Customer Support & Help Desk
Zoho Desk
Context-aware, AI-powered help desk with deep customization on a budget.
4.4· 7,209 reviews· via G2Founded 2016 · Chennai, India
What is Zoho Desk?
Zoho Desk is cloud help desk and customer support software from Zoho. It manages support tickets across channels with automation, self-service, and AI assistance.
Best known for: Affordable multichannel help desk
Key features
- Omnichannel ticketing
- Zia AI assistant
- Workflow automation
- Self-service knowledge base
- SLA management
- Reporting and analytics
Who Zoho Desk is best for
- Cost-conscious SMBs and mid-market teams wanting low per-agent pricing
- Teams already in (or open to) the Zoho ecosystem
- Orgs that need multi-department, multi-brand help desks with heavy customization
Ideal team: Cost-conscious SMB and mid-market support teams (3–100) that want deep customization cheaply, ideally alongside other Zoho apps.
Zoho Desk pricing
Standard
$14/per agent / mo
- Business messaging
- Answer bot
- Knowledge base
Popular
Professional
$23/per agent / mo
- Telephony
- Zia AI
- Blueprints & round-robin
Enterprise
$40/per agent / mo
- Live chat
- Skill-based assignment
- Multi-brand help center
Costs to watch before you commit
- Light agents cost extra (~$0.35–$4 each/mo); only Enterprise bundles 50 free.
- Monthly billing is meaningfully pricier than the annual monthly-equivalent shown.
- Zia/generative-AI runs on a token allotment, then bills for overages.
- Telephony and live chat lean on other Zoho products (e.g. SalesIQ) — added spend.
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