Bird vs. Vonage Communications APIs

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Bird
Score 8.5 out of 10
N/A
Bird CRM, replacing the former MessageBird, is a CRM for Marketing, Sales, and Payments, powering messages to customers across Email, SMS, and WhatsApp.
$0.01
per message
Vonage Communications APIs
Score 9.2 out of 10
N/A
Vonage APIs (formerly Nexmo and TokBox) help growing startups and agile enterprises enhance customer experience and realize new business outcomes at scale. With a comprehensive suite of communication channels, a global platform, and expert support, users can abstract the complexity of communications and innovate faster.N/A
Pricing
BirdVonage Communications APIs
Editions & Modules
API Pricing - WhatsApp
$0.01
per message
API Pricing - Voice
$0.01
per minute
API Pricing - SMS
$0.01
per message
API Pricing - Numbers
$1
per month
Pro
$50
per month
Pro Plus
$150
per month
Start Up
Free
Custom Plan
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
BirdVonage Communications APIs
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Small Businesses
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Score 9.2 out of 10
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Score 9.2 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Telegram
Telegram
Score 9.2 out of 10
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Telegram
Score 9.2 out of 10
Enterprises
Telegram
Telegram
Score 9.2 out of 10
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Score 9.2 out of 10
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User Ratings
BirdVonage Communications APIs
Likelihood to Recommend
5.3
(0 ratings)
7.1
(0 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
7.2
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
6.7
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
BirdVonage Communications APIs
Likelihood to Recommend
24sessions is perfect for appointments such as coaching (my use case) where you want them to be able to go into your booking calendar, choose a time and schedule the appointment - or to schedule it from your end. They they get an email on creation and reminder email. I find it not helpful or at least, not at all intuitive, for setting up a host created meeting immediately. You can create it so you can be live at anytime, but host created isn't as any to set up
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While there are likely a variety of scenarios that would work well with Vonage [Communications APIs (formerly Nexmo)], implementations that need transactional message and response actions are a great fit. Our experience with transactional messaging has been really good and we are continuing to look at opportunities to expand our usage of this part of their service.
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Pros
  • Users can transfer a client to another user without a particular permission
  • It allows you to control the communication of our agents and their activity.
  • It gives us a feeling of closeness to our clients who, due to their work activity, cannot answer the phone
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  • I like the delivery speed, it's very instantaneous. As soon as the delivery status changes on the website, the message gets delivered. The rates are also cheap and affordable.
  • The accuracy of the services and the non-stop supportive team.
  • Simple API, easy to integrate with existing notification functionality in your Laravel apps.
  • Ease of implementation. We needed less than one month to go live.
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Cons
  • Recording feature being available again
  • Faster call set for spur of the moment, host initiated calls
  • No ability to call in using a phone for those without internet/low speed access.
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  • Written documentation and discovery could be a lot better.
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Usability
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The overall usability of Vonage [Communications APIs (formerly Nexmo)] system for message delivery is sufficient for our implementation. Some improvements and additional reporting options in the account administration interface would increase our utilization of the post-delivery data further in order to provide further value-added features for our clients.
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Support Rating
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The teams we have dealt with have been knowledgeable, but early interactions with the tech support team experienced some slowness in response. Once we had a dedicated account manager assigned to our partnership, the level of interaction and support with the appropriate teams at Vonage increased.
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Alternatives Considered
Regarding WhatsApp Business, it is a very useful tool because templates can be programmed for the entire organization and clients can also be referred to other users in order to decongest an agent who can become quite busy. Otherwise there would be no way to serve you through two agents and you could have a bad end user or customer experience.
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Nexmo is the best platform in the industry for sure. We don't use all the features that the API provides but we are really satisfied with the ones we use. We are sure this is the best solution in the market if you need to solve the communication in real time with your customers. When we have to build a new website we are going to support the solution with Nexmo.
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Return on Investment
  • Lower cost per message
  • High SMS delivery rate
  • Fast development
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  • Allowed us to go to market faster (positive).
  • Greatly limits our claim to quality as the ceiling on video quality is lower than other platforms (negative).
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