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    Gainsight CS

    Score8.9 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    Gainsight Customer Success (CS) is presented as a growth engine for modern post-sale teams. Built for CROs, CS leaders, and operations pros, it provides visibility into customer health, expansion potential, and revenue risk. With automation, AI, and health scoring, Gainsight helps scale outcomes without scaling headcount. With its playbooks and success plans to CSQL tracking and journey orchestration, Gainsight CS helps teams to take the right action at the right time, every time. Access to…

    $2,500

    Per Company Per Month

    Totango

    Score7.8 out of 10
    N/ATotango customer success software, now with Catalyst, helps enterprise businesses and cross-functional teams accelerate customer outcomes in productivity, retention, and expansion. Totango and Catalyst will become a unified product, following the merger in February 2024.N/A
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    Gainsight CSTotango
    Editions & Modules
    Subscription
    $2,500
    Per Company Per Month
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    Gainsight CSTotango
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeRequiredOptional
    Additional DetailsEach package gives teams a 360° customer account profile, customer health scoring, customer journey program templates (SuccessBLOCS), automated workflows (SuccessPlays), email campaigns, self-paced onboarding, and customer support.
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    Gainsight CSTotango
    Considered Both Products
    Gainsight
    Chose Gainsight CS
    Totango was easier to use whereas Gainsight is extremely customizable. Sometimes you need something with more custom availability. For less technical people, Totango was easier to use and get used to and could be managed by a smaller team.
    Incentivized
    Chose Gainsight CS
    The only other CSP I've used is Totango, and I felt it was a much less mature product. That was years ago; things could be different now.
    Incentivized
    Chose Gainsight CS
    Gainsight has more features and better community/ thought leadership. We purchased it three years ago so I can’t remember all the details :). We did take a look at Totango again recently but their support was not on par with sour standards.
    Incentivized
    Chose Gainsight CS
    We went with Gainsight above Totango or ChurnZero primarily because of the maturity of their organization. They are the market & thought leaders on Customer Success management and we wanted that in our corner when maturing our own CS organization. Gainsight is also the most …
    Incentivized
    Chose Gainsight CS
    Gainsight is a much more robust tool than Totango and offers many more features with more capabilities. However, implementing and managing it is much more time consuming and technical. One key advantage for Gainsight is that it lives in Salesforce, whereas with Totango you …
    Incentivized
    Chose Gainsight CS
    Gainsight's integration tools were much better than the others. Totango has a very nice user interface, but didn't have the structure to handle our variety of customer (small to very large). Totango also required the use of other 3rd party tools as they hadn't built their own, …
    Incentivized
    Chose Gainsight CS
    Totango is Chilis and Gainsight is 3 Forks.
    Incentivized
    Chose Gainsight CS
    We found Gainsight's functionality to be better suited to our needs. We used Totango when our organization was less mature. We felt that Gainsight offered a wider range of functionality that would be able to grow with us, whereas we ultimately would have had to leave Totango
    Incentivized
    Chose Gainsight CS
    Gainsight CS just provided easier to use cooling and better reporting.
    Incentivized
    Chose Gainsight CS
    It is the most flexible CS platform in terms of how to manipulate and use your data.
    Incentivized
    Chose Gainsight CS
    Though sharing similar core functionality, Gainsight CS has always seemed more user-friendly and intuitive overall. There are areas of customization that I have not seen in other products, and the integration capabilities allow us a broader usage. Ultimately, the end goal is …
    Incentivized
    Chose Gainsight CS
    Best for enterprise businesses
    Incentivized
    Chose Gainsight CS
    Offers more flexibility in a complex system.
    Incentivized
    Chose Gainsight CS
    The most comprehensive in our evaluations.
    Incentivized
    Chose Gainsight CS
    Leadership was the decision maker
    Incentivized
    Chose Gainsight CS
    The kind of integration options that we have and the support team that provides us the assistance when ever it is needed.
