Amplitude Analytics vs. Zendesk Suite

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Amplitude Analytics
Score 8.5 out of 10
N/A
Amplitude Analytics is an analytics platform for mobile and web. It is designed to help organizations segment users and analyze funnels, retention and revenue. Amplitude Analytics helps product marketers to achieve actionable insights from customer digital journeys and uses behavioral graphs to build customer-focused products. Amplitude also optimizes digital products for increased quality engagements, increased conversion rates, and long-term customer loyalty.
$61
per month
Zendesk Suite
Score 8.7 out of 10
N/A
Zendesk is a customer support solution with built-in ticketing, conversational messaging, and live chat, designed to help businesses of all sizes and industries deliver personalized service at scale. Zendesk's AI agents are trained in CX to help Service teams resolve customer issues faster and more accurately while still providing a human-centered experience. Zendesk ultimately aims to help businesses improve time to value, reduce effort per ticket, and keep costs low.
$69
per month per agent
Pricing
Amplitude AnalyticsZendesk Suite
Editions & Modules
Plus
$49
per month (paid annually)
Growth
Contact Sales
Enterprise
Contact Sales
Starter
Free
Suite Team
$69
per month per agent
Suite Growth
$115
per month per agent
Suite Professional
$149
per month per agent
Suite Enterprise
Contact Sales
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Amplitude AnalyticsZendesk Suite
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional Details20% discount available with annual pricing.
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Community Pulse
Amplitude AnalyticsZendesk Suite
Considered Both Products
Amplitude Analytics
Chose Amplitude Analytics
I would say it's largely different; Looker was able to be embedded directly into the platform and was valuable for people creating their own dashboards whereas Amplitude is more valuable for understanding usage, performance, and health of the platform itself -- more for …
Zendesk Suite

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Features
Amplitude AnalyticsZendesk Suite
Incident and problem management
Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Product A and Product B
Amplitude Analytics
-
Ratings
Zendesk Suite
8.8
171 Ratings
7% above category average
Organize and prioritize service tickets00 Ratings9.2170 Ratings
Expert directory00 Ratings8.2117 Ratings
Subscription-based notifications00 Ratings8.6118 Ratings
ITSM collaboration and documentation00 Ratings8.2121 Ratings
Ticket creation and submission00 Ratings9.4171 Ratings
Ticket response00 Ratings9.3170 Ratings
Self Help Community
Comparison of Self Help Community features of Product A and Product B
Amplitude Analytics
-
Ratings
Zendesk Suite
8.4
155 Ratings
4% above category average
External knowledge base00 Ratings8.4149 Ratings
Internal knowledge base00 Ratings8.5142 Ratings
Multi-Channel Help
Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of Product A and Product B
Amplitude Analytics
-
Ratings
Zendesk Suite
8.8
167 Ratings
10% above category average
Customer portal00 Ratings9.0137 Ratings
IVR00 Ratings8.570 Ratings
Social integration00 Ratings8.4111 Ratings
Email support00 Ratings9.3164 Ratings
Help Desk CRM integration00 Ratings9.0127 Ratings
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User Ratings
Amplitude AnalyticsZendesk Suite
Likelihood to Recommend
8.3
(31 ratings)
9.0
(197 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(1 ratings)
10.0
(43 ratings)
Usability
7.7
(3 ratings)
8.8
(69 ratings)
Availability
9.0
(1 ratings)
9.1
(14 ratings)
Performance
10.0
(1 ratings)
9.1
(11 ratings)
Support Rating
9.0
(6 ratings)
5.7
(31 ratings)
In-Person Training
8.0
(1 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Online Training
7.0
(1 ratings)
6.4
(10 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.0
(1 ratings)
9.1
(19 ratings)
Configurability
8.0
(1 ratings)
9.1
(4 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
8.0
(1 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Ease of integration
9.0
(1 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
8.0
(1 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Professional Services
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
9.0
(1 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
9.0
(1 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Amplitude AnalyticsZendesk Suite
Likelihood to Recommend
Amplitude
Amplitude Analytics is an excellent solution for anyone with a mobile app and you want to track what users are doing, are they completing conversion steps, and are they coming back more often. This all helps you visual your customer bases engagement and help project future engagement and create goals. This also helps with prioritizing products to address drop-off points in the product to increase conversions.
