Circle vs Verint Community
Circle
circle.so
Verint Community
verint.comSide by side
| Figure | Circle | Verint Community |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $89/mo | — |
| Free plan | — | — |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | — |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| iOS | Yes | Yes |
| Android | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 4 | 2 |
| Spec score · Community Building Platforms | 8.9 (#2) | 7.4 (#20) |
| Spec score · Community Platforms | 8.9 (#10) | 8.2 (#44) |
| Spec score · Customer Community Software | 8.9 (#3) | 7.5 (#26) |
| APIs | Circle offers API access, including Admin and Headless Member APIs, with plan-based request limits shown on its pricing page. | The platform provides native and RESTful APIs, remote iFrame widgets, embedded functionality, RSS feeds, open-source SDKs, and Widget Studio tools. |
| Community features | The platform includes discussions, chat, member profiles and directories, gamification, and analytics. | The platform includes forums, Q&A, blogs, wikis, articles, activity streams, ideation, calendars, file galleries, automation rules, moderation, and gamification. |
| Custom domain | Yes | Yes |
| Event hosting | Yes | Yes |
| Free plan | No | No |
| Integrations | Circle lists integrations including Airtable, Google Sheets, Memberstack, WordPress, Memberful, Typeform, and Slack through native connections, embeds, snippets, or Zapier. | Verint lists integrations and SDKs for Sitecore, SharePoint, Salesforce, and Microsoft Dynamics, and says custom integrations have also been made for SAP. |
| Moderation tools | Yes | Yes |
| Private spaces | Yes | Yes |
| Support | The pricing page lists standard support for Professional and Business, priority support for Scale, and premium support for Circle Plus. | The Commercial Edition includes a support community, standard phone and email support, and support upgrades and patches. |
Plans
Circle
- Professional$89 a month
- Business$199 a month
- Scale$419 a month
- Circle PlusPriced on request
Verint Community
- Commercial Edition — Private / employee communitiesPrice not published
- Commercial Edition — Public / external communitiesPrice not published
In their own words
Circle
Circle brings community, content, events, courses, payments, email and website tools into one platform. Its community features include discussions, chat, member profiles and directories, gamification and analytics. Courses can be self-paced, structured or scheduled, with sections, lessons and quizzes. Events, live streams and live rooms include Q&A, attendee participation and session recordings. Circle lists integrations such as Airtable, Google Sheets, Memberstack, WordPress, Memberful, Typeform and Slack through native connections, embeds, snippets or Zapier. It offers Admin and Headless Member APIs, with request limits varying by plan. Access includes Android, iOS, Mac, Windows and web; desktop apps are available to communities on all plans. Professional costs $89 a month with annual billing, Business costs $199 a month with annual billing, and Scale costs $419 a month with annual billing. A 14-day trial is listed, but there is no free plan. The pricing comparison lists live-stream attendee caps of 100, 200 and 500 for Professional, Business and Scale, respectively.
Verint Community
Verint Community has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.