FluentCloud vs. Zoom Phone

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
FluentCloud
Score 9.6 out of 10
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
FluentCloud, from FluentStream Technologies, is a dynamic, cloud-based business phone system. FluentCloud includes FluentStream's leading phone system, phone service and customer support team, all in one. The FluentCloud product aims to provide businesses with new telecommunications flexibility, with an emphasis on price and performance. In addition, the vendor offers a wide range of custom applications and communications integration strategies to businesses and software…
$20
per user per month
Zoom Phone
Score 7.9 out of 10
N/A
Built on Zoom's platform, Zoom's cloud phone consolidates business communication and collaboration into a single system. Available in 40+ countries, with expandable coverage through a bring-your-own-carrier offering, Zoom Phone supports inbound and outbound calling through the public switched telephone network (PSTN). Features: Post call summary & next steps A post-call summary from Zoom’s AI Companion keeps the focus on the conversation instead of…
$10
per month per user
Pricing
FluentCloudZoom Phone
Editions & Modules
Essential
$20.00
per user per month
Advanced
$30.00
per user per month
Complete
$45.00
per user per month
US & Canada Metered
$10
per month per user
US & Canada Unlimited
$15
per month per user
Global Select
$20
per month per user
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
FluentCloudZoom Phone
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsUnlimited calls to the US and Canada, first-class quality and 99.99% uptime US-based customer support team and fully customizable plans with “A-La-Carte” options.No fees for emergency 911 Service No fees for compliance and administrative cost recovery Fee No 10DLC SMS fees
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Community Pulse
FluentCloudZoom Phone
Considered Both Products
FluentCloud
Chose FluentCloud
I have used others besides what is listed below but FluentCloud is by far the best I have used, especially when it comes to tracking and reporting call volume and production of our calls. Being a call center that is production based on call volume having something like …
Chose FluentCloud
Skype for business was a cost effective solution as a smaller call center, but it was fraught with connectivity issues and no enterprise management to speak of at the time of our use... they did not offer IVR support, recording, reporting or any features above simple call …
Zoom Phone
Chose Zoom Phone
Intregration with other Zoom products ia a real plus.
The convenience to be able to install on so many deivces also increaed the conveneince.
Most other softweare PBX were just automating the call experiece, but Zoom makes the phone client to another level.
Chose Zoom Phone
Full disclosure- I am a reseller of many voce and data services. I am familiar with and have at least trialed basically every voice service available. We choose to use Zoom Phone as our in house system, so that speaks for itself. There is still a small market for on premise …
Chose Zoom Phone
In my opinion, Zoom Phone has a better UI
Chose Zoom Phone
Zoom Phone has more features for our meetings and allows our webinars to work seamlessly.
Chose Zoom Phone
Well Zoom crashes allot so I wouldn't say it holds up great. But Zoom has it's benefits the way things are integrated.
Chose Zoom Phone
Many more features on queue rules, team chats and meetings.
Chose Zoom Phone
Price point was about the same but Zoom included more features for the price. Also the ISO mobile app was better. We were also about to drop Calendly and save some money using the native Zoom app.
Chose Zoom Phone
Zoom Phone seems much better. Nextiva never trained us, or explained the new features. It always seemed to be "in development." Zoom seems more ready for action.
Chose Zoom Phone
User management is easier with Zoom Workplace and for larger meetings and calls offers a larger feature set and better recording options when appropriate. Interactive chat for group meetings is easy to use and encourages participation and attentiveness. The cloud features for …
Chose Zoom Phone
we use teams for internal meetings and internal collaboration. It fits oue environment better. However the phone system from Zoom Workplace is much easier to setup and use than Zoom Workplace calling is.
Chose Zoom Phone
Zoom Workplace checks WAY more boxes than any of these, except I believe that BlueJeans had more permissions (facilitator, moderator, etc.)
Chose Zoom Phone
zoom is better for mobile working.
Chose Zoom Phone
Zoom Workplace does well with both phone communications, meeting communications, and conference room capabilities. It's chat capabilities are inferior to Microsoft Teams as Teams has a higher integration with other utilized tools.
Chose Zoom Phone
Zoom Workplace beat all competitors on price. Interface was easy to learn and use and we had already tried Zoom Workplace for meetings before adding phone services so we liked the idea of having that integrated in a single service. SMS messaging and interoffice chat became …
Chose Zoom Phone
I joined this company after they had already chosen Zoom Workplace is very functional but too confusing for the ties to our e mail addresses, document sharing, etc...I don't feel great about using it and who sees what.
Chose Zoom Phone
The main reason why we switched to Zoom Phone is because our VOIP system inexplicably went down for almost a month and no one could figure out what was wrong. Lumen was charging way more than Zoom Workplace, but could not get the system to work.
Chose Zoom Phone
I only have experience using Teams as an attendee. I believe the Zoom Workplace platform for meetings is easier to navigate.
Chose Zoom Phone
We use Teams still for most things, but for video conferencing and phones we use Zoom Workplace because it is much better and more cost effective, hardware wise.
Chose Zoom Phone
Cheaper, faster, easier for the team to adapt to and use.
Chose Zoom Phone
Nextiva Business Phone Service and Mitel MiCollab
Chose Zoom Phone
Ease of use, pricing was much better, we had Zoom conferencing already so it made using the phone solution easy as we can use the same Zoom Client. The features were more robust than anything else we had seen for a cloud based telephone system. The troubleshooting tools are …
Chose Zoom Phone
Zoom Phone was much easier to manage and use than Cisco. It also allowed us to get off premises and into the cloud. We chose Zoom to move into the future of phone systems.

