Freshcaller vs Nextiva

Freshcaller is a cloud contact center for customer support, sales, IT, and HR teams. It supports advanced inbound routing, bring-your-own-carrier service, and phone numbers from more than 90 countries. Routing can use team, time, or caller intent, with queue callbacks and automation. Agents can hold, mute, transfer, conference, forward, and drop voicemail during calls. Call intelligence includes recordings, post-call transcripts, call-lifecycle information, and live dashboards. AI voice bots and speech-enabled IVR can answer repetitive queries. Freshcaller connects with Freshdesk, Freshservice, and Freshworks CRM; agents can call within Freshdesk and turn a call into a ticket. Android, iOS, and web are listed platforms. Its mobile app supports iOS 10 and higher and Android 5.0 and higher, and is available only in English. The 14-day trial includes Enterprise-plan features. The Free plan is $0 per agent per month plus per-minute charges. Growth costs $15/user/mo billed annually and includes 2,000 incoming minutes monthly; higher listed annual plans are Pro at $39/month and Enterprise at $69/month.

Nextiva is a hosted VoIP PBX for business communications, with voice calling, messaging, and collaboration features. Its Core plan includes inbound and outbound voice, business SMS, video meetings, screen and file sharing, call routing, team chat, and a mobile app. Listed call-handling tools include auto attendants, local and toll-free numbers, advanced routing, call recording, voicemail transcription, and call forwarding. Engage adds customer-to-team SMS, toll-free service and minutes, advanced reporting, an inbound call center, live chat, and a chatbot. Apps are listed for Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, and Android, and a Chrome extension connects Contact Center to the browser. The integrations directory names Salesforce, HubSpot, Zoho, Microsoft Teams, Zendesk, and others; Nextiva advises confirming availability for integrations not shown. The system needs at least 100 kbps of upload speed per phone line, and all cloud phone system plans include 24/7 support. Core costs $15/user/mo, Engage $25/user/mo, and Scale $75/user/mo. No free plan or trial is listed.