Bitrix24 vs Symphony comparison

Bitrix24 and Symphony are both solutions in the Enterprise Social Software category. Bitrix24 is ranked #5 with an average rating of 8.0, while Symphony is ranked #7 with an average rating of 7.0. Bitrix24 holds a 2.4% mindshare in ESS, compared to Symphony’s 8.2% mindshare. Additionally, 90% of Bitrix24 users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 83% of Symphony users who would recommend it.

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83% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 23, 2025

Symphony and Bitrix24 compete in the business collaboration and CRM tools category. Bitrix24 appears to have the upper hand due to its feature richness.

Features: Symphony provides robust team collaboration tools, secure communication channels, and rapid implementation capabilities. Bitrix24 offers CRM support, project management capabilities, and social collaboration tools, making it a more comprehensive solution.

Room for Improvement: Symphony could improve by expanding its feature set and offering more flexible CRM functionalities. Bitrix24 might enhance its marketing strategies, increase user interface flexibility, and provide more seamless integrations with third-party solutions.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Symphony emphasizes rapid deployment and prioritizes quick resolution in customer service. Bitrix24 offers a streamlined deployment process with more comprehensive support options, making it suitable for organizations needing extensive training and ongoing help.

Pricing and ROI: Symphony tends to have higher initial setup costs but offers significant ROI through specialized features, appealing to industries with high security needs. Bitrix24 generally presents lower setup costs with a favorable ROI due to its extensive feature set, optimizing operational efficiencies across various domains.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Bitrix24

Ranking in Enterprise Social Software

5th

Average Rating

7.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

CRM (11th), Project Management Software (13th)

Symphony

Ranking in Enterprise Social Software

7th

Average Rating

7.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Enterprise Social Software category, the mindshare of Bitrix24 is 2.4%, up from 1.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Symphony is 8.2%, up from 5.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Abasiakama Bassey

Founder at Elxae Hub

A project management tool that offers great scalability and stability

The support provided by Bitrix24 is an area with shortcomings that needs improvement. From an improvement perspective, Bitrix24 should consider providing live and upfront support to its users, especially those who use the solution's free version. If you want someone to get on your platform for which you can't provide support, then it doesn't make that platform any different from its competitors. It would make sense to people if Bitrix24 could provide support for even their free version. It would be good if Bitrix24 added some accounting elements to the tool instead of just providing functionality related to bookkeeping alone since it can help Bitrix24 become a complete tool. During the setup phase of the solution, the tool should provide its users an option to add the accounting part, making it a complete solution.

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Nenad Pejcic

Senior Professional Services Engineer at Aspire Technology

Makes tasks like network planning and performance monitoring much easier

I have experience with solutions from other vendors like Nokia, Huawei, and Tyson. The main pros of Symphony, in comparison, are the modules that provide a comprehensive overview and the automation features for planning data. These aspects are notably beneficial and stand out. On the downside, the major cons revolve around user customization. Unlike other vendors where you can create your reports and customize navigation, Symphony's user optimization in the SCAP module is limited. This lack of flexibility is a significant drawback, especially when compared to other solutions. Overall, while certain modules like those related to SolarWinds are straightforward and comparable, Symphony falls short in terms of user customization.

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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

"It's a very easy-to-use product."

"We use many of this solution's features for communication and for process automation. It offers more functionality than a regular CRM."

"The most valuable features are data entry, the pipeline view with filters, and the automation capabilities."

"I believe that having one system that handles all of the functions that we need in a business, such as marketing, sales, pipeline management, project management, meetings, customer contact, customer feedback, social media integrations, and connections to our cloud data storage, Google, and Microsoft, is a good idea."

"The solution's most valuable feature is its project management functionality...It is a pretty stable solution."

"The technical support was intuitive and had good documentation."

"It is a very scalable solution...The tool currently operates efficiently and contributes to our ongoing digitization efforts, including documentation and workflows."

"Bitrix24's workflow is better than that of others. The user interface is also good."

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"I found the RAM Commander module in Symphony to be the most valuable."

"Symphony and Laravel are the most comfortable frameworks for any developer. It is also lightweight."

"The overall functions are good."

"The entire product is good."

"The solution is user-friendly, and it is very good security-wise."

Cons

"Our financial department does not use Bitrix24 because it's not good for the sort of work they do. So, once we create an invoice in Bitrix24, we sent it to the client and the financial department and they enter it separately into their system. This is not great for us since we can't track what happens after a sale."

"It would be great if colleagues could get alerts via email when they are assigned something."

"I would like to see improvements with Bitrix24's marketing automation."

"In our organization, we feel that the UI and the functionalities for workflows in the solution need a lot of improvement."

"Some functionalities of the tool required specific expertise. For example, the SIP Connector is difficult to install."

"The solution’s performance could be made faster."

"We need full ERP integration to take all our processes in one platform."

"The stability could be improved."

More Bitrix24 cons

"Compared to established vendors, it lacks user flexibility and customization, especially in the PM module."

"The area that needs to be improved is modular asset management. When we are uploading the assets in bulk, it is not aligned."

"The solution needs to improve CI."

"To improve the situation, enhancing the functionality for integrating with other applications and addressing ticketing issues is crucial."

"The solution is very expensive, and its pricing could be improved."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The product's pricing is okay for me. It is not expensive."

"Licenses are cheap compared to other solutions."

"We were using the free version which was really limited in terms of functionality."

"Bitrix24 used to be cheaper, but now it's getting expensive."

"Bitrix24 offers an open-source option for small companies, but you can order a bigger range of services on a monthly or yearly contract."

"Bitrix24 is a cheap tool. I think our costs are somewhere between $1,000 and $5,000 per month. There are no additional costs with it. We did put in some hours to clean up some project-related stuff in it, but it was not much."

"On a scale from one to ten, where one is expensive and ten is cheap, I rate the solution's pricing a seven or eight out of ten."

"The pricing for this program is reasonable."

More Bitrix24 pricing and cost advice

"It's a costly product, but the number of available features justifies it."

"Symphony is expensive."

"It is fairly an expensive product, but works for us."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

21%

Comms Service Provider

11%

Government

Retailer

Financial Services Firm

64%

Computer Software Company

University

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Bitrix24?

We are considering Bitrix24 as an office automation solution for our workplace productivity-related issues, project management activities, and staff tracking.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Bitrix24?

The pricing for Bitrix24 is reasonable and standardized. However, we face limitations in Venezuela, where monthly invoicing isn't available, forcing us to pay annually.

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What needs improvement with Bitrix24?

We need full ERP integration to take all our processes in one platform. Additionally, extracting data can be troublesome, as we have to use Russian APIs, which poses a security concern.

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What do you like most about Symphony?

Symphony and Laravel are the most comfortable frameworks for any developer. It is also lightweight.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Symphony?

Symphony is expensive.

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What needs improvement with Symphony?

The solution needs to improve CI.

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Overview

Communication and collaboration tools
Ready for unified collaboration? Intranet, chat, videoconferencing, calendars, workspaces, documents, tasks and internal communication tools in one place!

Group task management
Collaborative task management for teams large and small. Time tracking, reminders, reporting, templates, task dependencies and more.

Bitrix24

Symphony’s secure, cloud-based communications service delivers the next wave in organizational productivity where markets and individuals come together to create vibrant communities in which to share content, insights and opinions without compromising on organizational compliance.

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BNP Paribas, HSBC, Deutsche Bank, Citi, Credit Suisse, JP Morgan Chase

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