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Exotel

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4.5
Market Presence: Communications Platform as a Service, Conversational AI Platforms

Overview

Product Information on Exotel

Updated 4th July 2024

What is Exotel?

Exotel provides a comprehensive CPaaS solution that includes voice and messaging APIs to ensure seamless customer interactions. The platform features voice and video calling, IVR, SMS, email, and push notifications. Exotel's APIs, security features, real-time analytics, and workflow automation enhance customer engagement and streamline operations. Exotel operates under UL-VNO licensing for VoIP telephony services, ensuring compliance as a cloud calling operator. Key features include click-to-call, messaging APIs (SMS, WhatsApp, RCS), voice APIs (WebRTC, in-app calling), voice streaming, IVR call routing, agent dashboard, call analytics and recording, call forwarding, and CRM integration.

Exotel Pricing

Exotel Product Images

Call Logs Dashboard
Call Logs Dashboard
Exotel Login Dashboard
Exotel Login Dashboard
Drag & Drop IVR Flow Builder
Drag & Drop IVR Flow Builder

Overall experience with Exotel

Engineering Manager
500M - 1B USD, Finance (non-banking)
FAVORABLE

“Reliable Platform and Well-Documented APIs Offset Limited Reporting Capabilities”

4.0
Nov 5, 2025
My Overall experience has been very satisfactory. The platform is very stable and reliable for most of our usecases, and support has been responsive when required. The core functionality works well and is dependable.
Sr. Operations Manager
Gov't/PS/ED <5,000 Employees, Education
CRITICAL

“A good telephony service when the scope of service is limited to India”

3.0
Jul 27, 2023
A good and affordable telephony service for Indian customers. The scope is limited to Indian telephony services and is not viable for international calling. Lacks a ticketing system which would have really enhanced the use case more.

About Company

Company Description

Updated 3rd July 2024

Exotel provides AI-powered customer communication solutions. The platform includes voice and messaging APIs, supporting SMS, WhatsApp, RCS, WebRTC, in-app calling, voice streaming, IVR call routing, call forwarding, and CRM integration. Exotel also offers call analytics, recording, and an intuitive agent dashboard. The Contextual Customer Data Platform transforms raw data into personalized customer narratives, providing actionable insights. Exotel holds a UL-VNO license for VoIP telephony services, ensuring compliance as a cloud calling operator. This comprehensive solution helps businesses manage and enhance their customer communications effectively.

Company Details

Updated 3rd July 2024
Company type
Private
Year Founded
2011
Head office location
Bangalore, India
Number of employees
1001 - 5000
Website
https://www.exotel.com

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Exotel Likes & Dislikes

Like

The platform being reliable is the most impressive thing. The APIs are very well documented and are easy to integrate, which makes it simple to embed features in our existing workflows.

Like

1. The rates of the telephony service is extremely affordable. Our calling expenses have reduced consderably. 2. Ease of use for administrator - It is extremely quick to add and delete agents. I can quickly use the reports to measure productivity and idle time of agents. 3. Features like customizable call flows are amazing. I can record my voice or use a robot voice and IVRs with extreme ease.

Like

On-Call support

Dislike

At times, I feel like analytics and reporting capabilities lag behind. A more granular insight engine might go a long way here by giving insights on optimizations.

Dislike

1. I cannot use calling for international numbers through this service. Neither can I have international agents sign up using this service. It limits our ability to use this feature globally. 2. Integration with Freshdesk is very limited. I am not able to send customer satisfaction response to a ticket field in Freshdesk. 3. Reports are limited. If I want to do analysis regarding which agent spent most/least time on calls or slice call data by different cuts, it is not readily available for me on the tool. I have to download csv files and perform my own data cuts through excel.

Dislike

The call dashboard can be improved with insights, currently for detailed analysis we have to download reports and crunch numbers. Also, the UI for the listening to voice transcripts/ recordings can be improved.

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Peer Discussions

Exotel Reviews and Ratings

4.5

(40 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star
57%
4 Star
40%
3 Star
3%
2 Star
0%
1 Star
0%
Why ratings and reviews count differ?

Customer Experience

Evaluation & Contracting

4.6

Integration & Deployment

4.7

Service & Support

4.6

Product Capabilities

4.6

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  • Engineering Manager
    50M-1B USD
    Finance (non-banking)
    Review Source

    Reliable Platform and Well-Documented APIs Offset Limited Reporting Capabilities

    4.0
    Nov 5, 2025
    My Overall experience has been very satisfactory. The platform is very stable and reliable for most of our usecases, and support has been responsive when required. The core functionality works well and is dependable.
  • Product Manager
    50M-1B USD
    Retail
    Review Source

    Exotel’s services enables faster number allocations with a great on-call support.

    4.0
    Jul 30, 2025
    We are using Exotel's services for our hyperlocal orders utilising their number masking and virtual number allocation services. Happy with the way the team executes and implements these services in quick time. Post-launch support has also been good.
  • IT Manager
    1B-10B USD
    Banking
    Review Source

    Exotel Team Provides Prompt Assistance and Readily Addresses Product-Related Queries

    4.0
    Jul 11, 2025
    Exotel team is supportive and gives quick attention to any queries.
  • Manager, Human Resources
    10B+ USD
    Banking
    Review Source

    Positive Experience Reported With Exotel’s Customizable and Easy-to-Use Features

    5.0
    Jul 11, 2025
    The experience with Exotel has been good. We appreciate the level of customization they do as per the different client requirements.
  • Cultural And Media Actions Officer
    50M-1B USD
    Miscellaneous
    Review Source

    Smooth Communication With Exotel

    5.0
    Jun 11, 2025
    Exotel enhances communications and improves the way we communicate/support our customers. It simplifies customer communications and ensures amazing support thanks to conversation AI features and ease of customization.
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