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Calabrio ONE vs Five9 comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Calabrio ONE
Ranking in Workforce Engagement Management
4th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.5
Number of Reviews
32
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Five9
Ranking in Workforce Engagement Management
2nd
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.8
Number of Reviews
24
Ranking in other categories
Contact Center Platforms (2nd), Contact Center Infrastructure (1st), Sales Force Automation (4th), Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS) (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the Workforce Engagement Management category, the mindshare of Calabrio ONE is 6.3%, down from 7.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Five9 is 8.3%, up from 8.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Workforce Engagement Management Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Five98.3%
Calabrio ONE6.3%
Other85.4%
Workforce Engagement Management
 

Featured Reviews

GS
The Copy Schedule Activities reduces time spent for changing activities. Agents are not able to cancel an approved request in the Time Off Request area.
I cannot speak about the difference for the QM software. My main use is of the WFM software. A few of the features were "nice to have" features, but version 9.3 had some "deficiencies". The main problem was not being able to run scenarios in a pseudo scheduling area, so the way Calabrio is now, agents can possibly see test scenarios. Another problem is the Time Off Request area. Agents are not able to cancel an approved request through this area. The sorting/filtering could be improved upon greatly. We are scheduled to upgrade to version 10.0, which will resolve many of the issues we do not like about the current version that we are using. Update: We are still on version 9.3 and looking forward to upgrading.
Pedro Pulido - PeerSpot reviewer
Seamless integration with our CRM gives our agents all the information in one place
In my role, the admin tools are most valuable, such as using the UI to configure all the campaigns and all the settings that we use. Also, the monitoring panels it has are very good. Our supervisors and sales managers build dashboards in the solution so that we can understand how our operation is performing throughout the day. That is very useful. We have implemented workflows, and the Five9 WorkFlow Automation feature works very well. We're very happy with the tool. Five9 offers a very reliable solution, and that's why we are aiming to implement the new technologies in which AI is involved. We use Five9 with Salesforce, and it works very well. It's seamless. We practically never have problems with that integration. The information comes and goes without a problem. The Salesforce integration helps agents a lot. It's easy to use, so they get familiar with it very quickly. Because of the way it integrates, it's like looking at one platform; it's all on one screen. They can see the call information and the information about the lead. It's very easy to read and very user-friendly. On the side of the workforce that I am on, we are constantly working on improving our costs. We have to understand how long our calls are taking, and we are able to do all that analysis because of how Five9 presents all the information in the dashboard and how quickly we can analyze it. It's very useful to have a practical way to see the information and understand it. Also, making changes is not that hard. For example, maybe we don't want to make that many calls; we want to make fewer. That's easy to do. It's a tool that allows you to make decisions and implement them very quickly.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The Copy Schedule Activities has been a favorite tool. It reduces time spent when I need to make changes which are identical to multiple agents' schedules."
"I like the ease with which we can make changes if necessary. Currently, we are using it for phone and email distribution, but we're talking about adding chat and delving into the omnichannel features more."
"I like the fact that I can customize the cadencing. I can drill in and create custom contact point cadencing for all of our different categories of leads. We attack some people more aggressively, but others much more softly. I have much more confidence that things aren't slipping through the cracks. It continues to bring customers up for us until they've either moved through the cycle or we've removed them from the cycle. It gives us greater peace of mind. The ability to get in quickly and customize many of those pieces easily was appealing to us."
"I like the capability of call and screen recording. It has helped us to hold our agents accountable to the expectations for the role. It creates a clearer picture than giving feedback that is just based on calls that we may have listened to, but we do not have anything to show the agents themselves."
"Overall, Five9 has made my job easier compared to before, and I do not struggle with it."
"Five9 has made our contact center more flexible by taking it to the cloud. The user experience for agents is great because everything is on one dashboard, from the dialer to the workflows for transferring calls and creating tickets."
"It helped reduce costs in our organization. We've saved on staffing and we've saved on software by 10% to 15%."
"Agent Assist and AI server are the two best features because they remind new and existing agents about tips and generate detailed case summaries, saving them the time and effort of making small modifications before posting."
"Five9 has a lot of AI tools, which I find valuable. It offers transcription services and a power dialer for outbound dialing. I like that Five9 is built for outbound and suitable for that purpose."
 

Cons

"Give agents the ability to cancel approved requests for time off. Vacation plans do actually change in the real world."
"Being able to "publish" or rerun the schedule for only one agent would be ideal."
"The reporting could be a bit better."
"Five9's stability needs to be improved."
"It would be ideal if they could combine the tools into one suite."
"Five9 has an active-passive high-availability model. I would prefer active-active."
"The knowledge base of their support is not as strong as the IVR build."
"There are certain issues around features that Chrome has deployed that we have to figure out. When we bring them to Five9's attention, they are usually able to help us navigate them. It seems that sometimes they already know about an issue, so it would be helpful if they more proactively engaged with us first..."
"There have also been some challenges in being able to keep the format of an original email. The solution acts as a proxy, but it's not bringing over the full format that the email came in with... Five9's email channel isn't as good as some other vendors' email channels that I've seen. But there is an upgrade coming..."
"Five9 Omnichannel’s UI could be improved."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"Five9's pricing wasn't quite as flexible as I'd hoped, but it ended up being reasonably priced overall."
"The product's pricing is flexible and reasonable."
"Five9 is a little expensive because of our company's size. That said, it scales pretty well. The daily usage costs and monthly fees seem about right. It's not out of line with what we'd expect from other companies. However, they seem to have a one-size-fits-all implementation fee. Most of their clients have hundreds if not thousands of seats in the call centers, so $5,000 or $10,000 is not a huge cost. It would be nice if they had a sliding scale for smaller companies."
"The product is not the most expensive, but it's not cheap."
"Five9 is reasonable."
"The cost is not at the lower end of the market, but it's worth it."
"The pricing seems reasonable. I had anticipated that whatever solution we went with would be more expensive. I was actually pleasantly surprised that the features that we had in Evolve IP, one-to-one, did not cost significantly more in Five9."
"I prefer Five9's licensing model."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Insurance Company
15%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Energy/Utilities Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Computer Software Company
8%
Insurance Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business2
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise29
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business7
Midsize Enterprise7
Large Enterprise6
 

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What do you like most about Five9?
I like the capability of call and screen recording. It has helped us to hold our agents accountable to the expectations for the role. It creates a clearer picture than giving feedback that is just ...
What needs improvement with Five9?
Five9 ( /products/five9-reviews ) should improve its omnichannel feature, allowing partners to manage all tenants with a single account rather than needing multiple accounts for each customer. Addi...
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We deploy Five9 ( /products/five9-reviews ) for our customers who use it as a contact center solution.
 

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Sample Customers

Polaris, Equifax, Fedex, Rabo, Paychex, Virteva, VITAS Healthcare Corp, Keurig Green Mountain, AT&T, Esurance, Subaru, Boeing, Tiffany & Co., Thomson Reuters.
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