Amazon Chime vs. Zoom Rooms

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Amazon Chime
Score 5.6 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
Zoom Rooms
Score 8.7 out of 10
N/A
Zoom's conference rooms that make it easy to run or join video meetings with a tap of a button. Zoom Rooms bring HD video collaboration into any space – in the office, in the classroom, or at home – and enables in-person and remote participants to interact in real time. The solution also makes it simple to start a meeting, book a room, and share content.N/A
Pricing
Amazon ChimeZoom Rooms
Editions & Modules
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
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Amazon ChimeZoom Rooms
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details*up to $15.00 per user per month
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
Amazon ChimeZoom Rooms
Considered Both Products
Amazon Chime
Chose Amazon Chime
We like the Amazon Chime versus Teams - more features and easy to use. We are able to use instant messages - create rooms and do instant training with screen sharing immediately when needed. All of our users have picked it up quickly and really like it. We quit using teams …
Chose Amazon Chime
Amazon has a very good audio and video quality. Chime's video conferencing feature works as expected there is no lag in the audio. If the internet speed is about 50 mpbs + then it works as a charm! At times the desktop can get slow but the mobile application is pretty fast as …
Chose Amazon Chime
Our reason for the selection of Amazon Chime was a client recommendation. In a comparison of other competitor's products, Amazon Chime provides similar functionality and features. From a pricing perspective, you may opt for pay-per-use pricing which could be confusing for some …
Chose Amazon Chime
Users have a level of familarity with other market leading collaboration products.

However we selected this for the single dashboard for chat, calling, meeting and messaging specifically on phone app. There is a very simple interface with a minimum of clicks to launch the …
Chose Amazon Chime
It's slower and the user experience is much clunkier. It seems like it was developed by and for other developers, not the normal public.
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 …
Chose Amazon Chime
I have not tested Amazon Chime, against other market alternatives, as it is being used to meet a specific demand, which is communication with certain companies, as it is the preferred means of communication. But, it is a good tool and does not lose anything to the other tools …
Chose Amazon Chime
All the mentioned above products are better if not rated much higher with the features they have compared to Amazon Chime. Amazon Chime does not support well with google calendar and other negative features I mentioned compared to other products. Amazon Chime lacks features …
Chose Amazon Chime
We chose Amazon Chime due to better pricing, ease of implementation, and great customer support from their team. Better product overall in terms of reliability.
Chose Amazon Chime
Amazon Chime stacks up cleaner and much more intuitive to Google Hangouts Chat. In comparison to Slack, Amazon Chime is much better because Slack is not conducive to having a face-to-face conversation, much less, screen sharing. Microsoft Teams was hard to use when some of our …
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 …
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.
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 …
Chose Amazon Chime
We used to use Go To Meeting/Go To Webinar for our web conferencing and AT&T Teleconferencing numbers, either separately or in conjunction with the Go To Meeting/Go To Webinar. I liked that Go To Webinar allowed people to pre-register, which gave us the opportunity to prepare. …
Chose Amazon Chime
Chime was a lot less expensive that WebEx. It was also easier to use and maintain.
Chose Amazon Chime
I would say Chime is step below Teams, but manages to get the job done. Chime is more straight forward and simplistic and meets all our basic needs for internal chat.
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 …
Chose Amazon Chime
Amazon Chime WILL become an industry leader. Amazon is still behind WebEx and is gaining ground on Microsoft. The advantage Microsoft will have is the ability to embed in organizations through Office, and have that advantage over WebEx as well. We selected Amazon Chime as …
Chose Amazon Chime
I believe Amazon Chime is better, easier to use, and had better quality video/audio
Chose Amazon Chime
AWS Chime is very comparable to Zoom meeting. Monthly costs are usually cheaper but are variable and can fluctuate. Reporting on AWS Chime is great but needs some additional back-end set-up that could be cumbersome. Overall... ease, quality, look and set-up is very easy. …
Chose Amazon Chime
I have used GoToMeeting, which is a major competitor to Amazon Chime, and I can confidently say that GoToMeeting is literally ten times better. We rarely have any of the issues with GoToMeeting that we do with Amazon Chime. I highly recommend GoToMeeting over Amazon Chime …
Chose Amazon Chime
High quality of audio and video, and great meeting experiences.

Chose Amazon Chime
Amazon Chime is great for call and video quality. It's pretty comparable to Zoom both in cost and capabilities. It's definitely superior to UberConference and Join.Me, both of which are not particularly reliable. I have had call quality and the screen shares freeze up. …
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.
