Writer vs. Zendesk AI: data protection per plan
Writer (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 | Writer | Zendesk AI |
|---|---|---|
| Provider based in | WRITER Inc., 111 Maiden Lane, Fourth Floor, San Francisco, CA 94108, USA | Zendesk, Inc., Privacy Team and DPO, 181 Fremont Street, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA |
| Plans recorded | 2 | 1 |
| Hosting | mixed: all 2 plans | EU option: Support Team / Suite Team / Suite Professional |
| Training on inputs | no: 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: Writer Starter vs. Zendesk AI Support Team / Suite Team / Suite Professional
| Feature | WriterStarter | Zendesk AISupport Team / Suite Team / Suite Professional |
|---|---|---|
| yes | yes | |
| Details: DPA available | yes (Terms of Use, version 2026-06-05, apply to free, trial and paid versions except Enterprise: 'When you are acting on behalf of an organization when accessing our Services, our Data Processing Agreement (“DPA”) applies and is incorporated by reference into these Terms.') 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 | no | opt-out available |
| Details: Training on inputs | Trust page: WRITER does not train its models on customer data, user inputs or outputs; the customer controls how its data is used. Privacy policy (applies to website visitors and individual accounts): no use of data provided when accessing or using the Services for training, including inputs and outputs. Terms of Use: 'We will not use your Materials to train our models.'; however, Materials may be used to provide, maintain and improve the Services and to develop other products. | 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.' |
| differs by plan | mixed | EU option |
| Details: Data residency | Sub-processor list (as of 2026-10-14): cloud and infrastructure providers with processing locations in the USA and partly the EU (AWS, Google Cloud, Daytona, Parasail, Turbopuffer, Recall.ai) or worldwide (Cloudflare). Whether customers can choose an EU region, and which data is stored where, is not described. Trust page: data is provisioned in an isolated production project; 'Managed, multi-cloud options, including dedicated private cloud deployment'. | 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 | Trust page: 'zero data retention' approach | Service Data Deletion Policy |
| Details: Data retention | Trust page: 'zero data retention' approach; data is stored only for as long as needed to use the platform. Help centre 'Setting up data retention': automatic deletion schedules only 'on certain Enterprise plans'; the default is 'No automatic deletion', content is kept until users delete it manually. Terms of Use: after termination no obligation to retain; WRITER may delete Materials. DPA section 9: return or deletion of personal data upon the customer's written request, unless the law requires otherwise. | 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 | not publicly documented | several tiers |
| Details: Price | not publicly documented (the pricing page shows no price; according to the FAQ, monthly or annual billing per seat with fixed credit limits; 14-day free trial, no credit card required) | 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 (WRITER Agent for chat and automation, up to 5 users, up to 5 Playbooks, up to 3 scheduled routines, 1 team personality profile, basic connectors; AI Studio with limited access) | 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
- Writer Starteryes
- Zendesk AI Support Team / Suite Team / Suite Professionalyes
- Writer Starter
yes (Terms of Use, version 2026-06-05, apply to free, trial and paid versions except Enterprise: 'When you are acting on behalf of an organization when accessing our Services, our Data Processing Agreement (“DPA”) applies and is incorporated by reference into these Terms.')
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
- Writer Starterno
- Zendesk AI Support Team / Suite Team / Suite Professionalopt-out available
- Writer Starter
Trust page: WRITER does not train its models on customer data, user inputs or outputs; the customer controls how its data is used. Privacy policy (applies to website visitors and individual accounts): no use of data provided when accessing or using the Services for training, including inputs and outputs. Terms of Use: 'We will not use your Materials to train our models.'; however, Materials may be used to provide, maintain and improve the Services and to develop other products.
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
- differs by plan
- Writer Startermixed
- Zendesk AI Support Team / Suite Team / Suite ProfessionalEU option
- Writer Starter
Sub-processor list (as of 2026-10-14): cloud and infrastructure providers with processing locations in the USA and partly the EU (AWS, Google Cloud, Daytona, Parasail, Turbopuffer, Recall.ai) or worldwide (Cloudflare). Whether customers can choose an EU region, and which data is stored where, is not described. Trust page: data is provisioned in an isolated production project; 'Managed, multi-cloud options, including dedicated private cloud deployment'.
