3CX Live Chat vs GoToMeeting comparison

3CX and GoTo are both solutions in the Virtual Meetings category. 3CX is ranked #12 with an average rating of 8.0, while GoTo is ranked #9 with an average rating of 9.5. 3CX holds a 1.9% mindshare in VM, compared to GoTo’s 3.3% mindshare. Additionally, 91% of 3CX users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 88% of GoTo users who would recommend it.

3CX Live Chat

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91% willing to recommend

GoToMeeting

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88% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Feb 3, 2025

3CX Live Chat and GoToMeeting are competitive products catering to communication and collaboration solutions. 3CX Live Chat typically has the upper hand due to its versatile range of functionalities beyond meeting requirements.

Features: 3CX Live Chat offers simplified VoIP implementation, call queuing, and recording features. It supports mobility with mobile and desktop clients, integrating robustly with SIP gateways and WebRTC. GoToMeeting enables seamless virtual meetings, offering screen-sharing capabilities without installation requirements, providing a reliable experience.

Room for Improvement: 3CX Live Chat needs better Linux support and increased flexibility in open-source environments. Its call recording management and deployment settings require enhancements. GoToMeeting can be slow, its interface needs modernizing, and it would benefit from improved mobile device support and enhanced security features.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: 3CX Live Chat supports diverse deployment options, including public, private, hybrid cloud, and on-premises, offering a wider range of deployment flexibility than GoToMeeting's public cloud focus. Both provide strong international support but vary regionally, with 3CX having more deployment options.

Pricing and ROI: 3CX Live Chat presents cost-effectiveness with competitive pricing and no per-user license fees, offering scalable licensing options tailored to organizational needs. This results in a shorter ROI period due to its inclusive pricing model. GoToMeeting's pricing is perceived as higher, though it offers both free and paid subscriptions, with some users finding it expensive compared to alternatives despite recent price adjustments improving competitiveness.

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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)

GoToMeeting

Ranking in Virtual Meetings

9th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2025, in the Virtual Meetings category, the mindshare of 3CX Live Chat is 1.9%, down from 2.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of GoToMeeting is 3.3%, down from 4.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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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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Steve Abshire

Information Systems Specialist III at a university with 10,001+ employees

It features low latency, which is crucial because everybody is using VPN to connect to their PCs at work.

Using GoToMeeting in a meeting-sized conference room is kind of a letdown. The camera is supposed to track the speaker and focus on that person so that they can be on the screen. That feature rarely worked. We tested it thoroughly, so maybe it was an issue with the size of the conference room. It may not be suitable for large conference rooms.

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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

"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."

"The call queue and reporting systems are robust compared to what you have to pay to get the same level of functionality with a competing system."

"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."

"3CX is easy to use. It's pretty a much regular PBX system. It is quite easy to configure aspects of it, and it has a good soft client."

"It’s straightforward to set up."

"It lets you see how many calls you made, the time you called, and how many minutes you spent on the phone."

"This solution gives our customers mobility. They can use their phone system everywhere. The other key feature is the security."

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"Even for somebody who does not have a lot of experience, they can easily use it."

"It was just chosen because somebody at the company said, "We need a meeting thing. Hey, go find a meeting thing." It wasn't me, but somebody else in the organization was like, "Alright, let's use GoToMeeting. It's free.""

"The key advantage of GoToMeeting is the ability to use it without installing anything."

"It's easy to set up."

"GoToMeeting's low latency is crucial because everybody is using VPN to connect to their PCs at work. The sound and video quality are solid, and the whiteboarding features were especially useful. The administrative side of it was fairly simple and intuitive to use."

"I like GoToMeeting because it is lighter than other solutions, such as Webex."

"Ease of setup and login by attendees. Facilitates sharing visually, and not just via audio."

"We like that this solution allows us to assign separate numbers to people without having to have a physical telephone system in place."

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Cons

"The solution was simple to install, but the configuration was not as simple. The full installation process took a few days."

"Reporting and integration are the main challenges, which are at the mid-level or in the enterprise depending on the system that we choose."

"3CX Live Chat could improve by being more customizable. There should be more skinning options for the appearance of the solution when we embed it onto a website. This would allow us to make it look more like part of our solution, rather than a third-party application."

"You cannot make a group call on 3CX. That feature would make my life easier because I could talk to two suppliers or a supplier and management together. I wouldn't need to end the call and call another person."

"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."

"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."

"I need a robust provider who can help me use Live Chat. Unfortunately, I have to move from one provider to another because they don't have enough capabilities to maintain good service."

"The solution could improve the web meeting feature. There is a lot of competition from all the other applications that are out there, such as Microsoft Teams and Zoom. I find I do not use it that much. I do not know how much effort they are putting into the web meeting part of the program but it could improve."

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"In addition to the features it already has, I think GoToMeeting should also have additional features that are not present at the moment."

"The sound quality is good but the video quality needs improvement."

"The tool needs to have a virtual room where users can pass through. It also needs to integrate a real-time translator."

"I didn't like the fact that they tried to make their new version look like Zoom."

"It is not so stable."

"The interface is a little outdated and could be better."

"The product itself doesn't stand out against other options on the market."

"In the next release, I would for it to incorporate files more efficiently from one computer to another when we covert things and send them out. I'm not sure if it's capable of that."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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

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

"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."

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

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

More 3CX Live Chat pricing and cost advice

"Negotiate for discounts."

"It is a little expensive although now, with the competition from Zoom and other products, they have lowered their prices and it is better."

"GoToMeeting is a little bit expensive compared to other products."

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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 needs improvement with GoToMeeting?

The solution must include archive options to save the recorded meetings for future reference. The recording functionality can benefit our team by improving how meetings are recorded and shared. Pre...

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What is your primary use case for GoToMeeting?

I use the solution when someone is comfortable using it, and I recommend using it.

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What advice do you have for others considering GoToMeeting?

I rate the overall solution a nine out of ten.

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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

3CX

GoToMeeting web conferencing software makes it simple and cost-effective to collaborate online with colleagues and customers. Best of all, meeting participants can share their webcams in high definition, so you can enjoy more personal interactions _ without needing a complicated setup.

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Sample Customers

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AAPT, ACD Groupe, Addison Fire, Avigilon Corporation, Basic Industries Ltd., Bitdefender, Branson School Online, Budd Van Lines, Business Fitness, Business Wire

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