ChatBot vs. Khoros Service

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
ChatBot
Score 9.0 out of 10
Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
ChatBot is an all-in-one platform to create, deploy, and track chatbots across channels. With it the vendor states users can create chatbots in minutes with diverse templates and automate key tasks right away, or easily drag-and-drop new elements to adapt any template to your needs. ChatBot is ready to work out of the box, while AI algorithms help users improve responses over time. Design conversational experiences to build better relationships with customers.…N/A
Khoros Service
Score 8.9 out of 10
Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
Khoros Service offers omnichannel engagement on publicly available channels like social, digital, chat, and voice, as well as owned online communities like Khoros Communities. The solution offers 1-to-1 and 1-to-many engagement with customers and consumers, bringing together automation through bots and human agents. Customer inquiries and support-related conversations can be routed and prioritized based on a variety of parameters, and the robust agent desktop solution…N/A
Pricing
ChatBotKhoros Service
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
ChatBotKhoros Service
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional DetailsPricing is variable based on the needs of the customer.
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Community Pulse
ChatBotKhoros Service
Features
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Chat Analytics and Reports
Comparison of Chat Analytics and Reports features of Product A and Product B
ChatBot
7.8
Ratings
6% below category average
Khoros Service
-
Ratings
Chat history and transcripts9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Chat reporting7.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Chat and web analytics7.50 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
ChatBotKhoros Service
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
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8.5
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Likelihood to Renew
-
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8.2
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Usability
9.0
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7.3
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Availability
-
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9.0
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Performance
-
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9.0
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Support Rating
8.0
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8.1
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In-Person Training
-
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9.0
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Online Training
-
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7.3
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Implementation Rating
-
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7.6
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Product Scalability
-
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8.3
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User Testimonials
ChatBotKhoros Service
Likelihood to Recommend
If you're an organisation looking to start deploying a ChatBot solution on your website, this product solves your use case. Especially, if you haven't worked with a ChatBot solution before and have little or no prior experience. Their help videos, training section will be sufficient for you to start with the basics of deploying a ChatBot on your website. Use their templates effectively too to start off with.
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If you need a content management system that allows you to add a wide variety of label categorization and have multiple users logged in at the same time, Khoros Care is suitable. However, I cannot say that it's the best system to use. There are other systems that have the same or similar features without as many issues.
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Pros
  • Answering most of the FAQs.
  • Sending users in the right direction rather then going from one support staff to other.
  • Reduces unnecessary load from the the team
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  • Manages and pulls in posts from communities, Facebook, and Twitter so we can address them in one place as opposed to logging into each site natively.
  • Khoros Care has great analytics. I like the customizable dashboards; we use them for weekly reports to upper management.
  • Khoros Care helps our social media manager manage and monitor our teams.
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Cons
  • I think the pricing could be a little more competitive
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  • I would like to be able to see deleted comments/tweets so we can look into the issues.
  • I would like to be able to better customize dashboards for our exact metrics. Some things previously available in Spredfast are no longer available in Care.
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Likelihood to Renew
As long as budget is not an issue - we renewing this solution.
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Simply, there isn't anything on the market that is quite as personable as Khoros Care. After using a few different client messaging systems, this program gave the closest feel to in-person interaction that we could get during the COVID-19 epidemic and is an important part of our agency still to this day in 2023.
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Usability
Since I deployed this solution end to end for my organisation, I would speak from my experience that since I was a newbie to this platform I took ample support from their team, their training resources. However, the product's UI/UX was simply very intuitive that it helped me to get a lot of hand-on practice on the product well. This helped me with the timely deployment of this solution.
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The ability to auto tag, manually tag, make notes, and "snooze" posts is extremely helpful. The efficiency of the work flow for agents is also a huge plus. It keeps agents moving quickly and prioritizing responses for the cases that need it most.
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Reliability and Availability
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It's always up.
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Performance
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No issues.
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Support Rating
Full end-to-end support is critical to maintain the ongoing service, robustness, training and customer service Chatbot offers.
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Khoros Support has always very responsive and helpful when it comes to getting my issue/inquiry addressed. Their ticket portal is great for tracking any open tickets and they can be updated via the portal or by responding to the email thread. Support reps are always extremely knowledgeable and care about getting you taken care of
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In-Person Training
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The team received training (from the same executive team member who has been supporting us) over the web and this was of very high quality.
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Implementation Rating
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Implementing the platform was not a big hassle for our client, it was seamless and easy we just had to follow a few steps and it was done. Just scaling was a bit of an issue but it got resolved with time and a bit of effort at both ends
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Alternatives Considered
ChatBot is more stable and enhanced as compared to other rivals which are new in this segment and also provides a lot of details which is missing in other products like report etc. Also, chatBot is more commonly used so support wise it is also great and you can find multiple examples on the internet and from your peers as well.
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Multi-Channel Support:Khoros Care: Known for its ability to manage customer interactions across various channels, including social media, messaging, and more.Comparison: Evaluate how well each platform supports the channels most relevant to your business, whether it's email, social media, live chat, or others. Automation and Workflows: Khoros Care: Offers workflow automation features to streamline processes and handle routine tasks.Comparison: Compare the level of automation capabilities each platform provides and how well they align with your business processes.
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Scalability
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Of course as the company grows owing to its growing customer base, they need to think of out-of-the-box solutions to offer its clients and customer satisfaction is one of them. Retention is very much needed in competitive environment like today and hence it becomes imperative for companies to find different ways to reach their client basis and fix their issues
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Return on Investment
  • Good customer engagement levels (positive intent recognition).
  • Positive CSAT.
  • Not enough volume yet to have a cost ROI.
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  • We have seen a positive shift of customers from reaching out to the Call Centre to the Social Care Team.
  • Monthly and Annual Reporting to keep track of performance and stats related to the team has been much easier to highlight areas for improvement (month2month and anually)
  • CSAT/NPS Survey results have increased via Khoros Care in comparison to the Call Centre.
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ScreenShots

ChatBot Screenshots

Screenshot of Chatbot conversations are automatically archived, allowing users to analyze and improve their story flows.Screenshot of With ChatBot you can control the entire conversation flow.Screenshot of Improve your chatbot day by day using the training tool.Screenshot of Save your time importing a ready to use template and turn it into your own bot assistant.Screenshot of Stories are an intuitive way to tell the bot how to react to different situations. Create Stories for frequent questions and cases to save more time for the difficult ones.Screenshot of To create a fully operating chatbot you don’t need any other tools or apps. The scenario tree structure and drag and drop interface are very intuitive.

Khoros Service Screenshots

Screenshot of a customer conversation in Agent view. Access past customer conversations and interactions in a single pane of glass.Screenshot of the analytic dashboard used to monitor key metrics across a service organization, such as available agents, time to first response, and agent handle time.Screenshot of Khoros Agent Assist. This feature provides agents with real-time recommendations, reducing the time needed to handle customer inquiries, deliver accurate resolutions, and train new agents.Screenshot of Work Queues under Rules and Routing. This allows admins to build rules around tagging to ensure timely and effective follow-up from agents.