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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Front

    Score9.2 out of 10
    N/AFront is a communication hub that helps businesses keep the human touch in every interaction.

    $29

    per month per user

    Nuclino

    Score7.1 out of 10
    N/ANuclino is a unified workspace where teams can organize knowledge, manage projects, and share ideas. Progress can be tracked in a Kanban board, work structured in a hierarchical list, or data organized in a visual graph — Nuclino adapts to a team's workflow. Presented as simple and lightweight by design, Nuclino focuses on the essentials, doing away with clunky menus and rarely-used settings, to minimize the learning curve for new users. Teams from across the globe can use Nuclino…

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    Pricing
    FrontNuclino
    Editions & Modules
    Starter
    $29
    per month per user
    Growth
    $79
    per month per user
    Scale
    $99
    per month (billed annually) per user
    Premier
    $229
    per month (billed annually) per seat (50 seat minimum)
    Free
    $0
    per month per user
    Starter
    $8
    per month per user
    Business
    $12
    per month per user
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    FrontNuclino
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsDiscount for annual pricing on Starter and Growth plans. Scale and Premier plans are annual price only.Nuclino offers a free plan for up to 50 items and 2GB total storage. Commercial plans support unlimited items, advanced features, and 10GB storage per user. 25% discount for annual pricing.
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    Features
    FrontNuclino
    Incident and problem management
    Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Front and Nuclino
    Feature
    Front
    7.6
    6 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Nuclino
    -
    Ratings
    Organize and prioritize service tickets8.26 Ratings00 Ratings
    Subscription-based notifications6.74 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ticket creation and submission7.74 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ticket response7.74 Ratings00 Ratings
    Self Help Community
    Comparison of Self Help Community features of Front and Nuclino
    Feature
    Front
    7.0
    6 Ratings
    13% below category average
    Nuclino
    -
    Ratings
    External knowledge base7.06 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multi-Channel Help
    Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of Front and Nuclino
    Feature
    Front
    8.8
    4 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Nuclino
    -
    Ratings
    Customer portal8.33 Ratings00 Ratings
    Social integration9.43 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email support9.24 Ratings00 Ratings
    Help Desk CRM integration8.42 Ratings00 Ratings
    Project Management
    Comparison of Project Management features of Front and Nuclino
    Feature
    Front
    -
    Ratings
    Nuclino
    8.4
    13 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Task Management00 Ratings7.99 Ratings
    Gantt Charts00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Scheduling00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Workflow Automation00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Mobile Access00 Ratings8.010 Ratings
    Search00 Ratings8.012 Ratings
    Visual planning tools00 Ratings7.611 Ratings
    Communication
    Comparison of Communication features of Front and Nuclino
    Feature
    Front
    -
    Ratings
    Nuclino
    8.4
    12 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Chat00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Notifications00 Ratings7.79 Ratings
    Discussions00 Ratings8.08 Ratings
    Surveys00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Internal knowledgebase00 Ratings8.512 Ratings
    Integrates with GoToMeeting00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Integrates with Gmail and Google Hangouts00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Integrates with Outlook00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    File Sharing & Management
    Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of Front and Nuclino
    Feature
    Front
    -
    Ratings
    Nuclino
    7.3
    12 Ratings
    10% below category average
    Versioning00 Ratings7.19 Ratings
    Video files00 Ratings7.37 Ratings
    Audio files00 Ratings7.56 Ratings
    Document collaboration00 Ratings10.010 Ratings
    Access control00 Ratings2.210 Ratings
    Advanced security features00 Ratings8.03 Ratings
    Integrates with Google Drive00 Ratings8.22 Ratings
    Device sync00 Ratings8.19 Ratings
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    FrontNuclino
    Small Businesses
    Help Scout
    Score9.3 out of 10
    Flock
    Score9.5 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    LiveAgent
    Score8.8 out of 10
    Troop Messenger
    Score9.8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Kustomer
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Cisco Business Edition 7000 (discontinued)
    Score9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    FrontNuclino
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.1
    (35 ratings)
    7.1
    (13 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    9.4
    (9 ratings)
    8.2
    (9 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.8
    (5 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    FrontNuclino
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Front
    I think Front is very useful for every company with multiple teams working together on different emails from clients. Not so useful if a lot of different teams need to work on a request at the same time, because when an email is sitting in multiple shared inboxes things can get messy. Also would not recommend for teams that work is individualized, as team work is the main point of Front.
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    Nuclino
    For game design - Perfect for personal notes, recipes, snippets - Perfect for storing some organized data (for example, links to resources) - Perfect for a content playground powered by AI - Very good for diagrams - Very good. Don't know any bad examples. Tool really great. Rich functionality. Especially love different views (table, graph).
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    Pros
    Front
