NICE CXone Mpower vs. OpenPhone

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
NICE CXone Mpower
Score 8.4 out of 10
N/A
NICE CXone Mpower is a cloud-based contact center platform that manages customer interactions across multiple communication channels. It includes features such as automatic call distribution (ACD), interactive voice response (IVR), omnichannel routing, workforce optimization, feedback management, and interaction analytics.
$71
per month per user
OpenPhone
Score 7.5 out of 10
N/A
OpenPhone, a business phone service from the company of the same name in San Francisco, adds work phone numbers to existing devices. No new hardware required; all that's required is an app. Extended services include a lightweight contact management CRM, and customer service team management (e.g. shared inbox) features.
$15
per month per user
Pricing
NICE CXone MpowerOpenPhone
Editions & Modules
CXone Mpower Digital Agent
$71
per month per user
CXone Mpower Voice Agent
$94
per month per user
CXone Mpower Omnichannel Agent
$110
per month per user
CXone Mpower Essential Suite
$135
per month per user
Cxone Mpower Core Suite
$169
per month per user
CXone Mpower Complete Suite
$209
per month per user
CXone Mpower Ultimate Suite
$249
per month per user
Starter
$15
per month per user
Business
$23
per month per user
Enterprise
Custom Pricing
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
NICE CXone MpowerOpenPhone
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsDiscounts available for annual pricing.
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Features
NICE CXone MpowerOpenPhone
Contact Center Software
Comparison of Contact Center Software features of Product A and Product B
NICE CXone Mpower
9.2
581 Ratings
10% above category average
OpenPhone
-
Ratings
Agent dashboard9.5559 Ratings00 Ratings
Validate callers9.4471 Ratings00 Ratings
Outbound response9.6490 Ratings00 Ratings
Call forwarding9.3443 Ratings00 Ratings
Click-to-call (CTC)8.9403 Ratings00 Ratings
Warm transfer9.7531 Ratings00 Ratings
Predictive dialing9.2317 Ratings00 Ratings
Interactive voice response9.7376 Ratings00 Ratings
REST APIs8.5301 Ratings00 Ratings
Call scripts8.5322 Ratings00 Ratings
Call tracking9.3510 Ratings00 Ratings
Multichannel integration9.4364 Ratings00 Ratings
CRM software integration9.1365 Ratings00 Ratings
Workforce Optimization (WFO)
Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of Product A and Product B
NICE CXone Mpower
9.1
556 Ratings
11% above category average
OpenPhone
-
Ratings
Inbound call routing9.0511 Ratings00 Ratings
Omnichannel inbound routing8.8373 Ratings00 Ratings
Recording9.4495 Ratings00 Ratings
Quality management9.0480 Ratings00 Ratings
Call analytics8.6486 Ratings00 Ratings
Historical reporting9.3479 Ratings00 Ratings
Live reporting9.2465 Ratings00 Ratings
Customer surveys8.7299 Ratings00 Ratings
Customer interaction analytics9.6319 Ratings00 Ratings
Cloud PBX
Comparison of Cloud PBX features of Product A and Product B
NICE CXone Mpower
-
Ratings
OpenPhone
3.8
5 Ratings
71% below category average
Hosted PBX00 Ratings3.14 Ratings
Multi-level Interactive Voice Response (IVR)00 Ratings3.15 Ratings
User templates00 Ratings5.24 Ratings
Call reports00 Ratings3.14 Ratings
Directory of employee names00 Ratings4.74 Ratings
Call Management
Comparison of Call Management features of Product A and Product B
NICE CXone Mpower
-
Ratings
OpenPhone
4.9
9 Ratings
52% below category average
Answering rules00 Ratings4.76 Ratings
Call recording00 Ratings4.78 Ratings
Call park00 Ratings4.75 Ratings
Call screening00 Ratings4.77 Ratings
Message alerts00 Ratings5.77 Ratings
VoIP system collaboration
Comparison of VoIP system collaboration features of Product A and Product B
NICE CXone Mpower
-
Ratings
OpenPhone
4.2
10 Ratings
62% below category average
Video conferencing00 Ratings3.12 Ratings
Audio conferencing00 Ratings3.15 Ratings
Video screen sharing00 Ratings5.01 Ratings
Instant messaging00 Ratings5.710 Ratings
Mobile apps
Comparison of Mobile apps features of Product A and Product B
NICE CXone Mpower
-
Ratings
OpenPhone
3.9
10 Ratings
69% below category average
Mobile app for iOS00 Ratings3.210 Ratings
Mobile app for Android00 Ratings4.75 Ratings
Best Alternatives
NICE CXone MpowerOpenPhone
Small Businesses
CloudTalk
CloudTalk
Score 8.5 out of 10
CloudTalk
CloudTalk
Score 8.5 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
CloudTalk
CloudTalk
Score 8.5 out of 10
CloudTalk
CloudTalk
Score 8.5 out of 10
Enterprises
Bright Pattern Contact Center
Bright Pattern Contact Center
Score 9.1 out of 10
Cisco Business Edition 7000 (discontinued)
Cisco Business Edition 7000 (discontinued)
Score 9.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
NICE CXone MpowerOpenPhone
Likelihood to Recommend
9.4
(613 ratings)
5.7
(10 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(28 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(587 ratings)
4.6
(2 ratings)
