Best help desk software

We asked 10 models: The best customer support help desk software. Each named its own top 10.

Asked 4 ways: List request · Buyer asking for advice · Search query · Worth paying for?. Share of voice pools every wording.

Agreement between models
84%
Same model, run twice
91%
Different picks
15

When agreement between models is well below a model's agreement with itself, the split reflects real differences in taste rather than randomness.

The consensus

Each cell is the position that model gave the pick; blank means it left the pick off. Click a row for each model's reasoning.

#PickScoreListed byClaude Haiku 5.5GPT-6 LunaGemini 4 ArgonQwen 3.8 FlashDeepSeek V4 ProGLM-5.3Kimi K3MiniMax M3Mistral Large 4Nemotron 3 Ultra

Most divisive

Picks most models listed, at very different positions

Hot takes

Picks that appear on only one ballot

Every ballot

Hover a pick to find it on the other ballots. Marked picks appear on no other ballot.

Claude Haiku 5.5

  1. Zendesk
  2. Freshdesk
  3. Help Scout
  4. Salesforce Service
  5. HubSpot Service Hub
  6. Intercom
  7. Gorgias
  8. Kustomer
  9. Zoho Desk
  10. ServiceNow

83% with consensus · 88% self-consistent

GPT-6 Luna

  1. Zendesk
  2. Freshdesk
  3. Intercom
  4. Help Scout
  5. Salesforce Service
  6. Front
  7. Zoho Desk
  8. Gorgias
  9. Kustomer
  10. HubSpot Service Hub

90% with consensus · 95% self-consistent

Gemini 4 Argon

  1. Zendesk
  2. Freshdesk
  3. Intercom
  4. HubSpot Service Hub
  5. Help Scout
  6. Zoho Desk
  7. Salesforce Service
  8. Front
  9. Gorgias
  10. Jira Service Management

94% with consensus · 89% self-consistent

Qwen 3.8 Flash

  1. Zendesk
  2. Freshdesk
  3. Zoho Desk
  4. HubSpot Service Hub
  5. Intercom
  6. Gorgias
  7. Help Scout
  8. Front
  9. HappyFox
  10. Jira Service Management

82% with consensus · 85% self-consistent

DeepSeek V4 Pro

  1. Zendesk
  2. Freshdesk
  3. Intercom
  4. Help Scout
  5. HubSpot Service Hub
  6. Zoho Desk
  7. Jira Service Management
  8. Kayako
  9. LiveAgent
  10. Kustomer

93% with consensus · 95% self-consistent

GLM-5.3

  1. Zendesk
  2. Freshdesk
  3. Intercom
  4. Help Scout
  5. Zoho Desk
  6. Salesforce Service
  7. Jira Service Management
  8. LiveAgent
  9. Kayako
  10. HubSpot Service Hub

94% with consensus · 92% self-consistent

Kimi K3

  1. Zendesk
  2. Intercom
  3. Freshdesk
  4. Help Scout
  5. Zoho Desk
  6. Salesforce Service
  7. Jira Service Management
  8. HubSpot Service Hub
  9. Front
  10. Gorgias

90% with consensus · 89% self-consistent

MiniMax M3

  1. Zendesk
  2. Freshdesk
  3. Intercom
  4. Help Scout
  5. HubSpot Service Hub
  6. Jira Service Management
  7. Zoho Desk
  8. Front
  9. Kustomer
  10. Kayako

92% with consensus · 91% self-consistent

Mistral Large 4

  1. Zendesk
  2. Freshdesk
  3. Intercom
  4. Zoho Desk
  5. HubSpot Service Hub
  6. Help Scout
  7. Gorgias
  8. Jira Service Management
  9. Kayako
  10. Salesforce Service

92% with consensus · 93% self-consistent

Nemotron 3 Ultra

  1. Zendesk
  2. Freshdesk
  3. Intercom
  4. HubSpot Service Hub
  5. Salesforce Service
  6. Zoho Desk
  7. Help Scout
  8. Jira Service Management
  9. Kayako
  10. LiveAgent

90% with consensus · 94% self-consistent

Who agrees with whom

Overlap between two models' lists, weighted toward the top · 100 means identical · Color runs from 72 (lightest) to 96 (darkest)

Claude Haiku 5.5GPT-6 LunaGemini 4 ArgonQwen 3.8 FlashDeepSeek V4 ProGLM-5.3Kimi K3MiniMax M3Mistral Large 4Nemotron 3 Ultra
Claude Haiku 5.5848277817874817981
GPT-6 Luna848976859085888385
Gemini 4 Argon828986908784919093
Qwen 3.8 Flash777686807572818883
DeepSeek V4 Pro818590809284969190
GLM-5.3789087759290898789
Kimi K3748584728490848282
MiniMax M3818891819689848987
Mistral Large 4798390889187828990
Nemotron 3 Ultra818593839089828790