Comparing Certainly and Tidio Lyro? Both are AI Agents & Chatbots and E-commerce Support tools in the directory, which is why buyers put them on the same shortlist. Below is a side-by-side look at how they price, what they integrate with, and when each is the better fit, so you can pick on the facts rather than either vendor's own sales page.
| Attribute | Certainly | Tidio Lyro |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Per resolution · €500/mo (2,000 conversations) | Freemium · Free plan available |
| Founded | 2017 | 2013 |
| Categories | AI Agents & Chatbots E-commerce Support | AI Agents & Chatbots E-commerce Support |
| Integrations | Zendesk Shopify Anthropic Claude OpenAI Google Gemini Zapier | Shopify WordPress Instagram Messenger WhatsApp Zapier |
Certainly is Copenhagen's contribution to the AI agent wave, and its accent shows in the best ways: European data residency, GDPR seriousness, and commercial terms designed to reduce buyer risk rather than maximize lock-in. Founded in 2017 as BotXO and later rebranded, it has deployed more than a thousand agents that have handled over 50 million queries, for brands including Ticketmaster, GANNI, Tiger of Sweden, Quad Lock, and Entain.
The product builds autonomous agents that resolve conversations end to end across web chat, Meta channels, SMS, and email, with more than 200 integrations into help desks and commerce stacks like Zendesk and Shopify. Its most distinctive technical stance is model flexibility: agents can run on Anthropic's Claude, OpenAI's GPT, or Google's Gemini, so you are not married to one AI vendor's pricing or politics, and deployments can go live in as little as two weeks.
Pricing is published in euros and billed per conversation rather than per seat: Starter at 500 euros a month for 2,000 conversations, Pro at 1,250 for 10,000, Enterprise from 2,500. The buyer-friendly quirk is that every plan starts as a three-month pilot cancelable on a week's notice, an arrangement that says the product expects to earn its renewal.
Certainly fits European brands, and anyone selling into Europe, who want conversation-based pricing, data kept in the EU, and freedom to choose the underlying model. American enterprises chasing the biggest names will look elsewhere first; e-commerce and consumer brands with EU exposure should look here early.
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Tidio bundles live chat, ticketing, and Lyro, its autonomous AI agent, into one package aimed squarely at small and mid-size businesses and the e-commerce brands among them. Lyro answers common questions from your own support content, strictly on script and on brand, and now handles email tickets as well as live chat, Messenger, Instagram, WhatsApp, and SMS. Smart Actions let it do more than talk, updating addresses, logging leads, checking order status, and recommending products through your systems, and it hands off cleanly to a human in the same shared inbox when a conversation calls for one.
The company has a satisfyingly unglamorous origin: it was founded in 2013 in the Polish port city of Szczecin by Tytus Golas and Marcin Wiktor, and grew from those roots into a business that now serves hundreds of thousands of companies with a US headquarters in San Francisco. Along the way it picked up backing from the billionaire behind parcel-locker giant InPost, which is not the sort of investor most chat widgets can claim.
Lyro is priced per AI conversation and starts genuinely free, with a one-time batch of free conversations so a small team can put a competent AI agent in front of customers without spending a cent up front. Newer touches like native support for the Model Context Protocol and Lyro Connect, which drops the agent into Zendesk, Intercom, Salesforce, and twenty-plus other platforms, mean you are not locked into Tidio's own help desk to use its brain.
Customers report resolution rates that climb into the eighties once Lyro is tuned to their own content, with menswear brand Suitor among the standouts. If you run a lean team and want one of the fastest and cheapest routes to real, working AI support, Tidio with Lyro is genuinely very hard to beat.
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