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Comparison

Fin bills per outcome.
Your DeskClone bill stays flat.

Both build AI support agents that answer customers and take actions in your other systems. Fin charges $0.99 each time it resolves a conversation or completes a handoff. DeskClone charges one monthly price, and you build the agent by describing your support to Jarvis.

Quick answer

Intercom Fin costs $0.99 per outcome. Bought standalone it has a 50-outcome monthly minimum and no seat fees; on Intercom's helpdesk plans, seats add $29 to $132 per person per month. 500 outcomes a month is $495, or $11,880 over two years. DeskClone Pro is a flat $59 a month for 500 conversations ($1,416 over two years), with unlimited team members. Fin is ahead on channels and on the platform around it. DeskClone is built by talking to Jarvis, and its bill doesn't move when your agent does more.

Competitor details last checked against each vendor's own pricing pages and documentation. Vendors change these often, so confirm on their site before you decide.

Your monthly bill, at the same volume

Conversations a month
Intercom Fin
DeskClone
100
$99
$19 (Starter)
500
$495
$59 (Pro)
2,000
$1,980
$199 (Business)

Fin bought standalone, at $0.99 per outcome, assuming every conversation ends in a billable outcome. Conversations that end without one aren't billed, so your Fin bill can come in lower. DeskClone at monthly plan prices.

What makes DeskClone different

How you build it, and how you pay for it.

Built by describing it

Tell Jarvis how your support works, or hand it the spec doc your team already wrote. It builds the agent, loads its knowledge and publishes it with one line of embed code.

Every change can be undone

Jarvis keeps a record of what it changed. Don't like an edit? Roll it back.

Your whole team, no seats

Unlimited team members on every plan, free included.

One price when it works harder

A conversation counts once, whether it takes 2 messages or 20. Unused conversations roll over to next month.

Where Fin is ahead

We'd rather you hear it here. Fin runs Procedures: step-by-step workflows, written in plain language, that read and write in your other systems through data connectors. Intercom documents templates for Shopify and Stripe. And Intercom is a whole customer communication platform around the agent, with a messenger, an inbox, a help center and product tours, so if you want one vendor for all of that, Intercom is the better fit.

Our case rests on two things you can check yourself: how you build the agent, and what the bill does when it gets busy.

Full side-by-side

Feature
DeskClone
Intercom Fin
How you build the agent
Talk to Jarvis, or hand it your spec doc. It builds, loads knowledge and publishes.
Configure in Intercom: knowledge sources, guidance, and Procedures written step by step.
Takes actions in your other systems
Yes. Built-in connections, plus any REST API you add.
Yes. Procedures and data connectors (Intercom lists them as managed availability).
Knowledge sources
Files, websites, Google Drive, Notion, email history.
Help center, internal articles, PDFs, URLs, snippets, synced content.
Pricing model
Flat monthly plan. A conversation counts once.
$0.99 per outcome. Standalone Fin has a 50-outcome monthly minimum.
500 conversations a month
$59 (Pro).
$495 if each one ends in a billable outcome.
Per-seat fees
None. Unlimited team members.
None on standalone Fin. On Intercom's helpdesk plans, $29 to $132 per seat.
Platform around the agent
The support agent and its chat widget.
Messenger, inbox, help center, product tours, and a large app marketplace.
Free tier
10 conversations a month. No card, no end date.
14-day trial.

Intercom figures from fin.ai/pricing, intercom.com/pricing and Fin's help center, checked October 12, 2026.

And one more thing

More resolutions. Same bill.

Fin's bill grows with every outcome. DeskClone's doesn't.

Intercom Fin

$495/mo

500 outcomes × $0.99, standalone

500 conversations

DeskClone Pro

$59/mo

Flat. Unlimited team members.

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Switching is simpler than you think

No migration day. Fin keeps running until you decide otherwise.

01

Bring what Fin learned from

Point Jarvis at your help center to crawl it, and add the files, Google Drive folders and Notion pages your team already keeps. Nobody rewrites the knowledge by hand.

02

Test it before customers see it

Ask your new agent the questions your customers ask. The first 5 test messages per agent each day don't count against your plan.

03

Move traffic when you're sure

Put the embed code on part of your site first and shift more over at your pace. Keep Fin for anything you still want it for.

Questions teams ask before switching from Intercom Fin

How much does Intercom Fin cost compared to DeskClone?

Fin costs $0.99 per outcome, which is Intercom's billing unit for a resolved conversation and for some completed handoffs. Bought standalone, Fin has a 50-outcome monthly minimum and no seat fees. On Intercom's helpdesk plans, seats run $29 to $132 per person per month. At 500 outcomes a month Fin is $495, or $11,880 over two years. DeskClone Pro is a flat $59 a month for 500 conversations ($49 a month billed annually), which is $1,416 over two years paid monthly.

Does Intercom Fin take actions, or only answer questions?

Fin takes actions. Its Procedures run step-by-step workflows and can read and write in other systems through data connectors, and Intercom documents templates for Shopify and Stripe. What separates the two products is how you build the agent and how you pay for it.

Can I move from Fin without rebuilding my knowledge?

Yes. Jarvis can crawl your help center and load the files, Google Drive and Notion pages you already have, so nothing gets rewritten by hand. The actions you set up again: describe what your Fin Procedures do, and connect the same systems through a built-in connection or any REST API.

Does DeskClone plug into the Intercom inbox?

Not today. DeskClone has no built-in Intercom connection. Your agent runs in DeskClone's own chat widget on your site, so you can try it on part of your traffic while Fin keeps running.

Run your own numbers

Enter your monthly conversations and how many your AI resolves. The calculator puts the bill on Intercom Fin, Gorgias or your current tool's rate next to a flat plan, by the month and across a year.

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