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The best Zendesk alternatives

4 tools that do a similar job to Zendesk. Each entry says what it does and who it suits, so you can pick the one that fits instead of the most famous.

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Zendesk

A customer service platform with ticketing, messaging, a help centre and AI agents.

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    Fin by Intercom

    AI tool · Paid

    An AI customer service agent that answers support questions from your help content across channels.

    Best for: Automating support conversations; Teams with good help centres

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    Clay

    AI tool · Freemium

    A data enrichment and outbound platform that combines many data providers with AI research agents in a spreadsheet.

    Best for: Growth teams building lead lists; Custom enrichment

  3. 3

    Gong

    AI tool · Paid

    A revenue intelligence platform that records and analyses sales calls, deals and forecasts with AI.

    Best for: Sales coaching; Deal and forecast insight

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    Salesforce Agentforce

    AI tool · Paid

    Salesforce's platform for building AI agents that work across its CRM for sales, service and marketing.

    Best for: Salesforce customers deploying agents; Customer service automation

How we pick: tools in the same category that solve the same problem, projects that name each other as alternatives, and open-source projects that describe themselves as an alternative to Zendesk. We don't take payment for placement.