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NICE CXone vs Zendesk Chat comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on May 18, 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
2nd
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.8
Number of Reviews
13
Ranking in other categories
Workforce Engagement Management (3rd), IVR Systems (1st), Knowledge Management Software (6th), Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS) (4th)
Zendesk Chat
Ranking in Live Chat
7th
Average Rating
10.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2025, in the Live Chat category, the mindshare of NICE CXone is 8.3%, down from 12.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Zendesk Chat is 4.7%, down from 7.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Featured Reviews

James Arvidson - PeerSpot reviewer
A software that enables centers to operate more efficiently, increase the quality of every customer interaction, create new pathways to profit, and ensure ongoing customer-centric business improvemen
One of the best aspects of CXone is its omnichannel experience. It treats all contacts, whether phone, chat, email, or SMS, through the same system, allowing for consistent reporting and a true omnichannel experience. The platform is very flexible. You can customize it to do almost anything as long as it's based on logic, which has been incredibly valuable. In terms of analytics, CXone offers consistent, accessible data across all channels. In the past, different systems like Avaya for phones or separate platforms for chat and email made it hard to compare performance across channels. With CXone, you get the same data points across all interactions, making decision-making much easier. It also allows for deeper reporting, like IVR reporting, where you can see what options people choose and create custom KPIs for better insight.
MA
Flexible, stable, and allows for faster delivery of support
We would like to have auto-templates for TT closure and TT updates. This will save time in writing the acknowledgment. Templates can be added and edited, thus saving the agent time when on the ticket. I believe that this will contribute to the agent's knowledge, once coming across new ways of customer writing templates.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Customer support is terrific. The team is personable, informed, and responsive."
"inContact has helped our organization greatly by allowing us to see at a glance which agents are available to receive calls and those who are not, we are able to see why not."
"I have found the ease of use of the ACD to be most valuable along with the inView dashboard."
"We are able to see the calls in queue and able to see if someone is available or not."
"The technical support for NICE CXone is outstanding."
"It has the ability to edit the HTML, as well as the WYSIWYG."
"Being able to listen in on a call, which is exceptionally good with training."
"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."
"We like the mobile application, which allows us to provide a faster response to the customer."
 

Cons

"One of the biggest missing pieces is a link checker."
"inContact should offer a way to send faxes."
"It is a hassle, if you are busy and caught up with something, that it will log you out."
"It could improve the quality of calls."
"If you have hundreds of books, the initial download is slow."
"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."
"I have noticed that occasionally the dashboard will freeze and some things may get stuck for a while. For example, if I have a dashboard open that shows how many calls are in queue and how many are currently being handled by agents, sometimes a call that an agent is handling will get stuck on the dashboard after the agent ends the call and the dashboard will show that the call is still a live call. Our tech team has explained this to us as a ghost call. After some time (or maybe many screen refreshes) the call will go away like it has just ended."
"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
17%
Computer Software Company
13%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Healthcare Company
6%
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Company Size

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Large Enterprise
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Small Business
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Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with NICE CXone?
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...
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I use NICE CXone ( /products/nice-cxone-reviews ) for several purposes, such as addressing issues where calls are dropping or getting diffused. I also encounter situations where prompts are not pla...
What advice do you have for others considering NICE CXone?
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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
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Sample Customers

MoneyGram, Honeywell, Radisson Hotel Group, AAA, New Balance, MattressFIRM, Teleflora, Best Buy
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