Tidio has a free plan, and free is hard to argue with. So let's argue with it honestly.
| StillOpen | Tidio | |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | No. 14 days free, then $47 | Yes. 50 billable conversations a month, and 50 AI conversations one time |
| Entry paid plan | $47 a month | $24.17 a month for Starter, 100 conversations |
| Where AI sits | The whole product. Every answer is the AI | Lyro AI conversations are capped per plan |
| Built for | One service business answering its own customers | General web chat, heavily ecommerce |
| Trained on your business | Reads your website at signup and re-reads it monthly | You set it up |
| Books into your calendar | Yes, Google Calendar | Through integrations |
| Try it before signing up | Yes. Type your web address, watch your site wake up | No |
Read off tidio.com/pricing on August 1, 2026. Prices move. If you find one of these out of date, tell us and we'll fix it the same day.
Tidio's free plan is real and their product is mature and polished. If you want a general-purpose chat widget with a human inbox and you're happy to configure it yourself, Tidio is a good tool and it costs nothing to start.
StillOpen is text chat on your website. It doesn't answer your phone. Voice is on the road and it isn't here. Decide with that on the table.
Fifty AI conversations one time is a taste, not a front desk. StillOpen is built for one job: a service business whose customers reach out after hours and get nothing. It trains itself off your website, it books jobs, and it doesn't ask you to build a flowchart.
Type your web address. Ten seconds later you're looking at your real business site with a working front desk on it. No email, no signup, no call.