Availability
8.1
(9 ratings)
1.0
(1 ratings)
Performance
7.8
(9 ratings)
1.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
8.7
(6 ratings)
1.0
(1 ratings)
In-Person Training
7.4
(5 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Online Training
8.1
(7 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
7.6
(11 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Configurability
8.1
(6 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
-
(0 ratings)
1.0
(1 ratings)
Ease of integration
6.8
(6 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
7.3
(9 ratings)
1.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
7.6
(8 ratings)
1.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
7.6
(8 ratings)
1.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
NICE CXone MpowerOpenPhone
Likelihood to Recommend
NICE Systems
NICE CXone Mpower offers a great suite of products and tools appropriate for contact centers. It is a one stop shop for all of the monitoring, scheduling, reporting, and quality tools a large or small contact center may need. It is very feature rich and has many components, some of which we haven't even grown to adopt yet but may in the near future.
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OpenPhone
If you have more than 2 people in your organization, then this will save you so much time. Delegation is the key to starting a business. Even when you're a 1 person show, being able to present to your user base the differentiation of options for client communications is critical. As a founder, feeling compelled to be always on is something I strive not to be. OpenPhone gives you that flexibility. I have found it to be less appropriate in complex HIPPA compliant areas, but that is it. OpenPhone really does seem to suit an open array of use cases.
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Pros
NICE Systems
  • Organizes everyone's interactions within the platform
  • Shows interactions real time with productivity stats
  • Makes Chat/Call quality a breeze with customizable quality forms
  • Easy to share an interaction within the company for others to review
  • Keeps everyone on track with scheduled lunches/breaks/meetings so you don't have to remember yourself and never miss another event again!
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OpenPhone
  • It's great for texting.
  • It's great for making phone calls. You get a new, unique phone number and can text/call from phone or desktop.
  • UI is great and really intuitive.
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Cons
NICE Systems
  • There can be changes in interface of the app, however it's still very good
  • I would appreciete detailed web page with all necessary information, but when I need anything, the customer support is very quick and provide all the information
  • Hardly to find any other :)
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OpenPhone
  • Web app could work better in my experience
  • Pricing could be lower
  • Somehow connect with whatsapp or / and other messaging apps that people commonly use
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Likelihood to Renew
NICE Systems
Nice made it possible for employees to work from anywhere with access to the internet, it made it possible to extract data from contacts in a very thorough way. In addition, the meticaes can be fully customized and the day-to-day monitoring of the operation is more visible.With nice, contacts with clients abroad became easier.
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OpenPhone
No answers on this topic
Usability
NICE Systems
The lack of written SOPs makes some features (WFM / Performance management) very difficult to use. The training provided by NICE is extensive, but it's hard to remember everything shared in the hour. We spend so much time on the platform just trying to figure out how to use the features; it would be much easier with written instructions and screenshots.
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OpenPhone
In my experience, App features are buggy and confusing, and they often don't match the descriptions and screenshots in their documentation. In fact, many of their help links go to 404 "page not found" errors. In my experience, there are frequent outages and quality issues. My customers prefer to talk to me on a different line, because they find it difficult to understand me on OpenPhone.
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Reliability and Availability
NICE Systems
NICE inContact CXone is available when you need it. I have been using it for about a year and I have never suffered any issues that caused my not to have access to the product. If there are updates, they must be downloaded and install in the background because I do not see them
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OpenPhone
For me, there have been too many outages to rate this higher than "1 worst".
