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Freshdesk vs Verint Open Platform comparison

 

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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 Customer Experience Management
3rd
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
41
Ranking in other categories
Field Service Management (3rd), Help Desk Software (5th), Knowledge Management Software (4th)
Verint Open Platform
Ranking in Customer Experience Management
10th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
5.9
Number of Reviews
6
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2026, in the Customer Experience Management category, the mindshare of Freshdesk is 2.3%, down from 5.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Verint Open Platform is 1.1%, down from 2.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Customer Experience Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Freshdesk2.3%
Verint Open Platform1.1%
Other96.6%
Customer Experience Management
 

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.
Elisha Guile-Anderson - PeerSpot reviewer
Supervisor, Real Time Operations at Gabb
Real-time analytics have streamlined workforce scheduling and improved service level decisions
I thought Verint Open Platform was really great overall. I think there were just a few small things here and there that I would maybe change. I thought it would be really helpful if I could pull up a list of agents specifically, not just based on their teams. If I could just type their names and hit tab and then they would come into some scheduling timeline, that would be beneficial. This would be especially helpful if I needed to add unplanned absence from our sick line. We had agents that would call or email our sick line, calling out sick for the day, so it was a bit of a manual process. But other than that, I thought it was great. Probably the main improvement would be pulling agents up in more of a list format. Perhaps this has been fixed since my time using the product.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Freshdesk has allowed us to measure and track the response and resolution time of tickets which has been reduced from seven to eight hours down to 30 minutes to one hour."
"Omnichannel is one of the most valuable features of the solution."
"Freshdesk is very easy to use, it is user-friendly, and users can access knowledge base articles."
"Freshdesk is a time saver and reduces the need for fewer employees."
"Freshdesk was the best solution with the best price, as it was cost efficient and included all the features that we needed."
"Technical support is outstanding."
"Ticket system - provides us with support tickets submitted by customers from various sources Sharing - team members can share progress of tickets"
"I used Freshdesk for communication with the clients, such as real-time chats."
"It really streamlined a lot of our processes, especially our Realtime Analyst processes."
"Since using Verint Open Platform, I have seen a reduction in manual work, with almost a 70 to 80% uplift from the manual effort and other WFM tools when we transitioned to Verint, which represents a very significant uplift and reduction in manual work."
"The companies that implemented the Quality Bot saw operational gains, an increase in NPS, an improvement in quality, and more assertiveness in identifying which agents were not performing at their best."
"Verint Open Platform has positively impacted my organization by increasing the productive time of my team and making real-time tasks easier to manage."
"Most things work great out of the box, and we do not have many customer complaints about features not working."
"Verint Open Platform has made the work much easier for the RTAs and for the schedulers who update the schedules from scratch and download the raw data while checking the adherence for agents."
 

Cons

"Freshdesk has got an option where Facebook and Twitter posts can be transferred into the ticketing system. At the moment, we do not find it useful because it simply cannot pick the relevant customer service enquiries, it creates a ticket with every post."
"I would like to see improvements in the account management aspect, having a customer portal for better visibility into my subscription, invoices, and trouble tickets."
"I think the main problem with Freshdesk is the deep settings, interface, and analytics."
"There aren't any features that we want to enhance, but we need to mature in our usage of some of them. I can't say any feature is missing or needs improvement, but a tool's built-in features need to evolve customer feedback. We have a dialogue set up for that kind of feedback."
"The dashboards are useful but could be so much better. As a product manager, and data scientist, we couldn't use the dashboard for analytics and had to move the data in Power BI."
"It's a heavy app with lots of APIs, third-party integrations, etc. They should make it lighter."
"Improvement can be done with the overall look, and fields like Query Type can be shown at the home page itself."
"Freshdesk could improve its capabilities. It's missing the article formatting, and the overall look and feel make it not easy to use. The administration instructions on how to manage the automation, capability, and integration with third parties, such as chat or bots, are very important in these types of solutions."
"I think there were just a few small things here and there that I would maybe change."
"One thing that sometimes customers complain about is the lack of support in Portuguese since I am based in Brazil and the customers that I support are mostly in Brazil."
"Support leaves a bit to be desired, and I think it is an area for improvement that Verint has in the support part."
"One improvement needed for Verint Open Platform is that the upgrades need to be scheduled, and there is a need for application improvement in terms of latency, as real-time takes time to refresh the screen."
"To improve Verint Open Platform, I would recommend adding a section that creates easier options for the rostering part, such as work patterns and work events including training, breaks, lunches, and meetings."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."
"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."
"Freshdesk was the best solution with the best price. It was cost efficient and included all the features that we needed."
"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 is costly."
"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."
"The pricing is pretty manageable and acceptable."
"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."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
13%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Manufacturing Company
10%
University
6%
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Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business28
Midsize Enterprise6
Large Enterprise14
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Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Freshdesk?
I think the main problem with Freshdesk is the deep settings, interface, and analytics. When you need complex cross-functional reports, such as a link between tickets and CRM data or a specific vis...
What is your primary use case for Freshdesk?
My main use case for Freshdesk is customer support tickets. A specific example of how my team uses Freshdesk for customer support tickets is that it was a pre-integrated Freshdesk tool with Jira, w...
What advice do you have for others considering Freshdesk?
My advice for others looking into using Freshdesk is to consider that compared to Zendesk or Salesforce, where the settings might take months, Freshdesk can allow you to launch it in just a few day...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Verint Open Platform?
I do not have those numbers with me right now, but the experience, as I am the vendor and not the end customer, indicates that many times we have to be aggressive on discounts because of competitio...
What needs improvement with Verint Open Platform?
Points for improvement in Verint Open Platform are in terms of giving more autonomy to the end customer in terms of some features, which is already on the roadmap. Broadly speaking, the tool is ver...
What is your primary use case for Verint Open Platform?
The main use case I have for Verint Open Platform is the use of AI, both to handle the coaching part and real-time validation of what happens on the call with alerts to the supervisor when somethin...
 

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