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Freshdesk vs Salesforce comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive SummaryUpdated on Feb 4, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score
6.6
Freshdesk boosts ROI with automation, reducing costs and enhancing productivity, service quality, and operational scalability effectively.
Sentiment score
6.2
Salesforce improves sales conversion and resource management, offering efficiency and time-saving benefits with varying return on investment.
People who initially find ServiceNow to be on the higher side, but when you do the value gain comparison in the next few years, you see that it does give you the returns, with the AI capabilities and everything it brings.
Director, Portfolio Projects at Microland Limited
Automation of assigning tickets helps in reducing overall operational costs for the company, which frees up agents to do other complex and much-needed tasks.
Project Manager at Yohanna
I have seen a return on investment with Freshdesk, as there were definitely savings because we do not need to spend the lifetime of our customer success managers; we can just use this tool.
Head Of Product & Engineering (Cpto) at a real estate/law firm with 11-50 employees
The time saved is spent on more important, innovative tasks that advance us technologically and strategically.
Delivery Manager at a tech company with 51-200 employees
This means that whichever customer opens more cases and if the cases are more difficult or cases that take a longer time to resolve, you can evaluate how much technical documentation or updates are sent to them.
ILS Manager at a consultancy with 11-50 employees
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.5
Freshdesk offers responsive basic support with good documentation, but complex issues can be slow, averaging 8/10 ratings.
Sentiment score
6.8
Salesforce provides exceptional support services, with responsive assistance and effective issue resolution, surpassing Microsoft in quality and efficiency.
We have not needed to contact technical support, as Freshdesk has met our needs efficiently.
VP - Technology and Solutions at Ninth Dimension IT Solutions (P) Ltd
From my experience, once it is set up, we have never had problems.
Customer Success Manager at Mimshackworks Endeavors
The first-time response should be within 30 seconds.
NOC SOC ANALYST at SAVIC Inc.
When I interact with agents or contact Salesforce, they are always responsive and provide good solutions.
Delivery Manager at a tech company with 51-200 employees
The customer support definitely provides a basic picture to the end user or the customer on the other side where they can receive updates and files and see the process of the status of where their items are.
ILS Manager at a consultancy with 11-50 employees
I haven't needed to reach out to customer support because we have an internal team that deals with Salesforce matters, but I believe issues are resolved quite quickly whenever they arise.
Strategic Account Executive at a tech company with 51-200 employees
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
6.8
Freshdesk is scalable for small to mid-sized businesses but faces limitations with customizations for large enterprises.
Sentiment score
8.1
Salesforce is scalable and suitable for growth, handling large user bases effectively, though may need additional investment.
Additional features like email, WhatsApp, and SMS ticketing, along with Slack integration, can be enabled as required.
VP - Technology and Solutions at Ninth Dimension IT Solutions (P) Ltd
For small to medium-sized businesses, you can look at Freshdesk, but for larger enterprise levels, you look at ServiceNow.
Director, Portfolio Projects at Microland Limited
They can easily send an email to support, and a ticket gets generated for the IT person.
Project Engineer at IT Solution
We can scale by purchasing licenses for more users and adding new workflow processes limitlessly.
Delivery Manager at a tech company with 51-200 employees
There are no problems with Salesforce's scalability.
data engineer at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
You can use it in big companies with many employees.
ILS Manager at a consultancy with 11-50 employees
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.6
Freshdesk is praised for high stability, with occasional minor issues, quick resolutions, and generally excellent performance ratings.
Sentiment score
8.4
Salesforce is highly stable and reliable, with minor downtime, operating effectively 99% of the time.
The goal is always to respond to customer tickets in a timely fashion, ensuring that customers feel seen and heard while also providing solutions.
Customer Success Manager at Mimshackworks Endeavors
After installation and continuous operation, I have encountered no problems.
Head Advisor Infrastructure Cloud Architect at Adrienutech
Freshdesk has been quite stable in the market.
Director, Portfolio Projects at Microland Limited
I would rate Salesforce's stability high, around ten.
Delivery Manager at a tech company with 51-200 employees
I would say 99% of the time it works well.
Leads Delivery Associate at PeerSpot
In my experience, Salesforce is very stable; there are no downtime or issues.
Manager at PeerSpot
 

Room For Improvement

Freshdesk users seek improved customization, analytics, performance, integration, pricing, UI responsiveness, and easier configuration for complex cases.
Salesforce requires enhancements in integration, UI, error messages, pricing, customization, analytics, mobile app, and language support.
Currently, some features like SMS or WhatsApp integration are only available to larger user groups, but even smaller teams should have access based on their specific needs.
VP - Technology and Solutions at Ninth Dimension IT Solutions (P) Ltd
The current integration is more complicated and doesn’t work as well.
Development Manager at Horizon Software
More automation would be beneficial, as it could greatly improve our efficiency and reduce manual tasks.
Call Centre Manager at a retailer with 51-200 employees
If there is anything I would improve about Salesforce, it would be customer service during the initial implementation, as our experience wasn't as smooth as hoped.
data engineer at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
As a person who knows SQL, it would be very helpful if there were tools that could leverage my SQL knowledge.
Director of Solution Architect Vertica, APJ at OpenText
Being able to move between cases and products more easily would improve the score.
Leads Delivery Associate at PeerSpot
 

