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Freshsales vs Interactive Intelligence comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 19, 2024

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Categories and Ranking

Freshsales
Ranking in CRM
11th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
13
Ranking in other categories
CRM Customer Engagement Centers (7th), Opportunity Management (8th), Sales Force Automation (4th)
Interactive Intelligence
Ranking in CRM
45th
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.3
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the CRM category, the mindshare of Freshsales is 1.1%, up from 0.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Interactive Intelligence is 0.6%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
CRM Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Freshsales1.1%
Interactive Intelligence0.6%
Other98.3%
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Featured Reviews

Sumesh Gansar - PeerSpot reviewer
Product Marketing Manager at Samsung
Centralized CRM has given me a 360-degree view and helps me run smarter, AI-driven sales campaigns
One thing that Freshsales can improve is making it much easier because it is not quite easy for everybody to get a grasp of the entire CRM software. It is quite vast and quite complex. Perhaps more knowledge-based documents can be introduced. Apart from that, I do not have any major complaints. The integration in Freshsales is quite good because it is easily integratable with many other Freshworks software as well as with third-party solutions. The integration is quite good. Perhaps in the reporting feature, it takes some time to process the reports due to the amount of data that it handles. Apart from that, I do not have any major complaints with Freshsales so far.
MA
CX Team Lead
A customizable solution that can be integrated with almost anything
The best thing about this solution is the customizability because it can be integrated with pretty much anything. There are many solutions that are black boxes and we're unable to make any modifications to the call flows. With Interactive Intelligence, we can utilize APIs and variables. With the REST call, you can send a request and response. Elements can be incorporated into the workflow based on the response. This is the go-to thing with Interactive Intelligence. The Interactive Intelligence is quite user friendly. And Avaya, in that case, is not that great solution, on user friendliness. Basically, yeah, the same purpose I've used, but you need more expertise to manage the product. And Interactive Intelligence is one box. It contains a lot of features and we don't need to have much resources. But Avaya and others have many servers to be maintained with a single solution. It has a CN. You have to go for session manager and lots of other product servers. So, for a single solution, you need to maintain a lot of servers. This is more or less an easy environment to manage, but Avaya is very complex on the architectural level.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Freshsales has impacted us positively; it has saved time, increased sales, and improved customer relationships."
"From a user point of view, I use Freshsales for my day-to-day sales activities, and as a basic system for the sales team, it is very user-friendly."
"I like Freshsales because it's integrated with Shopify which we use to host our website."
"To conclude, the productivity and automation features are the most useful."
"Almost everything has been automated through a process-driven approach, such as sending purchase orders, responding to customer emails, or adding values to emails."
"Freshsales is a very comfortable type of CRM with easy customization and user-friendliness, allowing even non-techie individuals to manage their internal pipelines effectively, as it is a highly customizable CRM that suits our business needs, whether for selling products or services."
"What I like most about Freshsales is that it gives clarity."
"Freshsales is a much reliable and much useful software for any business that wants to convert leads to customers to revenue."
"The social media integration is excellent."
"The stability is really good and it's a really powerful platform that is more powerful than Avaya or other kinds of vendors for contact centers."
"Being able to automate aspects such as outbound confirmation calls has saved us a lot of time and money."
"Interactive Intelligence is quite user friendly."
 

Cons

"We have a problem with the time to delivery for our customers, although this is not specific to this solution. Time to delivery can be 90 days."
"The solution needs to improve the user experience and leads capture."
"The price of this solution could be improved as well as the reporting functionality."
"We can use only one domain in the basic package."
"The reporting for this solution across all their products could be improved."
"It lacks customizability for complex and larger use cases."
"What I dislike about Freshsales is that it is a bit complicated and the initial setup is very difficult."
"The licensing costs should be based on the amount of data and number of clients that one can insert into the application."
"We are not happy with the technical support. They take too long to answer."
"The initial setup can be a bit difficult."
"The problem with this current system is that the support is not great."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price for this solution is good in general, but in Brazil we do pay additional taxes."
"Freshsales is an economical product."
"If one is a very low price and ten is expensive, I rate the product price as a three."
"The basic price is affordable. The add ons are expensive."
"The tool is not that expensive."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Comms Service Provider
17%
Construction Company
14%
Outsourcing Company
12%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Comms Service Provider
18%
Financial Services Firm
16%
Construction Company
12%
Manufacturing Company
10%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business11
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise4
No data available
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Freshsales?
What I dislike about Freshsales is that it is a bit complicated and the initial setup is very difficult. It takes a lot more time to customize it according to your stages and use cases. I also requ...
What is your primary use case for Freshsales?
I use Freshsales to manage leads for a company that has customers. I handle customer relationships in one place where I mark them under bucketing, bucketing them under different stages to check how...
What advice do you have for others considering Freshsales?
I use some AI-driven insights with Freshsales. It shows some predictions based on scoring, but I do not rely on that much at the moment. Regarding the predictive scoring in Freshsales, because I do...
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Sample Customers

Caratlane, Pykih, Buying Show, INTUO, WallyPark, Exploring Vacations, Raved, Forest, Ascendore, MagePlaza, Vacasa,
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