Bird vs. Exotel

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
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
Exotel
Score 6.0 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
Exotel is an advanced customer engagement platform that combines CPaaS, omnichannel contact centers, and Conversational AI. The platform is designed to foster richer, AI-powered, and contextual interactions, offering businesses unparalleled speed and scale in their communications.
$200
5 months Validity
Pricing
BirdExotel
Editions & Modules
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
Dabbler
$200
5 months Validity
Believer
$500
11 months Validity
Influencer
$1000
11 months Validity
Custom
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
BirdExotel
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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Community Pulse
BirdExotel
Considered Both Products
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 …
Exotel
Chose Exotel
We are currently going to replace Exotel as our use cases have evolved over a period of time and it can no longer be satisfied by Exotel. Hence we have decided to move to a much advanced and customisable Cloud Telephony Solution - Intalk. We would still be using Exotel for …
Chose Exotel
Exotel was selected by us because of the following reasons:
-Low set-up and maintenance cost as compared to its peers.
-Prompt customer service: You want to upgrade your plan or facing any issues around the platform, Exotel team is just a call away.
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Small Businesses
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Score 9.1 out of 10
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Score 9.1 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
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Score 9.1 out of 10
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Score 9.1 out of 10
Enterprises
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Score 9.1 out of 10
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Score 9.1 out of 10
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User Ratings
BirdExotel
Likelihood to Recommend
5.3
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6.0
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Likelihood to Renew
-
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5.0
(0 ratings)
Usability
-
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6.0
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
6.0
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
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5.0
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
BirdExotel
Likelihood to Recommend
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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They are well suited in start up in the Central Asia market, would recommend them for that area. We would also recommend their Voice over internet protocol services for mainland as well. Either the text or VOIP was a good service. The experience overall was great with them. Highly recommended.
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Pros
  • 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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  • Affordable Solution: First and foremost the platform is very much affordable for a small start-up starting their business and want to connect with their leads and serve their clients economically.
  • Easy to Use: Anyone can start using the platform from the Day 1. No extensive training required for it. Just integrate your phone number with the platform and solve customer problems at godspeed!
  • IVR Set-up- Want to have different services on a single number for your Services. Set-up IVR and make your life easy.
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Cons
  • 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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  • Communication
  • Not for large companies
  • Volume of texts
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Likelihood to Renew
No answers on this topic
As a company our goals have slightly surpassed the current Exotel features and would want some other software which has better capabilities
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Usability
No answers on this topic
For cold calling and outbound callings, to a certain extend Exotel serves the purpose as mutliple DID numbers are available at our fingertips. For company which use outcalling as a form of passing information to users can benefit from the flexibility it provides. They have a recharge and use model which doesnt have certain expiry. Basic API documentation available and lesser support from their support team on this matter makes it difficult to check if the API thows any error
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Support Rating
No answers on this topic
Initially they had chat support which was available faster. But now the chat support gets routed to a virtual agent and unable to get in touch with an actual agent. They also have no support with respect to the API's and other integrations.
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Implementation Rating
No answers on this topic
It was pretty straight forward
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Alternatives Considered
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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Exotel was selected by us because of the following reasons: -Low set-up and maintenance cost as compared to its peers. -Prompt customer service: You want to upgrade your plan or facing any issues around the platform, Exotel team is just a call away. -Call recording Quality was also better than the peers.
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Return on Investment
  • Lower cost per message
  • High SMS delivery rate
  • Fast development
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  • Lead attack time reduced.
  • Turnaround time and addressing customer issues improved and directly effected our NPS (Net Promoter Score).
  • Training and identifying areas of improvement of call agents became very easy.
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