TrustRadius: an HG Insights company

Save this comparison

Save this comparison

Add Product

Recommended Comparisons

    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    8x8 Work

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/A8x8 Work is a collaboration hub for phone, video, and messaging. It brings secure unified communication and collaboration experiences to every employee.

    $24

    per month

    CallFire

    Score9.7 out of 10
    N/ACallFire is a VoIP and messaging solution designed for both external B2C interactions and internal company use. It includes features such as text messaging, call tracking, voice broadcasting, and an interactive voice response (IVR) system. Subscription pricing starts at $99 per month.

    $99

    per month

    Pricing
    8x8 WorkCallFire
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Lite
    $99.00
    per month
    Startup
    $199.00
    per month
    Grow
    $299.00
    per month
    Pro
    $599.00
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    8x8 WorkCallFire
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details——
    More Pricing Information
    Community Pulse
    8x8 WorkCallFire
    Considered Both Products
    8x8 Inc.
    Chose 8x8 Work
    None.
    Incentivized
    CallFire
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    No answers on this topic
    No answers on this topic
    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    No answers on this topic
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    8x8 WorkCallFire
    Cloud PBX
    Comparison of Cloud PBX features of 8x8 Work and CallFire
    Feature
    8x8 Work
    8.8
    395 Ratings
    5% above category average
    CallFire
    7.6
    11 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Hosted PBX9.9218 Ratings6.02 Ratings
    Multi-level Interactive Voice Response (IVR)8.876 Ratings9.07 Ratings
    Directory of employee names8.4357 Ratings9.05 Ratings
    User templates00 Ratings7.04 Ratings
    Call reports00 Ratings7.210 Ratings
    Call Management
    Comparison of Call Management features of 8x8 Work and CallFire
    Feature
    8x8 Work
    8.7
    442 Ratings
    3% above category average
    CallFire
    9.3
    10 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Answering rules9.1398 Ratings8.07 Ratings
    Call recording8.7343 Ratings10.010 Ratings
    Call park8.4318 Ratings8.53 Ratings
    Call screening9.1301 Ratings10.04 Ratings
    Message alerts8.1385 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Mobile apps
    Comparison of Mobile apps features of 8x8 Work and CallFire
    Feature
    8x8 Work
    8.9
    385 Ratings
    5% above category average
    CallFire
    8.3
    2 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Mobile app for iOS9.0318 Ratings8.52 Ratings
    Mobile app for Android8.8248 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    VoIP system collaboration
    Comparison of VoIP system collaboration features of 8x8 Work and CallFire
    Feature
    8x8 Work
    -
    Ratings
    CallFire
    10.0
    1 Ratings
    23% above category average
    Video conferencing00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Audio conferencing00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    8x8 WorkCallFire
    Small Businesses
    Broadvoice | GoContact
    Score9.1 out of 10
    Zoom Phone
    Score9 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    PanTerra Networks
    Score6.3 out of 10
    Cisco Unified Communications Manager (Call Manager)
    Score8.6 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Webex Calling
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Google Voice
    Score7.8 out of 10
    All AlternativesView all alternativesView all alternatives
    User Ratings
    8x8 WorkCallFire
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.5
    (463 ratings)
    9.4
    (15 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.9
    (30 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    8.7
    (104 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Availability
    8.5
    (10 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    9.1
    (10 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.9
    (142 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.1
    (14 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    8.8
    (8 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    9.1
    (9 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    9.1
    (6 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.0
    (10 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Professional Services
    8.7
    (7 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    8.9
    (7 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    8.9
    (7 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    8x8 WorkCallFire
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8x8 Inc.
    I’ve found 8x8 Work to be a reliable and efficient communication solution for our business. It offers excellent call quality, easy management of call flows and departments, and seamless integration for both in-office and remote users. One feature we especially like is that it automatically searches for phone numbers on the web, which saves time and makes it easier to identify and reach contacts
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    CallFire
    If you need to find a test candidate for your client quickly, this is one of the best ways. Pull yourself a hot list of a couple hundred potential candidates and load them in to CallFire. Then get ready to hit about 50-60 calls per hour. You should have a great test candidate for your client in about 24 hours! It's amazing how quickly you can show your clients the true speed of your company.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Pros
    8x8 Inc.
    • 8x8 Work manages roles and permissions well. It is very simple to create permission groups needed for certain roles that may even overlap teams needs.
    • User management is fairly simple and straight forward.
    • Analytics reporting is good quality for the higher tier licenses
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    CallFire
    • CallFire provides detailed analytics that show what/when callers select within the phone system
    • The text message broadcast feature is a game changer. This allows a company to dispatch text campaigns with specific calls-to-action, with tracking analytics.
    • The voice broadcast feature allows a mass automated message to be sent to client phones. This saves a lot of time when the same notification needs to go out to multiple clients.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Cons
    8x8 Inc.
    • Click to dial for the web based client.
