Call Center Studio vs. Twilio

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Call Center Studio
Score 9.0 out of 10
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Call Center Studio is a call center built on Google, a secure and stable system with what the vendor describes as industry best reporting. For companies running a call center operation that are frustrated with the high cost, complexity and difficulty of the conventional systems, Call Center Studio provides a web-based, pay-as-you-go solution running on Google. It is a full-featured enterprise grade system and includes Google’s new Dialogflow and Speech API. Call Center Studio is designed…N/A
Twilio
Score 7.7 out of 10
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Twilio offers a CPaaS and CCaaS solution, with the combination of its programmable Voice, Video, and Messaging APIs, as well as the Twilio Flex cloud contact center. Additional capabilities include Twilio's Elastic SIP Trunking, as well as API for WhatsApp.
$0
per min per participant
Pricing
Call Center StudioTwilio
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
Programmable Video
$0.0015
per min per participant
WhatsApp Business API
$0.0042
Per WhatsApp Template message sent
WhatsApp Business API
$0.005
Per WhatsApp session message
Elastic SIP Trunking
$0.007
Per min for termination
Programmable Messaging
$0.0075
per message sent or received
Programmable Voice
$0.0085
per minute to receive a call
Programmable Voice
$0.013
per min to make a call
Elastic SIP Trunking
$0.045
Per min for origination
Twilio Conversations
$0.05
per active user per month
Twilio Authy
$0.09
per authentication
Programmable Wireless
$0.1
per MB
Twilio Flex (Contact Center)
$1
per active user hour (5000 hours free)
Programmable Wireless
$2.00
per SIM card
Twilio SendGrid Email API
$14.95
per month up to 100k emails. (Up to 40k emails free for 30 days)
Twilio SendGrid Marketing Campaigns
$15
per month for 5,000 contacts and 15,000 emails. Your first 2,000 contacts are free
Twilio Flex (Contact Center)
$150
per named user per month (5000 hours free)
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Call Center StudioTwilio
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional Details1. Pay-as-you-go pricing: Simple usage-based pricing without contracts. 2. Volume discounts: Discounts trigger as usage grows. 3. Free trial credit that includes full API access.
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
Call Center StudioTwilio
Features
Call Center StudioTwilio
Contact Center Software
Comparison of Contact Center Software features of Product A and Product B
Call Center Studio
9.5
2 Ratings
12% above category average
Twilio
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Ratings
Agent dashboard8.92 Ratings00 Ratings
Validate callers9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Outbound response9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Call forwarding10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Click-to-call (CTC)10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Warm transfer9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Predictive dialing10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Interactive voice response9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
REST APIs9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Call scripts10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Call tracking10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Multichannel integration10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
CRM software integration9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Workforce Optimization (WFO)
Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of Product A and Product B
Call Center Studio
9.4
2 Ratings
12% above category average
Twilio
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Ratings
Inbound call routing9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Omnichannel inbound routing10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Recording10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Quality management9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Call analytics9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Historical reporting10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Live reporting9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Customer surveys9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Customer interaction analytics9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
User Ratings
Call Center StudioTwilio
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(2 ratings)
8.1
(90 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
7.5
(5 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
9.5
(10 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
8.7
(34 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
5.7
(16 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.5
(2 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Professional Services
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Call Center StudioTwilio
Likelihood to Recommend
Call Center Studio
+ We need to have make a unique survey implemantation. Like we had many surveys after the call and wanted distrubute randomly since they have such a good technical knowledge, we solved many technical obstacles in couple of days and implemented our survey. - I would like to see the dashboard pinned on my agents desktops.
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Twilio
I found Twilio to be excellent and very easy to use for a programmer in all aspects related to voice, SMS, and other features utilizing their API. I found the node client to be excellent and helpful. We previously used the Apex client for Salesforce before it was discontinued. Although we try not to use Twilio from Apex anymore, using that client was easier than implementing our own.
