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Forethought pricing
Forethought publishes 3 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.
As of 31 August 2026, Forethought pricing is on request across 3 published tiers. Figures are the vendor's list prices as recorded on this page's last check; the vendor's site is the final word.
- Entry price
- On request
- Model
- Quote
- Tiers
- 3
- Free tier
- Not on record
Forethought plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Team | On request | 4 | Entry tier |
| Professional | On request | 4 | Priced on request |
| Enterprise | On request | 4 | Priced on request |
What each tier adds
The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.
Team
On requestThe entry tier. It covers solve for chat, triage, standard reporting, platform access fee plus per-resolution billing.
Professional
On requestOver Team, this tier adds:
- Adds email, voice and Slack agents
- Assist for human agents
- Multibrand add-on available
- Custom Actions
Enterprise
On requestOver Professional, this tier adds:
- Solve API and Analytics API
- Discover knowledge gap detection
- Multibrand up to 20 brands
- Dedicated support and SLAs
What the product covers
The full Forethought feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Other
- Solve
- Autoflows
- Custom Actions
- Triage
- Assist
- Discover
- AI QA and Insights
- Solve and Analytics APIs
People bring Forethought in for a retailer with 40,000 tickets a year in zendesk wants order status, returns and refunds resolved end to end without an agent, including the api calls into the order system., a support operation that already abandoned a rules-based chatbot because the decision trees rotted, and wants resolution logic that does not need rebuilding every time a policy changes., a team drowning in triage where tickets sit in a general queue for hours before a human reads them and routes them to the right specialist group., a support leader who needs to know which questions have no knowledge article behind them, ranked by the volume of tickets they generate.. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Forethought are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Customer Support
Too few customer support tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Forethought (this page) | On request | quote | - | |
| Observe.AI | On request | quote | - | vs Forethought |
| Assembled | $25/month | Per user per month | - | vs Forethought |
| Calabrio ONE | On request | quote | - | vs Forethought |
| Verint | On request | quote | - | vs Forethought |
| Alvaria | On request | quote | - | vs Forethought |
| UJET | $65/month | Per user per month | - | vs Forethought |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the Forethought badges page.
Before you pay for Forethought
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 3 tiers between On request and On request, with the jump itemised above. With no free tier on record, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to compare Forethought against the tools that do have one before committing.
Forethought runs on web, and is published by Forethought Technologies, Inc. of San Francisco, California, United States. The full record is on the Forethought review, and the rest of the category is under best customer support tools.
Forethought pricing questions
- How much does Forethought cost?
- Forethought publishes 3 tiers, from On request for Team up to On request for Enterprise. The cheapest paid tier is On request.
- Does Forethought have a free plan?
- Not on the record we hold: Forethought is listed as quote. Whether a free trial is offered is not something this record captures, so check the vendor's site.
- What is the difference between Team and Professional on Forethought?
- Professional costs On request against On request, and adds adds email, voice and slack agents, assist for human agents, multibrand add-on available, custom actions.
- What am I actually paying for with Forethought?
- The record lists 8 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for a retailer with 40,000 tickets a year in zendesk wants order status, returns and refunds resolved end to end without an agent, including the api calls into the order system., a support operation that already abandoned a rules-based chatbot because the decision trees rotted, and wants resolution logic that does not need rebuilding every time a policy changes., a team drowning in triage where tickets sit in a general queue for hours before a human reads them and routes them to the right specialist group..
- Does Forethought charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 3 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these Forethought prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare Forethought against before paying?
- The closest customer support tools in this directory are Observe.AI, Assembled, Calabrio ONE, Verint. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Forethought covering price, platforms and features.