SAP Joule vs. Zendesk AI: data protection per plan
SAP Joule (2 plans) and Zendesk AI (1 plan) side by side: DPA, training on inputs, hosting and data retention per plan, based on the providers’ public documents. Without rating.
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| Feature | SAP Joule | Zendesk AI |
|---|---|---|
| Provider based in | SAP SE, Dietmar-Hopp-Allee 16, 69190 Walldorf, Germany | Zendesk, Inc., Privacy Team and DPO, 181 Fremont Street, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA |
| Plans recorded | 2 | 1 |
| Hosting | EU option: all 2 plans | EU option: Support Team / Suite Team / Suite Professional |
| Training on inputs | not documented: all 2 plans | opt-out available: Support Team / Suite Team / Suite Professional |
| DPA | yes: all 2 plans | yes: Support Team / Suite Team / Suite Professional |
| As of | 18 Oct 2026 | 18 Oct 2026 |
Plans compared
Comparing: SAP Joule Base AI vs. Zendesk AI Support Team / Suite Team / Suite Professional
| Feature | SAP JouleBase AI (included in every SAP cloud subscription) | Zendesk AISupport Team / Suite Team / Suite Professional |
|---|---|---|
| yes | yes | |
| Details: DPA available | yes (the SAP Trust Center lists the 'Data Processing Agreement for Cloud Services, SAP Support and SAP Services', including GERMAN v.11-2024 (DACH) and ENGLISH v.10-2024, as a PDF; content not read, PDF retrieval blocked by bot protection (403)) Provider’s DPA | yes (data processing agreement (DPA) with standard contractual clauses 2021/914 and UK Addendum; the AI Services Addendum supplements the contract) Provider’s DPA |
| differs by plan | not publicly documented | opt-out available |
| Details: Training on inputs | Responsible AI FAQ: customer data 'can be used to improve existing AI features and functionalities of the SAP cloud service to which the customer has subscribed' (subject to the contract and DPA); use for new AI features only under the 'product development schedule'; customers 'can monitor in which SAP solutions their data might be used and opt out in the SAP for Me interface'. No sharing with LLM/image model providers for training. Joule documentation: conversation logs are stored only with the consent of the global account admin (Joule Booster); analysis to improve Joule only after anonymisation; special categories of personal data are not processed for this purpose. | Trust Center: 'Zendesk uses service data to train its generic, cross-account machine learning models' (translated; classification and clustering models, not generative); in addition, customer-specific models using account data only. AI Trust at Zendesk (2026-10-09) for its own models: 'Customers control whether their data is used for model training'; customers 'can decide whether or not their data can be used for product improvement purposes' (the setting or procedure is not described there). AI Data Use Information: before cross-account training, identifier fields are removed and free text is sanitised. LLM integrations: 'Customer data is never used for model training'; AI Services Addendum, Section 3.1: 'Service Data will not be used by any LLM Provider for any purpose other than to provide and secure the AI Services.' |
| EU option | EU option | |
| Details: Data residency | Joule documentation 'Data Centers Supported by Joule': data centres including Frankfurt (EU01 Converge Cloud, EU10 AWS, EU11 AWS 'EU access only', EU30 GCP) and Amsterdam (EU20 Microsoft Azure), each with 'Subprocessor Region' Europe; also USA, Brazil, UAE, India, Japan, Australia, Singapore. Joule can be consumed from a different data centre than the business application (cross consumption); according to SAP, assessing transfer restrictions is the customer's responsibility. Responsible AI page: with third-party foundation models, data are sent to the model provider for processing only and are not stored there; location of these model providers: not publicly documented. | Trust Center: Zendesk uses AWS data centres in the USA, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region; data locations USA, Australia, Japan or EEA selectable (Data Center Location add-on). Individual features (QA, 'AI Agents – Advanced') may remain hosted on Google Cloud Platform in the USA and/or Europe until fully integrated. Sub-processor policy: AWS locations USA, Ireland, Germany, UK, Japan, Australia; AI Agents (Google Cloud, MongoDB, Aiven) USA and Belgium. |
| list available | list available | |
| Details: List published |
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| differs by plan | Joule documentation: interaction data | Service Data Deletion Policy |
