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    CustomerSuccessBox

    Score9.5 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    What is CustomerSuccessBox? An AI-powered customer success platform for B2B SaaS that provides actionable insights to drive customer success. Backed with $1 Million in March 2018 by pi Ventures and Axilor Ventures, CustomerSuccessBox was built from a clear need for a solution that could deliver ‘proactive’ customer success. Customer Success tracks product adoption to understand customer onboarding, product adoption, usage analysis, and calculating customer health scores.…N/A

    Gainsight CS

    Score8.9 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    Gainsight Customer Success (CS) is presented as a growth engine for modern post-sale teams. Built for CROs, CS leaders, and operations pros, it provides visibility into customer health, expansion potential, and revenue risk. With automation, AI, and health scoring, Gainsight helps scale outcomes without scaling headcount. With its playbooks and success plans to CSQL tracking and journey orchestration, Gainsight CS helps teams to take the right action at the right time, every time. Access to…

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    CustomerSuccessBoxGainsight CS
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    Pricing Offerings
    CustomerSuccessBoxGainsight CS
    Free Trial
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup Fee$499 per userRequired
    Additional DetailsThe pricing is different for the types of businesses to which CustomerSuccessBox caters to- 1. Grow- For businesses who want to start with the customer success initiative with a small success team 2. Business- For businesses with mature customer success practices and a large success team 3. Enterprise- For businesses who want to extend with the customer success initiative across a range of products and teams. For more info on pricing, checkout https://customersuccessbox.com/pricing/—
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    Customer Success Box
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    Gainsight
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Would buy again
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    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    CustomerSuccessBoxGainsight CS
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of CustomerSuccessBox and Gainsight CS
    Feature
    CustomerSuccessBox
    8.5
    11 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Gainsight CS
    7.5
    217 Ratings
    15% below category average
    API8.59 Ratings7.5131 Ratings
    Integration with Salesforce.com8.57 Ratings8.9216 Ratings
    Integration with Marketo00 Ratings6.551 Ratings
    Integration with Eloqua00 Ratings7.022 Ratings
    Customer Data Extraction / Integration
    Comparison of Customer Data Extraction / Integration features of CustomerSuccessBox and Gainsight CS
    Feature
    CustomerSuccessBox
    9.4
    15 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Gainsight CS
    8.3
    217 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Product usage9.315 Ratings8.7206 Ratings
    Help desk / support tickets9.512 Ratings7.9173 Ratings
    Customer Success Management
    Comparison of Customer Success Management features of CustomerSuccessBox and Gainsight CS
    Feature
    CustomerSuccessBox
    9.0
    15 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Gainsight CS
    8.5
    230 Ratings
    2% below category average
    NPS surveys7.811 Ratings8.9181 Ratings
    Sponsor tracking9.18 Ratings9.0167 Ratings
    Customer profiles9.014 Ratings7.7206 Ratings
    Automated workflow9.514 Ratings8.1220 Ratings
    Customer health scoring9.313 Ratings9.9223 Ratings
    Customer segmentation9.515 Ratings8.0188 Ratings
    Internal collaboration00 Ratings8.1208 Ratings
    CSM Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of CSM Reporting & Analytics features of CustomerSuccessBox and Gainsight CS
    Feature
    CustomerSuccessBox
    8.8
    15 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Gainsight CS
    9.0
    228 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Customer health trends9.313 Ratings9.7210 Ratings
    Engagement analytics8.614 Ratings8.8186 Ratings
    Revenue forecasting8.29 Ratings8.3114 Ratings
    Dashboards9.315 Ratings9.2225 Ratings
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of CustomerSuccessBox and Gainsight CS
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    CustomerSuccessBox
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    Ratings
    Gainsight CS
    8.1
    174 Ratings
    9% below category average
    Role-based user permissions00 Ratings8.1174 Ratings
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    CustomerSuccessBoxGainsight CS
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    ClientSuccess
    Score8.4 out of 10
    ClientSuccess
    Score8.4 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    ChurnZero
    Score9.6 out of 10
    ChurnZero
    Score9.6 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Gainsight CS
    Score8.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    CustomerSuccessBoxGainsight CS
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.5
    (15 ratings)
    8.7
    (235 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.8
    (14 ratings)
    Usability
    9.3
    (15 ratings)
    8.5
    (29 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.3
    (15 ratings)
    8.8
    (134 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.5
    (2 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
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    6.3
    (6 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
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    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
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    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
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    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    CustomerSuccessBoxGainsight CS
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Customer Success Box
    It is the best software if you are a b2b software who is planning to scale customer success department and you are running blind on potential threats for renewal. It also helps you understand which customer is not getting value out of your product. I completely recommend this. Go for it!!!!!
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    Gainsight
    Gainsight CS can do almost anything if you put enough effort into it. Its advantage is that it has a very broad range of functionality and endless configuration options. That is also its disadvantage because everything has to be built. If you are looking for something that arrives with tools and behaviors that are already tailored out of the box to CS best practices, it's not Gainsight CS.
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    Pros
    Customer Success Box
    • Journey feature will help you automate your manual tasks like auto csm assignments, auto playbook enrolls, email alerts to your clients about new assignments or any set templates, etc.
    • Making a playbook of your process (must be consist of multiple steps) will help you give the visibility of how many clients are stuck in which steps and from when.
    • They are using Metabase for making analytics dashboards where you can make your own dashboard with different filters like Csm activity report, churn dashboard, potential clients report and also using pulse feature in Metabase schedule your daily report to different required people.