Zoom Rooms
Chose Zoom Rooms
During the evaluation process we found Zoom Rooms to be more reliable on our network and more secure for our students. We enjoyed the controls in the system as well as the flexibility for our staff to teach within their preferences.
Chose Zoom Rooms
Before using Zoom Rooms we had close to 450 endpoints of CISCO Telepresence throughout the state in classrooms and conference rooms. A good product, but could only buy CISCO hardware. No third party hardware available. Zoom innovation has moved the Zoom Room technology …
Chose Zoom Rooms
Zoom Rooms was the first to use proximity technology, the use of broadband is less and the integration it has with harwdare is the simplest there is.
Chose Zoom Rooms
The biggest issue is video quality. Microsoft can reduce video quality, but I don't always see why it does this. Zoom will be at the quality of your account unless there is a significant bandwidth problem. If the quality issue ends, the video quality improves again.
Microsoft …
Chose Zoom Rooms
We switched to Zoom due to the customer service quality with other vendors. Responses came slow and unblocking every country code one by one was a hassle.
Chose Zoom Rooms
It has easy of use collaboration features for meetings.
Chose Zoom Rooms
Better audio and video handling. Ease of use. We have Google as part of our Technology solutions but still purchased Zoom Workplace.
Chose Zoom Rooms
Zoom Workplace is more refined, better audio and video quality and more features. We chose Zoom Workplace because more of our partners and clients felt comfortable with Zoom Workplace.
Chose Zoom Rooms
Zoom has so many more features. The breakout rooms and interpretation were critical reasons we went with Zoom.
Chose Zoom Rooms
We use Zoom for the specific use cases mentioned because it seems to be the best tool for those use cases. Other tools are in use for other use cases in our enterprise, as well as because of the pricing structure for the tool.
Chose Zoom Rooms
Both work very well, but users had more familiarity with Zoom.
Chose Zoom Rooms
Zoom Rooms is far superior from initial installation, backend management, and user experience though that seems to be changing with time as more and more products and features are added it is becoming more bloated and complicated to manage the service.
Chose Zoom Rooms
Google Meet, Webex App and Microsoft Teams
Chose Zoom Rooms
Zoom room is much more easy to use, integrates with wide range of audio visual products, supports multi screens "up to 3 screens with confidant screen" smart name tag. multi share and automated translation.
Chose Zoom Rooms
Microsoft Teams Rooms, Webex Meetings, Polycom RealPresence Immersive Studio and Google Meet
Chose Zoom Rooms
We were previously with RingCentral/Mitel for our business phone solution. Switching over to Zoom Phone and integrating it with our existing Zoom account has allowed us to drop our phone expenses by over 75% AND get rid of our gigantic desk phones!
Chose Zoom Rooms
I personally think Zoom Rooms is superior to Teams. I have setup 3 or 4 Zooms Rooms for my organisation and it is pretty straightforward to do without any formal training or education on Zoom Rooms. My experience with Teams was the opposite. A horrible interface and options …
Chose Zoom Rooms
I think Zoom Rooms is probably the best
Chose Zoom Rooms
My understanding is that we would need to upgrade this feature in Google Workspace, so there was not a significant cost savings. We felt that the meeting recordings and webinar as well as Zoom Room features in Zoom Workspace made it the better choice for us.
Features
Amazon ChimeZoom Rooms
Performance & Compatibility of Online Events Software
Comparison of Performance & Compatibility of Online Events Software features of Product A and Product B
Amazon Chime
10.0
Ratings
23% above category average
Zoom Rooms
8.5
Ratings
7% above category average
High quality audio10.00 Ratings8.70 Ratings
High quality video10.00 Ratings8.70 Ratings
Low bandwidth requirements10.00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Mobile support10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Screen Sharing
Comparison of Screen Sharing features of Product A and Product B
Amazon Chime
9.2
Ratings
15% above category average
Zoom Rooms
7.5
Ratings
6% below category average
Desktop sharing10.00 Ratings7.50 Ratings
Whiteboards8.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Online Meetings / Events
Comparison of Online Meetings / Events features of Product A and Product B
Amazon Chime
9.7
Ratings
16% above category average
Zoom Rooms
8.7
Ratings
5% above category average
Calendar integration10.00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Meeting initiation10.00 Ratings8.40 Ratings
Integrates with social media8.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Record meetings / events10.00 Ratings8.60 Ratings
Slideshows10.00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Online Events Collaboration
Comparison of Online Events Collaboration features of Product A and Product B
Amazon Chime
10.0
Ratings
20% above category average
Zoom Rooms
8.2
Ratings
0% above category average
Live chat10.00 Ratings8.20 Ratings
Audience polling10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Q&A10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Online Events Security
Comparison of Online Events Security features of Product A and Product B
Amazon Chime
10.0
Ratings
21% above category average
Zoom Rooms
8.6
Ratings
6% above category average
User authentication10.00 Ratings7.70 Ratings
Participant roles & permissions10.00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Confidential attendee list10.00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
VoIP system collaboration
Comparison of VoIP system collaboration features of Product A and Product B
Amazon Chime
10.0
Ratings
24% above category average
Zoom Rooms
-
Ratings
Video conferencing10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Audio conferencing10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Video screen sharing10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Instant messaging10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Amazon ChimeZoom Rooms
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(0 ratings)
8.5
(0 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
8.3
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.8
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Amazon ChimeZoom Rooms
Likelihood to Recommend
Great tool which can be used for collaborating and sharing screens. It helps in integrating with calendar effortlessly and send invitations for the meeting. Sometimes it takes time to load the application on your device and is not compatible with all browsers. It has different options of muting and sharing screen during presenting.
