Smartsupp's Free Plan: One Operator, 25 Chats a Month
Twenty-five conversations is enough to prove chat works on your site, and not enough to run support on it for a month.
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Freshdesk's Free Plan Expires After Six Months
Every other free tier in this category is permanent. Freshdesk's is a six-month programme, which makes it a trial with a longer fuse.
Zendesk Has No Free Plan, but It Does Have a Startup Giveaway
No free tier, a 14-day trial, and a startup programme that hands out up to two years. The gap between those two facts is the whole story.
Intercom Has No Free Plan, Only a 14-Day Trial
Two meters run at once: a seat price and a charge every time the AI resolves something. Neither of them starts at zero.
JivoChat Stays Free Up to Five Agents, With No Chat Cap
Five agents and one inbox for nothing. JivoChat sells marketing automation and telephony alongside the chat rather than the chat itself.
Zoho Desk Free Gives Three Agents Forever, and Little Else
Three seats at zero cost with no expiry is rare in help desks. What sits underneath is a deliberately thin product.
Chatwoot's Free Tier Is a Real Help Desk With a 30-Day Memory
Two agents, five hundred conversations, thirty days of history, and an open source escape hatch that no other tool in this category offers.
Tidio's Free Plan Stops at 50 Conversations a Month
Ten seats and fifty conversations is an odd shape. The seat count suggests a team; the conversation cap suits a very small shop.
Crisp's Free Plan Gives Two Seats and No Conversation Cap
Unlimited conversations at zero cost is rare in live chat. Crisp charges for the AI layer, the omnichannel inbox and the small branding line.
tawk.to Is Free Forever, and That Is the Whole Business Model
No conversation cap, no agent cap, no history limit. The company sells human staffing instead, and the software is the loss leader.
HubSpot's Free Marketing Tools: 2,000 Sends With Branding
A free CRM with marketing attached. The email allowance is workable; the one automated action per account is what actually limits you.
Hootsuite Has No Free Plan, Only a 14-Day Trial
The most recognised name in social scheduling has no free tier at all. Fourteen days, no card, then a hundred dollars a month.
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Buttondown Is Free to 100 Subscribers, Then Priced by Feature
One hundred subscribers, no feature gates, no card. The bill arrives only when you want tagging, analytics or a second newsletter.
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Metricool's Free Plan Leaves Out LinkedIn and X
A social analytics tool first and a scheduler second. The free tier reflects that order, and two major networks are simply absent.
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Buffer's Free Plan: Three Channels, Ten Posts Each
Ten posts per channel per queue, refilling as they publish. The limit is not how much you can schedule, it is how far ahead you can look.
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n8n Has No Free Tier, Only a Free Product
Every other tool here rations a hosted free tier. n8n gives the software away instead, and charges for the server you no longer have to run.
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Asana Free: Two People, Unlimited Projects
Unlimited projects for two people, which is generous until a third person joins and the whole workspace stops being usable.
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beehiiv Sends Without Limit on Free, and Charges for Growth
A newsletter platform that never bills you for sending. Everything that helps you grow or earn sits behind the paid wall.
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Trello Free: Unlimited Cards, Ten Boards
Cards are unlimited and always have been. The board cap and the collaborator cap are what the free tier actually charges you in.
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Kit's Free Plan: 10,000 Subscribers and Unlimited Sends
A free tier for a hundred thousand dollars of list growth. Kit rations the automation engine instead of the audience.
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Calendly Free: One Event Type, One Calendar
Unlimited meetings, one type of meeting. That distinction is the whole free tier, and it decides whether Calendly can replace your scheduling at all.
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MailerLite's Free Plan: 250 Subscribers, Two Seats, Real Automations
The smallest subscriber allowance here, paired with the most complete feature set at zero. MailerLite charges for volume, not for capability.
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Playground Free: 5 Images Every 3 Hours, 2 Downloads
A rolling window and a monthly cap run at the same time, and the smaller of the two is the one that actually decides your day.
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Make Free Gives 1,000 Credits and Multi-Step Scenarios
The most generous automation free tier of the three, undone by two active scenarios and a quarter-hour wait between runs.