Zendesk QA
Contact Center & CCaaS QA & Conversation Analytics
AI-powered quality assurance, formerly Klaus, that auto-scores every support conversation, flags risky interactions, and grades AI agents alongside humans.
- Pricing
- Paid from $50/agent/mo (with WFM)
- Founded
- 2018
- Integrations
- Zendesk Salesforce Service Cloud Intercom Genesys Aircall Kustomer Help Scout
Zendesk QA is the quality assurance layer of Zendesk's workforce engagement suite. Its AutoQA engine scores every customer conversation automatically, not the small sample a human reviewer can reach, grading criteria like empathy, tone, and solution quality across email, chat, and voice, including BPO teams. Spotlight surfaces risky interactions such as churn signals and escalations, real-time QA catches issues while conversations are still live, and a coaching module turns findings into 1:1 sessions. It also evaluates AI agents, comparing bot and human performance side by side.
The product began life as Klaus, founded in Tallinn, Estonia in 2018 by Martin Koiva, Kair Kasper, and Egon Sale, complete with a cartoon dog mascot and a devoted following among support leaders. Zendesk signed a definitive agreement to acquire Klaus in January 2024 and completed the deal on February 12, 2024, folding it into its workforce engagement portfolio alongside the Tymeshift WFM product. Zendesk cites QA customers including Audacy, Kahoot, and Liberty, with results like a 150 percent increase in ticket review volume.
Klaus is no longer sold standalone: Zendesk QA is an add-on to a Zendesk Support or Suite plan. Zendesk's own pricing page lists the Workforce Engagement Bundle, QA plus workforce management, at $50 per agent per month billed annually, while multiple independent pricing breakdowns consistently peg the QA add-on alone at $35 per agent per month. There is no free tier, and final numbers still route through sales.
Choose Zendesk QA if you already run support on Zendesk and want mature automated QA with zero integration friction, or if you need to hold AI agents to the same standard as people. It still connects to outside platforms like Salesforce, Intercom, Genesys, and Aircall, but the center of gravity is now firmly Zendesk. If you want a vendor-neutral QA partner with published a la carte pricing, look at EvaluAgent or MaestroQA instead.
Key features
- AutoQA scores every conversation
- Spotlight flags risky interactions
- AI agent performance QA
- Coaching and 1:1 workflows
- Voice and BPO coverage
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Updated July 2026
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