Factual comparison

Stand Chat vs Tidio and Lyro

Tidio is a modular customer-service suite: human Customer Service, Lyro AI Agent, and Flows are separate products. Stand combines human-first website chat and AI coverage under one chat allowance.

Latest first-party source check: August 23, 2026. Unknowns and modeled assumptions stay labeled.

Scope

These products solve different jobs.

The comparison separates product scope from price so a broader suite is not penalized for costing more, and a focused tool is not credited with features it does not have.

Stand Chat

Stand is website chat for product learning with live human participation. Available people receive new chats first; AI Stand-ins cover when no eligible person can answer.

Important boundary: Stand does not provide a full ticketing suite, visitor-channel omnichannel inbox, workforce management, ecommerce order automation, or a native meeting scheduler.

Review Stand sources

Tidio

Tidio combines live chat, ticketing, email and social channels with separately purchased Lyro AI and Flows automation packages.

Important boundary: The first 50 Lyro conversations are a one-time account allowance, not a recurring free tier. Recurring standalone Lyro pricing begins at 50 conversations.

Review Tidio sources

Product facts

The same questions, answered for both products.

Every page uses the same rows. Feature gates are named when public documentation identifies them.

Product scope
Stand ChatHuman-first website chat. An eligible Available rep receives a new chat first; a named AI Stand-in with a visible AI badge can cover when no eligible rep can answer and Stand-in coverage is active.
TidioModular customer-service suite with separate Customer Service, Lyro AI Agent, and Flows products.
Recurring autonomous AI entry
Stand ChatBase is $0 with no card and includes 15 new visitor conversations per week. AI Stand-ins and human takeover are included on every plan.
TidioStandalone Lyro starts at $39 monthly or $32.50 annual equivalent for 50 recurring AI conversations. Self-serve tiers continue through 1,000; above that is custom.
AI billing unit
Stand ChatOne newly created visitor session counts as one chat. Page views, widget loads, visitors who do not start a chat, message count, message length, language changes, and human takeover do not multiply usage.
TidioA Lyro thread with at least one AI reply counts as one conversation. A new visitor message after 15 minutes of inactivity starts a new billable thread.
Human live-chat baseline
Stand ChatUnlimited reps and unlimited sites on every plan, with no per-seat or per-site charge. Each rep chooses a concurrent human-chat limit from 1 to 20.
TidioFree includes ten seats and 50 monthly billable human conversations. A human conversation counts when an agent replies or proactively starts it.
AI-to-human path
Stand ChatReps can watch the same transcript and use Take over now, Offer to join, or type a reply. Offer to join waits for visitor consent; signals do not route or hand off automatically.
TidioLyro can transfer to a person or create a ticket. A person can enter an active Lyro conversation with its context.
Proactive engagement
Stand ChatSite and path rules can reveal chat on load, after a delay, at a scroll point, or manually from page-native buttons and cards. Rules also control greeting, desktop auto-open, and display mode.
TidioFlows, not Lyro, handle targeted greetings and visitor journeys. Flows has a separate visitor quota and package.
Contact capture and booking
Stand ChatStand-ins can store visitor-authored name, email, and phone. A follow-up request is submitted only after the visitor agrees and supplies a name plus an email address or phone number. There is no native meeting scheduler.
TidioPre-chat surveys and Flows can collect and validate contact fields. Flows can link to an external booking page. Tidio documents a Calendly ‘Book a call’ Lyro Action template for Plus, Premium, and selected Lyro AI Agent subscribers.
Knowledge sources
Stand ChatBase includes one website knowledge base with up to 10 indexed pages. Pro adds document and sitemap sources, up to five knowledge bases, 50 MB, and 200 indexed web pages.
TidioLyro can learn from supplied website and knowledge content. Public source limits vary by package and are not normalized to the main graph's conversation quota.
Workspace and support scope
Stand ChatLive chat dashboard, Stand-in monitoring, contact details, conversation labels, and site controls. Stand is not a full ticketing system or a visitor-channel omnichannel inbox.
TidioShared inbox, ticketing, email, and social channels begin on Free. Automatic assignment begins on Growth and departments on Plus.
History and reporting
Stand ChatEvery plan includes 90-day searchable History, JSON export, email digests, usage views, and evidence-linked Product Discovery findings. Pro adds selectable longer retention, custom signals, and AI digest analysis.
TidioFree and Starter include basic analytics; Growth adds advanced analytics and operator performance. The current public pricing page does not state one uniform retention limit across plans.
Next material feature gate
Stand ChatPro is $10/month for 150 chats and adds owner-prepaid reserve chats at $0.10 each, document and sitemap knowledge, three custom signals per Stand-in, longer retention, AI digests, and branding removal.
TidioCustomer Service Growth starts at $59 monthly or $49.17 annual equivalent and adds permissions, analytics, and automatic assignment. Plus is $300/month plus usage with custom seats and departments.

