Answerbase vs. Stack Overflow for Teams

Stack Overflow for Teams

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Answerbase	Score 10.0 out of 10	Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)	Answerbase is a knowledge management platform for customer support and e-commerce, allowing users to ask questions, receive quality answers, and browse content and articles to meet their demand for information about your products and services. Each system comes with administration and moderation tools that are designed to help companies customize, manage and grow an engaging platform. According to the vendor, advanced features like moderation, user group management, actionable content insights,…	$49 per month
Stack Overflow for Teams	Score 8.6 out of 10	N/A	Stack Overflow for Teams is a team knowledge management and Q & A platform for development billed per teammate, featuring roles and permissions, and integrations with popularly used collaboration tools.	$7 per month per teammate (up to 250 teammates)

Pricing

Answerbase

Stack Overflow for Teams

Editions & Modules

Basic: $49
per month
Professional: $149
per month
Business: $399
per month
Enterprise: Quote
per year

Basic: $7
per month per teammate (up to 250 teammates)
Business: $14
per month per teammate (unlimited)
Enterprise: Custom

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Answerbase	Stack Overflow for Teams
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

Answerbase Enterprise allows for 100% custom adaptations and developments to take whatever ideas, new functionalities or integration requirements you may have and make them a reality. Our knowledgeable team will manage setup, integration, and provide web-based education and training to make sure your team has all the tools and information they need to successfully manage and grow your site. Therefore, we organize a quote on a per customer basis only for customers interested in an Enterprise implementation.

Discount available for annual pricing.

More Pricing Information

Community Pulse
	Answerbase	Stack Overflow for Teams
Top Pros	Pro Customer service support Pro Support team Pro Excellent customer	Pro Full text search Pro Learning curve Pro Team members
Top Cons	Minus Setting up	Minus Teams integration Minus Kind of hard Minus Easier ways

Best Alternatives
	Answerbase	Stack Overflow for Teams
Small Businesses	Notion Score 8.8 out of 10	Notion Score 8.8 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	Tridion Score 9.0 out of 10	Tridion Score 9.0 out of 10
Enterprises	Tridion Score 9.0 out of 10	Tridion Score 9.0 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	Answerbase	Stack Overflow for Teams
Likelihood to Recommend	10.0 (1 ratings)	9.0 (10 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Answerbase	Stack Overflow for Teams
Likelihood to Recommend	Lumin Creative We implemented a Q&A board since we felt this would be the best way to create high quality content for our team when discussing the next sales strategy process. Really aids customers who have purchased a product from our company to navigate any problems they experience as they can seamlessly check the community question board Increases networking opportunities Incentivized NB Nathan Brown Sales Manager Read full review	Stack Overflow In my opinion, Stack Overflow for Teams is well suited for an organization that is on a hiring spree for the engineering teams. The reason for it is because instead of catering to doubts of new joinees individually, they can be asked to refer to the Stack Overflow and hence will save a lot of time for both new joiners as well as the existing employees. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Lumin Creative Increases your team to collaborate with each other as you are available to post questions that more people can answer to express and opinion or idea Browse existing community pages to see if your question has been answered Allows you to share relevant documents with specific staff Excellent customer service support team that are always on hand to help Incentivized NB Nathan Brown Sales Manager Read full review	Stack Overflow Sharing technical solutions to problems we encounter in our internal development environment. Sharing best practices we find in external resources. Discussions on design patterns and conventions we can use in our projects. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	Lumin Creative Onboarding checklist would be a great addition as setting up can be complicated Incentivized NB Nathan Brown Sales Manager Read full review	Stack Overflow I would recommend an increased engineering focus on the Microsoft Teams integration. It would be nice to make more medals. Easier ways to earn points. Incentivized Brandon Camerer Senior User Experience Designer Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Lumin Creative Just from a personal viewpoint, I feel that the ease of use with Answerbase is amazing and with first class customer service support team, that could not be more friendlier and helpful. The decision was easy and they designed specific requirements that met our needs. It has really complemented our workforce and saved time. Incentivized NB Nathan Brown Sales Manager Read full review	Stack Overflow It's easier to use Stack Overflow for Teams Q&A to maintain our knowledge base over time, over the Confluence wikis that we also maintain. You don't need to bother about folders, filenames, templates - just ask a question and answer it or get it answered. It feels less formal, so developers feel more free to add content. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	Lumin Creative Increased collaboration in the workplace Saved time on staff asking the same questions Provides customers a 'live' community to liaise with Incentivized NB Nathan Brown Sales Manager Read full review	Stack Overflow It makes the search for answers more efficient, so devs can focus in more important things. Knowledge is not lost, even if people leave the company. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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