ChurnZero vs. Freshsuccess

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
ChurnZero
Score 7.8 out of 10
N/A
ChurnZero is a Customer Success platform designed to help subscription businesses succeed through improved customer experiences. ChurnZero helps Customer Success team spot potential churn risks early and see renewal and expansion opportunities faster. Its automation and personalization, in-app communications, and Customer Success AI™ support engagement with customers and lead them to value. The platform offers journeys, health scores, survey tools, segmentation, plays,…N/A
Freshsuccess
Score 7.3 out of 10
N/A
Freshsuccess (based on technology acquired by Natero by Freshworks in May 2019) is designed to help Customer Success Managers prevent churn, increase account expansion, and manage more customers with less effort. The vendor says features include: Customer 360 - See customer emails, chats, meetings, support tickets, billing history, and product usage, in one place. Predictive Alerts - Predict which customers are likely to churn, convert, or expand their…
$79
per month per user
Pricing
ChurnZeroFreshsuccess
Editions & Modules
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Estate
$79 billed annually
per month per user
Estate
$95 billed monthly
per month per user
Forest
$129 billed annually
per month per user
Forest
$150 billed monthly
per month per user
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
ChurnZeroFreshsuccess
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
ChurnZeroFreshsuccess
Considered Both Products
ChurnZero
Chose ChurnZero
ChurnZero has better brand visibility and recognition among its competitors and that was one primary reason we selected ChurnZero. In addition, our leadership's affinity towards the platform (based on their past experiences) ensured we go with ChurnZero. While we were testing …
Chose ChurnZero
ChurnZero seemed a little more geared towards our customer base and goals. Their onboarding was thorough and included (Gainsight's was not). Cost/Budget also came into the picture as well!
Chose ChurnZero
ChurnZero was the perfect mix of tools and features at the right price. It has scaled as we've scaled and the new features they roll out are always industry firsts.
Chose ChurnZero
Gainsight is a great software, and a good alternative to ChurnZero. However for us, ChurnZero had made a number of key changes to their product suite that helped us decide for it over Gainsight. For instance the integrated AI text generator, the new round robin, enhanced note …
Chose ChurnZero
During our assessment it was obvious that Churnzero offered more features that aligned with our business goals.
Chose ChurnZero
We've used several products such as HubSpot, Asana, and Chameleon. ChurnZero gave us all of the features we were looking for including product usage, health scores, automations, journeys, in app walk-throughs and in app announcements. We were able to replace several platforms …
Chose ChurnZero
HubSport is quickly turning into a secondary platform for us. HubSpot functions much more as a task-oriented, call-as-much-as-possible, Sales system. Churn Zero far outpaces HS with its AI to summarize the account, and its ability to bring in outside data from Pendo, ZenDesk, …
Chose ChurnZero
We actually use both. We do not focus our usage of ChurnZero on the in-app functionality (that is something we do with Pendo) but we do find clearer usage data for a lot of elements with ChurnZero.
Chose ChurnZero
I prefer that ChurnZero has the health scores and is easier to use.
Chose ChurnZero
Strikedeck was way to difficult to use and required way to many steps to do one thing. ChurnZero is a game changer with that. When logging a activity, it is literally the same page for everything, no jumping back and forth or having to start a different tab.
Chose ChurnZero
Gainsight CS - you need a team to manage this tool; not intuitive to use, and you're not able to be as agile once configured

