Zendesk vs HubSpot Service Hub
Overview
Zendesk
Zendesk is the industry-leading customer service solution that equips you to deliver quality customer service. It covers nearly every business aspect: from managing a help desk to ...the IT service with ITSM best practices. Its varied functionality comes in a product line: Zendesk for sales, Zendesk for service, and Sunshine Platform.
Platforms supported
- macOS
- Linux
- iOS app
- Android app
Support Options
- FAQs/Forum
- Knowledge Base
- 24/7 (Live rep)
- Phone Support
- Email/Help Desk
- Chat
Training Options
- Live Online
- Documentation
- In Person
- Videos
- Webinars
Screenshots
HubSpot Service Hub
Service Hub is a new software solution created by HubSpot which is concentrated on business workflow management for improving customer experience and general satisfaction level. Th...e platform contains a set of advanced tools which can help any support team automate a big part of their workflow while understanding and improving relationships with customers.
Platforms supported
- macOS
- Linux
- iOS app
- Android app
Support Options
- FAQs/Forum
- Knowledge Base
- 24/7 (Live rep)
- Phone Support
- Email/Help Desk
- Chat
Training Options
- Live Online
- Documentation
- In Person
- Videos
- Webinars
Screenshots
Pricing
Zendesk
- Support Team $19
- Support Professional $55
- Support Enterprise $115
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- Free trial
HubSpot Service Hub
- HubSpot Service Hub Free $0
- HubSpot Service Hub Starter $15
- HubSpot Service Hub Starter Customer Platform $15
- HubSpot Service Hub Professional $90
- Free trial
Feature comparison
Zendesk
7.5/10
- Agent collision prevention
- Bulk actions
- Contextual Workspaces
- Custom & Group Views
- Dynamic content
- Email scheduling
- Essentials Card
- Filtered Search
- Group your agents
- Guided Mode
- Interaction History (Ticket activities)
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Light Agents
- Macros
- Mobile app
- Multilingual (Multiple) content
- Private Comments within tickets
- Restricted conversation views
- Shared canned responses
- Skills-based routing
- Tags
- Add reminders on to-dos
- Auto Bcc
- Canned forms
- Edit/hide threads
- Email signatures
- Personal canned responses
- To-dos
10/10
- Collaboration
8.8/10
- Contact Form
- Contacts & Accounts Management
- Contacts & ticket history
- Custom user and organization fields
- Customer journey
- Customer Lists
- Customer profiles
- Customer satisfaction ratings (CSAT)
- Device data log
- Group contacts by organization
- Identify contacts using external ID
- Net Promoter Score® Surveys (Feedback)
- Organization profiles
- Satisfaction Prediction
- Customer 360
- Customer segments
10/10
- Auto reply
- Automatic ticket assignment using Dispatch'r
- Custom business rules (triggers & automations)
- Event-triggered workflow automations
- Multi-task workflows with one-touch Scenarios
- Time-based Rules
- Time-triggered automations
- Workflow automations
9.2/10
- Business Hours
- Custom ticket fields
- Dynamic ticket forms
- Multiple Ticket Forms
- Premium Sandbox
- Sandbox test environment
- Service Level Agreement (SLA) management
- Set your Time Zone
- SLA reporting
- Ticket file attachment size
- Ticket sharing
- Custom status
7.5/10
- Approval Workflows
- Form templates
- Multiple SLA Policies
- Task Management
10/10
- Problem Management
5.7/10
- Complete portal customization
- CSS customization
- Custom domain mapping
- Public portal customization
- Branding removal (email)
- Branding removal (Help Center)
- FreshThemes gallery
7.8/10
- Community forums
- Help Center insights
- Internal Help Center
- Knowledge base
- Related articles
- Rich text Help Center articles
- SEO
- 301 Redirection
- Unlimited data
10/10
- API rate limit
- Cloud telephony integration app
- Custom objects
- Email integration with Outlook
- Gamification
- Google Apps (G Suite)
- HubSpot Integration
- Integration with Atlassian Jira
- Integrations
- Private custom apps
