NiCE CXone Mpower vs. Zendesk Suite

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
NiCE CXone Mpower
Score 8.5 out of 10
N/A
NICE CXone Mpower is a cloud-based contact center platform that manages customer interactions across multiple communication channels. It includes features such as automatic call distribution (ACD), interactive voice response (IVR), omnichannel routing, workforce optimization, feedback management, and interaction analytics.
$71
per month per user
Zendesk Suite
Score 8.7 out of 10
N/A
Zendesk is a customer support solution with built-in ticketing, conversational messaging, and live chat, designed to help businesses of all sizes and industries deliver personalized service at scale. Zendesk's AI agents are trained in CX to help Service teams resolve customer issues faster and more accurately while still providing a human-centered experience. Zendesk ultimately aims to help businesses improve time to value, reduce effort per ticket, and keep costs low.
$69
per month per agent
Pricing
NiCE CXone MpowerZendesk Suite
Editions & Modules
CXone Mpower Digital Agent
$71
per month per user
CXone Mpower Voice Agent
$94
per month per user
CXone Mpower Omnichannel Agent
$110
per month per user
CXone Mpower Essential Suite
$135
per month per user
Cxone Mpower Core Suite
$169
per month per user
CXone Mpower Complete Suite
$209
per month per user
CXone Mpower Ultimate Suite
$249
per month per user
Suite Team
$69
per month per agent
Suite Growth
$115
per month per agent
Suite Professional
$149
per month per agent
Suite Enterprise
Contact Sales
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
NiCE CXone MpowerZendesk Suite
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional Details20% discount available with annual pricing.
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
NiCE CXone MpowerZendesk Suite
Considered Both Products
NiCE CXone Mpower

