Zammad
by Zammad · Helpdesk and ticketing, hosted in Germany or self-hosted
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Overview
Zammad is a helpdesk platform that handles customer service, IT support and internal requests as tickets across email, web forms, SMS, chat and social channels. It provides triggers, schedulers, macros, text modules, templates and a knowledge base, with optional AI features for ticket summaries, reply drafting and automation. It runs as SaaS on German servers or self-hosted.
- Best for
- Support and IT teams wanting a German-hosted or self-hosted ticketing system
- Pricing
- Hosted plans run from €7 per agent/month (Starter v2) through €16 (Professional v2) to €25 (Plus v2), excluding VAT, with AI use billed at €0.03 per call; self-hosted prices are not shown.
- Runs on
- WebSelf-hosted
Strengths and trade-offs
Strengths
- Hosted in ISO27001-certified German data centres, GDPR-compliant
- Over 40 interface languages; full-text search covers attachments
- REST API plus GitHub/GitLab integration on the top tier
- Choice of SaaS, self-hosting with support, or paid guidance
Trade-offs
- Starter caps at 5 agents and Professional at 35
- Chat, Telegram, WhatsApp and Facebook need higher tiers
- AI features cost €0.03 per call on top of the agent price
- No self-hosted prices shown on the captured pricing page
How Zammad markets itself
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Homepage capture
“One central platform for all your support cases”
- Angle: All-in-one / consolidation
- Hero: Product screenshot
Pricing
Published plans and prices from Zammad’s own pricing page.
How this score is made up
Each dimension is scored out of 100 and combined into the headline score using fixed weights.
MCP support
Whether an agent can drive the product through the Model Context Protocol, and how much setup that takes.
API quality
Public API surface: machine-readable spec, official SDKs, documented auth, errors, rate limits and versioning.
Documentation
Publicly reachable docs — coverage, freshness, code samples and machine readability.
Agent friendliness
How readable the site is to an automated client: llms.txt, structured data, server-rendered content, crawler access.
Pricing transparency
Whether real prices are published, self-serve signup exists, and usage costs are knowable without a sales call.
Changelog
A public, dated record of what shipped and when — the clearest signal that a product is still alive.
Marketing site structure
Whether the site answers a buyer's questions: clear positioning, the pages that matter, and accessibility.
Page speed
How fast the site loads for real visitors: Chrome UX Report 75th-percentile LCP, INP and CLS, with a Lighthouse mobile run standing in where a site has too little traffic for field data.
Operational trust
Status page and incident history, security disclosure, compliance and data-processing documentation.
Measured, but not part of the score
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Openness
Source availability, self-hosting, data export and open standards. Scored and shown, but not part of the composite — paid SaaS is not worse for being paid SaaS.
Maintenance
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