Gainsight Customer Communities vs. Zendesk Guide

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Gainsight Customer Communities
Score 8.9 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
Gainsight Customer Communities is a centralized destination that brings customers, resources, and products together. The hub helps users to engage, retain, and delight customers by unifying customer resources, leveraging dynamic search and AI capabilities, building an influential user community.N/A
Zendesk Guide
Score 8.7 out of 10
N/A
Zendesk Guide is a smart knowledge base built to help support teams continuously improve content, keep it up to date, and serve it to customers.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeRequiredNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
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User Ratings
Gainsight Customer CommunitiesZendesk Guide
Likelihood to Recommend
8.5
(7 ratings)
7.3
(8 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(5 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
Gainsight Customer CommunitiesZendesk Guide
Likelihood to Recommend
Gainsight
A great scenario that we use the community for is product adoption. That's one of the things we use it for. So sending our new customers as part of their onboarding flow to the community to learn from others and see the resources that are available and know that there's a place for them to ask questions and get their questions answered. That's probably one of our primary use cases and scenarios that it works straight in. I can't really think of something that it wouldn't work good for. That's a tough one to think of on the spot.
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Zendesk
In our company, we host our benefit articles based on country on our Zendesk Guide. However, these articles should not be seen by employees that are outside their respective article country. For example, an employee that is based in Thailand shouldn't be seeing Malaysia benefits article as employees might compared benefits. With Zendesk Guide, the system allow us to set the configuration of the article so it is only visible Thailand-based employees, and for Malaysia article, only Malaysia-based employees
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Pros
Gainsight
  • They provide a ton of materials on best practices in setting up and using their platform
  • They provide materials on how to provide an exceptional customer experience, with podcasts, webinars, and blogs.
  • They support their community and walk the talk, so to speak in engaging their customers with each other.
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Zendesk
  • They give us ability to control the whole frontend of the Communities by giving us access to manipulate HTML (in HBS file), CSS and JS
  • They give handlebars templating engine in backend which helps us to show various listing rendered through server side without having need to implement client side rendering of the listing and features.
  • They provide us dynamic content fields, which can be useful for mapping categories or storing category and topic IDs so we don't need to hard code IDs in Sandbox and Production separately.
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Cons
Gainsight
  • The REST API could use some work with missing capabilities.
  • Speed; production instance can sometimes be noticeably slow, especially on the back-end.
  • Polls; the polling data is not easily accessible. It can be found in the data lake but that is not necessarily simple to access for some.
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Zendesk
  • Formatting according to our brand guidelines can be tricky
  • Reporting metrics are lacking
  • The user interface can be confusing
  • Their support team takes a long time to respond
  • They have comments open on their KB articles, but almost noone responds, which is frustrating.
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Usability
Gainsight
Gainsight CC is very versatile and easy to update in the areas they provide for customization. There are still some limitations that surprise us, but I really we are pleased with the ability to make changes on the fly. Overall we are able to accomplish what we desire to accomplish, and appreciate how user friendly it is
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Zendesk
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Support Rating
Gainsight
No answers on this topic
Zendesk
The support is good but can sometime be frustrating to get a quick answer. We end up being sent articles that don't answer the question and then we have to go back and try again
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Alternatives Considered
Gainsight
Gainsight CC was a clear winner for us. Khoros was second, but we eliminated it from consideration due to cost and how hard it is to implement. Verint is a great platform, but lacks integrations. Circle is more of a small community platform and better suited to communities of practice.
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Zendesk
It is an attribute of Zendesk that allows for easy over the phone communication between agents and customers. It is more personal and allows for better productivity. Phone support from anywhere with reliable internet connection which is essential to call center communication whether in the office or in the home of the agent.
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Return on Investment
Gainsight
  • We are actually doing some work to prove return on investment for investing in Gainsight Customer Communities right now, and it's proving to be exponentially higher than we initially estimated. I'm not sure the exact numbers off the top of my head, but we're having a monumental impact compared to what we projected in terms of monthly recurring revenue and customer churn.
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Zendesk
  • We used it for multiple customer so we can say ROI of Zendesk Guide is very competitive.
  • Zendesk meet[s] most of the business objective[s], which suits [a]s best product among its competitor.
  • I highly recommend to use Zendesk for knowledge base and tickets and agents.
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ScreenShots

Gainsight Customer Communities Screenshots

Screenshot of where to create a centralized, branded destination that brings together resources. This helps customers find answers faster and keeps teams engaged.Screenshot of how federated search pulls results from across locations, giving users one place to search and discover the content they need.Screenshot of where to build an interactive space where users can ask questions, share expertise, and learn from each other. This helps to create stronger customer relationships through conversation, with recognition, gamification, and insights that tie directly into customer success workflows.Screenshot of where to promote upcoming webinars, workshops, and in-person events where customers already connect. Boost participation, support education goals, and create opportunities for real-time engagement without relying on email alone.Screenshot of a display of everything needed to manage a community, such as recent activity, pending posts, and new users.Screenshot of where to launch new community pages using a drag-and-drop builder, WYSIWYG editor, and prebuilt widgets.