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Gainsight vs Custify

For Customer Success and post-sales professionals, managing accounts without a dedicated Customer Success Platform often means dealing with challenges like:

  • Scattered data across multiple tools

  • Relying on spreadsheets and manual tracking

  • Missed renewal and expansion opportunities

  • Limited visibility into customer health

  • Difficulty showing impact to leadership

To solve these problems, many teams turn to platforms like Gainsight and Custify. And now, newer options like Velaris bring AI-first automation and hands-on implementation services into the picture.

In this article, we’ll compare Gainsight and Custify, while also showing how Velaris stacks up as an alternative.

Comparing Gainsight vs Custify vs Velaris

Table 1
Platform Core strengths Best for Ease of use Pricing approach*
Gainsight

Robust, enterprise-grade feature set with deep reporting

Large enterprises with complex needs and resources Low without admin support — usually requires dedicated ops Premium, high-cost enterprise pricing
Custify Simple, lightweight CS platform with intuitive dashboards Small to mid-sized SaaS companies that want quick setup High — easy to use with minimal learning curve Unknown
Velaris AI-first platform with predictive insights, automation, and 70+ integrations Mid-market and enterprise teams seeking efficiency without heavy admin High — intuitive dashboards and quick setup

Transparent, value-based pricing

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*Exact pricing varies by vendor and contract structure.

Platform overviews

Gainsight

Gainsight is one of the most established names in Customer Success software. It provides a very robust feature set, including advanced reporting, playbooks, and customer health scoring. That said, Gainsight is also known for its complexity and cost — it typically requires a dedicated operations team to manage. For large enterprises with complex needs and big budgets, it’s a strong option. For smaller teams, the overhead can be a barrier.

Custify

Custify is a simpler, more lightweight Customer Success tool aimed at small and mid-sized SaaS companies. It focuses on ease of use, offering intuitive dashboards, customer health scores, and automation without the complexity of larger platforms. Its straightforward design makes it easy for smaller teams to adopt quickly, though larger organizations may find it lacks some of the advanced features needed at scale.

Velaris

Velaris takes an AI-first approach, combining predictive insights, automation, and 70+ integrations into a single platform. It’s designed to give teams real-time visibility into customer health while reducing the manual workload through automation. Compared to Gainsight and Custify, Velaris is built for mid-market and enterprise teams that want advanced capabilities without the burden of heavy admin, balancing usability with power.

Feature comparison

Data consolidation and visibility

  • Gainsight: Strong integrations with CRMs and enterprise systems, plus advanced dashboards. However, syncing data in real time can be complex and often needs admin oversight.

  • Custify: Provides straightforward dashboards with customer data pulled from SaaS tools. Best suited for smaller datasets, as it may lack depth for complex enterprise environments.

  • Velaris: Centralizes data from 70+ integrations into a single view. Designed for real-time visibility with AI features such as account summaries and meeting analysis.

Customer health and analytics

  • Gainsight: Known for its detailed analytics and reporting capabilities, including customizable health scoring. Powerful, but often requires dedicated resources to maintain.

  • Custify: Offers simple health scores and clear analytics, making it easy for smaller teams to understand customer status.

  • Velaris: Provides AI-driven health scores and predictive analytics out of the box. Helps teams surface risks and opportunities earlier with less manual effort.

Digital Customer Success and automation

  • Gainsight: Provides robust playbooks, journey orchestration, and digital communication tools. Strong but complex to configure.

  • Custify: Includes basic automation for tasks and workflows, designed to simplify repetitive processes for small teams.

  • Velaris: Uses AI and automations to handle routine tasks and personalize outreach at scale. Built to reduce manual admin work while scaling CS impact.

Project and task management

  • Gainsight: Includes task management features, but they are often secondary to its broader CS functionality. Can be overwhelming for simple project tracking.

  • Custify: Provides simple task management that works well for small teams but is not as robust for larger projects.

  • Velaris: Includes collaborative task and project management tools that support onboarding, renewals, and success planning in one place.

Other considerations

Ease of use

  • Gainsight: Feature-rich but complex. Most teams need a dedicated admin or ops team to manage day-to-day tasks.

  • Custify: Very user-friendly and quick to adopt, especially for smaller teams that don’t want complexity.

  • Velaris: Prioritizes simplicity with intuitive dashboards and automation. Designed to reduce admin overhead and get teams up and running quickly.

Scalability

  • Gainsight: Built for enterprise scale, capable of handling complex data structures and large teams. Best suited for organizations with significant resources.

  • Custify: Best suited for small to mid-sized SaaS businesses. Larger enterprises may find it lacks the advanced functionality needed for complex operations.

  • Velaris: Built to scale with mid-market and enterprise teams, balancing powerful features with usability so it doesn’t require a large ops team to maintain.

Integrations

  • Gainsight: Strong enterprise integrations with systems like Salesforce, but syncing and customization often need technical expertise.

  • Custify: Offers integrations with popular SaaS tools, but the ecosystem is more limited compared to enterprise-grade platforms.

  • Velaris: Offers 70+ integrations with real-time sync, aiming to make setup easier and reduce silos.

Support

  • Gainsight: Offers enterprise-grade support and community resources, but navigating them can take time.

  • Custify: Known for responsive and approachable support, aligned with its focus on smaller SaaS teams.

  • Velaris: Delivers personalized onboarding and responsive support tailored to CS teams, with a strong emphasis on partnership. Dedicated CSM and Slack channel offered to all customers.

Choosing the right platform

Who should pick Gainsight
Gainsight is the right fit for large enterprises with complex data structures and big Customer Success teams. If you can dedicate an operations function to managing the platform and have the budget for premium enterprise software, Gainsight’s robust feature set and analytics can deliver value.

Who should pick Custify
Custify is best suited for small to mid-sized SaaS businesses that value simplicity and quick setup. Its dashboards and automation features are easy to use, making it accessible for lean teams that don’t want to invest in heavy admin work. Larger organizations may outgrow its feature set.

Who should consider Velaris
Velaris is designed for mid-market and enterprise teams that want deep visibility, AI-driven insights, and automation without the clunkiness or heavy admin burden. With 70+ integrations and hands-on support, it helps Customer Success teams scale efficiently while staying easy to use.

Conclusion

Gainsight, Custify, and Velaris each bring different strengths to the table. Gainsight delivers enterprise-grade depth, Custify emphasizes lightweight simplicity, and Velaris provides an AI-driven alternative designed for visibility and efficiency.

The right choice depends on your team’s goals, data structure, and the resources you have to manage a platform. What works for one organization may not be the best fit for another.

If you’re looking for an AI-driven platform that balances power with ease of use, book a demo with Velaris.

Why choose Velaris over Custify and Gainsight?

4.6 rate
4.7
Best-in-class service

You’ll have a dedicated Velaris CSM who will scope your needs and create custom recommendations for you on how to best use our platform.

Easy to use, yet powerful

Velaris offers a powerful and flexible Customer Success Platform that helps you scale your CS operations at twice the speed and with half the effort.

Go live in 4 weeks

We know you can’t afford to spend half a year implementing a new platform, especially if you’re growing fast. We have an average time-to-live of 4 weeks, plus we handle all the heavy lifting for you.

Integrate with anything

For anything that doesn’t integrate natively, we will build a custom integration for you. Our team of engineers will handle it all - with minimal work on your end.

Frequently Asked Questions

How long does it take to implement Velaris?

Velaris can be set up in just a few weeks. While the exact timeline depends on your needs, our team will guide you through every step including scoping, mapping, and migrating your data. You won’t need to do any work on your side, we’ll handle everything for you.

What does Velaris integrate with?

Velaris offers 70+ integrations, including easy plug-and-play connections and customizable flows that can be set up with a simple drag-and-drop builder. This flexibility lets you adapt your integrations as your needs change.

How accurate is your AI?

We’ve trained Velaris’ AI to think like a Customer Success expert, with a focus on the challenges you face every day in post-sales. We use best-in-class models and refine them constantly using customer feedback.

How is my data being used by Velaris’ AI?

At Velaris, your data is always treated with the highest level of confidentiality. Our AI features run on private servers, and we never allow our model providers to train on your data.

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