An Intercom Fin alternative for small businesses
Intercom Fin charges for each resolution, plus seats if you use Intercom's help desk. Corner charges a flat monthly price for a set number of AI conversations, with live chat and seats included, which is easier to plan for a small business.
Free forever: unlimited live chat and 30 AI conversations a month. No card.
We make Corner, so we're not neutral. Here is what each tool does well.
Corner fits if
- You're a small business and want a flat monthly price.
- You want seats for your team included, not paid per person.
- You want answers that show the page they came from.
- You build sites for clients and want them in separate workspaces.
Intercom Fin fits if
- You run a large support team that needs a full help desk.
- Few of your chats end in a resolution, so you pay for few.
- You already use Intercom across your company.
| At a glance | Corner | Intercom Fin |
|---|---|---|
| How it counts | AI conversations: one visitor chat with up to 10 AI answers, same model on every plan | Each resolution (as of October 2026, source) |
| AI price | Starter: $19 a month for 100 AI conversations, 1 seat. Builder: $49 a month for 400 AI conversations, 3 seats. | $0.99 per resolution, with a minimum of 50 a month on its own (as of October 2026, source) |
| Seats | Included: 1 on Starter, 3 on Builder, 10 on Studio | $29 to $39 per seat on Intercom's help desk (as of October 2026, source) |
Prices and features checked on October 29, 2026.
Per resolution or flat: same month, both prices
List prices, as of October 2026.
Per resolution pricing goes up with every chat the AI resolves, so a busy month costs more. A flat plan costs the same each month up to its limit. To compare, we assume every AI conversation counts as one resolution. Fewer resolutions would cost less on Fin.
- 400 AI conversations a month: Corner Builder is $49 with 3 seats. Fin is $396, plus seats if your team uses Intercom's help desk (as of October 2026, source).
- 2,000 AI conversations a month: Corner Studio is $249 with 10 seats. Fin is $1,980, plus seats (as of October 2026, source).
At low volume the gap is smaller: Fin's minimum of 50 resolutions comes to $49.50 a month on its own. Prices change, so check both pricing pages before you decide.
Where Corner is different
Conversations, not credits. Corner counts AI conversations. One holds up to 10 answers from Anthropic's Claude Sonnet, on every plan, with no multipliers. Your team's replies never count, and live chat is unlimited on every plan. See pricing
Answers you can check. It's built to answer from your own website and files, shows the pages it used under each answer, and says so when your site doesn't cover a question instead of guessing.
Leads and a person when it counts. When a visitor wants a quote or a call back, it asks for their name and email or phone (lead capture, on every plan). Every chat lands in one shared inbox, where you can take over. You get an email when someone asks for a person, and the dashboard works in your phone's browser.
Any website, and your AI tools. One line works on WordPress, Shopify, Wix, Squarespace, Webflow, Lovable and hand-built sites. Corner's MCP server lets you run it from Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor, with 18 tools.
For agencies
Building websites for clients? Studio is $249 a month for up to 10 assistants and 2,000 AI conversations shared between them, each client in its own workspace, under your brand and your own dashboard address. Corner for agencies
When Intercom is the better choice
We make Corner, so weigh this with that in mind. Intercom is built for larger support teams that want a full help desk, and Corner's biggest plan has 10 seats. If few of your chats end in a resolution, paying per resolution can also cost less than a flat plan. And if your company already runs on Intercom, keeping Fin there may be simpler.
Switching from Intercom
Try Corner on your own website first, with no sign up: it reads your pages in about a minute and you ask it what your customers ask. If you like the answers, switching takes about five minutes:
- Sign up on the Free plan, with no card, and type your website. Corner reads it while you watch.
- Upload the PDFs and Word files you gave Intercom. There's no import tool, so answers you wrote by hand need teaching again.
- Paste Corner's one line into your site (see the install guide), and remove Intercom's code.
Sources
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