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FreshChat vs Zendesk Messaging comparison

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Categories and Ranking

FreshChat
Ranking in Live Chat
3rd
Average Rating
8.4
Number of Reviews
10
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Zendesk Messaging
Ranking in Live Chat
4th
Average Rating
9.0
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
Text Messaging (4th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the Live Chat category, the mindshare of FreshChat is 3.6%, up from 2.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Zendesk Messaging is 6.7%, up from 5.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Live Chat Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
FreshChat3.6%
Zendesk Messaging6.7%
Other89.7%
Live Chat
 

Featured Reviews

Balogun Peter - PeerSpot reviewer
Digital Magazine Manager at OMC System
Automated responses have reduced staff needs and handle daily customer complaints efficiently
FreshChat's AI capabilities are really reliable, and I am not worried about its security because I know it is well established. The accuracy and reliability of FreshChat's AI output are strong; it delivers perfectly based on what you input. My advice to others looking into using FreshChat is that it is a must use to reduce costs. I give FreshChat a rating of eight out of ten. What influenced my score of eight out of ten is that human effort is still needed because no matter how well it works, some questions are transferred to an agent to be handled by a human.
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

"FreshChat's AI capabilities are really reliable, and I am not worried about its security because I know it is well established."
"FreshChat has had a positive impact on my organization, making customer communication more organized."
"With the introduction of FreshChat, we have seen a reduction in overall time for our work, and our entire workflow has become much more efficient because it is a centralized platform that enables us to serve customers across different channels via FreshChat itself."
"Live chat and messaging are the best features FreshChat offers based on my exploration so far."
"FreshChat's best features include its AI chatbot, which is excellent, and it provides quite good scaling capability and modularity that we can customize for our particular use case."
"FreshChat will definitely reduce my implementation part, and I have a ready-to-use chat feature where I can have live chat and the chatbot to give quick support for my application."
"FreshChat has positively impacted my organization by decreasing the amount of emails that the CSM has to get involved in because the AI is able to either answer or triage more effectively."
"Implementing FreshChat on the app and also on the website has reduced our call log by more than 30% and also the turnaround for the team by more than 70%."
"We like the mobile application, which allows us to provide a faster response to the customer."
"Stability-wise, this product is outstanding."
"On the chat, we automated it, and we actually get really great results with Zendesk."
"Zendesk Messaging would be recommended to other companies."
 

Cons

"My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for FreshChat is that we have Freshdesk which encompasses FreshChat, so the pricing is a little bit high."
"FreshChat can be improved in its availability on the internet."
"However, some integration documentation is a bit confusing, which is why I have rated it an eight rather than ten."
"FreshChat's mobile application is not very good and needs some work."
"FreshChat can be improved with the automation because things can always get better."
"FreshChat can be improved with better customer success workflows, as those are limited right now."
"FreshChat could have a more robust documentation system that would help our developers better integrate the platform."
"I would advise improving the response time of customer support, providing more productivity for technical issues, and offering clearer documentation and troubleshooting resources."
"We would like to have auto-templates for TT closure and TT updates."
"I believe they could implement AI in a better way for Zendesk Messaging."
"AI capabilities could be improved, as that is something everyone is trying to integrate now to automate more effectively."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Comms Service Provider
49%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Construction Company
9%
Outsourcing Company
7%
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Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business13
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise15
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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for FreshChat?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for FreshChat is that we have Freshdesk which encompasses FreshChat, so the pricing is a little bit high. I think it's one of those things I wi...
What needs improvement with FreshChat?
I think FreshChat can be improved by making it more AI-oriented, where it has more robust knowledge of its own rather than just responding to the local FAQ that is imported, in our case.Regarding F...
What is your primary use case for FreshChat?
My main use case for FreshChat is for communications with our staff and also with our customers. A quick specific example of how I use FreshChat for communicating with staff or customers is that we...
What needs improvement with Zendesk Chat?
I believe they could implement AI in a better way for Zendesk Messaging. Right now, there is an AI, but it's not to the level of being an actual agent that can help a customer before getting to a h...
What is your primary use case for Zendesk Chat?
We tried to implement a 24/7 kind of global support with Zendesk, so we enabled Talk and enabled chat and ticketing, so everything was enabled in the workspace. We tried to handle every single requ...
What advice do you have for others considering Zendesk Messaging?
We're mostly based on data, and we do not engage in workload automation or testing. Right now, we use Linear in addition to JIRA for our operations. I gave this review a rating of 9.
 

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