Aircall vs. Talkdesk

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Aircall
Score 7.4 out of 10
N/A
Aircall headquartered in Paris provides a VOIP system for business designed to support contact centers, featuring IVR and automated call routing, conference calls, shared call inbox and call notes, unlimited concurrent calls and call queuing, and many integrations with CRM or marketing systems to support a variety of support or sales purposes.
$30
per user/per month
Talkdesk
Score 8.5 out of 10
N/A
Talkdesk® supports CX with Customer Experience Automation (CXA), using AI agents to replace manual workflows. Powered by the Talkdesk Data Cloud, CXA delivers real-time context and fast deployment—to transform CX without a rip-and-replace.
$85
per month per user
Pricing
AircallTalkdesk
Editions & Modules
Essentials
$30
per user/per month
Professional
$50
per user/per month
Custom
Contact sales team
CX Cloud Digital Essentials
$85
per month per user
CX Cloud Voice Essentials
$105
per month per user
CX Cloud Elite
$145
per month per user
CX Cloud Elite
$165
per month per user
Industry Experience Clouds
$225
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
AircallTalkdesk
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalOptional
Additional Details*Talkdesk also offers per hour login consumption pricing and concurrent pricing. Prices are based on a minimum 3 year commitment to these Editions. Additional telco and usage fees not included. Due to foreign exchange rate approximation, list price is not the exact price that will be quoted.
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Community Pulse
AircallTalkdesk
Considered Both Products
Aircall
Chose Aircall
Aircall’s integration to our CRM, salesforce is second to none. Right after a call is made it is uploaded into salesforce right away and is a great way for our reps to reference back on.

dialpad was far more of a struggle to access call recordings for my reps as not only was …
Chose Aircall
Aircall is a little different from Intercom in that it is specifically for phone and text BUT Intercom just released phone calls and texting options.....
Chose Aircall
Aircall has a better interface and IVR system then Groove. It also does a much better job integrating with our CRM (Salesforce) and pulling caller IDs from our database vs Groove. I prefer Aircall over Groove and HubSpot, primarily becasue we are a smaller organization and it …
Chose Aircall
I am not the right person to answer this because I don't make the purchase decisions within our company. I have worked with several companies, and every one of them has their tools. I particularly liked Aircall among all of them because of the different reasons I have already …
Chose Aircall
We have used Aircall for so long that I cannot remember the name of the company we were using beforehand. I remember that we did make the switch to Aircall because the connection was stronger. We often had call quality issues with the other guys. While this does occur every now …
Chose Aircall
Aircall is loads better than Grasshopper due to its ease of use and overall platform. Grasshopper is fine, but the price is about the same and Aircall is smoother (and prettier). The only disadvantage if moving from RingCentral to Aircall is the texting feature. Aircall does …
Chose Aircall
Have to buy minutes on other services
Chose Aircall
Aircall is more efficient, syncs the information properly and is overall better, cleaner system.
Chose Aircall
Zendesk could not help us expand our numbers abroad due to too restrictive regulations applied. Aircall however, if provided with appropriate documents, allowed us to keep existing phone numbers and expand them
Chose Aircall
We used to answer phone calls on our fix line when at the office. The quality was very bad but we had in mind that a VOIP solution would be too expensive. When lockdown began last year, I had to redirect calls on my own mobile phone which was not efficient. Also I couldn't …
Chose Aircall
Groove was easily integrated with Salesforce CRM and meant that certain administrative tasks were a lot easier and less time consuming to do. The standalone dialer application (Windows) is easier to use than the Groove dialer, and uses far less resources. The addition of …
Chose Aircall
The only thing that is better than Aircall against Google Meets, is that Google meets has a camera option. However, that is not applicable for speaking to customers, but rather team mates.
Chose Aircall
In researching products, we decided on Aircall due to the pricing, features and service provided by the company
Chose Aircall
It is the first product that we have used. We have not evaluated another option.It is the first product that we have used. We have not evaluated another option.It is the first product that we have used. We have not evaluated another option.It is the first product that we have …
Chose Aircall
We selected Aircall only because it has integration with our CRM tool, PipeDrive, and I think that was a wise decision.
Chose Aircall
We previously used Grasshopper. It was cumbersome and the web option was not user-friendly. It did incorporate texting but would not integrate with our CRM so we switched to Aircall. Aircall's interface is nicer to use and we are happy with the switch.
Chose Aircall
They had strong support, but their connectivity was the worst out of all of them and their product was also probably the least customizable for your company.
