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FreePBX vs GoToConnect comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

FreePBX
Ranking in Hosted and Cloud Based VoIP
2nd
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
4.4
Number of Reviews
9
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
GoToConnect
Ranking in Hosted and Cloud Based VoIP
7th
Average Rating
10.0
Reviews Sentiment
8.1
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2026, in the Hosted and Cloud Based VoIP category, the mindshare of FreePBX is 3.1%. The mindshare of GoToConnect is 5.2%, up from 3.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Hosted and Cloud Based VoIP Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
FreePBX3.1%
GoToConnect5.2%
Other91.7%
Hosted and Cloud Based VoIP
 

Featured Reviews

DR
Sr Voip and Call center engineer at Superdave LLC
Migration projects have cut licensing costs and now support flexible call flows and hot standby
FreePBX can be improved as they come out with a new version every year or so. Their current version is FreePBX 17. The user community and the FAQ are great; you can search for just about anything you want to do on FreePBX and they're getting new AI engines and new text to speech engines from third party vendors all the time. So it's a very rich community. Sometimes the security is a bit odd with FreePBX, but security is a bit odd overall, so I don't know if that's a valid concern. I appreciate it; it's a good environment. Sangoma is the owner of the system. If I ever get stuck on something, and it doesn't happen very often, I can call and get help from Sangoma, and sometimes they want me to pay for it. It's fine if that's what it takes, but there's great support.
JL
Director of IT at Mendocino Forest Products Company, LLC
Puts everyone in the company onto a common platform, making support very easy and provided quick gains
There are probably two things that get used the most: * We now eFax pretty much everything. I no longer have fax machines and have to deal with paper. We had a situation where one person, specifically, would come onto a floor for a fax machine. After restocking the fax machine with paper, so that it could finish all the faxes that they got over the weekend, They would then convert all those things into PDF documents. By going to eFax, they're getting them as emails and it's already a PDF document. This saves a step, a lot of time, and effort. We are also able to provide fax machines to individuals at their desktop by having eFax. In my case, I have my phone set up to be both a phone and a fax line, so it just shows up in my email. * We use the hot desk feature a lot. We have so many locations. I actually have an office in three different cities. So, when I go to another city, I just punch in my code and the entire phone becomes my phone. All my buttons are the same. My voicemail is there. It rings at that desk, just like it does at my main desk. I like this feature better than FindMe, where it forwards to my cell phone or something else. There are just a lot of little things that go on when you are forwarding calls to an outside system. GoToConnect’s Dial Plan Editor enables us to visually set up and organize call routing configurations quite easily. This works out well for us because each site has different requirements. No site has an attendance; they are all automated attendance. For some sites, it is strictly that the call comes in and goes to a hunt group. Other calls and other sites have everything mapped out, where it is press "one" to get to HR, press "two" to get to sales, press "three", etc. Once you get to that, then you can drill down through individuals or functions. So, it's very nice to be able to go in, look at these things, see how they are done, and provide flexibility to it as well as being able to adjust scheduling. We are all in the United States, so we all have the same holiday schedule, but some of the hours are different. Depending on the location, they may work weekends or not. They may work from 5:00 AM until 11:00 PM or 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM. So, we are able to uniquely configure all those things at each site. It has to be very flexible to do these things. It is easy to see. Like anything else, they walked us through how to create one of the more complex ones. After that, we were able to do our own and kind of manipulate it to do what we wanted from there. The Dial Plan Editor enables us to organize call routing configurations per site. We don't have the ability to see globally. However, from a single desktop, I can look at all our sites, one at a time, which is all I need.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"FreePBX has positively impacted my organization, and if I were to compare it to Elastix, I find it a lot easier to manage since it does not have a lot of bugs and is very user-friendly."
"FreePBX has made a positive impact on my organization, and we have completed many projects with it."
"It is the most user-friendly, flexible and resilient system for voice-over IP we have installed so far."
"I have seen a return on investment with FreePBX; for example, the musical instruments group saved over $30,000 a year by moving from Cisco to FreePBX for their licensing."
"My advice for others looking into using FreePBX is that it is reasonable and most of the features are free, so I recommend it."
"The call routing features with FreePBX have enhanced our customer service, with several sites all connected to a single central deployment, allowing people to work remotely from different locations using the same system."
"FreePBX offers the best features for a small call center for a small company with 20 or 30 agents."
"FreePBX is a solution that gives you the entire communication happening between party A and party B, where party A is your consumer and party B is your producer."
"It allows us to serve our clients from home exactly as though we were in the office."
"The automated system allows for control, including adding in MP3s for sound clips. This keeps businesses looking professional when customers call in."
"GoToConnect is a very solid product, putting us all onto a common platform that makes support very easy and has provided quick gains."
"Improvements have saved money and labor costs and keeps our company looking like the leaders with a cutting edge."
"We now eFax pretty much everything. I no longer have fax machines and have to deal with paper. We had a situation where one person, specifically, would come onto a floor for a fax machine. After restocking the fax machine with paper, so that it could finish all the faxes that they got over the weekend, They would then convert all those things into PDF documents. By going to eFax, they're getting them as emails and it's already a PDF document. This saves a step, a lot of time, and effort. We are also able to provide fax machines to individuals at their desktop by having eFax. In my case, I have my phone set up to be both a phone and a fax line, so it just shows up in my email."
 

Cons

"Sometimes the security is a bit odd with FreePBX, but security is a bit odd overall, so I don't know if that's a valid concern."
"However, when the call volume is large, sometimes FreePBX goes on halt, and because of that reason, I give it seven out of ten."
"Security would be the main feature that I wish was better because the FreePBX box can get hacked quickly."
"One area where they can continue to focus their improvements is support for third-party phones on the endpoint manager module."
"Sometimes when I receive reports that a user is not able to make a call out or they are having a call drop issue, viewing the dashboard provides no data."
"There are some limitation issues with concurrent calls; when we have concurrent calls, sometimes the entire PBX fails."
"I believe FreePBX could be improved regarding the user interface. Sometimes the user interface has bugs, and when you apply configuration changes, they do not always apply properly."
"I think FreePBX can be improved by offering users the ability to design a call flow more easily through a drag and drop interface."
"The ring delay could be improved. Our cell phones often continue to ring after we have answered the phone."
"We just had one service interruption, which was due to an upstream carrier. They sent us hourly updates, letting us know what was going on and that it was being worked on. It was down for about half a day."
"We'd like pre-set computers with GoToConnect and all features embedded in laptops or other devices."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"The way that we use the system, it does everything that we need it to do. It also does it at a very affordable price with good quality."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
21%
Comms Service Provider
19%
Outsourcing Company
7%
Educational Organization
5%
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Company Size

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Company SizeCount
Small Business6
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise2
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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for FreePBX?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that we only need to pay for the server through DigitalOcean billing. Since it is open source, you can have the ISO and install it on your own.
What needs improvement with FreePBX?
FreePBX has some monitoring and real-time monitoring features. They also have some SIP packet capturing. There is a third-party tool called Homer that is a great tool because it can capture call tr...
What is your primary use case for FreePBX?
I have implemented FreePBX in IVR features many times because I am a hardcore developer who first prefers customization. FreePBX provides many services, but sometimes we do not need all of them, so...
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Sample Customers

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Dartmouth College, National Holistic Institute (NHI), Larry H. Miller Dealerships, Farmers Insurance, EMA Consulting, KAD Dental Staffing, Alberts, EMS Copiers, Dragon 2000, Kiernan Trebach, Saint Mary's College of California, Vallejo City Unified School District, Go Insurance
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