No answer on this topic

Zendesk Suite
Chose Zendesk Suite
Salesforce is far more established but the price tag was too high for our small team. I would be surprised if we didn’t migrate to Salesforce when our team reaches a certain size
Features
NiCE CXone MpowerZendesk Suite
Contact Center Software
Comparison of Contact Center Software features of Product A and Product B
NiCE CXone Mpower
9.3
581 Ratings
11% above category average
Zendesk Suite
-
Ratings
Agent dashboard9.5559 Ratings00 Ratings
Validate callers9.5471 Ratings00 Ratings
Outbound response9.5490 Ratings00 Ratings
Call forwarding9.4443 Ratings00 Ratings
Click-to-call (CTC)8.9403 Ratings00 Ratings
Warm transfer9.8531 Ratings00 Ratings
Predictive dialing9.4317 Ratings00 Ratings
Interactive voice response9.7376 Ratings00 Ratings
REST APIs8.8301 Ratings00 Ratings
Call scripts8.7322 Ratings00 Ratings
Call tracking9.3510 Ratings00 Ratings
Multichannel integration9.4364 Ratings00 Ratings
CRM software integration9.0365 Ratings00 Ratings
Workforce Optimization (WFO)
Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of Product A and Product B
NiCE CXone Mpower
9.2
556 Ratings
12% above category average
Zendesk Suite
-
Ratings
Inbound call routing9.2511 Ratings00 Ratings
Omnichannel inbound routing8.9373 Ratings00 Ratings
Recording9.5495 Ratings00 Ratings
Quality management9.1480 Ratings00 Ratings
Call analytics8.7486 Ratings00 Ratings
Historical reporting9.3479 Ratings00 Ratings
Live reporting9.3465 Ratings00 Ratings
Customer surveys9.0299 Ratings00 Ratings
Customer interaction analytics9.7319 Ratings00 Ratings
Incident and problem management
Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Product A and Product B
NiCE CXone Mpower
-
Ratings
Zendesk Suite
8.7
167 Ratings
6% above category average
Organize and prioritize service tickets00 Ratings9.1166 Ratings
Expert directory00 Ratings8.0113 Ratings
Subscription-based notifications00 Ratings8.5115 Ratings
ITSM collaboration and documentation00 Ratings8.2117 Ratings
Ticket creation and submission00 Ratings9.3166 Ratings
Ticket response00 Ratings9.2165 Ratings
Self Help Community
Comparison of Self Help Community features of Product A and Product B
NiCE CXone Mpower
-
Ratings
Zendesk Suite
8.3
150 Ratings
3% above category average
External knowledge base00 Ratings8.2144 Ratings
Internal knowledge base00 Ratings8.4137 Ratings
Multi-Channel Help
Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of Product A and Product B
NiCE CXone Mpower
-
Ratings
Zendesk Suite
8.6
162 Ratings
7% above category average
Customer portal00 Ratings8.8132 Ratings
IVR00 Ratings8.367 Ratings
Social integration00 Ratings8.0107 Ratings
Email support00 Ratings9.2159 Ratings
Help Desk CRM integration00 Ratings8.9122 Ratings
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Score 8.3 out of 10
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Score 9.0 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
CloudTalk
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Score 8.3 out of 10
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Score 9.0 out of 10
Enterprises
Bright Pattern Contact Center
Bright Pattern Contact Center
Score 9.0 out of 10
SysAid
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Score 9.1 out of 10
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User Ratings
NiCE CXone MpowerZendesk Suite
Likelihood to Recommend
9.5
(613 ratings)
9.0
(197 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(28 ratings)
10.0
(43 ratings)
Usability
9.1
(587 ratings)
8.8
(70 ratings)
Availability
8.1
(9 ratings)
9.1
(14 ratings)
Performance
7.7
(9 ratings)
9.1
(11 ratings)
Support Rating
8.8
(6 ratings)
5.9
(31 ratings)
In-Person Training
7.7
(5 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Online Training
8.1
(7 ratings)
6.4
(10 ratings)
Implementation Rating
7.6
(11 ratings)
9.1
(19 ratings)
Configurability
8.1
(6 ratings)
9.1
(4 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Ease of integration
6.8
(6 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
7.3
(9 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Professional Services
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
7.6
(8 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
7.6
(8 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
NiCE CXone MpowerZendesk Suite
Likelihood to Recommend
NICE Systems
NICE CXone Mpower offers a great suite of products and tools appropriate for contact centers. It is a one stop shop for all of the monitoring, scheduling, reporting, and quality tools a large or small contact center may need. It is very feature rich and has many components, some of which we haven't even grown to adopt yet but may in the near future.
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Zendesk
One specific thing I love about Zendesk Suite lately is the ability to use AI "Enhance writing" it allows me to freehand a response and then have it help me sound more formal or friendly, this is very useful, not only for those free handed ones, but also when you need to repeat the same information to a customer, it can help you make it sound slightly different. I don't like that when a ticket comes, even if you have the shortcut to toggle between chat and email, it doesn't actually toggle.
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Pros
NICE Systems
  • Organizes everyone's interactions within the platform
  • Shows interactions real time with productivity stats
  • Makes Chat/Call quality a breeze with customizable quality forms
  • Easy to share an interaction within the company for others to review
  • Keeps everyone on track with scheduled lunches/breaks/meetings so you don't have to remember yourself and never miss another event again!
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Zendesk
  • UI/UX; mature macros and automations, slick and well thought out UI.
  • Reporting, reporting, reporting. With user, org, and ticket level tags, we can track every aspect of our ticket flow.
  • Extensibility; the app marketplace is a great resource for expanding functionality from the baseline offering.
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Cons
NICE Systems
  • There can be changes in interface of the app, however it's still very good
  • I would appreciete detailed web page with all necessary information, but when I need anything, the customer support is very quick and provide all the information
  • Hardly to find any other :)
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Zendesk
  • The development of messaging out of the earlier Chat module is clunky and still has limitations for multi language flows.
  • When creating queries in Explore, you can't search for 'or' conditions, only 'And', meaning you have to build multiple queries and manually add them.
  • You can't download the charts in the reports, they come down as tables and then you have to make your own charts.
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Likelihood to Renew
NICE Systems
Nice made it possible for employees to work from anywhere with access to the internet, it made it possible to extract data from contacts in a very thorough way. In addition, the meticaes can be fully customized and the day-to-day monitoring of the operation is more visible.With nice, contacts with clients abroad became easier.
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Zendesk
Zendesk is an amazing tool for communicating with your customers easily. The communication tickets from sellers to us or from us to sellers are stored, and there are statuses used to make communication easy. We have internal conversations between departments, linked with useful software such as Zingtree, Talkdesk, and Webs.
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Usability
NICE Systems
The lack of written SOPs makes some features (WFM / Performance management) very difficult to use. The training provided by NICE is extensive, but it's hard to remember everything shared in the hour. We spend so much time on the platform just trying to figure out how to use the features; it would be much easier with written instructions and screenshots.
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Zendesk
Zendesk Suite is a straightforward solution that provides agents with everything they need on the same screen. Allowing an agent to navigate one tab, one screen and switch between features, pin favorite features while viewing the customer profile and details in 360degrees. A view like this empowers agents to support customers better and in a more composed state.
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Reliability and Availability
NICE Systems
NICE inContact CXone is available when you need it. I have been using it for about a year and I have never suffered any issues that caused my not to have access to the product. If there are updates, they must be downloaded and install in the background because I do not see them
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Zendesk
In the past year, I'd say I have only noticed maybe two hours total of downtime in my own usage. Very minimal.
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Performance
NICE Systems
NICE inContact CXone performs very well even on old computers that are limited in resources. I use a older computer with limited memory and it seems to handle NICE inContact CXone very well in most cases. There will be times when it acts up for whatever reason bust over ninety percent of the time.
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Zendesk
There has been minor performance degradation on a very few days out of the two years I have been using the product.
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Support Rating
NICE Systems
inContact only allows specific users to contact them for support. Even though I use the product daily and it accounts for a large amount of my workload, I still have to contact an authorized user to create an incident. These users are managers and their schedules are very busy. This can result in delays in incidents being opened and resolved.
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Zendesk
We rarely need to contact their support team, but when we do they are responsive. However there have been notable times when communication between myself and the support rep was challenging despite me providing clear explanation of the issue, screenshots, and a thorough explanation of the goal we hope to achieve. It took several back and forth attempt, on a few occasions, to get resolution on an otherwise simple request
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In-Person Training
NICE Systems
The In-person training was fine for a general overview. I think it would have been really helpful to have a review of pre-built reports and how to use them as tools.
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Zendesk
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Online Training
NICE Systems
I would rate 10, since the explanations were far enough to catch all the usabilities.I would rate 10, since the explanations were far enough to catch all the usabilities.I would rate 10, since the explanations were far enough to catch all the usabilities.I would rate 10, since the explanations were far enough to catch all the usabilities.
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Zendesk
Zendesk has tons of available material for training - videos, webinars, articles, etc. The only reason this is not a 10 is because it can be hard to figure out how to navigate to these things and find what you are looking for.
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Implementation Rating
NICE Systems
We love the use of our new tools. However, NICE staff turnover was frustrating. We lost ground each time a new team took over. Some people were good some were not as much. Some people did great training while others were not as helpful
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Zendesk
I was very satisfied. They have a free trial for 30 days and I recommend you do that and use it. It is very easy to get started with the basics and the build on over time.

