Fin vs. Verint Intelligent Virtual Assistant (IVA)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Fin
Score 8.8 out of 10
N/A
Fin is an AI Agent for customer service. It automates complex queries, improves resolution times, and delivers consistently high-quality support at scale.
$0.99
one-time fee per outcome
Verint Intelligent Virtual Assistant (IVA)
Score 8.4 out of 10
N/A
The Verint Intelligent Virtual Assistant (formerly Verint Self-Service solutions) is a customer-oriented knowledge management solution including technology acquired by Verint from Next IT in 2017. The platform includes voice self-service IVR, a virtual AI-guided assistant (Next IT), and Verint's own knowledge management system for self-service.N/A
Pricing
FinVerint Intelligent Virtual Assistant (IVA)
Editions & Modules
Fin with your current helpdesk
$0.99
one-time fee per outcome
Copilot add-on
$35
per month per user
Pro add-on
$99
per month For analysis of 1,000 conversations
Fin with Intercom’s Helpdesk
from $39 + $0.99 per Fin outcome
per month per seat
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
FinVerint Intelligent Virtual Assistant (IVA)
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsFin comes with a 90-day money-back guarantee. Here's how it works: Intercom states that users who sign up for the Fin Guarantee Success Program and do not achieve at least a resolution rate of 65% will be paid $1M. This program is designed for high volume customers. Eligibility criteria: High volume customers (over 250k monthly conversions) in North America and Europe. Intercom states that phase one of this program will admit customers on Intercom Helpdesk or Zendesk.
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User Ratings
FinVerint Intelligent Virtual Assistant (IVA)
Likelihood to Recommend
8.8
(472 ratings)
8.4
(6 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(21 ratings)
6.4
(1 ratings)
Usability
8.2
(380 ratings)
7.3
(5 ratings)
Availability
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
6.3
(11 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Online Training
7.4
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
6.6
(5 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
FinVerint Intelligent Virtual Assistant (IVA)
Likelihood to Recommend
Intercom
Fin is fantastic at answering simpler inquiries, where the range and types of questions are easier to categorize. Thereby reducing the subset of possible answers. Where it has shown great improvement - but still needs more improvement - is by becoming a true Agentic AI support engineer that is capable of answering more technically nuanced questions. Our product has a lot of variables used for troubleshooting that cannot be adequately captured in documentation. Even though we provide thousands of pages of spec docs, each issue is unique. Training and empowering Fin to be as good as a Level 1 support engineer is still very challenging.
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Verint
The IVA is very well suited to handle routine questions and basic actions that would typically require customer support. It may be a little more challenged handling edge cases but in those instances we have found it provides an easy transfer to a live agent
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Pros
Intercom
  • It is very easy to train
  • It does a great job of recommending answers when little context is given.
  • I love the ability to create a snippet to address issues in the moment or in the long term, based on FAQs.
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Verint
  • Use of Acknowledgment base and AI engines.
  • F&Q.
  • Automate process such as consults, modifications and cancel reservations.
  • Execute triggers for notify customer reservations.
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Cons
Intercom
  • It seems some users really struggle to figure out how to escalate to a human (especially through email).
  • Not excited about how "soft" resolutions still count as resolutions and are paid for. Though some abandoned cases appear to be able to be concluded as "the user got the answer they needed", there are others where they clearly didn't, because they just open up another chat (or even more), trying to get more info. This pads the resolution stats and makes it seem more effective than it actually is.
  • Cost -- Fin is quite expensive. It helps us with scaling coverage, but we're not really saving money.
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Verint
  • There is minimal documentation around what we can and can't do for IVA
  • IVA seems to be a newer product so this is difficult when trying to implement new things
  • IVA has a lot of non-Verint friendly terms (Think Prompt, vs. answer or Intent/Alternate vs. context).
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Likelihood to Renew
Intercom
We have been and will be continuing our journey with Intercom and nothing too concerning has happened that I have experienced or heard of that has us on the edge yet. If it ever happens it will be something along the lines of "Outgrowing" the use of need of the platform.
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Verint
While I enjoy the IVA product, there is still some fine-tuning of the platform that can be done. There are some nuances to the Verint platform, which can make it difficult to start quickly. We thought business users would be able to easily manage the work needed within the IVA platform for our business; however, with how complex we want to make the experience, that was not possible. We quickly realized we needed more support than just our business users, who were not familiar with how to add API information into a conversation flow. This is why we expanded to others within our business to support the tool.
