies voice, SMS, and messaging into one conversation memory that any agent — human or AI — can pick up mid-thread. Built for the hotels, clinics, and support teams where context loss is what actually costs revenue.

Ahrefs sells you a suite when you needed one drawer of it. Creeper SEO Audit does the same 300+ technical checks Ahrefs is famous for, adds real-user Web Vitals monitoring (which Ahrefs still does not), and skips the eight other tools bundled in you will never open. Includes a money-back guarantee on the implementation service.

Zapier Free tier is a trial; $30+/mo the moment you use it seriously

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CMDragon Tools

Zapier metering catches up to you fast: every task costs, every rerun costs, and the free tier is designed to make you upgrade. CMDragon Tools is a browser-based utility pack — converters, scanners, readers — that handles the one-off jobs Zapier bills you monthly for. Zero installs, zero sign-ups, 120 upvotes here for a reason.

HubSpot Free tier is a demo. Sales Hub Professional starts $500/mo.

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Riibase

HubSpot pretends to be free until you actually need pipeline features, then quotes you enterprise. Riibase is an indie CRM built for founders and small teams: pipeline, contacts, AI insights, one price. If your GTM does not have a procurement team yet, this is the fit.