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Performance
NICE Systems
NICE inContact CXone performs very well even on old computers that are limited in resources. I use a older computer with limited memory and it seems to handle NICE inContact CXone very well in most cases. There will be times when it acts up for whatever reason bust over ninety percent of the time.
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OpenPhone
I think the platform is buggy and confusing. There are numerous outages. And the call quality, according to my customers, is atrocious.
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Support Rating
NICE Systems
inContact only allows specific users to contact them for support. Even though I use the product daily and it accounts for a large amount of my workload, I still have to contact an authorized user to create an incident. These users are managers and their schedules are very busy. This can result in delays in incidents being opened and resolved.
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OpenPhone
In my experience, their support feels like the opposite of support. They send you in circles, never directly answer questions, provide vague suggestions with unwanted platitudes, and they often take days between responses to provide that. For me, it's a frustrating experience that leaves you with a net loss of time and energy versus before you reached out to them. In my opinion, you definitely don't get "support".
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In-Person Training
NICE Systems
The In-person training was fine for a general overview. I think it would have been really helpful to have a review of pre-built reports and how to use them as tools.
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OpenPhone
No answers on this topic
Online Training
NICE Systems
I would rate 10, since the explanations were far enough to catch all the usabilities.I would rate 10, since the explanations were far enough to catch all the usabilities.I would rate 10, since the explanations were far enough to catch all the usabilities.I would rate 10, since the explanations were far enough to catch all the usabilities.
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OpenPhone
No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating
NICE Systems
We love the use of our new tools. However, NICE staff turnover was frustrating. We lost ground each time a new team took over. Some people were good some were not as much. Some people did great training while others were not as helpful
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OpenPhone
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
NICE Systems
When it comes to this specific situation (cell centers) NICE definitely has an ADP beat. The analytics, scheduling, and forecasts are extremely well-tailored for this situation. ADP has a more comprehensive solution in my opinion - I feel their UI and mobile app are also more user-friendly. But in terms of performance management functionality, NICE has a more robust system and is able to create additional metrics if we need them When I used ADP there were no custom options available.
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OpenPhone
OpenPhone has an easier user interface than Grasshopper. Years ago when I was using Grasshopper, I recall that their user interface looked antiquated and full of complications. They would also update the interface just as everyone was getting used to using it. OpenPhone has many more functions. Grasshopper's app did not offer basic functions such as in-app texting between team members, and its call transfer function was incredibly complicated to use. In my opinion, Grasshopper was an inferior service/product in almost every way.
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
NICE Systems
No answers on this topic
OpenPhone
In my experience, Billing lacks transparency, and they have made billing errors (overcharging me) since I started using them. I think the "trust registration" is an insane ripoff charging around $20 for every attempt. Crazy.
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Scalability
NICE Systems
I rated 10, because Nice CX one is very much functional. You can simply acess it by website Nice, in any navigator, desktop, notebook or mobile, so you can in a fast way run on every departament of the company.
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OpenPhone
In my experience, I can't even scale up to sending messages from a single number because of their broken and messed up "trust registration" system.
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Return on Investment
NICE Systems
  • NICE CXone has allowed us the ability to, on specific teams, not have to back fill positions due to attrition.
  • NICE CXone has provided us insight into data metrics that we did not have before.
  • NICE CXone provides us with visibility into the productivity of our offshore agents which we did NOT have prior to our partnership.
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OpenPhone
  • Provided us with a simple, yet robust phone system for our small business
  • Price can be lower for premium, and for multiple users
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ScreenShots

NICE CXone Mpower Screenshots

Screenshot of a holistic view of omnichannel call center metrics, with insights for everyone in the contact center. The CXone Mpower Dashboard aggregates both real-time and historical cross-domain data.Screenshot of CXone Mpower Copilot, which empowers agents with smarter interactions, personalized coaching, and automation opportunities.Screenshot of CXone Mpower Workforce Management, used to anticipate business demands and optimize workforces, is an omnichannel forecasting and scheduling engine.Screenshot of CXone Mpower Studio, a tool that does not require programming skills, but instead empowers everyone—from business user to routing flow programmer—to build and manage routing flows for all channels.Screenshot of CXone Mpower Interaction Analytics, used to get actionable insights from every voice, digital, and self-service customer interaction.Screenshot of CXone Mpower Performance Management, which aligns employee performance, contact center goals, and customer expectations with continuous improvement.