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Calabrio ONE vs NICE CXone comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 1, 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

Calabrio ONE
Ranking in Workforce Engagement Management
3rd
Ranking in AI Customer Experience Personalization
3rd
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.5
Number of Reviews
42
Ranking in other categories
AI Scheduling & Coordination (2nd)
NICE CXone
Ranking in Workforce Engagement Management
2nd
Ranking in AI Customer Experience Personalization
5th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.4
Number of Reviews
29
Ranking in other categories
IVR Systems (1st), Live Chat (1st), Knowledge Management Software (4th), Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS) (3rd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the Workforce Engagement Management category, the mindshare of Calabrio ONE is 5.8%, down from 6.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of NICE CXone is 10.1%, down from 15.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Workforce Engagement Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
NICE CXone10.1%
Calabrio ONE5.8%
Other84.1%
Workforce Engagement Management
 

Featured Reviews

Jaleelakadheer Mohideen - PeerSpot reviewer
Operation Planning Associate at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
Improved agent adherence and scheduling have boosted satisfaction but reporting still needs real time
In terms of improvements for Calabrio ONE, since I do not work with forecasting, I think we could collaborate AWS with Calabrio ONE to get live data fed into Calabrio ONE, which would be even greater for forecasting. We pull the majority of our reports through Calabrio ONE, and something I have noticed is that for the intraday report, if we want to pull data at 12:30, we have to wait until 12:45. It is a 15-minute refresher window, which is lagging behind. This delay is the same for any report being pulled. I do not have a grand overview of forecasting, but it generally takes a long time, and my agents have not been able to collaborate AWS with Calabrio ONE in the forecasting aspect. Apart from that, everything else is working great on Calabrio ONE. I would love it if it was more real-time and if I could download the data almost immediately without waiting for that 15-minute buffer. I rate Calabrio ONE a seven because I feel it could be improved. As I mentioned, the 15-minute buffer is an issue, and the real-time feeding into forecasting could be better. If we could control Shift Bags within Calabrio ONE instead of using another application like Teleopti to manage Shift Bags or control overall shifts, that would be even better. Right now, we use a combination of Teleopti and Calabrio ONE to decide the Shift Bags. The quantity and quality of results provided by Calabrio ONE are accurate 95 percent of the time. The forecasting feature in the application might not be the most accurate, which is an area where we do have issues, especially when scheduling breaks at intervals where calls might be at a higher volume. Those are rigged. Apart from that, since breaks and other meetings get allotted automatically, we do have to manually move them around because that forecasting is not accurate. If that could be improved, it would be great.
reviewer2884692 - PeerSpot reviewer
Program Manager at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Crowdsourced knowledge has grown into a trusted customer hub and now supports richer adoption journeys
One inconvenience is that because we are crowdsourced, we have hundreds of contributors every year, with most people only submitting one article, maybe two, so it does not make sense to pay for licenses for all of those people. This leads to some intermediary manual copy-paste processes because we just cannot have everybody working in the system itself, making it a little bit problematic for maintaining a source of truth. The main issues with NICE CXone are the lack of ability to integrate with some internal things that we want to do; it has to do with the way the system is designed, which is complex. We wanted to integrate with our internal system for instant translations, and we were not able to do that, along with a couple of other things that illustrate that it is kind of an isolated system to itself, making it pretty hard to tap into and grow even further. There are a couple of little issues with reporting that have not been very good, but really, the system is very functional.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The Analytics software has been fantastic for the contact center."
"Leadership is able to help new agents learn in real-time versus going back and reviewing."
"I have found the video capture to be the most valuable feature."
"Calabrio ONE is a great product, is user friendly, and has great customer service."
"I find Calabrio ONE much more efficient than the system we were using before, which I cannot even remember the name of because it was that ineffective."
"Overall I feel this is a great product with a fantastic support network with an exciting features roadmap ahead."
"Real-time quality score notification."
"The ability to customize evaluation forms to organizational needs has been tremendous."
"NICE CXone has positively impacted my organization by seamlessly joining our calls without any call drops, allowing me to listen to a call with ease, and making everything really easy to use and self-explanatory."
"NICE CXone allows agents to request time off and trade schedules with other people, access training and coaching, and play games to help improve their performance, functioning as a good one-stop shop where they can input their preferred hours and manage their schedules, rather than having to go to multiple places for professional development."
"The only thing I liked about this was the fact that you can create an online help system where information changes dynamically."
"For me personally, NICE CXone has helped me manage my time and workflow better."
"It's easier as a supervisor to do your job more efficiently. You can have multiple things open at once to watch everything, being able to take one look at a page and see everything you need rather then having to flip through multiple programs. This is such a time saver. I get a lot more done in my day due to being able to keep my opened programs down to a minimum."
"I assess the impact of the omnichannel capabilities on customer journey consistency as excellent, as it is a single pane of glass solution where all channels and omnichannel features are available, which is very supportive and increases customer productivity overall."
"Customer support is terrific. The team is personable, informed, and responsive."
"I have found the ease of use of the ACD to be most valuable along with the inView dashboard."
 