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
- Writer Starterlist available
- Zendesk AI Support Team / Suite Team / Suite Professionallist available
- Writer Starter
- Amazon Web Services (cloud): USA, EU
- Google Cloud Platform (cloud): USA, EU
- Microsoft Azure (infrastructure): USA
- Baseten (infrastructure): USA
- Cloudflare (infrastructure): worldwide
- Daytona (infrastructure): USA, EU
- Elastic Cloud (infrastructure): USA
- OpenRouter (infrastructure): USA
- Parasail (infrastructure): USA, EU
- Turbopuffer (infrastructure): USA, EU
- Exa.ai (web search): USA
- Tavily (web search): USA
- Recall.ai (services and support): USA, EU
- Snowflake (data warehouse): USA
- Fullstory, Omni, Segment (analytics): USA
- Pylon (customer support): USA
- Sendgrid (email): USA
- Stripe (billing): USA
- Writer, Inc. group companies (services and support): worldwide
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
- Writer StarterTrust page: 'zero data retention' approach
- Zendesk AI Support Team / Suite Team / Suite ProfessionalService Data Deletion Policy
- Writer StarterTrust page: 'zero data retention' approach; data is stored only for as long as needed to use the platform. Help centre 'Setting up data retention': automatic deletion schedules only 'on certain Enterprise plans'; the default is 'No automatic deletion', content is kept until users delete it manually. Terms of Use: after termination no obligation to retain; WRITER may delete Materials. DPA section 9: return or deletion of personal data upon the customer's written request, unless the law requires otherwise.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
- Writer Starternot publicly documented
- Zendesk AI Support Team / Suite Team / Suite Professionalseveral tiers
- Writer Starter
not publicly documented (the pricing page shows no price; according to the FAQ, monthly or annual billing per seat with fixed credit limits; 14-day free trial, no credit card required)
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
- Writer Starteryes
- Zendesk AI Support Team / Suite Team / Suite Professionalpartly
- Writer Starter
yes (WRITER Agent for chat and automation, up to 5 users, up to 5 Playbooks, up to 3 scheduled routines, 1 team personality profile, basic connectors; AI Studio with limited access)
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
- Writer Starter7 sources
- Zendesk AI Support Team / Suite Team / Suite Professional9 sources
- Writer Starter
- Plans & PricingPricing page, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- Security and trust at WRITERTrust Center, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- Privacy Policy (Effective Date April 17, 2026)Privacy notice, retrieved 14 Oct 2026
- Subprocessors (Last Updated October 14, 2026)Sub-processor list, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- Data Processing Agreement (as of 2025-12-04)DPA, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- Terms of Use (Version June 5, 2026)Terms and conditions, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- Setting up data retentionHelp centre, 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 | Writer | Zendesk AI |
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| yesall 2 plans | yesonly plan | |
| Details: DPA available |
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| differs by tool | noall 2 plans | opt-out availableonly plan |
| Details: Training on inputs |
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| differs by tool | mixedall 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 | Trust page: 'zero data retention' approachall 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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| 8 sources | 9 sources | |
| Details: Sources with retrieval date |
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Contract / DPA
- Writeryesall 2 plans
- Zendesk AIyesonly plan
- Writer
- Starter
yes (Terms of Use, version 2026-06-05, apply to free, trial and paid versions except Enterprise: 'When you are acting on behalf of an organization when accessing our Services, our Data Processing Agreement (“DPA”) applies and is incorporated by reference into these Terms.')
Provider’s DPA - Enterprise
yes (Platform Services Agreement, version 2026-08-05, section 5.4: the DPA 'is incorporated by reference into this Agreement'; according to the Terms of Use, the Platform Services Agreement governs Enterprise)
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
- Starter
Training
- differs by tool
- Writernoall 2 plans
- Zendesk AIopt-out availableonly plan
- Writer
- Starter
Trust page: WRITER does not train its models on customer data, user inputs or outputs; the customer controls how its data is used. Privacy policy (applies to website visitors and individual accounts): no use of data provided when accessing or using the Services for training, including inputs and outputs. Terms of Use: 'We will not use your Materials to train our models.'; however, Materials may be used to provide, maintain and improve the Services and to develop other products.
- Enterprise
Trust page: WRITER does not train its models on customer data, user inputs or outputs; the customer controls how its data is used. Privacy policy (applies to website visitors and individual accounts): no use of data provided when accessing or using the Services for training, including inputs and outputs. Platform Services Agreement 5.2: 'Writer will not use any Customer Materials to train its models.'; licence to Customer Materials only to provide and support the platform.
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.'
- Starter
Hosting
- differs by tool
- Writermixedall 2 plans
- Zendesk AIEU optiononly plan
- Writer
- Starter
Sub-processor list (as of 2026-10-14): cloud and infrastructure providers with processing locations in the USA and partly the EU (AWS, Google Cloud, Daytona, Parasail, Turbopuffer, Recall.ai) or worldwide (Cloudflare). Whether customers can choose an EU region, and which data is stored where, is not described. Trust page: data is provisioned in an isolated production project; 'Managed, multi-cloud options, including dedicated private cloud deployment'.
