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Crescendo CX Assistant vs Intercom Fin
Crescendo CX Assistant or Intercom Fin? Their plans monthly and yearly, the capabilities their makers state, security and latest updates, side by side — read from the makers' own pages.
In short
- Both: Writes and edits, Automations, AI agents, Connects your apps, Single sign-on
- Only Crescendo CX Assistant states: Summaries, Admin controls
- Only Intercom Fin states: API
Crescendo CX Assistant
Crescendo CX Assistant handles customer conversations across voice, chat, email and text, with human handoff and CX analytics.
Plans
Managed AI
- $1.25 per solve / volume discounts available
- $2,900 Starting monthly service fee
- All-in-one AI suite and Operational AI support including voice, chat, and email assistants
- Deep insights, and ongoing professional optimization
- Per resolution pricing includes full managed service
Managed AI & Superhumans
Price on request
- AI and humans working as one
- Every channel
- Real-time insights
- 100% QA
Crescendo
- Starting at $2.99 per Resolution
- AI-powered support across all channels, backed by humans, with full agentic and knowledge workflows
Prices checked 2026-09-25 by web search.
Capabilities
- Writes and edits — “Resolve over 90% of customer emails automatically with AI-generated replies.” source
- Summaries — “Give agents full conversation logs and AI-generated summaries for smooth handoffs.” source
- Automations — “Automate complex support processes with intelligent, rule-based workflows.” source
- AI agents — “A team of autonomous CX agents that work 24/7 so your team can focus on the high-judgment work.” source
- Connects your apps — “Crescendo has expanded its CRM integrations to support ServiceNow, Hubspot, and Front.” source
- Single sign-on — “Crescendo has also strengthened single sign-on support with full support for SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language) and OIDC (OpenID Connect) and all major identity provider platforms.” source
- Admin controls — “Custom Permissions: Control who can see and do what with flexible access roles.” source
Latest updates
- August 2025 Release Highlights
Create summaries and ticket updates from full ticket data; use visual context in chat; pass user and page context; OpenAI’s GPT-5 is available.
Intercom Fin
AI customer agent that answers questions, completes support workflows, and hands off complex conversations to human teams.
Plans
Essential
- $19 per seat/mo
- $39 per seat/mo
- From $0.99 per Fin outcome
- Fin for service, sales & ecommerce
- Messenger
- Shared inbox and ticketing system
- Pre-built reports
- Public help center
Advanced
- $85 per seat/mo
- $99 per seat/mo
- From $0.99 per Fin outcome
- Multiple team Inboxes
- Workflows automation builder
- Round robin assignment
- Private and multilingual Help Center
- Includes 20 free Lite seats
Expert
- $132 per seat/mo
- $139 per seat/mo
- From $0.99 per Fin outcome
- SSO & identity management
- HIPAA support
- Service level agreements (SLAs)
- Multibrand Messenger / Help Center
- Includes 50 free Lite seats
Fin AI Agent
Price on request
- Set up in under an hour on your current helpdesk
- Answers email, live chat, phone and more
- Customizable tone & answer length
- Takes action on external systems
- Hands off to agents in preferred Inbox
Prices checked 2026-09-25 on the maker’s page.
Capabilities
- Writes and edits — “Fin generates content updates to improve answers.” source
- Automations — “Fin Operator is an agent that runs your customer operations in a way that has never been possible before, orchestrating and automating the work behind the scenes.” source
- AI agents — “Fin Operator is an agent that runs your customer operations in a way that has never been possible before, orchestrating and automating the work behind the scenes.” source
- Connects your apps — “Data Connectors enable Fin to securely retrieve data and take action in external systems like Shopify, Stripe, and Salesforce.” source
- API — “Use Fin’s API to embed Fin into your custom app, delivering fast, accurate support wherever your customers need it, without changing your existing systems.” source
- Single sign-on — “Fin works with Okta, Azure AD, OneLogin for SSO; supports 2FA, SCIM, and IP restrictions, with data hosted in the US, EU, or Australia based on residency needs.” source
Security
- SOC 2 Type II — “SOC 2 Type 2 Report” source
- SOC 2 — “SOC 2 Type 2 Report” source
- ISO 27001 — “ISO 27001, 27018, 27701 Certificates” source
- ISO 42001 — “Intercom ISO 42001 Certificate” source
- GDPR — “GDPR CCPA” source
- HIPAA — “HIPAA Report” source
- Data kept in the EU — “USA or EU dependent upon customer's selected region” source
Latest updates
- Build the metric you need, across your full history
Build custom metrics with filters on built-in metrics or by dividing metrics; they cover full history and appear in every chart's metric picker.
- See why an outbound call didn't connect
Outbound calls that don't connect now show a specific reason on the conversation; calls that can't be placed show why.
- See who's viewing a conversation, now in Table view
Teammates' avatars appear on conversation rows in inbox Table view to show when a colleague is already handling a conversation.