Sprinklr Social vs. Zendesk Suite

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Sprinklr Social
Score 8.6 out of 10
N/A
Sprinklr Social’s platform empowers enterprise teams of all sizes to deliver a consistent brand experience across 35+ digital and social channels to drive engagement and revenue, with capabilities across publishing, engagement, listening, analytics, employee advocacy, influencer marketing and commerce. Content planning and scheduling using an editorial calendar, with a digital asset manager and the ability to publish across channels at AI…
$359
per month per seat
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
Sprinklr SocialZendesk Suite
Editions & Modules
Self-Serve SMM and Customer Service Solution
$359
per month per seat
Enterprise Custom Social Media Management Solution
Contact Sales
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
Sprinklr SocialZendesk Suite
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYes
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalOptional
Additional DetailsDiscount available for annual pricing.20% discount available with annual pricing.
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Community Pulse
Sprinklr SocialZendesk Suite
Considered Both Products
Sprinklr Social

No answer on this topic

Zendesk Suite
Chose Zendesk Suite
The customisable reporting every time. Our leadership reply on me to run my team and want to know what customers are telling us so they can elevate our products. We have extensive custom reports that tie up all aspects of our product and customer journeys. I've not found …
Features
Sprinklr SocialZendesk Suite
Listening/monitoring
Comparison of Listening/monitoring features of Product A and Product B
Sprinklr Social
7.8
57 Ratings
3% above category average
Zendesk Suite
-
Ratings
Boolean keyword searches8.550 Ratings00 Ratings
Filtering out noise/spam7.753 Ratings00 Ratings
Sentiment analysis7.554 Ratings00 Ratings
Broad channel coverage7.553 Ratings00 Ratings
Publishing
Comparison of Publishing features of Product A and Product B
Sprinklr Social
8.0
57 Ratings
1% below category average
Zendesk Suite
-
Ratings
Content planning and scheduling8.054 Ratings00 Ratings
Audience targeting8.349 Ratings00 Ratings
Content optimization7.847 Ratings00 Ratings
Workflow management8.051 Ratings00 Ratings
Engagement
Comparison of Engagement features of Product A and Product B
Sprinklr Social
8.5
56 Ratings
5% above category average
Zendesk Suite
-
Ratings
Automated routing and prioritization8.448 Ratings00 Ratings
Customer interaction histories8.654 Ratings00 Ratings
Bulk actions8.752 Ratings00 Ratings
Marketing
Comparison of Marketing features of Product A and Product B
Sprinklr Social
7.4
49 Ratings
4% below category average
Zendesk Suite
-
Ratings
Lead generation7.435 Ratings00 Ratings
Content marketing8.441 Ratings00 Ratings
Paid media management6.436 Ratings00 Ratings
Campaigns and promotions7.543 Ratings00 Ratings
Channel coverage/integration
Comparison of Channel coverage/integration features of Product A and Product B
Sprinklr Social
7.2
60 Ratings
15% below category average
Zendesk Suite
-
Ratings
Twitter9.457 Ratings00 Ratings
Facebook7.758 Ratings00 Ratings
LinkedIn6.844 Ratings00 Ratings
Google+6.730 Ratings00 Ratings
Instagram7.557 Ratings00 Ratings
Pinterest6.630 Ratings00 Ratings
YouTube5.842 Ratings00 Ratings
Reporting/analytics
Comparison of Reporting/analytics features of Product A and Product B
Sprinklr Social
8.3
59 Ratings
7% above category average
Zendesk Suite
-
Ratings
Campaign success analytics8.155 Ratings00 Ratings
Real-time tracking8.558 Ratings00 Ratings
Competitor analysis8.141 Ratings00 Ratings
Account management
Comparison of Account management features of Product A and Product B
Sprinklr Social
7.8
57 Ratings
2% below category average
Zendesk Suite
-
Ratings
Role-based user permissions & privileges8.756 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile access7.050 Ratings00 Ratings
Incident and problem management
Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Product A and Product B
Sprinklr Social
-
Ratings
Zendesk Suite
8.8
171 Ratings
7% above category average
Organize and prioritize service tickets00 Ratings9.2170 Ratings
Expert directory00 Ratings8.2117 Ratings
