Honest comparison

Cluable vs Tidio

Tidio bundles human live chat, marketing flows, and an AI agent called Lyro, metered by conversations per month. Cluable does one thing: an AI widget that answers visitor questions from your public pages, at a flat yearly price. Both aim at small teams, so the differences are worth spelling out.

Pick Tidio if

You want humans replying in the chat, with AI as the first line.

Pick Cluable if

Nobody is going to staff a live chat, and you want a flat price for the AI.

Why teams pick Cluable

Three things we simply do better

No conversation meter

Lyro is priced by how many conversations the AI may have. On Cluable Unlimited there is no cap at all, so a busy month costs exactly what a quiet one does.

One bill, known in advance

A year of Cluable costs $108 or $348 per bot, decided on day one. No allocation to outgrow, no usage tier to climb.

Answers with receipts

Every answer cites the page it came from, so visitors can check it. The questions it could not answer land in your dashboard so you can fix the gap.

At a glance

What each one gives you

Tidio
Cluable
AI answers, included in the price
Lyro is metered, allocations from 50 conversations a month
both plans, no extra fee
Unlimited AI conversations
bigger allocation, bigger bill
on Unlimited; Starter caps at 1,000 answers
Flat, predictable yearly price
monthly plans, metered by usage
one charge per bot, once a year
Runs with nobody on duty
Lyro takes the first line, built for humans to join
answers around the clock, flags what it could not answer
Widget without their branding
on paid plans
on Unlimited, and during the trial
Live on your site in minutes
quick install
paste URL, pick pages, embed one snippet
Human live chat and multichannel inbox
the core of the product
AI only, with a handoff to your contact route
includedmetered or limitednot offered

Tidio details from their public pricing page, checked August 16, 2026. Spot something outdated? Tell us at hello@cluable.com and we will fix it.

Choose Tidio if you want humans in the chat.

  • You or your team want to reply to visitors live, with AI as a first line.
  • You want a free plan to start on.
  • You want marketing automations, and channels like Messenger and WhatsApp in one inbox.
  • You want a mobile app your team answers from.

Choose Cluable if nobody is going to staff a live chat.

  • You want visitor questions answered around the clock without anyone on duty.
  • You want a flat yearly price instead of a meter on AI conversations.
  • Your answers already live on your site, and you want them cited back to visitors from the source.
  • You want setup in minutes: paste your URL, pick the pages, embed one snippet.
In plain words

The parts a tick can’t carry

What it is
Tidio: Live chat plus marketing flows, with the Lyro AI agent bundled in
Cluable: An AI answer widget for your website
How the AI learns
Tidio: Lyro learns from your support content and FAQs
Cluable: It crawls the public pages you pick, cites them in answers, and re-reads them when they change
What a year costs
Tidio: Free plan; Starter $24.17 a month; Growth from $49.17 a month; standalone Lyro from $32.50 a month for 50 conversations. Annual billing takes two months off
Cluable: $108 a year for Starter (about $9 a month, 1,000 answers a month) or $348 a year for Unlimited (about $29 a month, no answer cap). Per bot, billed once a year.

What Tidio has that Cluable does not

No fine print, these are real differences. If any of them is essential to you, Tidio is the right choice and we would rather you know now.

  • Human live chat, with a team inbox and a mobile app
  • A free forever plan
  • Marketing flows and campaign automations
  • Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp in one inbox
Pricing

The arithmetic on AI conversations

Lyro is priced by how many conversations the AI is allowed to have. Cluable is priced flat. Here is a year of each, at the smallest real allocation.

Lyro standalone, 50 conversations a month
  • $32.50 a month for up to 50 AI conversations
  • Busier months need a bigger allocation
$390 a year
Cluable Unlimited
  • One flat charge of $348 a year
  • No cap on answers, no per-conversation meter
$348 a year, unlimited messages

Tidio prices from their public pricing page, checked August 16, 2026. Note the units differ: Tidio meters conversations, Cluable counts individual bot answers, and one conversation usually holds several. That is why our Starter cap of 1,000 answers is not 20 times a 50-conversation allocation.

7 days free, everything unlocked, no card required.

Questions

Asked before switching

How is Cluable different from Lyro?

Both answer visitor questions with AI. Lyro is one part of Tidio’s live chat suite and is metered by conversations per month. Cluable is only the AI widget, learns from the public pages you pick, cites its sources, and charges one flat yearly price per bot.

Does Cluable have live chat for my team?

No. There is no human live chat in Cluable. When the AI is not sure it says so and offers the visitor your contact route, and your dashboard shows what it could not answer.

Is there a free plan?

No. Every bot starts with a 7-day trial with everything unlocked and no card required. If a free forever tier is the priority, Tidio has one.

What does the AI actually know?

The public pages you choose when you set the bot up, nothing else. It cites the page it answered from and re-reads your pages when they change. It can not look up orders or accounts.

More general questions live on the FAQ page, and the crawling details on how it works under the hood.

The experience

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No queue, no waiting for Monday. A 2am question gets a clear answer from your own pages, in the same breath.

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