Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Freshdesk
Score 8.4 out of 10
N/A
Freshdesk is a cloud-based customer service software that helps businesses of all sizes to deliver customer support. Freshdesk converts requests coming in via email, web, phone, chat, and social into tickets, and unifies ticket resolution across channels. Additionally, Freshdesk lets the user automate workflows, provide self-service, manage SLAs, and measure metrics, to stay on top of customer support. Freshdesk also offers out-of-the-box features like an AI-powered support chatbot,…
$0
Up to 2 agents
Sprinklr Service
Score 7.5 out of 10
N/A
Sprinklr Service is a cloud-native unified customer service platform powered by AI that enables customer and agent experience across 30+ digital, social and voice channels, and delivers real-time insights. Enables customers to interact with a brand on their preferred channel for consistent brand experience. Empowers agents with unified/360 customer view and recommends the most relevant responses with AI to improve agent productivity and experience.…
$249
per month per seat
Pricing
FreshdeskSprinklr Service
Editions & Modules
Free
$0
Up to 2 agents
Growth
$15
per month (billed annually) per agent
Pro
$49
per month (billed annually) per agent
Enterprise
$79
per month (billed annually) per agent
Self-Serve Customer Service Solution
$249
per month per seat
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
FreshdeskSprinklr Service
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional DetailsOmnichannel Automation, AI and Insights Reporting
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Community Pulse
FreshdeskSprinklr Service
Features
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Incident and problem management
Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Product A and Product B
Freshdesk
8.6
193 Ratings
5% above category average
Sprinklr Service
-
Ratings
Organize and prioritize service tickets9.2189 Ratings00 Ratings
Expert directory8.1127 Ratings00 Ratings
Subscription-based notifications8.43 Ratings00 Ratings
ITSM collaboration and documentation7.64 Ratings00 Ratings
Ticket creation and submission9.2189 Ratings00 Ratings
Ticket response9.0189 Ratings00 Ratings
Self Help Community
Comparison of Self Help Community features of Product A and Product B
Freshdesk
8.4
173 Ratings
5% above category average
Sprinklr Service
-
Ratings
External knowledge base8.4157 Ratings00 Ratings
Internal knowledge base8.3161 Ratings00 Ratings
Multi-Channel Help
Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of Product A and Product B
Freshdesk
8.8
182 Ratings
10% above category average
Sprinklr Service
-
Ratings
Customer portal8.8154 Ratings00 Ratings
IVR8.956 Ratings00 Ratings
Social integration8.597 Ratings00 Ratings
Email support9.2181 Ratings00 Ratings
Help Desk CRM integration8.6115 Ratings00 Ratings
Contact Center Software
Comparison of Contact Center Software features of Product A and Product B
Freshdesk
-
Ratings
Sprinklr Service
7.1
2 Ratings
16% below category average
Agent dashboard00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Validate callers00 Ratings6.02 Ratings
Outbound response00 Ratings6.02 Ratings
Call forwarding00 Ratings7.02 Ratings
Click-to-call (CTC)00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Warm transfer00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Predictive dialing00 Ratings5.12 Ratings
Interactive voice response00 Ratings8.12 Ratings
REST APIs00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Call scripts00 Ratings7.02 Ratings
Call tracking00 Ratings7.02 Ratings
Multichannel integration00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
CRM software integration00 Ratings6.12 Ratings
Workforce Optimization (WFO)
Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of Product A and Product B
Freshdesk
-
Ratings
Sprinklr Service
8.2
2 Ratings
0% above category average
Inbound call routing00 Ratings7.12 Ratings
Omnichannel inbound routing00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Recording00 Ratings7.12 Ratings
Quality management00 Ratings7.12 Ratings
Call analytics00 Ratings8.12 Ratings
Historical reporting00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Live reporting00 Ratings8.12 Ratings
Customer surveys00 Ratings8.12 Ratings
Customer interaction analytics00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Best Alternatives
FreshdeskSprinklr Service
Small Businesses
Agiloft Service Desk (discontinued)
Agiloft Service Desk (discontinued)
Score 9.0 out of 10
CloudTalk
CloudTalk
Score 8.3 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Agiloft Service Desk (discontinued)
Agiloft Service Desk (discontinued)
Score 9.0 out of 10
CloudTalk
CloudTalk
Score 8.3 out of 10
Enterprises
SysAid
SysAid
Score 9.1 out of 10
Bright Pattern Contact Center
Bright Pattern Contact Center