Subscription-based notifications00 Ratings8.6118 Ratings
ITSM collaboration and documentation00 Ratings8.2121 Ratings
Ticket creation and submission00 Ratings9.4171 Ratings
Ticket response00 Ratings9.3170 Ratings
Self Help Community
Comparison of Self Help Community features of Product A and Product B
Sprinklr Social
-
Ratings
Zendesk Suite
8.4
155 Ratings
4% above category average
External knowledge base00 Ratings8.4149 Ratings
Internal knowledge base00 Ratings8.5142 Ratings
Multi-Channel Help
Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of Product A and Product B
Sprinklr Social
-
Ratings
Zendesk Suite
8.8
167 Ratings
10% above category average
Customer portal00 Ratings9.0137 Ratings
IVR00 Ratings8.570 Ratings
Social integration00 Ratings8.4111 Ratings
Email support00 Ratings9.3164 Ratings
Help Desk CRM integration00 Ratings9.0127 Ratings
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User Ratings
Sprinklr SocialZendesk Suite
Likelihood to Recommend
8.8
(85 ratings)
9.0
(209 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
7.0
(29 ratings)
10.0
(43 ratings)
Usability
7.5
(13 ratings)
8.8
(82 ratings)
Availability
9.1
(5 ratings)
9.1
(14 ratings)
Performance
8.2
(4 ratings)
9.1
(11 ratings)
Support Rating
10.0
(34 ratings)
5.6
(31 ratings)
In-Person Training
7.0
(2 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Online Training
8.4
(3 ratings)
6.4
(10 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.0
(5 ratings)
9.1
(19 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(4 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
8.2
(1 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Professional Services
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Sprinklr SocialZendesk Suite
Likelihood to Recommend
Sprinklr
In my perspective, I would say Sprinklr Modern Sales &
Engagement is best suited for teams and organizations who are more involved in
automating social media activities, getting a great analytical report on
activity engagement, and generating lists and bolds that helps determine the
trends and events, etc. One of the best tools that one could use for clients
with every information they would need.
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Zendesk
Being a customer support agent, I found it very good when it comes to send an email or call or chat- with the user. I can do all that from the one single platform which is so easy and time saving for you. It does not take much time to use this, We can chat- with the user and at the same time we can send an email to them as well.
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Pros
Sprinklr
  • Customization - Through Sprinklr's rules and robust custom field creation, you really can create a lot of customization for every facet of your business.
  • Listening - Their Listening Engine and Explorer are fantastic ways to proactively find engagement-friendly conversations, in addition competitively research your brand.
  • Care - Using their case formatting, messages and customer contacts can be routed and assigned easily to available reps, and their bot builder can help to automate your contacts without sacrificing a personal touch.
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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
Sprinklr
  • Overall, Sprinklr rewards users to do a lot of digging on their own to get to the more in-depth functionalities. For instance, the asset manager feature leads you to a dashboard with all the content you ever published but doesn't tell you what to do next or how to organize it
  • Sprinklr offers basic social listening features, but it is much more limited than other pure social listening players like Crimson Hexagon or Brandwatch. It is perfectly usable for a quick search but I wouldn't recommend it as your sole social listening platform
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Zendesk
  • Is there a way for AEs and CSMs to be informed in a weekly summary of all their accounts and any tickets? Example: Disney submitted a ticket on XYZ. Google has an urgent issue on X still unresolved.
  • Is there a way for CSMs or AEs to have a Dashboard that's specific to their accounts instead of seeing all the tickets in the queue that are not relevant to them?
