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Kore.ai vs Zendesk comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Kore.ai
Ranking in AI Customer Support
2nd
Ranking in AI IT Support
7th
Average Rating
7.8
Number of Reviews
16
Ranking in other categories
AI Agent Builders (7th), AI Customer Experience Personalization (7th), AI Security (6th)
Zendesk
Ranking in AI Customer Support
9th
Ranking in AI IT Support
4th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.5
Number of Reviews
70
Ranking in other categories
CRM Customer Engagement Centers (2nd), CRM (5th), Help Desk Software (3rd), IT Service Management (ITSM) (3rd), Reporting (7th), Knowledge Management Software (3rd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the AI Customer Support category, the mindshare of Kore.ai is 1.9%, down from 21.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Zendesk is 1.5%, down from 9.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
AI Customer Support Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Kore.ai1.9%
Zendesk1.5%
Other96.6%
AI Customer Support
 

Featured Reviews

Judin Augustin - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Data Scientist at Guide House
Automation has reduced large call centers and provides real-time outbound support for patients
Kore.ai is a low-code platform, and you do not necessarily have to be an expert in artificial intelligence or generative AI to use this platform. However, if you have that experience, it will be a valuable add-on. The main advantage is that it has almost every kind of plugin available to use, whether for live agents or if you want to use it as a call center. You have real-time capabilities and the most useful plugins available, with almost every kind of model available with configurations. We can configure the ML models and train them. The platform is very user-friendly with explanatory features and a great UI. One significant feature is the live testing platform with Kore.ai. When you are creating a workflow, you have an interactive, real-time testing platform that reflects every change you make. This makes it easy to debug errors or add new features. Additionally, Kore.ai has many different tools and platforms that cater to different needs, whether for a call center, normal workflow, or machine learning workflow, which is really useful. Because of Kore.ai, it was much easier than creating something manually. A low-code platform always helps, and when that platform has this much capability, it provides far more value than manual development. It was particularly helpful for our team that we could create a POC and get that project into production. Kore.ai helped our team build a generative AI outbound calling chatbot, and it truly helped our customers. If you have a hospital with a thousand employees in a call center, you might consider outsourcing. However, with Kore.ai's outbound calling capabilities, you can eliminate the outsourcing part. You do not need a thousand call center employees. You can accomplish this through automation with just one or two employees if people need to switch to agents. This represented a significant cost reduction.
AmandaSanchez - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant and Startup Founder at AimHi Enterprises
Macros and automation have streamlined workflows and reduced manual effort across support teams
The ability to communicate on the Zendesk ticket through the actual user software, so TOPs, would have been helpful. Somehow seeing a user's ticket history within our app would have been beneficial. That is the only thing that I do not think existed at the time that might have been helpful. Some people struggled with Zendesk, but it was always easy enough to show them how to use it and what they were missing. The only times we really had people report concerns about it was when they did not understand that it could do that or how to use it in that way.

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Pros

"Because of Kore.ai, it was much easier than creating something manually, and when that platform has this much capability, it provides far more value than manual development."
"Kore.ai helps in operational efficiency and faster time-to-market, which is development velocity."
"Kore.ai has positively impacted my organization by helping us build intelligent chatbots and incorporating voice agents, enabling various clients to adopt these solutions, which have been revolutionary for their businesses."
"Kore.ai has positively impacted my organization, as it saved a lot of time in implementation and the proof of concept was very fast to implement and easy to develop."
"Kore.ai offers many valuable features, particularly its extensive array of connectors, allowing easy integration with various ERP systems and the straightforward implementation of webhooks and APIs."
"It impacted my organization by helping us move into being AI-native, and it helped a lot to show other clients that we have worked in AI."
"Kore.ai has positively impacted our organization by reducing error rates from around fifteen to twenty percent to just two to three percent after implementation."
"Kore.ai helped us integrate a lot through documentation and trial and error, making it straightforward to integrate overall, resulting in a very good experience for first-timers."
"The stability and performance have been perfect."
"It has good management, the ability to sign tickets based on content, the multi-channel support, the self service portal, the integration with Salesforce, the setup process, and the product features as we are currently using them."
"My advice to others looking into using Zendesk is that if you need an alternative to GitHub Actions or GitHub issues, this is worth looking at."
"It is a scalable solution."
"Even though I haven't tried other solutions, I think this product is very useful and easy to use."
"Zendesk saves us over $50,000 per year and can be maintained in-house by our staff."
"Navigation and application is user friendly and can be self-taught from a user perspective."
"Our company is based on this model and wouldn't be as successful as we are today without this support structure in place."
 

