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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Atlassian Jira

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/AAtlassian Jira is a project management tool, featuring an interactive timeline for mapping work items, dependencies, and releases, Scrum boards for agile teams, and out-of-the-box reports and dashboards.

    $9

    per month per user

    Freshdesk

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AFreshdesk (a product of Freshworks Inc.) is a customer service solution with enterprise capability. Freshdesk unifies channels, conversations, AI capabilities, customer insights, and advanced ticketing into the Freshdesk Command Center so agents are ready to resolve. With Freddy, People-first AI, customer service teams can take AI agents live in minutes to fully resolve complex and simple queries, get response and resolution assistance from AI copilot, and stay ahead with AI insights.…

    $18

    per month per user

    Pricing
    Atlassian JiraFreshdesk
    Editions & Modules
    Standard
    $9
    per month per user
    Premium
    $17
    per month per user
    Enterprise
    Contact Sales
    per year
    Growth
    $18
    per month per agent
    Pro
    $59
    per month per agent
    Enterprise
    $95
    per month per agent
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Atlassian JiraFreshdesk
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsHigher volume teams may qualify buyers for a discount.
    More Pricing Information
    Community Pulse
    Atlassian JiraFreshdesk
    Considered Both Products
    Atlassian
    Chose Atlassian Jira
    Not sure that I have used a similar product.
    Incentivized
    Chose Atlassian Jira
    Bugzilla would be useful if you don't want to pay for bug tracking but maintenance is a bit painful. We are using Gitlab as our repo, The way Gitlab is progressing, I think We can replace Jira with that.
    Incentivized
    Freshworks Inc
    Chose Freshdesk
    We actually use both JIRA and Freshdesk, and Freshdesk has been a great tool for our clients and our internal users to have visibility over both the big picture and the individual issues at play.
    Incentivized
    Chose Freshdesk
    Freshdesk, Zendesk and ServiceNow are all excellent. Other products have good points and bad points, but, in my opinion, are clearly inferior. It really comes down to implementation and how well the ticketing system is integrated with other systems, and customized for your …
    Incentivized
    Chose Freshdesk
    Freshworks desk is very easy to use and understand.
    The biggest strengths if Freshdesk as it's usability, Affordability and the vast number of features it provides for its clients.
    Incentivized
    Chose Freshdesk
    My company originally selected Freshdesk due to price, but as we grew, we found it lacking compared to its more expensive counterparts. I briefly compared Zendesk to resolve our main issues with Freshdesk, but I'd spent so much time and effort customizing Freshdesk that we …
    Incentivized
    Chose Freshdesk
    Freshdesk is aimed more for direct customer support tasks.
    Incentivized
    Chose Freshdesk
    It has a lot of the features you would need to run a support service but it doesn't have as much extensibility. It works out more cost effective to use Jira Service Management as customer and service management is included in one product
    Incentivized
    Chose Freshdesk
    It has a more better interface and intuitive UI/UX. Less learning is required here.
    Incentivized
    Chose Freshdesk
    FreshDesk was the best combination of ease of use and price. While inexpensive, even the lowest tier offered more functionality than the other guys, and the learning curve is almost nonexistent so it's easy to add new agents and get them up to speed quickly instead of having …
    Incentivized
    Chose Freshdesk
    Freshdesk has less features but seems easier to set up and use. This benefits both end users and support agents.
    Incentivized
    Chose Freshdesk
    Freshdesk has the broadest scope of features, at least from what is obvious. Integration with Outlook / Emails works better than in some of the products mentioned above. Freshdesk features tools for automation which are required for scaling. Also the user interface is the most …
    Incentivized
    Chose Freshdesk
    I was not involved in evaluating competitors.
    Incentivized
    Chose Freshdesk
    The decision was made before my time. I want to move to another platform ASAP.
    Incentivized
    Chose Freshdesk
    Freshdesk was ultimately a more cost efficient option for our business than Zendesk. It also offered a wider suite of integrations (including Jira and Saleforce) which we heavily use for our business.
    Incentivized
    Chose Freshdesk
    Freshdesk offers a free trial of 21 days and the onboarding is a very smooth process. It is comparatively cheaper than its competitors and the UX is far more simple than the other products in the market. Also, the customer support that we get post the purchase is brilliant and …
    Incentivized
    Chose Freshdesk
    Jira Service Management Configuration was incredibly complicated and would have required significant time and effort to set up properly. Customer Portal customization is very limited compared to other solutions. No integrated voice solution is available, which was something …
    Incentivized
    Chose Freshdesk
    The product that Freshdesk compares to the most on this list is Zendesk, which was considerably more expensive and was missing a server integration that we required. It did have a lot of great features, though, and its Support and Account Managers are located in the U.S. (vs. …
    Incentivized
    Chose Freshdesk
    We are using Zendesk just to manage the Knowledge base. For ticketing, we are using Freshdesk only.
    Incentivized
    Chose Freshdesk
    It's simpler and great for start ups and small business.
    Incentivized
    Chose Freshdesk
    - Zendesk vs Freshdesk is similar but FD is better than zendesk. - SF vs Freshdesk cost is almost ok but got better contacts in FD to begin with. - Siebel vs Freshdesk UI challenge are easier than Siebel. - Jira vs Freshdesk Cost effective than Jira.
    Incentivized
    Chose Freshdesk