GUIDEcx - One of my favorites in the space, and so easy to set up, configure, customize, and scale. Able to connect onboarding milestones to SFDC cases, …
Chose ChurnZero
ChurnZero's segmenting and health score abilities were unmatched, as it allows for customization for almost every feature.
Chose ChurnZero
While Gainsight CS and PX are owned by the same parent company, they couldn't be more different on a fundamental level. PX is a nuts and bolts usage data platform which reports on many of the same datapoints as ChurnZero, but beyond that, PX has very little in terms of team …
Chose ChurnZero
We selected ChurnZero based on price and having the functionality we needed for right now. Gainsight had more features, but at a much higher cost and these features weren't necessarily items we needed to get ourselves up and running now.
Freshsuccess
Chose Freshsuccess
Gainsight had all of the functionality but had the price tag to match. Churnzero and ClientSuccess were also very close, and we nearly chose one of those. We didn't love the UI of ChurnZero and ClientSuccess had the best UI by far but was lacking in some of the functionality …
Chose Freshsuccess
We initially looked at Gainsight, Amity, and another which I can't remember the name of. Only Natero and Amity were within a reasonable price range. We selected Natero because the platform was significantly more polished, the reporting seemed significantly stronger in Natero, …
Chose Freshsuccess
I highly recommend and prefer using Salesforce over Natero. Salesforce allows me to pull in as many fields into a report as I would like, compared to 14 different fields into Natero. I am able to view and make changes to information much quicker than Natero. I like Salesforce …
Chose Freshsuccess
I was not a part of the Natero selection group. In the past, I've used more project management focused tools that have much more detailed options for workflows, tasks and visualizations of those pieces. This is a large gap for me. Natero has an integration to pull from SFDC, …
Chose Freshsuccess
Natero is specifically built for customer success, other tools are merely capable of some of its functions. A tool like Pendo does a great job at aiding the product manager and helps to identify features and modules that are popular, but this doesn't translate into customer …
Chose Freshsuccess
Can't really say that, at the time I had natero I was evaluating [other] options.
Features
ChurnZeroFreshsuccess
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
ChurnZero
8.2
Ratings
4% below category average
Freshsuccess
10.0
Ratings
16% above category average
Role-based user permissions8.20 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
ChurnZero
9.5
Ratings
9% above category average
Freshsuccess
7.1
Ratings
20% below category average
API9.10 Ratings7.20 Ratings
Integration with Salesforce.com10.00 Ratings7.20 Ratings
Integration with Marketo00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Integration with Eloqua00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Customer Data Extraction / Integration
Comparison of Customer Data Extraction / Integration features of Product A and Product B
ChurnZero
9.5
Ratings
8% above category average
Freshsuccess
8.6
Ratings
2% below category average
Product usage9.10 Ratings8.10 Ratings
Help desk / support tickets10.00 Ratings9.10 Ratings
Customer Success Management
Comparison of Customer Success Management features of Product A and Product B
ChurnZero
9.6
Ratings
11% above category average
Freshsuccess
7.1
Ratings
19% below category average
NPS surveys9.10 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Sponsor tracking9.00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Customer profiles9.90 Ratings7.10 Ratings
Automated workflow9.90 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Internal collaboration10.00 Ratings5.30 Ratings
Customer health scoring9.90 Ratings8.10 Ratings
Customer segmentation9.10 Ratings7.20 Ratings
CSM Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of CSM Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
ChurnZero
9.3
Ratings
10% above category average
Freshsuccess
7.4
Ratings
13% below category average
Customer health trends9.10 Ratings9.10 Ratings
Engagement analytics9.90 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Revenue forecasting9.00 Ratings4.40 Ratings
Dashboards9.00 Ratings9.10 Ratings
Best Alternatives
ChurnZeroFreshsuccess
Small Businesses
ClientSuccess
ClientSuccess
Score 6.0 out of 10
ChurnZero
ChurnZero
Score 7.8 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
CustomerSuccessBox
CustomerSuccessBox
Score 9.5 out of 10
CustomerSuccessBox
CustomerSuccessBox
Score 9.5 out of 10
Enterprises
Gainsight CS
Gainsight CS
Score 8.8 out of 10
Gainsight CS
Gainsight CS
Score 8.8 out of 10
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User Ratings
ChurnZeroFreshsuccess
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
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6.3
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Likelihood to Renew
8.2
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Usability
10.0
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Availability
9.1
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Performance
6.4
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Support Rating
6.5
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-
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In-Person Training
6.4
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-
(0 ratings)
Online Training
7.3
(0 ratings)
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Implementation Rating
8.3
(0 ratings)
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Configurability
6.4
(0 ratings)
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Ease of integration
7.3
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Product Scalability
9.1
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Vendor post-sale
9.1
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User Testimonials
ChurnZeroFreshsuccess
Likelihood to Recommend
If you are a SaaS business with a high volume of customers, having ChurnZero is a must. If you have a subscription based business and a customer success or account management function in your company, I would highly recommend ChurnZero.
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  • Natero does an excellent job of reporting and having a lot of the data available. They don't do as well when you want to track specific metrics such as ARR. (Everything in the application is currently based in MRR)
  • Natero has done an excellent job for our smaller organization. I am not sure how it would work with a larger organization.
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Pros
  • Plays: Allows you to bulk send emails out to clients based on easy to make segments. Also, allows us to track success of a play. Previously, we had to work with our marketing team to send out any emails and it was an extremely bulky process that took far too long for the payout.
  • Segments: Better than any other CRM reporting functionality. Allows us to more accurately look at portions of our clients based on different factors that are extremely easy to use.
  • Health Scores: The customization allows us to really play around with different health scores as we figure out what good health across clients and services really look like.
  • Transparency: Allows me as a manager to see a much better comprehensive look at my team's performance.
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  • Love the accounts view to see all my accounts, their health and some helpful stats!
  • The charting is relevant and detailed for customers to understand their usage of our product. The look and feel is very clean and easy to understand.
  • In the account, you can link to other documentation, which is great!
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Cons
  • More clarity around our usage (event) data - it can be difficult to understand all the terminology ChurnZero uses
  • Add more functionality for use cases of Operations teams - currently focused mainly on CSM usage
  • Ability to set defaults when viewing dashboards and command center - currently all choices reset
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  • It's a complex platform, it can be hard to find what you're looking for if you don't know where to look.
  • There have been a few features which work correctly but can be a bit confusing to get working correctly. Fortunately, the support team is so on it, we get an answer within an hour.
  • I would have liked Natero to have a mechanism in place to nudge users of the platform to use it. This would help with getting adoption on our end. While the onboarding documentation was great, a more hands-on approach to getting users to adopt and use the platform would have helped us get up to speed earlier. It took us nearly 9 months to really start using the system which is partially due to the complexity of the integration process and partially due to the difficulty of switching over CES processes into Natero.
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Likelihood to Renew
Our team is very happy with the product after evaluating multiple vendors, including Gainsight, Totango and Planhat. We like the additional functionality that CZ offers on its enterprise version. We were strongly considering other products if the price was right and functionality worked, but the change management would have been too heavy and taken too long. The ChurnZero team has been a good partner to rely on and allowed us to free up our time and resources to focus on more pressing matters
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Usability
ChurnZero makes my work life a complete game changer. I say it all the time ChurnZero is a one stop shop for data! I don't fumble through numerous different programs, try to remember different passwords, I literally login to CZ and it is right there in front of me
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Reliability and Availability
Quick response by the CZ team.
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Support Rating
I recently had the opportunity to interact with ChurnZero's customer support team, and I must say, I am thoroughly impressed. Their responsiveness and willingness to solve problems are exemplary. From the moment I reached out, their team displayed a level of professionalism and dedication that truly stood out.
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Online Training
The training and onboarding have been very helpful. Since I was not a part of the team when ChurnZero was implemented, it was important to get brought up to speed as quickly as possible and our CSM has been incredibly receptive in that regard.
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Implementation Rating
I implemented CZ in 4 months. When I look back, this is not a long time where I needed to get to know CZ by myself (as I did not have knowledge of it at all..) study the Academy, playing around in the test environment and setting up in live environment.
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Alternatives Considered
We've used several products such as HubSpot, Asana, and Chameleon. ChurnZero gave us all of the features we were looking for including product usage, health scores, automations, journeys, in app walk-throughs and in app announcements. We were able to replace several platforms with ChurnZero and ended up with more functionality.
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We initially looked at Gainsight, Amity, and another which I can't remember the name of. Only Natero and Amity were within a reasonable price range. We selected Natero because the platform was significantly more polished, the reporting seemed significantly stronger in Natero, and during the sales process Natero did a better job of showing us how the functionality would work, whereas our calls with Amity were frequently filled with "it doesn't work because this is a demo account" which was a bit of a red flag.
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Scalability
Easy to escalate.
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Return on Investment
  • Already allowing us to do some data-clean up and better identify struggling accounts
  • Gives us the tools to re-teach our team on being proactive, not reactive
  • We can more easily identify accounts that are positioned well for cross sell
  • Over time, we hope to see higher renewal retention
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  • It's made my job harder.
  • It's made it harder to update my customer's information.
  • It's made me spend more time deleting information to satisfy the character limit.
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ScreenShots

