No more typing reviews! Try our Samantha, our new voice AI agent.

Astound Hosted Voice vs Grasshopper comparison

Why PeerSpot?
 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive SummaryUpdated on Jun 3, 2026

Review summaries and opinions

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

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
Grasshopper
Ranking in Hosted and Cloud Based VoIP
6th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.5
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the Hosted and Cloud Based VoIP category, the mindshare of Astound Hosted Voice is 5.6%, up from 3.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Grasshopper is 7.2%, up from 4.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Hosted and Cloud Based VoIP Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Astound Hosted Voice5.6%
Grasshopper7.2%
Other87.2%
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.
it_user719805 - PeerSpot reviewer
Facade Consultant at a construction company
Gives A Blank Canvas In Order To Create, Automate, And Solve Complex 2D And 3D Tasks
The product gives you a blank canvas in order to create, automate, and solve complex 2D and 3D tasks Interoperability with other programs and inability to file share and collaborate within a team or office. Three to four years. The program can crash when solving complex tasks, however overall…

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"We haven't had to face any disaster recovery... [But as] a smaller company, it's nice to be able to pay for somebody else to take care of that."
"The uptime is excellent. We're always up. We don't have issues. The stability of it is spotless. It's rock solid. Everything works great. There's no need to tinker with it."
"We use call recording. It's important to us because there's information that's passed from the customer to us... It's very important that we get the right information and if there's ever a dispute, we've got that recorded phone call to know if we've done something incorrectly or if the customer misordered."
"In terms of deployment, if I could give a 200 percent rating, I would give it, as it was very well done and coordinated by the RCN team."
"Support is fantastic; I love that it's US-based and within local markets, and I really appreciate calling and speaking to someone I can understand and getting my problem solved."
"One feature we leverage is that the phones can be programmed with a softbot, where you program it to dial a number. We have Vonage for international calling to reduce costs on international service. I program the Vonage number into that bot on the phone. Users call it, enter a PIN, and they can call anywhere in the world for lower costs."
"We've been able to combine three separate operating companies into one phone system, and we're very happy."
"This is what's cool about the RCN setup. RCN allows you to go to any web browser, at any time, and configure the phones... Our disaster recovery is: We log in to an RCN website... and we put in a new phone number for the incoming number. If you dial our number, it will actually go to that other number."
"One of the features I enjoy the most is the capability in which you can get a number without having a physical office."
"The product gives you a blank canvas in order to create, automate, and solve complex 2D and 3D tasks."
 

Cons

"We had a lot of problems with the install, with the initial rolling out and using of the system."
"If they had better ongoing-training options, for example, if they put something out on YouTube where you could just go and look for individual things that you need by looking at a video, that would be very helpful."
"I use the voicemail transcription feature on my phone and I think all staff members do. We also have voicemails that we receive from our main number and that can be really confusing. It's something that I've recently had some problems with: The way that these calls are bounced around from line to line before they land in a specific voicemail box that we have to check."
"Wireless needs improvement. We have a manufacturing facility and the majority of the managers walk around with 2.4 gigahertz cordless phones and they have to walk, sometimes, throughout three different buildings."
"I use the voicemail transcription feature but I'm not sure about the security of the voicemail system, as you can only use numbers for a password, and your direct-dial number is your username. That's kind of vulnerable to brute-force attacks. The passwords are limited to six digits, so I'd be a little concerned about security on that end..."
"In our old system, you just dialed the extension directly, With this system, you have to put a "one" in front of it to trigger it. A lot of clients didn't know that and they'd keep trying to dial the old extension number and would get nowhere... It's been a little confusing."
"The analytic part of it, the control panel, those are their biggest areas where they have to improve. There are competitors out there where, when you open the control panel, they have tons of analytics, the ability to add lines, to see which people are on the phone.... RCN has a great product, but they could make it outstanding with the right analytics and control panel."
"It should be easier to set up new phone additions to the network."
"An area that needs immediate improvement will be the monthly minutes."
"Interoperability with other programs and inability to file share and collaborate within a team or office."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"We're okay with the pricing and licensing... It's based on the number of extensions."
"We felt that pricing was fair because we chose RCN over quotes from several companies. It was reasonable..."
"We looked at about five or six other companies but when RCN came in, they beat everybody hands-down, on both the features and on the dollars side. It prompted our people to say they hadn't seen numbers so low for the services you get."
"It's very affordable. We're very happy with the pricing."
"The solution is saving our company money, based on the initial, up-front cost that would normally be required. The monthly ongoing cost is comparable to prior solutions."
"For us, the monthly price was 38 percent lower. We were paying somewhere between $5,600 and $5,800 every month for voice and data. We got it down to about $4,000 with tax."
"Pricing is great. If you're not careful enough, you might just order too many. For the service, the price is right. When you design it, if you mess up and you realize you really need then more lines, the price is negligible."
"RCN, as part of the deal, leased us phones at a reasonable price and each line was extremely reasonable as well."
"It's free."
report
Use our free recommendation engine to learn which Hosted and Cloud Based VoIP solutions are best for your needs.
921,028 professionals have used our research since 2012.
 

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
16%
Outsourcing Company
14%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Marketing Services Firm
9%
No data available
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business6
Midsize Enterprise2
No data available
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Citi Open Tournament
360clean, Batchbook, Brimtech, Collabo, Everything Happy, FillASeat, Globalme, HomeStars, MOVE Systems, Municibid, Ocasomedia, Rentity, SkinOwl, SoundBetter, Titan PPC, TeamGantt
Find out what your peers are saying about Astound Hosted Voice vs. Grasshopper and other solutions. Updated: November 2026.
921,028 professionals have used our research since 2012.