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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Cisco Duo

    Score9.4 out of 10
    N/ACisco Duo is a two-factor authentication system (2FA), acquired by Cisco in October 2018. It provides single sign-on (SSO) and endpoint visibility, as well as access controls and policy controlled adaptive authentication.

    $3

    per month per user

    Grasshopper

    Score6.1 out of 10
    N/AGrasshopper is an IP telephony business communication solution that provides companies with a toll-free or local phone number. It has both desktop and mobile applications and includes features such as custom greeting recording, call forwarding, call transfer, call reporting, and voicemail.

    $18

    per month for a single user

    Pricing
    Cisco DuoGrasshopper
    Editions & Modules
    Duo Essentials
    $3
    per month per user
    Duo Advantage
    $6
    per month per user
    Duo Premier
    $9
    per month per user
    True Solo
    $18
    per month for a single user
    Solo Plus
    $32
    per month
    Small Business
    $70
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Cisco DuoGrasshopper
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details20% discount available for annual pricing.
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    Community Pulse
    Cisco DuoGrasshopper
    Considered Both Products
    Cisco
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    99%
    Would buy again
    129 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    46 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    99%
    Delivers good value for the price
    118 Answers
    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
    45 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    99%
    Happy with the feature set
    129 Answers
    93%
    Happy with the feature set
    43 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    99%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    94 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    42 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    98%
    Implementation went as expected
    106 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    46 Answers
    Features
    Cisco DuoGrasshopper
    Cloud PBX
    Comparison of Cloud PBX features of Cisco Duo and Grasshopper
    Feature
    Cisco Duo
    -
    Ratings
    Grasshopper
    9.7
    46 Ratings
    20% above category average
    Hosted PBX00 Ratings9.423 Ratings
    Multi-level Interactive Voice Response (IVR)00 Ratings10.024 Ratings
    User templates00 Ratings10.019 Ratings
    Call reports00 Ratings9.433 Ratings
    Directory of employee names00 Ratings9.434 Ratings
    Call Management
    Comparison of Call Management features of Cisco Duo and Grasshopper
    Feature
    Cisco Duo
    -
    Ratings
    Grasshopper
    9.6
    51 Ratings
    15% above category average
    Answering rules00 Ratings9.247 Ratings
    Call recording00 Ratings9.622 Ratings
    Call park00 Ratings9.812 Ratings
    Call screening00 Ratings10.036 Ratings
    Message alerts00 Ratings9.243 Ratings
    VoIP system collaboration
    Comparison of VoIP system collaboration features of Cisco Duo and Grasshopper
    Feature
    Cisco Duo
    -
    Ratings
    Grasshopper
    7.9
    12 Ratings
    0% below category average
    Video conferencing00 Ratings7.93 Ratings
    Audio conferencing00 Ratings7.77 Ratings
    Video screen sharing00 Ratings8.23 Ratings
    Instant messaging00 Ratings8.09 Ratings
    Mobile apps
    Comparison of Mobile apps features of Cisco Duo and Grasshopper
    Feature
    Cisco Duo
    -
    Ratings
    Grasshopper
    8.9
    48 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Mobile app for iOS00 Ratings8.935 Ratings
    Mobile app for Android00 Ratings8.929 Ratings
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    Cisco DuoGrasshopper
    Small Businesses
    WatchGuard AuthPoint
    Score9 out of 10
    CallFire
    Score9.7 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    WatchGuard AuthPoint
    Score9 out of 10
    Fuze
    Score8.2 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Symantec VIP
    Score9 out of 10
    Cisco Unified Communications Manager (Call Manager)
    Score8.3 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Cisco DuoGrasshopper
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.4
    (196 ratings)
    7.8
    (56 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.9
    (9 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (76 ratings)
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    Availability
    9.9
    (8 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    9.8
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.9
    (89 ratings)
    9.0
    (42 ratings)
    Online Training
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.9
    (9 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    9.9
    (8 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.8
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Cisco DuoGrasshopper
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Cisco
    For secure access to apps and business data, I recommend Cisco Duo. It offers SSO, MFA, and Passwordless access, ensuring teams can securely access business data. It is easy to customize and comes with top-tier security features. It protects business data, apps, and users.
    Incentivized
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    Grasshopper is well suited for basic needs of texting in and out as well as calling out if you would like to avoid using your personal line. It also eliminates the need to have a dedicated land land in your office or business. You can obtain a vanity number and forward calls through grasshopper.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    Cisco
    • We use Cisco Duo with different type of device and application, but we never face any difficulties to integrate Cisco Duo with any of them.
    • We integrated Cisco Duo with some of our active directory and some of the OS are quite old but Cisco Duo works totally fine with them.
    • The end user application is very easy to use. We never had any complain from non tech team members of having trouble of using Cisco Duo.
    • There are several authentication methods available rather than passcode. I personally like the push notification which is always on time and quite fast.
    Incentivized
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    • I like that there are differing voicemails for each extension, to keep up with the image of calling a separate line.
    • I love the voicemail text emails. I believe we pay a little extra, but worth every penny for those urgent calls while I am in a meeting.
    • The cost is very reasonable for the value added to our company.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Cisco
    • Should have device to device connection ability whereas internet is not met.
