Kustomer
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The AI-Powered Customer Service CRM Platform
How to Replace KustomerOverview
Features
52 features across 15 categories
AI(14)
Real-time translation of customer and agent messages in both directions
Effortlessly build custom AI Agents tailored to business needs without requiring developer expertise
Respond to customers with instant, human-like support from a team of advanced AI Agents that resolve issues quickly and naturally
Empower reps with an AI assistant that handles busy work, surfaces right information, suggests responses, and speeds up resolutions
Monitor and evaluate AI conversations with safeguards to ensure quality and safety
Automatically generate insights from customer conversations and data
Create and configure profiles for AI Agents with specific behaviors and personalities
Build custom AI prompts and automations without coding
Automatically generate conversation summaries including handoff and close summaries
Connect external data sources to AI Agents for enhanced context and responses
AI-powered search assistant for finding relevant information
AI suggestions for optimal responses and next actions in conversations
AI assistant that helps the entire team with general tasks and inquiries
AI-powered tools to improve agent communication and response quality
Agent Tools(1)
Equip agents with right information exactly when needed for exceptional service delivery
Analytics(6)
Detailed reports on conversations and customer metrics
Turn every question into insights and identify next steps to act on with AI-powered data analysis
AI assistant providing observability insights and monitoring
Track performance of service organization with comprehensive reporting and insights
Manage Service Level Agreements and track compliance
Real-time monitoring and supervision of team performance
Automation(5)
Automatically execute actions based on conversation context and workflows
AI assistant that helps create and manage automations
Create sophisticated business rules and customer journey workflows
Automate repetitive manual processes with conversation routing, task routing, business rules, and customer workflows
AI-powered assistant for creating and optimizing automation workflows
Core Platform(5)
Manage multiple brands within a single instance
View complete conversation history and customer interactions in unified timeline
Build more meaningful relationships with a complete view of customers and unified customer data
Define custom attributes for customer records and objects
Create custom objects and tasks tailored to specific business processes
Customer Experience(2)
Anticipate needs and resolve issues before they arise for seamless personalized experiences
Empower customers with instant, intuitive self-service options for quick solutions
Developer Tools(2)
API access with configurable rate limits for custom integrations
Inbound and outbound webhooks for system integrations
Knowledge Management(2)
Internal and public knowledge base articles with intelligent search
AI assistant for managing and searching knowledge base articles
Localization(1)
Support for multiple languages in the platform
Messaging(1)
Support for WhatsApp Business accounts with pay-as-you-go pricing
Omnichannel(2)
Phone, SMS, and transcription capabilities with pay-as-you-go pricing
Seamlessly engage customers across email, chat, social media, phone, SMS, text, and voice
Platform(1)
Seamlessly connect all tools, data, and processes with easy-to-use integrations
Security(7)
Configure granular permission controls for different user roles
Beta feature for masking sensitive customer data
Single sign-on integration with Google and Microsoft
Add-on subscription to enable HIPAA compliance
Enterprise SAML authentication for secure access
System for Cross-domain Identity Management for user provisioning
Ensure customer data is secure and fully compliant with enterprise-grade security
Support(1)
Dedicated customer success manager support for enterprise customers
Pricing
Enterprise
- ✓Conversation Timeline
- ✓Omnichannel Messaging (Chat, Email, Text, Voice)
- ✓Purpose-built AI Assistants
- ✓Data Explorer
- ✓AI Evaluations & Conversation Safeguards
- ✓Custom Insights Pane
- ✓Custom Objects & Tasks
- ✓5M Custom Attributes per Klass
- ✓1000 RPM API Rate Limit
- ✓Integrations
- ✓25 Brands
- ✓20 Languages
- ✓Internal & Public KB Articles
- ✓Portal, MCP Server, Knowledge Base, Search, Observability Assistants
- ✓25 Facebook pages
- ✓25 Instagram accounts
- ✓3 WhatsApp Business accounts
- ✓3 conversation routing queues per team
- ✓100 Business Rules & Customer Workflows
- ✓2 Outbound Webhooks
- ✓10 Inbound Webhooks
- ✓Workflows Assistant
- ✓Automations Assistant
- ✓Conversations & Customer Reports
- ✓Team Pulse - Real Time Supervision
- ✓Data Explorer
- ✓Observability Assistant
- ✓Data Masking (Beta)
- ✓Google and Microsoft Authentication
- ✓10 Custom Permission Sets
- ✓AI Evaluations & Conversation Safeguards
- ✓99.9% Product Uptime w/ SLA Credits
- ✓Implementation Support
Ultimate
Popular- ✓Conversation Timeline
- ✓Omnichannel Messaging (Chat, Email, Text, Voice)
- ✓Purpose-built AI Assistants
- ✓Data Explorer
- ✓AI Evaluations & Conversation Safeguards
- ✓Custom Insights Pane
- ✓Custom Objects & Tasks
- ✓100M Custom Attributes per Klass
- ✓2000 RPM API Rate Limit
- ✓Integrations
- ✓300 Brands
- ✓All Languages
- ✓Internal & Public KB Articles
- ✓Portal, MCP Server, Knowledge Base, Search, Observability Assistants
- ✓50 Facebook pages
- ✓50 Instagram accounts
- ✓5 WhatsApp Business accounts
- ✓10 conversation routing queues per team
- ✓200 Business Rules & Customer Workflows
- ✓5 Outbound Webhooks
- ✓20 Inbound Webhooks
- ✓Workflows Assistant
- ✓Automations Assistant
- ✓Conversations & Customer Reports
- ✓Team Pulse - Real Time Supervision
- ✓Data Explorer
- ✓Observability Assistant
- ✓Data Masking (Beta)
- ✓Google and Microsoft Authentication
- ✓20 Custom Permission Sets
- ✓AI Evaluations & Conversation Safeguards
- ✓99.9% Product Uptime w/ SLA Credits
- ✓Implementation Support
AI for Customers (Add-on)
- ✓AI Profiles
- ✓External sources for AI
- ✓AI Prompt Automation Builder
- ✓AI Generated Insights
AI for Reps (Add-on)
- ✓AI Summaries (including Handoff and Close summaries)
- ✓Writing Enhancement Tools
- ✓2-Way Message Translation
- ✓Suggested Responses and Next Steps
- ✓Automated Actions
HIPAA Enabled (Add-on)
- ✓HIPAA Compliance
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Estimates based on 52 features and a BuildScore of 5/5. Actual costs vary.