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Talkdesk vs Twilio: What are the differences?

# Introduction

1. **Deployment and Integration:** Talkdesk offers a cloud-based call center software that allows for easy deployment and integration with various systems, whereas Twilio provides a communications platform-as-a-service that allows developers to integrate messaging, voice, and video capabilities into their applications.
2. **Feature Set:** Talkdesk focuses on providing advanced call center features such as intelligent routing, call monitoring, and analytics, while Twilio offers a wide range of communication APIs and tools that enable developers to build custom communication solutions.
3. **Scalability:** Talkdesk is well-suited for small to medium-sized businesses looking for a comprehensive call center solution, while Twilio is preferred by larger enterprises and developers needing scalable and customizable communication services.
4. **User Interface:** Talkdesk's user interface is designed with call center agents and supervisors in mind, offering a user-friendly dashboard for managing calls and performance metrics, whereas Twilio's platform is more developer-centric, providing APIs and SDKs for building communication applications.
5. **Cost Structure:** Talkdesk operates on a subscription-based pricing model, making it easy for businesses to budget their call center expenses, while Twilio offers a usage-based pricing model where customers pay for the number of API calls or messages processed.
6. **Global Reach:** Talkdesk primarily focuses on providing call center solutions in specific regions, while Twilio offers global coverage and supports multiple languages and currencies for communication services.

In Summary, Talkdesk and Twilio offer distinct communication solutions tailored for different business needs, with Talkdesk catering to call center operations and Twilio focusing on providing communication APIs for developers and enterprises.
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Hey! We need an omnichannel inbox that's housed within Salesforce Sales Cloud that makes it super easy for our reps to respond to inbound communication (needs: clean inbox, provides historical context, etc.). We're a high-volume call center, and we get a ton of incoming SMS and email every day. We'd love a solution that lets us view all of that in one place — ideally Salesforce, as that's where our reps work, and we want to avoid needing them to switch between windows. Thanks!

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if the inbound SMS are sales rep specific you could potentially have twilio fwd that msg to a google voice phone number which will in turn put an email in their inbox (so they're looking at 1 inbox instead of multiple places) Just an idea. Probably way off in left field compared to what you're thinking and I also invision. I'm not all familiar with MessageBird nor am I at all familiar w/ your data flow / business process. Would be happy to help brainstorm anytime! 10+ years experience on the sfdc platform

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Ryan Hitchler
CEO & Co-founder at Centro · | 1 upvotes · 106.4K views
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Check out Centro. We built this to solve this exact problem! We used tools like Twilio but wrapped it up in a application that runs on Slack.

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Dainis Duļbinskis
Marketing project manager at Colortime · | 2 upvotes · 113.2K views
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Hello! We need to integrate an SMS gateway into our app for user phone verification. As we are just starting, we are searching for the most affordable/best price/performance option for SMS gateway to verify client phone numbers with the code, maybe you can suggest something between those two or maybe something else. We are planning to do business in Europe

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Twilio is the leader. Strong API, excellent documentation and reliable service. I suggest Nexmo since their API has smaller learning curve, offering better prices and also reliable solution. Also Nexmo offers more call per sec. 3 vs 2 and 2, out of the box. Good luck

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Twilio documentation is very good and as a platform it just works. It's robust and reliable. We road-tested plivo and it wasn't anywhere near in terms of docs or support. In fact their support was terrible at replying to us. 48 hours to answer basic questions.

That's said, were also using sendgrid by twilio and that's not been pleasant . Their email builder appears to be react based but written by a team who don't understand react very well. That's a nightmare as yet

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Twilio might be not cheapest, but they have awesome documentation (a lot of examples), easy to use API and libraries. I think it's a very good product to start. If the bill will become too heavy, you can shop around for economical options.

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Andrew Voirol
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stackshare doesn't seem to have this in the stack list yet, but in my experience Twillio is attractive. It's good for basics, their acquisition of SendGrid gives them a bit more market share.. They are stronger at marketing to those that benefit them. That said from my understanding SendGrid leases the networks, channels, and lines. While their interface is friendly, their pricing suited for lower volume, you want to look at what they are using via an API, a contract, etc. Is it a more friend UI to a combination of others. What redunancies do to they have, try their support. It's not that Twillio is bad, it's about the volume, the use case, the liabiitlies you might have to your end-users if Twillio isn't the right choice. Another option is Bandwidth. You ask for affordable, Twillio is an option, but front end costs v/s the costs of support you'll need to consider. Bandwidth has more reliability but requires more engineering and more skillset. Another option that is worth considering, not the most affordable, but https://www.zipwhip.com/ have perhaps options that might be higher and the cost is relative. Wight costs, of support costs of integration, cost of scale, costs of a volume..

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Pros of Talkdesk
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    • 148
      Powerful, simple, and well documented api
    • 88
      RESTful API
    • 66
      Clear pricing
    • 61
      Great sms services
    • 58
      Low cost of entry
    • 29
      Global SMS Gateway
    • 14
      Good value
    • 12
      Cloud IVR
    • 11
      Simple
    • 11
      Extremely simple to integrate with rails
    • 6
      Great for startups
    • 5
      SMS
    • 3
      Great developer program
    • 3
      Hassle free
    • 2
      Text me the app pages
    • 1
      New Features constantly rolling out
    • 1
      Many deployment options, from build from scratch to buy
    • 1
      Easy integration
    • 1
      Two factor authentication

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    Cons of Talkdesk
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        Predictable pricing
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        Expensive

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      What is Talkdesk?

      Easy-to-use, cloud-based call center software that helps growing businesses provide excellent customer service. One-click integrations with Salesforce, Zendesk, Desk.com and many others. No phones, hardware, downloads or coding required.

      What is 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.

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