46elks vs Aculab Cloud
46elks
46elks.com
Aculab Cloud
aculab.comSide by side
| Figure | 46elks | Aculab Cloud |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | €3/mo | — |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| iOS | — | Yes |
| Android | — | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 5 | 3 |
| Spec score · Voice APIs | 8.7 (#3) | 8.3 (#5) |
| Founded | 2011 | 1978 |
| Headquarters | Uppsala, Sweden | Milton Keynes, United Kingdom |
| Product | 46elks describes itself as a telecom API for applications to send SMS, receive MMS photos, and make automatic phone calls. | Aculab Cloud provides APIs for voice and video calls, messaging, and inbound and outbound fax. |
| Support | Standard support is available by phone and email on workdays from 09:00 to 16:00 CET, with best-effort response typically within 60 minutes and 24/7 failure reporting. | Free developer support includes documentation, quickstart guides, email support, and bug reporting; paid contracts can offer guaranteed response times and 24×7 emergency support. |
Plans
46elks
- Receive SMSFree
- Connect calls to United Kingdom€0.02, paid once
- Phone calls to United Kingdom€0.02, paid once
- Pay as you go — SMS to United Kingdom€0.08, paid once
- Virtual phone numbers€3 a month
In their own words
Aculab Cloud
Aculab Cloud provides APIs for building applications that handle voice and video calls, messaging, and inbound or outbound fax. It supports calls to telephone numbers and SIP addresses, and its WebRTC interface can place live calling in a web page. Listed capabilities include live speaker detection, speech recognition, translation, text-to-speech, voice biometrics, SMS, and MMS. The REST API works with Python, C#, VB, Java, PHP, or other scripting languages; REST applications run on a web server you host. The UAS API supports Python, C#, VB, F#, and C++, with applications running in a User Application Server installed on your platform. Speech recognition uses Google Speech-to-Text, while text-to-speech supports Amazon Polly and Cepstral engines. Aculab Cloud runs on AWS; web services use HTTPS, UAS connections use SSL by default, and customers can encrypt media files with keys supplied at runtime. Accounts are assigned to Europe, USA-East, or USA-West (beta). The free Trial includes $10 in credit for one month. Production is pay-as-you-go, with rates shown in the Cloud Console; Premium usage is invoiced and requires contacting Aculab.