FRONT OFFICE AI — THE COMPARISON

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We benchmarked Front Office against the biggest names in sales software — the enterprise suite, the marketing platform, the pipeline tracker, the revenue analyst, the AI-native CRM. No logos needed, because the same three pricing-and-packaging habits dominate the whole market. Front Office was built on three different principles.

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Benchmarked against the published pages and list prices of 6 market leaders · Aug 2026

Zanus Front Office dashboard — the AI workforce at work

One dashboard doing the jobs the others only track.

Three habits of the market — three different principles here

1 · Pricing scales per seat

Published list prices run from $14 to $550 per user, per month across the products we benchmarked. Every hire typically raises the bill.

2 · The AI is often metered on top

Credits, "AI actions", per-conversation fees, usage tiers. On many platforms the AI arrives as a second bill on top of the seats.

3 · Most AI was built to assist teams

Enrich, draft, score, summarize, coach — designed to make YOUR people faster. Newer autonomous agents go further, but are typically configured per channel and priced per usage.

Front Office was designed from the start on three different principles: one flat price with unlimited users · everything included, nothing metered · an AI built to PERFORM complete front-office workflows, not only assist them.

The scoreboard: how each model delivers the job

Thirteen front-office jobs, three delivery models. The difference isn’t whether a capability exists somewhere — it’s what you must assemble, license and operate to get it. Descriptions reflect typical published product models, Aug 2026.

The job	Traditional CRM model	Agent & copilot platforms	Zanus Front Office
Answer your phone 24/7	Your team answers, with CRM + contact-center tooling	Configure a voice agent, channels and usage separately	✓ Built in — your menu, your voices, 40 languages, off-hours included in the flat price
Talk with website visitors	Chat add-ons your team configures and staffs	An agent you set up, typically priced per conversation or credit	✓ Built in and grounded — chat & real voice that sells, claim guard on every answer
Give the product demo	Typically rep-led, business hours	Assembled from agents + workflows you configure	✓ Native interactive AI demos with live Q&A — delivered in ~2 minutes, any hour
Work every new lead	Routed to a rep’s queue by workflow rules	Enriched and scored, then handed to a rep	✓ Answered in minutes: qualifies, demos, follows up, books — end to end
Send the quote	Separate CPQ/doc module your reps operate	Agent invokes processes you configure	✓ Native: real catalog prices, one-click YES, payable links, polite chasing
Answer the email inbox	Templates and tracking for your team	AI drafts; sending policies vary by setup	✓ Inbound answered, grounded; outbound sequenced; approval rules stay yours
Book the meeting	Scheduling links and calendar tools	Agent invokes calendar actions you connect	✓ Booked inside the conversation — phone, chat or email, calendars synced
Brief you every morning	Dashboards and reports you open and read	A prioritized to-do list for your reps	✓ A did-it-for-you list: what the AI did overnight + the 3 things needing you
Forecast the quarter	Formulas over CRM fields your team maintains	Strong — often a separate paid product	✓ Probability with the WHY from what customers actually said — included
Map the buying committee	Fields your reps fill and maintain	Inferred from calls your team recorded	✓ Auto-mapped from the AI’s own conversations — and it flags the empty chair
Handle support & returns	Usually a separate product and seats	Support agents configured separately	✓ Tickets & RMA included — filed by the AI, off-hours too
Tell only the truth	Humans improvise; scripts help	Best effort, disclaimers apply	✓ Claim guard: no source in your knowledge, no claim. Ever.
The bill	Per seat; typically grows with every hire	Per seat and/or per usage: credits, actions, conversations	✓ One flat price, unlimited users — everything above included

Already running Salesforce? See how Front Office works alongside it — keep the CRM, add the workforce → And the chat below will compare us to any product you name, from its published pages.

The price comparison, anonymized

Ten-person team, one year, published list prices where available (verified Aug 30, 2026). Names withheld on purpose — ask the chat about any specific vendor.

The suites & platforms

$21,000–66,000/yr

Per-seat licenses × 10 at published list prices — before applicable AI usage fees, telephony, additional modules, implementation or services.

The analysts & copilots

~$28,000/yr¹

Platform fee + per-user licenses + onboarding — products focused on analyzing and coaching the conversations your team has.

Zanus Front Office CLOSE

$19,900/yr flat

Unlimited users. Phone, chat, demos, quotes, email, marketing, booking, training, tickets, briefing, forecast — the AI performs the work.

¹ Reported first-year buyer data for a typical 10-seat deployment; that vendor publishes no prices. Ours are public: flat plans, on the pricing page. Different products, different pricing models — the question is which model matches what you want the software to DO.

A live test you can run right now: ask a vendor’s sales AI what the product costs — in our experience it asks for your email. Ask ours, below right — it answers with the number. Then do your own math →

The one question that cuts through every comparison: after you pay, who performs the front-office work? With Front Office the answer is: the AI does — and your team handles the handshake.

Questions, answered

Why don’t you name the competitors?

Because the comparison isn’t about them — it’s about the model. Per-seat + metered AI + human-does-the-work is universal; naming brands adds nothing. If you’re evaluating a specific product, ask the chat — it will compare us to any vendor you name, point by point, from their published pages.

Is this comparison fair?

Every claim about other products comes from their own published pages and list prices, read August 2026. Where a vendor publishes no prices, we say so and use widely-reported buyer data, marked as such. We keep a dated source file for every line.

Do I have to replace what we use today?

No. Native Salesforce and HubSpot sync ship in Connectors, and webhooks, a read-only API and an MCP server connect anything else. Keep your system of record. Add the system of work.

Comparisons on this page reflect publicly available product and pricing information, verified Aug 30, 2026. Trademark notice in the footer below.

Compare us to anything.

Three habits of the market — three different principles here

The scoreboard: how each model delivers the job

The price comparison, anonymized

Questions, answered

See it working on YOUR business — the demo IS the product.