Vivantio vs Whelp

Vivantio is a service management platform for IT, customer service, HR, facilities, and other service teams. Its ITIL 4-aligned capabilities cover incident, problem, change, and service request management. No-code workflows trigger actions across tickets, approvals, notifications, and escalations. A configurable branded portal lets users find answers, log incidents, and raise requests from any device. Asset management tracks assets and configuration items through their lifecycle and links them to tickets and changes. FLEXBridge provides more than 600 built-in integrations, including Microsoft Teams, Slack, Azure Active Directory, Jira, and Tableau; every price point includes full API access. Vivantio offers SaaS and can provide on-premise deployment when regulatory requirements call for it. The company lists HIPAA, SOC 2, ISO 27001, and Cyber Essentials+ among its security credentials. Its data-processing addendum states that customer data is encrypted at rest with AES-256 and hosted on Microsoft Azure infrastructure. Pricing starts at $49 per agent per month, billed annually, and there is no free plan. Listed support includes dedicated onboarding, a customer success manager, and US and UK technical support. Vivantio was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Boston, with product and engineering in Bristol, UK.

Whelp is a conversational customer support platform that combines AI agents with human support across customer channels. Its shared inbox brings WhatsApp, web chat, SMS, email, voice, Instagram, Messenger and Telegram into one workspace, alongside a unified customer profile and conversation history. AI agents learn from help center content, policies and catalogs; they can look up orders, bookings and accounts, then hand conversations to people with context. Listed channels also include LINE and Viber, and integrations include services such as Shopify, Stripe, Salesforce, Webex and Amazon Connect. Agents can use Whelp in a browser or through iOS and Android apps. The company says its cloud connections are end-to-end encrypted and offers two-factor authentication and secure access controls. Every plan includes unlimited conversations, though Meta bills WhatsApp Business Platform conversation fees separately. The Free plan has one seat. Standard costs $29 a month per seat, and Advanced costs $79 a month per seat.