The only thing technically complex was single sign-on and integration to Salesforce.com required some tweaks – otherwise setting up system was very easy
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Alternatives Considered
NICE Systems
When it comes to this specific situation (cell centers) NICE definitely has an ADP beat. The analytics, scheduling, and forecasts are extremely well-tailored for this situation. ADP has a more comprehensive solution in my opinion - I feel their UI and mobile app are also more user-friendly. But in terms of performance management functionality, NICE has a more robust system and is able to create additional metrics if we need them When I used ADP there were no custom options available.
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Zendesk
Zendesk Suite is exceptionally user friendly and highly customisable. Free training for all levels and roles of users which is easy to follow and engaging for users is particularly helpful along with the added support behind the scenes from Zendesk support and the Zendesk community is second to none.
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Scalability
NICE Systems
I rated 10, because Nice CX one is very much functional. You can simply acess it by website Nice, in any navigator, desktop, notebook or mobile, so you can in a fast way run on every departament of the company.
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Zendesk
WHY we will use Zendesk in HR and PD internally
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Return on Investment
NICE Systems
  • NICE CXone has allowed us the ability to, on specific teams, not have to back fill positions due to attrition.
  • NICE CXone has provided us insight into data metrics that we did not have before.
  • NICE CXone provides us with visibility into the productivity of our offshore agents which we did NOT have prior to our partnership.
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Zendesk
  • We have been able to deliver IT accurately and onetime
  • Our customers have been able to provide feedback on a given ticket and helped us build a better support structure
  • Zendesk Suite has allowed us to be more efficient in our every day operations
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ScreenShots

NiCE CXone Mpower Screenshots

Screenshot of a holistic view of omnichannel call center metrics, with insights for everyone in the contact center. The CXone Mpower Dashboard aggregates both real-time and historical cross-domain data.Screenshot of CXone Mpower Copilot, which empowers agents with smarter interactions, personalized coaching, and automation opportunities.Screenshot of CXone Mpower Workforce Management, used to anticipate business demands and optimize workforces, is an omnichannel forecasting and scheduling engine.Screenshot of CXone Mpower Studio, a tool that does not require programming skills, but instead empowers everyone—from business user to routing flow programmer—to build and manage routing flows for all channels.Screenshot of CXone Mpower Interaction Analytics, used to get actionable insights from every voice, digital, and self-service customer interaction.Screenshot of CXone Mpower Performance Management, which aligns employee performance, contact center goals, and customer expectations with continuous improvement.

Zendesk Suite Screenshots

Screenshot of the Zendesk Agent WorkspaceScreenshot of Omnichannel MessagingScreenshot of Zendesk TicketingScreenshot of Bots powered by Zendesk AIScreenshot of Tone shift with Zendesk AIScreenshot of Zendesk ticketing side conversations