Comparing Freshservice and Moveworks? Both are Enterprise and Internal IT & Employee Support tools in the directory, which is why buyers put them on the same shortlist. Below is a side-by-side look at how they price, what they integrate with, and when each is the better fit, so you can pick on the facts rather than either vendor's own sales page.
| Attribute | Freshservice | Moveworks |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Paid · $19/agent/mo | Paid · Custom |
| Founded | 2014 | 2016 |
| Categories | Enterprise Help Desk & Ticketing Internal IT & Employee Support | AI Agents & Chatbots Enterprise Internal IT & Employee Support |
| Integrations | Slack Microsoft Teams Okta Azure AD Jira Zoom Google Workspace Microsoft 365 | Slack Microsoft Teams Microsoft 365 Copilot ServiceNow Okta Workday SharePoint Confluence OneDrive Outlook |
Freshservice is Freshworks' IT service management platform, built on ITIL practice and covering incident management, a service catalog, asset management, low-code orchestration and intelligent routing. The AI layer is Freddy: a Copilot for agents, an Agent Studio for building automations, and Insights for analytics, with one customer reporting that Freddy Insights cut ticket trend analysis from an hour to three minutes. Freshworks says 80 percent of customers go live in under 90 days, and the platform is used to run consolidated service desks well beyond IT.
Its Slack integration is the best documented of any pick on this page, which matters more than marketing claims. The Freddy AI Agent can be added to a public Slack channel or messaged directly. An employee asking for something from the service catalog gets matched on keywords and walked through raising the request; clicking "Raise a ticket", the thumbs-down, or the ticket emoji produces a ticket form pre-filled with context from the conversation. Support engineers use a /freshservice-ticket slash command to log a Slack conversation as a ticket outright. The app's Home tab shows requesters their own tickets and agents the ones assigned to them, and agents can reply, add private notes and update ticket properties without leaving Slack. Wire Freddy to the orchestration engine and it fulfils rather than just files: password resets, adding employees to email distribution lists, granting access to software tools. The same agent runs in Microsoft Teams.
Freshworks launched on October 13, 2010 from a rented meeting room in Chennai, founded by Girish Mathrubootham and Shan Krishnasamy. Freshservice shipped in January 2014 as the internal IT counterpart to Freshdesk, which is why the founding year recorded here is the product's and not the company's, and it reached a million dollars of revenue within ten months. Named customers include RingCentral, McLaren, Databricks, New Balance, Seagate, TaylorMade, Amerisure, Vermeer and Manchester Metropolitan University.
Pricing is public and per agent, billed annually: Starter $19, Growth $49, Pro $99, Enterprise by quote, with a 14-day trial. Budget past the headline, though. Freddy AI Copilot is a $29 per agent per month add-on available on Pro and above, so a realistic AI-enabled seat is $128 and not $19; Enterprise bundles Freddy AI Agent (Classic) and Freddy AI Insights. Choose Freshservice if you want a genuine ITSM system of record with asset management and change control, and a Slack front end that is documented down to the slash command. Skip it if all you want is an answer bot on top of your existing docs, where a lighter tool will cost far less.
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Moveworks is an AI assistant platform for an entire workforce, built to search and act across the business applications employees already use. An agentic reasoning engine decides what a request actually needs, a marketplace ships more than 1,000 prebuilt agents, and enterprise search reaches across 50 or more systems including OneDrive, SharePoint, Confluence and Outlook. Agent Studio is the low-code builder for teams that want their own agents, and the assistant answers in more than 100 languages across chat, web, mobile and portals.
The Slack behaviour is the part worth understanding, because it is more aggressive than most. Any employee can DM the assistant directly, but Moveworks also puts a bot in the public IT channel, a feature it calls Channel Resolver. It reads every message posted there, and when it predicts it can remediate the issue it steps in: it DMs the employee to resolve the problem, then updates the channel so the answer is visible to everyone. Moveworks describes the resolvable set as software provisioning, account unlocks, installation instructions and the guest WiFi password, which is to say the bulk of what an ask-IT channel actually receives. The same assistant runs in Microsoft Teams, and since a January 2025 expansion of the Microsoft alliance it is also reachable as an agent inside Microsoft 365 Copilot.
Bhavin Shah, Vaibhav Nivargi, Varun Singh and Jiang Chen founded the company in 2016, and it raised more than $300 million from investors including Tiger Global and Kleiner Perkins. On March 10, 2025 ServiceNow agreed to buy it for $2.85 billion in cash and stock, the largest acquisition in ServiceNow's history, and the deal has since closed. Moveworks says more than 350 large enterprises and over 5 million employees use it, including 10 percent of the Fortune 500. Named customers include CVS Health, Toyota North America, BambooHR, Instacart, Coca-Cola Consolidated, AkzoNobel, Procore and Micron.
Pricing is not published anywhere on the site: this is an enterprise sale with a quote at the end of it. Choose Moveworks if you are a large enterprise with a busy ask-IT channel and you want an assistant that resolves in the channel rather than deflecting to a portal, and doubly so if you are already a ServiceNow shop. Skip it if you are under a few thousand employees, where the deployment effort and the contract size will both outrun the problem you are solving.
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