# Freshservice alternatives: what AI models name instead, October 2026

IT AI Recommendation Index, October 2026 Edition. 721 of the 1,008 answers in the 4 categories where Freshservice holds a standing named it neither first nor as an alternative; these are the first choices those answers made. Page: https://it-ai-index.com/vendors/freshservice/alternatives/

## Named instead, most often (every category and segment added)

- PagerDuty: 61
- incident.io: 60
- ServiceNow IT Asset Management: 39
- ServiceNow Now Assist: 30
- Snipe-IT: 29
- ServiceNow ITSM: 26

## IT service management

**Small business**: 22 of 84 answers did not name Freshservice (Freshservice is #1 of 12 at 47%).

- Freshdesk: first choice in 3 of those 22
- GLPI: first choice in 1 of those 22
- HelpDesk 365: first choice in 1 of those 22
- Jira Service Management: first choice in 1 of those 22
- ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus: first choice in 1 of those 22
- SolarWinds Service Desk: first choice in 1 of those 22
- Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk: first choice in 1 of those 22
- TeamDynamix: first choice in 1 of those 22

**Mid-market**: 27 of 84 answers did not name Freshservice (Freshservice is #1 of 11 at 58%).

- SolarWinds Service Desk: first choice in 1 of those 27
- Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk: first choice in 1 of those 27

**Enterprise**: 50 of 84 answers did not name Freshservice (Freshservice is #3 of 9 at 9%).

- ServiceNow ITSM: first choice in 21 of those 50
- HaloITSM: first choice in 3 of those 50
- Jira Service Management Data Center: first choice in 1 of those 50
- TeamSupport: first choice in 1 of those 50

## IT asset management

**Small business**: 48 of 84 answers did not name Freshservice (Freshservice is #2 of 15 at 11%).

- Snipe-IT: first choice in 20 of those 48
- Lansweeper: first choice in 4 of those 48
- Asset Panda: first choice in 2 of those 48
- InvGate Asset Management: first choice in 2 of those 48
- ManageEngine AssetExplorer: first choice in 2 of those 48
- Atera: first choice in 1 of those 48
- BlueTally: first choice in 1 of those 48
- Factorial: first choice in 1 of those 48

**Mid-market**: 48 of 84 answers did not name Freshservice (Freshservice is #1 of 11 at 31%).

- Snipe-IT: first choice in 9 of those 48
- ServiceNow IT Asset Management: first choice in 4 of those 48
- Lansweeper: first choice in 3 of those 48
- ManageEngine AssetExplorer: first choice in 2 of those 48
- NinjaOne: first choice in 2 of those 48
- InvGate Asset Management: first choice in 1 of those 48
- SolarWinds Service Desk: first choice in 1 of those 48
- Spiceworks Inventory: first choice in 1 of those 48

**Enterprise**: 77 of 84 answers did not name Freshservice (Freshservice is #11 of 12 at 0%).

- ServiceNow IT Asset Management: first choice in 35 of those 77
- Flexera One IT Asset Management: first choice in 9 of those 77
- Lansweeper: first choice in 5 of those 77
- InvGate Asset Management: first choice in 3 of those 77
- Atera: first choice in 1 of those 77
- Device42: first choice in 1 of those 77
- GLPI: first choice in 1 of those 77
- ManageEngine AssetExplorer: first choice in 1 of those 77

## Incident management and on-call

**Small business**: 77 of 84 answers did not name Freshservice (Freshservice is #8 of 13 at 2%).

- incident.io: first choice in 28 of those 77
- Better Stack: first choice in 13 of those 77
- PagerDuty: first choice in 7 of those 77
- Opsgenie: first choice in 5 of those 77
- Squadcast: first choice in 5 of those 77
- Rootly: first choice in 4 of those 77
- Hyperping: first choice in 2 of those 77
- Zenduty: first choice in 2 of those 77

**Mid-market**: 71 of 84 answers did not name Freshservice (Freshservice is #3 of 11 at 10%).

- incident.io: first choice in 21 of those 71
- PagerDuty: first choice in 16 of those 71
- Rootly: first choice in 5 of those 71
- Squadcast: first choice in 5 of those 71
- Grafana IRM: first choice in 4 of those 71
- Opsgenie: first choice in 4 of those 71
- Better Stack: first choice in 3 of those 71
- FireHydrant: first choice in 1 of those 71

**Enterprise**: 81 of 84 answers did not name Freshservice.

- PagerDuty: first choice in 38 of those 81
- incident.io: first choice in 11 of those 81
- ServiceNow ITSM: first choice in 5 of those 81
- Jira Service Management: first choice in 4 of those 81
- Opsgenie: first choice in 2 of those 81
- Better Stack: first choice in 1 of those 81
- Incident IO: first choice in 1 of those 81
- PagerDuty Operations Cloud: first choice in 1 of those 81

## AI IT support agents

**Small business**: 75 of 84 answers did not name Freshservice (Freshservice is #7 of 9 at 2%).

- Freshdesk: first choice in 10 of those 75
- Intercom Fin: first choice in 6 of those 75
- Siit: first choice in 6 of those 75
- Workativ: first choice in 6 of those 75
- Helply: first choice in 4 of those 75
- Zoho Desk: first choice in 3 of those 75
- Atera: first choice in 2 of those 75
- Risotto: first choice in 2 of those 75

**Mid-market**: 70 of 84 answers did not name Freshservice (Freshservice is #1 of 8 at 9%).

- Freshservice with Freddy AI: first choice in 6 of those 70
- ServiceNow Now Assist: first choice in 4 of those 70
- Zendesk AI Agents: first choice in 4 of those 70
- Freshdesk: first choice in 3 of those 70
- Botpress: first choice in 2 of those 70
- Freshservice with Freddy AI Agent: first choice in 2 of those 70
- Intercom Fin: first choice in 2 of those 70
- Zoho Desk: first choice in 2 of those 70

**Enterprise**: 75 of 84 answers did not name Freshservice (Freshservice is #6 of 6 at 0%).

- ServiceNow Now Assist: first choice in 26 of those 75
- Moveworks: first choice in 9 of those 75
- Microsoft Copilot Studio: first choice in 3 of those 75
- Aisera: first choice in 2 of those 75
- Zendesk AI Agents: first choice in 2 of those 75
- Aisera System of AI Agents / Aisera AI Service Desk: first choice in 1 of those 75
- Atomicwork: first choice in 1 of those 75
- Console: first choice in 1 of those 75

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