Gainsight vs Vitally (2026)
Gainsight is a five product suite built for large customer success organizations, and Vitally is one platform that gives every plan the same features. Gainsight covers health scoring, renewals and success plans in its core product, then adds Staircase AI for conversation analysis, communities, education and PX for in app engagement, and many deployments run a dedicated administrator. Its Atlas service puts AI agents and human managers on long tail renewals. Vitally pulls usage, CRM and support data into account views, scores health on the team's own rules and runs work through playbooks, projects, docs and surveys. Its Quin assistant drafts follow ups and updates records after the user reviews each change. Neither publishes a price. Gainsight sells Essentials and Enterprise editions sized by users and customer accounts, and Vitally sells Tech-Touch, Hybrid-Touch and High-Touch plans that differ by service model, not features. Both release SOC 2 Type 2 reports on request. A large enterprise that wants education, community and AI agents from one vendor fits Gainsight. A software team that wants one workspace with every feature on every plan fits Vitally.
- Customer Success, Staircase AI, Customer Communities, Customer Education and PX come from one vendor and share account data.
- Atlas runs renewals and long tail accounts with AI agents and human managers under outcome based contracts, with more than $75 million of customer ARR under management.
- AI suppliers are named in a public subprocessor list, including Anthropic, OpenAI and AWS Bedrock.
- The trust center lists ISO/IEC 27001:2022 and SOC 2 Type 2, and Gainsight commits to a 24 hour recovery time and an 8 hour recovery point.
- Gartner named Gainsight a Leader in its 2026 Magic Quadrant for customer success management platforms.
- Every plan carries every core feature, unlimited observer seats, SSO and the full integration library, so plans differ by service model rather than by features.
- Quin answers questions across accounts, drafts follow ups and updates records in bulk, with each change shown on a review card first.
- EU customers' data stays in the EU on AWS in Stockholm, and Vitally states that no customer data trains AI models.
- A REST API and an MCP server read and write account data, and every view exports to CSV.
- Bulk email goes through the customer's own SendGrid account or Gmail and Outlook mailboxes, with bounce rate alerts and confirmation before large sends.
This comparison is published by GTM Tech Index, an independent research platform that compares go to market software vendors objectively. Gainsight and Vitally are each graded against the same capability taxonomy, from each vendor's own public materials, under the GTM Tech Index verification standard. No vendor pays for placement, and no vendor has reviewed this page. How this evidence is graded
Plain facts
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| Primary category | Customer Success & Retention | Customer Success & Retention |
| Founded | 2009 | 2017 |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California, United States | Brooklyn, New York, United States |
| Website | www.gainsight.com | www.vitally.io |
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Product updates
The latest logged changes from each vendor, newest first, each linked to its source.
Gainsight
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Product / capability
Gainsight released Agent Studio in beta inside Gainsight CS, a workspace where teams describe workflows in plain language and reuse them as skills, including scheduled runs such as a nightly briefing on accounts at risk.
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The Gainsight Customer Communities MCP server gained write tools, so admins, community managers and moderators can create and publish articles, conversations and product updates, reply, close topics, submit and edit ideas, vote, manage tags and assign moderators from an AI tool such as Claude.
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Safety / governance
The Gainsight CS September 2026 release added a CS MCP Logs object that records every AI tool call made through Copilot, the Gainsight AI Agent in Slack and the Gainsight CS MCP server, capturing the tool invoked, the user, the source platform and the call status.
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Vitally
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Vitally launched Quin, its AI assistant (formerly Copilot), in beta, included in current plans for existing customers.
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The short version of each
Gainsight
Gainsight sells customer success software to B2B companies with recurring revenue, built around health scores, churn risk, success plans and renewal workflows, with automation deep enough that many deployments run a dedicated administrator. Its suite adds Staircase AI for conversation and sentiment analysis, Customer Communities, Customer Education on Skilljar and PX for product analytics. Atlas, launched in May 2026, runs renewals and long tail accounts with AI agents and human managers, and an MCP server reads and writes across the platform. Customer stories include LastPass cutting cancellations 29% and Hootsuite lifting onboarding completion from 76% to 83%. The GTM Tech Index profile lists its AWS hosting in the US and Germany and its ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type 2 reports. The main caveats are cost and effort: no edition shows a price, and whether customer data trains its models is not addressed.