| Details: Data retention | Joule documentation: interaction data (where log storage has been consented to) retained by default for one year or 365 days, changeable via support ticket; conversation history for users 7 days; a session ends after 24 hours or 8 hours of inactivity; on offboarding from Joule all interaction data are deleted, and when a user is deactivated their conversation logs are deleted. Responsible AI FAQ: after the end of the contract, remaining customer data are deleted unless retention is required by law; foundation model providers do not store data. | Service Data Deletion Policy (effective 2026-06-03 for new customers, 2026-07-03 for existing customers): automatic deletion begins 90 days after cancellation or 9 months after the end of a trial; thereafter ticket, user and help centre data within 40 days, live chat 120 days, AI agents - Advanced (Ultimate) 120 days, Forethought AI Agents 90 days; backups 130 days (ticketing), 14 days (AI agents - Advanced), logs up to 365 days. AI Trust at Zendesk: deletion schedules for tickets and end-user data on all plans, conditional deletion rules with Advanced Data Privacy and Protection; LLM providers with zero data retention ('no data is hosted by a third party beyond the ephemeral time necessary for the model to provide a response'). |
| differs by plan | Included in the price of the SAP cloud… | several tiers |
| Details: Price | Included in the price of the SAP cloud subscription; no surcharge according to the pricing page (subscription prices not recorded) | Support Team 19 EUR, Suite Team 55 EUR, Suite Professional 115 EUR per agent per month on an annual subscription; 25 EUR, 69 EUR, 149 EUR on a monthly subscription (pricing page, German view; net/gross not stated); Suite Enterprise on request. AI surcharge: AI Agents are billed via automated resolutions; included are 5 (Support Team, Suite Team) or 10 (Suite Professional) per agent per month, additional resolutions 1.50 EUR (fixed volume) or 2.00 EUR (pay-as-you-go) per resolution; Copilot as an add-on from Professional |
| differs by plan | yes | partly |
| Details: AI features included | yes (Joule Base and Embedded AI at no additional cost; 'no AI Units required'; availability varies by SAP solution) | partly (the pricing page lists AI Agents for messaging, email and voice, AI Agent Builder and Copilot; scope per plan and quota of automated resolutions not broken down) |
| 7 sources | 9 sources | |
| Details: Sources with retrieval date |
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Contract / DPA
- SAP Joule Base AIyes
- Zendesk AI Support Team / Suite Team / Suite Professionalyes
- SAP Joule Base AI
yes (the SAP Trust Center lists the 'Data Processing Agreement for Cloud Services, SAP Support and SAP Services', including GERMAN v.11-2024 (DACH) and ENGLISH v.10-2024, as a PDF; content not read, PDF retrieval blocked by bot protection (403))
Provider’s DPAZendesk AI Support Team / Suite Team / Suite Professionalyes (data processing agreement (DPA) with standard contractual clauses 2021/914 and UK Addendum; the AI Services Addendum supplements the contract)
Provider’s DPA
Training
- differs by plan
- SAP Joule Base AInot publicly documented
- Zendesk AI Support Team / Suite Team / Suite Professionalopt-out available
- SAP Joule Base AI
Responsible AI FAQ: customer data 'can be used to improve existing AI features and functionalities of the SAP cloud service to which the customer has subscribed' (subject to the contract and DPA); use for new AI features only under the 'product development schedule'; customers 'can monitor in which SAP solutions their data might be used and opt out in the SAP for Me interface'. No sharing with LLM/image model providers for training. Joule documentation: conversation logs are stored only with the consent of the global account admin (Joule Booster); analysis to improve Joule only after anonymisation; special categories of personal data are not processed for this purpose.
Zendesk AI Support Team / Suite Team / Suite ProfessionalTrust Center: 'Zendesk uses service data to train its generic, cross-account machine learning models' (translated; classification and clustering models, not generative); in addition, customer-specific models using account data only. AI Trust at Zendesk (2026-10-09) for its own models: 'Customers control whether their data is used for model training'; customers 'can decide whether or not their data can be used for product improvement purposes' (the setting or procedure is not described there). AI Data Use Information: before cross-account training, identifier fields are removed and free text is sanitised. LLM integrations: 'Customer data is never used for model training'; AI Services Addendum, Section 3.1: 'Service Data will not be used by any LLM Provider for any purpose other than to provide and secure the AI Services.'
Hosting
- SAP Joule Base AIEU option
- Zendesk AI Support Team / Suite Team / Suite ProfessionalEU option
- SAP Joule Base AI
Joule documentation 'Data Centers Supported by Joule': data centres including Frankfurt (EU01 Converge Cloud, EU10 AWS, EU11 AWS 'EU access only', EU30 GCP) and Amsterdam (EU20 Microsoft Azure), each with 'Subprocessor Region' Europe; also USA, Brazil, UAE, India, Japan, Australia, Singapore. Joule can be consumed from a different data centre than the business application (cross consumption); according to SAP, assessing transfer restrictions is the customer's responsibility. Responsible AI page: with third-party foundation models, data are sent to the model provider for processing only and are not stored there; location of these model providers: not publicly documented.