    Freshdesk stands much ahead with a lot of modern features that make it a comprehensive solution for businesses that do not have IT standards but are high on volume and want to resolve their customer queries at a quick pace and achieve a capability to serve an increasing …
    Incentivized
    Chose Freshdesk
    1. Freshdesk is best suited for ticket management.
    2. Its very costly but still worth the price.
    3. It has many features with multiple support channels including live chat, email, phone and social media.
    Incentivized
    Chose Freshdesk
    Being an early adopter, we were able to fully test the product and could see its potential. We were at first looking for greater value and focus on smaller tech. We found that with Freshdesk and have been able to embed its use right through all the channels of our company as we …
    Incentivized
    Chose Freshdesk
    We're actually already using other systems to make up for the lack of things that Freshdesk can do. However, Freshdesk is easy to learn and easy to use. With everything going more digital, we need software that can keep up. Freshdesk is still a good project management tool. We …
    Incentivized
    Chose Freshdesk
    The big competitors of Freshdesk are Zendesk and HappyFox. Freshdesk provides a free version for you to try the product and also is cheaper than other competitors. It is great for SMB segment. For Enterprises there are other options that are more popular like JIRA. Also highly …
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    96%
    Would buy again
    138 Answers
    93%
    Would buy again
    213 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
    121 Answers
    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
    207 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    94%
    Happy with the feature set
    136 Answers
    93%
    Happy with the feature set
    213 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    96%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    71 Answers
    95%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    147 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    98%
    Implementation went as expected
    91 Answers
    94%
    Implementation went as expected
    174 Answers
    Features
    Atlassian JiraFreshdesk
    Project Management
    Comparison of Project Management features of Atlassian Jira and Freshdesk
    Feature
    Atlassian Jira
    7.8
    66 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Freshdesk
    -
    Ratings
    Task Management8.765 Ratings00 Ratings
    Resource Management7.963 Ratings00 Ratings
    Gantt Charts7.149 Ratings00 Ratings
    Scheduling7.858 Ratings00 Ratings
    Workflow Automation7.861 Ratings00 Ratings
    Team Collaboration8.564 Ratings00 Ratings
    Support for Agile Methodology8.765 Ratings00 Ratings
    Support for Waterfall Methodology7.950 Ratings00 Ratings
    Document Management6.954 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email integration7.855 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile Access7.044 Ratings00 Ratings
    Timesheet Tracking7.744 Ratings00 Ratings
    Change request and Case Management8.149 Ratings00 Ratings
    Budget and Expense Management7.136 Ratings00 Ratings
    Professional Services Automation
    Comparison of Professional Services Automation features of Atlassian Jira and Freshdesk
    Feature
    Atlassian Jira
    7.7
    40 Ratings
    0% above category average
    Freshdesk
    -
    Ratings
    Quotes/estimates7.732 Ratings00 Ratings
    Invoicing8.125 Ratings00 Ratings
    Project & financial reporting7.436 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with accounting software7.427 Ratings00 Ratings
    Incident and problem management
    Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Atlassian Jira and Freshdesk
    Feature
    Atlassian Jira
    -
    Ratings
    Freshdesk
    8.6
    210 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Organize and prioritize service tickets00 Ratings9.3206 Ratings
    Expert directory00 Ratings7.9140 Ratings
    Subscription-based notifications00 Ratings7.812 Ratings
    ITSM collaboration and documentation00 Ratings8.115 Ratings
    Ticket creation and submission00 Ratings9.0207 Ratings
    Ticket response00 Ratings9.1207 Ratings
    Self Help Community
    Comparison of Self Help Community features of Atlassian Jira and Freshdesk
    Feature
    Atlassian Jira
    -
    Ratings
    Freshdesk
    8.0
    185 Ratings
    0% below category average
    External knowledge base00 Ratings8.1169 Ratings
    Internal knowledge base00 Ratings8.0173 Ratings
    Multi-Channel Help
    Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of Atlassian Jira and Freshdesk
    Feature
    Atlassian Jira
    -
    Ratings
    Freshdesk
    8.3
    197 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Customer portal00 Ratings8.3169 Ratings
    IVR00 Ratings8.563 Ratings
    Social integration00 Ratings8.2105 Ratings
    Email support00 Ratings8.6197 Ratings
    Help Desk CRM integration00 Ratings7.8126 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Atlassian JiraFreshdesk
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.3
    (254 ratings)
    8.6
    (277 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.6
    (37 ratings)
    8.5
    (25 ratings)
    Usability
    7.8
    (79 ratings)
    9.0
    (42 ratings)
    Availability
    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    7.5
    (6 ratings)
    Performance
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    7.6
    (6 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (24 ratings)
    8.4
    (41 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    7.0
    (3 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.7
    (207 ratings)
    Configurability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    6.5
    (7 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.5
    (5 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    8.0
    (9 ratings)
    7.9
    (6 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    6.8
    (6 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.7
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.6
    (5 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.7
    (5 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Atlassian JiraFreshdesk