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    Gainsight
    • Ability to capture all customer information in one spot
    • Gantt charts for overall success plans to map out TAM deliverables
    • Automatically integrate feeds from sources to build reports as needed
    • Ability to capture customer follow-up tasks so I'm not trying to capture the list of actions too repetitively (e.g. using the "Tasks" section of an entry)
    • Ability to use the plugin to automatically add emails to timeline; ability to use calendar integration to automatically add meeting minutes that will sync up to Gong notes
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    Cons
    Customer Success Box
    • Health aggregation delay can be improved.
    • Calling with csbox software can be improved, it makes touchpoint even if your call from csbox has not picked up, and accordingly changed relationship health.
    • Add more analytics in the playbook like avg time taken to complete each step and there is no option of selecting multiple csms in the filter.
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    Gainsight
    • Would love to see a Gainsight OPs/Admin checklist that guides CS Ops team through specific pieces of information needed to execute specific playbooks (best practices)
    • When creating reports, sometimes it's difficult to find the correct variable that you are looking for as it's nested under various categories
    • Would love ability to "heatmap" specific individual customer engagement based on CSM inputted customer contacts at meetings
    • Would love to see more analysis on engagements - how often, how frequent - built into the product
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Customer Success Box
    No answers on this topic
    Gainsight
    Gainsight offers a level of support that I've not experience before. They will work with you to come up with a solution to a problem - or help match you with another client that has a similar setup as you to get their feedback. Also the functionality that we have built within the software works for us. It's 'easy' to use (once you get the hang of it) and our users rather enjoy working in the software.
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    Usability
    Customer Success Box
    Customer success box is one of the best products we have used as it solves the main problem for us. Use tracking and adoption. The best part about various software integrations is that now we are able to track everything at one single platform with multiple reports, analytics and dashboards.
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    Gainsight
    I give it this score based on the implementation at my current employer. I don't know if it could be higher based on if the implementation went better, or if there is something on the vendor side that could help. If this were asked at my previous employer, I would have given it a score of 9 or 10.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Customer Success Box
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    Gainsight
    Rarely any issues with availability or outages. When they do occur, there is excellent communication and consistent updates. Bugs are usually addressed in a timely manner, and communication around those issues is also extremely good
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    Performance
    Customer Success Box
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    Gainsight
    There are some times when it can take almost a minute to load some of our reports or the rules engine. Within a rule it can also take time to load the actions as they each load one at a time when scrolling. The ability to scroll without waiting would be ideal
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    Support Rating
    Customer Success Box
    I have created two - three support tickets so far and their response is very very quick. Their team is also very empathetic, understanding and highly motivated towards solving a customer's problem. I would definitely recommend and rate them 10 / 10 for their excellent after sales support. They support for all EST & PST zones.
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    Gainsight
    The CSMs are very hands-on and helpful, both Elaine and Lane have provided a lot of guidance and value over the years. Support is responsive and will jump on things as needed. The thought leadership and community is probably the most valuable part of our support from Gainsight.
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    Online Training
    Customer Success Box
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    Gainsight
    The online videos are very good for basic tasks in the platform, but it isn't very descriptive or helpful trying to make your own specific variables fit the simple example that is typically used. Typically, I'll watch a video, try on my own and still have to get help from support or Customer Success team
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    Implementation Rating
    Customer Success Box
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    Gainsight
    I was not part of the implantation (I took over later). However, based on what was passed to me, the tool was not well implemented at our org. I think this had to do with complexity, wrong person assigned in our org, and org buy-in. I think it would have been very successful if we had a better assignment process internally.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Customer Success Box
    CustomerSuccessBox provides a great UI where I can manage all the activities related to a client in a single window. This helps to update and focus on key tasks related to the client. Small insights graph helps to quickly analyze the client's health towards our product. The customizable filters are a great help in sorting the data.
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    Gainsight
    We went through an evaluation of ChurnZero, which did not have the ability to pull in usage from complex data sets or to visualize it natively. ChurnZero did not offer the ability to run surveys or NPS which would have required additional tooling and investment
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    Scalability
    Customer Success Box
    No answers on this topic
    Gainsight
    It can lean a little heavily toward Customer Success, but the ability to customize many areas based on specific user or account characteristics allows you to make it work across many different roles. This also makes collaboration within the tool across teams possible. It a flexible tool if you have a skilled admin to help guide your process building.
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    Return on Investment
    Customer Success Box
    • It has helped in managing large amount of Client data under single platform.
    • It helped in generating valuable insights from data.
    • It is helpful to take proactive actions.
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    Gainsight
    • No metrics yet, but we have improved our at-risk customers by identifying risks earlier via our automated health score and with our Gainsight approved mitigation workflow, CSMs and leaders have better discipline with mitigation efforts and sharing at-risk customers across the org so other teams can step in and assist
    Incentivized
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    ScreenShots