Zendesk AI Support Team / Suite Team / Suite ProfessionalTrust Center: Zendesk uses AWS data centres in the USA, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region; data locations USA, Australia, Japan or EEA selectable (Data Center Location add-on). Individual features (QA, 'AI Agents – Advanced') may remain hosted on Google Cloud Platform in the USA and/or Europe until fully integrated. Sub-processor policy: AWS locations USA, Ireland, Germany, UK, Japan, Australia; AI Agents (Google Cloud, MongoDB, Aiven) USA and Belgium.
Sub-processors
- SAP Joule Base AIlist available
- Zendesk AI Support Team / Suite Team / Suite Professionallist available
- SAP Joule Base AI
- Infrastructure according to the Joule data centre table: Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Converge Cloud (depending on the selected data centre)
Zendesk AI Support Team / Suite Team / Suite Professional- Amazon Web Services (hosting; USA, Ireland, Germany, UK, Japan, Australia)
- Google Cloud (Zendesk QA: Germany; AI Agents: USA, Belgium); MongoDB, Aiven, Grafana Labs for AI Agents (USA, Belgium)
- Generative AI/NLP without hosting of service data: Google, OpenAI, Microsoft, ElevenLabs; inference of open models: Baseten, Fireworks.ai, Groq
- Voice: Deepgram (transcription), Twilio (telephony)
- Forethought AI Agents (Innovation Services) only: including Mistral AI, Gladia, Cartesia (without hosting of service data)
Retention
- differs by plan
- SAP Joule Base AIJoule documentation: interaction data
- Zendesk AI Support Team / Suite Team / Suite ProfessionalService Data Deletion Policy
- SAP Joule Base AIJoule documentation: interaction data (where log storage has been consented to) retained by default for one year or 365 days, changeable via support ticket; conversation history for users 7 days; a session ends after 24 hours or 8 hours of inactivity; on offboarding from Joule all interaction data are deleted, and when a user is deactivated their conversation logs are deleted. Responsible AI FAQ: after the end of the contract, remaining customer data are deleted unless retention is required by law; foundation model providers do not store data.Zendesk AI Support Team / Suite Team / Suite ProfessionalService Data Deletion Policy (effective 2026-06-03 for new customers, 2026-07-03 for existing customers): automatic deletion begins 90 days after cancellation or 9 months after the end of a trial; thereafter ticket, user and help centre data within 40 days, live chat 120 days, AI agents - Advanced (Ultimate) 120 days, Forethought AI Agents 90 days; backups 130 days (ticketing), 14 days (AI agents - Advanced), logs up to 365 days. AI Trust at Zendesk: deletion schedules for tickets and end-user data on all plans, conditional deletion rules with Advanced Data Privacy and Protection; LLM providers with zero data retention ('no data is hosted by a third party beyond the ephemeral time necessary for the model to provide a response').
Price
- differs by plan
- SAP Joule Base AIIncluded in the price of the SAP cloud…
- Zendesk AI Support Team / Suite Team / Suite Professionalseveral tiers
- SAP Joule Base AI
Included in the price of the SAP cloud subscription; no surcharge according to the pricing page (subscription prices not recorded)
Zendesk AI Support Team / Suite Team / Suite ProfessionalSupport Team 19 EUR, Suite Team 55 EUR, Suite Professional 115 EUR per agent per month on an annual subscription; 25 EUR, 69 EUR, 149 EUR on a monthly subscription (pricing page, German view; net/gross not stated); Suite Enterprise on request. AI surcharge: AI Agents are billed via automated resolutions; included are 5 (Support Team, Suite Team) or 10 (Suite Professional) per agent per month, additional resolutions 1.50 EUR (fixed volume) or 2.00 EUR (pay-as-you-go) per resolution; Copilot as an add-on from Professional
- differs by plan
- SAP Joule Base AIyes
- Zendesk AI Support Team / Suite Team / Suite Professionalpartly
- SAP Joule Base AI
yes (Joule Base and Embedded AI at no additional cost; 'no AI Units required'; availability varies by SAP solution)
Zendesk AI Support Team / Suite Team / Suite Professionalpartly (the pricing page lists AI Agents for messaging, email and voice, AI Agent Builder and Copilot; scope per plan and quota of automated resolutions not broken down)
Evidence
- SAP Joule Base AI7 sources
- Zendesk AI Support Team / Suite Team / Suite Professional9 sources
- SAP Joule Base AI
- SAP Business AI packages and pricingPricing page, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- Responsible AITrust Center, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- SAP Privacy Statement (Effective 2026-10-01)Privacy notice, retrieved 8 Oct 2026
