Best AI for Retail Business

Klaviyo for retailers: AI agents for marketing and customer questions

A marketing platform with a marketing agent and a customer agent working from the same customer profiles.

Contents
  1. What Klaviyo offers
  2. Published evidence
  3. Strengths and limits
  4. Pricing
  5. Questions to ask Klaviyo
  6. Sources
TypeMarketing platform with AI agents
PricingPublished
Websiteklaviyo.com

Klaviyo is a marketing platform for email and mobile messaging. Its AI comes as two agents, Composer for marketing and a Customer Agent for questions, both priced as add-ons on paid plans⁠1.

Best for: Retailers that want AI to plan and send marketing email and answer simple customer questions from the same customer data.

Not the right fit for: Retailers looking for AI on stock, purchasing or suppliers.

What Klaviyo offers

The free plan covers up to 250 active profiles and 500 emails a month, with $5 of Composer usage, ten Customer Agent resolutions and ten helpdesk tickets a month. The Email plan starts at $20 a month and the Marketing plan at $25, both based on 500 active profiles and 5,000 emails; Marketing adds social marketing, a customer hub and unlimited review orders. Composer and the Customer Agent are add-ons on these plans. Above 150,000 profiles, pricing is custom⁠1.

Published evidence

No case studies with named customers are published.

Strengths and limits

Strengths

  • A free plan and low entry prices for small lists.
  • Marketing and customer-service agents share the same customer profiles.
  • Published entry prices and allowances.

Limits

  • Price scales with active profiles, and the rates above the entry tier were not shown on the page we read.
  • Composer and Customer Agent are add-ons on the Email and Marketing plans.
  • Not built for stock, purchasing or supplier work.

Choose another option if: Customer questions are the main load (Gorgias), or the back office needs AI as much as marketing (OpenLazarus).

Pricing

Published (USD a month): Free up to 250 profiles; Email $20 and Marketing $25 for 500 profiles; custom above 150,000 profiles.

Questions to ask Klaviyo

  • What will we pay at our current and expected number of profiles?
  • What do Composer and the Customer Agent cost as add-ons at our volume?
  • What can the Customer Agent resolve alone, and when does it hand over?

See how Klaviyo compares with the other tools in the main guide.

Sources

  1. Klaviyo pricing. Klaviyo. Accessed 8 Nov 2026.