3CX Live Chat vs Google Hangouts comparison

3CX and Google are both solutions in the Virtual Meetings category. 3CX is ranked #12 with an average rating of 8.0, while Google is ranked #6 with an average rating of 8.3. 3CX holds a 1.8% mindshare in VM, compared to Google’s 0.6% mindshare. Additionally, 91% of 3CX users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 93% of Google users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Feb 3, 2025

3CX Live Chat and Google Hangouts compete in the communication solutions category. 3CX Live Chat has the upper hand due to its advanced VoIP features and comprehensive integration capabilities, providing a more versatile solution compared to the straightforward messaging and video conferencing focus of Google Hangouts.

Features: 3CX Live Chat offers extensive VoIP features, including call recording and web conferencing, mobile and desktop clients, and seamless CRM integration. It is highly versatile, catering to diverse industries with strong call management capabilities. Google Hangouts provides easy messaging and video conferencing, excellent integration with Google Suite, screen sharing, and meeting management through Google Calendar.

Room for Improvement: 3CX Live Chat could enhance integration with external devices and improve call recording management, Linux support, and CRM integration customization. The system's analytics and reporting capabilities need development. Google Hangouts could improve connectivity, file sharing, performance on slower connections, meeting size limitations, and add recording features in the basic version.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Both 3CX Live Chat and Google Hangouts offer deployment on public and private clouds. 3CX Live Chat also provides on-premises and hybrid options, catering to various organizational needs. 3CX is praised for its international support, but could improve 24/7 availability. Google Hangouts benefits from Google's global support infrastructure but struggles with technical support in varied environments.

Pricing and ROI: 3CX Live Chat offers competitive pricing without user license costs, providing value in concurrent calls and scalability with business needs. It promises potential ROI in months due to reduced telephony costs. Google Hangouts, part of Google Workspace, is generally cost-effective with free and paid options. Recent price increases position it as mid-range, but integration with other Google services adds value. While 3CX focuses on feature-rich pricing, Google Hangouts leverages its integration and simplicity.

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Categories and Ranking

3CX Live Chat

Ranking in Virtual Meetings

12th

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

IP PBX (1st), Unified Communications (2nd), Live Chat (5th), Hosted and Cloud Based VoIP (4th)

Google Hangouts

Ranking in Virtual Meetings

6th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2025, in the Virtual Meetings category, the mindshare of 3CX Live Chat is 1.8%, down from 2.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Google Hangouts is 0.6%, down from 0.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Featured Reviews

Ahmed ACHOUR

General Manager at Beyond IT Services

Enhanced service desk workflow which streamlines operations and offers strong integration capabilities

The customers use 3CX for IP telephony and call center activities. Additionally, they use 3CX for service desk activities, including integration with other ITSM products to collect data from customers who need technical support on their platforms 3CX has proven to be a good solution, particularly…

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ANIS QURESHI

Senior Specialist- IT Systems Management at GAL

Quick and seamless meeting setup offers a smooth experience

I sometimes use Google Hangouts for my personal meetings only I find that Google Hangouts is very quick and easy to create a meeting, which is its biggest benefit. It doesn't have a 40-minute limitation unlike Zoom. It is easy to set up as well, taking just a couple of minutes. So far, I think…

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"3CX has a graphical user interface, and this is awesome because I don't have to have an IT person from my company in my customer's environment to set up and configure 3CX for my client. I just train the customer."

"The integration with SMS has been helpful. That's how a lot of customers prefer to communicate nowadays. It makes it convenient for the customer to reach us."

"The dashboards and interface of the solution are very good, they have covered most of the main features needed for our needs."

"The most valuable features of 3CX Live Chat are the ability to go straight to a call or screen-sharing and creating multiple channels from the same chat widget effectively. The ability to raise a call straight out to the cloud is fantastic, it is really useful. Additionally, it integrates very well with WordPress."

"3CX is useful and easy to use. I can talk to my colleagues from anywhere."

"The integration between the video and voice is the most valuable solution."

"It’s straightforward to set up."

"3CX has strong reporting and management features. You can manage the capabilities of a call center with queues and timers. It's a complete solution."

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"Google Hangouts is very quick and easy to use, and the quality is very good."

"Very good voice and video calling options."

"We use Google Hangouts to chat and exchange some quick information."

"The interface is simple and not complex."

"Google Hangouts is an excellent tool."

"It's good for conferencing with others."

"The most valuable feature of Google Hangouts for me is content sharing."

"It's very easy to use."

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Cons

"In 3CX, customization is not as easy as I would like. With 3CX Call Flow Designer, you can set up the flow of a call, deliver it to the department, and automate the process. I can't do many things with this."

"The reporting and dashboards of 3CX could be improved."

"The analytics need to have a granular depth on how the customer details and the data sends information through this medium."

"There should be an option to save some extensions."

"It could be better in terms of providing more options for call recording."

