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
- Costs rise as your AI resolution rate climbs โ at $0.50/resolution, 5k resolutions/month works out to ~$2.5k just for AI
- Like other per-resolution models, you're billed even when the AI's answer didn't fully resolve the issue
- 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 per-resolution 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 charges $0.50 per AI resolution, so you're only billed when Breeze handles a conversation without escalating to a human. As with other per-resolution models, HubSpot decides what counts as a resolution, and you can be charged even if the answer wasn't fully helpful โ as long as the customer didn't escalate.
This is why comparing headline per-session vs per-resolution 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).