Setup Cost

Freshdesk's per-agent licensing is cost-effective, with enterprise plans at 79 Euros monthly, offering comprehensive features and negotiation options.
Salesforce's licensing is costly, varies with usage, and targets enterprises, considered both overpriced and competitively priced for mobile apps.
Our organization pays about 200,000 Indian rupees per year for the license.
VP - Technology and Solutions at Ninth Dimension IT Solutions (P) Ltd
The pricing experience is relatively competitive, so it is cost-effective.
Project Manager at Yohanna
The setup cost and licensing are very good.
Project Engineer at IT Solution
 

Valuable Features

Freshdesk streamlines customer support with efficient ticketing, automation, omnichannel support, and analytics, enhancing satisfaction and operational efficiency.
Salesforce enhances business processes with user-friendly CRM features, flexible customization, automation, and tools supporting strategic decision-making.
These features drastically impact my day-to-day work and my team's efficiency by reducing the resolution time significantly, as issues that once took days to resolve are now handled in hours and even minutes.
Works at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees
Freshdesk has positively impacted my organization as it has saved a considerable amount of time and has enabled us to focus better on customers, which resulted in lesser churn.
Project Manager at Yohanna
Now, with Freshdesk, tickets can be easily assigned to any engineer, who will provide the cause, explain why it happened, and give us the answer on how they resolved the issue.
Project Engineer at IT Solution
The Salesforce integration with other tools, such as Celonis, is easy to set up and straightforward, allowing for smooth data extraction.
data engineer at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
Salesforce has positively impacted our organization by allowing us to work collaboratively with other departments in order to keep track of programs so that when a salesperson closes a deal, everything that the delivery manager needs is automatically populated, which then can be linked with our internal campaigns for data management, and within all that, we can keep track of progress linked to the customer sources as well.
Leads Delivery Associate at PeerSpot
The dashboard helps me stay organized because I can see how much more pipeline I need to create to achieve my quota, notifying me if I'm running a bit behind or if I need to increase something.
Strategic Account Executive at a tech company with 51-200 employees
 

Categories and Ranking

Freshdesk
Ranking in Customer Experience Management
3rd
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
41
Ranking in other categories
Field Service Management (3rd), Help Desk Software (5th), Knowledge Management Software (5th)
Salesforce
Ranking in Customer Experience Management
1st
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.3
Number of Reviews
43
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2026, in the Customer Experience Management category, the mindshare of Freshdesk is 2.2%, down from 5.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Salesforce is 2.9%, down from 7.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Customer Experience Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Salesforce2.9%
Freshdesk2.2%
Other94.9%
Customer Experience Management
 

Featured Reviews

Gauri Thakur - PeerSpot reviewer
Director, Portfolio Projects at Microland Limited
Integrated support workflows have provided a unified view but need broader enterprise flexibility
Freshdesk's scalability could be improved for larger businesses across departments. Its intuitive interface is appealing for small to medium-sized businesses. However, when you look at larger enterprise levels, ServiceNow operates more efficiently. This scalability is an area where Freshdesk could expand its offerings. Additionally, I don't have too much hands-on experience with Freshdesk ticket routing. I need to check with the service desk team if they've used it. Similarly, for analytics capability, I haven't explored much on Freshdesk, but I have done it for ServiceNow. I have seen a lot on ServiceNow and the BMC Remedy, so I can speak better for them. I haven't had the chance to look at it so much that I can do a comparison. I haven't had much experience with Freshdesk's reporting. Within its paradigm of customer service management, Freshdesk is quite scalable. But I've said that inter-department and the interoperability is better off in ServiceNow than in Freshdesk.
reviewer2827143 - PeerSpot reviewer
ILS Manager at a consultancy with 11-50 employees
Customer support has become transparent and data driven but the interface still needs major simplification
The UX/UI of Salesforce is a bit problematic. A lot of times there is a learning curve and even over three years I was not able to completely feel comfortable with using it. The search and the keywords and the cases and the account names and there is just a lot of information that is incorporated into Salesforce that it is hard to navigate. It is difficult to quickly find exactly what you are looking for without getting help from another coworker that might know more or really just tinkering around with the system in order to find the best result that you can. I came into a problem with the incorporation of Hebrew. While international customers are spoken to in English, there needs to be incorporation of other languages. There are also customers in the country that use Salesforce with us. A lot of times, when sending updates to Salesforce inside of the company or even to customers that are local, the Hebrew support in Salesforce is problematic. It comes up either backwards or the language does not even identify, meaning that the update will just be completely gibberish.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
11%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Construction Company
9%
University
7%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Construction Company
8%
Legal Firm
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business26
Midsize Enterprise6
Large Enterprise14
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business19
Midsize Enterprise7
Large Enterprise18
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Freshdesk?
Freshdesk can be improved by addressing the lack of a custom dashboard, which would help design it to the client's requirement, and the API rate limit, which would be best if they provided an optio...
What is your primary use case for Freshdesk?
Our main use case of Freshdesk includes using it as a ticketing platform with live chat and support email for customers to send us tickets. We have agents on Freshdesk monitoring traffic and respon...
What advice do you have for others considering Freshdesk?
My advice to others looking into using Freshdesk is that when customers themselves want to contact a company for an issue, Freshdesk is best at helping them create tickets and reach out to the comp...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Salesforce?
I'm not involved in the pricing, setup cost, or licensing, so I couldn't tell you about that.
What needs improvement with Salesforce?
I have no frustrations regarding Salesforce, but I think it can be improved by making it visually more user-friendly, though in general, I believe it's very customizable, and you can make everythin...
What is your primary use case for Salesforce?
I use Salesforce daily, which keeps a log of all my opportunities, helps me manage my accounts, lets me see my team's status, shows where I'm at in the team, how much pipeline I have, and what my c...
 

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Sample Customers

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