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Pros
Call Center Studio
  • It has many important functions, such as call management, which allows me to know the calls on hold, incoming calls, time of the call, waiting time of the calls, this way I can have more control of how much time I invest to each client.
  • The function of recording calls is also very important to know my performance with the client and improve in the future.
  • It integrates very well with other applications such as Skype and Salesforce, which are the ones I use.
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Twilio
  • Easy to see my team in one place, when they log in and out and what call status they are in.
  • Twilio is a simple, user friendly way to log in and out of work activities.
  • Excellent services and support.
  • The omnichannel feature which allows agents to get request from all channels.
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Cons
Call Center Studio
  • Dashboards can not be pin to the screen.
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Twilio
  • Segment’s email identifier is case-sensitive, which is ridiculous because emails themselves are not case-sensitive. This means that if I send a capitalized email address in an identify call, it will create a duplicate user rather than matching it with the lowercase email. I think this is a technical oversight that should be corrected.
  • I’d like to see more information about the eventual transition of existing Frontline customers to Twilio Flex
  • I’d like to see some integrations between Twilio Studio and OpenAI or another open source LLM to provide automated responses, if this hasn’t been done already
  • I would like to be able to drag and move the actual lines connecting the steps in Twilio Studio, sometimes mine can get pretty messy
  • I think a Bug Report form would be beneficial for developers
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Likelihood to Renew
Call Center Studio
No answers on this topic
Twilio
Unless we can get this handled quickly -- less than 1 week -- we will likely switch to another provider who, in my opinion, we'll have to spend close to $3,000 in development time to build a new integration for texting. Our clients need texting and I feel Twilio has failed us miserably.
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Usability
Call Center Studio
No answers on this topic
Twilio
Twilio has well documented APIs and examples. There are several tutorials, videos and Q&As regarding their services. So, usability is very good. I must say that advanced knowledge of telephony, API/Programming and error-handling is essential to make good use of Twilio. It's not just plug-and-play unless you are integrated with a system that has all of the programming built for it.
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Performance
Call Center Studio
No answers on this topic
Twilio
Twilio executes what it is designed to do: send SMS messages at scale while providing very good deliverability. I believe that Twilio is very good at what we use for adding SMS messages to our comms strategy. We can see those messages get opened and replied to, which is exactly what we are looking to achieve.
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Support Rating
Call Center Studio
No answers on this topic
Twilio
I have not had to communicate with Twilio support in the last 3 years but my past experience with them has been very positive. They replied to my previous requests promptly and kept me well informed to resolve my inquiries. With their documentation that's available, I hardly imagine why anyone would need to contact support since it's all there in a concise and easy to understand format. It would probably take you longer to type out a support ticket than to just open their doc websites.
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Implementation Rating
Call Center Studio
No answers on this topic
Twilio
The developer APIs and SDKs are super easy to follow.
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Alternatives Considered
Call Center Studio
cloud based and more flexible.
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Twilio
We evaluated many fundraising-based text-to-give programs and found the subscriptions prohibitively expensive for our small scale and uncertain first few years of development. While we may be willing to invest that kind of money after discovering how things work, we're happy with Twilio now and have no desire to start over.
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
Call Center Studio
No answers on this topic
Twilio
Being in South Africa, direct local currency support would be nice
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Return on Investment
Call Center Studio
  • A tool that has helped me a lot to handle my clients in a faster, more personal and diligent way, being able to increase my sales margins in a short time. The way this program showed me my mistakes, was decisive for the growth of my business, because I knew how to solve the problems efficiently.
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Twilio
  • It helps drive the adoption of multi-factor authentication by making second-factor authentication quick and easy.
  • Decreases the number of times a user spends migrating to a new device from an old one.
  • Enables easy access to second-factors of authentication by offering multi-device support, making multi-factor authentication painless.
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ScreenShots

Call Center Studio Screenshots

Screenshot of Supervisor Screen

Twilio Screenshots

Screenshot of the “Explore Products” section, which is where to build products.Screenshot of the optional drag-and-drop visual editor and code editor.Screenshot of Flex, which is a programmable Contact Center that puts you in control.