Pylon vs. ServiceNow Customer Service Management

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Pylon
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
Pylon is a support platform built for B2B. Presented as an alternative to Zendesk, Pylon can be used to track customer issues across any channel, automate with AI, and design a support engine.
$70
per month per seat
ServiceNow Customer Service Management
Score 8.3 out of 10
N/A
Built on the Now Platform, ServiceNow offers their Customer Service Management solution through the Standard and Professional Customer Service Management bundles. Both include agent workspace, knowledge management, survey and assessment module, and the community module, oriented in this edition to support customers rather than internal employees. The Professional bundle also includes performance analytics, predictive intelligence, and related tools to support customer support agents improvement…N/A
Pricing
PylonServiceNow Customer Service Management
Editions & Modules
Starter
$70
per month per seat
Professional
$118
per month per seat
Enterprise
$167
per month per seat
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
PylonServiceNow Customer Service Management
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsUp to a 33% discount available for annual pricing.
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Community Pulse
PylonServiceNow Customer Service Management
Features
PylonServiceNow Customer Service Management
Incident and problem management
Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Product A and Product B
Pylon
9.2
1 Ratings
12% above category average
ServiceNow Customer Service Management
9.2
10 Ratings
12% above category average
Organize and prioritize service tickets8.01 Ratings9.010 Ratings
Expert directory8.01 Ratings8.78 Ratings
Subscription-based notifications10.01 Ratings9.09 Ratings
ITSM collaboration and documentation9.01 Ratings9.39 Ratings
Ticket creation and submission10.01 Ratings9.810 Ratings
Ticket response10.01 Ratings9.310 Ratings
Self Help Community
Comparison of Self Help Community features of Product A and Product B
Pylon
10.0
1 Ratings
22% above category average
ServiceNow Customer Service Management
9.5
9 Ratings
17% above category average
External knowledge base10.01 Ratings9.58 Ratings
Internal knowledge base10.01 Ratings9.59 Ratings
Multi-Channel Help
Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of Product A and Product B
Pylon
9.5
1 Ratings
17% above category average
ServiceNow Customer Service Management
9.3
10 Ratings
15% above category average
Customer portal10.01 Ratings9.08 Ratings
Social integration9.01 Ratings8.88 Ratings
Email support10.01 Ratings9.89 Ratings
Help Desk CRM integration9.01 Ratings9.59 Ratings
IVR00 Ratings9.77 Ratings
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Enterprises
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User Ratings
PylonServiceNow Customer Service Management
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(1 ratings)
9.0
(9 ratings)
Usability
8.0
(1 ratings)
8.5
(5 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
PylonServiceNow Customer Service Management
Likelihood to Recommend
Pylon
I think Pylon is great for startups who are figuring out where they want to interact and how they want to interact with their customers. Pylon is also great for beginner account management in terms of keeping track of comms, usage, tickets, and a bit more. Overall, I think Pylon will scale nicely it just takes a bit of time to configure all (lots) of settings.I don't think Pylon is well-suited for teams who don't know much about support operations. The tool has so many great features an they ship super fast, but the product itself isn't very opinionated and the amount of options sometimes can be overwhelming
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ServiceNow
It is well suited for medium to large companies that manage different teams and need to communicate constantly and track progress in a timely manner. It is less suited for small enterprises as it will overwhelm users with the features and functionalities embedded.
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Pros
Pylon
  • Agent view customizations
  • Account mangagement tools
  • Feature / Tool feedback
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ServiceNow
  • We manage internal tickets through ServiceNow Customer Service Management. We raise tickets with IT and other team
  • We manage our datapipe customers through ServiceNow Customer Service Management and it efficiently manages our customer interactions
  • ServiceNow Customer Service Management helps us manage projects and tasks and keep a log of all our migration customers
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Cons
Pylon
  • AI intentionality
  • Linear integration
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ServiceNow
  • Adding in additional chat features would be nice
  • Viewing where you stand in priority
  • Having a way to automate more of the processes
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Usability
Pylon
Overall, the UI is awesome and super intuitive. The features makes sense and everything is customizable to your liking. You don't need to create copies of filters, because the changing of filters on one saved few is THAT easy, which is something we love. Additionally, whenever we go to look for a capability or day dream about something... Pylon usually has it or its in the works. Only reason its not a 10 is that it can be overwhelming that it has everything, but a food problem to have
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ServiceNow
Bottom line is that it does what you need it to do. We've been using Service Now as a ticket managing tool for a few years now. There's really not much it can't do when it comes to recording interactions. It has been nice using inventory tracking for software licenses and hardware as well.
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Support Rating
Pylon
No answers on this topic
ServiceNow
Support has been very good. Any time there has been a real issue, the team has responded very quickly and identified the issue without a lot of repetitive questions that I've seen from other services. There is a great external community and internal knowledge base that covers pretty much anything you need.
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Alternatives Considered
Pylon
After evaluating both platforms, we chose Pylon for its superior user experience and deeper integration capabilities. Unlike Zendesk's frustrating UI and limited customization options, Pylon offered seamless integration with our existing tools like Salesforce, Linear, and PagerDuty, while allowing our team to stay within familiar Slack interfaces. The multi-channel notification system and AI-powered features like article generation provided the modern support infrastructure we needed, eliminating the complex rules and automations that made Zendesk cumbersome. Pylon's robust analytics and broadcast features also gave us valuable insights into customer engagement, making it the clear choice for streamlining our support workflows while enhancing both team efficiency and customer satisfaction.
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ServiceNow
Atlassian Jira lacks certain features and process which was delivered by ServiceNow Customer Service Management. Also, flexibility to customise was a point to select ServiceNow Customer Service Management tool. Cost which was high than Atlassian Jira compensated as it improved overall customer satisfaction and reduced resolution time by taking help of Knowledge base integration
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Return on Investment
Pylon
  • Team productivity
  • Easier cross-functional collaboration
  • better insights into customer issue tracking
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ServiceNow
  • The negative impact for my team is the delay in team completing tickets but not a system issue.
  • A positive impact for my team is we can easily view the status of tickets and the follow-up emails are beneficial to maintain records of tickets.
  • Negative impact is that there is no user job aid or helpful tools for new users.
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