Comparison

integrable.cloud vs building it yourself

The demo takes a weekend. What takes months is everything after it: OAuth refresh, retrieval quality, rate limits, tenant isolation, and an admin surface someone non-technical can use.

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integrable.cloud

$12/month

About 1,695 conversations a month, half of unused credits rolling over. Free plan, no card.

Building it yourself

Engineering time

Model tokens, a vector store, hosting, and the engineering time to build retrieval, a widget, calendar OAuth, lead routing and an admin UI — then to keep them working.

Figures from Public model and infrastructure pricing, checked 2026-09-10.

Side by side

Feature by feature

Every cell is checkable. Rows where they win are marked as theirs.

integrable.cloud compared with building it yourself
Featureintegrable.cloudBuild it yourselfChecked 2026-09-10
Cost and time
Cost$12 a month · free plan, no cardTokens, hosting, engineering time
Time to liveYesMinutesPartlyA weekend for a demo; months for the rest
What you'd have to build
Retrieval with citationsYesAnswers from your pages, with the source shownPartlyBuild and tune it
Calendar booking (OAuth, refresh)YesGoogle & Microsoft calendars; Calendly by linkPartlyBuild and maintain it
Lead routing and alertsYesSlack, Google Sheets, HubSpot, webhooksPartlyBuild and maintain it
Tenant isolation and encryptionYesRow-level security, per-workspace encryptionPartlyBuild it
An admin UI for non-developersYesThe dashboardPartlyBuild it
Control
Full control of the stackPartlyAPI, webhooks and MCPYesEverything
Inference cost at very high volumePartlyPriced per creditYesCheaper at scale

Straight answer

Which one should you choose?

If one of theirs is your situation, choose DIY — we’d rather lose the sign-up than the argument.

Choose DIY if

  • Complete control, and no dependency on anybody else's roadmap.
  • It can be shaped exactly to a workflow no product supports.
  • At very large volume, running your own inference is genuinely cheaper.

Choose integrable.cloud if

  • The unglamorous 80% is done: calendar OAuth that survives a revoked token, retrieval that cites its source, per-tenant encryption, a documented API.
  • $12 a month against an engineer's week.
  • Not a dead end: a full REST API and an MCP server if you want the control later.

Whatever you compare it with

When you shouldn't pick us at all

You need a full helpdesk

There's a handoff inbox for taking over chats, but no ticketing or SLA reporting. Intercom or Crisp fit a support team better.

You need certifications today

We aren't SOC 2 or HIPAA certified. If procurement requires either, we won't pass — better to know now.

You need voice

It answers in text on your website. There's no phone agent.

You want to design every path

The first version is drafted from your pages. If you want to author each branch in a visual editor, use a builder like Voiceflow.

You need logos to make the case

This is a new product without a customer wall yet. Everything else is checkable — the API reference, the pricing, the limits.

Before you switch

Still deciding?Ask the people who build it.

  • Is building it yourself ever the better choice?

    Yes: Complete control, and no dependency on anybody else's roadmap. If that's your situation, choose DIY.

  • Are the prices comparable?

    The honest version of this comparison is not about money. It's about whether the months after the demo are the best use of your engineering time.

  • Where do the figures come from?

    Public model and infrastructure pricing, checked on 2026-09-10. Prices change — check theirs before you decide.

  • How do I try it on my own site?

    Start on the free plan — no card. Paste your website address, review the assistant it drafts, and paste one line of HTML when you're happy.

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