Source: GTM Tech Index, 2026
Vitally
Vitally is a customer success platform for B2B software companies that pulls product usage, CRM, support and billing data into one account view, scores health on the team's own rules and runs work through playbooks, projects, docs, surveys and email. Its Quin assistant, in public beta since October 2026, answers questions, drafts follow ups and updates records in bulk after the user reviews each change, and an MCP server connects Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor. Productboard, Navattic and WiseStamp report churn and onboarding gains from it. Every plan carries the same features, and hosting runs on AWS in the US or the EU. As its GTM Tech Index entry notes, Vitally states that customer data never trains AI models. The caveats are price, which is never published, and MCP write actions that run without a confirmation step.
Source: GTM Tech Index, 2026
Common questions
How does Gainsight compare to Vitally?
Gainsight is a five product suite for large customer success organizations, covering health scoring and renewals plus conversation analysis, communities, education and product analytics, and it now sells AI agent services through Atlas. Vitally is a single platform for B2B software teams that keeps every feature on every plan and leans on its Quin assistant for questions, drafts and record updates. Gainsight usually needs a dedicated administrator. Vitally sizes its plans by how a team serves customers rather than by features. Graded by GTM Tech Index against seventeen capability axes from each vendor's own published materials, verified November 3, 2026. No vendor pays for placement.
How much do Gainsight and Vitally cost?
Neither Gainsight nor Vitally publishes a price. Gainsight's Customer Success editions are Essentials, with 10 full users and 100 customers per user, and Enterprise, with 20 users and 200 customers per user, and Communities, Education, PX and Staircase AI are bought separately. Vitally's Tech-Touch, Hybrid-Touch and High-Touch plans share the same features, with unlimited full seats on High-Touch, and its AI+ add on costs extra. Both route buyers to a pricing request. Graded by GTM Tech Index against seventeen capability axes from each vendor's own published materials, verified November 3, 2026. No vendor pays for placement.
How do Gainsight and Vitally use AI?
Gainsight adds AI insights to both editions, risk, expansion and handoff analysts in its Agentic Stack, and Atlas, where AI agents run renewals under approval and escalation guardrails. It names Anthropic, OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, Google, Microsoft and IBM as AI subprocessors and says nothing on training. Vitally's Quin answers questions, drafts follow ups and updates records after review, running on Amazon Bedrock models from Anthropic, Meta and Cohere, and Vitally states that no customer data trains AI models. Graded by GTM Tech Index against seventeen capability axes from each vendor's own published materials, verified November 3, 2026. No vendor pays for placement.
Where do Gainsight and Vitally host data, and what security reports do they share?
Gainsight keeps primary data centers in the US and runs Customer Success on AWS in the US and Germany, with recovery objectives of 24 hours for service and 8 hours for data. Its trust center lists ISO/IEC 27001:2022 and SOC 2 Type 2, released on request. Vitally runs on AWS in US regions and in Stockholm for EU customers, holds a SOC 2 Type 2 report released on request and runs annual penetration tests. Graded by GTM Tech Index against seventeen capability axes from each vendor's own published materials, verified November 3, 2026. No vendor pays for placement.
Can I get my data out of Gainsight or Vitally?
Vitally exports each view to CSV and offers a REST API for export, and its help center deletes all data 90 days after churn, with its terms allowing deletion after 30 days. Gainsight's trust center offers certificates of destruction, and its public Communities addendum deletes or returns data at the customer's election, but no export terms for the main Customer Success product are public. Both run MCP servers that read and write account data. Graded by GTM Tech Index against seventeen capability axes from each vendor's own published materials, verified November 3, 2026. No vendor pays for placement.
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Neither Gainsight nor Vitally publishes prices. Gainsight publishes no statement on whether customer data trains its models and no export terms for Customer Success; ask for both, and for which model serves each AI feature. Vitally's 2023 privacy policy names no transfer mechanism and no recovery objectives are published; ask for its data processing addendum and how a region is chosen at signup. Vitally's MCP write actions run without a confirmation step. Gainsight has been backed by Vista Equity Partners since 2020. Customer results on both sites are each vendor's own figures.