Bandwidth vs. Bird

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Bandwidth
Score 5.1 out of 10
N/A
Bandwidth, headquartered in Raleigh, provides business class communications platform as a service (CPaaS), supporting many use cases such as lead alerts for sales, automated customer surveys, conference calls and messaging, and virtual call center, among other cases.
$0.01
per message
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
BandwidthBird
Editions & Modules
Outbound Messaging
$0.01
per message
Inbound Calling
$0.01
per minute
Outbound Calling
$0.01
per minute
Phone Number
$0.35
per line/per month
Inbound Messaging
Free
per message
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
Contact sales team
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
BandwidthBird
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
BandwidthBird
Considered Both Products
Bandwidth
Chose Bandwidth
When I used it, it was Level 3 ELS but now they are owned by CenturyLink. Bandwidth has a better response time and is more cost-effective.
Chose Bandwidth
Bandwidth wins hands down. We were lucky to get someone from CenturyLink to return our calls, their trouble reporting dashboard was horrible and they, as a company, were generally unresponsive when we escalated issues. They would close tickets when the issue was still very …
Chose Bandwidth
Level 3, CenturyLink, Verizon Business, VoIP Innovations, Inteliquent, Comwave, Voxbone, DIDWW.
Chose Bandwidth
Their pricing is tough to beat, the reliability is great. And then add a few more positive things, like the tools and customer support, and that makes it a no-brainer.
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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Small Businesses
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Score 9.2 out of 10
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Score 9.2 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
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Telegram
Score 9.2 out of 10
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Score 9.2 out of 10
Enterprises
Telegram
Telegram
Score 9.2 out of 10
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Score 9.2 out of 10
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User Ratings
BandwidthBird
Likelihood to Recommend
1.5
(0 ratings)
5.3
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
9.0
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
BandwidthBird
Likelihood to Recommend
Bandwidth is great for wholesale origination and termination. With a decent commitment, you can get great rates, and their support is excellent. Recommended as a primary source of service for voice traffic.
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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
  • Bandwidth has great customer service. They are all friendly and super helpful.
  • They are innovative and constantly updating their APIs, UIs, and products they offer.
  • Their UI and API are user friendly and intuitive.
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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
  • While their porting department does a wonderful job, it seems to be the department that feeds other departments. They promote many out of that department to take on more responsibility elsewhere in the company (which is a good thing). However, it leaves us to work with yet another porting person who we have to learn to work with.
  • I cannot really say much else that's negative about them. They do a good job, have an easy to use portal, and respond well when things aren't working.
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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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Alternatives Considered
Bandwidth wins hands down. We were lucky to get someone from CenturyLink to return our calls, their trouble reporting dashboard was horrible and they, as a company, were generally unresponsive when we escalated issues. They would close tickets when the issue was still very obviously occurring. Bandwidth doesn't close a ticket until the end user says it is fixed -- which is refreshing in the telecom industry.
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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
  • Great product, at a reasonable price.
  • Their quick support allows us to get customer issues fixed, and fast.
  • Their portal allows for adding additional sites/trunks without talking to anyone.
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  • Lower cost per message
  • High SMS delivery rate
  • Fast development
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