PilotPM vs Khoros

The Khoros alternative for teams facing a migration anyway

Khoros Communities is a proven enterprise community platform — and after its acquisition, customers report being asked to migrate to its successor platform. If a re-platform is on your roadmap either way, PilotPM folds the community into the same AI brain that runs your support: one taxonomy, one moderation queue, one invoice.

3 seats, 500 credits/month, no credit card.

Their AI answers tickets. Ours improves the company that answers tickets.

Side by side

PilotPM vs Khoros, on the things that change your week.

Competitor pricing changes — we don't restate their numbers here. For current Khoros rates, check their pricing page. PilotPM's prices below are the same source of truth as our pricing page.

Khoros
PilotPM
AI-native from row one
Pricing model
Sales-led annual contracts; pricing on request — see khoros.ai for current packaging.
Community is a size pack, decoupled from the plan — $250/mo (250 active members included), $500/mo (2,000) or $1,500/mo (10,000), then $0.30/active member; Enterprise custom. Any pack works with any paid plan, and a full Starter plan plus the 250-member pack is $399/mo all-in.
What you're buying
A dedicated enterprise community platform; support, CS and product feedback live in separate tools.
Community + AI support inbox + review insights + retention on one platform — the member post and the support ticket live in the same brain.
AI moderation
Moderation tooling built in; AI capabilities center on the newer platform generation.
Every post is AI-moderated before it's visible, on by default — flagged content fails safe to a human review queue, never silently published or silently deleted.
Member sign-in
Enterprise SSO options as part of the platform implementation.
Members sign in through your product's own login via a signed-token handoff — no new passwords, no separate member database to run.
Member billing
Packaged per contract; terms depend on your agreement.
Metered on monthly-active members — a member who doesn't show up in a month doesn't bill that month. Staff never count.
Time to live
Enterprise implementation timelines; community re-platforms are typically multi-month projects.
Create a space, add a ~30-line signed-redirect snippet to your product, invite members — days, not an implementation project.
The two numbers that matter

Every AI support vendor quotes one number. Make them show you two.

Whichever tool you pick — PilotPM, Khoros, or anyone else — two numbers tell you whether the AI is actually working. Ask every vendor for both.

Number one

Autonomous resolution — the % handled with no human

Vendors quote 65–90%. Those numbers come from curated case studies, and the definitions are soft — "resolved" often just means the customer didn't reply. Before you trust any number, ask: what's the numerator, what's the denominator, and is it audited?

Number two

Draft acceptance — the % of AI drafts an agent sends as-is

The harder, more honest number: when a human does review the AI's work, how often is it good enough to send without a single edit? Most vendors don't publish this one at all.

Vendor
Published "autonomous resolution"
Where the number comes from
Intercom Fin
65–67%
Vendor-reported — methodology not independently audited
Sierra
50–90%
Case studies — methodology not independently audited
Decagon
70–80%
Case studies — methodology not independently audited
Ada
32–84%
Case studies — methodology not independently audited
Zendesk AI
39–60%
Customer stories — methodology not independently audited
Freshdesk Freddy
30–65%
Case studies — methodology not independently audited

Ranges above are each vendor's own published figures as of July 2026 — from their sites, case studies, or customer stories. Methodologies differ, definitions differ, and none are independently audited. We don't put a PilotPM percentage on this page because your number depends on your tickets: in a pilot we measure both numbers on your data and show you exactly how they're counted.

Four questions to ask any vendor — including us:
  • What's the numerator and the denominator? Which conversations count as "resolved", and which get quietly excluded?
  • Does "resolved" include actions actually taken — refunds issued, accounts fixed — or just replies the customer never answered?
  • Is the number audited? Can we recount it ourselves from raw conversations?
  • What happens when the AI gets one wrong — and what changes in the system so the same mistake doesn't repeat?
What "improves the company" means

A chatbot answers. A dashboard reports. PilotPM gets better every week — and shows its work.

