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Freshdesk vs OpenText Legal Knowledge Management comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 29, 2026

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Freshdesk
Ranking in Knowledge Management Software
5th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
40
Ranking in other categories
Customer Experience Management (5th), Field Service Management (3rd), Help Desk Software (6th)
OpenText Legal Knowledge Ma...
Ranking in Knowledge Management Software
10th
Average Rating
10.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.5
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
Indexing and Search (13th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2026, in the Knowledge Management Software category, the mindshare of Freshdesk is 4.3%, down from 6.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of OpenText Legal Knowledge Management is 2.0%. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Knowledge Management Software Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Freshdesk4.3%
OpenText Legal Knowledge Management2.0%
Other93.7%
Knowledge Management Software
 

Featured Reviews

Gauri Thakur - PeerSpot reviewer
Director, Portfolio Projects at Microland Limited
Integrated support workflows have provided a unified view but need broader enterprise flexibility
Freshdesk's scalability could be improved for larger businesses across departments. Its intuitive interface is appealing for small to medium-sized businesses. However, when you look at larger enterprise levels, ServiceNow operates more efficiently. This scalability is an area where Freshdesk could expand its offerings. Additionally, I don't have too much hands-on experience with Freshdesk ticket routing. I need to check with the service desk team if they've used it. Similarly, for analytics capability, I haven't explored much on Freshdesk, but I have done it for ServiceNow. I have seen a lot on ServiceNow and the BMC Remedy, so I can speak better for them. I haven't had the chance to look at it so much that I can do a comparison. I haven't had much experience with Freshdesk's reporting. Within its paradigm of customer service management, Freshdesk is quite scalable. But I've said that inter-department and the interoperability is better off in ServiceNow than in Freshdesk.
reviewer1719999 - PeerSpot reviewer
Vice President at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Frequent updates, highly stable, and robust
We have had thousands of users, the solution is highly scalable. We have had a large installation of OpenText Decisiv and there were approximately 6,000 users. The user's roles vary, such as records managers. Additionally, depending on the organization, a lot of our clients are in the federal government which they have different types of roles, but most of them are end-users. They're searching for documents or the records that are in their repository, there are document producers, but most people are searching.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Technical support is outstanding."
"Freshdesk significantly improved our customer issue resolution process. We can now easily record and track all customer requests, ensuring that no tickets are lost."
"Ticket system - provides us with support tickets submitted by customers from various sources Sharing - team members can share progress of tickets"
"The ticketing system is smooth, but since we use a free version, we do not have many facilities available."
"These features are easy to use, and the filtering is really good, providing a good overview of active tickets and who's working on them."
"The feature that I have found most valuable is the way that it connects to various folders especially because we use it as a CRM tool, as we can connect it with our phones and our chat, and also with the API and have it as an email service, and Freshdesk just makes our life easier."
"I like that it's very user-friendly. The way they designed this application, any layperson can just do some drag and drop actions and use it. It's not that difficult. It's also easy to implement. The most important thing is, you don't need to go to this application to create a ticket. You just send out an email, and the ticket is created automatically. I have never seen a feature like this before."
"Omnichannel is one of the most valuable features of the solution."
"The most valuable feature of OpenText Decisiv is they are always improving."
"If I was going to rank all the ECM solutions, OpenText Decisiv is the best because I have used the other ones and even though it's not the easiest to use at times, it is the most powerful, robust software out there."
 

Cons

"An area for improvement in Freshdesk would be enabling all features regardless of company or user size."
"It would be helpful to pull reports or schedule them based on agents, users, ticket numbers, or responses."
"I give it a seven because the usability is not bad, but it is not entirely out of the box; for the pricing, seven is an average score for the product."
"While it's good for a small number of tickets, definitely in the future, we will require something more powerful."
"Improvement can be done with the overall look, and fields like Query Type can be shown at the home page itself."
"Sometimes our requirements are not matched with Freshdesk's free version as most of the advanced features are not available to us."
"Freshdesk's major drawback is its limitation in integrating tools for App Store and Play Store reviews, and social channels like Twitter, which come with additional costs."
"For integrations, we need to write code that communicates with their system in order to enable certain functionality in the system. This is a lot of work for their customers."
"OpenText Decisiv is difficult to do customization. They need to improve this."
"OpenText Decisiv is difficult to do customization. They need to improve this."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The best system plan is enterprise. It costs basically 79 Euros per agent per month when it's billed annually and 95 Euros per agent per month when it's billed monthly."
"The pricing is pretty manageable and acceptable."
"We pay approximately $70 per agent to use Freshdesk. We have 10 agents, which is approximately $700 or $800 per month. It is a fixed license, there are not any additional fees."
"We use a licensing model only so we pay for the number of agents we have configured in the system only."
"The price could be better, but it's okay. Compared to ServiceNow and JIRA, Freshworks offers a competitive price. There are also additional licensing costs because you need Microsoft Outlook. Each new email account costs around $15 to $19."
"We use a combination of Freshdesk, Freshservice, and Freshchat. We use the whole suite. Weirdly enough, we pay more for Freshdesk than we do for Freshservice. I would rate it a three out of five in terms of pricing. You can get different bundles, and you can always move to different plans that are standard. Freshservice can go anywhere from $19 up to $120 per agent, per month. There is such a wide range, and it is very customizable to your needs."
"It was definitely not expensive. It was two grand or maybe three grand total for a year. It has just straight and simple standard licensing fees. There is no additional fee."
"Freshdesk was the best solution with the best price. It was cost efficient and included all the features that we needed."
"The price of the solution can vary drastically because it depends on the modules that a client using. There is an additional cost of approximately 25% for maintenance."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
9%
University
7%
Financial Services Firm
7%
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Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business24
Midsize Enterprise6
Large Enterprise14
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Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Freshdesk?
Freshdesk can be improved by addressing the lack of a custom dashboard, which would help design it to the client's requirement, and the API rate limit, which would be best if they provided an optio...
What is your primary use case for Freshdesk?
Our main use case of Freshdesk includes using it as a ticketing platform with live chat and support email for customers to send us tickets. We have agents on Freshdesk monitoring traffic and respon...
What advice do you have for others considering Freshdesk?
My advice to others looking into using Freshdesk is that when customers themselves want to contact a company for an issue, Freshdesk is best at helping them create tickets and reach out to the comp...
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