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User friendly, reliable and inclusive to remote audiences. The product grows organically for us which speaks for itself ; the business at sites we could not equip with our initial investments requests it. We have made the choice of Zoom rooms 5 years ago and it is still one our our star products supporting frictionless collaboration.
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Pros
  • Chat tools, video calls, on spot meeting invite[s] easy to create and use.
  • Ability to record any meeting and automatically downloads the meeting recording after ending the meeting.
  • UI is clean and easy to navigate around Amazon Chime.
  • Ability to invite outside guests easily using Amazon Chime without any issues.
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  • Zoom Rooms is built on the Zoom platform so faculty already know it and use it.
  • All touch panels regardless of manufacturer have the same look and feel.
  • Easy to schedule, easy to use.
  • Supports a wide range of hardware from several vendors.
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Cons
  • I'd like to see more sentiment analysis around the conversation between the salesperson and the prospect. This would make great for coaching opportunities after the call to make our sales reps better.
  • In a few instances, members of our sales team had issues with sharing call recording links with their prospects. Our product team came to the conclusion it was coming from the Amazon Chime end.
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  • Support is prompt, but not always the most immediately knowledgable or helpful.
  • Admin portal is convoluted. There's gotta be a better way to assign scheduling permisissions.
  • Zoom account managers are constantly being reassigned. It is nearly impossible to keep track of who presently is our account manager. When we were going through the process of looking into Zoom Phone, our manager was literally switched twice, resulting in us working with three total managers during that two-month process.
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Usability
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User friendliness (experience very similar to the already familiar Zoom app), consistency of the UX across locations and manufacturers. Screen sharing is made super easy (proximity). Zoom rooms support strategic needs for Hybrid work and reduced travels. Backend admin interface is simple (that's good) and provides useful dashboards for trend analysis.
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Support Rating
They were very supportive in answering all of our questions when we had problems. Their in-person calls but their support site also had a full set of information that can answer a good portion of your questions before you have to pick up the phone. But when you, you will get good service.
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Alternatives Considered
Our reason for the selection of Amazon Chime was a client recommendation. In a comparison of other competitor's products, Amazon Chime provides similar functionality and features. From a pricing perspective, you may opt for pay-per-use pricing which could be confusing for some users. There are also basic and Pro subscription plans depending upon what you need. We did a free trial for 30 days and then procured a few accounts for internal and external use.
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I personally think Zoom Rooms is superior to Teams. I have setup 3 or 4 Zooms Rooms for my organisation and it is pretty straightforward to do without any formal training or education on Zoom Rooms. My experience with Teams was the opposite. A horrible interface and options deliberately hidden away in menus levels deep. On top of which, Zoom Room outperforms Teams Rooms in both video and audio. On the desktop, Teams is a bloated app whereas, in my experience, Zoom Rooms works well.
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Return on Investment
  • Amazon Chime has been an incredibly cost effective way to add video and conference line services (with screen sharing) to our day to day operations because we have an account for free for being Vonage customers.
  • A pro account only costs $15 a month, and you only need one pro account for a small office. If others in your organization need to join, all you need is a basic account to join. You need a pro account in order to launch and administer meetings.
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  • Great value for money as used it more than planned after installation.
  • Finding the use of screen share and whiteboards is becoming very popular and meant we wanted a larger screen for this. ;-)
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