Before committing to either Freshdesk Freddy or HubSpot Breeze, here are the costs and catches that won't be obvious from their pricing pages.
Freshdesk Freddy โ what to watch for
- Dual pricing model โ you pay per-seat ($35/agent/month for Copilot) AND per-session (~$0.12/session for AI Agent)
- Only 500 AI Agent sessions included free โ high-volume teams blow through this quickly
- Sessions are bought in fixed blocks of 800 ($99), so you pay for unused sessions if your volume doesn't align neatly
- The AI Agent (customer-facing bot) and AI Copilot (agent assist) are priced and sold separately
HubSpot Breeze โ what to watch for
- At ~$1/conversation, costs scale dramatically โ 10k conversations = ~$10k/month just for AI
- Credit-based system makes it hard to forecast monthly spend
- Requires an active HubSpot Service Hub subscription (~$90/month starter) โ Breeze is never standalone
- Breeze AI capabilities are relatively new and less mature than Intercom Fin or Zendesk AI
The cost nobody talks about: what happens when the AI can't answer?
Freshdesk Freddy uses per-session (hybrid) pricing while HubSpot Breeze uses credits-based pricing. This means they handle the 'AI can't answer' scenario very differently.
Freshdesk Freddy: Freshdesk Freddy charges per session, not per resolution. This is an important distinction โ you're billed every time the AI engages with a customer, regardless of whether the issue was actually resolved. If the AI provides an unhelpful response and the customer then escalates to a human, you've paid for the AI session and the human agent's time.
HubSpot Breeze: HubSpot Breeze consumes credits for each AI conversation, regardless of outcome. If the AI engages with a customer but can't resolve the issue, you've still consumed credits for that conversation. The credit model makes it harder to see exactly what each interaction costs.
This is why comparing headline per-session vs per-conversation (via credits) costs is misleading. The metric that matters isn't how much each billable event costs โ it's what each platform counts as a billable event in the first place, and whether you're paying for outcomes (successful resolutions) or activity (any AI interaction).