Zoho Desk
AI Agents & Chatbots Help Desk & Ticketing Knowledge Base & Self-Service
Affordable omnichannel help desk with Zia AI for replies, sentiment, and triage, a free plan, and published per-agent pricing.
- Pricing
- Freemium from Free; $7/agent/mo
- Founded
- 1996
- Integrations
- Zoho CRM Slack Microsoft Teams Jira Salesforce HubSpot Twilio Zapier
Zoho Desk is a full omnichannel help desk: ticketing across email, chat, phone, social, and web forms, SLAs and workflow automation, multi-brand self-service help centers with knowledge bases, and dashboards. Its AI layer, Zia, brings generative, predictive, and analytical capabilities: reply assistance, sentiment analysis, ticket triage and auto-tagging, and answer-bot style self-service. Zoho also supports a bring-your-own-key model, letting any paid plan plug in OpenAI or DeepSeek keys for generative features without upgrading tiers.
Desk comes from Zoho Corporation, the famously bootstrapped software company founded in 1996 that built a suite of dozens of business apps without venture funding. Zoho Desk launched in 2016 as, in Zoho's framing, the industry's first context-aware help desk, leaning on the deep native hookup with Zoho CRM. It targets everyone from three-person teams on the free plan to enterprises running multi-brand support operations.
Pricing is fully public and unusually low for the category. A free plan covers up to three agents with basic email ticketing. Paid tiers billed annually run $7 per agent per month for Express, $14 for Standard, $23 for Professional, and $40 for Enterprise, with monthly billing costing more. The Zia AI suite is included on Professional and Enterprise at no separate AI fee, and the full autonomous feature set concentrates in Enterprise, so realistic AI budgeting means the upper tiers, still cheaper than most rivals plus their AI add-ons.
Choose Zoho Desk if you are price-sensitive, want real published numbers, or already live in the Zoho ecosystem, where the CRM integration pays off daily. It is a strong pick for small and mid-sized teams growing into AI features without per-resolution fees. Look elsewhere if you need best-of-breed conversation QA, heavy enterprise contact center tooling, or if your stack is deeply non-Zoho, since Zia shines brightest inside Zoho's own walls.
Key features
- Omnichannel ticket management
- Zia AI reply assistant
- Self-service knowledge base
- SLAs and workflow automation
- Bring-your-own-key generative AI
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Updated July 2026
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