Chose Aircall
Aircall is a more smooth and easy to use against other tools that are out in the market today. This is the tool I used for two different companies and by just that it proves how effective and good Aircall is. I love the functions and how user friendly it is.
Talkdesk
Chose Talkdesk
Talkdesk meets our needs well and struck the right balance between features and price. It had all the capabilities we are looking for and has been easy to integrate and maintain. Their tech stacks up well against competitors and we did not feel we we were missing out on any …
Chose Talkdesk
Talkdesk is very efficient and intergrates interaction data very well
Chose Talkdesk
Talkdesk has been very easy to use, easy to get used to and to teach others how to use it without consuming much time, Talkdesk Can transfer call within the business making it more efficient assisting and resolving queries of our clients ,This has helped us also reduce average …
Chose Talkdesk
Talkdesk easily adapts to the evolving needs of sales and support teams and their end customers, agents receive and handle calls, texts, emails, or chats initiated by customers. Without a Talkdesk, you cannot perform the most simple, Talkdesk sends agents notifications …
Chose Talkdesk
Talkdesk easily adapts to the evolving needs of sales and support teams and their end customers, driving customer lifetime value and loyalty. Talkdest also supports tickets to chat with an agent for help; it has all the support needed for both agents and clients that we deal …
Chose Talkdesk
Other Talkdesk competitors offer better solutions for small-scale businesses as it doesn't contain advanced call management features that require extensive software training.
Chose Talkdesk
I've used Genesis in my previous workplace, and I must say Talkdesk is the best so far.
Chose Talkdesk
Calabrio ONE, Slack, Slack and CRM and Deals for Zendesk
Chose Talkdesk
Call recordings, quality assessments, feedback, coaching, and monitoring, the call flow is effortless and painless, changing statuses from after-call work is updated to be qued so you cannot change after aftercall work is finished, shows you the company metrics, SLA, …
Chose Talkdesk
Talkdesk provides a lot more when you look at Quality management. The live feed assists our workforce management in keeping track of all agents' log-in time and log-out. It also assists with keeping up to date with your score and improving your markdowns. Talkdesk also provides …
Chose Talkdesk
Talkdesk is used to take inbound and outbound calls, which helps improve customer experience. It also provides evaluations through quality management. Talk desk scores are sometimes behind, but they still work well regarding taking and receiving calls. Some agents blame the …
Chose Talkdesk
Talkdesk helps us create evaluations and also be able to access our coaching feedback. We are also able to access call transcripts. I chose Talkdesk because it's one of the easiest form of communication. We are also able to filter the features of Talkdesk which help us have a …
Chose Talkdesk
Talkdesk is like The Mona Lisa that Van Gogh wishes he painted before cutting his ear off. End-to-end user-friendly and ultimately the system of choice and preference in many ways as it completes the contact center life cycle immensely. My experience with this system has been …
Chose Talkdesk
Due to our utilization of Zendesk for digital support, centralized information management is critical. Although we have attempted to implement the integration, the user experience for agents utilizing the Talkdesk console within Zendesk is suboptimal as well as the options for …
Chose Talkdesk
The Service UpTime exceeding acceptable Industry Standards
The cost for the services provided is accurate
The speed of resolution of outages and degradation issues
Chose Talkdesk
We left Vonage for Talkdesk- we are extremely happy with our decision
Features
AircallTalkdesk
Cloud PBX
Comparison of Cloud PBX features of Product A and Product B
Aircall
7.4
Ratings
8% below category average
Talkdesk
-
Ratings
Hosted PBX8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Multi-level Interactive Voice Response (IVR)8.60 Ratings00 Ratings
User templates5.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Call reports7.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Directory of employee names8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Call Management
Comparison of Call Management features of Product A and Product B
Aircall
7.1
Ratings
17% below category average
Talkdesk
-
Ratings
Answering rules8.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Call recording9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Call park4.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Call screening7.80 Ratings00 Ratings
Message alerts6.00 Ratings00 Ratings
VoIP system collaboration
Comparison of VoIP system collaboration features of Product A and Product B
Aircall
5.7
Ratings
34% below category average
Talkdesk
-
Ratings
Audio conferencing5.70 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile apps
Comparison of Mobile apps features of Product A and Product B
Aircall
7.8
Ratings
2% below category average
Talkdesk
-
Ratings
Mobile app for iOS7.80 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile app for Android7.80 Ratings00 Ratings
Contact Center Software
Comparison of Contact Center Software features of Product A and Product B
Aircall
-
Ratings
Talkdesk
7.7
Ratings
7% below category average
Agent dashboard00 Ratings7.50 Ratings
Validate callers00 Ratings8.60 Ratings
Outbound response00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Call forwarding00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Click-to-call (CTC)00 Ratings8.60 Ratings
Warm transfer00 Ratings8.80 Ratings
Predictive dialing00 Ratings8.30 Ratings
Interactive voice response00 Ratings8.10 Ratings