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Usability
Intercom
The platform is overall clear and intuitive. As with any new platform, there's a learning curve, but that wasn't an issue for our team (and it shouldn't be an issue for others). Fin options are scattered across several submenus, and I'd like them grouped together, but I also like having all those training-related tabs open at all times, so it's not much of a real issue for me.
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Verint
Based on my experience. Once the client is familiarize with the AI and of course the AI company solution has been implemented correctly. We able to offer the customer a best service.
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Reliability and Availability
Intercom
always there
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Verint
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Performance
Intercom
Fin is super quick and top notch.
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Verint
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Support Rating
Intercom
I can get help by asking Fin questions about itself. It answers accurately, citing its own Help Center resources with visuals. It can reason and dialogue well. But when it comes to getting human support for Fin, it is not as quick. It can sometimes take a few days. They are polite and well-meaning. Some things aren't their fault (product limitations), but there was one occasion where something took a long time to resolve with lots of back and forth but it was I who found out the error in the end that they missed, so they didn't really help resolve it.
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Verint
No answers on this topic
Online Training
Intercom
It was great. We were able to walk through step by step and get our questions answered along the way.
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Verint
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Implementation Rating
Intercom
The implementation was surprisingly easy but we are having to adapt from our old process to work well with Intercom.
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Verint
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Alternatives Considered
Intercom
There are so many AI platforms available, and you could theoretically build a system using the available AI API's from any of the big platforms. However, I dont think it's as easy as this. Intercom is deliberately built for customer service, the features they are releasing a based on providing the best customer experience. If we were to build this ourselves or to use another platform we would be taking on the upkeep, using Fin is just much simpler as it's also our chosen ticketing platform so anything that Fin is not able to answer yet and escalated directly to our team with no extra effort required from our side.
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Verint
Verint Intelligent Virtual Assistant had more features and functionality than the Genesys product as well as customization and further options for internal system integration to our existing on-prem systems. In addition, we also had a rapport with other Verint products and were more familiar with their AI capabilities, making them the obvious choice.
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Scalability
Intercom
The product is very scalable and has helped us scale our user base and onboard 10x the users in just one month. We couldn't have done it without Fin
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Verint
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Return on Investment
Intercom
  • New role opportunities — Using the “Fin-first” approach has reduced the workload for our Tier 1 team, giving them more time to focus on their own career growth. It’s also opened the door to a dedicated, AI-focused role, where a team member regularly reviews Fin’s answers and makes updates to help it perform even better.
  • Enabling Fin has also reduced our response time and allowed us to meet SLA's.
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Verint
  • Positive - Containment
  • Negative - Customers animosity to bots
  • Positive - Reduction of Calls
  • Negative - Mishandled calls receive greater scrutiny than agents
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ScreenShots

Fin Screenshots

Screenshot of the interface to customize Fin's tone of voice, teach it support knowledge and policies, and configure how it handles complex tasks in over 45 languages.Screenshot of Fin handling a complex query. Fin can securely retrieve data and take action in external systems like Shopify, Stripe, and Salesforce.Screenshot of Fin works across phone, email, chat, Slack, and more so every customer receives accurate, personalized responses, wherever they reach out.Screenshot of some procedures to train Fin to handle queries with multiple steps, business logic and third-party systems from start to finish. Natural language instructions can be combined with deterministic controls to create powerful Procedures that follow exact rules when needed.Screenshot of the dashboard to monitor and evaluate quality against standards across both Fin and human conversations.Screenshot of the dashboard to monitor, analyze, and optimize Fin by spotting trends, filling content gaps, and fixing quality issues topic by topic.

Verint Intelligent Virtual Assistant (IVA) Screenshots

Screenshot of the IVA analytics dashboardScreenshot of an IVA conversation flowScreenshot of out-of-the-box IVA NLP AI modelsScreenshot of the connectors integration