Intercom Fin Pricing: $0.99/Outcome + Seat Fee Math

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Jun 5, 2026 04:06 PM

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Mike Heap

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How does Intercom Fin pricing actually work?

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TL;DR: Fin pricing stacks three parts: a $0.99 per-outcome charge, per-agent Intercom seats (Essential to Expert), and optional add-ons. Run Fin standalone on Zendesk or Salesforce and you drop the seats but keep the per-outcome rate.

Fin pricing is three stacked parts. There's a $0.99 charge for each "outcome" Fin handles on its own, a per-seat fee for every human who touches the Intercom inbox ($29 to $139 a seat), and a shelf of optional add-ons (Copilot, analytics, Voice).

Run Fin standalone on Zendesk, Salesforce, HubSpot or Freshworks and you skip the seats and pay only the $0.99. The trade is that you lose proactive outbound messaging, Fin for Sales and Slack support, per Intercom's own Fin for Platforms guide.

The table below is the whole model in one place. If you copy one thing out of this post into your budget sheet, copy this.

Component	Price	How it's billed	The catch
Fin AI outcome	$0.99	per outcome (a resolution or a Procedure handoff)	50/month minimum (~$49.50); Intercom decides what counts
Intercom seat (Essential)	$29/seat/mo annual ($39 monthly)	per human agent	0 free Lite (viewer) seats
Intercom seat (Advanced)	$85/seat/mo annual ($99 monthly)	per human agent	20 free Lite seats; all seats must be the same tier
Intercom seat (Expert)	$132/seat/mo annual ($139 monthly)	per human agent	50 free Lite seats
Fin Copilot (agent assist)	$29/agent/mo in-Suite; $35/user standalone	per agent	separate line
Pro (AI analytics / CX Score)	$99/mo	flat, 1,000 conversation analyses	~$0.12 per extra analysis
Proactive Support Plus	$99/mo	flat, 500 messages	separate line
Fin Voice	custom	Sales-quoted	no published rate
Fin for Sales	$10 per qualified lead	per outcome	separate outcome metric

Every row comes from Intercom's pricing page and Fin's pricing page, which I checked on June 5, 2026. The rest of this post takes each line apart, because that last column is where the surprises live.

What's an "outcome", and what are you actually paying $0.99 for?

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TL;DR: $0.99 is charged once per conversation when Fin resolves the issue, when the customer leaves without asking for more help, or when a Procedure ends in a handoff. Intercom's model decides which of those counts.

The headline number is real, and it's held since Fin launched in 2023. The fiddly bit is the word "outcome." Per Intercom's outcomes article, $0.99 is charged once per conversation when any of three things happens:

The customer confirms Fin's answer solved their problem (a confirmed resolution).

The customer leaves without asking for more help (an assumed resolution), and even a silent exit bills.

Fin runs a Procedure you set up that ends in a handoff to a human or a workflow.

That third trigger is newer than most posts account for. In late 2025 Intercom renamed the metric from "resolution" to "outcome", kept the $0.99, and added Procedure handoffs as billable. The price didn't move, but what counts toward it grew.

Breakdown of the three events that trigger Intercom Fin's $0.99 charge: a confirmed resolution, an assumed resolution where the customer simply leaves, and a Procedure handoff added in the late-2025 rename.

Some things don't charge: a greeting-only reply, a customer explicitly asking for a human, a technical Procedure failure, and reopened conversations (come back to the same chat later, even in a new billing month, and the original charge is refunded).

Here's the part I'd sit with before signing: the better Fin gets, the more outcomes it produces, and the bigger the bill. And Intercom's model is the thing deciding which conversations count, including the silent exits you never see. So the smart move is to audit what your own conversations get classified as, instead of only watching the rate.

Why isn't the seat fee on the Fin pricing page?

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TL;DR: Run Fin inside Intercom and every human in the inbox needs a paid seat, from $29 to $139 a month. Standalone Fin on Zendesk or Salesforce skips the seats but loses proactive messaging, Fin for Sales and Slack.