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Zendesk
Being a customer support agent, I found it very good when it comes to send an email or call or chat- with the user. I can do all that from the one single platform which is so easy and time saving for you. It does not take much time to use this, We can chat- with the user and at the same time we can send an email to them as well.
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Pros
Amplitude
  • Feature analytics - measuring frequency of usage
  • Time taken by users to convert in funnels
  • Actions that drive certain user behaviors in funnels via correlation
  • Actions that lead to user drop off in funnels via correlation
  • Comparing behavior of two custom user cohorts
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Zendesk
  • UI/UX; mature macros and automations, slick and well thought out UI.
  • Reporting, reporting, reporting. With user, org, and ticket level tags, we can track every aspect of our ticket flow.
  • Extensibility; the app marketplace is a great resource for expanding functionality from the baseline offering.
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Cons
Amplitude
  • Some offerings seem duplicative, like dashboards and notebooks, which only seem to differ in that one can subscribe to dashboards
  • The messaging on valid vs invalid property types could be better explained to clarify which types (string, Boolean, integer, etc) are expected in particular scenarios. Though the type is usually set during event creation, we've often seen examples where the data received in production is different, leading to 'invalid type' errors
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Zendesk
  • Is there a way for AEs and CSMs to be informed in a weekly summary of all their accounts and any tickets? Example: Disney submitted a ticket on XYZ. Google has an urgent issue on X still unresolved.
  • Is there a way for CSMs or AEs to have a Dashboard that's specific to their accounts instead of seeing all the tickets in the queue that are not relevant to them?
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Likelihood to Renew
Amplitude
Great product Good value for the cost/initiate Support docs and FAQs are great - they limit the necessity of reaching out to in-person support. So when you do call them ... it is for a legit question/issue, no just a "where is it" or a "how to I do xyz123?"
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Zendesk
Zendesk is an amazing tool for communicating with your customers easily. The communication tickets from sellers to us or from us to sellers are stored, and there are statuses used to make communication easy. We have internal conversations between departments, linked with useful software such as Zingtree, Talkdesk, and Webs.
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Usability
Amplitude
It's a fairly straightforward platform that's beginner friendly. The biggest usability hurdle is most often created by your own team, as it's imperative to know what event sources are being sent to Amplitude and what those event names are. Within being properly onboarded by a team member it can be hard to get started using Amplitude. It takes time to understand what data your company may be sending to the product, the naming conventions of events (especially if there are old or deprecated events names
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Zendesk
Pros: The agent interface is sleek, contemporary, and relatively easy to learn compared to many other enterprise tools. For common tasks, admins are given point-and-click options- adding fields, modifying workflows, constructing macros. The knowledge base (Guide) editor is easy to use for non-developers. Drawbacks: Once you move past the initial things - complex automations, reporting/analytics in Explore, and/or customizations integrating the API, it requires much more advanced training to use successfully. Navigating between the different modules (Support, Explore, Chat, Guide) can feel very disconnected; often you are reminded that it really is a "suite" of products brought together -not really one unified platform. If you're using multiple brands managing simultaneous support tickets, or heavily customizing workflows to meet your brand, you may run into a bit of struggle with usability. So: it's a lot more user friendly than the palaces (Salesforce Service Cloud, ServiceNow), but is not used as quickly or with as much streamlined flow as a product made for a small shop. So if you are looking for a great balance, this is a good option if you are a net new organization or an organization on their way to scaling from 15 - 50 employee. Expect some elbow grease from the admin team once learning, adapting, and working efficiently once you move past the basics with your support tickets and initial customizations.
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Reliability and Availability
Amplitude
Alway up and running, or if there is a problem we can get back in the game right away. The reliability was a big selling point for me, and it was true when this company got it. Rollouts can be tough, but this was pretty seamless. Good support throughout the process, good documentation to handle questions/tips
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Zendesk
In the past year, I'd say I have only noticed maybe two hours total of downtime in my own usage. Very minimal.
