Customer Support · head to head
Gladly vs Verint

Verint
Customer Support
Enterprise customer engagement and workforce optimisation, taken private by Thoma Bravo and merged with Calabrio
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The short version
- Each has a real cost: Gladly no pricing is published at any level, and the pricing page states no per agent cost, per conversation rate, minimum commitment or feature tiers; Verint thoma Bravo took Verint private in November 2025 and is combining it with the directly competing Calabrio, so buyers signing multi-year agreements now cannot know which of the two overlapping product lines survives as the strategic one.
- They diverge on capability: Gladly covers Lifelong conversation, Verint covers Workforce management.
- Prices and features above were last checked on 31 August 2026.
Where they differ
Only the attributes on which Gladly and Verint actually diverge.
Identical on both: free tier (No), user rating (Not yet rated), category (Customer Support).
What each one covers
Drawn from each product's published feature list. An absence here means we hold no record of it - not that the product lacks it.
Only in Gladly
- Lifelong conversation
- Omnichannel support
- Customer timeline
- Task management
- Knowledge base
- IVR
- Shopify
- Salesforce
Only in Verint
- Workforce management
- Interaction recording
- Speech and text analytics
- Quality management
- CX automation bots
- Voice of the customer
- Knowledge management
- Open platform connectors
What people use each for
The jobs each tool is most often brought in to do.
Gladly
- Customer service built around a single customer record rather than ticketsnot Verint
- Handling support conversations across voice, messaging and emailnot Verint
Verint
- A retail bank with 4,000 agents that must record and retain every advised sale under regulatory obligation and evidence retention on demandnot Gladly
- A government service centre running an inherited Avaya estate that needs modern analytics without replacing the telephonynot Gladly
- A multinational insurer forecasting across six sites and three languages where a spreadsheet-based rota has stopped scalingnot Gladly
- An enterprise wanting analytics over one hundred per cent of interactions because sampled quality scoring keeps missing the failure modes that generate complaintsnot Gladly
Where each one falls short
Documented limitations, not opinions. Every one is a constraint you would hit in normal use.
Gladly
- No pricing is published at any level, and the pricing page states no per agent cost, per conversation rate, minimum commitment or feature tiers
- The pricing page presents outcome statistics in place of any cost information
- Every route to a figure goes through a demo or sales conversation
Verint
- Thoma Bravo took Verint private in November 2025 and is combining it with the directly competing Calabrio, so buyers signing multi-year agreements now cannot know which of the two overlapping product lines survives as the strategic one.
- The catalogue is licensed piece by piece, including individually priced automation bots, so the quoted platform figure is rarely the figure you end up paying once the analytics, recording and bot modules are all in scope.
- Implementations routinely run six to twelve months and effectively require a partner, which means the first year of a contract is spent paying for software that is not yet delivering.
- The interface reflects two decades of accumulated enterprise features, and new supervisors need formal training to do things that a mid-market tool exposes in one screen.
- It is priced and scoped for thousands of agents, so a 300-seat operation gets an enterprise contract, an enterprise implementation and enterprise complexity for a problem a lighter product would solve in weeks.
Pricing, plan by plan
Gladly
$180/month- Hero$180/month
- All channels
- Customer timeline
- Knowledge base
- Superhero$210/month
- Everything in Hero
- Custom reporting
- Advanced rules
Verint
On request- Verint Open Platform$undefined/year
- Workforce management and forecasting
- Compliance recording and quality management
- Speech and text analytics
Which should you pick?
Choose Gladly if
- You need lifelong conversation.
- You work on Web, Ios, Android.
- You also want omnichannel support.
Choose Verint if
- You need workforce management.
- You work on Web, Windows.
- You also want interaction recording.
Questions people ask
- Is Gladly or Verint better?
- Neither clearly leads. Gladly starts at $180/month and Verint at On request, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
- Which is cheaper, Gladly or Verint?
- Gladly starts at $180/month and Verint at On request.
- Does Gladly or Verint run on more platforms?
- Gladly runs on Web, Ios, Android. Verint runs on Web, Windows.
- What is Gladly best used for?
- Gladly is most often used for customer service built around a single customer record rather than tickets, handling support conversations across voice, messaging and email. Of those, customer service built around a single customer record rather than tickets and handling support conversations across voice, messaging and email are not what Verint is typically brought in for.
- What can Gladly do that Verint cannot?
- Gladly covers Lifelong conversation, Omnichannel support, Customer timeline, Task management. Verint covers Workforce management, Interaction recording, Speech and text analytics, Quality management.
Answered from the vendors’ own pages
Gladly: How much does Gladly cost?
Gladly does not publish pricing on its website. The vendor directs prospective customers to request a demo or contact the sales team for custom pricing tailored to organizational needs.
SourceVerint: Who owns Verint now?
Thoma Bravo, which completed a 2 billion US dollar take-private in November 2025 and is combining Verint with its existing portfolio company Calabrio.
Verint: Does that affect an existing contract?
Existing contracts continue, but roadmap and product overlap with Calabrio is unresolved. Ask for written commitments on support horizon and migration terms before renewing.
Verint: Do I have to replace my telephony?
No. Verint is deliberately platform-agnostic and is commonly deployed over Avaya, Cisco, Genesys and Amazon Connect estates.
Verint: Is pricing published?
No. Verint sells multi-year enterprise agreements quoted per module and per agent, with professional services costed separately.
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