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Hiver vs Supp: Gmail Help Desk vs AI Classification

Hiver turns Gmail into a help desk. Supp turns customer messages into automated actions. Different approaches for different needs.

What Hiver Does

Hiver lives inside Gmail. It adds shared inboxes, ticket assignment, collision detection, and internal notes directly to your Gmail interface. Your team never leaves Gmail — they just get superpowers on top of it.

For teams that already live in Gmail and don't want to learn a new tool, Hiver eliminates the learning curve entirely.

Pricing

  • Free: Basic features, email, live chat, knowledge base.
  • Growth: $25/user/month. Multichannel support, rule-based automations, analytics, AI Compose and AI Summarizer.
  • Pro: $65/user/month. WhatsApp, voice, SLAs, CSAT, AI Agents and AI Copilot.
  • Elite: $105/user/month. AI QA, AI Insights, advanced enterprise features.

Hiver's AI features are now built into the paid tiers rather than sold as a separate add-on.

A 3-person team on Growth: $75/month. On Pro: $195/month.

When Hiver Wins

Your team uses Gmail for everything. You don't want another tool. You just want your shared support inbox to be smarter. Hiver is perfect for this — zero learning curve, clean integration, and good enough automation for small teams.

Hiver is also great for internal helpdesks. IT teams, HR teams, and ops teams that handle internal requests via email love Hiver because it doesn't feel like a "support tool" — it feels like Gmail with upgrades.

When Hiver Falls Short

No AI resolution. Hiver's AI assists agents but doesn't resolve tickets autonomously. Every ticket still needs a human to respond.

Gmail-only. If you use Outlook, you can't use Hiver. If you want a chat widget on your website, Hiver recently added one but it's not the core product.

Per-user pricing adds up. $65/user on Pro for AI features. A 5-person team: $325/month. That's serious money for a Gmail-based tool.

The Alternative

If you want automation that resolves tickets without human involvement, classification at $0.20/message handles the routine stuff. Pair it with Gmail for the human-handled tickets: classification auto-resolves 60-70%, and the rest arrive in your Gmail inbox pre-classified.

This combo costs less than Hiver Pro and handles more tickets automatically.

Try Classification

$5 in free credits. No credit card required. Set up in under 15 minutes.

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