The Next-Gen Bandwidth Alternative

Go serverless. Create and debug apps faster. Get access to a Video API and speech recognition. Switch from Bandwidth to Voximplant.

Voximplant vs. Bandwidth at a Glance

Voximplant

Bandwidth

Architecture

Cloud-based, “serverless” service.

Open source software that you install on your own servers.

Development

Built-in cloud-IDE for JavaScript development.

Configure one or more development interfaces, find a supporting library for your given development environment/language, and write to the methods exposed by those interfaces.

Redundancy & scale

Auto-deployment across our 8+ regions and auto scaling to millions of users.

Develop and provision your own scale and redundancy based on what your cloud partners provide.

Communications channels

Voice, video, SMS, and IP messaging.

Voice, video, SMS, SIP-based messaging

Native Telephony Protocols

SIP, WebRTC.

SIP and other legacy VoIP protocols, analog and ISDN interfaces, legacy gateway interfaces.

AI integrations

6+ speech synthesis providers and 4+ speech to text providers are built-in. Plus a deep natural language processing integration with Google's Dialog Flow.

One older speech synthesis engine and several 3rd-party partner options you can go to for speech recognition.

Client Support

SIP clients, web browsers, and native app platforms including iOS, Android, React Native, Flutter, and Unity.

SIP clients & other VoIP IP phones, Jingle/XMPP.

Customer support

Included for free - 24/7 support via email and message board. For those who don't have a dedicated development team, we offer paid premium support.

Various community forums; various commercial packages via 3rd-parties.

Platform costs

Granular pricing for specific features, pay for only what you use - all other charges included.

SIP trunking charges, server charges, optional license upgrades & commercial maintenance.

Five Reasons Voximplant is the Best Bandwidth Alternative

True Serverless Architecture

The Voximplant serverless architecture is designed to simplify call management. Our secret sauce is VoxEngine, a JavaScript runtime environment. Build and upload a JS code to the cloud. When a call arrives, VoxEngine independently executes your code.

There are no Bandwidth-like XML interactions between their public cloud and your back-end required. Don’t worry about server maintenance and costs. Focus on business logic and individual app functions. We’ve got you covered.

Voximplant

Paying only for compute resources

Bandwidth

Additional server maintenance costs

Video and IP Messaging APIs for Interactive Chats

With Voximplant, you can build video apps that scale from peer-to-peer calls to server-based video conferencing. We maintain a distributed network of SFU servers so you can build video conferences with up to 50 endpoints.

Bandwidth doesn’t offer a Video API. If you need to build a telemedicine service or conduct remote team meetings, Bandwidth wouldn’t be a practical choice.

Video conference built using the Voximplant Flutter SDK

The same goes for the IP messaging API. With Voximplant, you can provide customers with immediate answers to their questions, keep them informed and engaged about topics of interest, and automate contact center operations.

Voximplant’s IP messaging capabilities cover various use cases – from standard live chats to AI-driven chatbots. For instance, developers of delivery services use push notifications to send personalized alerts such as a change in delivery status or new product offerings. Fintech developers leverage chatbots to provide customers with automated answers on the most frequently asked questions such as the location of the nearest ATM.

See the full list of Voximplant’s IP messaging features here.

Reduced Time to Market

Voximplant provides an integrated Cloud IDE. Unlike Bandwidth, you don’t need to set up a local development environment. Edit, execute and debug your code in real time from within a standard web browser.

Our IDE helps you to write code faster. For instance, IDE offers an autocomplete feature. When you type something similar to VoxEngine entities, the editor shows appropriate namespaces, classes, and methods.

Other useful features include a real-time debugger, hotkeys, auto-formatting, tabs and more. See the detailed description for Cloud IDE in our documentation.

More AI Integrations for Marketing and Customer Care

Voximplant provides more language and dialect options for TTS – 40 vs. 26. You can cover a larger audience, and offer a better customer experience.

Unlike Bandwidth, Voximplant can power your voice app with STT capabilities. Take Smart IVR. Instead of taking DTMF tones as input, you can allow customers to pronounce their questions in 119 languages.

STT, or speech-to-text, also simplifies analyzing the performance of your agents. Our ASR module transcribes voice data in real time and saves text into your account. You no longer have to listen to every conversation. Automatically transcribe calls and process results.

Voximplant Platform

Bandwidth

TTS languages

STT languages

119

Built-in TTS providers

Google Speech Cloud, IBM Watson, Amazon Polly, Microsoft Azure, Yandex, Tinkoff

Amazon Polly

Built-in STT providers

Amazon, Google Speech Cloud, Yandex, Tinkoff

One-click NLP integrations

Dialogflow connector

Fully No-Code Drag and Drop Contact Center

Working with Twilio Flex always requires a great deal of development. If you want to deploy a cloud contact center, you end up needing to do a bunch of coding.

Voximplant Kit is a fully no-code CCaaS. Support directors and business managers with no development resources can deploy a contact center, equip their agents with ready-to-go tools, and start responding to customers in minutes.

Try Voximplant Kit

What Our Customers Say

“We found out about Voximplant when we were looking for a video interview service. We tried it and made sure that Voximplant has the lowest entry threshold for our developers. The platform uses a simple language – JavaScript – which is understandable for any front-end developer”.