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Guzli vs Freshdesk is a suite with seats and session packs versus chat plus voice plus phone on one published plan. Growth is $19, Pro $55, Enterprise $89 per agent per month annual.

When compared with Freshdesk, Guzli does this better

Hobby plan, chat only
$49/mo
Voice on the Standard plan
$149 + 16¢/min
Knowledge base for chat and voice
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Why teams consider a Freshdesk alternative

Billing you can forecast

Per-agent seats plus Copilot at $29/agent/mo billed annually move the invoice

Fewer meters on one invoice

Session packs at $49/100 expire with the payment cycle

Keep the desk you already run

Zendesk is the twin desk if you still need a suite

Chat and voice on one agent

You want chat plus voice on one published bill, and you will keep Freshdesk as the system of record

Procedures Step-by-step instructions you write in plain English, like a checklist for a new hire. Guzli follows them to handle refunds, bookings or order issues the same way every time. Learn more let you write plain-English steps the agent follows for repeatable customer requests.

Copilot An assistant for your team. Ask it about customer conversations to find trends and gaps in your answers, then review its suggested fixes before they go live. Learn more helps your team find patterns in customer conversations and review suggested improvements.

Everything in this section is based on public information reviewed September 2026.

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Everything your agent has learned, and where it came from.

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84% of replies answered from knowledge
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  1. 1Help center214
  2. 2Return & refund policy.pdf186
  3. 3Shipping & delivery FAQ122
Replies grounded in each source · 30 days
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All14 Files3 Web pages3 Help articles2 Tickets & chats2 Notion pages2 Snippets1 Q&A1
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northwind.com/help · 42 pages
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Review suggested content
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Guzli vs Freshdesk, side by side

Choose Guzli if you want chat plus voice plus phone on one published plan and you will keep Freshdesk as the desk. Choose Freshdesk if response-time targets, the portal, and Freshworks are the job.

Feature Guzli Freshdesk logo Freshdesk
Decision criteria
Full helpdesk / SLAs / portal / Freshworks suiteKeep Freshdesk for response-time targets (SLAs), the customer portal, and Freshworks. Guzli does not replace that desk. Zendesk is the twin suite — that pairwise page is Guzli vs Zendesk No Yes
Copilot $29/agent add-onFreddy AI Copilot is agent assist at $29/agent/mo billed annually on Pro and Enterprise (and Omni Pro + Enterprise). Not on Growth. Zendesk Copilot is $50/agent/mo yearly No Yes
Per-agent seatsAnnual-equivalent per agent per month on 20 Sep 2026: Growth $19, Pro $55, Enterprise $89. Omni $29 / $79 / $119 last extracted 28 Aug 2026. Monthly Freshdesk amounts were not on the public page. Guzli has no per-seat No Yes
Session packs (500 once + $49/100)500 free sessions once per account on Growth/Pro/Enterprise. Packs expire with the payment cycle. Extra $49/100. Buy more packs — the pricing FAQ does not say Freddy pauses at 500. Chat session = 24h; email = 72h from first email No Yes
Pricing published on the website Yes Yes
Start on a self-serve plan, no sales call Yes Partial
No-code setup for support and ops teams Yes Partial
No per-resolution fee Yes Partial
Channels
Website chat + on-site voice + inbound + outbound on one knowledge baseGuzli voice starts on Standard. Freshcaller is a separate phone system. Zendesk has Talk plus a Voice AI EAP Yes Partial
Unified inbox + auto-create ticketsGuzli inbox: Email, Chat, Voice, Slack, WhatsApp. Auto-creates tickets. Keep the desk. How-to: Freshdesk integration setup Yes Yes
Freshcaller / Talk telephonyFreshcaller (last extracted 28 Aug 2026): Free $0 + pay/min; Growth $15 + 2k incoming min; Pro $39 + 3k; Enterprise $69 + 5k + speech IVR. Separate from the desk card. Guzli voice is on the same knowledge base Partial Yes
Website chat widget Yes Partial
AI answers inbound phone calls Yes Partial
Outbound AI calls Yes Partial
AI replies to support email Yes Yes
Workflows
Freddy AI Agent on Growth / Pro / EnterpriseFreddy AI Agent is the customer-facing bot on Growth, Pro, and Enterprise — 500 free sessions once per account. Zendesk Suite includes AI Agents. Guzli is the front-line agent Yes Yes
Knowledge from the website plus Zendesk, HubSpot, or Salesforce ticketsGuzli trains on the website plus Zendesk, HubSpot, or Salesforce tickets. Knowledge self-improves (no invented %) Yes Yes
Named tools (Shopify, Stripe, Calendly, Salesforce)Guzli ships named allowlist tools (Shopify, Stripe, Calendly, Zendesk, HubSpot, Salesforce, Slack, WhatsApp, Zapier, custom API) when those jobs apply Yes Partial
Takes actions in your tools: refunds, bookings, lookups Yes Partial
Procedures — plain-English instructions for repeatable work Step-by-step instructions you write in plain English, like a checklist for a new hire. Guzli follows them to handle refunds, bookings or order issues the same way every time. Learn more Yes Partial
Creates tickets in Zendesk, HubSpot or Salesforce Yes Partial
Copilot — answers and insights from customer conversations An assistant for your team. Ask it about customer conversations to find trends and gaps in your answers, then review its suggested fixes before they go live. Learn more Yes —
Testing
Simulate customer conversations before going live Yes Partial
Regression suite re-runs on every change Yes Partial
Full trace of what the agent retrieved and did Yes Partial
Security
SOC 2 Type II Yes Partial
GDPR compliance Yes Partial
SAML single sign-on (SSO) Yes Partial
Custom roles and permissions Yes Partial
Audit logs of every dashboard change Yes Partial
Customer data never used to train models Yes Partial