This is the single most common omission I see. Run Fin inside the Intercom helpdesk and every human who works the inbox needs a paid seat. There are three tiers on Intercom's pricing page: Essential at $29 a seat a month on annual billing ($39 month-to-month), Advanced at $85 ($99 monthly), and Expert at $132 ($139 monthly).

Two details inside the seat model catch people out. First, all seats in a workspace have to be on the same tier, so you can't put most of the team on Essential and one power user on Advanced (Intercom's seats doc spells this out). If one person needs an Advanced feature, everybody moves up.

Second, the free Lite (viewer) seats aren't spread evenly: Essential includes zero, Advanced 20, and Expert 50. On the cheapest plan, every viewer who only needs to read conversations still costs you $29 or more.

There's a way around the seats entirely worth knowing: standalone Fin. Run it on Zendesk, Salesforce, HubSpot or Freshworks and you pay only the $0.99 an outcome, with no seat costs in Intercom - just your helpdesk, and no setup, integration or platform fees (Fin's pricing page confirms this).

The catch is that standalone Fin drops proactive outbound, Fin for Sales and Slack. For a lot of teams that trade is fine; for teams that want Intercom's full Messenger and outbound stack, it isn't.

What do Copilot, analytics and Proactive Support add to the bill?

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TL;DR: Copilot is $29 to $35 per agent a month, the Pro analytics that hold CX Score are $99 a month, and Proactive Support Plus is another $99. None are required, but all three are easy to forget when you model "just the $0.99".

Beyond seats and outcomes, three line items quietly stack on top, and each is its own charge.

Fin Copilot (the AI assistant that sits in the agent inbox and drafts replies) is $29 an agent a month inside the Intercom Suite, or $35 a user on the standalone Fin product, per Fin's pricing page. Intercom reports a 31% efficiency gain from Copilot in its Lightspeed beta, so it's a defensible spend, but it's still a charge, billed per agent, on top of the seat that agent already costs.

The analytics are the under-priced surprise. Most of Fin's AI reporting, including CX Score (the metric that scores 100% of conversations rather than the 5 to 10% a typical CSAT survey reaches) sits behind a $99 a month Pro add-on that covers 1,000 conversations, then about $0.12 for each one beyond that, per G2's pricing breakdown. If you actually want to measure what Fin's doing at volume, budget for it.

Proactive Support Plus is another $99 a month for 500 outbound messages. None of these are required to run Fin. They're just the lines people forget when they model "only the $0.99."

What about Fin Voice and Fin for Sales?

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TL;DR: Fin Voice has no published rate (it's Sales-quoted and still in managed availability), and Fin for Sales bills $10 per qualified lead on its own metric.

Two parts of Fin's pricing don't sit neatly on a table. The missing number is the warning sign.

Fin Voice (AI phone support) has no published rate anywhere on Intercom's or Fin's own site. It's Sales-quoted only and still in managed availability for "select customers", per Fin's pricing FAQ.

If voice is part of your plan, you can't model it from public info; you have to get a quote. For anyone who needs to forecast a line, a "contact sales" component is a real planning gap (the kind I want priced before signing).

Fin for Sales runs on its own outcome metric at $10 per qualified lead, per Intercom's Fin for Sales pricing post. Different motion from support, but worth knowing the meter is different if your Fin setup spans both.

What does Intercom Fin cost at typical volumes?

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TL;DR: At a 50% resolution rate, budget around $920 a month at 1,000 tickets, $6,650 at 10,000, and $29,000 at 50,000. The per-outcome charge climbs from a third of the bill to about 85% as you scale.

This is the section I'd bookmark, because it's the math the Fin pricing page never shows. The three tables use Advanced seats at $85 an agent a month (annual), $0.99 an outcome, and a 50% resolution rate, which is a deliberately conservative floor for comparing vendors. I've left the add-ons (Copilot, Pro) out of the core total and noted them separately, so you can add them for your own setup.

At 1,000 tickets a month (small team, 5 agents)

Line item	Math	Cost
Fin outcomes	500 × $0.99	$495
Intercom seats	5 × $85	$425
Monthly total	ㅤ	~$920
Effective cost per resolved ticket	ㅤ	$1.84

At this volume the seats are nearly half the bill; the AI charge alone is only $495. If you're small, you're mostly paying for the platform more than for Fin's work.

