Salesforce Service Cloud vs. Talkdesk

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Salesforce Service Cloud
Score 8.4 out of 10
N/A
Service Cloud is a customer service platform that helps businesses manage and resolve customer inquiries and issues. It provides tools for case management, knowledge base, omni-channel support, automation, and analytics, enabling companies to deliver exceptional customer service experiences.
$25
per month
Talkdesk
Score 8.6 out of 10
N/A
Talkdesk® supports CX with Customer Experience Automation (CXA), using AI agents to replace manual workflows. Powered by the Talkdesk Data Cloud, CXA delivers real-time context and fast deployment—to transform CX without a rip-and-replace.
$85
per month per user
Pricing
Salesforce Service CloudTalkdesk
Editions & Modules
Starter Suite
$25
per month
Pro Suite
$100
per month per user
Enterprise
$165
per month per user
Unlimited
$330
per month per user
Agentforce 1
$550
per month per user
CX Cloud Digital Essentials
$85
per month per user
CX Cloud Voice Essentials
$105
per month per user
CX Cloud Elite
$145
per month per user
CX Cloud Elite
$165
per month per user
Industry Experience Clouds
$225
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Salesforce Service CloudTalkdesk
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional Details*Talkdesk also offers per hour login consumption pricing and concurrent pricing. Prices are based on a minimum 3 year commitment to these Editions. Additional telco and usage fees not included. Due to foreign exchange rate approximation, list price is not the exact price that will be quoted.
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Community Pulse
Salesforce Service CloudTalkdesk
Considered Both Products
Salesforce Service Cloud
Chose Salesforce Service Cloud
I used other products in another company as a database and can say that Salesforce Service Cloud is much more user friendly for customer service needs and makes work faster to process than the named program before. Integration between departments is more clear and simple to …
Chose Salesforce Service Cloud
Salesforce provides infinitely more features than Freshdesk, particularly regarding reporting. We previously felt we had squeezed as much as we could out of Freshdesk, however the possible functionalities and customisation of Salesforce seems endless! That said, I think if you …
Chose Salesforce Service Cloud
A CRM should be simple to set up and stable enough to develop with your business. Since they aren't designed to fit across all areas of your business or address more nuanced business needs, some CRM solutions that claim to be easy can actually trigger problems as you scale. …
Chose Salesforce Service Cloud
They were similar, but I liked the setup of Salesforce Service Cloud. I also used Infusionsoft for a small business and used Salesforce at a large tech startup, so it’s hard to compare.
Chose Salesforce Service Cloud
Salesforce Service Cloud has a solid reputation and brand recognition. The interface is user friendly enough to be utilized across an entire company with varying employee tech exposure. Service Cloud was selected due to the integration options with other software companies and …
Chose Salesforce Service Cloud
We moved from Help Scout to Service Cloud for robust reporting and more automation. Previously we were having to manually fill in multiple custom fields in Help Scout in order to report on certain things such as tickets submitted by particular accounts.
Chose Salesforce Service Cloud
We chose Salesforce Service Cloud because we were already using Sales Cloud.
Talkdesk
Chose Talkdesk
The Service UpTime exceeding acceptable Industry Standards
The cost for the services provided is accurate
The speed of resolution of outages and degradation issues
Chose Talkdesk
Talkdesk product is still one of the best. BUt their service is horrible.
Chose Talkdesk
Talkdesk is far superior when it comes to the interface for every day users and managers. Better analytics and integration with other software we use. ShoreTel was unreliable for call recordings. Talkdesk reporting is easy to understand and set up for managers and admins. …
Chose Talkdesk
Talkdesk was a lot cheaper than all of the alternatives and the level of features that they provided combined with the time it would take to go live made it an easy choice to choose Talkdesk over the heavier competitors.
Chose Talkdesk
Talkdesk had better specifications and professional sales reps. Talkdesk furnished us the best RFQ of all competitors. They answered with a lot of detail quickly and efficiently. They also have the best Salesforce integration on the market, which was very important for our …
Chose Talkdesk
Customer Support and Quality! the providers mentioned above always had issues when customers networks were flawless, their support would often blame the ISP provider when we would have fiber networks connected to the company and verified network uptime would surpass any VoIP …
Chose Talkdesk
We selected Talkdesk because of the reliability and support offered by the team.
