Freshdesk

Customer support helpdesk with Freddy AI

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Run omnichannel customer support programcustomer support

Best for

SMB and mid market support teams

Pricing

From $15/mo

Free plan

Available

SoftFinders Score

8.6 / 10

Overview

What is Freshdesk?

Freshdesk is an established customer support and helpdesk platform with Freddy AI, used by support teams across small business and mid market companies to handle tickets, messaging, voice, and self service across the customer support program, with Freddy AI features layered across the established support product line that the team has built around customer support for many years across global Freshworks customers today across many language communities served globally today.

Freshdesk fits support teams that want an affordable helpdesk platform with a free starting tier and broad channel coverage, rather than an enterprise focused tool with sales led pricing across the support program at scale today across global support markets and customers. Public reviews note Freddy AI features add value across the platform. Pricing has free and published paid tiers aligned to channel and AI tier across global support markets.

KEY FEATURES

What you get out of the box

Ticketing System

Omnichannel ticketing across the support program today

Freddy AI

Freddy AI features across automated agent productivity

Self Service

Self service portal across customer support workflows

Free Tier

Free starting plan across new support teams

Voice Channel

Voice channel across the omnichannel support program

Workflow Automation

Automation across the customer support ticket workflow

USE CASES

Where teams put it to work

Run omnichannel customer support program
Use Freddy AI across agents
Build self service customer portal
Start free with Freshdesk today
Run multichannel support across teams
Run affordable mid market support

Editorial Take

What we like, and what to verify

What we like
  • Affordable platform with free starting tier today
  • Freddy AI features add value across the platform
  • Broad channel coverage across email chat voice today
What to verify
  • AI features are layered, not deeply AI native
  • Public reviews note feature depth varies across tiers
  • Smaller marketplace ecosystem relative to Zendesk competitor today

FAQ

Quick answers

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