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Honest pricing for teams who outgrew Zendesk.

Seats, every channel, and AI deflection volume are bundled into one number. No surprise overage for a viral week, no add-on invoice for SMS, no "contact sales" wall hiding a four-figure seat fee.

No credit card · 14-day pilot · SOC 2 Type II since 2022

THREE TIERS · ONE HONEST RECOMMENDATION

Pick the tier that fits your ticket volume — not your sales call.

Every plan ships with the full channel pipeline (email, chat, SMS, WhatsApp, IG DM), SOC 2 Type II, and Lemon AI. The difference is seats, automation ceiling, and how fast a human has to review.

Starter

For brands handling under 2,000 tickets a month who want Zendesk off the bill.

$ 49 / seat / month

Billed annually · 5-seat minimum

  • Up to 5 seats, unlimited contacts
  • Email + chat + social DMs in one inbox
  • Lemon AI deflects up to 40% of tickets
  • 9-day median onboarding, white-glove migration
  • SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, HIPAA-ready
  • Standard automations + macros
Start a 14-day pilot
Scale

For multi-brand or post-Series B ops running 15k+ tickets with SLA commitments.

$ 149 / seat / month

Billed annually · 25-seat minimum

  • Up to 75 seats, unlimited contacts, multi-brand workspaces
  • Every Growth channel + voice, custom webhooks
  • Lemon AI deflects up to 78% with custom intents
  • SAML SSO, audit logs, HIPAA BAA, custom DPA
  • Named CSM + quarterly business review
  • Priority phone support, 1-hour P1 response
Talk to the Scale team

All prices in USD. Annual billing saves 18% versus monthly. Volume discounts kick in above 75 seats.

EVERY CAPABILITY · EVERY TIER

The full comparison, line by line.

Built for IT procurement and ops leads who'd rather scan a matrix than sit through a sales call. Every capability below ships inside the listed tier — no "available on Enterprise" footnotes.

Capability Starter Growth Scale
Seats included Up to 5 Up to 25 Up to 75
Monthly ticket volume Up to 2,000 Up to 15,000 15,000+ (custom)
Email inbox Included Included Included
Live chat widget Included Included Included
SMS pipeline Included Included
WhatsApp + Instagram DM IG DM only Both, shared SLA Both, shared SLA
Voice / phone support Included
Lemon AI deflection ceiling 40% 64% 78% (custom intents)
Autonomous AI resolutions / month 800 9,600 Unlimited
Macros & saved replies Included Included Included
Routing rules + sentiment tagging Basic Advanced Advanced + custom
Native integrations (Shopify, Stripe, Recharge…) 18 54 54 + custom webhooks
Zapier / Make / public API Included Included Included
Reporting & analytics Standard dashboards Custom dashboards Custom + warehouse sync
Uptime SLA 99.9% 99.997% 99.997% + credits
SAML SSO + audit logs SSO add-on Included
SOC 2 Type II Yes (since 2022) Yes Yes
HIPAA BAA Yes (since Q1 2023)
GDPR + DPA Included Included Included
Onboarding (median) 9 days 9 days 9 days + dedicated CSM
Migration help Self-serve importer White-glove engineer White-glove + parallel run
Support response Next business day 4-hour P1 1-hour P1 + phone
Procurement heads: the SOC 2 Type II report, HIPAA BAA template, GDPR DPA, and our latest penetration test summary are available under NDA at /demo/ — no "contact sales" gate.
WHAT THE PRICE ACTUALLY BUYS

Translate the tier into outcome ROI.

A $89/seat sticker is the wrong number to walk into a procurement meeting with. The right number is what each seat returns in deflected tickets and faster resolution — measured across 1,840+ brands in production.

64% deflection

Tickets resolved without a human

Across all 2024 customer accounts, Lemon AI closed 3.1 million tickets autonomously. On a Growth-tier inbox doing 10k tickets a month, that's 6,400 fewer touches landing on your agents — roughly $51,200 / month in reclaimed handle time at a fully-loaded $40/hr cost.

Source: Kool Lemon 2024 cohort data, n = 1,840
11min median first reply

From an 8-hour queue to a coffee break

Median customer response time moves from 8h 12m → 10m 48s inside the first 30 days of deployment. For a DTC brand, that's the difference between a one-star "nobody answered me" review and a four-star "they solved it before I finished lunch."

Source: G2 Spring 2025 Grid · 9.7/10 time-to-value
9days median onboarding

Live by the end of the next sprint

Category average is 47 days. We ship a working unified inbox, migrated macros, and a tuned Lemon AI in 9 — that's roughly 38 days of saved implementation cost, or ~$28k against a typical $750/day consultant rate.

Source: G2 Winter 2025 implementation report
ANSWERS FOR FINANCE & IT

The questions your procurement lead will ask before signing.

Skim these before you book the demo — if anything below doesn't answer it, the 20-minute walkthrough will.

Can we pay monthly instead of annually?

Yes. Annual billing saves you 18% versus month-to-month, but every tier is available on a monthly contract with no long-form commitment. If you start monthly and want to switch to annual inside the first 90 days, we credit the difference.

What happens when Lemon AI exceeds its deflection ceiling?

Nothing catastrophic — we don't throttle your AI mid-Sprint. You can exceed the included AI resolutions (40% / 64% / 78%) and we'll bill the overage at a flat $0.18 per autonomous resolution, with a hard cap you set in the dashboard. Most Growth teams never trip it; the ones who do are usually the ones graduating to Scale within a quarter.

What security documents can we hand to our IT reviewer?

SOC 2 Type II report (audited annually by Coalfire since Q3 2022), HIPAA BAA template, GDPR DPA, latest penetration test summary, and a current sub-processor list — all available under NDA from /demo/. Our status page at status.koollemon.com shows the public 99.997% uptime across the trailing 18 months.

How does the 14-day pilot actually work, and what's the exit?

The pilot is full-feature Growth-tier access with a dedicated migration engineer. We import your macros, contacts, and historical tickets from Zendesk, Intercom, or Front, then run your real inbox in parallel for two weeks. No credit card up front. At the end of day 14 you either convert to annual (and we lock in your pilot pricing for 12 months) or you walk — and we hand back your data in a portable JSON export.

20 MINUTES · NO DECK · NO SLIDES

Skip the pricing back-and-forth. Book the walkthrough.

A senior CX engineer — not an SDR — will pull up a sandbox loaded with your ticket volume, your channels, and your current deflection rate, then show you exactly which tier maps to your math. If Kool Lemon isn't the right fit, we'll say so on the call.

  • · 9-day median onboarding
  • · 64% average deflection
  • · 1,840+ brands in production
  • · SOC 2 Type II since 2022