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Gainsight

The #1 Customer Success Platform

As of 30 August 2026, Gainsight starts at $2500/month. Gainsight is the leading customer success platform that helps businesses reduce churn, increase expansion revenue, and drive customer advocacy. Softwr lists it under Sales Enablement. Gainsight is made by Gainsight Inc., launched in 2011, available on Web.

Overview

What Gainsight does

Gainsight is the leading customer success platform that helps businesses reduce churn, increase expansion revenue, and drive customer advocacy. It provides comprehensive health scoring, playbooks, and automation to proactively manage customer relationships at scale.

What people use it for

  • Customer Success
  • Retention
  • Health Scoring

The honest half

Where it falls short

Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about Gainsight.

  • Limited customization options; teams resort to exports and scripts when platform lacks required fields
  • Integration reliability issues; broken connectors and schema changes create stale health scores
  • Cannot automatically track emails within the platform; requires manual logging or third-party solutions
  • Long implementation and setup; typically requires 12-24 weeks and mandatory implementation services
  • High total cost of ownership; Year 1 costs often exceed $200K including required professional services

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Pricing

What Gainsight costs

Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.

Essentials

$2,500 /mo

  • Health scores
  • Customer 360
  • Playbooks

Enterprise

$5,000 /mo

  • Advanced analytics
  • AI predictions
  • Custom integrations

Capabilities

Features

  • Health scores

  • Churn prediction

  • Playbook automation

  • Customer 360 view

  • Journey orchestration

  • Salesforce

    Integration with Salesforce

  • HubSpot

    Integration with HubSpot

  • Slack

    Integration with Slack

  • Zendesk

    Integration with Zendesk

  • Web support

    Available on web

  • Ios support

    Available on ios

  • Android support

    Available on android

Answered, with sources

Questions people ask

Each answer names the page it came from, so you can check it rather than take our word for it.

Does Gainsight offer a free tier?

Gainsight does not offer a free trial for the main Customer Success Cloud platform. Gainsight PX (product analytics) offers a free Starter tier supporting up to 100 monthly active users.

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How is Gainsight priced?

Gainsight prices at $150-$300 per user/month for tier plans, but the main CS Cloud pricing is based on customer records managed. Initial deployments managing 500-1,500 customer records typically cost $60,000-$120,000 annually, with Year 1 costs often exceeding $200K including mandatory implementation.

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What are Gainsight's core features?

Gainsight offers health scoring, customer journey orchestration, playbooks, in-app engagement, reporting, customer data consolidation via Customer 360, and Staircase AI for real-time engagement insights. It also includes Skilljar for customer education and Communities for self-service support.

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What CRM integrations are available?

Gainsight integrates with Salesforce, HubSpot, and Slack. The Salesforce connector syncs account data, the HubSpot connector ingests engagement data, and Slack automation sends Gainsight notifications and alerts to channels.

Behind it

Who makes Gainsight

Company
Gainsight Inc.
Based in
San Francisco, California
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