    CustomerSuccessBox Screenshots

    Screenshot of 360 Degree View 

A fully integrated customer success platform that connects with your CRM, Helpdesks, Billing system, customer engagement system, and even your homegrown systems to provide customer success managers a complete 360-degree view of each account.Screenshot of Actionable Platform

No more juggling between tools, get all customer communication in one place. You get the ability to send emails, make calls and manage tasks from inside the customer success platform. CSMs take preemptive measures to engage with accounts with average or poor health.Screenshot of Segmentation

Customer Segmentation is done based on revenue generated/MRR (Enterprise-Mid market-SMBs or Tier 1-Tier 2-Tier3), location (US, Asia, EMEA, ANZ, etc), Product used or plans opted for, etc.Screenshot of Playbooks 

Time-bound playbooks are created to manage tasks to onboard, increase product adoption, renewals, and upsells.  Playbooks help in creating an Ideal Customer Journey along with various Tasks, Outcomes & Milestones

    Gainsight CS Screenshots

    Screenshot of the Journey Orchestrator, used to build personalized, scalable customer journeys with lifecycle-based emails, playbooks, and triggered workflows, so no customer slips through the cracks.Screenshot of an AI Cheat Sheet. These offer AI-generated summaries, suggestions, and insights tailored to each account—so CSMs spend less time analyzing, and more time acting.Screenshot of AI Scorecards. These are used to analyze renewal and churn data to recommend new measures, refine weights, and create high-impact scorecards (or refine existing ones), to forecast with more precision and act with confidence.Screenshot of Success Plans, where users can create clear, outcome-based plans with customers—then track progress, assign owners, and show stakeholders exactly how value is being driven.Screenshot of Gainsight Home, which provides one place for customer success teams to prioritize, act, and prove impact—powered by real-time insights, AI signals, and workflows designed to drive retention and expansion.Screenshot of Customer 360. This interface brings together usage data, health scores, playbooks, and account details into one unified view.