Cons

"Customer support is okay, I guess. We get what we want from them whenever there is an issue or something, but sometimes when we had issues, it was delayed a lot."
"To improve Kore.ai, I suggest focusing on more agentic automation, such as offering MCP kind of features with an orchestration layer for use cases."
"I choose 7.5 out of 10 for Kore.ai because a few things already need to be improved, one of which I have mentioned."
"In my experience, Kore.ai is not stable."
"I rated Kore.ai an 8 out of 10 because additional features could be added to it."
"We sometimes faced challenges with the integration process due to a lack of in-depth knowledge in the documentation."
"Customer support is where Kore.ai has significant room for improvement. Post-implementation support is a particularly discouraging aspect for me."
"One thing I have learned is the unpredictability of LLMs and how buggy Kore.ai is as a software."
"Zendesk Guide could be improved by allowing us to put our assets in one location. What happens now for each article, for example, is we have to upload the images for that article to that location, so the image reuse is still not something that they have perfected. If they could allow us to update all the images in one location, and then pull the image from there, it would be easier when working on Multibrand projects. There are no Multibrand updates available—we have to update each brand manually. For my company, I have come up with an API tool which allows me to push the content to multiple brands together, but if you don't have something like that, you have to manually do it."
"I'm going to piggyback on what I said regarding Freshdesk concerning what could be better in Zendesk: incorporate more AI."
"It's expensive."
"The stability was a problem as our help desk grew. The product would need work on its stability (system hangs) and being able to handle larger groups."
"The solution could integrate better with QR codes from some websites such as Facebook."
"They have something called Zendesk Explore, which isn't as good as what they had in place previously."
"There is an option, I would like to see, the ability to group my requests into different states."
"It needs to have a more intuitive application of macro’s in changing ticket statuses."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"The price is very competitive."
"Zendesk's licensing is not cheap. For Enterprise, we are paying $200 per agent. It's a per-month cost, so it's pretty steep. There are some services you need to pay extra for. For example, with Zendesk Guide, we had to buy the most expensive offering in order to get Multibrand and everything. We also had to pay a lot of money for themes."
"We pay for the solution on a yearly basis and my understanding is that the cost is about $30,000. That's the cost for 24 to 25 agents."
"There are different plans that are offered. We are using the entry-level plan. The overall price of the solution should be reduced. The price is too high."
"From what I hear, Zendesk's pricing is a little expensive."
"You have to pay extra for better support. So it's not only the license that you pay for, but you have to pay extra for the support as well."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Outsourcing Company
12%
Manufacturing Company
12%
Construction Company
11%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Outsourcing Company
11%
Construction Company
10%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Manufacturing Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business2
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise14
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business37
Midsize Enterprise22
Large Enterprise12
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Kore.ai?
The experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing of Kore.ai is that the price is low, and the licensing is also not costly.
What needs improvement with Kore.ai?
Kore.ai could be improved by offering more in-depth trainings and assignments with the platform itself so that anyone could learn how to use it better. We sometimes faced challenges with the integr...
What is your primary use case for Kore.ai?
Kore.ai is designed to create AI chatbots for agents working with clients, integrating agents for their main duties. I completed a personal project using Kore.ai to build an agent for university ad...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Zendesk Support?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Zendesk shows that pricing is really affordable compared to other customer management software. The setup is pretty simple as well, but if ...
What needs improvement with Zendesk Support?
Regarding my main use case for Zendesk, it is really easy to use, but one of the cons I have with it is that it takes some time to load information. Most of the time, if a particular candidate has ...
What is your primary use case for Zendesk Support?
On a day-to-day basis, I use Zendesk to track, manage, and work on my cases. I also use it to upload information securely, and this is not only limited to documents but also to images and reports. ...
 

Comparisons

 

Also Known As

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Zendesk Support, Zendesk Guide, Zendesk Sell
 

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Sample Customers

Leading banks & Enterprise Companies
Mailchimp, Tesco, Vimeo, Instacart, Mediaocean, Slack, Uber
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