Self-hosted alternatives
Open source alternatives to Zendesk
Zendesk is a hosted help desk for tickets, shared email, and customer conversations.
Published by Zendesk. The projects below are sorted by GitHub stars. Star counts and last commit dates are read from the public GitHub API. The line under each name is generated from the category, the licence, and whether the project can be self-hosted. Fetched . 4 of 4 have an OSI-approved SPDX licence, a commit in the last 12 months, and a repository GitHub has not archived.
1Chatwoot
chatwoot/chatwoot
Customer support. Licence: MIT. Self-hosted: yes.
- Licence
- MITOpen core
- GitHub stars
- 37,799
- Last commit
Counts as open source: OSI-approved licence, commit within 12 months, and the repository is not archived.
Repository on GitHubProject site
Also listed as an alternative to Intercom.
2Zammad
zammad/zammad
Customer support. Licence: AGPL-3.0. Self-hosted: yes.
- Licence
- AGPL-3.0
- GitHub stars
- 6,011
- Last commit
Counts as open source: OSI-approved licence, commit within 12 months, and the repository is not archived.
3FreeScout
freescout-help-desk/freescout
Customer support. Licence: AGPL-3.0. Self-hosted: yes.
- Licence
- AGPL-3.0
- GitHub stars
- 4,596
- Last commit
Counts as open source: OSI-approved licence, commit within 12 months, and the repository is not archived.
Repository on GitHubProject site
Also listed as an alternative to Intercom.
4osTicket
osTicket/osTicket
Customer support. Licence: GPL-2.0. Self-hosted: yes.
- Licence
- GPL-2.0
- GitHub stars
- 3,986
- Last commit
Counts as open source: OSI-approved licence, commit within 12 months, and the repository is not archived.