Amazon Chime vs. Skype (discontinued)

Amazon Chime

75 Reviews and Ratings

Skype (discontinued)

2,611 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Amazon Chime	Score5.6 out of 10	N/A	Amazon Chime is a communications service from Amazon Web Services with a built-in VoIP solution. Amazon Chime can be used for online meetings, video conferencing, and business calling, and features pay-as-you-go pricing.	$0 per minute
Skype (discontinued)	Score7.1 out of 10	N/A	Skype (the personal edition or Skype free) was a web meeting, video conferencing, and VoIP software, now superseded by Microsoft Teams' free edition and unsupported from May 2025.	$2.99 per month

Pricing

Amazon Chime

Skype (discontinued)

Business Calling - Inbound: $0.002216
per minute
Business Calling - Phone Numbers: $1
per number per month, US Only
Meetings - Pro: $3
*per user per day
Meetings - Basic: Free
Business Calling - Outbound: Country Dependent
per minute
Business Calling - Receive Text: Free
US Only
Business Calling - Send Text: Country Dependent

United States Subscription: $2.99
per month
North America Subscription: $6.99
per month
India Subscription: $7.99
per month

Pricing Offerings
Amazon Chime	Skype (discontinued)
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

No setup fee

No setup fee

*up to $15.00 per user per month

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Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	Amazon Chime	Skype (discontinued)
Considered Both Products	Amazon AWS Verified User Chose Amazon Chime Better than Skype for Business in terms of loading the application onto your device. Skype had crashing issues always and those are comparatively low when using Amazon Chime. Amazon chime is fast and easy to work with while collaborating and setting up meetings. The audio and … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Amazon Chime I believe the two products (Slack and Skype) are better suited for the situations where it is a smaller crowd. This is due to those systems being easier to chat within and collaborate in the smaller environment. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Amazon Chime They are all good products, but here is why we switched: 1. UberConf. This was the first conference software we used. It used to be great, it actually had a free version that worked perfectly. Then the service started to falter, mostly lag time between user and presenter. And … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Amazon Chime Amazon's Chime is lightweight and has easy integrations with Slack. Cloud Trail has good call reports, doesn't take time to load compared to other products that I have tried. Its APIs exposed by Amazon are really helpful to customize. The shift from one user to another for … Incentivized Helpful? Keith Lillico, M.Ed, MBA Owner/Independent Instructional Designer in Corporate at Lillico Learning (E-Learning, 1-10 employees) Chose Amazon Chime Amazon Chime product stacks up pretty much equal to the other pieces of software that we have used in the past. What drives the use of the software over the others is purely preference. My team has adapted to using this software, and now it has become what they would rather … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Amazon Chime I believe Amazon Chime is better, easier to use, and had better quality video/audio Incentivized Helpful? Perry Hahn AV Supervisor in Customer Service at Avisys, Inc. Amazon Account (Staffing and Recruiting, 51-200 employees) Chose Amazon Chime Chime and Biba are interchangeable to me, both accomplish the same task. We have transitioned to Chime as it was created by Amazon and we support Amazon, so it was an easy decision for us. I do enjoy Chime more as it just seems to work effortlessly. I would recommend it to all. Incentivized Helpful?	Discontinued Products Verified User Chose Skype (discontinued) Skype is a great tool for communicating with peers. It's also useful for screen sharing and having meetings through video conferencing. End-to-end testing is possible through Skype, as well. It integrates well with Outlook and setting up meetings is quick and easy. Adding … Incentivized Helpful?
	Would buy again
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	Delivers good value for the price
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	Happy with the feature set
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	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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	Implementation went as expected
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Features

Amazon Chime

Skype (discontinued)

Comparison of Performance & Compatibility of Online Events Software features of Amazon Chime and Skype (discontinued)
Feature	Amazon Chime 10.0 26 Ratings	Skype (discontinued) 9.6 138 Ratings
High quality audio	10.026 Ratings	9.8135 Ratings
High quality video	10.026 Ratings	9.6133 Ratings
Low bandwidth requirements	10.021 Ratings	9.4130 Ratings
Mobile support	10.021 Ratings	9.4118 Ratings

Comparison of Screen Sharing features of Amazon Chime and Skype (discontinued)
Feature	Amazon Chime 9.2 25 Ratings	Skype (discontinued) 9.4 119 Ratings
Desktop sharing	10.025 Ratings	9.5118 Ratings
Whiteboards	8.311 Ratings	9.360 Ratings

Comparison of Online Meetings / Events features of Amazon Chime and Skype (discontinued)
Feature	Amazon Chime 9.7 25 Ratings	Skype (discontinued) 9.6 118 Ratings
Calendar integration	10.022 Ratings	9.585 Ratings
Meeting initiation	10.024 Ratings	9.7106 Ratings
Integrates with social media	8.39 Ratings	9.465 Ratings
Record meetings / events	10.023 Ratings	9.577 Ratings
Slideshows	10.021 Ratings	9.968 Ratings

Comparison of Online Events Collaboration features of Amazon Chime and Skype (discontinued)
Feature	Amazon Chime 10.0 22 Ratings	Skype (discontinued) 9.7 111 Ratings
Live chat	10.022 Ratings	9.7110 Ratings
Audience polling	10.010 Ratings	9.964 Ratings
Q&A	10.012 Ratings	9.562 Ratings

Comparison of Online Events Security features of Amazon Chime and Skype (discontinued)
Feature	Amazon Chime 10.0 22 Ratings	Skype (discontinued) 9.7 101 Ratings
User authentication	10.018 Ratings	9.788 Ratings
Participant roles & permissions	10.021 Ratings	9.683 Ratings
Confidential attendee list	10.016 Ratings	9.960 Ratings

Comparison of VoIP system collaboration features of Amazon Chime and Skype (discontinued)
Feature	Amazon Chime 10.0 1 Ratings	Skype (discontinued) 9.3 4 Ratings
Video conferencing	10.01 Ratings	9.74 Ratings
Audio conferencing	10.01 Ratings	9.04 Ratings
Video screen sharing	10.01 Ratings	9.24 Ratings
Instant messaging	10.01 Ratings	9.44 Ratings

User Ratings
	Amazon Chime	Skype (discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend	10.0 (27 ratings)	9.0 (140 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (5 ratings)
Usability	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (4 ratings)
Availability	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Performance	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	8.8 (9 ratings)	10.0 (42 ratings)
Implementation Rating	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (3 ratings)
Configurability	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Ease of integration	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Product Scalability	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Professional Services	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)