What is Zendesk?
AI-powered customer service platform that unifies ticketing, messaging, live chat, voice, and autonomous AI agents to manage customer inquiries across all channels.
Zendesk pricing
We don't have Zendesk's full plan breakdown yet (its pricing page resisted automated reading). Here's what we could confirm. Always check live pricing for exact numbers.
From £19/month. Free tier available (up to 2 years for eligible startups).
What Zendesk does
The capabilities that matter for customer support, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Ticket / case management
- ✓
- Live chat
- ✓
- Shared inbox
- -
- Omnichannel (email+chat+social+voice)
- ✓
- Voice / telephony
- ✓
- Self-service knowledge base
- ✓
- SLAs, triggers & routing
- ✓
- Automation / macros
- ✓
- AI agent / copilot
- ✓
- Reporting & dashboards
- ✓
- Hosting
- Cloud only
- SSO / SCIM
- -
- Public API
- ✓
- Free tier
- ✓
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
Zendesk alternatives
Other customer support we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- FreshdeskFrom your first AI agent to AI across customer service. We'll get you there.low · 25%
- Help ScoutIntuitive & Affordable Customer Service Softwaremedium · 61%
- FrontAI for simple support is everywhere. Complex customer operations demand Front.medium · 63%
- CrispThe one complete suite for AI-first customer support, including Hugolow · 48%
- GorgiasThe Conversational AI platform for Ecommercemedium · 62%
- IntercomThe only helpdesk designed for the AI Agent eramedium · 64%
The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Zendesk, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Integrations | 94 | 30.00 | 2808.7 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 100 | 16.00 | 1600.0 | ✓ |
| Security Posture | 95 | 14.00 | 1330.0 | ✓ |
| Price Level | 80 | 10.00 | 800.0 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 50 | 14.00 | 700.0 | ✓ |
| Pricing Transparency | 25 | 16.00 | 400.0 | ✓ |
Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.
All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | {"hosting":"cloud","ai_agent":true,"free_tier":true,"live_chat":true,"ticketing":true,"api_access":true,"omnichannel":true,"sla_routing":true,"knowledge_base":true,"voice_telephony":true,"automation_macros":true,"reporting_dashboards":true} | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 1,800 | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |
Pricing
Reliability
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Status page | Yes | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |