Bandwidth vs. Five9

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Bandwidth
Score 8.5 out of 10
N/A
Bandwidth, headquartered in Raleigh, provides business class communications platform as a service (CPaaS), supporting many use cases such as lead alerts for sales, automated customer surveys, conference calls and messaging, and virtual call center, among other cases.
$0.01
per message
Five9
Score 8.2 out of 10
N/A
Five9 is cloud contact center software for inbound, outbound, blended, or multi-channel operations. This solution includes management capabilities such as campaign management, quality monitoring, real-time and historical reporting, and call recording.
$119
per month
Pricing
BandwidthFive9
Editions & Modules
Outbound Messaging
$0.01
per message
Inbound Calling
$0.01
per minute
Outbound Calling
$0.01
per minute
Phone Number
$0.35
per line/per month
Inbound Messaging
Free
per message
Core
$119
per month
Digital
$119
per month
Premium
Contact sales team
Contact sales team
Optimum
Contact sales team
Contact sales team
Ultimate
Contact sales team
Contact sales team
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
BandwidthFive9
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsFive9 offers pricing options to suit your business needs: Monthly On-Demand —Companies looking to quickly scale their operations with minimum costs Per-Minute Fees — Products such as voice message broadcasting or IVR with Speech recognition Annual Contracts — Reduced fee compared to monthly on-demand pricing
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Community Pulse
BandwidthFive9
Features
BandwidthFive9
Contact Center Software
Comparison of Contact Center Software features of Product A and Product B
Bandwidth
-
Ratings
Five9
8.0
20 Ratings
5% below category average
Agent dashboard00 Ratings7.019 Ratings
Validate callers00 Ratings8.217 Ratings
Outbound response00 Ratings7.717 Ratings
Call forwarding00 Ratings7.715 Ratings
Click-to-call (CTC)00 Ratings8.515 Ratings
Warm transfer00 Ratings8.118 Ratings
Predictive dialing00 Ratings8.515 Ratings
Interactive voice response00 Ratings8.015 Ratings
REST APIs00 Ratings8.614 Ratings
Call scripts00 Ratings7.715 Ratings
Call tracking00 Ratings8.819 Ratings
Multichannel integration00 Ratings7.518 Ratings
CRM software integration00 Ratings7.818 Ratings
Workforce Optimization (WFO)
Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of Product A and Product B
Bandwidth
-
Ratings
Five9
8.2
28 Ratings
1% below category average
Inbound call routing00 Ratings9.117 Ratings
Omnichannel inbound routing00 Ratings8.515 Ratings
Recording00 Ratings9.018 Ratings
Quality management00 Ratings8.127 Ratings
Call analytics00 Ratings7.517 Ratings
Historical reporting00 Ratings7.819 Ratings
Live reporting00 Ratings8.018 Ratings
Customer interaction analytics00 Ratings7.515 Ratings
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User Ratings
BandwidthFive9
Likelihood to Recommend
1.5
(7 ratings)
8.4
(43 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
7.7
(8 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
9.0
(1 ratings)
9.0
(9 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Professional Services
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
BandwidthFive9
Likelihood to Recommend
Bandwidth
Bandwidth covers the majority of areas where we had customers. However, there are still some areas we would have like to see them cover for calls. They cover more areas than our other carriers, but they did surprise us from time to time by an inability to be able to deliver call transport.
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Five9
We use Five9 as a tool to make and receive calls from various departments such as Customer Service, Underwriting, Claims, and others. It's a tool that has helped us complete various tasks to contact our customers. It has also allowed us to replace Zoom Phone, as it makes it easier to assign new contact numbers to agents, while Zoom Phone only allows reusing numbers. It's a good tool with an easy-to-use interface for new users.
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Pros
Bandwidth
  • Bandwidth has great customer service. They are all friendly and super helpful.
  • They are innovative and constantly updating their APIs, UIs, and products they offer.
  • Their UI and API are user friendly and intuitive.
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Five9
  • Inbound and outbound calls it process is so well.
  • The service is so good and they give very efficient support in customer need.
  • The calls we can do in Five9 include incoming, outgoing, voicemails and we can also send a note to a specific person. It's a very reliable mode of communication.
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Cons
Bandwidth
  • Their dashboard is lacking. We would love to see some additional graphing components, live traffic views, etc.
  • Their E911 infrastructure is still separate, making things a bit complex to provision endpoints and manage them.
  • SMS/MMS is a little behind competitors like Twilio, but still usable and very reliable.
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Five9
  • Text. Texting is incredibly difficult on Five9. We've had issues with only some texts logging to Salesforce, issues with threading of text conversations, and issues with having Salesforce contact information appear on the text widget (knowing who you are texting, not just their phone number).
  • The interface to "pause" is challenging. There are not good reminders to our reps to remember to pause or log out of Five9. If you forget to log out, this can affect stats about who worked the longest hours that day - and it's hard to know who actually was active on the phones.
  • Inbound voicemails are too-easily hidden. It's challenging for a lot of our reps to remember to check their inbound voicemails because it is hard to access them in the Five9 widget.
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Likelihood to Renew
Bandwidth
No answers on this topic
Five9
Robust product, great reliability and support.
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Usability
Bandwidth
No answers on this topic
Five9
overall usability is very great. User friendly interface for agents within the Salesforce with the engage button. Easy to go offline and online. Very good Integrations with Salesforce helps lot of clients that implemented Salesforce. As it is cloud based, agents can access it from anywhere. While the agent experience is goof, as a technical person it is hard to manage with the Five9 VCC and also the reporting User Interface is bad and slow when there are large amount of records.
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Reliability and Availability
Bandwidth
No answers on this topic
Five9
We have had minimal downtime due to system outages since it was implemented.
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Performance
Bandwidth
No answers on this topic
Five9
The system's performance is great. Page loads quickly. Reports are generated quickly and sent to our email or FTP. The integration did not impact the performance of our other applications. We have not seen any drop in the performance of either applications since we performed the integration.
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Support Rating
Bandwidth
No answers on this topic
Five9
Five9's Customer Support team is also based in Manila Philippines, thus turnaround email response times for our reported issues are great for our requirements. Their CS agents also facilitate mobile calls to followup on outstanding issues and operate on a 24/7 schedule. We've also had experience working with the senior tech agents to investigate recurring issues to completion.
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Online Training
Bandwidth
No answers on this topic
Five9
I took the certification course for administrator and also received some tips while working with the developer during implementation. The UI was very intuitive, so I was able to figure out how things worked when I configured the users, skills, campaigns, IVR scripts. I worked with the Five9 AI team to beta test Agent Assist.
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Implementation Rating
Bandwidth
No answers on this topic
Five9
The implementation team that was assigned to us was great. The project manager was very helpful and managed the timeline very efficiently. The developer was very helpful and provided insights while helping us configure the system.
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Alternatives Considered
Bandwidth
Their pricing is tough to beat, the reliability is great. And then add a few more positive things, like the tools and customer support, and that makes it a no-brainer.
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Five9
Initially selected Five9 but have since switched to RingCentral which has given us what we needed. Better CRM integration, simpler and in my opinion more robust reporting capabilities and the same omnichannel solution at a fraction of the cost
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
Bandwidth
No answers on this topic
Five9
We do annual renewals and it's concurrent licensing which is great.
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Scalability
Bandwidth
No answers on this topic
Five9
It was very easy to add additional licenses. Once we placed the order, it was activated the following day. Since it's web-based, it's very quick to deploy across multiple sites.
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Professional Services
Bandwidth
No answers on this topic
Five9
Five9 Professional Services team is very knowledgeable and efficient. I worked with them during implementation and during beta testing for Five9 Agent Assist and Ai Insights.
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Return on Investment
Bandwidth
  • We found Bandwidth to be very easy to work with and they grew as we grew. Their pricing was very competitive and they were always willing to take another look at their pricing for us.
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Five9
  • Cost savings: Five9 replaced a premise-based outbound dialer and a different virtual call center solution for inbound.
  • Cost savings: Five9's voice over IP is less expensive than the land lines we were using.
  • Cost savings: Five9 requires significantly less management than our previous solutions.
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