Score 9.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
FreshdeskSprinklr Service
Likelihood to Recommend
8.7
(253 ratings)
9.0
(26 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.8
(22 ratings)
7.5
(7 ratings)
Usability
9.8
(42 ratings)
9.0
(4 ratings)
Availability
7.7
(6 ratings)
9.9
(3 ratings)
Performance
5.7
(5 ratings)
9.9
(3 ratings)
Support Rating
9.8
(40 ratings)
9.1
(10 ratings)
In-Person Training
8.2
(1 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Online Training
8.1
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
8.8
(184 ratings)
9.0
(2 ratings)
Configurability
6.6
(7 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
6.5
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
7.5
(5 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
5.7
(5 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Professional Services
6.4
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
6.9
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
6.9
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
FreshdeskSprinklr Service
Likelihood to Recommend
Freshworks Inc
I recommend Freshdesk for people who need to handle a large volume of inquiries through tickets and follow-ups. This platform provides tools that will improve problem-solving efficiency, ensuring customers are satisfied with the speed with which their issues are resolved. Overall, it will optimize customer service support operations and the resolution of their problems.
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Sprinklr
Sprinklr Service has always been well-suited for all of the work we do. As it's all social media content, and most require responses or escalations, Sprinklr Service covers all of that. The only time I think we wouldn't need it is if we were working with a much smaller client who didn't need us to have eyes on so many platforms at once.
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Pros
Freshworks Inc
  • The price is great for small startups just large enough to need a support ticketing system.
  • This may seem minor, but many tools don't have this: the ability to link a contact to multiple companies/accounts.
  • Agent collision detection is great for making sure agents don't duplicate each others' work!
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Sprinklr
  • Automated routing to appropriate teams
  • Automated notifications for certain types of content or posts from certain users
  • The reporting options are fantastic.
  • We've integrated a chatbot seamlessly with Sprinklr modern care so our team members can pick up a conversation if our bot isn't able to provide an answer.
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Cons
Freshworks Inc
  • Data Security.
  • SLA Policies where it is not customer / contract driven but agents / groups driven.
  • Audit Trail is not available in Pro version makes the tool adoption difficult from compliance perspective.
  • Chat Bot and Fresh Chat Services has greater potential to explode, but the pricing model tagged to chat bot sessions .are illogical as it limits the ability to use the fresh chat feature
  • Agent Logon Screen use earlier version of Captcha as it is annoying for the agents to login. Very frustrating experience.
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Sprinklr
  • I find it difficult to dive into analytics for each social post. The reporting tool gives me an overview of the channels but I would love to look at a breakdown of each post performance.
  • You currently can't add closed caption subtitles to videos uploaded through Sprinklr so this results in having to revert to the native platform.
  • I would love to be able to set up a newsfeed that includes posts from a number of our partner accounts, so I can keep up to date with what they're posting.
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Likelihood to Renew
Freshworks Inc
We are extremely happy with Freshdesk and can foresee using it for the next year. We might only consider using a different platform if our average daily ticket volume reaches four digits and its AI isn’t enough to handle our needs by then. While we haven’t tested this yet, we have read reviews that it’s AI capabilities are lacking
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Sprinklr
The biggest reason we renewed, and kept up with Sprinklr Modern Care is because it is an active community and there is customer buy-in already. They continue to update and improve the product, but more importantly, the customers are using it. It's easy to switch products when it's not an active component in your daily structure, but switching and migrating the data or providing alternatives becomes difficult when customers have grown accustomed to a specific experience. As long as they continue to improve the available features and the community stays active, renewed use will continue.