- Public apps (Marketplace)
- Salesforce integration
- Slack integration
- Webhooks
- Zapier integration
9.5/10
- Advanced Insights
- Agent Dashboard (Agent Scorecard)
- Analytics
- Custom Reports
- Export reports
- Google Analytics for Help Center
- Helpdesk in-depth report
- Manager Dashboard (The Headquarters)
- Overview dashboard
- Performance distribution
- Save reports
- Schedule Data Export
- Schedule Reports
- Support Performance dashboards
- Team Dashboards
- Ticket drill down in reports
- Ticket lifecycle report
- Ticket volume trends
- User-specific reporting
- Zendesk Benchmark
- Tickets closed reports
9.6/10
- Ability to configure for HIPAA
- Advanced password policy for agents and customers
- Agent device management
- Audit logs
- Automatic redaction
- Business rules analysis
- Content Delivery Network
- Custom roles and permissions
- Data center location
- Digitally signed emails (DKIM/DMARC)
- Disaster recovery
- Domain Whitelisting
- Email compliance archive
- Encryption: data at rest and in motion
- GDPR compliance
- Guaranteed availability SLA (1 Hour Support SLA)
- Log in with Google
- Network access restriction (IP Whitelisting)
- PCI compliance (Level 1)
- Privacy Shield and Safe Harbor compliant
- Single sign on with SAML
- Single sign-on (SSO) for web and mobile
- SPF(Sender Policy Framework)
- SSL encryption
- Two-Factor Authentication
- Custom email servers
8.6/10
- Calling
- Chat Support (in English)
- Email Support
- Facebook
- Guidance Program
- Live chat
- Multibrand Support
- Phone Support (in English)
- Professional Services
- SDK
- Twitter
- Web Widget
- Customer Success Manager
- Support Bot
8/10
- Assume identity
- Custom Email Templates
- Email forwarding
- Email tickets
- Mailboxes (inboxes)
- Merge tickets
- Public and private notes in tickets
- Satisfaction surveys - Customizable
- Spam filtering
- Support workflow
- Ticket export
- Ticket templates
- Outbound email
- Outgoing SMTP settings
- Watch tickets
8.9/10
- Automatic sitemap generation
- Backup
- Community forums
- Date comparisons
- Facebook in-sync app
- Notifications
- Printer-friendly
- Unlimited End Users
- Multiple currencies
0/10
- Purchase Order (PO) Management
0/10
- 1:1 video creation & hosting
- Call transcription
- Documents
- Email sequences
- Goals
- Open tracking
- Playbooks
- Sequence queues
HubSpot Service Hub
7.1/10
- Agent collision prevention
- Bulk actions
- Contextual Workspaces
- Custom & Group Views
- Dynamic content
- Email scheduling
- Essentials Card
- Filtered Search
- Group your agents
- Guided Mode
- Interaction History (Ticket activities)
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Light Agents
- Macros
- Mobile app
- Multilingual (Multiple) content
- Private Comments within tickets
- Restricted conversation views
- Shared canned responses
- Skills-based routing
- Tags
- Add reminders on to-dos
- Auto Bcc
- Canned forms
- Edit/hide threads
- Email signatures
- Personal canned responses
- To-dos
0/10
- Collaboration
7.5/10
- Contact Form
- Contacts & Accounts Management
- Contacts & ticket history
- Custom user and organization fields
- Customer journey
- Customer Lists
- Customer profiles
- Customer satisfaction ratings (CSAT)
- Device data log
- Group contacts by organization
- Identify contacts using external ID
- Net Promoter Score® Surveys (Feedback)
- Organization profiles
- Satisfaction Prediction
- Customer 360
- Customer segments
8.8/10
- Auto reply
- Automatic ticket assignment using Dispatch'r
- Custom business rules (triggers & automations)
- Event-triggered workflow automations
- Multi-task workflows with one-touch Scenarios
- Time-based Rules
- Time-triggered automations
- Workflow automations
6.7/10
- Business Hours
- Custom ticket fields
- Dynamic ticket forms
- Multiple Ticket Forms
- Premium Sandbox
- Sandbox test environment
- Service Level Agreement (SLA) management
- Set your Time Zone
- SLA reporting
- Ticket file attachment size
- Ticket sharing
- Custom status