At 10,000 tickets a month (mid-market, 20 agents)

Line item	Math	Cost
Fin outcomes	5,000 × $0.99	$4,950
Intercom seats	20 × $85	$1,700
Monthly total	ㅤ	~$6,650
Effective cost per resolved ticket	ㅤ	$1.33

The balance has flipped, and I find this is where teams get caught out. The per-outcome charge is now three-quarters of the bill, and it grows directly with how well Fin performs.

At 50,000 tickets a month (high volume, 50 agents)

Line item	Math	Cost
Fin outcomes	25,000 × $0.99	$24,750
Intercom seats	50 × $85	$4,250
Monthly total	ㅤ	~$29,000
Effective cost per resolved ticket	ㅤ	$1.16

At high volume the per-outcome charge is about 85% of the bill. The line you can't cap is the one that ends up running the show.

That 50% rate is a floor, by the way. Use Fin's own claimed 67% average (and the field median sits near 70% on a resolution metric) and the totals climb:

Three-step flow of Intercom Fin monthly cost: 1,000 tickets about $920, 10,000 tickets about $6,650, 50,000 tickets about $29,000, with the effective cost per resolved ticket falling from $1.84 to $1.16.

1,000 tickets: roughly $1,090 a month ($1.62 per resolved ticket).

10,000 tickets: roughly $8,330 a month ($1.24 each).

50,000 tickets: roughly $37,400 a month ($1.12 each).

Want Copilot for every agent? That's another $145 / $580 / $1,450 a month, with Pro analytics a flat $99 on top.

To double-check the model, robylon's published example of 8 Advanced seats plus 2,100 monthly outcomes lands around $2,960 a month, which matches my math, per robylon's breakdown.

How do I model my own Fin bill?

Drop your own numbers into the prompt below and an AI will run the same stack for you (or use our Intercom Fin ROI calculator if you'd rather not touch a prompt). It can't price Fin Voice (nobody can without a quote), so it'll flag that rather than guess.

You are a pricing analyst. Work out my monthly Intercom Fin cost from these inputs:
- Monthly support tickets / conversations: [e.g. 8,000]
- Human agents who need an Intercom seat: [e.g. 12]
- Intercom plan: [Essential $29 / Advanced $85 / Expert $132 per seat/month, annual billing]
- Add-ons I want: [Copilot $29/agent? Pro analytics $99/mo? Proactive Support Plus $99/mo?]
- Running Fin standalone on Zendesk/Salesforce instead of inside Intercom? [yes/no - if yes, drop the seat fees]

Use $0.99 per Fin outcome. Calculate my total monthly cost and effective $ per resolved ticket
at three resolution rates: 30% (pessimistic), 50% (conservative) and 67% (Fin's claimed average).
Show the per-outcome charge as a % of the total bill at each rate. For Fin Voice, write
"unverified - get a Sales quote" rather than guessing. Output the result as a table.

What does the Intercom Fin pricing page not tell you?

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TL;DR: Four costs land mid-deployment: the seat fees stacked on the AI charge, a bill that grows as Fin improves, "assumed resolutions" you never see, and the Year-2 startup-discount cliff.

Four costs show up mid-deployment rather than on the pricing page:

Seat fees on top of the AI charge. I keep coming back to it because it's the big one: the $0.99 page never mentions the $29 to $139 seat line, and at low volume the seats cost more than the AI does.

The bill grows as Fin improves. Costs rise with both your resolution rate and your volume, and you can't forecast them cleanly month to month. The deeper version is the work it takes to lift the resolution rate at all (knowledge updates, tool connections, guidance tuning) and the per-outcome model charges you more precisely as that work pays off.

Three stats showing the per-outcome charge as a share of the monthly Intercom Fin bill: 54% at 1,000 tickets, 74% at 10,000 tickets, and 85% at 50,000 tickets.

