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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    ChatBot.com

    Score9 out of 10
    Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
    ChatBot.com is a cloud-based conversational automation platform for customer service, ecommerce, and lead generation. Organizations configure AI Agents using their websites, help centers, product documentation, uploaded files, and manually created articles as knowledge sources. Key Capabilities Automated Customer Service: AI Agents answer customer questions using organization-provided content rather than general internet…

    $25

    per month

    Hiver

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AHiver is a customer service platform that brings together communication channels, apps, and data to improve customer support operations. Hiver enables real-time collaboration across every customer communication channel, offering AI and automation to resolve issues and help teams work faster. Hiver states that over 10,000 teams of all shapes and sizes globally from Flexport to Harvard University, Vacasa, and Epic Games rely on Hiver to deliver support that wins and retains customers for…

    $24

    per month per user

    Pricing
    ChatBot.comHiver
    Editions & Modules
    Essential
    $25
    per month
    Growth
    $99
    per month per user
    Enterprise
    Custom
    Lite
    $24
    per month per user
    Growth
    $34
    per month per user
    Pro
    $59
    per month per user
    Elite
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    ChatBot.comHiver
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
    Additional Details—20% discount for annual pricing.
    More Pricing Information
    Features
    ChatBot.comHiver
    Chat Analytics and Reports
    Comparison of Chat Analytics and Reports features of ChatBot.com and Hiver
    Feature
    ChatBot.com
    7.8
    2 Ratings
    10% below category average
    Hiver
    -
    Ratings
    Chat history and transcripts9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Chat reporting7.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Chat and web analytics7.52 Ratings00 Ratings
    Incident and problem management
    Comparison of Incident and problem management features of ChatBot.com and Hiver
    Feature
    ChatBot.com
    -
    Ratings
    Hiver
    9.0
    4 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Organize and prioritize service tickets00 Ratings9.04 Ratings
    Ticket creation and submission00 Ratings9.04 Ratings
    Ticket response00 Ratings9.04 Ratings
    Self Help Community
    Comparison of Self Help Community features of ChatBot.com and Hiver
    Feature
    ChatBot.com
    -
    Ratings
    Hiver
    8.0
    1 Ratings
    0% below category average
    External knowledge base00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Internal knowledge base00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Multi-Channel Help
    Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of ChatBot.com and Hiver
    Feature
    ChatBot.com
    -
    Ratings
    Hiver
    8.5
    4 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Customer portal00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Email support00 Ratings9.04 Ratings
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    Score7.9 out of 10
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    Score9.3 out of 10
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    Score6.8 out of 10
    LiveAgent
    Score8.8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    AWS Chatbot
    Score8.4 out of 10
    Front
    Score9.2 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    ChatBot.comHiver
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    4.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    ChatBot.comHiver
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Text
    Most suited: Frequent duties can be automated. services can be improved by analyzing customer feedback. Load and Heavy tasks can be reduced. Less workforce is required. Less Suited: Specific product queries and their proper answers. When the user uses those words that are misspelled or have a long sentence it finds difficulty in giving them proper information.
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    Hiver
    One scenario where Hiver works really well is in a shared support or billing inbox or anywhere multiple team members need access to the same messages. For example, when a customer emails about a billing question, we used to reply and manually loop in the billing team or forward the message. That often caused confusion, especially when someone forgot to “reply all” or responded only to the teammate instead of the customer.Now with Hiver, we just assign the conversation to the billing inbox, and whoever is available can respond. Everyone on the team can see the thread, status, and notes, which avoids duplicated efforts and missed replies. We also used to rely on Google Groups, but it wasn’t clear if someone had already replied, and there was no easy way to collaborate behind the scenes. Hiver completely solved that for us.As for situations where Hiver might be less ideal, I’d say if your team isn’t using Gmail or Google Workspace, then it’s probably not a good fit. It’s really designed for teams that live in Gmail so the team doesn't have to learn a new system. I'm sure some businesses will require a more robust ticketing solution but for our use case, this was a perfect option to improve outcomes, client service, and satisfaction.
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    Pros
    Text
    • Routing rules
    • no code workflows
    • UI/UX is excellent for a newbie to start on
    • Their Chat support is very helpful
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    Hiver
    • automation through rules
    • tagging emails, anaylics behind them
    • support, chat always responds right away
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    Cons
    Text
    • Having enough conversational data to train the chatbot.
    • Really understanding intent.
    • Understanding emotion.
    Incentivized
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    Hiver
    • It could be considered expensive, but ultimately worth every penny for those who use shared inboxes/groups to run their business.
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Text
    As long as budget is not an issue - we renewing this solution.
    Incentivized
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    Hiver
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    Text
    Since I deployed this solution end to end for my organisation, I would speak from my experience that since I was a newbie to this platform I took ample support from their team, their training resources. However, the product's UI/UX was simply very intuitive that it helped me to get a lot of hand-on practice on the product well. This helped me with the timely deployment of this solution.
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    Hiver
    Easy to use
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    Support Rating
    Text
    Full end-to-end support is critical to maintain the ongoing service, robustness, training and customer service Chatbot offers.
    Incentivized
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    Hiver
    Support is there, can be slow at times.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Text
    ChatBot is more stable and enhanced as compared to other rivals which are new in this segment and also provides a lot of details which is missing in other products like report etc. Also, chatBot is more commonly used so support wise it is also great and you can find multiple examples on the internet and from your peers as well.
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    Hiver
    True ticketing solutions are certainly more robust in that you can typically manage social media channels and phones, etc. But, in my opinion, when you don't have a team solely responsible for managing a ticketing system they can be complicated to implement. With HIVER, we're already all accustomed to managing our own G-Suite inbox, so it was simply a matter of teaching the team how to utilize the solution.
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    Text
    • Connecting to DB.
    • Customizable dashboards.
    • Automated reporting.
    Incentivized
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    Hiver
    • The ROI on showing how many emails are being received and addressed in a timely manner are great for KPIs
    • the ability to search and ensure emails are not being deleted as an automatic report is sent out the following day saying if any emails were deleted by whom
    • the ability to automate who gets assigned what emails from specific vendors per entity
    Incentivized
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    ScreenShots

    ChatBot.com Screenshots

    Screenshot of Chatbot conversations are automatically archived, allowing users to analyze and improve their story flows.Screenshot of With ChatBot you can control the entire conversation flow.Screenshot of Improve your chatbot day by day using the training tool.Screenshot of Save your time importing a ready to use template and turn it into your own bot assistant.Screenshot of Stories are an intuitive way to tell the bot how to react to different situations. Create Stories for frequent questions and cases to save more time for the difficult ones.Screenshot of To create a fully operating chatbot you don’t need any other tools or apps. The scenario tree structure and drag and drop interface are very intuitive.

    Hiver Screenshots

    Screenshot of Hiver in GmailScreenshot of a view of a shared mailboxScreenshot of the collision alerts feature