Chose Talkdesk
All of our current products assist in the support experience alongside Talkdesk. Our prior vendor, Natterbox, was not fit for our growing needs. It did not have the reporting and analytics needed to sustain growing inbound calls and support team.
Chose Talkdesk
We evaluated Ring Central at the same time we evaluated Talkdesk. The Ring Central product looks like a good product but ultimately we chose to go with Talkdesk because of the attention we got from Talkdesk during the sales cycle. Talkdesk was very responsive to our questions. …
Chose Talkdesk
TalkDesk is the only software in this category that I have used.
Chose Talkdesk
Talkdesk is more customizable and all around better than Zendesk voice. For me Zendesk voice is an early choice great for small call centers, but then they need to quickly consider a more robust solution.

Talkdesk is significantly better than Five9. For being called Five9, they …
Features
Salesforce Service CloudTalkdesk
Incident and problem management
Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Product A and Product B
Salesforce Service Cloud
8.8
Ratings
9% above category average
Talkdesk
-
Ratings
Organize and prioritize service tickets9.40 Ratings00 Ratings
Expert directory8.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Subscription-based notifications8.60 Ratings00 Ratings
ITSM collaboration and documentation8.20 Ratings00 Ratings
Ticket creation and submission9.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Ticket response9.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Self Help Community
Comparison of Self Help Community features of Product A and Product B
Salesforce Service Cloud
8.7
Ratings
11% above category average
Talkdesk
-
Ratings
External knowledge base8.40 Ratings00 Ratings
Internal knowledge base8.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Multi-Channel Help
Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of Product A and Product B
Salesforce Service Cloud
8.7
Ratings
11% above category average
Talkdesk
-
Ratings
Customer portal7.90 Ratings00 Ratings
IVR8.80 Ratings00 Ratings
Social integration8.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Email support9.20 Ratings00 Ratings
Help Desk CRM integration8.80 Ratings00 Ratings
Contact Center Software
Comparison of Contact Center Software features of Product A and Product B
Salesforce Service Cloud
-
Ratings
Talkdesk
7.7
Ratings
7% below category average
Agent dashboard00 Ratings7.50 Ratings
Validate callers00 Ratings8.70 Ratings
Outbound response00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Call forwarding00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Click-to-call (CTC)00 Ratings8.60 Ratings
Warm transfer00 Ratings8.80 Ratings
Predictive dialing00 Ratings8.30 Ratings
Interactive voice response00 Ratings8.20 Ratings
REST APIs00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Call scripts00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Call tracking00 Ratings8.30 Ratings
Multichannel integration00 Ratings7.50 Ratings
CRM software integration00 Ratings5.80 Ratings
Workforce Optimization (WFO)
Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of Product A and Product B
Salesforce Service Cloud
-
Ratings
Talkdesk
8.5
Ratings
3% above category average
Inbound call routing00 Ratings8.20 Ratings
Omnichannel inbound routing00 Ratings8.20 Ratings
Recording00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Quality management00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Call analytics00 Ratings8.20 Ratings
Historical reporting00 Ratings9.20 Ratings
Live reporting00 Ratings8.30 Ratings
Customer surveys00 Ratings7.90 Ratings
Customer interaction analytics00 Ratings8.20 Ratings
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Salesforce Service CloudTalkdesk
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Score 9.0 out of 10
CloudTalk
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Score 7.2 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
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Agiloft Service Desk (discontinued)
Score 9.0 out of 10
CloudTalk
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Score 7.2 out of 10
Enterprises
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Score 9.1 out of 10
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Score 7.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
Salesforce Service CloudTalkdesk
Likelihood to Recommend
8.3
(0 ratings)
8.4
(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
6.2
(0 ratings)
8.5
(0 ratings)
Usability
8.0
(0 ratings)
8.5
(0 ratings)
Availability
9.5
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
Performance
8.6
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
7.0
(0 ratings)
6.6
(0 ratings)
In-Person Training
10.0
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
Online Training
9.0
(0 ratings)
9.0
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
7.0
(0 ratings)
7.4
(0 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
5.0
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
8.0
(0 ratings)
9.1
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
8.0
(0 ratings)
9.1
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Salesforce Service CloudTalkdesk
Likelihood to Recommend
This cloud is a good option for attracting large numbers of customers for mid-scale and large-scale organizations. However, it’s not suitable for small companies or startups due to its high cost. For use cases where real-time input from customers is taken and then processed on the cloud to give them output, this platform is a must.
