Ooma Office vs Quo (formerly OpenPhone)
An independent, review-free comparison compiled by the SaaSTracker editorial team. Both products are profiled in full, and neither can pay for placement here.
The short answer
Editorial assessmentOoma Office compared with Quo (formerly OpenPhone)
Quo (formerly OpenPhone) is the better product if your phone is a conversation channel: a genuinely good shared inbox, threaded calls and texts together, internal comments, and $15 to $35 a seat with no minimum. Ooma is the better product if your phone is a phone: receptionist, queues, fax, handsets, and unlimited North American calling. Texting is the clearest dividing line, since Ooma caps it and Quo builds the whole product around it.
Choose Ooma Office if
Small businesses with a physical presence and a real phone: trades, clinics, dealerships, restaurants, law offices, property managers, and multi-site operators who want unlimited North American calling, a professional-sounding front door, no contract, and a bill that does not surprise them.
Choose Quo (formerly OpenPhone) if
Small businesses, agencies, trades, and founder-led sales teams who need a shared work number with texting, light routing, and CRM logging, and who make dozens of calls a day rather than hundreds. Anyone who wants a business phone that costs less than a lunch per seat and can be live in an afternoon.
Side by side
13 attributes| Attribute | Ooma Office | Quo (formerly OpenPhone) |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Calling | Calling |
| Starting price | $19.95 per user per month (free trial) | $15 per user per month billed annually ($19 monthly) (7 days trial) |
| Pricing model | Per-user per-month subscription across three published small-business tiers, no contract required, with unlimited calling to the US, Canada, Mexico, and Puerto Rico included on all tiers and hardware sold separately as a one-time purchase. | Per-user per-month subscription with a number included in every seat, unlimited US and Canada calling and messaging on all tiers, and usage-based charges only for international calling, extra numbers, automated SMS, and AI credits. |
| Free plan | No | No |
| Free trial | No published free trial; the no-contract month-to-month terms and a 30-day money-back window on hardware serve as the evaluation path | 7 days |
| Best for | Small businesses with a physical presence and a real phone: trades, clinics, dealerships, restaurants, law offices, property managers, and multi-site operators who want unlimited North American calling, a professional-sounding front door, no contract, and a bill that does not surprise them. | Small businesses, agencies, trades, and founder-led sales teams who need a shared work number with texting, light routing, and CRM logging, and who make dozens of calls a day rather than hundreds. Anyone who wants a business phone that costs less than a lunch per seat and can be live in an afternoon. |
| Setup time | A softphone-only account with new numbers can be live the same day. Ported numbers take one to three weeks for simple local ports and longer for toll-free, with the old service kept running in the meantime. Hardware deployments add shipping time plus an afternoon of plugging in handsets, which provision themselves. | Under an hour for a solo user and about half a day for a small team. Choose a number, install the apps, set business hours and a ring group, and you are live. Number porting takes longer, typically one to two weeks, and runs in parallel while you use a temporary number. |
| Learning curve | Low by design. The admin console is intended for an office manager, not an IT team, and the vocabulary is receptionist, ring group, and extension rather than SIP, dial plan, and trunk. The most common configuration mistake is after-hours routing. | Near zero. The interface is a messaging app with a keypad, and staff who have never used a business phone system understand it without training. The only genuinely unfamiliar concept is A2P 10DLC registration, which the product walks you through. |
| Platforms | iOS and Android apps (all tiers), Windows and macOS desktop apps (Pro and above), Web admin console, Ooma IP phones and base stations, Analog telephone adapters for existing handsets and fax machines | iOS, Android, macOS desktop app, Windows desktop app, Web app, Chrome extension |
| Compliance | Licensed US carrier with STIR/SHAKEN call signing, E911 address registration per device location (Kari's Law and RAY BAUM's Act), HIPAA-conscious configuration available for healthcare customers, with terms to be confirmed per account | SOC 2, GDPR, A2P 10DLC carrier registration handled in-product, STIR/SHAKEN attestation on outbound US calls |
| Founded | 2004 | 2018 |
| Headquarters | Sunnyvale, California, United States | San Francisco, California, United States (remote-first) |
| Ownership | Publicly traded (NYSE: OOMA) | Venture-backed |
Strengths and limitations
Ooma Office
Strengths
- Unlimited calling across the US, Canada, Mexico, and Puerto Rico on every tier, a wider free footprint than RingCentral, Zoom Phone, Google Voice, or Quo offer.
- No contract on any small-business tier, which makes the decision reversible and removes the standard UCaaS regret.
- Free number porting and a free toll-free number included, so switching costs almost nothing up front.
- 24/7 phone and chat support included at $19.95 rather than reserved for a premium tier.
Limitations
- No dialer of any kind, so outbound sales volume is entirely manual.
