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Kai Support answers tickets, chat and WhatsApp from your help center and hands the hard ones to your team with the full context. Gleap includes unlimited seats from Team instead of Zoho Desk’s per-agent plans, and adds in-app bug evidence and product feedback.

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Planned 31

Richer Jira (and Linear) Sync: Link, Track, and Customize Issues from Gleap

Also, other setting for integration would be nice: - set labels for tickets (like environment label) - set reporter, maybe we can identify the user and have it as reporter (this tool is used by internal employees) - define a description template for Jira ticket

Auto-detect host app dark/light mode for Gleap widget theme

Auto-detect host app dark/light mode for Gleap widget theme Customer asks if Gleap can detect whether the app (or widget host) is in dark mode or light mode and automatically switch the widget theme accordingly.

Add support for regional public holidays in operating hours settings

Add support for regional public holidays in operating hours settings Select Public Holiday for our Federal State. And create custom holiday for our company e.g. company party.

In progress 2

Team working hours

Set availability per agent and route conversations by working hours.

Bulk CSV export

Export tickets and contacts in one go.

Released 43

Tables in Knowledge Base

How can I insert a table in Gleap KB editor? I need to insert pricing...

Send Later + Undo Send for Support Replies (with scheduling)

Hello, it happens that customer tickets are being handled from our team.

Gleap widget apps

Add the ability to support custom widget apps.

Count seats, channels and AI usage for your team.
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Zoho Desk vs Gleap at a glance. Gleap is an AI-native support platform that connects support to in-app bug evidence, feature requests and, from Team, reviewed code work, with unlimited seats from $149/month billed annually; Zoho Desk is a multichannel help desk in the Zoho suite, priced per agent from $7 per month billed annually, with a free plan for three users (checked September 26, 2026).
Compared
Gleap
Zoho Desk
Overview
Best for
Gleap Software teams Software teams that want support, bug reports and product feedback in one workspace
Zoho Desk Businesses on the Zoho suite Businesses on the Zoho suite that want a per-agent help desk, from a free plan to Enterprise
Price
Gleap From $29/month Starter $29/month billed annually or $35 monthly; Team $149/month billed annually or $179 monthly with unlimited seats, Kai Support’s investigations and Kai Code; Pro $299/month ($359 monthly) adds advanced reports, LLM model choice, the SOC 2 report and priority support; AI usage separate. USD list prices, checked September 30, 2026
Zoho Desk Express $7 per agent Per agent: Express $7, Standard $14, Professional $23, Enterprise $40 per month billed annually; Free for 3 users. USD list prices, checked September 26, 2026
Seats
Gleap Unlimited from Team Unlimited seats and projects from Team; Starter has 1 seat
Zoho Desk Unlimited from Standard Per agent: 3 users on Free, 5 on Express, unlimited from Standard; light agents extra
Product
Channels
Gleap Live chat; more from Team Live chat on every plan; email, WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger, Slack and Telegram from Team
Zoho Desk Email and social from Express Email and social from Express, messaging apps from Standard, telephony from Professional
AI agent
Gleap Kai Support on every plan Kai Support on every plan, billed by the AI it uses; from Team, Kai Support calls the API and MCP tools your team adds
Zoho Desk Zia Agent Studio, every plan Zia Agent Studio on every plan; native generative AI from Professional; pre-built AI agents on Enterprise
Bug reporting
Gleap In-app reports with logs In-app bug reports with a marked screenshot and console and network logs on every plan; replay from Team
Zoho Desk Integrations from Standard No in-app bug capture listed; Zoho Projects, BugTracker and Jira integrations from Standard
Feedback and roadmap
Gleap Votes and roadmap from Team Feature requests with votes, a public roadmap, and a changelog from Team, with Kai Copilot on every plan
Zoho Desk Forums from Standard; no roadmap Community forums for feedback and requests from Standard; no public roadmap listed
Trial and switching
Free plan or trial
Gleap 7-day free trial 7-day free trial on every plan, Starter from $29/month
Zoho Desk Free plan, 15-day trial Free plan for 3 users; 15-day trial
Moving over
Gleap CSV import, side-by-side pilot Import contacts and tickets by CSV, then run both tools side by side during a pilot
Zoho Desk CSV export per module CSV export per module, 1,000 records per batch on Free and Express; a monthly backup from Standard
Count the whole team. Zoho Desk prices per agent, from a free plan for three users to Enterprise at $40 per agent per month billed annually. Gleap Team includes unlimited seats and projects for $149/month billed annually. Compare your seat count, channels and AI usage separately.
One workspace. Unlimited seats.