    • Even if you are just trying to compose a single email, Front gives a smart system that has options such [as] organized templates, tags, alerts, [and] changing your outbound dpt email.
    • Tasks- with Front you will not miss any interaction. When you are required to get assistance from a coworker, you only need to mention him/her and that notification will appear automatically in their inboxes.
    • Smart Notifications- sometimes we are just overwhelmed about the several notifications on our devices that we tend to miss some of them, but Front offers a new way to notify every email, discussion, mentioning, or tag that you really would not want to miss.
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    Nuclino
    • The system is extremely fast. The application loads and displays data in milliseconds. This makes the system easy to work with.
    • It's also easy to edit documentation and information, as information can be editing directly without the use of an "edit" button.
    • Pricing: Loading speed, ease of use and quick editing are its main advantage that makes it stand out from competitors. Having said that, the pricing is very good as well.
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    Cons
    Front
    • Their integration to Salesforce is lacking. As the owner of our productivity tools and how they are used, I have very little control over what things to enforce, or even change what objects are available. For example, we don't use Cases in Salesforce but with the Salesforce integration the Cases object shows up. There's no need to have that there. I've heard there is a roadmap improvement forthcoming.
    • One of our uses is for our sales development reps to prospect with visitors. Because of the high volume of inquiries it's difficult for our reps to efficiently manage all their follow ups. It would be nice if we could run a "scheduled campaign" where a predesigned cadence of email follow ups can be sent automatically. To be clear, they do have a scheduling capability, but it just can't be used as a prebuilt option.
    • Integrations to other systems require you have a user account to those systems. We have SSO and therefore we don't always have a user account. For example, out integration to Jira uses SSO so we don't each have individual Jira logins. This is an outage for us.
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    Nuclino
    • switching overe workspaces is bit tedious at the moment
    • more granular control over what users can edit inside workspace -> specific items or any item under a specific collection
    • currently its not clear who edited an item last -> footer that updates each time item has been edited and by whom
    • support for smartsheets. only because we use them ;)
    • on prem version? (easier to sell this to my boss)
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Front
    We are very happy with Front and don't anticipate changing
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    Nuclino
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    Front
    It's very easy to understand and use by new customer support agents as well. Be it a technology, product, or marketing person, we have trained most of the company folks to read and respond to customer conversations in their free time with the help of the Front app. It is also easy to set up for an admin and manage his/her team with communication rules.
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    Nuclino
    It has a very clean UI for me, the multiple views are so so useful, we can collaborate freely, and fast. This app helped us to grow because now we are giving our time more on generating ideas and of course getting more projects and clients giving real ROI instead of focusing on organizing files. But just like all apps out there, it has some room for improvement
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    Support Rating
    Front
    The support is good, and it's definitely prompt, but still lags when it comes to technical requirements, as I guess they are slow in developing newer features fast. So no complaints in terms of responsiveness, but yeah, at times it's not very helpful when you need certain features or are blocked on things which can't be unblocked.
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    Nuclino
    My team has an individual dedicated to content management and Nuclino is one of her job descriptions. It's nice knowing she is able to handle any issues that arise before we even realize they exist. We haven't had any technical issues since implementation so that's been a very pleasant experience.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Front
    This is something I am not familiar but it seems like it is [available] in Gmail. Thus I cannot give any feedback about it. What I am sure about is Front works for our team and I see Zoom using the service in the Customer Success Organization in a long run.
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    Nuclino
    Nuclino is the clear winner when it comes to ease of use for both the administrator and user. Less setup time and less "training" time. The streamlined interface is quick and intuitive to learn and is not cluttered as compared to Confluence. Every tool you need to use to create a page or administer the workspace is available immediately on screen or by right-clicking. In contrast, Confluence buries many tools in administrative interfaces and only allows use of some features once you make several clicks to include a "macro" or "plug-in". We use both tools and I get complaints constantly from my team about how complicated Confluence can get just to author a quick page.
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    Return on Investment
    Front
    • Saved our executive team considerable amount of time chasing support questions through different channels.
    • Gave our team clear accountability for who was lead on a support issue and how to escalate.
    • Customer regularly say our support is the best in the industry.
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    Nuclino
    • We're able to more quickly develop processes and try things out
    • Our internal how-to guides are a real time saver, especially when paired with AI search
    • It's easier to collaborate on lightweight documents
    • Software architectures are easier to find and document
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    Nuclino Screenshots

    Screenshot of a company wiki created in NuclinoScreenshot of the interface to manage projects and plan sprintsScreenshot of a knowledge graph