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Talkdesk does an excellent job with productivity reports. I can monitor my agent's lives during calls and their current status, allowing me to affect them productively at that moment. I can also download a productivity report on Talkdesk to analyze historical data and see patterns and problems.
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Pros
  • Super fast set-up of the service from design through to production.
  • Robust method of release management from sandbox, to test, to production.
  • User access controls can be fine grain, which is great for GDPR requirements, limiting access to only necessary data.
  • Simple api integrations with other third party systems
  • Broad range of features and functionality
  • Einstein search features provides faster information mining for our agents as they help to resolve customer requests.
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  • Receives calls immediately and connects well.
  • Making outbound calls and having Talkdesk display the name associated with the number.
  • Aux on break, lunch, or meeting, and it stays as it is and does not change status on its own.
  • Being able to check on colleagues on whether they are available.
  • Able to track your work for the day, the amount of calls you made and received.
  • Being able to check your Daily and monthly score from QA.
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Cons
  • A free trial would be extremely valuable to customers who are not able to commit to a full plan.
  • The pricing of this program is not priced competitively with other similar services.
  • Can be quite time consuming to maintain.
  • Not user friendly if you aren’t tech savvy/familiar with software.
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  • The core maintenance, migration and deployment of Voice prompts, functions alongwith flow changes is crucial and is a key missing feature. Development in Production was a shocker and led to lot of confusion and limitation during the implementation and testing.
  • The AI feature is not as supported and reliable in Non English language
  • The Support team seems very lean to handle heavy loads of issue thereby delaying the resolution of the issue. One of our critical issue took almost 2 months to resolve which could have been handled better by proactively driving the issue from talkdesk end.
  • The support ticket does not have any escalation process. It needs to add the severity/ impact to number of agents and have people to support escalation especially involving Call Quality/network/Reporting/storage
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Likelihood to Renew
Professional edition works best for a small company with lower call volumes and is very useful but as you grow exponetially I think it has limited ability to do all the things we want to - SLA management, defect, release management to name a few. Reports and dashboards being available in real time.
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Talkdesk is an enterprise grade solution for telephony service. Zendesk eould be the only other option in terms of solutions I have implemented and seen in practice. It is easy for business users to learn how to use talkdesk and develop call routing paths dependong on the nature of the customer's request
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Usability
I love that the Salesforce Service cloud provides all of the functionality that I need when implementing business processes for our customer support representatives. It even has enough functions and features that allow us to customize and expand upon our current processes, giving us the ability to go above and beyond what we've thought we could ever do. Using cases coupled with Salesforce's automation tools help ease the workload and keeps our data integrity intact.
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It's good for monitoring and quality checking. Overall, I'm happy with Talk Desk. Call quality is great, recordings are high quality, and playback has no issues. Administrator features are well-designed. Talkdesk is a great platform for our Customer support. It has many features and is an omnichannel platform. I like the IVR design the most; it has a lot of functionality to customise interactions between agents and customers.
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Reliability and Availability
Salesforce's Trust Center clearly communicates occasional issues to anyone who subscribes, down to an organization's cloud instance. Bundled sandboxes ease updates, and seasonal upgrades are seamless, scheduled well in advance with plenty of information about what's coming. Support agents have noticed intermittent Omni-Channel disconnects due to internet connections, and these are clearly notified.
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Talkdesk is very handy but, sometimes we do face issues were the system can just kick you out and not be able to do calls or receive calls but, what I like about the system once you start refreshing or troubleshooting, everything becomes normal it is a unique system and very modern we don't usually have system issues with Talkdesk.
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Performance
Load times can be slow, but this is also based on how much customization you have done. We added a lot of custom fields which could cause additional slowness in loading. This was never anything that affected our overall efficiency. I did not notice that Service Cloud slowed down any of the systems we had it integrated with
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I give this system a full 10/10 once you refresh or troubleshoot you do not wait for too long to use it . It easy like ABC . I honestly recommend this system, even when you check the QA score card, you do not have to wait that long; you just click on the notification bell and view your score card.