Zoom Phone/contact center was much easier to setup and use than TalkDesk. It was also quite a bit less …
Chose Zoom Phone
Cloudcall had worse call quality, more dropped calls, and no texting function. All three things improved when switching to Zoom Phone.
Chose Zoom Phone
Compared to Mitel, Zoom is a next-generation phone system that is significantly easier to use than Mitel or Teams.
Features
FluentCloudZoom Phone
Cloud PBX
Comparison of Cloud PBX features of Product A and Product B
FluentCloud
8.9
Ratings
12% above category average
Zoom Phone
8.8
Ratings
11% above category average
Hosted PBX9.00 Ratings8.70 Ratings
Multi-level Interactive Voice Response (IVR)9.00 Ratings8.80 Ratings
User templates10.00 Ratings8.90 Ratings
Call reports7.80 Ratings9.20 Ratings
Directory of employee names8.70 Ratings8.60 Ratings
Call Management
Comparison of Call Management features of Product A and Product B
FluentCloud
8.4
Ratings
2% above category average
Zoom Phone
8.5
Ratings
3% above category average
Answering rules5.60 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Call recording9.60 Ratings9.30 Ratings
Call park6.90 Ratings8.90 Ratings
Call screening10.00 Ratings8.90 Ratings
Message alerts10.00 Ratings8.60 Ratings
VoIP system collaboration
Comparison of VoIP system collaboration features of Product A and Product B
FluentCloud
7.0
Ratings
12% below category average
Zoom Phone
9.4
Ratings
17% above category average
Audio conferencing7.00 Ratings9.30 Ratings
Video conferencing00 Ratings9.30 Ratings
Video screen sharing00 Ratings9.50 Ratings
Instant messaging00 Ratings9.50 Ratings
Mobile apps
Comparison of Mobile apps features of Product A and Product B
FluentCloud
5.0
Ratings
45% below category average
Zoom Phone
9.1
Ratings
14% above category average
Mobile app for iOS5.00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Mobile app for Android5.00 Ratings9.20 Ratings
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Enterprises
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User Ratings
FluentCloudZoom Phone
Likelihood to Recommend
9.6
(0 ratings)
8.1
(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(0 ratings)
8.2
(0 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
7.7
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
6.6
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
FluentCloudZoom Phone
Likelihood to Recommend
I have tried a few programs over the years to record and track calls and this one is by far the best. Easy to use and more functions than I will ever use. I love the reporting options. There was one particular scenario that comes to mind where I was glad to have FluentCloud. I had a client that was really really angry, cussing, yelling, threatening suit, etc. because he had gone to an appointment almost 2 hours away and when he got there the woman told him that we forced her to schedule the appointment, that we were pushy and rude and she just wanted to get off the phone. Thankfully I found the recording and was able to prove to him that she DID schedule the appointment but she also picked the day and time, answered all of the questions and took absolutely no persuasion at all. Basically it was an easy close. The client couldn't believe it and still to this day he is my client.
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I think it works well for offices that have multiple locations. Being able to give each person and office their own extension makes it easier for colleagues to connect with each other, plus it's a costs savings for each of the offices
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Pros
  • Allows us to record thousands of calls per day. As far as I know there is no cap, at least we haven't hit it yet.
  • I really like that I can pull reports/recordings several different ways. I can search by caller name/extension, or by phone number, or by date and time of the call, etc. Very easy to use dashboard.
  • I also like that we can set security options to where certain people might have more access than others. We have it set up so that the caller can only access and see his/her own calls, but the trainers can see themselves and their team, and then higher management has access to all calls in or out.
  • FluentCloud is super easy to use, absolutely does everything we need it to.
