- Affordable platform with free starting tier today
- Freddy AI features add value across the platform
- Broad channel coverage across email chat voice today
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
Editorial Take
What we like, and 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
Screenshots
A look inside
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