Crisp vs Intercom vs Tidio for Indie Hackers in 2026: Which Support Tool Is Worth It?

Originally published at devtoolpicks.com You set up Intercom during the free trial. Clean UI, the messenger looks great, your team picks it up in an hour. Then the first real invoice lands. You're looking at $800 for a five-person team handling roughly 2,000 support conversations a month. You thought you were paying $29 a seat. You were. You just didn't account for Fin. Fin is Intercom's AI agent. It charges $0.99 per resolved conversation on top of your seat fees. At a 50% resolution rate acros