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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Plivo

    Score9 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    Plivo’s cloud communication platform offers a way for companies to modernize their business communications. Plivo’s API platform lets businesses incorporate voice and text messaging capabilities (both SMS and MMS) into their own applications, and offers SIP trunking and phone number rental services. Benefits of choosing Plivo include: • Supports sending messages and making voice calls to 190+ countries. • Enterprise-ready Premium Communication Network boasts an uptime…

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    Sinch

    Score7.2 out of 10
    N/ASinch is a communications platform as a service (CPaaS) provider that offers application programming interfaces (APIs) for messaging, voice, email, and identity verification. Businesses use the platform for customer notifications, marketing communications, customer service, and authentication. Sinch states that more than 200,000 businesses use its services; its infrastructure includes more than 600 direct mobile-operator connections and 99.99% uptime across 60-plus countries.N/A

    Twilio

    Score7.7 out of 10
    N/ATwilio 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.

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    Pricing
    PlivoSinchTwilio
    Editions & Modules
    SMS API Platform
    $0
    per SMS recieved
    Zentrunk - SIP Trunking
    $0
    per call recieved/per minute
    SMS API Platform
    $0.01
    per SMS sent
    Zentrunk - SIP Trunking
    $0.01
    per call made/per minute
    Voice API Platform
    $0.01
    per call recieved/per minute
    Voice API Platform
    $0.01
    per call made/per minute
    Local Numbers
    $0.50
    per month
    Toll Free Numbers
    $1
    per month
    Short Code
    $500
    per month
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    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
    PlivoSinchTwilio
    Free Trial
    YesYesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup feeOptional
    Additional Details—Sinch offers a flexible, usage-based pricing model based on message volume, API calls, or voice minutes. Tiered plans scale with your needs, and enterprise customers can access custom pricing and advanced add-ons like AI, analytics, and deliverability tools.1. 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.
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    PlivoSinchTwilio
    Considered Multiple Products
    Plivo
    Chose Plivo
    • Yes, it is good to use Plivo, as per the pricing and ease of integration. Twilio has a difficult pattern for business developers and could be understood only by a developer.
    • Plivo has proper delivery reports as compared to Twilio. Using Plivo has helped us grow efficiently and …
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    Sinch
    No answer on this topic
    Twilio
    Chose Twilio
    This is really geography-dependent. Bandwidth is good in the US, but they had a reliability issue a few years ago. They have similar pricing and are more open to partnering. Sinch is more telco-focused and has great reliability, not big in the US market. Infobip is EU based and …
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    Chose Twilio
    We went with Twilio voice in recommendations from others around competitors not being as easy to work with, and not having any clear advantages. Many APIs and vendors clone Twilio's model, rather than innovating on it themselves. The feature sets, then, are nearly identical.

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    92%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    92%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    94%
    Happy with the feature set
    68 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    88%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    45 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
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    89%
    Implementation went as expected
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    User Ratings
    PlivoSinchTwilio
    Likelihood to Recommend
    6.0
    (3 ratings)
    6.0
    (5 ratings)
    8.1
    (94 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
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    7.5
    (5 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    9.5
    (10 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
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    8.0
    (38 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
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    5.7
    (16 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
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    -
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    9.5
    (2 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
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    -
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    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
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    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    PlivoSinchTwilio
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Plivo
    If you have a business and a phone you need Plivo so you can track all incoming calls. Using this service allows for you to track an[y] missed calls allowing you the ability to try to call potential customers, clients and see how you can help them with your products and or services.
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    Sinch
    Sinch is well suited if you believe communication is the solution to 99% of problems in this world. Lack of communication builds issues that can easily be avoided with clear and transparent communication. Emails/ in-app notifications, the not immediate and always causes a delay since it depends on the user's internet connection. On the other hand, SMS is a service, which reaches every individual immediately and without fail. Therefore, Sinch shall be utilised by every company to make sure immediate communication is enabled.
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    Twilio
    I have tried other competitors. But I always end up going back to Twilio because I feel like it is dependable, easy to use, and, has competitive pricing. The only time I wouldn't recommend Twilio to someone as if they are completely inexperienced about using webhooks or APIs. Because you can't really just sign up and start using Twilio without connecting it to another platform first.
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    Pros
    Plivo
    • Easy integration
    • Customer service is good
    • Services are prompt
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    Sinch
    • Performance
    • Support
    • SMS
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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
    Plivo
    • Customer support
    • Response times
    • Account transparency
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    Sinch
    • Improved UI for easier navigation to the owned short codes and status of their certification.
    • List of carrier requirements for certification (i.e. keywords).
    • Language and character do's and don't's for specific routes.
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    Twilio
    • Control panel. Often, navigating through lists is challenging. I want endless scrolling, not pagination.
    • Conversational intelligence service require a Language. I would like it to detect it.
    • We would like to have some credit on clients that chose to use their own Twilio account.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Plivo
    No answers on this topic
    Sinch
    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
    Plivo
    They deserve a 10+ rating starting from signing up to implementing their services. I am not the best person to get computer tasks done and this company made it a breeze.
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    Sinch
    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
    Plivo
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    Sinch
    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
    Plivo
    • It is good to use Plivo for integration, and also it provides easy access to APIs, and also, the UI is understandable.
    • Even a non-techy can use Plivo and integrate the services if required.
    • You have all the APIs available at a single place for your ready reference. Things are manageable and easy.
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    Sinch
    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
    Plivo
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    Sinch
    No answers on this topic
    Twilio
    The developer APIs and SDKs are super easy to follow.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Plivo
    • Yes, it is good to use Plivo, as per the pricing and ease of integration. Twilio has a difficult pattern for business developers and could be understood only by a developer.
    • Plivo has proper delivery reports as compared to Twilio. Using Plivo has helped us grow efficiently and in a good manner.
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    Sinch
    mBlox compares in SLA and QoS to other top tier aggregators. We interconnect with several vendors who provide wholesale enterprise level SMS and MMS services like mBlox, and they all compare around the same. Quality of service is key, and we've found them to be no greater, and no worse than their competitors.
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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
    Plivo
    No answers on this topic
    Sinch
    No answers on this topic
    Twilio
    Being in South Africa, direct local currency support would be nice
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    Return on Investment
    Plivo
    • None now that they no longer support their product
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    Sinch
    • Positive return on investment
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    Twilio
    • We found that associates who had the opportunity to respond to a survey about their assigned job were 37% more likely to return to a job site
    • We were able to reduce the number of resources required to manually respond to associates using Twilio Studio, so those resources could have more time to complete other tasks
    • We were able to scale the number of associates who received survey messages at least by a factor of 8 without increasing our resource demand
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    ScreenShots

    Sinch Screenshots

    Screenshot of the Sinch Build DashboardScreenshot of Voice API AnalyticsScreenshot of Voice APIScreenshot of Email Send ReportingScreenshot of Call Logs

    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.