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Twilio vs Exotel Comparison (2026)

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Exotel

Overview

Twilio offers an API for phone services enabling companies to make and receive phone calls and send and receive text messages. It allows programmers to integrate various communication methods and to use existing web development skills and codes to solve communication problems.

Exotel is the emerging market's full-stack customer engagement platform that offers a communication API framework to build your conversational portfolio, an omnichannel contact center and a conversational AI toolkit to improve speed, quality and outcomes of customer conversations.

  • Platforms supported
  • Web-based
  • iPhone app
  • Android app
  • Windows Phone app
  • Typical customers
  • Freelancers
  • Small businesses
  • Mid size businesses
  • Large enterprises
  • Customer support
  • Phone
  • Online
  • Knowledge base
  • Video tutorials
  • Platforms supported
  • Web-based
  • iPhone app
  • Android app
  • Windows Phone app
  • Typical customers
  • Freelancers
  • Small businesses
  • Mid size businesses
  • Large enterprises
  • Customer support
  • Phone
  • Online
  • Knowledge base
  • Video tutorials

Video & Screenshots

Pricing

Starting from

0

  • Free trial available
  • Credit cardless trial
  • Free account
  • Subscription based

Starting from

200

One-time payment

  • Free trial available
  • Credit cardless trial
  • Free account
  • Subscription based

User reviews

4.4

566

5

4

3

2

1

355

147

29

11

24

  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
74%
would recommend this app

4.3

69

5

4

3

2

1

38

20

9

0

2

  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
72%
would recommend this app

Pros

“We use it mainly as the OTP layer in SaaS applications, including projects we develop for clients and our own rapidly developed products.”
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Furkan A.

Founder

“Twilio provides the layer of programmable voice api, it means you can use their sdk to build an messaging and calling application easily, it starts cheap and for small scale of application, it is very good.”
SY

Shuchun Y.

Software Engineer

“Flexible tools for adding communication features such as SMS, voice calls, and notifications to applications.”
LL

Léo L.

Management

Pros

“The platform is incredibly reliable with clear call quality and minimal downtime, which is crucial for our business.”
SK

Surya K.

Sr. Manager

“Had a great experience with exotel, good User-friendly Interface, easy to access dialer, very useful to track calling and call recording to audit and process improvement”
PD

Pooja D.

Senior Manager Quality and Implementation

“Pretty impressive,Am using exotel platform from past 5 years in Bundl technologies it has give a lot of options on Apps,& Other categories which are very important on UC.”
Kt

Kiran t.

UC Engineer III

Cons

“The slow support response caused unnecessary delays to our project and prevented us from using the platform as planned. While Twilio has excellent technology, the onboarding experience needs significant improvement for business customers.”
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Muhammed A.

Technical Project Manager

“Their customer verification process is unnecessarily burdensome and inefficient. Despite providing complete details about my LLC, business purpose, and intended use case in my initial response, I received identical verification requests from three different support representatives [sensitive content hidden], each asking for the exact same information.”
JB

Justin B.

Manager

“The phone number I purchased has been unusable (returning busy signals when called) while this verification process drags on. When I attempt to test my configured flow, it doesn't work, likely because the account verification is pending.”
JB

Justin B.

Manager

Cons

“Very worst experience once the payment is done to the company.”
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Jaydeep R.

IT Application Manager

“Even though, Exotel has a very easy on the eye platform, It lacks in advanced features.”
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Piyush N.

Manager- Marketing

“The excel that you import does not provide the wholesome picture.”
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Piyush N.

Manager- Marketing

  • Vendor responds to reviews
  • Last review10 days ago
  • Vendor responds to reviews
  • Last review2 years ago

