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Astound Hosted Voice vs FreePBX comparison

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ROI

Sentiment score
7.3
Astound Hosted Voice boosted revenue and efficiency, offering cost savings, reliable service, and increased bandwidth without upfront equipment costs.
Sentiment score
3.7
FreePBX delivers high ROI through cost savings, stability, and ease of setup, reducing reliance on subscription models.
Money was saved, as opposed to taking a subscription-based model for each of the extensions.
Tech Lead at Vindaloo Softtech Pvt Ltd
I have seen a return on investment with FreePBX; for example, the musical instruments group saved over $30,000 a year by moving from Cisco to FreePBX for their licensing.
Sr Voip and Call center engineer at Superdave LLC
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.2
Astound Hosted Voice provides prompt, effective US-based support, enhancing customer satisfaction through quick issue resolution and strong communication.
Sentiment score
4.5
FreePBX offers both community and paid customer service, with highly rated support and options for purchasing additional assistance.
The community-based support was good, and there is some paid support as well from Sangoma.
Tech Lead at Vindaloo Softtech Pvt Ltd
If I really get in a pickle over something, I can purchase support hours and get an answer.
Sr Voip and Call center engineer at Superdave LLC
Tech support for FreePBX, I would rate it six to seven out of ten.
Senior Staff Engineer at Nagarro
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.9
Astound Hosted Voice provides limitless scalability, allowing easy expansion and seamless integration across multiple offices and numerous users.
Sentiment score
4.2
FreePBX is scalable and cloud-friendly, but lacks multi-tenancy, third-party API support, and webhooks integration.
It does have a scalability issue with multi-tenancy.
Tech Lead at Vindaloo Softtech Pvt Ltd
The big one is 400 users and 350 simultaneous calls.
Sr Voip and Call center engineer at Superdave LLC
In FreePBX, there is no API exposed as far as I understand.
Senior Staff Engineer at Nagarro
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.6
Astound Hosted Voice offers reliable service with near-perfect uptime, resolving initial disruptions for consistent, dependable performance appreciated by users.
Sentiment score
7.7
FreePBX is highly stable and reliable, with notable scalability and compatibility, though call recording may cause space issues.
FreePBX is stable in my experience; I've run into clients who run the server for years without anybody touching them.
Sr Voip and Call center engineer at Superdave LLC
FreePBX has some pros and cons like every product. For pros, FreePBX is very scalable, very flexible, and open source.
Senior Staff Engineer at Nagarro
FreePBX is stable in most cases.
Project Manager and Full Stack Software Developer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
 

Room For Improvement

Astound Hosted Voice needs better setup, training, control panel, connectivity, security, auto-attendant, voicemail handling, and customer support.
FreePBX could improve third-party phone support, UI, security, real-time monitoring, and handling of large call volumes.
FreePBX can be improved by offering users the ability to design a call flow more easily through a drag and drop interface.
Project Manager and Full Stack Software Developer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
I have needed to access the command line interface and run commands to complete tasks.
Vo Ip Sip Engineer at Concentric Media Sdn Bhd
Security would be the main feature that I wish was better because the FreePBX box can get hacked quickly.
Tech Lead at Vindaloo Softtech Pvt Ltd
 

Setup Cost

Astound Hosted Voice offers competitive pricing and flexible contracts, leading to significant savings and satisfaction among enterprise buyers.
FreePBX offers reasonable licensing fees with optional competitive modules, making it more affordable than brands like Cisco.
The prices for FreePBX are fair; they are not bad compared to other brands like Cisco.
Operations Manager at astron computers limited
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that we only need to pay for the server through DigitalOcean billing.
Tech Lead at Vindaloo Softtech Pvt Ltd
 