Cons

"Unfortunately, cell phone call recording is not available at this time."
"I would like to see the ability to run an individual Agent on any given service queues without loosing any entered exceptions."
"Reporting and email notifications to agent when they have received evaluations of their call recordings."
"We would like to see the backend SQL server improved for High Availability."
"The pain point I experienced with Calabrio ONE was with the PTO quotas, as I did not have the option to import the Excel files, meaning if I had 100 agents or 150 agents, I had to manually update the PTO quotas in the system, and if there would have been an option to import the PTO quota files in the same format, that would have been easy."
"It sometimes needs quite clunky work arounds for certain things, e.g. If I add exceptions into agent schedules such as holidays or long term sickness, it's not easy to just delete them."
"Being able to "publish" or rerun the schedule for only one agent would be ideal."
"We have encountered plenty of deployment issues."
"With lots of screenshots to be replaced when we perform a service release, this is pretty tedious work."
"I think that there is a bit of a delay in the accuracy and reliability of the output I see in NICE CXone, as I mentioned before."
"Occasionally, the system runs slow and will kick us out of Max, which then has to be restarted, and can cause issues as our call center deals with time sensitive phone calls."
"I would like to see inView be a built-in feature of CXone rather than a separate platform, but everything else is terrific."
"However, being a NICE consumer or developer for these instances and products currently, it becomes challenging due to documentation issues and the instability of some products."
"It is a hassle, if you are busy and caught up with something, that it will log you out."
"However, Stage labels do nothing. They simply label the page with the Stage name."
"NICE CXone is a good feature, but it is expensive and costlier than other products such as Genesis or other alternatives."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"We had a custom setup that cost us some money."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
23%
Outsourcing Company
16%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Construction Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
13%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Computer Software Company
8%
Construction Company
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business3
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise37
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business12
Midsize Enterprise6
Large Enterprise14
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Calabrio ONE?
I do not know about that because my company provided it to me. I do not know about the costing of Calabrio ONE, the licensing, or the setup costs because my organization provided it. I did not hand...
What needs improvement with Calabrio ONE?
Calabrio ONE can be improved in the area of predictive workforce planning. I believe predictive workforce planning would be more valuable if the platform could automatically identify unusual patter...
What is your primary use case for Calabrio ONE?
I use Calabrio ONE for small retail verticals from one of the projects like Mattel and other pieces as well for delivering the POC at the client side. I was working on almost three to four projects...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for NICE CXone?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is somewhat irrelevant because we are sold through Verizon rather than directly from NICE.
What needs improvement with NICE CXone?
NICE CXone has positively impacted my organization because the tools have been beneficial regarding the improvements I mentioned previously. One thing that could be better is the support that NICE ...
What is your primary use case for NICE CXone?
My main use case for NICE CXone is workforce management and workforce engagement. One specific example of how I use NICE CXone for workforce management and engagement is to monitor quality assuranc...
 

Also Known As

Calabrio
NICE inContact, NICE CXone Workforce Optimization Pro, NICE CXOne WFO Pro, CXone Workforce Optimization, inContact Workforce Optimization, CallCopy, Discover, VPI Empower, Brand Embassy, goMoxie
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Polaris, Equifax, Fedex, Rabo, Paychex, Virteva, VITAS Healthcare Corp, Keurig Green Mountain, AT&T, Esurance, Subaru, Boeing, Tiffany & Co., Thomson Reuters.
MoneyGram, Honeywell, Radisson Hotel Group, AAA, New Balance, MattressFIRM, Teleflora, Best Buy
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