    • The ability to have specific contact lists that can be shared with certain teams only.
    • Group voicemail notification to show once a voicemail has been listened to by another member of the team.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    CallFire
    • The services are easy to use and robust, but there is room for improvement. Unfortunately, not much has changed over the last 2 years of use. There haven't been any new features or innovations in that time.
    • API integration and automation is not easy for most folks to jump into and there is very little technical support or documentation to take advantage of such features.
    • The standard reports are generally sufficient, but there isn't any customization or intelligence available.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Likelihood to Renew
    8x8 Inc.
    All our employees love this product. No one has ever had an issue, whether it be the phone or fax. Great during the winter when employees have to work from home because of the snow. Never had an issue with the phone app. Highly recommend this product
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    CallFire
    There is no reason not to, it has proven effective in the usage
    Read full review
    Usability
    8x8 Inc.
    We never have problems working with 8x8, employees pickup quickly on how to use the system best for them. Calling out and receiving calls is simple, the ablility to click on a number and 8x8 dial it for you saves so much time when you are making high volume calls.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    CallFire
    No answers on this topic
    Reliability and Availability
    8x8 Inc.
    As mentioned before, we have not had an outage with the phone system per say, There was an issue with the call center where we did have an outage, but it was quickly and promplty handled by 8x8 support, they got us up and going again within 24 hours. The 8x8 hard phone and softphone side of things have been rock solid, I couldn't ask for anything more seeing we are in health care and it's exactly what we were looking for. When and if there is an issue 99% of the time it's user error
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    CallFire
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    8x8 Inc.
    None of the features that are available slow down the application. The reports (even the ones with hundreds of records) complete very quickly and the web interface as well as the mobile application never struggle to load or complete a task. The analytics will sometimes take some time to reflect the online status of users but it is to be expected due to connection speeds.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    CallFire
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    8x8 Inc.
    We are a USA based organization. Support was refreshingly quick (callback via phone or email, online live agents). Agents are knowledgeable, thorough in their explanations, and extremely patient when dealing with end-users at various levels of the ICT knowledge spectrum.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    CallFire
    No answers on this topic
    In-Person Training
    8x8 Inc.
    The person giving the training was very engaged, He also listened and answered all the questions. He created a video for our company while he was training in case we needed to reference it again in the future. The questions he could not answer were answered within 24 hours via an email to the IT support staff here so we could share the answers with the rest of the group
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    CallFire
    No answers on this topic
    Online Training
    8x8 Inc.
    online (video) training is good. No issues.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    CallFire
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    8x8 Inc.
    The implementation of 8x8 X was rather smooth. We had training prior to getting the system. The IT company did a good job on the training. The whole system is wonderful. Saves me so much time with the faxing, as i can just let it go by itself and not have to make sure pages don't get skipped, as with a regular fax machine.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    CallFire
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    8x8 Inc.
    I prefer 8x8 Work; it has the right number of features and modes for the communication I need. I much prefer 8x8 Work meetings to zoom meetings, as it is much, much easier to transition between devices when I am on the road. 8x8 Work is also easier to manage across multiple modes of communication.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    CallFire
    CallFire has a pricing structure that is attractive to us as a small business. The "pay as you use" options helps us keep our overhead low, especially with so many softwares already in our tech stack. It's a tremendous value for the cost!
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    8x8 Inc.
    At this time, we’re very happy with the pricing model that we have worked out and they have provided for us. Just be sure to do your homework, and use your comparisons to work out your cost with 8x8. They will be very straightforward with you on what they can
    adjust for you.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    CallFire
    No answers on this topic
    Scalability
    8x8 Inc.
    The only issue was adding licences was not via a button click but through your account admin which seems bad practice in a SaaS world as the user should be able to sign up, amend and close their account with ease
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    CallFire
    No answers on this topic
    Professional Services
    8x8 Inc.
    PS had all the users etc. set up by our go-live date. All hard phones were activated and when we received them, all we had to do was set them up and punch in the activation code to activate them.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    CallFire
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    8x8 Inc.
    • Getting access to emergency voicemails left on our office lines when we are at home, on the weekend, or after hours.
    • Texting clients from a dedicated office line portal, keep things private and organized.
    • The ease of installation and helpful support when needed significantly limit the time wasted.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    CallFire
    • I sent out a broadcast message pretty deep in our data base, well three years out. I had one customer come in and buy thanking me for contacting her.
    • Our holiday season was up 35% over last year, this year we used CallFire more than we did in the past.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    ScreenShots