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Alternatives to 8x8

Twilio, Nexmo, Telegram API, SendBird, and LINE are the most popular alternatives and competitors to 8x8.
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What is 8x8 and what are its top alternatives?

Create a better customer experience with SMS, Chat Apps, Video Interaction & Voice. It’s integrated communications platform as a service (CPaaS) streamlines multiple communications channels into a single dashboard.
8x8 is a tool in the Communications SDK category of a tech stack.

Top Alternatives to 8x8

  • Twilio
    Twilio

    Twilio offers developers a powerful API for phone services to make and receive phone calls, and send and receive text messages. Their product allows programmers to more easily integrate various communication methods into their software and programs. ...

  • Nexmo
    Nexmo

    Nexmo connects your apps directly to carriers around the world. Integrate SMS and Voice messages using one simple API. Use Nexmo Verity to register users, verify transactions, and implement two factor authentication. ...

  • Postscript
    Postscript

    Postscript lets you easily create and manage SMS marketing campaigns with detailed analytics designed to increase sales and revenue, not just clicks. ...

  • Telegram API
    Telegram API

    This API allows you to build your own customized Telegram clients. It is 100% open for all developers who wish to create Telegram applications on our platform. ...

  • SendBird
    SendBird

    SendBird is a Messaging SDK, Chat API, and fully managed chat infrastructure for your mobile apps and websites. Embeddable chat for iOS, Android, JavaScript, Unity, .NET. ...

  • LINE
    LINE

    Use the Messaging API to build bots that provide personalized experiences for your users on LINE. You associate your bot with a channel on the LINE Platform. The bot works behind the LINE Official Account that is generated when you create the channel if you operate the account in bot mode. ...

  • Braze
    Braze

    Braze is a comprehensive customer engagement platform that powers relevant and memorable experiences between consumers and the brands they love. ...

  • Agora
    Agora

    Agora.io provides building blocks for you to add real-time voice and video communications through a simple and powerful SDK. You can integrate the Agora SDK to enable real-time communications in your own application quickly. ...

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Twilio

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PROS OF TWILIO
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    Powerful, simple, and well documented api
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    RESTful API
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    Clear pricing
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    Great sms services
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    Low cost of entry
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    Global SMS Gateway
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    Good value
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    Cloud IVR
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    Simple
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    Extremely simple to integrate with rails
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    Great for startups
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    SMS
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    Great developer program
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    Hassle free
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    Text me the app pages
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    New Features constantly rolling out
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    Many deployment options, from build from scratch to buy
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    Easy integration
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    Two factor authentication
CONS OF TWILIO
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    Predictable pricing
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    Expensive

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Director Product Management at Centime · | 6 upvotes · 94.1K views
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Hi, We are looking to implement 2FA - so that users would be sent a Verification code over their Email and SMS to their phone.

We faced some limitations with Amazon SNS where we could either send the verification code to email OR to the phone number, while we want to send it to both.

We also are looking to make the 2FA more flexible by adding any other options later on.

What are the best alternatives to SNS for this use case and purpose? Looked at Twilio but want to explore other options before making a decision.

Would be great to know what the experience with Twilio has been, especially the limitations/issues with Twilio...

Appreciate any input from users of Twilio and others who have had similar use cases.

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Cheri Booth
Vendor Relationship Manager at Storage Asset Management · | 6 upvotes · 43.1K views
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Searching for options for SMS that integrates with SiteLink and will allow personalization of text and tracking of both incoming/outgoing messages with reporting (Time, date, call#, etc) Have been looking at Twilio, and seems most leaning toward this. Are there any other options known that integrate into SiteLink? Also looked at Clickatell.

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Nexmo

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PROS OF NEXMO
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    For outbound and inbound SMS
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    Cheap
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    Simple REST API
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    Most reliable global communication vendor w/simple APIs
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    Broad coverage
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    Super fast and easy to use
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    Excellent support team
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    Implement inbound SMS
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    Cheap short-code SMS
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    I need advice on what SMS provider gateway I have to choose if I am trying to build a ride booking app, should I go with Nexmo, Twilio, or any other SMS gateway provider as I need OTP authentication and booking, and booked messages to the users and many other messages booking OTPs for that particular ride.

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    Julien DeFrance
    Principal Software Engineer at Tophatter · | 3 upvotes · 536.4K views

    Nexmo vs Twilio ?

    Back in the early days at SmartZip Analytics, that evaluation had - for whatever reason - been made by Product Management. Some developers might have been consulted, but we hadn't made the final call and some key engineering aspects of it were omitted.

    When revamping the platform, I made sure to flip the decision process how it should be. Business provided an input but Engineering lead the way and has the final say on all implementation matters. My engineers and I decided on re-evaluating the criteria and vendor selection. Not only did we need SMS support, but were we not thinking about #VoiceAndSms support as the use cases evolved.

    Also, on an engineering standpoint, SDK mattered. Nexmo didn't have any. Twilio did. No-one would ever want to re-build from scratch integration layers vendors should naturally come up with and provide their customers with.

    Twilio won on all fronts. Including costs and implementation timelines. No-one even noticed the vendor switch.

    Many years later, Twilio demonstrated its position as a leader by holding conferences in the Bay Area, announcing features like Twilio Functions. Even acquired Authy which we also used for 2FA. Twilio's growth has been amazing. Its recent acquisition of SendGrid continues to show it.

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    Postscript

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        PROS OF TELEGRAM API
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          Open Source
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          Clean
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          Fluent
        CONS OF TELEGRAM API
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          PROS OF SENDBIRD
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            Active support is impressive. (Support for private deve
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            Pre-built UI for major platforms
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            Easy to use
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            Migration API for customers using other chat services
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            Scalability is awesome
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            First chat SDK officially supports Xamarin
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            Because my product guy told me to
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            Unlimited number of users in public chat
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            Cool product
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            Flexible message format ex) json, xml
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            Out of the box api and features
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            Intuitive and feature-packed
          CONS OF SENDBIRD
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            Policy on concurrent users leads to overages and overch
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            Prices ramp up exponentially

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          I am interested in using a chat SDK for a community mobile Flutter app. I am between SendBird and Stream. I currently have 2,000 monthly active users and plan to have close to 5,000 active users chatting on the app. Has anyone used either and had good/bad experiences? Currently, there is no chat functionality, and we would like to have a 1-to-1 user chat, group chat, and large community chat capabilities.

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          Yeongju Park
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          I am considering which chat solution to choose between CometChat and SendBird, for our new app. The condition is, the app is going to run in a private network and has to connect with MSSQL. Any advice on other things I have to consider before choosing one, or is there another chat service you would recommend? Thank you!

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