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Crisp

Service d'assistance · France
Fondé en 2015 · crisp.chat

Nantes-based French customer-messaging platform (Crisp IM SAS, founded 2015); fully bootstrapped, no VC, 200k+ customers, flat-rate pricing.

Crisp propose un hébergement européen en France, mais une maison mère ou un sous-traitant américain laisse une exposition matérielle au CLOUD Act. Référencé dans la catégorie Service d'assistance.

Notes d’évaluation

Crisp IM SAS (Nantes, France; founded 2015 by Baptiste Jamin (CEO) and Valerian Saliou (CTO)) is a fully bootstrapped French customer-messaging platform with no venture capital, no PE, no parent company. 200,000+ customers on a flat-rate pricing model that explicitly rejects per-agent metering, with a 'Made in Europe' positioning, a French SAS legal entity and founder control. The CLOUD Act exposure is nonetheless material: core chat and conversation data is hosted at rest on DigitalOcean (a US-owned cloud provider) in Amsterdam, Netherlands (plugin infrastructure runs in Frankfurt, Germany). Because the underlying hosting provider has a US parent, customer messaging data carries material CLOUD Act exposure despite the EU regions and the EU subsidiary; the DPA is also not publicly accessible (reachable only via workspace settings inside a customer account, login required), a gap relative to procurement-grade buyers who expect a self-service DPA link.

Constats

CLOUD Act
Actionnariat
Sous-traitants
4 · 3 US

Signaux vérifiés

Juridiction
  • Hébergement UE / adéquation: Oui
  • Opérateur UE / adéquation: Oui
  • Aucune exposition au CLOUD Act: Non
Transparence
  • DPA public: Non
  • Sous-traitants divulgués: Oui
  • Clients open source: Non
  • Certification tierce: Non
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À propos de Crisp

Crisp is a Nantes-headquartered French customer-messaging platform operated by Crisp IM SAS and founded in 2015 by Baptiste Jamin (CEO) and Valerian Saliou (CTO). One of the structurally cleanest ownership stories in the directory: the company is fully bootstrapped (no venture capital, no private equity, no acquiring conglomerate, no US legal entity) and remains founder-controlled a decade after launch. The product reports 200,000+ customers and serves SMBs, e-commerce, and SaaS through a flat-rate pricing model that explicitly rejects the per-agent metering that dominates the Intercom / Drift / Freshdesk pricing pattern.

The product surface is broader than the original Crisp live-chat origin suggests: Hugo (the recently-launched AI support agent), the embeddable chat widget, multi-channel inbox (email, WhatsApp, Messenger, Telegram, SMS, Twitter), AI chatbots and agents, support CRM, ticketing, knowledge base, status pages, video and voice calls, and analytics. Crisp markets the suite as "Built from France 🇫🇷 / Made in Europe", the same positioning that procurement-grade buyers value when assessing alternatives to US-controlled competitors. The G2 awards stack (High Performer, Momentum Leader, Loved Winter 2025) and 14-day no-credit-card free trial reflect a polished SMB go-to-market.

For an EU-sovereignty audit Crisp has the cleanest ownership structure in the helpdesk category. French SAS legal entity, founder-controlled, bootstrapped: these are the structural fundamentals that even more-established competitors (Userlike acquired by Lime; LiveChat publicly listed but with US sales presence; Tidio US-VC-funded) can't quite match. One gap is disclosure: a unified DPA artefact is only accessible via workspace settings (login required), not via a public link. Procurement teams should request a signed DPA before onboarding. The decisive nuance, however, is on the infrastructure side: core chat and conversation data is hosted at rest on DigitalOcean (a US-owned cloud provider) in Amsterdam (plugin infrastructure in Frankfurt). Because the host has a US parent that is compellable regardless of the EU region, the CLOUD Act flag is material despite the clean French ownership. The AI feature stack adds an LLM dependency the published sub-processor page does not describe: Hugo's own documentation says the model is customer-selected among Anthropic Claude, OpenAI, Google Gemini and Mistral, three of the four US-owned, while the public GDPR page names only Crisp-owned Mirage for AI. Hugo has to be configured per workspace and the Free plan carries no AI credits, so that path is opt-in rather than on by default, but the disclosure gap is worth raising before signing. Best fit: French and EU SMBs / e-commerce / SaaS that want bootstrapped-founder ownership; companies that value flat-rate pricing over per-agent metering; buyers replacing Intercom or Drift with a structurally EU-independent vendor.

Carte des sous-traitants · 4

Source
  • Cloudflare US
    États-Unis

    CDN / edge infrastructure / DDoS protection

  • DigitalOcean US
    États-Unis

    Server hosting (messaging in NL, plugins in DE; per Crisp via EU subsidiary subject to EU law)

  • Stripe US
    États-Unis

    Payment processing (credit card storage)

  • Mirage EU
    France

    AI features (LiveTranslate, MagicReply); owned, developed and operated by Crisp

Source : liste publiée des sous-traitants de l’éditeur, lue le 26 août 2026.

3 sous-traitants sur 4 sont détenus par des capitaux américains ou établis aux États-Unis. Exposition au CLOUD Act applicable.

Référentiels & certifications · aucune répertoriée

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Matrice de fonctionnalités

Tableau 2Fonctionnalités de Crisp

Automatisation Oui
Boîte partagée Oui
Live chat Oui
Base de connaissances Oui
Gestion des SLA Oui
Multicanal Oui
Enquêtes CSAT Oui
Assistance IA Oui

Intégration & accès

REST API Oui
SSO (SAML / OIDC) Oui

Conformité & gouvernance

Audit log Oui
Self-host / on-prem option Non

Tarifs & paliers

à partir de 45 $/mois
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Documents publics

L'éditeur ne publie pas de DPA public. Sans contrat de sous-traitance accessible publiquement, les petits clients européens ne peuvent pas signer eux-mêmes l'accord : cela est consigné comme absence de DPA publique (voir Notre méthode).
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