Every week the numbers move, and the system tells you exactly what's blocking the next improvement: a missing article, a bad rule, a data gap, or a product bug.

01

Every edit is a signal

When your team edits an AI draft before sending, PilotPM keeps the diff — that's the ground truth vendors throw away.

02

Diagnosed to a root cause

Was the knowledge missing? A rule wrong? Customer data out of reach? A real product bug?

03

Fixed at the source

Knowledge, rules, data, or product code — the fix lands where the cause lives, not in a prompt tweak.

04

Proven before it ships

An eval re-runs the conversations that failed. The number moves, or the fix doesn't ship.

Why teams switch

Not a cheaper inbox. A loop that closes.

One brain

Community and support stop being separate tools.

The same AI brain that drafts your support replies moderates your community, and community threads flow into the same theme taxonomy as email, chat and App Store reviews. When a member post is really a support issue, it's already in the system that fixes support issues — no swivel-chair, no second vendor.

The migration moment

If you have to migrate anyway, only migrate once.

Khoros customers report being asked to move to a successor platform. A forced re-platform is the right moment to ask whether a standalone community tool is still the right shape — or whether the community belongs on the platform that already knows your customers. Migration is white-glove: we sit with your team and move spaces, members and content together.

Pricing

A whole support platform plus community, from $399/mo all-in.

Community pricing is public and sized by your community, not your plan: $250/mo for 250 active members, $500/mo for 2,000, $1,500/mo for 10,000 — any pack on any paid plan, then $0.30 per additional active member. A full Starter plan — AI inbox included — plus the 250-member pack lands at $399/mo all-in ($649/mo with 2,000 members). Billing is monthly-active, so quiet members don't bill, and budget approval is one Slack message.

See it on your own data

Point it at your app. Watch what it finds.

The free preview shows you what PilotPM finds in your app's public reviews — no account, no credit card, nothing to connect. If you like what it finds, the free tier takes it from there.

Free trial: 3 seats · 500 credits/mo · no credit card.

Questions teams ask before switching

Switching from Khoros, honestly answered.

Is Khoros Communities shutting down?

Not that we know of — no end-of-life has been announced. What is public: Khoros was acquired by IgniteTech, launched a successor community platform (Aurora, April 2026), and new feature development is focused there, with existing customers offered migrations. If you're weighing that move, it's a fair moment to compare alternatives — including us, and we'll tell you honestly if a dedicated enterprise community platform is the better fit for your scale.

Can you migrate our Khoros community?

Yes — as a white-glove project, honestly labeled: there's no self-serve importer today. We sit with your team, map your boards and members onto PilotPM spaces, and move the content together. Members re-enter through your own product's sign-in, so there are no passwords to migrate. Email support@pilotpm.ai to scope it.

Do members need PilotPM accounts?

No. Members sign in through your product's existing login — your backend signs a short-lived token and hands the member to their space. No PilotPM passwords, no separate member records to administer, and member identity is pseudonymous on our side by design.

What does the AI actually do in the community?

Moderation, first and always-on: every post passes the AI moderator before it's visible, and anything questionable fails safe to your human review queue. Optional AI answers are off by default — switched on, the assistant posts an AI-badged, knowledge-base-cited reply only when it clears a high confidence bar, and stays silent otherwise. And because the community runs on your support brain, community threads land in the same theme taxonomy your support and product teams already work from.

What does it cost?

Community is a size pack on any paid plan: $250/mo with 250 monthly-active members included, $500/mo with 2,000, $1,500/mo with 10,000, then $0.30 per additional active member — Enterprise custom. The smallest all-in footprint is $399/mo: a Starter plan plus the 250-member pack (2,000 members runs $649/mo all-in). Khoros pricing is sales-led; see khoros.ai for their current packaging.

Something we didn't cover? Email us — a human answers, and we'll tell you honestly if Khoros is the better fit for your team. Full plan details on the pricing page — Starter at $149/mo, Growth at $2,499/mo.