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Performance
Amplitude
No issues, problems, or negative remarks from us!! We had a plan, vendor support was rock solid, our data folks have experience, OCM supported as needed, and we got the rollout done on time, on budget, and with only minor hiccups. SInce the rollout, most of us have already forgotten the hiccups and generally speak highly of the product
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Zendesk
There has been minor performance degradation on a very few days out of the two years I have been using the product.
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Support Rating
Amplitude
I haven't used the Amplitude support other than their training docs so I can't speak too much to the in-person support but the docs are serviceable. Nothing too crazy but between the user tips, email notifications, and the decent number of docs I was able to get the support I needed to ramp up on the tool.
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Zendesk
We rarely need to contact their support team, but when we do they are responsive. However there have been notable times when communication between myself and the support rep was challenging despite me providing clear explanation of the issue, screenshots, and a thorough explanation of the goal we hope to achieve. It took several back and forth attempt, on a few occasions, to get resolution on an otherwise simple request
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In-Person Training
Amplitude
Virtual Not bad considering the timeframe and turnaround. The biggest benefit was for my end-users to hear a voice (other than mine/ours! LOL) telling them about the new features and capabilities. The in-person training was really good for having an expert that knows the answers and could refer to past experiences, problems, solutions. THey were a great resource to ease the transition ... basically a "you are gonna be okay with this change ... you got this etc.!" kinda vibe
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Zendesk
No answers on this topic
Online Training
Amplitude
Good enough to get strong baseline. I always make sure our our users go to and/or focus on the vebndor-provided support docs rather than any formal training. Our instructors come and go, but written policy and how-to docs live much longer in a corporate setting. That said, the online training is sufficient. I like that the training curric is stacked and progressive.
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Zendesk
Zendesk has tons of available material for training - videos, webinars, articles, etc. The only reason this is not a 10 is because it can be hard to figure out how to navigate to these things and find what you are looking for.
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Implementation Rating
Amplitude
My team members all have background as data analysts, so Amp was pretty easy to for them. There was sufficient online training available. We also used the available support documents. The actual rollout went well. We did significant testing beforehand. We did a phased rollout, with partial silent rollout (part of OCM's plan) for the smallest line of business. THe silent one was "silent" b/c it was done without fanfare or public notices ... it was just a "we're doing some things, it wont impact your work or workday
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Zendesk
I was very satisfied. They have a free trial for 30 days and I recommend you do that and use it. It is very easy to get started with the basics and the build on over time.

The only thing technically complex was single sign-on and integration to Salesforce.com required some tweaks – otherwise setting up system was very easy
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Alternatives Considered
Amplitude
Amplitude Analytics provides much more granular data than Google Analytics and gives you much more flexibility in how you can segment and splice the data. It also provides the ability to create closed funnels, which I have yet to find out how to do in Google Analytics. Amplitude has a very similar interface to Mixpanel, with a few handy additions, like the ability to name and categorize your events.
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Zendesk
The customisable reporting every time. Our leadership reply on me to run my team and want to know what customers are telling us so they can elevate our products. We have extensive custom reports that tie up all aspects of our product and customer journeys. I've not found another product that allows me as much freedom as Zendesk Suite explore does, so far.
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
Amplitude
It is a good product. You have to pay for quality ... kinda like buying a Lexus or a Toyota instead of a Buick or a Chevy
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Zendesk
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Scalability
Amplitude
Like all the other grades, it was mostly an easy implementation ... we have experience people, the rollout in general is well planned, and the vendor was very supportive
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Zendesk
WHY we will use Zendesk in HR and PD internally
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Return on Investment
Amplitude
  • It collects data of great importance which allows to make product improvements.
  • It easily identifies problems a user may have with the product.
  • The flow of users who have used the product has improved, thus being able to generate more income thanks to the improvements and new functions.
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Zendesk
  • Integrating other AI solutions for an organization with high volumes can cost about USD5000 monthly. With Zendesk AI and by building onto the same with AI powered apps built for Zendesk Suite we save a projected USD4000 monthly.
  • Robust Zendesk APIs have enabled us to integrate our internal system with a customized app saving us hundreds of hours every quarter spent loading customer profiles that are not loaded instantly from the app.
  • Plug and play apps like Round robin save us weeks of sprint delay timelines as they do not require additional coding or developer support to install and start using.
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