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Help Scout pricing

Customer support, help desk, or live chat software for business teams.

Region
US
Source currency
USD
Audiences
Individual, Mid-market, and Small business

Plans and public prices

Plan Pricing Charged by Offer type
Free
Free

The Free plan includes 5 users, 1 Inbox, and 1 Docs site.

Seat Standalone · Free
Standard
USD 25 monthly

$ 25 per user/mo

Seat · per user/mo Standalone · Fixed
Plus Highlighted
USD 45 monthly

$ 45 per user/mo

Seat · per user/mo Standalone · Fixed
Pro
USD 75 monthly

$ 75 per user/mo

Seat · per user/mo Standalone · Fixed

What each plan includes

Feature names follow Help Scout’s own pricing page. Check the wording before treating features from different vendors as like-for-like.

Free

Team management

Users

Up to 5 — Users are members of your team in Help Scout.

Included

Shared Inbox

Inboxes

1 — Collaborate on customer conversations in a shared workspace.

Included
Contacts

100/mo — Someone who received a reply from your team or had their question resolved by the AI assistant.

Limited
Saved replies

10 — Create a library of FAQ responses you can search and insert in 2 clicks.

Limited
Tags

10 — Use tags to label conversations, monitor trends, and start automations.

Limited

Knowledge base

Docs sites

1 — Build a searchable and branded help center or knowledge base.

Included
Articles

10 — Create and organize articles with text, images, hyperlinks, videos, and tables.

Limited
Beacon

1 — Customize a help widget you can place anywhere in your website or app.

Included

Standard

Team management

Users

Up to 25 — Users are members of your team in Help Scout.

Included

Shared Inbox

Multiple Inboxes

2 (additional Inboxes $10/mo)

Included
Unlimited tags and saved replies

Unlimited

Included
Contacts

Unlimited

Included

Channels

Live chat and SMS
Included
WhatsApp, Instagram, and Messenger
Included

Knowledge base

Multiple knowledge bases

2 (additional sites $20/mo)

Included

Service Level Agreements (SLAs)

One basic SLA policy

1 basic policy — Set and track response targets across conversations to keep work on schedule.

Included

Automation

Basic workflows

150 basic workflows — Organize, assign, or reply to conversations automatically.

Included

AI

AI Inbox assistant
Included

Reporting

Reporting history

30-day history — Get insight into volume, responses, and customer happiness on each channel.

Limited

Plus

Team management

Users

Up to 50 — Users are members of your team in Help Scout.

Included
Light users

5 included — Let teammates view conversations and collaborate without taking up a full user seat. Maximums by plan: Plus (25), Pro (50).

Included
Internal teams

Assign conversations and monitor reports based on a group of users.

Included

Shared Inbox

Inboxes

5 (additional Inboxes $10/mo)

Included

Automation

Advanced workflows

500 advanced workflows — Advanced workflows let you trigger actions based on customer properties.

Included

Service Level Agreements (SLAs)

Two advanced SLA policies

2 advanced policies

Included

Highlights

Secure customer portal
Included

AI

Unlimited AI Drafts

Unlimited — Use AI to draft replies based on past conversations and help content.

Included

Routing

Round robin routing

Round robin — Automatically assign conversations evenly across your team to balance the workload.

Included

Integrations

Salesforce, Jira, and HubSpot
Included

Company management

Group conversations by company

Organize contacts and conversations by company to get a clear picture of the whole account.

Included

Knowledge base

Docs sites

3 (additional sites $20/mo)

Included

Reporting

Reporting history

2-year history

Included

Pro

Team management

Users

Unlimited (minimum 10) — Users are members of your team in Help Scout.

Included
Light users

Up to 50 light users — Let teammates view conversations and collaborate without taking up a full user seat. Maximums by plan: Plus (25), Pro (50).

Included

Shared Inbox

Inboxes

10 (additional Inboxes $10/mo)

Included

Automation

Unlimited workflows

Unlimited advanced workflows

Included

Service Level Agreements (SLAs)

Unlimited SLA policies

Unlimited

Included

Routing

Multiple routing types

Round robin + load balanced

Included

Security

SSO/SAML

Sign in to Help Scout with your company's SSO credentials using any SAML-compatible identity provider

Included
HIPAA compliance

Safely store protected health information (PHI) in Help Scout.

Included

Support

Dedicated onboarding specialist
Included
Strategic account manager
Included

Integrations

Preferred pricing on Aircall

Preferred pricing

Included

Knowledge base

Docs sites

5 (additional sites $20/mo)

Included

Reporting

Reporting history

All-time

Included

How pricing changed

Each date shows when a public price was observed, not when it took effect. Archived captures may reflect the region or currency served at the time, so a currency change is not necessarily a price increase.

Observed Plans and prices Source wording Source
  • Free: Free
  • Standard: USD 25 monthly
  • Plus: USD 45 monthly
  • Pro: USD 75 monthly
  • The Free plan includes 5 users, 1 Inbox, and 1 Docs site.
  • $ 25 per user/mo
  • $ 45 per user/mo
  • $ 75 per user/mo
  • Free: Free
  • Free plan