2.5/10
- Approval Workflows
- Form templates
- Multiple SLA Policies
- Task Management
0/10
- Problem Management
10/10
- Complete portal customization
- CSS customization
- Custom domain mapping
- Public portal customization
- Branding removal (email)
- Branding removal (Help Center)
- FreshThemes gallery
7.8/10
- Community forums
- Help Center insights
- Internal Help Center
- Knowledge base
- Related articles
- Rich text Help Center articles
- SEO
- 301 Redirection
- Unlimited data
8.7/10
- API rate limit
- Cloud telephony integration app
- Custom objects
- Email integration with Outlook
- Gamification
- Google Apps (G Suite)
- HubSpot Integration
- Integration with Atlassian Jira
- Integrations
- Private custom apps
- Public apps (Marketplace)
- Salesforce integration
- Slack integration
- Webhooks
- Zapier integration
6.2/10
- Advanced Insights
- Agent Dashboard (Agent Scorecard)
- Analytics
- Custom Reports
- Export reports
- Google Analytics for Help Center
- Helpdesk in-depth report
- Manager Dashboard (The Headquarters)
- Overview dashboard
- Performance distribution
- Save reports
- Schedule Data Export
- Schedule Reports
- Support Performance dashboards
- Team Dashboards
- Ticket drill down in reports
- Ticket lifecycle report
- Ticket volume trends
- User-specific reporting
- Zendesk Benchmark
- Tickets closed reports
3.8/10
- Ability to configure for HIPAA
- Advanced password policy for agents and customers
- Agent device management
- Audit logs
- Automatic redaction
- Business rules analysis
- Content Delivery Network
- Custom roles and permissions
- Data center location
- Digitally signed emails (DKIM/DMARC)
- Disaster recovery
- Domain Whitelisting
- Email compliance archive
- Encryption: data at rest and in motion
- GDPR compliance
- Guaranteed availability SLA (1 Hour Support SLA)
- Log in with Google
- Network access restriction (IP Whitelisting)
- PCI compliance (Level 1)
- Privacy Shield and Safe Harbor compliant
- Single sign on with SAML
- Single sign-on (SSO) for web and mobile
- SPF(Sender Policy Framework)
- SSL encryption
- Two-Factor Authentication
- Custom email servers
7.9/10
- Calling
- Chat Support (in English)
- Email Support
- Facebook
- Guidance Program
- Live chat
- Multibrand Support
- Phone Support (in English)
- Professional Services
- SDK
- Twitter
- Web Widget
- Customer Success Manager
- Support Bot
8/10
- Assume identity
- Custom Email Templates
- Email forwarding
- Email tickets
- Mailboxes (inboxes)
- Merge tickets
- Public and private notes in tickets
- Satisfaction surveys - Customizable
- Spam filtering
- Support workflow
- Ticket export
- Ticket templates
- Outbound email
- Outgoing SMTP settings
- Watch tickets
5.6/10
- Automatic sitemap generation
- Backup
- Community forums
- Date comparisons
- Facebook in-sync app
- Notifications
- Printer-friendly
- Unlimited End Users
- Multiple currencies
10/10
- Purchase Order (PO) Management
10/10
- 1:1 video creation & hosting
- Call transcription
- Documents
- Email sequences
- Goals
- Open tracking
- Playbooks
- Sequence queues
Reviews
Zendesk
5 of 5
The key goals to deliver fast and quality responses to ticket and communicate on multiple channels are smoothly fulfilled with Zendesk....
4 of 5
Zendesk proved to be efficient in a quick issue resolution on multiple channels on time. The collaboration features enhanced and improv...
5 of 5
Zendesk provides a comprehensible UI and a lot of useful capabilities. It is worth to mention the outstanding features of customer sati...
HubSpot Service Hub
5 of 5
The ability to see and have everything on a single dashboard makes it simpler to overlook, understand and manage all the data we have. ...
4 of 5
In HubSpot Service Hub I like the ability to see the metrics considering how many times the particular email was opened, the number of ...
4 of 5
The best thing is that this tool is user-friendly and has a social media-like interface. So, it was very simple for literally everyone ...