Assumed resolutions and the rename. A customer leaving silently after Fin's answer bills as a resolution, and since the late-2025 rename, Procedure handoffs bill too. You're paying on a unit Intercom defines and measures.

Seat-tier and contract friction. All seats must be the same tier (one Advanced feature upgrades everyone), Essential has zero free viewer seats, pricing is USD only (so non-US buyers carry the currency risk), and annual contracts have no mid-term refund and need 30 days' notice before renewal, per Intercom's pricing FAQs.

What do real Intercom Fin customers say about the invoice?

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TL;DR: Reviewers rate Fin's quality highly but flag the bill as unpredictable. The most-cited example is a team whose spend jumped from $4,000 to $9,000 a month after switching Fin on.

Across Reddit, G2 and Capterra, most reviewers rate Fin's quality highly. What they flag is the bill: it's hard to predict and it grows with use.

Here's the pattern (word-on-the-street), in customers' own words.

"Intercom is expensive, especially for startups and small businesses. Their AI agent, Fin, charges about $0.99 per resolution, which adds up quickly at scale." From a Capterra review.

"The pricing model creates some uncertainty, since costs depend on resolution. I never really know how many conversations it will handle in a given month." From a G2 review.

"Pricing is very high compared to alternatives, especially as you grow. Nearly every feature is an upsell, so our bill keeps increasing unexpectedly." From a G2 review.

The most-cited single data point is a Reddit user whose monthly bill went from $4,000 to $9,000 after they switched Fin on with 40 agents, in a thread we captured here. And the Year-2 jump after the startup discount has its own Hacker News thread from a team that "recently graduated from Intercom's early-stage program."

My read: the per-outcome model gets uncomfortable somewhere above 60% automation, which is exactly the point where Fin's working well. That's the curve where teams start shopping around.

To be fair to Intercom, their Head of Pricing has defended it on the grounds that per-conversation pricing would make you "pay even when Fin couldn't resolve the issue… they'd essentially pay twice". I think that's a reasonable argument, honestly. It just doesn't change the fact that the bill is hardest to forecast right when the product is doing its job.

Does Intercom Fin have a free trial, and what are the contract terms?

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TL;DR: Yes, 14 days with unlimited outcomes and no card, but no permanent free plan. Startups can get 93% off Year 1 via Early Stage, which then cliffs from Year 2.

Yes: a 14-day free trial, no credit card to start, and (to their credit) unusually generous on the AI, with unlimited Fin outcomes during the trial and no seat minimum, per Intercom's pricing page. Sales can extend it. There's no permanent free plan.

For startups, the bigger offer is the Early Stage program: companies up to roughly $1M in funding or Series A, under two years old and new to Intercom can get 93% off in Year 1. That's around $65 a month against a ~$1,483 list, including six Advanced seats, Copilot, Proactive Support Plus, Pro analytics, and 300 free Fin outcomes a month plus a year of free Fin.

The catch (and it's a real one) is the cliff. The discount drops to 50% in Year 2, 25% in Year 3, and disappears in Year 4, and it never applies to outcomes beyond the allowance, qualifications, phone, SMS or WhatsApp. The sticker shock when teams graduate is well documented.

On contracts: annual plans don't refund mid-term, renewals need 30 days' notice, and Intercom backs Fin with a Million Dollar Guarantee. That's up to $1M refunded for new customers unhappy within 90 days (you need 250+ paid conversations), and a separate $1M for enterprises over 250,000 monthly conversations if Fin misses a 65% resolution rate.

How does Intercom Fin pricing compare to the alternatives at the same volume?

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TL;DR: At 10,000 tickets and 50% resolution, Fin is around $6,650 a month ($1.33 per resolved). My AskAI is about $1,000 flat ($0.10 a ticket), Zendesk is pricier ($2.10 per resolved), and Gorgias runs roughly $0.90 to $1.00 an automation.

Using the 10,000-ticket, 50%-resolution example from above, here's Fin next to the main alternatives. The Zendesk and My AskAI figures are firm; Gorgias and Freshdesk are directional from their published models.

