Open source Salesforce Service alternatives

Every project in the catalog is MIT, Apache or BSD licensed. 1 projects explicitly describe themselves as a Salesforce Service alternative; 0 more are in the category where Salesforce Service is a typical product.

Projects that call themselves a “Salesforce Service alternative”

Source: the project's GitHub description or README.

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chatwoot · Chat & Messaging / Slack Alternatives

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VERSIONv4.9.2
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Customer SupportOmnichannelSelf-HostedRubyMIT

Alternative to (project's own claim): Intercom, Zendesk, Salesforce Service

Common commercial products in this category: Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord

What can it do?
  • You manage customer conversations from different channels from a single inbox
  • You publish frequently asked questions and guides through the help center portal
  • Edit support workflows with automated assignment and tagging tools
Heads up
  • • High number of open issues (1,600)
User reviews
  • • NeutralHacker News

    Launch HN: Chatwoot (YC W21) – Open-Source Alternative to Intercom, Zendesk

    “Alex from Papercups here :) My guess is partially what vardaro mentioned (to hedge their bets), and partially because the space is really, really "wide" (not sure if that's the right word) in the sense that products like this could go in a million different directions... for…”

  • • NeutralHacker News

    Launch HN: Chatwoot (YC W21) – Open-Source Alternative to Intercom, Zendesk

    “Oh, wow. I used Chatwoot in the past, happily surprised you went through YC! I did have trouble self-hosting once, I think I had to enable task queues in my Heroku or something. I might've eventually switched over to the hosted option which was much easier. I would use Chatwoot…”

Verified against README · Oct 26, 2026 · source