Stop fighting a legacy platform. Break up with Zendesk.

Pylon gives you real visibility into your workflows, AI that actually automates busywork, and fully unified customer context.

Why teams are choosing Pylon

Better visibility into your workflows and routing

Instead of buried assignment logic, build  triggers that automate notifications, track SLAs, and get issues to the right team.

Native AI that works out of the box

Configure AI agents that deflect issues, detect knowledge gaps, track feature requests, and more — directly in Pylon.

All your customer context in one place

Track churn signals and health right where you manage support, so your team has full context for every account.

A true partner for your team

Get hands-on help from our support, customer success, and solutions teams.

How we compare across
key features

Capability

Pylon

Zendesk

Implementation speed

Migrate in 2 weeks or less

Set-up can take months

AI Assistants

Draft replies, gather account context, detect knowledge gaps, track feature requests, and more

Basic macro suggestions and canned responses

AI Agents

Deflect L1 tickets and automate pre-work

No native autonomous agents

Automations and routing

Smart triage and AI routing

Manual or rule-based workflows

Omnichannel support

Natively integrates with Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord, email, chat, and ticket forms

Basic message forwarding or external connectors for Slack and MS Teams

Unified customer context

Data on usage, health, contract value, and support interactions in one view

Scattered data from support tickets

Account Intelligence

Actionable insights on churn risk and upsell opportunities

Third-party customer success integrations

Product velocity

Weekly AI and product updates

Quarterly releases

Vendor partnership

Dedicated success and solutions team for every customer

Tiered, reactive vendor support

AssemblyAI,  Sardine, and Ada made the switch from Zendesk

97%

decrease in first response time with Pylon’s AI Agents

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6x

increase in the business volume they support with Pylon

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2 weeks

to migrate a full year of tickets with 100% data integrity

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FAQs

How long does migration take?

Most teams are live in two weeks or less.

Do you integrate with our existing tools?

Yes. Pylon natively integrates with 40+ tools like Salesforce, HubSpot, Attio, Linear, Jira, Slack, Microsoft Teams and more. Check out all our integrations.

Is Pylon enterprise-ready?

Yes. Our platform scales with your data, permissions, and security requirements. Learn more about our security and compliance.

How does pricing work?

We have transparent plans that scale with the products your team need. View our pricing page for details.

What kind of vendor support do we get?

Every customer gets a dedicated customer success manager and solutions engineers. They’ll help with set-up, onboard your team, and make sure you get value out of Pylon long-term.