Vendor	Pricing model	Cost at 10k tickets (50%)	Effective $/resolved
Intercom Fin	$0.99/outcome + $85 seats	~$6,650/mo	$1.33
My AskAI	~$0.10/ticket, usage-based (flat meter)	~$1,000/mo	$0.20
Zendesk AI	$1.50–2.00 per resolution + Suite seat + add-ons	~$10,500/mo	$2.10
Gorgias Automate	$0.90–1.00 per automation + seat	~$5,000–6,000/mo	~$0.90–1.00
Freshdesk Freddy	$0.49 per session + seat	lower unit, narrower "session" definition	varies

Here's the fair read: Fin's $0.99 unit is actually cheaper per resolution than Zendesk's $1.50 to $2.00. The unit price is fine. The problem, in my view, is the meter.

Spectrum of effective cost per resolved ticket at 10,000 tickets: My AskAI $0.10, Gorgias $0.95, Intercom Fin $1.33, and Zendesk AI $2.10.

You pay more as Fin improves, on a count Intercom defines, with seats stacking underneath.

That's where a usage-based model works differently. We built My AskAI to charge per ticket (a unit you already track and forecast for staffing) at roughly $0.10 a ticket, so the bill stays flat as the AI gets better instead of rising with it (our pricing page lays it out).

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We price simply on purpose: most companies already know their ticket count, you get an estimated monthly cost after seven days of the trial, and the full 30-day no-limit trial shows you exactly what a real month costs before you pay anything. Which bill can you actually predict?

Is Intercom Fin actually worth the money?

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TL;DR: Fin is one of the best agents on quality, so it's worth it for mid-market and enterprise teams already on Intercom with the volume and knowledge-base discipline to use it. For small or cost-sensitive teams, the per-outcome bill usually doesn't pay off.

Fin is one of the best-performing AI agents out there on raw resolution quality. It's 4.5/5 on G2 across 1,200+ reviews, and on that score it's the one to beat. Whether it's worth the money comes down to your support volume, your margin per customer, and whether you've got someone keeping the knowledge base in good order.

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When Fin is worth it

You're already on Intercom or want its full Customer Service Suite, so the seat fees are a cost you'd carry anyway.

You run enough volume that Fin's 50 to 80% resolution rates replace headcount that would cost $5 to $15 a ticket in labor.

You genuinely need Fin's specific tricks: Voice, image input (Fin Vision), live Shopify/Stripe/Salesforce lookups, or multi-step Procedures.

You have someone who can keep the knowledge base structured for the AI to read well.

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When Fin isn't worth it

You're past the 90% first-year startup discount and feeling the Year-2 jump.

You run low volume, where the $50 monthly minimum and per-outcome charges outpace the labor you save.

Your best knowledge lives in Notion or Confluence, which are Copilot-only and can't power autonomous customer-facing replies.

You need a forecastable bill above all else, where a per-ticket model is the more predictable spend.

That last point used to come with a "but you need great docs first" asterisk, and I want to defuse it: you don't need months of documentation to start. With My AskAI you can use Train on Historic Tickets to generate starter knowledge from your past resolved tickets, which is how a lot of teams without a knowledge base get an agent live at all. More than 200 ecommerce and SaaS teams run support on My AskAI this way, with over a million tickets resolved and a 72%+ rolling resolution rate across the base.

Teams like TravelJoy (24% to 80% resolution) and Edel Optics (25% to 79%) got there on their existing helpdesk. You can browse more customer results or start a free trial and see the per-ticket bill on your own volume.

FAQs

How much does Intercom Fin cost?

Fin AI Agent is $0.99 per outcome, with a 50-outcome monthly minimum (about $49.50). Run Fin inside Intercom and you also pay seat fees of $29 to $139 per agent per month, plus optional add-ons. In practice we see mid-market teams land between roughly $900 and $7,000 a month depending on volume; the worked examples above show the full math.

What counts as an "outcome" (or "resolution") in Intercom Fin?

An outcome is charged once per conversation when Fin resolves the issue end to end, when the customer leaves without asking for more help (an "assumed resolution", which I'd watch closely), or when Fin runs a configured Procedure that ends in a handoff. Intercom renamed the metric from "resolution" to "outcome" in late 2025 and added those Procedure handoffs as billable. Greetings, explicit requests for a human, and technical failures don't charge.