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Support Rating
Salesforce offers support, although it generally gets routed to overseas support teams first, and once they are unable to help, it gets escalated up the chain to higher tiers. Frequently, the answer back from support is that there is no native solution, and we either have to turn to the AppExchange for some solution provided by another developer, or custom build our own solution.
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If Talkdesk had a dedicated phone support line I would have given this rating an overall 10. Their knowledge base is absolutely HUGE and at times very helpful. It's easy to search through and their customer support chat system works perfectly fine, but there are just some times that you need to speak to a human on the phone to ensure you are always on the same page.
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In-Person Training
Our in-person training was provided by our implementation partner and it was quite good. This was in part because we were already working with them and so it naturally leant itself to a good training relationship. And because they were building our customizations and configuring things, they could then provide training on those things naturally.
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The training that was given to us was very smooth and professional. I give my trainer 10/ 10 rate the training was so smooth and very helpful she would make sure we also watch videos of how to use the system which made it very easier for us and what was interesting it is because, the system is also easy.
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Online Training
Trailheads are great but it was often unclear what actually applied to our organization. This made it difficult to get a whole lot out of it. Part of it is that because the basic Salesforce features didn't quite work for us, we had to add customizations, which then nullified a lot of the training.
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Nothing is perfect!! Needing the ability to repeat the training so everyone was on board was important. Not real sure how many people had to repeat the training as they trained on their own and given 30 minutes at a time.
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Implementation Rating
I would go through an implementation very differently knowing what I know now. It was difficult coming from systems we liked in post-sales service and having to adapt to the clunky and underwhelming feature set in Salesforce. I would trim back our expectations
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Really easy to get set up out of the box. Anything I needed to understand further, I was able to just hop into the Academy and self-teach. I could then bring my team-members to those same sections so they could learn as well without me having to put together complicated SOP's / etc
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Alternatives Considered
I honestly prefer Zendesk to Salesforce Service Cloud. I find that Zendesk is easier to manage both on the support ticket side, as well as the knowledge center side. It looks and feels easier to use than Salesforce Service Cloud. Salesforce Service Cloud is fine, but it is expensive as well.
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Call recordings, quality assessments, feedback, coaching, and monitoring, the call flow is effortless and painless, changing statuses from after-call work is updated to be qued so you cannot change after aftercall work is finished, shows you the company metrics, SLA, abandonment, number of calls taken and record occupancy for you and the team. Many more features make Talkdesk an innovative software compared to its competitors.
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Scalability
The product has scaled up with our company growth just fine. No issues here other than slowness in clicking around and running reports
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We have over 200 employees in 11 states across the United States. Everyone uses Talkdesk. I believe that says a lot about the product and its flexibility. We need to be able to rely on system in order to assist our customers. Reliability and sustainability is important to our success
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Return on Investment
  • We have cut our service team in half over the past 5 years due to the efficiency of the tool
  • The amount of direct inquiries to our technical team is less than 10% compared to the number support tickets that get entered in the system for them to work in a more organized manner
  • Responses are 100% more timely because tickets can be responded to by any individual in the queue or on the team, as opposed to direct emails to just one person
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  • Better reporting than we had with the previous system. Better metrics = better analytics.
  • WFM and QA being modules within the tool have improved how we manage agent performance, which has let to improvements in overall quality.
  • Has been a key component as we continue to mature the service desk organization.
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ScreenShots

Salesforce Service Cloud Screenshots

Screenshot of Workflows and OrchestrationScreenshot of Service CatalogScreenshot of Contact Center

Talkdesk Screenshots

Screenshot of Talkdesk Guardian™, which is an AI-driven, native cloud compliance solution that enables contact centers to gain visibility and take control of their WFH and hybrid workforce.Screenshot of Talkdesk Autopilot™, which is a tool that handles common customer queries, like orders, returns and billing, and automatically responds with conversational answers. And when complex cases are detected that need human empathy and expertise, the virtual agent will redirect customers to a human agent.Screenshot of Talkdesk AI Trainer™, which equips customers with tools to observe, simulate, and put guardrails on AI, according to their needs. This way, generative AI can be used responsibly, preventing AI mishaps, and protecting the brand from potentially poor AI experiences.