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Atlassian
    Jira facilitates software development, bug tracking, and sprints. It's ideal for structured workflows, issue management, and customer communication. However, more straightforward tools might be more efficient for highly creative, unstructured tasks or tiny, agile teams with quick visual overviews. Jira's complexity can be overkill for basic task lists.
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    Freshworks Inc
    I believe Freshdesk is well-suited for companies that manage multiple accounts, such as those in the Business Process Outsourcing industry. It has all the necessary capabilities, such as ticket management that uses omnichannel to receive ticket requests from service requests (managed internally) in the system, emails, etc. There are also several workflow automations that can be built within the platform/system. What is lacking is the API documentation, which limits the possibilities for further automations. Overall, it is a highly recommended tool for managing employee productivity and timeliness.
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    Pros
    Atlassian
    • Integration of tools like Bitbucket, Github, etc., has made it easier to track the code changes, pull requests, and branches linked to the respective ticket.
    • The detailed tracking system in JIRA has helped the teams prioritize and understand the project tasks and issues.
    • JIRA's project tracking board helps you keep track of the project, its flow, and expectations in a structured format.
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    Freshworks Inc
    • No prior experience with similar platforms is required to use Freshdesk. I found its interface to be quite intuitive, at least for the end user.
    • It's easy to connect with other platforms, so you can sync and manage data from other platforms because the integrations work correctly.
    • Freshdesk's technical support is quite responsive, with short and effective response times. They have easily handled my questions and issues.
    • It has tools for customizing automated chats, answering frequently asked questions before transferring to an agent. Its configuration is extensive and highly customizable.
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    Cons
    Atlassian
    • The interface is not intuitive to learn for new users
    • JQL is similarly challenging for newbies
    • It's possible to accidentally move issues from one sprint to another without realizing your mistake
    • Certain issue attributes aren't available in certain view (e.g. story points from the epic overview)
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    Freshworks Inc
    • Freshdesk is buggy, full stop. I don't know how many support tickets I submitted related to user login.
    • There can be a language barrier with support and sales.
    • There were a couple of hours-long outages that significantly impacted my company's customer experience.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Atlassian
    This is because Jira Software generates a huge profit for an affordable price. Having a tool that makes team management transparent and effective is very valuable.
    In addition, the renewal of Jira Software and all Atlassian tools is predictable and clear, as the prices are published on the Atlassian website and there is no pyramid of intermediaries.
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    Freshworks Inc
    New support agents can learn the system quickly, minimizing training time and maximizing productivity from day one. Agents are more willing to use a system that is simple, reducing resistance to change and ensuring all interactions are logged (a common problem with complex systems). The platform is known for being easy to set up and customize, allowing teams (especially smaller ones) to get started with minimal technical expertise.The platform makes it easy to set and monitor Service Level Agreements (SLAs), ensuring customers get timely responses and helping managers enforce performance standards.
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    Usability
    Atlassian
    The interface is simple and easy to use if you have some experience with it. Configuration is also logical most of the time. However, less experienced users tend to find themselves lost in some tasks - usually complex project configuration- but sometimes simple things, such as seeing why a user can't move issues in a workflow. Jira configuration requires a good amount of experience - and even experienced users often resort to documentation. It's a tool that's easy to use if you know what you're doing and where to find the proper documentation, but novice users tend to find it challenging.
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    Freshworks Inc
    Freshdesk is extremely easy to use as implemented it on our own with average technical skills. A lot of the options are straightforward and Freshdesk provides easy-to-understand explanations for some of the more complex-sounding ones. We recently onboarded new specialists and they were able to learn Freshdesk with minimal training.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Atlassian
    Did not face any issues and whenever they plan maintanance they update all of us very well in advance also so in that view we are good with the product stability.
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    Freshworks Inc
    I have encountered a lot of errors in the Freshdesk, however, they tend to resolve it on priority or at least they will share the timeline by when this can be resolved. Most of the time the issue has been from the other partner's end. They take time to resolve their vendor issues and they don't have any timelines in case of developed app errors.
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    Performance
    Atlassian
    Performance is really good though it holds lot of data it loads quickly especially search operation also get the results very quickly as needed hence its good
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    Freshworks Inc