    • Changes of device can be sorted and easily made using a second email address or any other identification method.
    • Troubleshooting should be easy to sort out. One time, a Duo admin deleted the authentication group, and some employees were not getting push notifications. It was very hard to find out the cause. Duo should have some troubleshooting finder.
    • Sometimes push notifications are delayed, and the code does not work. At that time, we need to enroll the device again. Not sure why it happens. Duo should give reasons for the error.
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    • It would be nice to have the ability to transfer some calls to another Grasshopper IVR, for those customers who mistakenly dial the wrong number (we have two incoming numbers, one for corporate and one for sales).
    • Likewise, it would be nice to have the ability to forward to a toll-free number, which would have allowed us to work around the inability to transfer between IVRs (see above).
    • Lastly, it would be great to have an 'emergency' switch setting (default off but could be toggled on) that would let us override all IVR settings and transfer all incoming calls elsewhere (either to a direct dial or toll free number) for those rare times when we cannot take any calls (such as a weather emergency OR the one time each year we take all of our staff on a retreat) - that would allow us to send all calls to a backup answering service rather than just voicemail.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Cisco
    There are a lot of competing solutions on the market; however, Duo "just works", and there is little to no learning curve for the new members to be acclimated to it. As long as that continues I see it as the preferred option moving forward
    Incentivized
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    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    Cisco
    La interfaz es intuitiva y fácil de navegar, lo que permite a los usuarios administrar sus dispositivos y acceder a las políticas sin problemas. La integración con las aplicaciones SSO y SaaS facilita aún más el proceso de acceso, mejorando la experiencia del usuario.
    Incentivized
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    The admin functions are kind of confusing in the old interface which was my most recent experience on the admin side.
    Incentivized
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    Reliability and Availability
    Cisco
    In the last 5+ years we've been using Duo, there may have been 1 outage that impacted us. We do receive periodic notifications of issues but, for the most part, they impact carriers or functionality that we either don't use, or do not care about.
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    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    Cisco
    We do not see any degradation of performance of the protected applications. There are occasional lags in receiving the push but no show stooppers.
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    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Cisco
    I have not needed direct support for Cisco Secure Access by Duo as I have not had a problem with it, but I have full confidence that the support is outstanding. It is now a core component of the corporate technology stack - a problem would mean a serious degradation in the ability of the company to function.
    Incentivized
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    When I was setting up my account I contacted support a couple of times. They were also very professional, personable, and helpful. Their response is prompt and thorough. I'm confident I can get any question answered as well as help with any issue I might have. That's pretty important to me.
    Incentivized
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    In-Person Training
    Cisco
    There was no in person training but checking the box was the only way I could complete all of the questions.
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    No answers on this topic
    Online Training
    Cisco
    This was not organized training but the videos that Duo provides to teach you how to install a particular integration are top notch.
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    Implementation Rating
    Cisco
    Documentation could have been better. I had to piece together different KB/admin guides to make certain things work and I also had to use third-party guides to get bits of information that were missing from Cisco Duo documentation. Support was also engaged multiple times to figure out an issue and after some back and forth it was usually determined that the information I needed was hidden somewhere else and had no direct correlation with the document that was linked from the platform.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Cisco
    Ultimately we ended up going with Cisco Duo because we are a Cisco shop. All of our networking infrastructure, our phones, our wireless environment is Cisco based. It made logical sense to stay with a product that we already have a line of support with. With a smaller support / tech group we depend on outside Cisco support. That support is already here for us, so we stayed with a Cisco product.
    Incentivized
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    I have not used any other phone services like Grasshopper. I know that there is another option out there called Ruby, which is more like a virtual receptionist but since I did not try it out I cannot compare the two. When I started my company I found the services that Grasshopper offers to be perfect. It still works for us and we have no need to change to anything else right now.
    Incentivized
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    Scalability
    Cisco
    So far, the only limits we've encountered were tied to our imagination. Duo's strong list of supported integrations is amazing.
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    Return on Investment
    Cisco
    • Cisco Duo has saved us from automated attacks on VPN. We had an instance is 2024 where our VPN was being brute force attacked, and we had several users' weak passwords compromised; however the VPN security groups, and the MFA kept the attacks from gaining access. We've since replaced our firewall with capabilities for limitations on country access for VPN, and beefed up our password complexity settings,
    Incentivized
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    • It's allowed us to keep cost down. Other phone systems can seriously get outrageous in implementation and monthly fees!
    • It's allowed our team the confidence to work in locations outside of the office and still be seen as professionals.
    • It's decreased the amount of time spent on unwanted sales calls via the call screening application.
    Incentivized
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