Avaya Communications API vs. Bird

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Avaya Communications API
Score 6.8 out of 10
N/A
Avaya Communications API (formerly Avaya CPaaS) supports the creation of communication apps providing IVR and automatic speech recognition, text-to-speech, SMS, or phone calls, or apply effects to communications (e.g. voice changer) as desired.N/A
Bird
Score 8.5 out of 10
N/A
Bird CRM, replacing the former MessageBird, is a CRM for Marketing, Sales, and Payments, powering messages to customers across Email, SMS, and WhatsApp.
$0.01
per message
Pricing
Avaya Communications APIBird
Editions & Modules
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API Pricing - WhatsApp
$0.01
per message
API Pricing - Voice
$0.01
per minute
API Pricing - SMS
$0.01
per message
API Pricing - Numbers
$1
per month
Pro
$50
per month
Pro Plus
$150
per month
Start Up
Free
Custom Plan
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Avaya Communications APIBird
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Avaya Communications APIBird
Considered Both Products
Avaya Communications API
Chose Avaya Communications API
CPaaS is tailor made for the IVR, the other Avaya products would not be as robust or scalable, with custom company/ERP logic.
Chose Avaya Communications API
We have tried many other CPaaS platforms including Twilio, Telnyx, Nexmo, SignalWire and Bandwidth. The Avaya CPaaS has the richest set of available features combined with the most competitive pricing model!
Bird
Chose Bird
I use 24sessions predominantly as I have large discount with it and it works for scheduling clients. The user interface is helpful for past meetings.

24sessions is click and go - no account or software is needed for the client.
Chose Bird
Twilio prices were much higher for our initial volume (30k SMS/month). But they have more APIs and more services if you need to integrate email, SMS, and other channels.
We didn't need those features, only basic SMS and email, so we kept each feature from one provider. Email …
Chose Bird
Regarding WhatsApp Business, it is a very useful tool because templates can be programmed for the entire organization and clients can also be referred to other users in order to decongest an agent who can become quite busy. Otherwise there would be no way to serve you through …
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Avaya Communications APIBird
Small Businesses
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Score 9.1 out of 10
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User Ratings
Avaya Communications APIBird
Likelihood to Recommend
8.4
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5.3
(0 ratings)
Usability
8.1
(0 ratings)
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Support Rating
8.1
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User Testimonials
Avaya Communications APIBird
Likelihood to Recommend
Following are ideal use case scenarios for Avaya OneCloud CPaaS:
  • Agent Onboarding in Contact Centers – personalized digital transformation for contact center agents as part of a workforce management solution. Included in the Spaces Learning suite.
  • Reskilling and Upskilling in BPO Enterprises – skills gap training and assessment for technical employees and salespeople. Included in the Spaces Learning suite.
  • Virtual Classroom in Higher Education – integrated platform for educational content delivery, virtual lectures, small group projects, hands-on labs, and collaboration. Included in the Spaces Learning suite.
  • Remote Development Collaboration for Engineering Teams – agile platform for remote coding and development, virtual scrum meetings, and real-time chat.
Following are use case scenarios where Avaya OneCloud CPaaS is less appropriate:
  • Large Virtual Conference Events
  • Consumer Social Media Gatherings
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24sessions is perfect for appointments such as coaching (my use case) where you want them to be able to go into your booking calendar, choose a time and schedule the appointment - or to schedule it from your end. They they get an email on creation and reminder email. I find it not helpful or at least, not at all intuitive, for setting up a host created meeting immediately. You can create it so you can be live at anytime, but host created isn't as any to set up
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Pros
  • Provides a simple well-designed API for 2-way texting.
  • Enables us to manage multiple clients using a single account.
  • Enables us to bill our clients and monitor their usage easily.
  • Provides rapid setup of numbers and easy scripting of programmatic responses.
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  • Users can transfer a client to another user without a particular permission
  • It allows you to control the communication of our agents and their activity.
  • It gives us a feeling of closeness to our clients who, due to their work activity, cannot answer the phone
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Cons
  • By adding the ability to add sub-users to an account.
  • By adding the ability to redact certain aspects of the logs.
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  • Recording feature being available again
  • Faster call set for spur of the moment, host initiated calls
  • No ability to call in using a phone for those without internet/low speed access.
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Usability
We were able to achieve the objectives of the integration we wanted to create in a short timeframe with a minimum of development needed.
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Support Rating
Avaya OneCloud CPaaS support has been excellent. Specifically:
  • Onboarding new users (licensing)
  • API integration support
  • Client platform support for learners
  • Seamless rollout of new features (and documentation)
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Alternatives Considered
We have tried many other CPaaS platforms including Twilio, Telnyx, Nexmo, SignalWire and Bandwidth. The Avaya CPaaS has the richest set of available features combined with the most competitive pricing model!
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Regarding WhatsApp Business, it is a very useful tool because templates can be programmed for the entire organization and clients can also be referred to other users in order to decongest an agent who can become quite busy. Otherwise there would be no way to serve you through two agents and you could have a bad end user or customer experience.
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Return on Investment
  • Automating the IVR creation gives our business a new dimension.
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  • Lower cost per message
  • High SMS delivery rate
  • Fast development
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