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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Exotel

    Score6 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    Exotel is an advanced customer engagement platform that combines CPaaS, omnichannel contact centers, and Conversational AI. The platform is designed to foster richer, AI-powered, and contextual interactions, offering businesses unparalleled speed and scale in their communications.

    $200

    5 months Validity

    MSG91

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AUnifying business communications by providing users the means to completely customize communications, MSG91 aims to lead the field in developing CPaaS services.

    $0

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    ExotelMSG91
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    ExotelMSG91
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalOptional
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    User Ratings
    ExotelMSG91
    Likelihood to Recommend
    6.0
    (3 ratings)
    9.0
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    Likelihood to Renew
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
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    Usability
    6.0
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    Support Rating
    6.0
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    Implementation Rating
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    User Testimonials
    ExotelMSG91
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Exotel Techcom
    Exotel is well suited for: - Small and mid-sized Internet based businesses where it is necessary for them to have a very strong customer support team working round the clock and in different shifts. - Company making large number of calls and sending mass SMS's. They can do that on a single cloud based platform. Exotel might not be a good fit if: -it is not a call intensive business that you want to cater to. Though the setup cost is very low but it follows economies of scale i.e. more the number of calls, less will be per call cost.
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    MSG91
    If you really care a lot about the authenticity and other aspects of SMS to you user that it should reach on time, without lag and security then MSG91 is best suited to do this job. But if you are doing just some promotional email or not so important updates for the users then you can go for a different vendor also which also supports bulk messaging.
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    Pros
    Exotel Techcom
    • Outbound calling for Sales/Support
    • Call routing to Agent Mobiles
    • Inbuild Inbound flow designer
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    MSG91
    • APIs for different services are available
    • Very good documentation for the integration of APIs.
    • Dashboard to check the status of SMS sent and performance.
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    Cons
    Exotel Techcom
    • Communication
    • Not for large companies
    • Volume of texts
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    MSG91
    • After updation in some of policies of TRAI in India the documents needs update
    • Some of the API's have became complicated after recent updates
    • If there could be some alert mechanism that can help to know about reaching quota, or downtime alerts
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Exotel Techcom
    As a company our goals have slightly surpassed the current Exotel features and would want some other software which has better capabilities
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    Usability
    Exotel Techcom
    For cold calling and outbound callings, to a certain extend Exotel serves the purpose as mutliple DID numbers are available at our fingertips. For company which use outcalling as a form of passing information to users can benefit from the flexibility it provides. They have a recharge and use model which doesnt have certain expiry. Basic API documentation available and lesser support from their support team on this matter makes it difficult to check if the API thows any error
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    MSG91
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    Support Rating
    Exotel Techcom
    Initially they had chat support which was available faster. But now the chat support gets routed to a virtual agent and unable to get in touch with an actual agent. They also have no support with respect to the API's and other integrations.
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    Implementation Rating
    Exotel Techcom
    It was pretty straight forward
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    Alternatives Considered
    Exotel Techcom
    Exotel was selected by us because of the following reasons: -Low set-up and maintenance cost as compared to its peers. -Prompt customer service: You want to upgrade your plan or facing any issues around the platform, Exotel team is just a call away. -Call recording Quality was also better than the peers.
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    MSG91
    After going through all of them we felt MSG91 is more cleaner in terms of integration details and also the support by their tech team. Integration wish Twilio was very good but the dashboard and other features which MSG91 provides were somewhat similar or easy to understand for our team.
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    Return on Investment
    Exotel Techcom
    • This increased onboarding efficiency to save money on startup.
    • This saved us money by getting both services from one company.
    • Con was price was higher than we would have liked but efficiency made up for that.
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    MSG91
    • As compared to the price MSG91 is value for money for the things we get
    • The SMS rates are not so high and you can easily use for small to enterprise level company.
    • The dashboard of MSG91 helps a lot in understanding whats going wrong and can be improved.
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