- The integration surface is a handful of CRM connectors on the top tier only, with no broad app gallery and a limited public API.
- Texting is capped at 250 or 1,000 messages a month, which is restrictive for any business that uses SMS as a customer channel.
- Call recording is not available at all on the entry tier, so the real entry price for most sales-adjacent buyers is $24.95.
Quo (formerly OpenPhone)
Strengths
- The shared-number inbox with internal comments and assignment is the single best small-team phone experience on the market and is why the product spreads by word of mouth.
- A phone number is included in every seat, unlimited US and Canada calling is on the cheapest tier, and there is no seat minimum, so the entry cost is genuinely $15.
- API access on every plan including Starter, which most competitors reserve for their top tier or a custom contract.
- Setup is measured in minutes, not days: pick a number, install apps, invite the team. No PBX concepts, no dial plans, no reseller.
Limitations
- No dialer of any kind: no power dialing, no parallel lines, no answering machine detection, no local presence rotation. For a real outbound motion this is disqualifying.
- Unlimited calling stops at the US and Canadian border, and international is metered, which makes cost modelling awkward for anyone selling across regions.
- Call recording, CRM logging, and phone menus are all gated behind the Business tier, so the advertised $15 entry price is not the price most buyers actually pay.
- The Scale tier at $35 mostly buys support and call tags. The value curve flattens hard after Business.
Pricing compared
Ooma Office
Per-user per-month subscription across three published small-business tiers, no contract required, with unlimited calling to the US, Canada, Mexico, and Puerto Rico included on all tiers and hardware sold separately as a one-time purchase.
- Essentials$19.95
- Pro$24.95
- Pro Plus$29.95
- EnterpriseQuoted
Ooma Office is the best value in this category for a business that wants a phone system and nothing else. At $19.95 you get a virtual receptionist, unlimited calling across four North American territories, a free toll-free number, free porting, 24/7 support, and no contract, which is a shorter list of caveats than any competitor at the price. Pro at $24.95 adds recording and the desktop app and is where the product is complete. The value stops abruptly at the edges: there is no dialer, the integration list is a handful of CRMs, analytics are basic, and the AI layer summarizes rather than coaches. For a three-person team, three Pro seats are $74.85 a month, and 6,300 domestic calls a month cost nothing extra because domestic minutes are unlimited. What that money does not buy is any help placing those calls; every one of them is dialed by hand.
Quo (formerly OpenPhone)
Per-user per-month subscription with a number included in every seat, unlimited US and Canada calling and messaging on all tiers, and usage-based charges only for international calling, extra numbers, automated SMS, and AI credits.
- Starter$15
- Business$23
- Scale$35
At $23 a seat for recording, transcripts, AI summaries, and CRM write-back, Business is the best price-to-capability ratio in small-business phone, and the fact that a number is included rather than billed separately quietly saves another few dollars a seat against Aircall or CloudTalk. The value case collapses only in two places: heavy international traffic, which is metered, and outbound dialing, which does not exist here at all. Judged as a phone system for a company under 30 people, it is underpriced. Judged as a sales dialer, it is not competing.
Editorial verdict on each
Ooma Office
Ooma Office is the least stressful purchase in this category. No contract, free porting, a free toll-free number, unlimited calling across four North American territories, a virtual receptionist at the entry tier, and 24/7 support at $19.95 a seat is a better set of terms than any competitor offers at the price, and the product does the phone system job without pretending to be anything larger. Buy it if you run a small business with an office, a front desk, and customers who dial you: trades, clinics, practices, dealerships, multi-site operators. Do not buy it if you need a dialer, deep CRM logging, real analytics, marketing attribution, or a compliance package that survives a security questionnaire, because Ooma will lose every one of those comparisons and is honest enough not to pretend otherwise. Pro at $24.95 is the tier to price against, since recording and the desktop app are what Essentials users miss within the first week.
Read the full Ooma Office profileQuo (formerly OpenPhone)
Quo is the best small-business phone system you can buy for the money, and it is not an outbound sales tool. The shared-number inbox, the included number in every seat, the absence of a seat minimum, and API access on the cheapest plan add up to a product that a two-person company can adopt in an afternoon and never think about again. Business at $23 with recording, transcripts, AI summaries, and HubSpot or Salesforce write-back is the tier to buy. What you do not get is any dialer, any local presence rotation, any spam remediation, or unlimited calling beyond North America, and those absences are the whole difference between this category's phone systems and its dialers. If your reps work lists, buy Kixie or PhoneBurner. If customers call you and you call them back, buy Quo and stop shopping.
Read the full Quo (formerly OpenPhone) profileOoma Office profile last reviewed 2026-08-22; Quo (formerly OpenPhone) last reviewed 2026-08-22. Pricing is compiled from public sources and can change without notice. See our methodology.