Help Scout alternative

AI agents built into the same stack as your data.

Help Scout is the customer-facing email helpdesk for teams that don't want a 'ticket-flavored' UX. Strong for SMB + B2B SaaS support. TinyCommand has no shared inbox. It covers the AI-reply side: agents that draft answers from the customer's data for a person to approve, with the database, forms and workflows bundled.

No credit card · $49/mo for the whole stack · Free forever for solo

Same product
Forms, DB, email, agents
One credit pool
Across every product
Free forever
1,000 credits a month
$49 / mo
Whole stack

Why teams switch

Three things Help Scout structurally can’t do.

A real database for customer data

orders, plans and history in TinyTables, readable by your agents

Forms, workflows and AI agents in the same product

Built into the same product. No separate subscription, no glue code.

$49/mo flat for the whole stack

Built into the same product. No separate subscription, no glue code.

Side-by-side

TinyAgents vs Help Scout

Honest feature parity where it exists. Concrete gaps where it doesn’t.

TinyAgents

You
Free
1 user
AI agent steps in workflows, 1,000 credits / mo
$0/mo
Professional
Team
Whole stack, build your own agents
$49/mo

Help Scout

Free
1 mailbox
Limited
$0/mo
Standard
Per user / mo
Most teams entry · ~$66 for 3
$22/mo
Plus
Per user / mo
~$132 for 3
$44/mo
What comes with TinyAgents
What comes with TinyAgentsTinyAgents
A real database for customer data
orders, plans and history in TinyTables, readable by your agents
Forms, workflows and AI agents in the same product
$49/mo flat for the whole stack
Forms, tables, workflows, AI agents and email in one product
One plan and one credit pool across all of them.
TinyAgents compared to Help Scout, feature by feature
FeatureTinyAgentsHelp Scout
Cleanest shared-inbox UX in the helpdesk category
TinyAgents
Not our focus
Help Scout
Help Scout's strength
Strong knowledge base + Docs feature
TinyAgents
Not our focus
Help Scout
Help Scout's strength
Free forever tier
TinyAgents
1,000 credits a month, no time limit
Help Scout
Limited
Price for the same job
TinyAgents
$49 / mo (whole stack)
Help Scout
$22 (Help Scout plan)

Where it fits

Agents don't live in isolation. They live next to the data.

TinyAgents shares the data layer with forms, tables, workflows, email. No 'connect Airtable' step in your agent setup.

TinyForms
Capture
TinyTables
Store + enrich
TinyWorkflows
Route
TinyAgents
Think
TinyEmails
Act

Real flows

What you can actually build.

Inbox triage agent

Every email → agent classifies urgency, drafts replies for low-stakes ones, escalates the rest.

Inbound emailTinyAgentsDraft replySlack thread

Lead research agent

New lead → agent looks up company, finds contact, drafts opener, pushes to outbound queue.

TinyTablesEnrichmentTinyAgentsDraft openerQueue

Support response agent

Support email → agent reads docs, drafts an answer, posts in Slack for human approval before send.

TinyFormsTinyAgentsSlack approvalGmail

Daily revenue report agent

Morning agent queries tables, computes deltas, writes a one-paragraph summary, emails it.

ScheduleTinyTablesTinyAgentsGmail

Switching from Help Scout

We’ll migrate your setup for you.

Email us your Help Scout account and our team rebuilds your setup in TinyCommand, preserves the logic and design, and helps you wire up the workflows. Live within a week.

Start the migration

FAQ

Questions worth asking before you switch.

How is TinyAgents different?

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Agents in TinyCommand sit in the same product as your forms, database and email. Give an agent tools you build on the canvas, like finding or updating a TinyTables record, with no third-party connection to set up. Plus one credit pool across every product.

Are these real autonomous agents?

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Agents with tools: built-in ones such as web search, reading files, a calculator, sending email and your knowledge base, plus custom tools you build on the canvas. The agent decides which tool to call for the task. Same paradigm as Lindy/Gumloop.

Can I bring my own model?

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Yes. Run your agent on TinyGPT with credits, or bring your own key for OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini and other providers.

Observability?

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Every run is logged with each step's input, output and errors, so a failed run shows which step went wrong.

What's in the free tier?

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1,000 credits a month, free forever, and AI agent steps run in workflows on every plan (10 credits per agent step). Forms, tables, workflows and email are included too. Building your own agents starts on Professional at $49/mo.

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Replace Help Scout. Get the whole stack.

$49/mo for forms + tables + workflows + agents + email. Or free forever for solo.

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