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Usability
Freshworks Inc
I gave it a rating of 9 out of 10 because they delivered on everything we asked them to do. Easy to setup, easy to deploy to end users, easy to customize, easy to enter tickets and so much more. Our experience with their support is top notch! After opening a ticket for support they call use back within 10 minutes every time!
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Sprinklr
I've spent year designing products so I'm a tough judge when it comes to other solutions. It's clear that Sprinklr Modern Care was designed for the average online consumer with a very user friendly interface. They have made improvements to the admin tools to make that area of the product easier to use as well.
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Reliability and Availability
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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Sprinklr
No issues with system availability. They manage updates in off-peak hours and I usually don't notice the changes until I log into the system the next day.
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Performance
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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Sprinklr
Performance is great and is not negatively effecting our processes. We have to make sure it doesn't effect out load times. Not currently seeing any issues with widgets affecting page load times.
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Support Rating
Freshworks Inc
The main thing about Freshdesk user service is that once a request has been made for information about a feature of the platform, the support team responds to tickets quickly, within a day of writing and submitting them, with information that is concise enough so that there is no need to ask for help on the same topic again.
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Sprinklr
I know the Sprinklr conference calls have been helpful, but sometimes submitting a ticket can be a little daunting. In the past, we've included information in screenshots that are then asked for by a member of the support staff. The turnaround time has been between 3 days, which isn't horrible.
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In-Person Training
Freshworks Inc
Support Team's knowledge and understood the company's requirement, and always shared the insight of the usage of the tool to it s full potential, moreover the team checks periodically to check if we using the tool right and if we are facing any kind of challenges. Also they would update us on new features that can make the work easy.
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Sprinklr
Our customer support team went through in-person training. I am not unable to rate.
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Online Training
Freshworks Inc
Video tutorials, questions answers round before and after testing and Fresh desk team would always share best practices on the needs. Furthermore would periodically check if we are able to work smoothly. Would send alerts to known any issues, send recommendation on new features. Freshdesk team always available when we need certain advise.
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Sprinklr
No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating
Freshworks Inc
Our team easily implemented Freshdesk, and as soon as we started, we were pros with it. In a matter of days, we had integrated signatures and canned responses. The biggest problem was the Help Center part, but after some time, that was also integrated. We did not know some features when we started, but that is normal.
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Sprinklr
Basic setup took me less than 30 minutes. This includes initial configuration, putting in the initial content, and getting the look-and-feel customized. The domain routing took the normal lag time any other website or blogging service. The really important thing was to get the user accounts setup and begin seeding the system with content before a public launch.
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Alternatives Considered
Freshworks Inc
Freshdesk has a more modern and intuitive user interface, while Help Scout's interface is simpler and more minimalist.In case of features, Freshdesk offers a wider range of features, includes omnichannel support, AI powered automations, and advanced analytics. Help Scout is more focused on providing a simple and efficient ticketing system.
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Sprinklr
First, we had a social studio which was good in terms of functionalities but slow. After that, we had the chance to use Talkwalker & social bakers which were good tools yet not enough compares to Sprinklr
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
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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Sprinklr
No answers on this topic
Scalability
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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Sprinklr
No answers on this topic
Professional Services
Freshworks Inc
Very professional, they would always ask for the steps followed and where we went wrong, they would politely share the video recording to review in case any other team member faces the same issue
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Sprinklr
No answers on this topic
Return on Investment
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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Sprinklr
  • Increased employee efficiency: Having a clear, one-stop "shop" where users can leave feedback, ask questions, and find bug fixes or workarounds has saved me (and other community managers at my company) loads of time that was once spent responding to numerous emails on an individual basis.
  • Better customer service: Since everyone in the company is alerted of what's being written on our forum, it's easy to spot a high-priority issue, delegate to the person in charge, resolve it, and respond as soon as possible.
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