Does Fin charge for conversations it doesn't resolve?

Not directly. If Fin only greets the customer, or the customer asks for a human, that isn't billed. But the bit I'd flag is the "assumed resolution" rule: a customer who simply leaves after Fin's answer counts as a paid outcome, even when you never see whether they were happy. Reopened conversations are refunded.

Is there a minimum monthly spend for Fin?

Yes. Standalone Fin has a 50-outcome-per-month minimum, which works out to about $49.50. Inside Intercom, I'd budget the floor as that minimum plus at least one paid seat ($29+ on Essential annual).

Do I need to pay for Intercom seats if I only want Fin?

No. Standalone Fin runs on Zendesk, Salesforce, HubSpot and Freshworks at $0.99 an outcome, with no seat costs and no setup or platform fees, per Fin's pricing page. You give up proactive outbound, Fin for Sales and Slack in that mode. If you use Intercom's own helpdesk, at least one paid seat is required to configure Fin.

How does Intercom Fin pricing compare to cheaper alternatives?

At 10,000 tickets and a 50% resolution rate, Fin lands around $6,650 a month ($1.33 per resolved ticket). Zendesk AI is pricier per resolution ($1.50 to $2.00 plus seats), Gorgias is roughly $0.90 to $1.00 an automation, and usage-based tools like our own run closer to $1,000 a month ($0.10 a ticket) because the meter ticks per ticket, so the cost holds steady as resolution climbs. We dig into the full side-by-side in our Intercom Fin alternatives and comparison posts.

What's the difference between "resolution" and "outcome" pricing for Fin?

They're the same $0.99 unit price (fun fact, the price hasn't budged since 2023); "outcome" is just the broader billing metric Intercom moved to in late 2025. The practical difference is what counts: outcomes added Procedure handoffs to the existing confirmed and assumed resolutions, so slightly more events are billable now than under the old "resolution" label.

Does Fin have a free trial, and is there a free plan?

There's a 14-day free trial with no credit card and unlimited Fin outcomes during the trial, but no permanent free plan. Startups can apply to the Early Stage program for 93% off in Year 1, which includes 300 free outcomes a month (just budget for the discount tapering from Year 2 before you sign).

What does Fin Voice cost?

There's no published rate. Fin Voice is custom, Sales-quoted only, and still in managed availability, per Fin's pricing page. You can't model it from public info; you'll need a quote.

Can I cancel mid-contract or get a refund if Fin underperforms?

Annual contracts don't refund mid-term and need 30 days' notice before renewal. Separately, Intercom's Million Dollar Guarantee offers up to $1M back for new customers unsatisfied within 90 days (250+ paid conversations required), and a $1M payout for enterprises over 250k monthly conversations if Fin misses a 65% resolution rate.

How does the Early Stage discount work, and what happens in Year 2?

The Early Stage program gives qualifying startups 93% off in Year 1 (about $65 a month), including 300 free Fin outcomes a month and a year of free Fin. It drops to 50% in Year 2, 25% in Year 3, and zero in Year 4, and it never covers outcomes beyond the allowance, phone, SMS or WhatsApp. The Year-2 jump is the most-complained-about part.

Why does my Fin bill go up as the AI gets better?

Because you pay per outcome. The more conversations Fin resolves, the more $0.99 charges you rack up, so a rising resolution rate raises the bill directly. This is the structural trade-off of per-resolution pricing. It's the main reason I see teams who care about predictability look at per-ticket models, where the cost stays flat as resolution improves.

Can I negotiate Fin's pricing?

The $0.99 unit has held publicly since 2023 and, from what I've seen, is less openly negotiable than some competitors' per-resolution rates. Where there's room is the enterprise contract: seat counts, committed volume and add-on bundles, all handled through Intercom Sales. For most sub-enterprise teams, the list price is the price.

Intercom Fin AI Pricing Explained: The $0.99 Per Outcome Math (Plus Seat Fees)