Frequently asked questions

Choose Guzli if you want chat plus voice plus phone on one published plan and you will keep Freshdesk as the desk. Choose Freshdesk if response-time targets, the portal, and Freshworks are the job. Choose Zendesk if you want the twin suite — that pairwise page is Guzli vs Zendesk.

20% off annual on freshworks.com/freshdesk/pricing (re-opened 20 Sep 2026). Cards shown are annual-equivalent per agent per month. Growth $19 (first 500 Freddy sessions; Copilot not on this card). Pro $55 + Copilot $29/agent/mo billed annually; 5,000 external collaborators. Enterprise $89 + Freddy AI Insights, sandbox; Copilot $29. Extra AI sessions $49/100. Day passes Growth $2 / Pro $7 / Enterprise $12 (not for Copilot). Connector tasks $80/5,000. MCP actions $15/1,000. Omni Growth $29 / Pro $79 / Enterprise $119 last extracted 28 Aug 2026; Copilot $29 on Omni Pro + Enterprise. 500 free sessions once per account. Monthly Freshdesk amounts were not on the public page.

Migration is easy; plan for a few days. 1. Keep Freshdesk for tickets, response-time targets, the portal, and Freshworks — pairing is the default. 2. Connect Guzli to the website plus Zendesk, HubSpot, or Salesforce tickets. 3. Map front-line intents to named tools: Shopify, Stripe, Calendly, HubSpot, Salesforce, Slack, WhatsApp, Zapier, custom API. 4. Put Guzli on the site for chat and, on Standard or Pro, on-site voice; auto-create tickets back into Freshdesk. 5. Follow the Freshdesk integration setup — pairing, not a rip of the desk.

Yes. Hobby, Standard and Pro are bought self-serve on the pricing page with no sales call: sign up, connect your website and help center, and test the agent on your own content. Enterprise is the plan that starts with a demo.

One Guzli agent answers website chat, support email, WhatsApp, Messenger, Instagram and Slack, and on Standard and Pro it also answers and places phone calls, all from the same knowledge base and the same inbox.

Guzli is SOC 2 Type II certified and GDPR compliant, and Enterprise plans add SAML single sign-on, custom roles and permissions, and audit logs of every dashboard change. Your data is never used to train models.

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