REST APIs00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Call scripts00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Call tracking00 Ratings8.30 Ratings
Multichannel integration00 Ratings7.50 Ratings
CRM software integration00 Ratings5.80 Ratings
Workforce Optimization (WFO)
Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of Product A and Product B
Aircall
-
Ratings
Talkdesk
8.5
Ratings
3% above category average
Inbound call routing00 Ratings8.20 Ratings
Omnichannel inbound routing00 Ratings8.20 Ratings
Recording00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Quality management00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Call analytics00 Ratings8.20 Ratings
Historical reporting00 Ratings9.20 Ratings
Live reporting00 Ratings8.30 Ratings
Customer surveys00 Ratings7.90 Ratings
Customer interaction analytics00 Ratings8.20 Ratings
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AircallTalkdesk
Small Businesses
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Score 7.2 out of 10
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CloudTalk
Score 7.2 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
CloudTalk
CloudTalk
Score 7.2 out of 10
CloudTalk
CloudTalk
Score 7.2 out of 10
Enterprises
Cisco Business Edition 7000 (discontinued)
Cisco Business Edition 7000 (discontinued)
Score 9.0 out of 10
Google Cloud Contact Center AI
Google Cloud Contact Center AI
Score 7.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
AircallTalkdesk
Likelihood to Recommend
8.7
(0 ratings)
8.3
(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
7.8
(0 ratings)
8.5
(0 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(0 ratings)
8.5
(0 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
9.8
(0 ratings)
6.6
(0 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
7.3
(0 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
AircallTalkdesk
Likelihood to Recommend
Aircall is great for anyone who has multiple team members calling from the same number or a team that needs to call from many different numbers. The way Aircall allows users to organize people and numbers is extremely customizable and efficient. I think just about any business could benefit from using Aircall and highly recommend it!
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Talkdesk does an excellent job with productivity reports. I can monitor my agent's lives during calls and their current status, allowing me to affect them productively at that moment. I can also download a productivity report on Talkdesk to analyze historical data and see patterns and problems.
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Pros
  • Make representatives aware of connection, time zone, environment. Having a sense of the customers location will help us to assist the customer
  • Aircall always asks the quality of your call to be able to provide feedback on connection or issues with the app.
  • Aircall is very customizable. You are able to set certain ringtones, play audio through computer and headset, as well as make it your own.
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  • Receives calls immediately and connects well.
  • Making outbound calls and having Talkdesk display the name associated with the number.
  • Aux on break, lunch, or meeting, and it stays as it is and does not change status on its own.
  • Being able to check on colleagues on whether they are available.
  • Able to track your work for the day, the amount of calls you made and received.
  • Being able to check your Daily and monthly score from QA.
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Cons
  • No schedule for bank holidays
  • No feature to update more than one phone line at the same time
  • Admins don't have access to the timeline of a call to see with which agent it rang
  • Missing agent-specific stats when your phone lines are organized in teams
  • If calls are setup to ring to a first group and then a second, if the whole first group is already busy, it does not go to the second group but puts the customer on hold
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  • The core maintenance, migration and deployment of Voice prompts, functions alongwith flow changes is crucial and is a key missing feature. Development in Production was a shocker and led to lot of confusion and limitation during the implementation and testing.
  • The AI feature is not as supported and reliable in Non English language
  • The Support team seems very lean to handle heavy loads of issue thereby delaying the resolution of the issue. One of our critical issue took almost 2 months to resolve which could have been handled better by proactively driving the issue from talkdesk end.
  • The support ticket does not have any escalation process. It needs to add the severity/ impact to number of agents and have people to support escalation especially involving Call Quality/network/Reporting/storage
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Likelihood to Renew
I give this rating as aircall is very easy to use but also lacks a parallel dialing feature which makes it slower to use. aircall has a pretty seamless integration with salesforce which is helpful. For the cost it is definitely very reasonable but it also lacks a live coaching/listening feature which is very valuable as a manager.
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Talkdesk is an enterprise grade solution for telephony service. Zendesk eould be the only other option in terms of solutions I have implemented and seen in practice. It is easy for business users to learn how to use talkdesk and develop call routing paths dependong on the nature of the customer's request
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Usability
I provide this rating based on my overall experience using Aircall. I have used it on my previous company as well and that being said, it is a proof that Aircall is a great tool to use in contact centers and with B2B businesses that has direct communication with clients.
