A Tidio alternative with AI answers in every plan
Tidio is live chat software with its Lyro AI agent sold as an add-on, priced by AI conversations. Corner includes AI answers in every plan, counts them as conversations, and keeps live chat with your team unlimited.
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 want AI answers included in the plan, not added on.
- Most of your chats can be answered from your website.
- You want each answer to show the page it came from.
- You're a small team, or an agency building for clients.
Tidio fits if
- You run a large live chat team that needs many agent seats.
- You already use Tidio, and only a few chats need AI.
- Your AI chats fit within Lyro's first tier.
| At a glance | Corner | Tidio |
|---|---|---|
| How it counts | AI conversations: one visitor chat with up to 10 AI answers, same model on every plan | Billable conversations, plus the Lyro AI add-on (as of October 2026, source) |
| Free plan | 30 AI conversations a month, unlimited live chat | 50 conversations (as of October 2026, source) |
| Entry paid plan | Starter: $19 a month for 100 AI conversations, 1 seat | Starter, about $29 a month (as of October 2026, source) |
| Next plan | Builder: $49 a month for 400 AI conversations, 3 seats | Growth, from about $59 a month (as of October 2026, source) |
| AI answers | Included in every plan | Lyro add-on, from $32.50 for 50 AI conversations (as of October 2026, source) |
Prices and features checked on October 29, 2026.
The add-on math
Monthly list prices, as of October 2026.
On Tidio, AI answers come from Lyro, an add-on on top of a plan. Starter at about $29 a month plus Lyro from $32.50 comes to about $61.50 a month for 50 AI conversations (as of October 2026, source). Lyro's price for more AI conversations is on Tidio's pricing page; it wasn't in what we checked, so we don't guess it here.
On Corner, AI answers are part of the plan: Starter is $19 a month for 100 AI conversations, and Builder is $49 a month for 400, with 3 seats. Live chat with your team doesn't count on any plan.
Prices change. Check both pricing pages for today's numbers 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 Tidio is the better choice
We make Corner, so weigh this with that in mind. Tidio may suit you better if you run a large live chat team: Corner's biggest plan, Studio, has 10 seats. It can also make sense to stay if you already use Tidio and only a few chats a month need AI, so Lyro's first tier is enough.
Try Corner on your own website and compare the answers side by side.
Switching from Tidio
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 Tidio. 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 Tidio's code.
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Your website. With someone there.
See it answer from your own pages in about a minute.
Free plan, no card. Live chat is unlimited on every plan.