- Enterprise
Sub-processor list (as of 2026-10-14): cloud and infrastructure providers with processing locations in the USA and partly the EU (AWS, Google Cloud, Daytona, Parasail, Turbopuffer, Recall.ai) or worldwide (Cloudflare). Whether customers can choose an EU region, and which data is stored where, is not described. Trust page: data is provisioned in an isolated production project; 'Managed, multi-cloud options, including dedicated private cloud deployment'. Enterprise: according to the pricing page, fully managed platform deployment; choice of location not described.
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.
- Starter
Sub-processors
- Writerlist availableall 2 plans
- Zendesk AIlist availableonly plan
- Writer
- Starter
- Amazon Web Services (cloud): USA, EU
- Google Cloud Platform (cloud): USA, EU
- Microsoft Azure (infrastructure): USA
- Baseten (infrastructure): USA
- Cloudflare (infrastructure): worldwide
- Daytona (infrastructure): USA, EU
- Elastic Cloud (infrastructure): USA
- OpenRouter (infrastructure): USA
- Parasail (infrastructure): USA, EU
- Turbopuffer (infrastructure): USA, EU
- Exa.ai (web search): USA
- Tavily (web search): USA
- Recall.ai (services and support): USA, EU
- Snowflake (data warehouse): USA
- Fullstory, Omni, Segment (analytics): USA
- Pylon (customer support): USA
- Sendgrid (email): USA
- Stripe (billing): USA
- Writer, Inc. group companies (services and support): worldwide
- Enterprise
- Amazon Web Services (cloud): USA, EU
- Google Cloud Platform (cloud): USA, EU
- Microsoft Azure (infrastructure): USA
- Baseten (infrastructure): USA
- Cloudflare (infrastructure): worldwide
- Daytona (infrastructure): USA, EU
- Elastic Cloud (infrastructure): USA
- OpenRouter (infrastructure): USA
- Parasail (infrastructure): USA, EU
- Turbopuffer (infrastructure): USA, EU
- Exa.ai (web search): USA
- Tavily (web search): USA
- Recall.ai (services and support): USA, EU
- Snowflake (data warehouse): USA
- Fullstory, Omni, Segment (analytics): USA
- Pylon (customer support): USA
- Sendgrid (email): USA
- Stripe (billing): USA
- Writer, Inc. group companies (services and support): worldwide
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)
- Starter
Retention
- differs by tool
- WriterTrust page: 'zero data retention' approachall 2 plans
- Zendesk AIService Data Deletion Policyonly plan
- Writer
- StarterTrust page: 'zero data retention' approach; data is stored only for as long as needed to use the platform. Help centre 'Setting up data retention': automatic deletion schedules only 'on certain Enterprise plans'; the default is 'No automatic deletion', content is kept until users delete it manually. Terms of Use: after termination no obligation to retain; WRITER may delete Materials. DPA section 9: return or deletion of personal data upon the customer's written request, unless the law requires otherwise.
- EnterpriseTrust page: 'zero data retention' approach. Help centre 'Setting up data retention' (on certain Enterprise plans): default 'No automatic deletion'; org admins can set deletion after 1, 3, 6 or 12 months for docs, outputs, uploaded files, chat sessions and WRITER Meet notes (Knowledge Graph files excluded). Platform Services Agreement section 9: Customer Materials can be exported for up to 30 days after the end of the contract upon written request, after which WRITER may delete them; upon written request, destruction within 90 days. DPA section 9: return or deletion of personal data at the customer's request.
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
- Writer
- not publicly documentedStarter
- customEnterprise
- Zendesk AIseveral tiersonly plan
- Writer
- Starter
not publicly documented (the pricing page shows no price; according to the FAQ, monthly or annual billing per seat with fixed credit limits; 14-day free trial, no credit card required)
- Enterprise
Custom, contact sales (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
- Starter
- differs by tool
- Writeryesall 2 plans
- Zendesk AIpartlyonly plan
- Writer
- Starter
yes (WRITER Agent for chat and automation, up to 5 users, up to 5 Playbooks, up to 3 scheduled routines, 1 team personality profile, basic connectors; AI Studio with limited access)
- Enterprise
yes (any number of users and teams, unlimited Playbooks, advanced orchestration, audit logs, SSO/SAML, SCIM, 'Works with preferred LLMs')
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)
- Starter
Evidence
- Writer8 sources
- Zendesk AI9 sources
- Writer
- Plans & PricingPricing page, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- Security and trust at WRITERTrust Center, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- Privacy Policy (Effective Date April 17, 2026)Privacy notice, retrieved 14 Oct 2026
- Subprocessors (Last Updated October 14, 2026)Sub-processor list, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- Data Processing Agreement (as of 2025-12-04)DPA, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- Terms of Use (Version June 5, 2026)Terms and conditions, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- Platform Services Agreement (Version August 5, 2026)Terms and conditions, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- Setting up data retentionHelp centre, 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
not documentedmeans: not publicly documented, not verifiable in any provider source. It does not mean “no”.
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