A ten-agent example. USD list prices, monthly equivalent billed annually, checked September 25, 2026. AI usage, add-ons and taxes excluded; features differ.

Gleap Team
$149 / month$149 / month$149 / month
$1,788 billed annually, or $179 month-to-month. Unlimited seats, projects and every Kai agent. Pro adds reports, LLM model choice and the SOC 2 report from $299/month.
Shared inbox, knowledge base and routing
In-app bug reports with technical evidence
Requests, roadmap and changelog
Every Kai agent; AI usage billed separately
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Unlimited seats
Zoho Desk Professional
$230 / month$230 / month$230 / month
$2,760 billed annually. 10 agents at $23 each, or $35 each on monthly billing.
Email, social, messaging and telephony
Native Zia generative AI and Blueprints
Multilingual knowledge base and mobile SDK
Standard ($14) and Express ($7) cost less per agent
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Meet your AI team.

Answer customers. Investigate issues. Build what comes next. Kai Support and Kai Copilot work on every plan; investigations and Kai Code come with Team. AI usage is billed separately on every plan.

Kai Support

Answers customers

Answers from your knowledge base and connected sources. From Team, it investigates hard tickets with logs, the click trail and your code.

Meet Kai Support

Kai Copilot

Works with your team

Press ⌘J on any page. It answers customers when you say yes, drafts articles, explains your numbers and, from Team, drafts the changelog when a fix ships. Your team sends what it drafts.

Meet Kai Copilot

Kai Code

Builds the fix

Plans the change, writes and tests code, and opens a pull request. Your engineers review and merge.

Meet Kai Code

Bugs arrive with evidence.

See what your customer saw.
Capture screenshots, session replay, console logs and network activity with the customer’s report. Support and engineering work from the same context.
Explore bug reporting

Investigate inside the ticket.

Give hard questions a next step.
From Team, Kai Support investigates the hard tickets with the logs, click trail, screenshots and code. Findings return to the inbox, and confirmed bugs can become coding tasks.
Explore Kai Support

Turn reports into reviewed fixes.

The ticket stays connected.
From Team, Kai Code plans the change, writes and tests code, and opens a pull request. Your engineers review and merge, with progress linked to the original ticket.
Explore Kai Code
Planned 31

Richer Jira (and Linear) Sync: Link, Track, and Customize Issues from Gleap

Also, other setting for integration would be nice: - set labels for tickets (like environment label) - set reporter, maybe we can identify the user and have it as reporter (this tool is used by internal employees) - define a description template for Jira ticket

Auto-detect host app dark/light mode for Gleap widget theme

Auto-detect host app dark/light mode for Gleap widget theme Customer asks if Gleap can detect whether the app (or widget host) is in dark mode or light mode and automatically switch the widget theme accordingly.

Add support for regional public holidays in operating hours settings

Add support for regional public holidays in operating hours settings Select Public Holiday for our Federal State. And create custom holiday for our company e.g. company party.

In progress 2

Team working hours

Set availability per agent and route conversations by working hours.

Bulk CSV export

Export tickets and contacts in one go.

Released 43

Tables in Knowledge Base

How can I insert a table in Gleap KB editor? I need to insert pricing...

Send Later + Undo Send for Support Replies (with scheduling)

Hello, it happens that customer tickets are being handled from our team.

Gleap widget apps

Add the ability to support custom widget apps.

Give requests a roadmap.

Everyone who asked stays linked.
Collect requests and votes, decide what to build and publish release updates. Support conversations stay linked to the product decisions they inform.
Explore product feedback
Bring your Zoho Desk history. Export tickets and contacts from Zoho Desk, import them into Gleap by CSV and test a sample before cutover. Plan channels, routing and automations as their own steps.
How teams use Gleap
“Everything is in the same place.”
Tridonic brought customer conversations, ticket routing, surveys, and AI support into one Gleap workspace.
Elif Kavas
Digital Customer Experience Platforms Specialist, Tridonic
“This is an exceptionally good tool.”
Commonplace brought feedback, support, knowledge, and roadmap work into Gleap.
Benjy Meyer
Chief Product & Technology Officer, Commonplace
AI support handles about half of Lywand’s customer inquiries.
Lywand runs AI answers, its knowledge base and ticketing in Gleap. The support result reflects its own workflow.
Peter Müller
System Engineer & Head of Support, Lywand
Your switching questions, answered. Pricing, AI, channels and the move from Zoho Desk.
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