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Likelihood to Renew
Sprinklr
I really do feel that Sprinklr is the most complete enterprise social media program. It covers everything you would need to do to run a strategic social media program. On top of that, the success managers are really the best. Our success manager goes above and beyond for us and has been so helpful to us with setting up some very specific repots and profiles. Paul (our CSM) has been great about keeping us up to date on the latest features and functionality as well as helping us set up innovative dashboards as need
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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
Sprinklr
The user interface, training via Sprinklr university and detailed articles on almost every topic in the knowledge portal make Sprinklr a complete package. This is also GDPR compliant, helping us stay good with the info security. The layout of the navigation is easy and anyone new to the tool won't be overwhelmed
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Zendesk
Pros: The agent interface is sleek, contemporary, and relatively easy to learn compared to many other enterprise tools. For common tasks, admins are given point-and-click options- adding fields, modifying workflows, constructing macros. The knowledge base (Guide) editor is easy to use for non-developers. Drawbacks: Once you move past the initial things - complex automations, reporting/analytics in Explore, and/or customizations integrating the API, it requires much more advanced training to use successfully. Navigating between the different modules (Support, Explore, Chat, Guide) can feel very disconnected; often you are reminded that it really is a "suite" of products brought together -not really one unified platform. If you're using multiple brands managing simultaneous support tickets, or heavily customizing workflows to meet your brand, you may run into a bit of struggle with usability. So: it's a lot more user friendly than the palaces (Salesforce Service Cloud, ServiceNow), but is not used as quickly or with as much streamlined flow as a product made for a small shop. So if you are looking for a great balance, this is a good option if you are a net new organization or an organization on their way to scaling from 15 - 50 employee. Expect some elbow grease from the admin team once learning, adapting, and working efficiently once you move past the basics with your support tickets and initial customizations.
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Reliability and Availability
Sprinklr
Our account partners at Sprinklr are not only responsive to out needs, both domestically and internationally, but have consistently approached us with ideas on how to improve our communication and collaboration in a proactive manner.
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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
Sprinklr
Perfornace is not aan issue. The issues/bugs with this software are few and far between. And when one pops up the 24/7 support team is helpful, quick and informative.
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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
Sprinklr
Support is amazing. We have had to reach out [to] them only a few times in the past few years. Each time, they were back in touch with us within the hour or two, no matter the time. We've always had our issues addressed quickly and promptly corrected. They are a great team to work with.
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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
Sprinklr
I don't recall our training in detail. I know we met in person a few times, and did some over-the-phone product walk-throughs. It may have been somewhat informal -- I don't recall having any takeaways to refer to.
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Zendesk
No answers on this topic
Online Training
Sprinklr
Through multiple webinars, easily accessible training documents, and ad-hoc sessions with my account manager I am never left in the dark when I have a question.
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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
Sprinklr
The implementation personnel at Sprinklr are top-notch. They will work with you to make sure they setup Sprinklr in a way that best aligns with your structural needs
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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
Sprinklr
As much as I get frustrated with Sprinklr, Sprinklr is a much cleaner platform than others I have used and I do obtain good data from the reports due to my custom filters, allowing me to pass along education onto product teams in regards to their specific lines.
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Zendesk
The customisable reporting every time. Our leadership reply on me to run my team and want to know what customers are telling us so they can elevate our products. We have extensive custom reports that tie up all aspects of our product and customer journeys. I've not found another product that allows me as much freedom as Zendesk Suite explore does, so far.
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Scalability
Sprinklr
Always start simple with Sprinklr, e.g. one client. You can easily grow over time adding products/units/regions, etc
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Zendesk
WHY we will use Zendesk in HR and PD internally
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Return on Investment
Sprinklr
  • Reports can be customized and exported easily in many different formats. I especially like the PowerPoint version of reports. It quickly and professionally creates a custom slideshow to show the metrics of the platforms and time periods you choose. This is a great way to keep your company's C-level executives informed on your team's progress and investing in your efforts. This is especially true for executives that do not personally use or understand the value of social media.
  • Brand reputation management is always a great investment. The dashboard alerts you in real-time when your brand or product is mentioned across any of the platforms and offers a quick and efficient way to respond. The Sprinklr customer experience cloud can be implemented across your entire organization, including CRM and email systems.
  • If you're not growing you're dying. That alone helps me with the ROI of using Sprinklr for my client's business objectives.
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Zendesk
  • Integrating other AI solutions for an organization with high volumes can cost about USD5000 monthly. With Zendesk AI and by building onto the same with AI powered apps built for Zendesk Suite we save a projected USD4000 monthly.
  • Robust Zendesk APIs have enabled us to integrate our internal system with a customized app saving us hundreds of hours every quarter spent loading customer profiles that are not loaded instantly from the app.
  • Plug and play apps like Round robin save us weeks of sprint delay timelines as they do not require additional coding or developer support to install and start using.
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