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NICE CXone vs Zendesk Messaging comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 30, 2025

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

NICE CXone
Ranking in Live Chat
1st
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
15
Ranking in other categories
Workforce Engagement Management (3rd), IVR Systems (1st), Knowledge Management Software (6th), Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS) (4th), AI Customer Experience Personalization (8th)
Zendesk Messaging
Ranking in Live Chat
3rd
Average Rating
9.0
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
Text Messaging (4th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Live Chat category, the mindshare of NICE CXone is 10.8%, down from 12.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Zendesk Messaging is 9.1%, up from 2.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Live Chat Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
NICE CXone10.8%
Zendesk Messaging9.1%
Other80.1%
Live Chat
 

Featured Reviews

AG
Technology Specialist at Cognizant
Improved efficiency with browser-based call handling and efficient scripting tools
The audio quality in NICE CXone has room for improvement, as I experience issues like diffused calls and crackling audio. Clearing cache and cookies from browsers often resolves these problems, but it's something that occurs frequently. Simplifying the studio tool could also be an improvement, along with organizing external training and better communication about new features, like agent assist or agent co-pilot.
Jairo Vega - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Support Engineer/ QA at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
Unified chat and ticket history has improved 24/7 global support efficiency and reduced contacts
I believe the best feature in Zendesk was in the chat; it allows you to seamlessly change between having, for example, a ticket and a client opening a chat, and all this information is saved in the same ticket. You don't have to create different tickets for different features. Everything was on the same ticket, making it easy to follow the history of the client, regardless of whether they first sent an email, then a chat, then something else. That was our main feature, and it was a really good feature that I liked the most. On the chat, we automated it, and we actually get really great results with Zendesk. We ended up lowering the customer contact rate thanks to the automations that we generated, connecting them to our help articles. The bot was connected to our help articles and it reflected around 12% of the incoming tickets, so that was super good because we wanted to make the creation rate of tickets as low as possible per customer.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"We are able to see the calls in queue and able to see if someone is available or not."
"Being able to listen in on a call, which is exceptionally good with training."
"The technical support for NICE CXone is outstanding."
"It's easier as a supervisor to do your job more efficiently. You can have multiple things open at once to watch everything, being able to take one look at a page and see everything you need rather then having to flip through multiple programs. This is such a time saver. I get a lot more done in my day due to being able to keep my opened programs down to a minimum."
"The system is very flexible and powerful, especially for organizations wanting to control their environment."
"It has the ability to edit the HTML, as well as the WYSIWYG."
"Customer support is terrific. The team is personable, informed, and responsive."
"It is easy to look up and playback calls with this system as it categorizes the different types of calls that come through my call center. I like that inContact is always updating and continues to improve. The quality of its recorded calls is among the best that I have had experience with."
"We like the mobile application, which allows us to provide a faster response to the customer."
 

Cons

"inContact should offer a way to send faxes."
"There are times when the data does not load and you have to keep hitting refresh. More colors and different layouts should be included in the next release."
"Your docs go on their servers and getting them out is difficult, especially if you want to switch to another authoring format, e.g., Markdown. There are no converters and an automated extraction of the docs from the CMS is not available."
"The audio quality in NICE CXone has room for improvement, as I experience issues like diffused calls and crackling audio."
"I would like to see inView be a built-in feature of CXone rather than a separate platform, but everything else is terrific."
"It is a hassle, if you are busy and caught up with something, that it will log you out."
"MindTouch would greatly benefit by providing a GitHub pull request functionality to foster draft mode and open contribution writing."
"If you have hundreds of books, the initial download is slow."
"We would like to have auto-templates for TT closure and TT updates."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"We had a custom setup that cost us some money."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
13%
Computer Software Company
11%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Insurance Company
6%
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Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business10
Midsize Enterprise5
Large Enterprise3
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Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with NICE CXone?
The reporting isn't bad, but there are opportunities for improvement; we get real-time dashboards for monitoring, though for performance management, we have to procure certain reports manually by p...
What is your primary use case for NICE CXone?
We're working in the finance space, banking, and our customers that we support are primarily banks and remittance services. We are a contact center providing services to other businesses, primarily...
What advice do you have for others considering NICE CXone?
I really can't add any value about how it's influenced our customer journey just yet because we're just in the process of implementing that and have no data at this stage. Overall, NICE CXone is no...
What needs improvement with Zendesk Chat?
AI capabilities could be improved, as that is something everyone is trying to integrate now to automate more effectively. The messaging component is not used extensively; usage is fairly small. Zen...
What is your primary use case for Zendesk Chat?
Zendesk Messaging is primarily used for incoming phone calls. Automated workflows are utilized and configured to route calls to different numbers depending on whether they are support-related or so...
What advice do you have for others considering Zendesk Messaging?
AI capabilities would be welcomed in the future, though nothing else comes to mind at the moment. The overall review rating for this product is 8 out of 10.
 

Also Known As

NICE inContact, NICE CXone Workforce Optimization Pro, NICE CXOne WFO Pro, CXone Workforce Optimization, inContact Workforce Optimization, CallCopy, Discover, VPI Empower, Brand Embassy, goMoxie
Zendesk Talk
 

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Sample Customers

MoneyGram, Honeywell, Radisson Hotel Group, AAA, New Balance, MattressFIRM, Teleflora, Best Buy
Mailchimp, Tesco, Vimeo, Instacart, Mediaocean, Slack, Uber
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