Freshworks vs IBM
Relationship
Freddy AI Copilot for Developers and IBM Bob do comparable work on agentic coding, code generation and code review; both also serve buyers who need to code with an AI assistant; larger scale (public).
Assembled from the recorded fields for this pair, not hand-checked. The comparison below is read from each company’s own profile.
9 of 12 capabilities — Shares agent orchestration, agentic coding, code generation and 6 more.
Ludbee capability tags · from the product recordsShared product type — Both ship agent platform, application, developer tool and 1 more.
Ludbee product recordsLarger scale — IBM: $216.6B market cap, against Freshworks's $3.4B market cap.
Ludbee scale figures · valuation, market cap or revenue estimateAligned comparison
Capability overlap
Shared · 9
Not verified for IBM · 3
Recorded for Freshworks. IBM’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.
Not verified for Freshworks · 12
Recorded for IBM. Freshworks’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.
Products, side by side
Algorithmic pairing — assembled from recorded fields, not hand-checked
Freshworks
Application
An AI assistant for human support agents that drafts and rephrases replies, summarizes conversations, translates in 60+ languages, surfaces resolutions from historical tickets, and flags sentiment for prioritization.
An AI analytics product for support and service leaders that detects anomalies in service metrics, raises proactive alerts, runs built-in root cause analysis, and answers questions about performance through a conversational interface.
Agent platform
A no-code studio for building, deploying, governing and improving custom AI agents that run against Freshservice data, connecting to the CMDB, service catalog and knowledge sources and deploying to the portal, Microsoft Teams and Slack in 40+ languages.
Developer tool
A Visual Studio Code extension that generates Freshworks app code from natural language, converts Figma designs or images into HTML and CSS, performs AI-assisted migrations to newer platform versions, and explains, refactors and security-checks existing code.
Platform
The umbrella AI platform embedded across the Freshworks suites, under which Freshworks ships and separately meters its named products - Freddy AI Agent, Freddy AI Copilot, Freddy AI Insights and Freddy AI Agent Studio.
IBM
Application
Protects enterprise data across AI agents, applications and endpoints against agentic-AI, regulatory and post-quantum risks.
Full-stack application and infrastructure observability powered by agentic AI, including automatic discovery/mapping of GenAI workflows and AI-driven Smart Alerts to reduce alert fatigue.
AI-driven robotic process automation for building intelligent bots that automate business processes, with AI-embedded resilience built into the RPA runtime.
Visual data-science and machine-learning platform for building predictive models, with advanced algorithms, model deployment and open-source framework integration.
Document intelligence platform using OCR, NLP enrichments (entity/sentiment/emotion/category extraction) and LLM integration to automate information discovery from enterprise documents.
Agent platform
A conversational AI platform for building customer-support chatbots and virtual assistants deployed across voice and digital channels.
Platform for building and running AI agents that call enterprise applications on a user's behalf.
Developer tool
An AI coding agent that automates planning, code generation, review and verification across the software development lifecycle, including IBM Z mainframe modernization workflows.
A generative AI assistant for IBM Z mainframe application discovery, code generation, refactoring and modernization.
Platform
An agentic AI IT-operations platform that unifies observability, optimization and automated remediation across applications, infrastructure and networks.
Studio for building, tuning and deploying model-based applications on IBM and third-party foundation models.
A governance platform providing real-time visibility, policy enforcement and accountability tracking for AI models and agents across the AI lifecycle.
No counterpart
Freshworks sells these in a stack layer with no product recorded for IBM yet — nothing on the other side to compare them against.
AI agent
A no-code autonomous AI agent that resolves customer and employee queries across email, webchat, WhatsApp and social channels in 60+ languages and takes real-time backend actions such as refunds, order updates and booking changes.
IBM sells these in a stack layer with no product recorded for Freshworks yet — nothing on the other side to compare them against.
API service
Deep-learning text analytics service extracting entities, sentiment, emotion, concepts, semantic roles and custom classifications from unstructured text.
A speech recognition API that converts audio into real-time or batch text for transcription, captioning and voice-analytics use cases.
A text-to-speech API that converts text into multilingual synthesized speech using neural voices.
Data service
An open hybrid data lakehouse including a built-in Milvus vector database that unifies data access and automates governance for AI and analytics workloads.