    Incentivized
    Chose Gainsight CS
    Gainsight has always been the leader in the industry, in my opinion. While a lot more expensive that their competitors, the tool seems to have a better UI and functionality that support the CS organization. My prior employer had a very good implementation of Gainsight and it's …
    Incentivized
    Chose Gainsight CS
    It has the best of all the other products.
    Incentivized
    Chose Gainsight CS
    Gainsight is more robust than the others - and its success plan is a big differentiator.
    Incentivized
    Chose Gainsight CS
    The ease of use, UI, and customer support. It seems like every employee is very well versed with the usage of Gainsight.
    Incentivized
    Chose Gainsight CS
    My companies both chose Gainsight before I arrived, so I was not part of that process. I have evaluated ChurnZero outside of the process and I think it's a great tool - maybe more so for smaller companies.
    Incentivized
    Chose Gainsight CS
    Conversations with Gainsight were just better, that's why we choose them.
    Incentivized
    Chose Gainsight CS
    More robust partnership at each level than the alternatives were able to offer. Prescriptive approach was critical to success. The community was a meaningful value add. Overall - Gainsight's clearly the market leader, with attractive pricing, partnership, and lots of resources.
    Incentivized
    Totango
    Chose Totango
    Our organization has successfully unlocked more value from Totango than I've seen with the two other CS platforms I've used at prior organizations
    Incentivized
    Chose Totango
    Price was the key.
    Incentivized
    Chose Totango
    Totango was much more affordable and more functional than Gainsight and CSB
    Incentivized
    Chose Totango
    Totango's UI is clean, very easy to find whatever you need on the account. Its ability to search using the company domain of a customer definitely saves time and effort instead of switching to other databases. It also allows me to view my task on a weekly basis instead of …
    Incentivized
    Chose Totango
    All systems have positives and negatives but Totango fit immediate needs best
    Incentivized
    Chose Totango
    I think Totango has features and implementation very similar to top-of-the-line CRMs but is easier to implement. Its incredibly visibly pleasing and out-of-the-box dashboards make it easy to get immediate visibility into your customer landscape. They also have a great customer …
    Incentivized
    Chose Totango
    Better price/quality ration.
    Incentivized
    Chose Totango
    Totango felt like a great option that was beyond entry-level, but not a sledgehammer for a nail for what, at the time, was a brand new Customer Experience team being formed.
    Incentivized
    Chose Totango
    Totango is so much better than Gainsight. The ease of logging a touchpoint, the ability to measure impact, and review metrics at a glance have made it much easier to understand areas of need for clients and a simple and easy way to access the tool. Hands down - a much better …
    Incentivized
    Chose Totango
    The only other product we seriously looked at was Gainsight. It had all the features we were looking for, but the high price tag deterred us. As a startup, we want to ensure that we are lean and utilizing our resources in a smart way. The ability to start building out Totango …
    Incentivized
    Chose Totango
    The cost of licensing.
    Incentivized
    Chose Totango
    I think Totango is comparable to these other products. I felt like the integration with Salesforce was more efficient when using Gainsight compared to Totango.
    Incentivized
    Chose Totango
    User Interface - Totango is very intuitive, doesn't take long as a CSM to get familiar with it.
    Ability to create segments and reports.
    Incentivized
    Chose Totango
    User Friendly, Simple, Reliable, Customer-First Centric
    Incentivized
    Chose Totango
    The best thing about gain sight was the ability to customize views, create widgets, and have weighted health. Weighted health is a huge factor and we really need this for our business use case. We have not explored the revenue center within Totango but that is one of our goals …
    Incentivized
    Chose Totango
    Totango has a lot of the features that Gainsight has, but it's a lot cheaper.
    Planhat was a good alternative to Totango a year ago, but Totango made a lot of improvements the last year that make it hard to compete with them (in my opinion).
    Incentivized
    Chose Totango
    Totango was the cheapest.
    Incentivized
    Chose Totango
