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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Freshchat

    Score7.7 out of 10
    N/AA solution to engage customers with smarter conversations on any channel, designed so support, marketing, sales, and even bots to have conversations at scale with customers.

    $0

    per month free for up to 10 agents

    Twilio Segment

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/ASegment is a customer data platform that helps engineering teams at companies like Tradesy, TIME, Inc., Gap, Lending Tree, PayPal, and Fender, etc., achieve time and cost savings on their data infrastructure, which was acquired by Twilio November 2020. The vendor says they also enable Product, BI, and Marketing teams to access 200+ tools (Mixpanel, Salesforce, Marketo, Redshift, etc.) to better understand and optimize customer preferences for growth— all integrations are pre-built and…

    $120

    per month

    Pricing
    FreshchatTwilio Segment
    Editions & Modules
    Growth
    $19
    per month (billed annually) per agent
    Pro
    $49
    per month (billed annually) per agent
    Enterprise
    $79
    per month (billed annually) per agent
    Free
    $0.00
    Includes 1,000 visitors/mo
    Team
    $120.00
    Includes 10,000 visitors/mo
    Business
    Contact Sales
    Custom Volume
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    FreshchatTwilio Segment
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    More Pricing Information
    Community Pulse
    FreshchatTwilio Segment
    Considered Both Products
    Freshworks Inc
    No answer on this topic
    Twilio
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    95%
    Would buy again
    36 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    14 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    94%
    Delivers good value for the price
    33 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    12 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    95%
    Happy with the feature set
    36 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    14 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    96%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    24 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    12 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    95%
    Implementation went as expected
    35 Answers
    86%
    Implementation went as expected
    12 Answers
    Features
    FreshchatTwilio Segment
    Chat Analytics and Reports
    Comparison of Chat Analytics and Reports features of Freshchat and Twilio Segment
    Feature
    Freshchat
    7.4
    18 Ratings
    16% below category average
    Twilio Segment
    -
    Ratings
    Chat history and transcripts7.918 Ratings00 Ratings
    Chat reporting7.218 Ratings00 Ratings
    Chat and web analytics7.215 Ratings00 Ratings
    Tag Management
    Comparison of Tag Management features of Freshchat and Twilio Segment
    Feature
    Freshchat
    -
    Ratings
    Twilio Segment
    7.6
    2 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Tag library00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Tag variable mapping00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Ease of writing custom tags00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Rules-driven tag execution00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Tag performance monitoring00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Page load times00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Mobile app tagging00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Library of JavaScript extensions00 Ratings7.52 Ratings
    Audience Segmentation & Targeting
    Comparison of Audience Segmentation & Targeting features of Freshchat and Twilio Segment
    Feature
    Freshchat
    -
    Ratings
    Twilio Segment
    7.6
    2 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Standard visitor segmentation00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Behavioral visitor segmentation00 Ratings7.52 Ratings
    Traffic allocation control00 Ratings7.02 Ratings
    Website personalization00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Customer Data Management
    Comparison of Customer Data Management features of Freshchat and Twilio Segment
    Feature
    Freshchat
    -
    Ratings
    Twilio Segment
    8.3
    3 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Account Scoring00 Ratings8.52 Ratings
    Customer Data Governance00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Data Connectors00 Ratings8.73 Ratings
    Data Enhancement00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Data Ingestion00 Ratings8.73 Ratings
    Data Storage00 Ratings8.52 Ratings
    Data Visibility00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Event Data00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Identity Resolution00 Ratings7.52 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    FreshchatTwilio Segment
    Small Businesses
    Olark
    Score10 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
    Medium-sized Companies
    Zoho SalesIQ
    Score9.7 out of 10
    Treasure AI
    Score9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Genesys DX (discontinued)
    Score10 out of 10
    Treasure AI
    Score9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    FreshchatTwilio Segment
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.5
    (42 ratings)
    8.7
    (21 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.2
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    8.2
    (18 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Availability
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    6.3
    (3 ratings)
    7.7
    (8 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    4.5
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    4.5
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    4.5
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Professional Services
    4.5
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    FreshchatTwilio Segment
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Freshworks Inc
    It is best suited for having 24-hour support, where customers can interact easily, even using their phones, to raise concerns or inquire about information. This makes it easier than going through the documents portal as a source of knowledge or sending emails for worries. However, it can be less appropriate for scenarios when you need more formal communication, like emails, and when proper documentation is necessary.
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    Twilio
    Best suited: - Merging emails coming from: Facebook leads forms, Unbounce or landing pages forms, Google forms, any other kind of lead generation tool and bundling all that information together for a single user "profile". - Passing events generated in multiple applications by the same user (product selected in web, product discarded in cart, etc) and delivering those events into other applications (like a CRM) Less appropriate: - Reading/updating data directly from segment from a frontend application
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    Pros
    Freshworks Inc
    • Real time customer support. During busy times all our available agents can jump on and handle large volume of customer interactions.
