Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
ChatBot
Score 9.0 out of 10
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
ChatBot is an all-in-one platform to create, deploy, and track chatbots across channels. With it the vendor states users can create chatbots in minutes with diverse templates and automate key tasks right away, or easily drag-and-drop new elements to adapt any template to your needs. ChatBot is ready to work out of the box, while AI algorithms help users improve responses over time. Design conversational experiences to build better relationships with customers.…N/A
Helpshift
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
Helpshift is a help desk software deployed as an in-application SDK to provide users with in-app service.
$150
per month issue
Zendesk Suite
Score 8.6 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
ChatBotHelpshiftZendesk Suite
Editions & Modules
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Starter
$150.00
per month Issue
Enterprise
Please contact Helpshift
per month Issue
Growth
Please contact Helpshift
per month Issue
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
ChatBotHelpshiftZendesk Suite
Free Trial
YesYesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYesYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeOptional
Additional DetailsFlexible Consumption-Based Pricing for Your Changing Needs. Only pay for the number of issues created each month. An issue is a customer problem or inquiry that is directed to an agent or a bot. Customers with greater usage receive a reduced per issue price. All packages come with 1,000 issues per month to get you started.20% discount available with annual pricing.
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Community Pulse
ChatBotHelpshiftZendesk Suite
Considered Multiple Products
ChatBot

