Choose Zendesk if
You want an established customer service platform today, with a large set of add-on apps, and your team is sized and budgeted by agent.
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Compare help desk software — including the part where Care loses.
Care is not built, so every comparison on these pages ends with the same row: the others ship today and Care does not. We think the design suits a small business that wants its help desk, customer record and website chat in one login, and we would rather argue that on stable, checkable facts than on claims about anyone else.
not shipped · wave 3facts as of research in 2026pricing models, not price lists3 side-by-side pages
Product design preview · Care has not shipped. All features, screens and prices are proposals.
Care has not shipped yet.
Where Care stands
Care is designed, not shipped.
Everything on these comparison pages — the features, the screens, the prices — describes Centilio Care as designed. There is no app and no beta yet, and no launch date. Join the waitlist and you will hear first.
Side by side
Four help desks, on the facts that do not change weekly.
Stage, category, approach and pricing model as published on each vendor’s own pages, as of research in 2026. Check their pages for today’s plans and prices; we do not quote them.
| Centilio Care | Zendesk | Freshdesk | Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Service | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stage | Designed, not shipped · wave 3 | Available | Available | Available |
| Category | Help desk inside a suite of small-business tools | Customer service platform | Help desk from Freshworks | Customer service application in Microsoft’s Dynamics 365 suite |
| Approach | One inbox for email, chat and forms on a customer record shared with Centilio Relate; Celia drafts, a person sends | A dedicated customer service product with its own marketplace of apps | A dedicated help desk within the Freshworks family of business software | Part of a broader suite of Microsoft business applications |
| Pricing model | Per business, proposed; every team member included | Per agent | Per agent | Per user |
Choosing
Where each one fits.
Each of these is a reasonable choice for someone. The question is which someone you are.
Searching for Google help desk software? Google’s Workspace tools include Gmail and the collaborative inbox in Google Groups, which some small teams use as a first shared support inbox before they move to a dedicated help desk.
Choose Freshdesk if
You want a dedicated help desk today from a company that also sells CRM and other business software, priced by agent.
Choose Microsoft if
Your business already runs on Microsoft’s business applications and you want customer service inside that suite, licensed by user.
Choose Centilio Care if
You can wait for it, you use or plan to use other Centilio tools, and you want one price for the business with drafts a person approves.
Switching path
Switching later, without a bad week.
When you compare help desk software solutions, compare the move as well: what comes across, and how long both run.
- Export contacts, articles and past tickets from your current tool as CSV
- Import them into Care — planned for launch, with the exact steps published first
- Point a second address at Care and run both for two weeks
- Move your main support address when the team trusts the new queue
- Keep the old tool read-only until its subscription ends
Questions
About comparing.
Why compare a product that has not shipped?
Because a page that says “coming soon” tells you nothing, and because we would rather be held to a design in public. If something here is wrong for your business, the waitlist form is the place to tell us.
Why no prices for the other tools?
Prices change more often than pages are updated, and we would rather send you to each vendor’s own page than print a figure that is wrong next month. We list the pricing model instead — per agent, per user or per business — as of research in 2026.
Is Care a Zendesk alternative?
For a small business that wants its help desk, customer record and chat in one login at one price for the business, that is the design. For a team that needs an established platform today, Zendesk is available and Care is not.
Is Care a Freshdesk alternative?
It is designed to be one for small teams that use, or plan to use, other Centilio tools. Freshdesk is available today and priced per agent; Care is proposed per business and is not built yet.
What about Microsoft’s options?
Microsoft sells Dynamics 365 Customer Service, licensed per user, and many small teams start with a shared mailbox in Microsoft 365. Care is designed for small businesses that want a help desk without adopting a larger business suite.
Can I switch to Care later without losing history?
That is the plan: import contacts, articles and past tickets from a CSV export, run both tools for a while, then move your support address. The exact steps will be published before launch.
Be told when Care opens.
Care is in the third wave of Centilio tools. Join the waitlist and you will hear first — with the final plans, the import steps for your current help desk and an honest list of what is in the first release.