Key features

  • Total features84
  • 2-Way Messaging
  • API
  • Access Controls/Permissions
  • Agent Interface
  • Alerts/Escalation
  • Alerts/Notifications
  • Analytics
  • Archiving & Retention
  • Audio/Video Conferencing
  • Auto-Dialer
  • Automated Attendant
  • Automated Responses
  • Automated Routing
  • Automated Scheduling
  • Automatic Call Distribution
  • Automatic Outbound Dialer
  • Blended Call Center
  • CRM
  • Call Center Management
  • Call Conferencing
  • Call Disposition
  • Call List Management
  • Call Logging
  • Call Monitoring
  • Call Recording
  • Call Reporting
  • Call Routing
  • Call Scripting
  • Call Tagging
  • Call Tracking
  • Call Tracking Metrics
  • Call Transfer
  • Callback Scheduling
  • Caller ID
  • Campaign Management
  • Campaign Planning
  • Campaign Scheduling
  • Chat/Messaging
  • Chatbot
  • Collaboration Tools
  • Compliance Management
  • Computer Telephony Integration
  • Conferencing
  • Contact Management
  • Customer History
  • Customizable Reports
  • Customizable Templates
  • Data Management
  • Event Triggered Actions
  • Fax Management
  • IVR
  • Inbound Call Center
  • Interaction Tracking
  • Live Chat
  • MMS
  • Manual Dialer
  • Mass Texting
  • Message Personalization
  • Mobile Alerts
  • Mobile Coupons
  • Mobile Keywords
  • Monitoring
  • Multi-Campaign
  • Multi-Channel Communication
  • Multiple Scripts
  • Natural Language Processing
  • On-Demand Recording
  • Online Voice Transmission
  • Outbound Call Center
  • PBX
  • Performance Management
  • Performance Metrics
  • Phone Key Input
  • Polls/Voting
  • Predictive Dialer
  • Progressive Dialer
  • Purchasing & Receiving
  • Queue Management
  • ROI Tracking
  • Real-Time Analytics
  • Real-Time Chat
  • Real-Time Data
  • Real-Time Monitoring
  • Real-Time Reporting
  • Recording
  • Reminders
  • Reporting & Statistics
  • Reporting/Analytics
  • SIP Trunking
  • SMS Marketing
  • SMS Messaging
  • Scheduled Messaging
  • Scheduled Recording
  • Sentiment Analysis
  • Shortcodes
  • Social Media Integration
  • Speech Recognition
  • Status Tracking
  • Surveys & Feedback
  • Text to Speech
  • Text-to-Win
  • Third-Party Integrations
  • Unified Communications
  • Video Conferencing
  • VoIP
  • VoIP Connection
  • Voice Customization
  • Voice Mail
  • Voicemail Transcription
  • Workflow Management
  • Workforce Management
  • Total features67
  • 2-Way Messaging
  • API
  • Access Controls/Permissions
  • Agent Interface
  • Alerts/Escalation
  • Alerts/Notifications
  • Analytics
  • Archiving & Retention
  • Audio/Video Conferencing
  • Auto-Dialer
  • Automated Attendant
  • Automated Responses
  • Automated Routing
  • Automated Scheduling
  • Automatic Call Distribution
  • Automatic Outbound Dialer
  • Blended Call Center
  • CRM
  • Call Center Management
  • Call Conferencing
  • Call Disposition
  • Call List Management
  • Call Logging
  • Call Monitoring
  • Call Recording
  • Call Reporting
  • Call Routing
  • Call Scripting
  • Call Tagging
  • Call Tracking
  • Call Tracking Metrics
  • Call Transfer
  • Callback Scheduling
  • Caller ID
  • Campaign Management
  • Campaign Planning
  • Campaign Scheduling
  • Chat/Messaging
  • Chatbot
  • Collaboration Tools
  • Compliance Management
  • Computer Telephony Integration
  • Conferencing
  • Contact Management
  • Customer History
  • Customizable Reports
  • Customizable Templates
  • Data Management
  • Event Triggered Actions
  • Fax Management
  • IVR
  • Inbound Call Center
  • Interaction Tracking
  • Live Chat
  • MMS
  • Manual Dialer
  • Mass Texting
  • Message Personalization
  • Mobile Alerts
  • Mobile Coupons
  • Mobile Keywords
  • Monitoring
  • Multi-Campaign
  • Multi-Channel Communication
  • Multiple Scripts
  • Natural Language Processing
  • On-Demand Recording
  • Online Voice Transmission
  • Outbound Call Center
  • PBX
  • Performance Management
  • Performance Metrics
  • Phone Key Input
  • Polls/Voting
  • Predictive Dialer
  • Progressive Dialer
  • Purchasing & Receiving
  • Queue Management
  • ROI Tracking
  • Real-Time Analytics
  • Real-Time Chat
  • Real-Time Data
  • Real-Time Monitoring
  • Real-Time Reporting
  • Recording
  • Reminders
  • Reporting & Statistics
  • Reporting/Analytics
  • SIP Trunking
  • SMS Marketing
  • SMS Messaging
  • Scheduled Messaging
  • Scheduled Recording
  • Sentiment Analysis
  • Shortcodes
  • Social Media Integration
  • Speech Recognition
  • Status Tracking
  • Surveys & Feedback
  • Text to Speech
  • Text-to-Win
  • Third-Party Integrations
  • Unified Communications
  • Video Conferencing
  • VoIP
  • VoIP Connection
  • Voice Customization
  • Voice Mail
  • Voicemail Transcription
  • Workflow Management
  • Workforce Management

Integrations

  • Total integrations6
  • CleverTap
  • Freshdesk
  • HubSpot CRM
  • Kapture CX
  • LeadSquared
  • MoEngage
  • Oracle Service
  • Salesforce Platform
  • Salesforce Service Cloud
  • Shopify
  • Zapier
  • Zendesk Suite
  • Zoho CRM
  • Total integrations9
  • CleverTap
  • Freshdesk
  • HubSpot CRM
  • Kapture CX
  • LeadSquared
  • MoEngage
  • Oracle Service
  • Salesforce Platform
  • Salesforce Service Cloud
  • Shopify
  • Zapier
  • Zendesk Suite
  • Zoho CRM