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What a help desk costs per agent, at real team sizes.

Help desk and customer support software priced per agent, with free tiers and self-hosted options noted.

3tools profiled
1self-hostable
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10 seats

Each price is the cheapest hosted plan that allows this many seats, per month, on annual billing where the vendor prints it. Before tax and add-ons.

Freshdesk

ProprietaryCloud

A ticketing help desk priced per agent, with single sign-on from its lowest paid plan.

$190per month · Growth, billed annually

Zendesk

ProprietaryCloud

A large customer-service suite priced per agent, with a ticketing-only plan at the bottom and bundled Suite plans above it.

$190per month · Support Team, billed annually

Chatwoot

MITCloud + self-host

An open-source customer-support inbox you can self-host for free, with a hosted cloud priced per agent.

$190per month · Cloud Startups, billing not stated · or self-host, no licence fee