Plain vs zendesk

Modern Zendesk alternative for Slack-native teams.

Stop manually creating tickets from Slack messages and building brittle connectors.

Unify your Slack Connect channels with AI triaging, SLAs, and automation that match how B2B teams work.

29 minutes to next-level support. Start your 7-day trial with a Plain expert.

TRUSTED BY THE BEST SUPPORT TEAMS

  • With Zendesk, customers could post in Slack and wait hours before a ticket was created.


    Now everything is in one place.

    Enrique Gonzalez

    Head of Support Engineering

  • We replaced Zendesk and a custom Slack integration with Plain.


    Plain gives us the flexibility we want without the friction.

    Peter Hofstee

    Global Director, Support Engineering

  • We had to jump between internal and external Slack, then over to Zendesk for email.


    With Plain powering our support, everything just works.

    Christopher O'Neill

    Head of Developer Success

  • Response times stretched to 2 or 3 weeks.


    The Plain team was available, approachable, and genuinely invested in our success.

    Gualter Augusto

    Head of Support Engineering

  • We consolidated 5 support channels into Plain.


    By default, I assume I can do something in Plain somehow.

    Vicky Firth

    CX Lead

support infrastructure

support infrastructure

Slack-native support for B2B

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Orchestrate agents

Learn with insights

Support from anywhere

Ask anything

Orchestrate agents

Learn with insights

Bring your own AI agent & plug into your existing stack

Native bi-directional syncs with your CRM, Issue Tracker, and more.

Plug AI into your own data & over 500 Integrations

Native bi-directional syncs with your CRM, Issue Tracker, and more.

Bring your own AI agent & plug into your existing stack

Native bi-directional syncs with your CRM, Issue Tracker, and more.

Switch from Zendesk in 29 minutes

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Connect Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord and email

Connect your CRMs and issue tracker

Respond to your first ticket

Deploy an AI agent across all communication channels

Define SLAs, business hours, and customer tiers

Automate queries with workflows

Automatically generate AI insights from support requests

Deploy a knowledge base, formed from your support messages

Help customers help themselves with Ask AI