- Data Centers Supported by JouleProduct documentation, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- Joule – Data Protection and PrivacyProduct documentation, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- Data Processing Agreements | SAP Trust CenterDPA, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- Data Protection and Privacy | SAP Trust CenterTrust Center, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
Zendesk AI Support Team / Suite Team / Suite Professional- Pricing (German)Pricing page, retrieved 14 Oct 2026
- AI Services AddendumTerms and conditions, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- Privacy notice (German)Privacy notice, retrieved 14 Oct 2026
- Trust CenterTrust Center, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- Data Processing AgreementDPA, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- Sub-processor Policy (effective 02.09./2026-10-02)Sub-processor list, retrieved 14 Oct 2026
- AI Trust at Zendesk (updated 2026-10-09)Help centre, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- Zendesk Service Data Deletion Policy (effective 2026-06-03 or 2026-07-03)Deletion policy, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- Zendesk AI Data Use InformationHelp centre, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
| Feature | SAP Joule | Zendesk AI |
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| yesall 2 plans | yesonly plan | |
| Details: DPA available |
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| differs by tool | not publicly documentedall 2 plans | opt-out availableonly plan |
| Details: Training on inputs |
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| EU optionall 2 plans | EU optiononly plan | |
| Details: Data residency |
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| list availableall 2 plans | list availableonly plan | |
| Details: List published |
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| differs by tool | Joule documentation: interaction dataall 2 plans | Service Data Deletion Policyonly plan |
| Details: Data retention |
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| differs by tool |
| several tiersonly plan |
| Details: Price |
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| differs by tool | yesall 2 plans | partlyonly plan |
| Details: AI features included |
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| 7 sources | 9 sources | |
| Details: Sources with retrieval date |
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Contract / DPA
- SAP Jouleyesall 2 plans
- Zendesk AIyesonly plan
- SAP Joule
- Base AI (included in every SAP cloud subscription)
yes (the SAP Trust Center lists the 'Data Processing Agreement for Cloud Services, SAP Support and SAP Services', including GERMAN v.11-2024 (DACH) and ENGLISH v.10-2024, as a PDF; content not read, PDF retrieval blocked by bot protection (403))
Provider’s DPA - Premium AI (AI Units)
yes (the SAP Trust Center lists the 'Data Processing Agreement for Cloud Services, SAP Support and SAP Services', including GERMAN v.11-2024 (DACH) and ENGLISH v.10-2024, as a PDF; content not read, PDF retrieval blocked by bot protection (403))
Provider’s DPA
Zendesk AI- Support Team / Suite Team / Suite Professional
yes (data processing agreement (DPA) with standard contractual clauses 2021/914 and UK Addendum; the AI Services Addendum supplements the contract)
Provider’s DPA
- Base AI (included in every SAP cloud subscription)
Training
- differs by tool
- SAP Joulenot publicly documentedall 2 plans
- Zendesk AIopt-out availableonly plan
- SAP Joule
- Base AI (included in every SAP cloud subscription)
Responsible AI FAQ: customer data 'can be used to improve existing AI features and functionalities of the SAP cloud service to which the customer has subscribed' (subject to the contract and DPA); use for new AI features only under the 'product development schedule'; customers 'can monitor in which SAP solutions their data might be used and opt out in the SAP for Me interface'. No sharing with LLM/image model providers for training. Joule documentation: conversation logs are stored only with the consent of the global account admin (Joule Booster); analysis to improve Joule only after anonymisation; special categories of personal data are not processed for this purpose.
- Premium AI (AI Units)
Responsible AI FAQ: customer data 'can be used to improve existing AI features and functionalities of the SAP cloud service to which the customer has subscribed' (subject to the contract and DPA); use for new AI features only under the 'product development schedule'; customers 'can monitor in which SAP solutions their data might be used and opt out in the SAP for Me interface'. No sharing with LLM/image model providers for training. Joule documentation: conversation logs are stored only with the consent of the global account admin (Joule Booster); analysis to improve Joule only after anonymisation; special categories of personal data are not processed for this purpose.