    • Automations and canned response features. With automation we can greet our customers the moment a chat gets assigned to an agent letting customers know they are being attended to similarly canned response helps us use templates for generic and commonly asked questions.
    • Dashboards and analytics. Freshchat's ability to build customized dashboards and analyze performance in a granular level helps us monitor workload and manage performance effectively.
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    Twilio
    • Multi-platform. Segment has easy integrations in many different web, backend, and app platforms/frameworks. We use the Segment SDK in Android and iOS as well as our node.js backend.
    • Segment is fairly affordable for early-stage companies that are trying out different analytics software. The "developer" plan is free and is suitable for most companies with products that have a small user base.
    • The UI is great! It is extremely intuitive and easy-to-learn, and this made it take very little time to integrate this software into our analytics and marketing workflows.
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    Cons
    Freshworks Inc
    • Freshchat is one of the best platforms, but still there are certain areas that require further improvement in order for the platform to become flawless.
    • I feel that the automated system in Freshchat is comparatively slow and due to this, it does not respond well according to all the requirements.
    • There are certain features in Freshchat which are not available for everyone and they can only be accessed by those who are paying the highest pricing tier.
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    Twilio
    • More and richer sources. For example, MailChimp is a source but the data you get from MailChimp is quite limited. I ended up writing my own scripts to take better advantage of MailChimp's API because Segment's integration was lacking.
    • Better examples on how to set up event tracking. Pageview tracking is easy enough, but it would be nice if they had a sample app and corresponding code for it and showed you, via Git commits, how to add various kinds of events.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Freshworks Inc
    Freshchat has met all our expectations and more. It has allowed our team to be more efficient with their time, field questions quickly, and escalate issues up the chain. We highly recommend freshchat as the perfect addition to anyone already using freshdesk or simply looking for a good solution for in app messaging.
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    Twilio
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    Freshworks Inc
    I give it an 8 due to its usability. Yes, I had a few issues to begin with and needed some assistance from Freshchat agents, but considering this is something that is completely new to me, to set up what feels like a professional chat handling system complete with autobot within a day is really saying something I feel.
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    Twilio
    No answers on this topic
    Reliability and Availability
    Freshworks Inc
    Freshchat has always been available when I needed to use it.
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    Twilio
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    Freshworks Inc
    Freshchat always loads quickly and communication is quickly sent and received.
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    Twilio
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    Support Rating
    Freshworks Inc
    The experience we had in past for lets say 4-5 months with the support team and our TAM was really helpful. The changes in the bot flow has helped our bot to ensure we connect with customer easily.
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    Twilio
    Over the period it took us to set up, we kept going back to their enablement team to help us with the setup, and they were always ready and were very helpful in the entire process. Even with their documentation, they took the time out to help us work through the process. We've never had a message/email unanswered for more than an hour on working days.
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    Implementation Rating
    Freshworks Inc
    I hope to show new users data because this can save a lot of time
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    Twilio
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Freshworks Inc
    Messaging across mediums - Freshchat integrates with majority of mainstream instant messaging apps. Like Facebook messenger, Telegram and WhatsApp . This makes it convenient for us to have a presence on the above-mentioned platforms and respond to messages from these platforms from a single Freshchat dashboard.its good app Freshdesk Messaging help me to contact the customer and contact the customer to inform my problem to solve it and is a good app and help full app and its easy to use uncomplicated and Freshdesk Helps me provide good quality to the customer and make customer feedback good for a company
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    Twilio
    We chose Twilio Segment for the good API integration and node resources, I would use Ontraport again, particularly if I didn't have the requirements for API and development/platform integration. Certainly the set up and management is easy and seamless with both the API and the user interface to use depending on circumstances and requirements.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Freshworks Inc
    Did not help with the purchase
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    Twilio
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    Scalability
    Freshworks Inc
    We only implemented the product in 1 way so I cant speak to this.
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    Twilio
    No answers on this topic
    Professional Services
    Freshworks Inc
    Did not use
    Incentivized
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    Twilio
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Freshworks Inc
    • From the positive effect of working on it, it helps employees to speed up their thinking and writing.
    • One of the positive effects of our clients is that their problems are solved easily and quickly.
    • Each employee knows how many of his chats have been resolved.
    • There is no negative effect in general.
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    Twilio
    • Segment has enabled us to get a full view of our front end activity, join it to our back-end activity, and get full visibility into our funnels and user activity.
    • Segment lets us send events to ad tools with a full audit trail so all the numbers line up.
    • Segment also brings data from other sources into our data warehouse, saving our data engineering time from building commodity connectors.
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    ScreenShots

    Freshchat Screenshots

    Screenshot of Channel Freedom: The interface to engage customers on the channel of their choiceScreenshot of Unified Agent Workspace: Equips agents to deliver personalization at scaleScreenshot of Admin and Analytics: These drive informed decisions to help business scale

    Twilio Segment Screenshots

    Screenshot of Destinations CatalogScreenshot of Destinations Main OverviewScreenshot of Sources Main OverviewScreenshot of DebuggerScreenshot of DocsScreenshot of Destination Settings