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It's good for monitoring and quality checking. Overall, I'm happy with Talk Desk. Call quality is great, recordings are high quality, and playback has no issues. Administrator features are well-designed. Talkdesk is a great platform for our Customer support. It has many features and is an omnichannel platform. I like the IVR design the most; it has a lot of functionality to customise interactions between agents and customers.
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Reliability and Availability
No answers on this topic
Talkdesk is very handy but, sometimes we do face issues were the system can just kick you out and not be able to do calls or receive calls but, what I like about the system once you start refreshing or troubleshooting, everything becomes normal it is a unique system and very modern we don't usually have system issues with Talkdesk.
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Performance
No answers on this topic
I give this system a full 10/10 once you refresh or troubleshoot you do not wait for too long to use it . It easy like ABC . I honestly recommend this system, even when you check the QA score card, you do not have to wait that long; you just click on the notification bell and view your score card.
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Support Rating
We've enjoyed using Aircall so far and have had no issues with it. The platform is easy to use, looks nice, and makes it easy to keep track of everything.
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If Talkdesk had a dedicated phone support line I would have given this rating an overall 10. Their knowledge base is absolutely HUGE and at times very helpful. It's easy to search through and their customer support chat system works perfectly fine, but there are just some times that you need to speak to a human on the phone to ensure you are always on the same page.
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In-Person Training
No answers on this topic
The training that was given to us was very smooth and professional. I give my trainer 10/ 10 rate the training was so smooth and very helpful she would make sure we also watch videos of how to use the system which made it very easier for us and what was interesting it is because, the system is also easy.
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Online Training
No answers on this topic
Nothing is perfect!! Needing the ability to repeat the training so everyone was on board was important. Not real sure how many people had to repeat the training as they trained on their own and given 30 minutes at a time.
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Implementation Rating
No answers on this topic
Really easy to get set up out of the box. Anything I needed to understand further, I was able to just hop into the Academy and self-teach. I could then bring my team-members to those same sections so they could learn as well without me having to put together complicated SOP's / etc
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Alternatives Considered
I am not the right person to answer this because I don't make the purchase decisions within our company. I have worked with several companies, and every one of them has their tools. I particularly liked Aircall among all of them because of the different reasons I have already mentioned before.
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Call recordings, quality assessments, feedback, coaching, and monitoring, the call flow is effortless and painless, changing statuses from after-call work is updated to be qued so you cannot change after aftercall work is finished, shows you the company metrics, SLA, abandonment, number of calls taken and record occupancy for you and the team. Many more features make Talkdesk an innovative software compared to its competitors.
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Scalability
No answers on this topic
We have over 200 employees in 11 states across the United States. Everyone uses Talkdesk. I believe that says a lot about the product and its flexibility. We need to be able to rely on system in order to assist our customers. Reliability and sustainability is important to our success
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Return on Investment
  • Because of the lack of local partnerships with South African telecoms companies, calls to South Africa is very expensive. This was not originally apparent when opening the Aircall account.
  • Not having the option to display a local South African number in the CLIP, means that people are not always eager to pick up the phone when they see an overseas number ringing.
  • The only positive impact has been the collaborative experience and being able to maintain a virtual office
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  • Better reporting than we had with the previous system. Better metrics = better analytics.
  • WFM and QA being modules within the tool have improved how we manage agent performance, which has let to improvements in overall quality.
  • Has been a key component as we continue to mature the service desk organization.
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ScreenShots

Aircall Screenshots

Screenshot of A simple way to make and receive calls at your desk.Screenshot of Your calls on the go, anywhere you go (iOS + Android).Screenshot of Track your team's call activities in real-time in the Aircall Activity Feed.Screenshot of Track your team's call performance in real-time in the Aircall Analytics Dashboard.

Talkdesk Screenshots

Screenshot of Talkdesk Guardian™, which is an AI-driven, native cloud compliance solution that enables contact centers to gain visibility and take control of their WFH and hybrid workforce.Screenshot of Talkdesk Autopilot™, which is a tool that handles common customer queries, like orders, returns and billing, and automatically responds with conversational answers. And when complex cases are detected that need human empathy and expertise, the virtual agent will redirect customers to a human agent.Screenshot of Talkdesk AI Trainer™, which equips customers with tools to observe, simulate, and put guardrails on AI, according to their needs. This way, generative AI can be used responsibly, preventing AI mishaps, and protecting the brand from potentially poor AI experiences.