Zendesk AI- Support Team / Suite Team / Suite Professional
Trust Center: 'Zendesk uses service data to train its generic, cross-account machine learning models' (translated; classification and clustering models, not generative); in addition, customer-specific models using account data only. AI Trust at Zendesk (2026-10-09) for its own models: 'Customers control whether their data is used for model training'; customers 'can decide whether or not their data can be used for product improvement purposes' (the setting or procedure is not described there). AI Data Use Information: before cross-account training, identifier fields are removed and free text is sanitised. LLM integrations: 'Customer data is never used for model training'; AI Services Addendum, Section 3.1: 'Service Data will not be used by any LLM Provider for any purpose other than to provide and secure the AI Services.'
- Base AI (included in every SAP cloud subscription)
Hosting
- SAP JouleEU optionall 2 plans
- Zendesk AIEU optiononly plan
- SAP Joule
- Base AI (included in every SAP cloud subscription)
Joule documentation 'Data Centers Supported by Joule': data centres including Frankfurt (EU01 Converge Cloud, EU10 AWS, EU11 AWS 'EU access only', EU30 GCP) and Amsterdam (EU20 Microsoft Azure), each with 'Subprocessor Region' Europe; also USA, Brazil, UAE, India, Japan, Australia, Singapore. Joule can be consumed from a different data centre than the business application (cross consumption); according to SAP, assessing transfer restrictions is the customer's responsibility. Responsible AI page: with third-party foundation models, data are sent to the model provider for processing only and are not stored there; location of these model providers: not publicly documented.
- Premium AI (AI Units)
Joule documentation 'Data Centers Supported by Joule': data centres including Frankfurt (EU01 Converge Cloud, EU10 AWS, EU11 AWS 'EU access only', EU30 GCP) and Amsterdam (EU20 Microsoft Azure), each with 'Subprocessor Region' Europe; also USA, Brazil, UAE, India, Japan, Australia, Singapore. Joule can be consumed from a different data centre than the business application (cross consumption); according to SAP, assessing transfer restrictions is the customer's responsibility. Responsible AI page: with third-party foundation models, data are sent to the model provider for processing only and are not stored there; location of these model providers: not publicly documented.
Zendesk AI- Support Team / Suite Team / Suite Professional
Trust Center: Zendesk uses AWS data centres in the USA, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region; data locations USA, Australia, Japan or EEA selectable (Data Center Location add-on). Individual features (QA, 'AI Agents – Advanced') may remain hosted on Google Cloud Platform in the USA and/or Europe until fully integrated. Sub-processor policy: AWS locations USA, Ireland, Germany, UK, Japan, Australia; AI Agents (Google Cloud, MongoDB, Aiven) USA and Belgium.
- Base AI (included in every SAP cloud subscription)
Sub-processors
- SAP Joulelist availableall 2 plans
- Zendesk AIlist availableonly plan
- SAP Joule
- Base AI (included in every SAP cloud subscription)
- Infrastructure according to the Joule data centre table: Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Converge Cloud (depending on the selected data centre)
- Premium AI (AI Units)
- Infrastructure according to the Joule data centre table: Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Converge Cloud (depending on the selected data centre)
Zendesk AI- Support Team / Suite Team / Suite Professional
- Amazon Web Services (hosting; USA, Ireland, Germany, UK, Japan, Australia)
- Google Cloud (Zendesk QA: Germany; AI Agents: USA, Belgium); MongoDB, Aiven, Grafana Labs for AI Agents (USA, Belgium)
- Generative AI/NLP without hosting of service data: Google, OpenAI, Microsoft, ElevenLabs; inference of open models: Baseten, Fireworks.ai, Groq
- Voice: Deepgram (transcription), Twilio (telephony)
- Forethought AI Agents (Innovation Services) only: including Mistral AI, Gladia, Cartesia (without hosting of service data)
- Base AI (included in every SAP cloud subscription)
Retention
- differs by tool
- SAP JouleJoule documentation: interaction dataall 2 plans
- Zendesk AIService Data Deletion Policyonly plan
- SAP Joule
- Base AI (included in every SAP cloud subscription)Joule documentation: interaction data (where log storage has been consented to) retained by default for one year or 365 days, changeable via support ticket; conversation history for users 7 days; a session ends after 24 hours or 8 hours of inactivity; on offboarding from Joule all interaction data are deleted, and when a user is deactivated their conversation logs are deleted. Responsible AI FAQ: after the end of the contract, remaining customer data are deleted unless retention is required by law; foundation model providers do not store data.