    The reports take a lot of time to download if the time period is large. Also, the tickets take their sweet time to open and load. It is not fast as Zendesk. Only 30 tickets are visible in a single go and there isn't any option to select all. If we need to change the pages and dashboards it takes a lot of time to open.
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    Support Rating
    Atlassian
    I have not had a chance to contact JIRA's customer support. It does offer extensive documentation, although it often feels too technical for me. There is also a JIRA training app that lets you take little lessons and quizzes on different areas (e.g., JIRA basics, agile). I did find it a helpful way to teach myself.
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    Freshworks Inc
    Because I never worked with a company that responds so quickly to their customer! They are always fast at responding and very open to new ideas and quickly turning them around to include them in future releases. They walk us through when we need assistance and are very good at communicating. Overall top notch support
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    In-Person Training
    Atlassian
    Had received training from our own internal user so it was good and also very easy to understand topics and many tasks in the UI are self explanatory and we can do by our own
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    Freshworks Inc
    In-person training is provided to all the agents and it is very easy to learn the basics of the Freshdesk interface. Solving tickets via dashboards, replying to the guest queries in bulk via Freshdesk. The training which is a bit hard is creating the logic according to the ticket flow and intergeration.
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    Online Training
    Atlassian
    One of their strong points i stheir documentation. Almost all of the basic set up needed within JIRA is available online through atlassian and its easy to find and very precise. The more critical issues need to be addressed as well and hence the rating of 8 instead of a 9.
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    Freshworks Inc
    This tool is no doubt easy to learn but in-person training is a lot better than online training. It takes time to grasp things in the online training, however, in pandemic we have done all the training online. Apart from a bit more time we haven't faced any issues with online training.
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    Implementation Rating
    Atlassian
    Take your time implementing Jira. Make sure you understand how you want to handle your projects and workflows. Investing more time in the implementation can pay off in a long run. It basically took us 5 days to define and implement correctly, but that meant smooth sailing later on.
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    Freshworks Inc
    Was a fairly quick implementation for us. However, we are only doing email integration and not some of the more complex integrations that are possible. One clarification on an earlier question. I selected that Freshdesk doesn't have a given feature, but this is not true. I selected this because there wasn't a selection for I don't use the feature. This is a weakness in the survey.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Atlassian
    monday.com cannot be integrated with CI/CD tools, whereas Atlassian Jira integrates with CI/CD tools seamlessly. Atlassian Jira has strong Agile and Scrum support. Coming to monday.com, it has basic agile functionality. But Atlassian Jira has a complex UI, and monday.com has an intuitive, drag-and-drop interface. Overall, Atlassian Jira provides features like Agile project management, DevOps integration, and customizable workflows.
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    Freshworks Inc
    Compared to Crisp, Freshdesk offers much more organization and is just much more helpful when it comes to having more than one region/team. Not that Crisp is bad, but with Freshdesk, internal communication and collaboration are much easier, which was quite important for our team to grow.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Atlassian
    Product is rellay good but pricing part I am not aware
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    Freshworks Inc
    I was not very involved with the purchase/contract (my company purchased Fresjdesk before I was brought on), but I will say that pricing per agent made it difficult to grow our support team. Additionally, we were kind of disappointed after our upgrade because it didn't solve our pain points as much as we expected.
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    Scalability
    Atlassian
    Atlassian Jira is highly stable and good with its performance and its has all the required scalability features as business needs
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    Freshworks Inc
    My company had Freshdesk agents from support and success. It's generally difficult to customize permissions for different agent "roles." We were a fully distributed company, so "multiple sites" doesn't apply to us. We found Freshdesk features lacking as we grew our customer base, and adding agents wasn't easy because price steeply increases with number of agents.
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    Professional Services
    Atlassian
    No answers on this topic
    Freshworks Inc
    - good customer support
    - personal contact
    - usage limited to basic product features, individually designed solutions seem unlikely
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    Return on Investment
    Atlassian
    • For our marketing team, Jira Work Management caused us to lose valuable work time due to manual updates that could have been automated.
    • Due to lack of creative review tools within Jira Work Management, our team had to pursue other tools that do not integrate with Jira Work Management, thus creating additional OpEx.
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    Freshworks Inc
    • Increased response times - Client Success maintains at 98% SLA for resolution
    • Categorization of feedback and issues - custom ticket fields make it easier for us to review why clients contact us on a high level
    • Standardization of internal procedures via templates, canned responses and automations
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