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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Twilio

    Score7 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.

    $0

    per min per participant

    Zoom Contact Center

    Score8.2 out of 10
    N/AZoom Contact Center helps businesses deliver prompt, accurate, and highly personalized customer experiences that drive loyalty. It includes intelligent self-service and routing, a unified communications and contact center, and video optimized high-touch engagements.

    $69

    per month per user

    Pricing
    TwilioZoom Contact Center
    Editions & Modules
    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)
    Essentials
    $69
    per month per user
    Premium
    $99
    per month per user
    Elite
    $149
    per month per user
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    TwilioZoom Contact Center
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
    Additional Details1. Pay-as-you-go pricing: Simple usage-based pricing means you don’t get locked into big contracts. 2. Volume discounts: Discounts trigger as your usage grows, so you always get a fair price. 3. Start building today with free trial credit and full API access.—
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    Community Pulse
    TwilioZoom Contact Center
    Considered Both Products
    Twilio
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    Zoom
    Chose Zoom Contact Center
    It is a good product that fits our needs, we considered using the Contact Center despite the fact of still lacking important capabilities (we think it is till s in its "toddler" age) because we see how rapidly Zoom builds their products and add functionality to it, and because …
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    91%
    Would buy again
    52 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    92%
    Delivers good value for the price
    47 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    22 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    93%
    Happy with the feature set
    53 Answers
    92%
    Happy with the feature set
    22 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    85%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    33 Answers
    95%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    19 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    86%
    Implementation went as expected
    44 Answers
    91%
    Implementation went as expected
    21 Answers
    Features
    TwilioZoom Contact Center
    Contact Center Software
    Comparison of Contact Center Software features of Twilio and Zoom Contact Center
    Feature
    Twilio
    -
    Ratings
    Zoom Contact Center
    7.5
    11 Ratings
    10% below category average
    Agent dashboard00 Ratings7.711 Ratings
    Validate callers00 Ratings7.18 Ratings
    Outbound response00 Ratings7.88 Ratings
    Call forwarding00 Ratings7.07 Ratings
    Click-to-call (CTC)00 Ratings7.96 Ratings
    Warm transfer00 Ratings8.411 Ratings
    Predictive dialing00 Ratings7.46 Ratings
    Interactive voice response00 Ratings8.39 Ratings
    REST APIs00 Ratings6.97 Ratings
    Call scripts00 Ratings7.28 Ratings
    Call tracking00 Ratings7.311 Ratings
    Multichannel integration00 Ratings8.210 Ratings
    CRM software integration00 Ratings6.86 Ratings
    Workforce Optimization (WFO)
    Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of Twilio and Zoom Contact Center
    Feature
    Twilio
    -
    Ratings
    Zoom Contact Center
    7.8
    10 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Inbound call routing00 Ratings8.510 Ratings
    Omnichannel inbound routing00 Ratings7.98 Ratings
    Recording00 Ratings8.69 Ratings
    Quality management00 Ratings8.09 Ratings
    Call analytics00 Ratings7.510 Ratings
    Historical reporting00 Ratings7.310 Ratings
    Live reporting00 Ratings7.310 Ratings
    Customer surveys00 Ratings8.26 Ratings
    Customer interaction analytics00 Ratings7.07 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    TwilioZoom Contact Center
    Small Businesses
    Simplify360
    Score7.8 out of 10
    Nextiva Contact Center
    Score9.7 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Braze
    Score8.9 out of 10
    Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
    Score8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    SAP Service Cloud
    Score8.5 out of 10
    Bright Pattern Contact Center
    Score9.1 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    TwilioZoom Contact Center
    Likelihood to Recommend
    6.8
    (78 ratings)
    8.0
    (19 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    7.5
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    9.5
    (10 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    7.5
    (23 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    5.7
    (16 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.5
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Professional Services
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    TwilioZoom Contact Center
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Twilio
    I found Twilio to be excellent and very easy to use for a programmer in all aspects related to voice, SMS, and other features utilizing their API. I found the node client to be excellent and helpful. We previously used the Apex client for Salesforce before it was discontinued. Although we try not to use Twilio from Apex anymore, using that client was easier than implementing our own.
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    Zoom
    The Contact Centre is fantastic for our festival environment; these systems are rarely accessible to an arts organisation without a significant premium. However, that's not the case with Zoom Contact Centre. It may be tricky initially if you don't have an IT Company to help you with the integration, but they have a great Professional Services Team (PSO) to guide you through the process. Be prepared for the transition to take a few months; I wouldn't recommend it if you need something set up today. Moving phone numbers from other Telcos takes time, and the PSO can provide a custom solution that takes time to develop.
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    Pros
    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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    Zoom
