🆚 Help Scout vs. osTicket

Type

Customer support technology
Customer support technology

About

Help Scout is a complete customer communications platform with shared inbox, live chat and help desk.

osTicket is an open-source web-based support ticket system that helps organizations collect, manage and respond to customer inquiries created via email, phone and web forms.

It includes customizable fields and help topics, email auto-responses, ticket filters and queues, service level agreement plans, agent assignment and collision avoidance, and a searchable customer portal with knowledgebase.

Headquarters

Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Alexandria, Louisiana, United States

Website

Pricing

Free version ✔️ 1 shared inbox, 1 public knowledge base
Standard $300/user/year
Plus $540/user/year
Pro $900/user/year
AI Answers $0.75/resolution
Free version ✔️ Self-hosted, open source
Cloud-hosted $12+/agent/month

Categories

Customer Support › Rank #8
Customer Support › Rank #43
Live Chats › Rank #18

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

Help Scout customer support technology is 35 times more popular than osTicket.
Total websites

Market share

Customer Support

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Help Scout is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands, while osTicket is more popular in Ukraine, Pakistan, and Russia.
United States
United Kingdom
Netherlands
Germany
Australia
Canada
France
Sweden
Belgium
Spain

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Help Scout is more popular than osTicket in all market segments.
Business
Internet Services
Online Shopping
Marketing/Merchandising
Software/Hardware
Education/Reference
Blogs/Wiki
Health
Finance/Banking
Travel

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

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Rank
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Rank
#233,137
#1,721,377
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See also

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