Telnyx vs. Vonage Communications APIs

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Telnyx
Score 8.6 out of 10
N/A
Offering a communications platform that provides global carrier-grade services, Telnyx in Chicago maintains an international, private IP network and grants its customers control over their communications through its portal and RESTful API. Telnyx products include voice (elastic SIP trunking, global number search, and telephony data), programmatic messaging, wireless (mobile IoT), embedded communications (WebRTC) and automated networking. Customers provision services a la carte and pay by usage…
$0
per LRN lookup
Vonage Communications APIs
Score 9.2 out of 10
N/A
Vonage APIs (formerly Nexmo and TokBox) help growing startups and agile enterprises enhance customer experience and realize new business outcomes at scale. With a comprehensive suite of communication channels, a global platform, and expert support, users can abstract the complexity of communications and innovate faster.N/A
Pricing
TelnyxVonage Communications APIs
Editions & Modules
Identity Services & Data
$0.0015
per LRN lookup
Voice API
$0.002
per minute
SMS API
$0.0025
per send (free to receive)
Elastic SIP Trunking
$0.0035 ($0.005)
origination (termination) per minute
Fax
$0.0070
per page
Verify API
$0.04
per API call
Wireless
$2.00
per month
Networking
$100.00
per month (starting price)
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
TelnyxVonage Communications APIs
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsTelnyx offers additional discounts as customers scale.
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Community Pulse
TelnyxVonage Communications APIs
Considered Both Products
Telnyx
Chose Telnyx
T38 is our secondary carrier. They aren't listed in the available list. Telnyx has a larger number pool and easy to use interface. Although, T38 has the upper hand with fax troubleshooting.
Chose Telnyx
Easy of use and better prices. Outstanding customer service. Variety of services in telecommunication needs. Easy use of interface even for not experienced users. Migration of SIP numbers is easier. Reporting is very easy to use and customizable for our specific needs, so we …
Chose Telnyx
Twilio offers better security and HIPAA paperwork but they don't have your customer service. Twilio offers better SMS programming at a much lower burden of entry. The visual programming interface makes life simple. Your pricing is much better though.
Chose Telnyx
The customer portal with Telnyx stands out. It is incredibly easy to navigate and has all the features and tools we need for our inventory.
Vonage Communications APIs
Chose Vonage Communications APIs

Nexmo is the best platform in the industry for sure. We don't use all the features that the API provides but we are really satisfied with the ones we use. We are sure this is the best solution in the market if you need to solve the communication in real time with your customers.

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User Ratings
TelnyxVonage Communications APIs
Likelihood to Recommend
8.6
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7.1
(0 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
7.2
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
6.7
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
TelnyxVonage Communications APIs
Likelihood to Recommend
We use Telnyx in a small company and are getting great savings in our telecommunications needs. Reporting is clear and makes it easy to control expenses. Migration of numbers was very easy and had tracking while in the process. We have our own numbers in Telnyx. I didn't find any situation where the service is less appropriate up to now.
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While there are likely a variety of scenarios that would work well with Vonage [Communications APIs (formerly Nexmo)], implementations that need transactional message and response actions are a great fit. Our experience with transactional messaging has been really good and we are continuing to look at opportunities to expand our usage of this part of their service.
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Pros
  • Responsiveness: Typically quick to reply to technical support chats.
  • Availability: Large team accessible via email, chat, and phone.
  • Innovation: Regularly adds and tweaks features on the web portal that always looks clean and modern.
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  • I like the delivery speed, it's very instantaneous. As soon as the delivery status changes on the website, the message gets delivered. The rates are also cheap and affordable.
  • The accuracy of the services and the non-stop supportive team.
  • Simple API, easy to integrate with existing notification functionality in your Laravel apps.
  • Ease of implementation. We needed less than one month to go live.
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Cons
  • Minorly, the chat support replay takes some time. But at least they have real time chat support available.
  • They should tie-up with other countries Telecome in order to make their service cheap in those countries as well.
  • Since I found service always up , Not any incidents to complain .
  • If they provide Mobile app for call and message handling facility then it will be good handy.
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  • Written documentation and discovery could be a lot better.
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Usability
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The overall usability of Vonage [Communications APIs (formerly Nexmo)] system for message delivery is sufficient for our implementation. Some improvements and additional reporting options in the account administration interface would increase our utilization of the post-delivery data further in order to provide further value-added features for our clients.
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Support Rating
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The teams we have dealt with have been knowledgeable, but early interactions with the tech support team experienced some slowness in response. Once we had a dedicated account manager assigned to our partnership, the level of interaction and support with the appropriate teams at Vonage increased.
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Alternatives Considered
T38 is our secondary carrier. They aren't listed in the available list. Telnyx has a larger number pool and easy to use interface. Although, T38 has the upper hand with fax troubleshooting.
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Nexmo is the best platform in the industry for sure. We don't use all the features that the API provides but we are really satisfied with the ones we use. We are sure this is the best solution in the market if you need to solve the communication in real time with your customers. When we have to build a new website we are going to support the solution with Nexmo.
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Return on Investment
  • Due to easy SIP truncation the cost of customer approach has become very convenient internationally. We got a so much scaling to play on large customer base. And large base makes sense of large positive ROI.
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  • Allowed us to go to market faster (positive).
  • Greatly limits our claim to quality as the ceiling on video quality is lower than other platforms (negative).
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