Exotel vs. Sinch

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
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
Sinch
Score 7.6 out of 10
N/A
Sinch (formerly CLX Communications) offers a range of SMS messaging services, including the former mBlox, which was acquired in 2016 and serves as a component of Sinch messaging servicesN/A
Pricing
ExotelSinch
Editions & Modules
Dabbler
$200
5 months Validity
Believer
$500
11 months Validity
Influencer
$1000
11 months Validity
Custom
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
ExotelSinch
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
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Considered Both Products
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.
Sinch
Chose Sinch
None, this was our very first SMS service platform and it is doing great. Despite a huge learning curve, this platform has made its position and now serving all of our employees.
Chose Sinch
I've only used one other company, Syniverse, as an SMS Aggregator. That was when I worked for a different company more than 10 years ago, so I don't really have much to compare to Sinch.
Chose Sinch
We considered LANCK telecom but we didn't see guaranteed results in certain regions as well as price wise some of the carriers were getting too expensive. Procurement and certification were of some other concerns and mBlox has a very friendly UI and helpful stuff to navigate …
Chose Sinch
mBlox compares in SLA and QoS to other top tier aggregators. We interconnect with several vendors who provide wholesale enterprise level SMS and MMS services like mBlox, and they all compare around the same. Quality of service is key, and we've found them to be no greater, and …
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User Ratings
ExotelSinch
Likelihood to Recommend
6.0
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6.0
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Likelihood to Renew
5.0
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Usability
6.0
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Support Rating
6.0
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Implementation Rating
5.0
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User Testimonials
ExotelSinch
Likelihood to Recommend
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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[Sinch is] a great SMS aggregator offering full performance with short code messaging. They are very helpful with the certification process and their after launch production support is extremely good too, even going above and beyond after hours in the rare situations where it could be required. My only area of concern is pricing as I've seem some competitive pricing from other service providers that are quite popular too.
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Pros
  • 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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  • mBlox has top tier support, with 24/7/365 availability.
  • mBlox engineers have industry knowledge that allows tuning and optimizing to each of the carriers they interconnect with.
  • mBlox's service implementation team has industry knowledge which helps shortcode programs get approved by the carriers quickly.
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Cons
  • Communication
  • Not for large companies
  • Volume of texts
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  • I feel that Sinch does not have very well customer support and documentation. Despite having a strong and durable platform, Sinch brings on a very huge learning curve as very limited knowledge articles are provided on their website. Since this is a new tool, there are very limited online communities/ forums supporting this tool and hence, a newbie will definitely struggle in deploying/ using Sinch in my opinion.
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Likelihood to Renew
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
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
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
It was pretty straight forward
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Alternatives Considered
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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None, this was our very first SMS service platform and it is doing great. Despite a huge learning curve, this platform has made its position and now serving all of our employees.
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Return on Investment
  • 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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  • Ease of use - straightforward purchasing process and setup.
  • Satisfied customers - reliable routes and service for text messaging.
  • Integration with our marketing platform made the use of codes easy.
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