ChurnZero Screenshots

Screenshot of an overview of ChurnZero's customer success AI. It is used to automate content creation, turn scattered data into clear insights, and track customer sentiment. The tools offer deeper visibility, better engagement, and more time to focus on building lasting customer relationships.Screenshot of an overview of ChurnZero's customer insights, which provide a real-time, 360° view of every customer. These are used to track engagement, monitor health, and drive action without guesswork.Screenshot of an overview of how ChurnZero guides customers through key milestones, providing real-time visibility into their progress, and collaboration on personalized success strategies.Screenshot of how ChurnZero keeps customers informed and engaged. With in-app communications, WalkThroughs, and Success Centers, customer success agents can deliver targeted messages, guide users through key features, and provide on-demand resources—all without disrupting their workflow.Screenshot of how ChurnZero defines Data-driven automation = The right actions, for the right customers, at the right time. ChurnZero helps automate key touchpoints, jumpstart engagement with templates, and stay informed with instant updates.Screenshot of how ChurnZero helps to predict risks, seize opportunities, and drive revenue growth. ChurnZero provides real-time insights to identify at-risk accounts, track key trends, and forecast revenue with precision. This helps agents to proactively manage churn, uncover expansion opportunities, and make data-driven decisions that fuel long-term success.

Freshsuccess Screenshots

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