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Helpshift
Chose Helpshift
Helpshift is reasonably priced and has great analytics and capabilities and is very user-friendly. We had a hard time with Intercom about 2 years ago when we tried to implement them because their analytics were very minimal and wouldn't track what we needed it to. We haven't …
Chose Helpshift
One of the previous systems we used was Zendesk and it really only housed emails like Microsoft Outlook would: not very organized, very clunky to use, with long loading times. The meta data that is recorded by Helpshift was another deciding factor for the stakeholders as that …
Zendesk Suite
Chose Zendesk Suite
Zendesk Suite comes with a complete package. Right from receiving customer calls to responding emails. Managing tickets and following up with customers for required information. This tool feels like the place where you can Manage more of the things
Features
ChatBotHelpshiftZendesk Suite
Chat Analytics and Reports
Comparison of Chat Analytics and Reports features of Product A and Product B
ChatBot
7.8
2 Ratings
7% below category average
Helpshift
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Ratings
Zendesk Suite
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Ratings
Chat history and transcripts9.02 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Chat reporting7.02 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Chat and web analytics7.52 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Incident and problem management
Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Product A and Product B
ChatBot
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Ratings
Helpshift
6.4
4 Ratings
25% below category average
Zendesk Suite
8.8
179 Ratings
7% above category average
Organize and prioritize service tickets00 Ratings5.54 Ratings9.4178 Ratings
Expert directory00 Ratings3.64 Ratings8.0122 Ratings
Subscription-based notifications00 Ratings6.43 Ratings8.7125 Ratings
ITSM collaboration and documentation00 Ratings4.53 Ratings8.1126 Ratings
Ticket creation and submission00 Ratings9.13 Ratings9.5178 Ratings
Ticket response00 Ratings9.14 Ratings9.2177 Ratings
Self Help Community
Comparison of Self Help Community features of Product A and Product B
ChatBot
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Ratings
Helpshift
5.0
4 Ratings
46% below category average
Zendesk Suite
8.2
161 Ratings
2% above category average
External knowledge base00 Ratings1.04 Ratings8.2155 Ratings
Internal knowledge base00 Ratings9.13 Ratings8.3148 Ratings
Multi-Channel Help
Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of Product A and Product B
ChatBot
-
Ratings
Helpshift
4.5
4 Ratings
56% below category average
Zendesk Suite
8.8
174 Ratings
10% above category average
Customer portal00 Ratings5.53 Ratings9.2142 Ratings
IVR00 Ratings2.71 Ratings8.273 Ratings
Social integration00 Ratings7.31 Ratings8.2115 Ratings
Email support00 Ratings2.74 Ratings9.3171 Ratings
Help Desk CRM integration00 Ratings4.52 Ratings8.9132 Ratings
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User Ratings
ChatBotHelpshiftZendesk Suite
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(4 ratings)
9.1
(4 ratings)
9.2
(208 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
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10.0
(43 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(2 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
8.8
(82 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
9.1
(14 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
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9.1
(11 ratings)
Support Rating
8.0
(1 ratings)
9.1
(2 ratings)
5.6
(31 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
-
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6.4
(10 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(19 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
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9.1
(4 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
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9.1
(1 ratings)
Ease of integration
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9.1
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
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9.1
(1 ratings)
Professional Services
-
(0 ratings)
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9.1
(1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
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(0 ratings)
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9.1
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
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9.1
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User Testimonials
ChatBotHelpshiftZendesk Suite
Likelihood to Recommend
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Most suited: Frequent duties can be automated. services can be improved by analyzing customer feedback. Load and Heavy tasks can be reduced. Less workforce is required. Less Suited: Specific product queries and their proper answers. When the user uses those words that are misspelled or have a long sentence it finds difficulty in giving them proper information.
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Helpshift Inc.
If you need a good way for players to send in support tickets that propagates in real-time, Helpshift would be a service I'd recommend.
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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
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  • Routing rules
  • no code workflows
  • UI/UX is excellent for a newbie to start on
  • Their Chat support is very helpful
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Helpshift Inc.
  • Their customer support is very responsive. If they have any problems, they fix them quickly.
  • They are constantly trying to improve and expand their offering, which is beneficial to our growing company.
  • It is very user-friendly and easy to manage. The analytics are pretty good as well.
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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
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  • Having enough conversational data to train the chatbot.
  • Really understanding intent.
  • Understanding emotion.
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Helpshift Inc.
  • While I am not an engineer; it is known that Helpshift can be a bit of a pain to get it implemented into our applications.
  • There are some issues with the badge when it comes to the notifications of messages that let the user know they have a reply from customer service.
  • The website dashboard that is used to respond to customers has trouble sometimes and is very slow.
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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
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As long as budget is not an issue - we renewing this solution.
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Helpshift Inc.
No answers on this topic
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
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Since I deployed this solution end to end for my organisation, I would speak from my experience that since I was a newbie to this platform I took ample support from their team, their training resources. However, the product's UI/UX was simply very intuitive that it helped me to get a lot of hand-on practice on the product well. This helped me with the timely deployment of this solution.
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Helpshift Inc.
Helpshift is really easy to use and set up. We enjoy the automation to automatically route certain issues to different smart folders. There's just a lot of flexibility in the functionality to make things work for our team in the best way. I didn't give it a 10/10 just because we need SMS/Apple Business Chat and Helpshift doesn't yet offer that. They also don't currently support social media channels but they are working on releasing that soon.
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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
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Helpshift Inc.
No answers on this topic
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
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Helpshift Inc.
No answers on this topic
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
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Full end-to-end support is critical to maintain the ongoing service, robustness, training and customer service Chatbot offers.
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Helpshift Inc.
The few times we've had to contact them, they were courteous and gave us the information we needed swiftly.
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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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Online Training
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Helpshift Inc.
No answers on this topic
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
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Helpshift Inc.
No answers on this topic
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
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ChatBot is more stable and enhanced as compared to other rivals which are new in this segment and also provides a lot of details which is missing in other products like report etc. Also, chatBot is more commonly used so support wise it is also great and you can find multiple examples on the internet and from your peers as well.
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Helpshift Inc.
Zendesk is used for customer communication via email and Helpshift is used for chat, they are for the same purpose but with different response times.
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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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Scalability
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Helpshift Inc.
No answers on this topic
Zendesk
WHY we will use Zendesk in HR and PD internally
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Return on Investment
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  • Connecting to DB.
  • Customizable dashboards.
  • Automated reporting.
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Helpshift Inc.
  • The ability to properly organize and delegate work to customer service representatives has been a very positive ROI after using Helpshift.
  • The customer service reps are much happier with this system over the previous system of a general company email address and other CS software tools.
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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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ScreenShots

ChatBot Screenshots

Screenshot of Chatbot conversations are automatically archived, allowing users to analyze and improve their story flows.Screenshot of With ChatBot you can control the entire conversation flow.Screenshot of Improve your chatbot day by day using the training tool.Screenshot of Save your time importing a ready to use template and turn it into your own bot assistant.Screenshot of Stories are an intuitive way to tell the bot how to react to different situations. Create Stories for frequent questions and cases to save more time for the difficult ones.Screenshot of To create a fully operating chatbot you don’t need any other tools or apps. The scenario tree structure and drag and drop interface are very intuitive.

Zendesk Suite Screenshots

Screenshot of the Zendesk Agent WorkspaceScreenshot of Omnichannel MessagingScreenshot of Zendesk TicketingScreenshot of Bots powered by Zendesk AIScreenshot of Tone shift with Zendesk AIScreenshot of Zendesk ticketing side conversations