    Because our company does not use Salesforce, Gainsight was difficult to implement and keep updated. With Totango being built on its own architecture we will more easily able to implement the product and got value within 60 days versus very little value with Gainsight in over a …
    Incentivized
    Chose Totango
    Gainsight is great, but it is geared more for a larger enterprise company with a high volume of customers. Totango is more geared toward teams/companies like ours where our team has 40 employees (not thousands).
    Incentivized
    Chose Totango
    I selected Totango for the ease and speed of growing within the platform. The fact that it could connect easily to Salesforce and also have a javascript to connect in our software to get the usage data made the difference. And of course, the price was just perfectly within our …
    Incentivized
    Chose Totango
    I liked Gainsight's directly-in-Salesforce architecture better, but it's cost structure and heavy maintenance made it more difficult. Totango is definitely on the right track but lagging 1-2 years behind Gainsight in key functionality.
    Incentivized
    Chose Totango
    I prefer totango over Gainsight as it’s more intuitive and although the app could use some minor improvements, it’s all very user friendly.
    Incentivized
    Chose Totango
    Strikedeck was better equipped. COOs use of Totango in the previous firm influenced our decision to buy this product
    Incentivized
    Chose Totango
    Totango was the best product for our needs due to its easy to use nature and ability to implement relatively quickly. While it is tempting to go with a product that may have hundreds of bells and whistles, Totango has given us a solid foundation and allowed us to scale our CSM …
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    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Gainsight CSTotango
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Gainsight CS and Totango
    Feature
    Gainsight CS
    8.2
    174 Ratings
    Totango
    8.5
    182 Ratings
    Role-based user permissions8.2174 Ratings8.5182 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Gainsight CS and Totango
    Feature
    Gainsight CS
    7.5
    217 Ratings
    Totango
    8.5
    216 Ratings
    API7.5131 Ratings6.9149 Ratings
    Integration with Salesforce.com8.9216 Ratings9.5173 Ratings
    Integration with Marketo6.551 Ratings9.035 Ratings
    Integration with Eloqua7.122 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customer Data Extraction / Integration
    Comparison of Customer Data Extraction / Integration features of Gainsight CS and Totango
    Feature
    Gainsight CS
    8.3
    217 Ratings
    Totango
    8.1
    247 Ratings
    Product usage8.7206 Ratings8.1243 Ratings
    Help desk / support tickets7.9173 Ratings8.2160 Ratings
    Customer Success Management
    Comparison of Customer Success Management features of Gainsight CS and Totango
    Feature
    Gainsight CS
    8.5
    230 Ratings
    Totango
    8.1
    260 Ratings
    NPS surveys8.9181 Ratings9.4124 Ratings
    Sponsor tracking9.0167 Ratings6.16 Ratings
    Customer profiles7.7206 Ratings7.9251 Ratings
    Automated workflow8.1220 Ratings9.1240 Ratings
    Internal collaboration8.1208 Ratings7.7226 Ratings
    Customer health scoring9.9223 Ratings7.5253 Ratings
    Customer segmentation8.0188 Ratings8.7243 Ratings
    CSM Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of CSM Reporting & Analytics features of Gainsight CS and Totango
    Feature
    Gainsight CS
    9.0
    228 Ratings
    Totango
    8.3
    254 Ratings
    Customer health trends9.7210 Ratings8.4243 Ratings
    Engagement analytics8.8186 Ratings8.8229 Ratings
    Revenue forecasting8.3114 Ratings7.7175 Ratings
    Dashboards9.2225 Ratings8.4237 Ratings
    User Ratings
    Gainsight CSTotango
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.7
    (235 ratings)
    9.1
    (261 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    6.8
    (14 ratings)
    7.3
    (8 ratings)
    Usability
    8.5
    (29 ratings)
    8.6
    (95 ratings)
    Availability
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    9.9
    (3 ratings)
    Performance
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    8.8
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.8
    (134 ratings)
    7.7
    (93 ratings)
    Online Training
    5.5
    (2 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    6.3
    (6 ratings)
    10.0
    (12 ratings)
    Configurability
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    8.2
    (4 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (8 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    9.8
    (3 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)