Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Exotel
Score 7.9 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
Exotel is an advanced customer engagement platform that combines CPaaS, omnichannel contact centers, and Conversational AI. The platform is designed to foster richer, AI-powered, and contextual interactions, offering businesses unparalleled speed and scale in their communications.
$200
5 months Validity
Telnyx
Score 5.0 out of 10
N/A
Offering a communications platform that provides global carrier-grade services, Telnyx in Chicago maintains an international, private IP network and grants its customers control over their communications through its portal and RESTful API. Telnyx products include voice (elastic SIP trunking, global number search, and telephony data), programmatic messaging, wireless (mobile IoT), embedded communications (WebRTC) and automated networking. Customers provision services a la carte and pay by usage…
$0
per LRN lookup
Webex Connect
Score 8.7 out of 10
N/A
Webex Connect is an enterprise Communications Platform as a Service (CPaaS) that enables rapid automation of multi-channel customer journeys. The platform makes it easy for businesses to interact with their customers anywhere in the world on any channel -- SMS, Voice, RCS, Push, In-app, Email, Apple Business Chat, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, and other messaging apps, Webex Connect automates orchestration of these interactions with backend systems. A visual drag-&-drop builder allows the user…N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
Dabbler
$200
5 months Validity
Believer
$500
11 months Validity
Influencer
$1000
11 months Validity
Custom
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Identity Services & Data
$0.0015
per LRN lookup
Voice API
$0.002
per minute
SMS API
$0.0025
per send (free to receive)
Elastic SIP Trunking
$0.0035 ($0.005)
origination (termination) per minute
Fax
$0.0070
per page
Verify API
$0.04
per API call
Wireless
$2.00
per month
Networking
$100.00
per month (starting price)
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
YesYesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsTelnyx offers additional discounts as customers scale.
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Considered Multiple Products
Exotel
Chose Exotel
We are currently going to replace Exotel as our use cases have evolved over a period of time and it can no longer be satisfied by Exotel. Hence we have decided to move to a much advanced and customisable Cloud Telephony Solution - Intalk. We would still be using Exotel for …
Chose Exotel
Exotel was selected by us because of the following reasons:
-Low set-up and maintenance cost as compared to its peers.
-Prompt customer service: You want to upgrade your plan or facing any issues around the platform, Exotel team is just a call away.
Telnyx
Chose Telnyx
T38 is our secondary carrier. They aren't listed in the available list. Telnyx has a larger number pool and easy to use interface. Although, T38 has the upper hand with fax troubleshooting.
Chose Telnyx
Easy of use and better prices. Outstanding customer service. Variety of services in telecommunication needs. Easy use of interface even for not experienced users. Migration of SIP numbers is easier. Reporting is very easy to use and customizable for our specific needs, so we …
Chose Telnyx
Twilio offers better security and HIPAA paperwork but they don't have your customer service. Twilio offers better SMS programming at a much lower burden of entry. The visual programming interface makes life simple. Your pricing is much better though.
Chose Telnyx
The customer portal with Telnyx stands out. It is incredibly easy to navigate and has all the features and tools we need for our inventory.
Webex Connect
Chose Webex Connect
Webex is worse than these two. I would recommend Google and MST.
Chose Webex Connect
Webex Connect has the ability to automate customer interactions with channels ike SMS, email, chat, WhatsApp, and social media all in one place by integrating other tools, which saves time and ensures consistent customer experiences.
Chose Webex Connect
It doesn't stack against software like Teams - although Teams does have its own faults. Teams streamlines the communication between users, while Webex Connect feels outdated and is very glitchy. It is an ordeal to use Webex Connect when compared to Teams or even other similar …
Chose Webex Connect
Twilio is mostly for smaller projects or highly customized projects but Webex Connect is more enterprise level when it comes to a more professional and highly enterprise grade level solution Twilio does not even compare to Webex Connect Twilio is more developer friendly and …
Chose Webex Connect
We chose Webex Connect for our organization because, in our experience, Cost is much better vs Twilio
Chose Webex Connect
Webex is the tool for the ominichannel and it integrates very well with others Cisco products in the portfolio. It is a evolution of the Cisco Unified Contact Center that we used for log years. Now it bring to us new options to solve customer needs and is secure and have a very …
Chose Webex Connect
Twilio work for us, but we need more multi-channel orchestration. With Webex Connect it is possible with our a lot of development of code. In my experience I think the Twilio will need more experience engineers to configure our scenario and to solve our problems with diferent …
Chose Webex Connect
Webex Connect is a benchmark for all the similar products as it has that capacity to run multiple tasks at a time as well as it's really good with sending connections as well as communicated channels between users , hence it's a must-have for businesses and that's the main …
Chose Webex Connect
Webex Connect has a great user interface and multiple client handling capacity, which makes it stand out from the competition. They also have support from Cisco teams, which is a game changer in this field. They have way more advanced systems than other companies.