"Once we establish the system and do the initial configuration, some configurations will be fixed. However, if we need to change those configurations, the option is to do a reinstallation. Otherwise, we cannot do anything."

"Its features for scheduling and generating reports need improvement."

"There are a lot of quality of life things that could be improved. When adding extensions, you need to use the extension import setting, you can't just use an import function to update extensions. You have to delete and recreate the extension, which can have all kinds of unintended consequences."

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"Google Meet should extend the time limit for a meeting from five minutes to at least thirty-five minutes."

"One area where I see room for improvement in Google Hangout is the voice quality during meetings."

"The design could be a little bit better."

"Google Hangouts has breakout rooms now, but not as extensive as Zoom, so that's one area for improvement. I mentioned that I like the Google Hangouts captioning feature, but that could be improved. For example, importing Filipino-English captions here in the Philippines would be great."

"The only issue with the solution is that we can't split the video of participants into separate screens, which can make it difficult to manage the cameras of participants."

"Sending documents and other things is not an option."

"Not a ten because there's room for improvement. Sometimes there is disconnectivity."

"One improvement could be integration with Google Calendar to help find available timeslots when scheduling meetings with many participants."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price of the solution is reasonable. There are a few license options and we are using an enterprise license."

"We used a yearly license depending on the customer's requirements, and the customers did not complain about the pricing."

"Switching from POTS or PRI to SIP Trunk save the customer real costs. ROI is seen in less than a year."

"There is no add-on costing on the standard fees."

"There aren't any additional costs. With the license I purchased, I have all features that I need. I don't have to buy an add-on or another license."

"The price of the solution is in the middle range compared to other solutions. There are different license options available. For example, there is a professional version and an enterprise version, and with the enterprise version, you have the ability to modify the dashboards. You can purchase a license at many different time frame increments, such as monthly, yearly, or two years."

"We have purchased an annual license to use 3CX Live Chat. There are different options available, you can pay monthly or yearly. I am completely satisfied with the pricing of 3CX Live Chat, it is cheaper than competitors and it is a better solution."

"The price of the solution has been reasonable. We have not had any problems or complaints with the licensing model. We have not reached a point where we need to upgrade. We have all the correct channels."

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"We are using the free version of Google Hangouts."

"I don't need to buy Google Hangouts separately because it comes free with Google Workspace, and it is also available for my personal Gmail ID."

"We are a small team and a small organization such as ours just uses the free version of Google, so there's no cost associated with Google Hangouts at the moment."

"For individual use, there's no license requirement as such. For storage or some other purposes, if I go beyond 15 GB, then I need to buy something."

"We access the solution through Google Workspace. It is inexpensive to use."

"This solution is available for free with the opening of a Google account."

"I pay $6 per user per month for Gmail, Google Drive, and Google Hangouts."

"Google Hangouts has reasonable pricing, but I don't use the paid version because I only have a small budget, though you get more features from the paid version."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

10%

Computer Software Company

10%

Real Estate/Law Firm

Educational Organization

71%

Computer Software Company

Manufacturing Company

Performing Arts

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for 3CX Live Chat?

The pricing of 3CX is around six out of ten. For some customers, the first year may be free of charge, allowing them to try the solution before deciding to implement it.

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What needs improvement with 3CX Live Chat?

The reporting and dashboards of 3CX could be improved.

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What is your primary use case for 3CX Live Chat?

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What do you like most about Google Hangouts?

It's integration with Google is the valuable feature.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Google Hangouts?

I think the price is okay for us.

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What needs improvement with Google Hangouts?

One improvement could be integration with Google Calendar to help find available timeslots when scheduling meetings with many participants.

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Overview

Connect with your website visitors for free with the 3CX Live Chat plugin. With more than 1,900,000 downloads, 3CX Live Chat is the most popular, effective and reliable live chat plugin for WordPress. Increase conversions and boost customer satisfaction by communicating directly with your website visitors in real-time.

Integrate with 3CX for a multichannel communications suite including voice and video (requires 3CX V16). Get 3CX for free for one year for unlimited users hosted by 3CX, in your own cloud account or on-premise on Windows or Linux.

Easy and convenient for visitors
Build rapport with potential customers via live chat
Increase sales
Reduce customer support line costs by using live chat
Learn to understand the pain points of your customers

FEATURES

Simple and clean UI for all users
Option to elevate a live chat to a call or video call
Free iOS or Android apps to respond to messages through a smartphone
Ability to transfer chats to other agents
Agent’s picture is shown in the live chatbox
Customizable chatbox. Add a company logo, change the colors of the chatbox
All chats are saved in chat history
Dedicated storage system for all offline messages
Create unlimited agents to handle live chats and calls
Customizable offline message form
Supports animations in the chatbox
Ability to choose whether you want to accept or decline a chat

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Hangouts Chat makes it easy for teams to be able to get their work done in one place. From direct messages to group conversations, Chat helps teams collaborate easily and efficiently.

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