Pricing scenarios

The same modeled volumes used on the main comparison.

Message-metered products use 8 AI replies per conversation. Monthly cost is one month; full-year cost uses the same plotted monthly volume for 12 months, applying published annual pricing where available and otherwise 12 monthly charges.

22 conversations
5/week
Stand Chat
Monthly cost
$0
Base; assumes no week exceeds 15 conversations
Full-year cost
≈$0
Base; assumes no week exceeds 15 conversations; 12 months at the monthly rate; no public annual discount
Tidio
Monthly cost
$39
50 Lyro conversations
Full-year cost
$390
50 Lyro conversations/month; annual billing; 12 months at the plotted monthly volume
65 conversations
15/week
Stand Chat
Monthly cost
$0
Base; assumes no week exceeds 15 conversations
Full-year cost
≈$0
Base; assumes no week exceeds 15 conversations; 12 months at the monthly rate; no public annual discount
Tidio
Monthly cost
$75
100 Lyro conversations
Full-year cost
$750
100 Lyro conversations/month; annual billing; 12 months at the plotted monthly volume
150 conversations
35/week
Stand Chat
Monthly cost
$10
Pro
Full-year cost
$120
Pro; 12 months at the monthly rate; no public annual discount
Tidio
Monthly cost
$110
150 Lyro conversations
Full-year cost
$1,100
150 Lyro conversations/month; annual billing; 12 months at the plotted monthly volume
650 conversations
150/week
Stand Chat
Monthly cost
≈$60
Pro + $0.10/chat overage
Full-year cost
≈$720
Pro + $0.10/chat overage; 12 months at the monthly rate; no public annual discount
Tidio
Monthly cost
$525
750 Lyro conversations
Full-year cost
$5,250
750 Lyro conversations/month; annual billing; 12 months at the plotted monthly volume

Decision boundary

Choose based on requirements, not a winner label.

These lists turn documented differences into buyer requirements. They are not scores.

Stand is the closer fit when

  • Human-first website chat and AI coverage should use one allowance and workspace.
  • Unlimited reps and sites are required without a higher support tier.
  • Ticketing, email, social channels, and Flows are not required.

Tidio is the closer fit when

  • Live chat, ticketing, email, and social conversations should share a customer-service workspace.
  • Lyro AI, Flows automation, and human Customer Service should be purchased and scaled separately.
  • Automatic assignment, departments, Shopify order-management workflows, or broader support automation are required on higher plans.

Sources and caveats

What the public evidence does—and does not—establish.

Vendor marketing language is excluded unless a pricing page, help article, or product reference makes the capability concrete.

Stand Chat sources

  • Base resets at 15 chats each week; it is not a pooled 65-chat monthly allowance.
  • Stand publishes no annual discount, so the full-year view uses 12 monthly charges.
  • On Pro, an organization owner signs in to manually pre-fund reserve chats at $0.10 each. Public visitor requests never dispatch a purchase, and new chats pause when included quota and the purchased balance are exhausted.

Tidio sources

  • Pricing scenarios use standalone recurring Lyro tiers; Customer Service plan cost is not added because Lyro can be purchased separately.
  • The first 50 Lyro conversations are a lifetime starter allowance and are excluded from recurring cost comparisons.
  • Lyro and Flows do not consume the human Customer Service conversation quota.