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  • Transcribes voicemails. Great for those verbose folks that leave long voicemails.
  • Loud and clear volume quality! Great in a busy office with lots of people talking.
  • Easy to keep track of who has called me. Has Caller ID which is helpful.
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Cons
  • The whisper coach and other trainer features are a bit frustrating as the caller has to be on a current call to connect and each monitoring session only lasts for the length of that one call. An improvement could be made to allow a trainer to continue piggybacking on the monitored extension, so they can listen to a trainee for as long as they choose.
  • The recording system has had some hiccups recently where the recording quality is so bad as to be unusable. They have fixed this issue a few times, hopefully it doesn't pop back up. Along the same lines we have had a few occurrences where recordings we not available to review until 4 or 5 hours after the cal.
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  • We needed to link each of our team members' personal emails to the Zoom account so we have to filter VM notifications out of our personal accounts.
  • It'd be nice if you could set business hours through the webpage to include a lunch break so that you don't have to manually go in to edit.
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Likelihood to Renew
At this time there our research has found that feature for feature there isn't a better solution for our needs at this cost point. We have had great success and don't foresee a need to change
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Almost perfect. Transformed from just being on my mobile phone. The phone has moved from a ituility to a value driving service in the business. Nobody yet has an AI to help manage the system. Come on Zoom, seems an obvious AI use case.
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Usability
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Zoom Phone has a very sleek design which makes it very easy to operate and use both in the setting up of and interacting in a meeting space. That being said, certain features can seem a bit crowded while trying to screen share or display video which somewhat defeats the purpose of the application as compared to a standard conference call.
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Support Rating
No answers on this topic
Support have been great during the time for implementing Zoom Phones to our team of 50 people. There were times where they kept supporting us through links but more and more we had actual people getting back to us via emails so we are very happy overall. The product is so great, too.
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Alternatives Considered
I have used others besides what is listed below but FluentCloud is by far the best I have used, especially when it comes to tracking and reporting call volume and production of our calls. Being a call center that is production based on call volume having something like FluentCloud is essential.
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Price point was about the same but Zoom included more features for the price. Also the ISO mobile app was better. We were also about to drop Calendly and save some money using the native Zoom app.
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Return on Investment
  • I am not part of the finance department. But I would say that it has more than paid for itself.
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  • Zoom Workplace has had a positive effect on out business by combining meetings and phones in one place.
  • The collaboration has been better with our staff being hybrid.
  • The Zoom Workplace platform has been more that I expected to pay, but the customer service is outstanding.
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ScreenShots

FluentCloud Screenshots

Screenshot of Completely hosted VoIP solution with 99.99% uptimeScreenshot of Online web portal with full self-management capabilitiesScreenshot of Full Call Reporting Dashboards

Zoom Phone Screenshots

Screenshot of the Zoom AI for business phone communications, available at no additional costScreenshot of Zoom's integrated workflowsScreenshot of the Call Handling Panel