Ada vs Capacity vs Crisp vs Forethought
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Ada
Support automation ops teams love; Trustpilot users don't
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Crisp
All-in-one live chat, inbox, and AI support suite
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Forethought
AI support platform now folded into Zendesk
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.5 / 10 | 6.9 / 10 | 7.2 / 10 | 6.7 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Enterprise | Paid | Freemium | Enterprise |
| Free tier | — | — | — | — |
| Paid from | — | — | — | — |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Users | — | — | — | — |
| Founded | 2016 | — | 2015 | 2017 |
| Maker | — | — | — | — |
| Verdict | Ada is a mature, enterprise-grade AI agent platform for support — a reasoning engine that resolves chat, email, voice and social conversations by grounding answers in your knowledge base, with a no-code Playbook builder... |
Capacity has been in market since 2017 as Jane.ai, and the rebrand hasn't slowed the acquisition pace — Call Criteria, Verbio Technologies and a dozen-plus other companies have been folded in, most recently to bulk up vo... |
Live chat, a shared inbox across email/WhatsApp/Messenger, a chatbot builder, knowledge base, light CRM and campaign tools, all under one flat-priced plan — that's Crisp's pitch, and a real alternative to stitching toget... |
Forethought's five-agent lineup — Solve for autonomous resolution, Assist as a copilot for human agents, Triage for routing, Discover for knowledge-gap detection, and Agent QA for scoring — covers the same ground as Ada... |
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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.