- Premium AI (AI Units)Joule documentation: interaction data (where log storage has been consented to) retained by default for one year or 365 days, changeable via support ticket; conversation history for users 7 days; a session ends after 24 hours or 8 hours of inactivity; on offboarding from Joule all interaction data are deleted, and when a user is deactivated their conversation logs are deleted. Responsible AI FAQ: after the end of the contract, remaining customer data are deleted unless retention is required by law; foundation model providers do not store data.
Zendesk AI- Support Team / Suite Team / Suite ProfessionalService Data Deletion Policy (effective 2026-06-03 for new customers, 2026-07-03 for existing customers): automatic deletion begins 90 days after cancellation or 9 months after the end of a trial; thereafter ticket, user and help centre data within 40 days, live chat 120 days, AI agents - Advanced (Ultimate) 120 days, Forethought AI Agents 90 days; backups 130 days (ticketing), 14 days (AI agents - Advanced), logs up to 365 days. AI Trust at Zendesk: deletion schedules for tickets and end-user data on all plans, conditional deletion rules with Advanced Data Privacy and Protection; LLM providers with zero data retention ('no data is hosted by a third party beyond the ephemeral time necessary for the model to provide a response').
Price
- differs by tool
- SAP Joule
- Included in the price of the SAP cloud…Base AI (included in every SAP cloud subscription)
- AI surcharge: AI Units as a shared…Premium AI (AI Units)
- Zendesk AIseveral tiersonly plan
- SAP Joule
- Base AI (included in every SAP cloud subscription)
Included in the price of the SAP cloud subscription; no surcharge according to the pricing page (subscription prices not recorded)
- Premium AI (AI Units)
AI surcharge: AI Units as a shared consumption currency (SKU 8019164), purchased annually, expire after 12 months; price per AI Unit: not publicly documented (price list via sales); Custom-built AI (Joule Studio) free of charge in operation until the end of 2026 (pricing page)
Zendesk AI- Support Team / Suite Team / Suite Professional
Support Team 19 EUR, Suite Team 55 EUR, Suite Professional 115 EUR per agent per month on an annual subscription; 25 EUR, 69 EUR, 149 EUR on a monthly subscription (pricing page, German view; net/gross not stated); Suite Enterprise on request. AI surcharge: AI Agents are billed via automated resolutions; included are 5 (Support Team, Suite Team) or 10 (Suite Professional) per agent per month, additional resolutions 1.50 EUR (fixed volume) or 2.00 EUR (pay-as-you-go) per resolution; Copilot as an add-on from Professional
- Base AI (included in every SAP cloud subscription)
- differs by tool
- SAP Jouleyesall 2 plans
- Zendesk AIpartlyonly plan
- SAP Joule
- Base AI (included in every SAP cloud subscription)
yes (Joule Base and Embedded AI at no additional cost; 'no AI Units required'; availability varies by SAP solution)
- Premium AI (AI Units)
yes (agents and extended AI services based on consumption; SAP-delivered agents 0.02 AI Units per agent action; Joule for Consultants 35 AI Units per user per month)
Zendesk AI- Support Team / Suite Team / Suite Professional
partly (the pricing page lists AI Agents for messaging, email and voice, AI Agent Builder and Copilot; scope per plan and quota of automated resolutions not broken down)
- Base AI (included in every SAP cloud subscription)
Evidence
- SAP Joule7 sources
- Zendesk AI9 sources
- SAP Joule
- SAP Business AI packages and pricingPricing page, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- Responsible AITrust Center, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- SAP Privacy Statement (Effective 2026-10-01)Privacy notice, retrieved 8 Oct 2026
- Data Centers Supported by JouleProduct documentation, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- Joule – Data Protection and PrivacyProduct documentation, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- Data Processing Agreements | SAP Trust CenterDPA, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- Data Protection and Privacy | SAP Trust CenterTrust Center, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
Zendesk AI- Pricing (German)Pricing page, retrieved 14 Oct 2026
- AI Services AddendumTerms and conditions, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- Privacy notice (German)Privacy notice, retrieved 14 Oct 2026
- Trust CenterTrust Center, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- Data Processing AgreementDPA, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- Sub-processor Policy (effective 02.09./2026-10-02)Sub-processor list, retrieved 14 Oct 2026
- AI Trust at Zendesk (updated 2026-10-09)Help centre, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- Zendesk Service Data Deletion Policy (effective 2026-06-03 or 2026-07-03)Deletion policy, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- Zendesk AI Data Use InformationHelp centre, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
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