Chose Webex Connect
The thing which makes Webex Connect different from its alternatives is its performance and quality they provide to the end user. They have a dedicated end to end encryption codes which is realizable and must have for a business due to that only we have chosen Webex Connect …
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
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Usability
6.0
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Support Rating
6.0
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Implementation Rating
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User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
They are well suited in start up in the Central Asia market, would recommend them for that area. We would also recommend their Voice over internet protocol services for mainland as well. Either the text or VOIP was a good service. The experience overall was great with them. Highly recommended.
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We use Telnyx in a small company and are getting great savings in our telecommunications needs. Reporting is clear and makes it easy to control expenses. Migration of numbers was very easy and had tracking while in the process. We have our own numbers in Telnyx. I didn't find any situation where the service is less appropriate up to now.
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Webex Connect is a necessity for many of our clients, and we have observed that their whole infrastructure is built around it. This proves to be more helpful, when you are working across platforms across multiple apps. Apart from that, managing client onboarding in projects, auto responders, creating channels, creating automated flows, pushing updates to keep them in loop, are some of the features that we use on a daily term. For me, Automation of flows was relatively new, and to see it in action for the first time was an incredibly new experience. Especially the part where I did API integration for our internal chat module.
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Pros
  • Affordable Solution: First and foremost the platform is very much affordable for a small start-up starting their business and want to connect with their leads and serve their clients economically.
  • Easy to Use: Anyone can start using the platform from the Day 1. No extensive training required for it. Just integrate your phone number with the platform and solve customer problems at godspeed!
  • IVR Set-up- Want to have different services on a single number for your Services. Set-up IVR and make your life easy.
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  • Responsiveness: Typically quick to reply to technical support chats.
  • Availability: Large team accessible via email, chat, and phone.
  • Innovation: Regularly adds and tweaks features on the web portal that always looks clean and modern.
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  • It makes customer communication easy.
  • It improves customer interactions.
  • I like its ability to personalize customer journey as thus helps boost customer satisfaction.
  • It comes with great automation capabilities.
  • It better customer experience as well as enhancing digital resilience.
  • The tool supports multiple digital communication channels.
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Cons
  • Communication
  • Not for large companies
  • Volume of texts
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  • Minorly, the chat support replay takes some time. But at least they have real time chat support available.
  • They should tie-up with other countries Telecome in order to make their service cheap in those countries as well.
  • Since I found service always up , Not any incidents to complain .
  • If they provide Mobile app for call and message handling facility then it will be good handy.
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  • integrating multiple third-party applications
  • The initial setup and configuration can be a bit complex for new users
  • The documentation could be more detailed for advanced automation use cases, and sometimes the response time for support queries feels slower during peak hours.
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Likelihood to Renew
As a company our goals have slightly surpassed the current Exotel features and would want some other software which has better capabilities
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Usability
For cold calling and outbound callings, to a certain extend Exotel serves the purpose as mutliple DID numbers are available at our fingertips. For company which use outcalling as a form of passing information to users can benefit from the flexibility it provides. They have a recharge and use model which doesnt have certain expiry. Basic API documentation available and lesser support from their support team on this matter makes it difficult to check if the API thows any error
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They utilize a private IP network back end that makes SIP configuration for inter-carrier operation difficult because they assume that projecting their private network outside is ok.
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I would rate a solid 9 in case of usability as it does its work perfectly without any lacks and delays, we are using it for almost 3 years now and have not faced any major bug or issue with it. along with that it's easy to construct a Flow end to end where you just drag and drop icons to make the nodes working together with each other and as well as its learning curve is very simple and can be used by a non tech person also.
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Support Rating
Initially they had chat support which was available faster. But now the chat support gets routed to a virtual agent and unable to get in touch with an actual agent. They also have no support with respect to the API's and other integrations.
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They are providing services using a Freeswitch system behind a NAT router and they expect carriers to deal with their NAT network. Their support team does not seem to understand that problems caused by exposing a NAT switch to the Internet at large.
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Implementation Rating
It was pretty straight forward
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Alternatives Considered
Exotel was selected by us because of the following reasons: -Low set-up and maintenance cost as compared to its peers. -Prompt customer service: You want to upgrade your plan or facing any issues around the platform, Exotel team is just a call away. -Call recording Quality was also better than the peers.
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T38 is our secondary carrier. They aren't listed in the available list. Telnyx has a larger number pool and easy to use interface. Although, T38 has the upper hand with fax troubleshooting.
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Webex Connect has a great user interface and multiple client handling capacity, which makes it stand out from the competition. They also have support from Cisco teams, which is a game changer in this field. They have way more advanced systems than other companies.
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Return on Investment
  • Lead attack time reduced.
  • Turnaround time and addressing customer issues improved and directly effected our NPS (Net Promoter Score).
  • Training and identifying areas of improvement of call agents became very easy.
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  • Due to easy SIP truncation the cost of customer approach has become very convenient internationally. We got a so much scaling to play on large customer base. And large base makes sense of large positive ROI.
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  • Webex Connect has enabled us to automate customer follow-ups via email and SMS reminders.
  • The software has enabled us to schedule property viewings at different locations, depending on the customer's flexibility and preferences.
  • The use of Webex Connect has enabled us to send our available properties for sale to our target clients and investors.
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