The Next-Gen MessageBird Alternative

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

Voximplant vs. MessageBird at a Glance

Voximplant

MessageBird

Architecture

100% serverless. No servers required on the customer-side – less maintenance and cost.

Limited to no serverless architecture. Requires permanent XML interactions between the MessageBird cloud and customer's back-end.

Feature list

Complete feature set. Allows you to build voice, video, IP messaging, and SMS apps.

Limited to no Video API. Unlike Voximplant, you can’t build and stream video calls on YouTube.

Development environment

Built-in Cloud IDE allows you to edit, execute and debug code faster.

Development outside the platform. Requires setting up a local development environment.

Vendor dependency

Multi-cloud environment. Improved redundancy and avoiding single points of failure that could take down service.

Relies on a single provider. This makes MessageBird dependent on cloud provider-specific issues.

Data center network

Global coverage. Allows us to maintain less latency during phone calls worldwide.

Limited coverage. Lack of data centers in Australia and South America. Customers from these countries may experience latency issues.

AI integrations

A wider range of TTS/STT options. Allows you to cover a larger audience and offer a better customer experience.

Limited language and provider coverage for TTS. No STT means you can’t automatically transcript calls and receive customer voice inputs to IVR.

Fully Supported Client SDKs

Complete set. Contains libraries with functions for any modern platform: iOS, Android, React Native, Flutter, and Unity.

Poor list of libraries. MessageBird doesn’t offer SDKs for iOS and Android.

Five Reasons Voximplant is the Best MessageBird 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 MessageBird-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

MessageBird

Additional server maintenance costs

Programmable Video for One-to-One and Group 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.

MessageBird doesn’t offer video capabilities. If you need to embed a telemedicine service or conduct remote team meetings, MessageBird wouldn’t be a practical choice.

Video conference built using the Voximplant Flutter SDK

Reduced Time to Market

Voximplant provides an integrated Cloud IDE. Unlike MessageBird, 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.

Improved Redundancy and Latency

MessageBird relies on a single data center provider, Google Cloud Platform. Human errors or bugs can take Google as well as MessageBird offline. Bugs in the use of a specific cloud vendor’s SDK can also cause cloud-provider specific issues.

We prefer not to put all our eggs in one basket. Voximplant multi-cloud environment includes 14 cloud providers such as Amazon, Google, and Datacamp Limited. If one of our providers fails, users won't notice it.

Also, more providers and data centers mean less latency. Imagine you make a call from New York to Philadelphia. Your data center is in San Francisco. A good target round-trip latency is 150 ms. The time it takes light to travel from New York to San Francisco and back is 40 ms. Add delays caused by many routers along the way. As a result, the delay will exceed 150 ms.

To maintain solid call quality and latency below 150 ms, our network includes 14 data centers: 9 in Europe, 3 in Asia, 1 in Australia and South America each. In contrast, Messagebird has only 3 data centers, one each in Asia, Europe, and North America. They notably lack data centers in Australia and South America. We provide less latency worldwide.

Voximplant global data center network

MessageBird limited data center network

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 MessageBird, 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

MessageBird

TTS languages

STT languages

119

Built-in TTS providers

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

Google Speech Cloud, Amazon Polly, Microsoft Azure

Built-in STT providers

Amazon, Google Speech Cloud, Yandex, Tinkoff

One-click NLP integrations

Dialogflow connector

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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”.