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Josh P.
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Updated February 9, 2026
Zendesk Suite vs Intercom: Which is best for you?
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Starting Price
$55.00
per month
$39.00
per month
Free Trial
Free Version
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Top Rated
Features
Features
Customer History
4.76
Real-Time Updates
4.75
Search/Filter
4.73
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Customizable Fields
4.78
Communication Management
4.71
Live Chat
4.70
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Integrations
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Pros / Cons
- Overall, Zendesk suite serves as a robust and scalable support platform centralizing mulit-stakeholder support, improving response times through automation and self-service capabilities supported with analytics to report on support metrics.
- They do a terrible job of screening for junk and spam letting a significant numbers of spam and malicious messages through and flagging real customer message en masse after each update.
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- We do have an excellent team of reps, but Intercom's Help Center and Fin AI take care of the most common customer interactions, so our reps have the bandwidth to engage with more complex customer issues.
- It's not very marketing and sales-friendly, lacking a few features like proper attribution and pushing full location information, including city and state, to Salesforce CRM
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Ease-of-Use
4.3/ 5
Highest performing feature
in the comparison
4.4/ 5in the comparison
Value for Money
Highest performing feature
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4.2/ 5in the comparison
4/ 5
Customer Support
4.3/ 5
4.3/ 5
Functionality
4.4/ 5
4.4/ 5
Support Options
Email/Help Desk
FAQs/Forum
Knowledge Base
Phone Support
24/7 (Live Rep)
Chat
Email/Help Desk
FAQs/Forum
Knowledge Base
Phone Support
24/7 (Live Rep)
Chat
Training Options
In Person
Live Online
Webinars
Documentation
Videos
In Person
Live Online
Webinars
Documentation
Videos
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Recommendations
Recommendations
12 Recommendations
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Ideal Customer Size
Small
Medium
Large
Small
Medium
Large
Deployment Options
Cloud, SaaS, Web-Based
Desktop - Mac
Desktop - Windows
Desktop - Linux
Desktop - Chromebook
On-Premise - Windows
On-Premise - Linux
Mobile - Android
Mobile - iPhone
Mobile - iPad
Cloud, SaaS, Web-Based
Desktop - Mac
Desktop - Windows
Desktop - Linux
Desktop - Chromebook
On-Premise - Windows
On-Premise - Linux
Mobile - Android
Mobile - iPhone
Mobile - iPad