
Free / Open-sourceAutomate work across thousands of apps — no code required
Kayako records 168,212 monthly visits with +2.3% month-over-month growth and Contact for Pricing pricing. Salesforce Agentforce (formerly Einstein) records 111,910,743 monthly visits with +2.2% growth and Freemium pricing.

AI-first help desk that resolves tickets, not just sorts them
| Dimension / Metric | ![]() | |
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | kayako.com | salesforce.com |
| Pricing Model | Contact for Pricing | Freemium |
| Monthly Visits | 168.21K (168,212) | 111.91M (111,910,743) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | +3.76K (+2.3%) | +2.4M (+2.2%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇺🇸 United States (35.1%) | 🇺🇸 United States (43%) |
| Direct Visits / mo | 82.63K | 60.74M |
| User Rating | 4.3 | 4.4 |
| Supported Platforms | Website | Website |

AI-first help desk that resolves tickets, not just sorts them
Kay classifies, prioritises and routes incoming tickets, enriches them with customer context, and cuts the manual sorting that eats agent time.
The AI drafts accurate replies or asks follow-up questions, automatically handling repetitive cases and shortening average handle time.
Kay learns from human resolutions, expands its intent coverage and compounds deflection performance over time.
Email, live chat, social and voice land in one shared queue with full customer history, orders and data attached to every ticket.
Autonomous enterprise AI agents and CRM intelligence powered by Salesforce Data 360 and Atlas.
Deconstructs complex queries into multi-step action plans grounded in Data 360, retaining state across days or weeks to complete multi-touch operational workflows with human escalation guardrails.
Configure custom agents, subagents, natural-language instructions, and deterministic guardrails using existing Salesforce Flows, Prompt Builder templates, Apex code, and MuleSoft APIs.
Coordinate specialized subagents across departments and connect securely to external enterprise tools through verified Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers from AgentExchange partners.
Replace rigid telephone IVR trees with low-latency conversational voice agents alongside unified deployments across web chat, WhatsApp, SMS, mobile apps, and Slack.

Free / Open-sourceAutomate work across thousands of apps — no code required

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