Valuable Features

Astound Hosted Voice excels in flexibility, call management, and support, enhancing communication with features like voicemail to email and softbots.
FreePBX offers flexible customization, user-friendly interface, and robust call management features, enhancing PBX deployment and management efficiency.
FreePBX helps my team operate efficiently; it allows me to grant access to non-experienced, non-technical colleagues to do their jobs, such as adding new extensions, adding new trunks, or managing some of the voice features, which helps a lot to distribute the workloads, speeds up the process, and visualizes the system and its state for the management team, including non-technical persons.
Senior Cloud Engineer at Globant
This is fantastic because it provides proactive support from the customer 24 into 7 across the world.
Senior Staff Engineer at Nagarro
FreePBX has positively impacted my organization because it allows quick setup for a small call center and is easy to use.
Project Manager and Full Stack Software Developer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
 

Categories and Ranking

Astound Hosted Voice
Ranking in Hosted and Cloud Based VoIP
3rd
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
10
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
FreePBX
Ranking in Hosted and Cloud Based VoIP
2nd
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
4.8
Number of Reviews
10
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the Hosted and Cloud Based VoIP category, the mindshare of Astound Hosted Voice is 5.5%, up from 2.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of FreePBX is 3.6%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Hosted and Cloud Based VoIP Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
FreePBX3.6%
Astound Hosted Voice5.5%
Other90.9%
Hosted and Cloud Based VoIP
 

Featured Reviews

BF
IT Director at a university with 201-500 employees
Admin features make it easy to customize and change, while Voicemail Transcription is fast and accurate
The most valuable feature is the admin platform that we work with. It allows us a very centralized approach for doing things and it allows us to manage and control everything right from the very top. We could do that before, but the features that we have with RCN seem more extensive than the previous company that we worked with. The Voicemail Transcription is more accurate than what we had with our previous company. Also, and I'm not sure if this is because it's a fiber line, we seem to get the responses and the transcription almost instantaneously, faster than what we had prior. We can do lots of things: We can do call groups, we can do work with our extensions, we can set up our account codes, we can take a look at call logs. There are a multiplicity of miscellaneous settings that are allowed for each user and for the Admin. There's a simplicity to it. It seems they use KISS principle, keep it simple, stupid. It works for everybody because, when I'm not here responding to it, my technicians are; sometimes my network guy is; sometimes our students are interacting with it. It creates a very easy flow for working through the product and the interface. The automatic upgrades are the best thing that ever happened, because we don't see them, we don't feel them, we just know that they happened, after the fact. What they've done, at least for us, is that we haven't had or felt a crash whatsoever, nor have we felt the disruption as a result of the updates. That tells me that work goes into them to get them done right, and that they really test the code and test the information in updates so that they work properly.
DR
Sr Voip and Call center engineer at Superdave LLC
Migration projects have cut licensing costs and now support flexible call flows and hot standby
FreePBX can be improved as they come out with a new version every year or so. Their current version is FreePBX 17. The user community and the FAQ are great; you can search for just about anything you want to do on FreePBX and they're getting new AI engines and new text to speech engines from third party vendors all the time. So it's a very rich community. Sometimes the security is a bit odd with FreePBX, but security is a bit odd overall, so I don't know if that's a valid concern. I appreciate it; it's a good environment. Sangoma is the owner of the system. If I ever get stuck on something, and it doesn't happen very often, I can call and get help from Sangoma, and sometimes they want me to pay for it. It's fine if that's what it takes, but there's great support.
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Top Industries

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Construction Company
19%
Outsourcing Company
16%
Marketing Services Firm
10%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Construction Company
19%
Comms Service Provider
18%
Outsourcing Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business6
Midsize Enterprise2
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business8
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise2
 

Questions from the Community

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for FreePBX?
The prices for FreePBX are fair; they are not bad compared to other brands like Cisco. The price is very good.
What needs improvement with FreePBX?
I am not aware at the moment of FreePBX's user-friendly GUI in terms of simplifying administrative tasks, as I do not have the data at hand. We have not implemented FreePBX's IVR feature yet. I am ...
What is your primary use case for FreePBX?
We do resell Dell products. We are actually resellers and we resell their laptops and desktops, even servers at times. We do have hands-on experience working with Dell technologies. We do installat...
 

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