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Calabrio ONE vs Sprout Social comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Calabrio ONE
Ranking in AI Customer Experience Personalization
3rd
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.5
Number of Reviews
42
Ranking in other categories
Workforce Engagement Management (3rd), AI Scheduling & Coordination (2nd)
Sprout Social
Ranking in AI Customer Experience Personalization
10th
Average Rating
8.2
Number of Reviews
17
Ranking in other categories
Social CRM (3rd), Social Media Management Solutions (4th), Social Media Analytics Software (1st), AI Content Creation (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the AI Customer Experience Personalization category, the mindshare of Calabrio ONE is 1.2%, down from 2.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Sprout Social is 0.6%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
AI Customer Experience Personalization Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Calabrio ONE1.2%
Sprout Social0.6%
Other98.2%
AI Customer Experience Personalization
 

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.
Mirella Karpiesiuk - PeerSpot reviewer
Social Engagement Manager at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
Centralized social channels have transformed daily engagement and reporting workflows
Regarding how Sprout Social can be improved, these are very minor areas. Sometimes we have this metric called action rate, which reflects how fast a message has been touched in Sprout Social, whether that is the message being tagged, responded to, or closed out. Apparently, we cannot get a 100% action rate because some responses come in that are auto-replied to, and that action rate misses that. I think this is one thing that can be improved: figuring out how to count those auto-responded messages. This is a niche area. Outside of that, I do not have much advice for improvements in Sprout Social; I truly think it is a hub of value and provides a lot for us. The user interface is great; it is super friendly. For someone who has never touched it before, I knew where everything was and maneuvered through it within a week of using it. The integrations are seamless with all of our social media accounts: Reddit, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and all of that. We can also export data and PDF files, which helps us with other projects. I see very minimal improvements needed on my end; I think it is a very valuable program that we use.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"We have been able to use call recordings for training as well as perform staff performance evaluations."
"By being able to manage better the time of the agents, and the ease of use thru intraday management, we have been able to move adherence goals from 80 to 85%, and we know that we can even bring it up to 90% in the near future, that alone has made our 6 locations that much more effective, resulting in better customer service for our patients and families."
"I have found the forecasting model to be very valuable."
"Customer Service: The customer service is always very good."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to reach out to Calabrio with questions and suggestions."
"I have found the video capture to be the most valuable feature."
"Calabrio ONE has positively impacted my organization by helping us with time management, scheduling shifts, and enhancing efficient workflows, and I can say that it is the game changer in that field."
"The dynamic scheduling functionality allows the agents to be more empowered which was not an option on our previous tool."
"Sprout Social has positively impacted my organization by providing me with reporting capabilities and allowing me to assess how my posts are performing."
"Sprout Social has centralized all of our social media communications, saved us a lot of time, and allowed the team to be more organized and on top of what is going on in social."
"We would not be able to do it without Sprout Social, and it is very easy to use; the user interface is very friendly and intuitive."
"Sprout Social impacts my organization positively by allowing me to gauge the sentiment around different topics and helping me to stay on top of my social media growth and reporting."
"Sprout Social has positively impacted my organization by allowing us to streamline the scheduling of content, get ahead of everything so we can focus on the present, and pivot when necessary based on what is happening or not happening."
"The only outcome I have seen in my workflow because of Sprout Social is the time, as the same thing if I do manually will cost me around maybe one day or two days, and using Sprout Social this time has shortened to maybe one hour or one and a half hour maximum."
"Sprout Social has saved us a lot of time, provided the convenience of a single login to multiple socials, and requires less time for training, making it very easy to use and start using it."
"In my experience, the best features Sprout Social offers are the ability to manage multiple campaigns."
 

Cons

"Initially, we encountered a little stability issue."
"The built-in reporting is not comprehensive or intuitive."
"Additionally, there is some lag during scheduling and adherence processes; for instance, one agent might appear available right when they are scheduled in the CRM, but Calabrio ONE shows them as disconnected."
"A few of the features were "nice to have" features, but version 9.3 had some "deficiencies"."
"Calabrio ONE can be improved because the biggest challenge is that it is unnecessarily complicated, as the reporting and data exploration tools are somewhat complex for new users."
"There have been some imperfections in the product, however, support has ALWAYS stepped up and assisted until resolved, even if it meant a patch or something."
"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."
"Some of these new scheduling options are just that, new. So, updates are happening to ensure the product functions the way it was intended."
"Sprout Social can be improved because the user experience of having hundreds of channels to navigate can be quite fiddly, especially when trying to bulk post."
"Sometimes, when it comes to user experience, it's really hard to tag businesses in the copy because the way they appear in the dropdown is really slow, and it doesn't always find them, even when I use the at symbol to tag them."
"Maybe trying to figure out the reason why sometimes the engagement could be less when posted through Sprout Social rather than manually."
"There is a limitation for us with Sprout Social in publishing boosted content within LinkedIn, and we would appreciate that to be improved."
"Sprout Social could be improved by being able to schedule out Stories, which is a current limitation."
"If you do not already have existing solutions and you are using the platform to help schedule out marketing campaigns, it will not be that helpful."
"Realistically, I find the pricing quite high."
"My advice to others considering Sprout Social is that I believe it is a good platform to use temporarily for some clients, but it does not scale well for growth."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
22%
Outsourcing Company
16%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Construction Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
17%
University
10%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Comms Service Provider
10%
 

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 Business8
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise18
 

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 Sprout Social?
We do not mind the setup cost because the organization provides whatever we are asking for, and we are just working on it. We do not know much about pricing and setup costs as we have a separate te...
What needs improvement with Sprout Social?
I think enhanced AI features as well as APIs to talk to CRM programs would certainly make Sprout Social more efficient. Regarding Sprout Social's AI capabilities, I currently think they manage it w...
What is your primary use case for Sprout Social?
My main use case for Sprout Social is management of the social media channels at Harman, where we manage it for eight plus brands across key platforms like Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, an...
 

Also Known As

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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.
Hyatt, Stanford University, Coldwell Banker, Razorfish, UPS, Box, Zipcar, PepsiCo, YogurtLand, Dove, TechSmith
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