    • Easy to change behavior of a call queue
    • Easy to modify call flow (normally this is very difficult and cumbersome in other contact centers)
    • Language that is not esoteric to phone technicians (e.g., no "Hunt Group" or other inside baseball terms)
    • Easy to see the overview of what is currently going on in the phone system and what people are doing right now
    • Easy to add licenese, change changes, add phone numbers, change p#s, etc.
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    Cons
    Twilio
    • Segment’s email identifier is case-sensitive, which is ridiculous because emails themselves are not case-sensitive. This means that if I send a capitalized email address in an identify call, it will create a duplicate user rather than matching it with the lowercase email. I think this is a technical oversight that should be corrected.
    • I’d like to see more information about the eventual transition of existing Frontline customers to Twilio Flex
    • I’d like to see some integrations between Twilio Studio and OpenAI or another open source LLM to provide automated responses, if this hasn’t been done already
    • I would like to be able to drag and move the actual lines connecting the steps in Twilio Studio, sometimes mine can get pretty messy
    • I think a Bug Report form would be beneficial for developers
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    Zoom
    • Go deeper into a true separation of parameters, reporting, management, etc. so you could have multiple business units with very different needs, independently work. Some sort of "Multi-Tenant-Like" capabilities like the one seen in Zoom Phone Locations. In situations like these where you need "location/team isolation" is challenging, if not impossible to implement with Zoom Contact Center.
    • More pre-canned integrations and ready-to-go examples to implement thins like the "InApp-Chat" channel for the Zoom Client Itself. This could be a great addition, especially when you use the ZCC to service your own company.
    • ZCC is meant to be an independent solution that could interact with Zoom and non-Zoom products, but the capability to allow a tight-integration with Zoom Phone is really missing: Having the capability to make/receive calls between ZP and ZCC using just extension numbers should have been a given from the get-go; it really limits the use cases of Zoom Contact Center with its other star product Zoom Phone. I heard something is coming to address this, for lack of a better word I call "shortcoming", so I am really looking forward to see what is "being cooked" on this regard.
    • Licensing Tiers: ZCC is really missing an Admin-Only Role from the licensing perspective; you have to "waste" a license to add Administrators, which is particularly bad when you have a fairly large organization with multiple admins.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    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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    Zoom
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    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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    Zoom
    First and foremost for our results, the omnichannel approach and ease of use on the internal side (agents, supervisors and administrators) have made adoption very simple, we have managed to reduce response times (SLA) and internal communication has become very fluid. We get good feedback from our clients for having implemented ZCC in the company to serve them.
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    Performance
    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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    Zoom
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    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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    Zoom
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    Twilio
    The developer APIs and SDKs are super easy to follow.
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    Zoom
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    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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    Zoom
    There are options and ways to get to specific feature sets that are similar to what Zoom can offer. Many of the Zoom included features are add-ons for the RingCentral offering. So cost goes up and can also be an add-on difficulties/deployment costs as well. When we reviewed the features needed and the cost comparison, Zoom was less than half the cost with many of the features baked in as opposed to add-ons
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Twilio
    Being in South Africa, direct local currency support would be nice
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    Zoom
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Twilio
    • It helps drive the adoption of multi-factor authentication by making second-factor authentication quick and easy.
    • Decreases the number of times a user spends migrating to a new device from an old one.
    • Enables easy access to second-factors of authentication by offering multi-device support, making multi-factor authentication painless.
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    Zoom
    • We migrated away from a telephony system that was antiquated and almost unusable for what we wanted to do, so Zoom has been a huge improvement for us!
    • We're continuing to roll out new channels of contact for customers -- Calls, chat, video, email, etc.
    • We're still getting our sea legs from a reporting perspective, and that could always be better, but so far the biggest improvement was for our staff actually using the software. They really enjoy the simplicity and robustness of the software.
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    Screenshot of To access any of the products in Console, head over to the “Explore Products” section and start building.Screenshot of Whether you prefer to build with a drag-and-drop visual editor or with code, Twilio SendGrid Marketing Campaigns helps you engage your customers through email.Screenshot of Flex is a programmable Contact Center that puts you in control.

    Zoom Contact Center Screenshots

    Screenshot of the video-optimized CCaaSScreenshot of the Zoom Workspace video room experienceScreenshot of the analytics used to optimize contact center performance