Quo (formerly OpenPhone) vs Ringover
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
Both sides assessedQuo (formerly OpenPhone) compared with Ringover
Ringover is a European alternative with numbers in 65-plus countries, a power dialer on its Business tier, and separately priced AI and prospecting modules, but it enforces a three-user minimum with a twelve-month commitment above the entry plan. Quo has no minimum and no commitment. Take Ringover if you need European numbers and a dialer in one vendor; take Quo if you want the cheapest credible North American work number with texting.
Ringover compared with Quo (formerly OpenPhone)
Quo is $15 to $35 a seat with no minimum, no commitment, a number in every seat, and the best shared-inbox and texting experience in the category, but it is North America only and has no dialer. Ringover's $15 TALK tier matches the price with recording, transcription, and an AI receptionist included, but locks you into twelve months and only becomes interesting with the $47 Business tier. Take Quo for a US or Canadian small business that answers the phone; take Ringover when you need European or multi-country numbers.
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.
Choose Ringover if
European and internationally distributed sales and support teams of three or more who want local numbers across many countries, solid telephony fundamentals, and the option to add multichannel prospecting and conversational AI from the same vendor rather than assembling three subscriptions.
Side by side
13 attributes| Attribute | Quo (formerly OpenPhone) | Ringover |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Calling | Calling |
| Starting price | $15 per user per month billed annually ($19 monthly) (7 days trial) | $15 per user per month billed annually ($24 monthly), twelve-month commitment (free trial) |
| Pricing model | 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. | Per-user per-month base subscription for telephony with twelve-month commitments, plus separately licensed per-user modules for AI, prospecting, messaging, analytics, and CRM autofill, and usage-based pricing on the AI voice agent. |
| Free plan | No | No |
| Free trial | 7 days | Yes, a self-serve free trial is offered on the entry plan |
| Best for | 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. | European and internationally distributed sales and support teams of three or more who want local numbers across many countries, solid telephony fundamentals, and the option to add multichannel prospecting and conversational AI from the same vendor rather than assembling three subscriptions. |
| Setup time | 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. | Two to four days for a small team. Numbers provision quickly and the CRM integration is straightforward, but international number provisioning in several countries can take longer depending on local regulatory requirements for proof of presence. |
| Learning curve | 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. | Low for agents, moderate for administrators. The interface is approachable and the sequential dialer requires no pacing decisions. The real complexity is commercial: working out which modules you actually need, since Empower, Cadence, omnichannel messaging, analytics, and CRM autofill are all separate licences. |
| Platforms | iOS, Android, macOS desktop app, Windows desktop app, Web app, Chrome extension | Web app, Windows desktop, macOS desktop, iOS, Android, Chrome extension |
| Compliance | SOC 2, GDPR, A2P 10DLC carrier registration handled in-product, STIR/SHAKEN attestation on outbound US calls | GDPR-native as a French operator, Customer responsibility for TCPA, Do Not Call registries, and national telemarketing rules, stated explicitly by the vendor, Configurable call recording for varying consent regimes, European telecom regulatory compliance for number provisioning |
| Founded | 2018 | 2018 |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California, United States (remote-first) | Paris, France |
| Ownership | Venture-backed | Venture-backed |
Strengths and limitations
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.
Ringover
Strengths
- The TALK tier at $15 includes call recording, summaries, transcription, and an unlimited AI virtual receptionist, which is more capability at an entry price than almost any competitor offers.
- Local numbers in more than 65 countries backed by genuine telecom operating history, which is a different quality of infrastructure than a reseller stack.
- Unlimited national calling on every tier removes per-minute modelling for domestic traffic.
- Cadence at $59 a user means telephony and multichannel prospecting come from one vendor with one CRM connection, which is a real reduction in operational overhead.
Limitations
- The power dialer is strictly sequential. No parallel lines, no predictive mode, no answering machine detection, so outbound throughput is fundamentally limited.
- Local presence dialing, voicemail drop, and call campaigns all sit on the custom-quoted Advanced tier, which puts the core outbound toolkit behind a sales conversation.
- Twelve-month commitments on every plan including the $15 entry tier, so evaluation risk is higher than with monthly competitors.
- The three-user minimum on Business means the dialer tier starts at $141 a month.
Pricing compared
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.
Ringover
Per-user per-month base subscription for telephony with twelve-month commitments, plus separately licensed per-user modules for AI, prospecting, messaging, analytics, and CRM autofill, and usage-based pricing on the AI voice agent.
- TALK$15
- BUSINESS$47
- ADVANCEDCustom
TALK at $15 is one of the best entry tiers in this category on paper: a number, unlimited national calling, recordings, summaries, transcription, and an AI receptionist, for the price of a Quo Starter seat with far more included. The value degrades as you climb. Business at $47 with a three-user minimum is priced against Aircall Professional but with a weaker integration catalogue, and the modules push a fully equipped sales seat to roughly $145, which is PhoneBurner money without PhoneBurner's throughput or its included CRM. Where Ringover genuinely wins is consolidation: if you would otherwise buy a European phone system and a separate prospecting sequencer, one vendor with one CRM sync at $106 a seat is a real saving in money and in operational overhead.
Editorial verdict on each
Quo (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) profileRingover
Ringover is the consolidation play in European business calling: real telecom infrastructure, numbers in more than 65 countries, an entry tier at $15 that includes recording, transcription, summaries, and an AI receptionist, and the option to add conversational AI and a multichannel prospecting sequencer from the same vendor on the same CRM connection. That last part is the genuine argument, because the alternative is two contracts and two data syncs. What you are not buying is a dialer. The power dialer is sequential with no parallel mode and no answering machine detection, and local presence, voicemail drop, and call campaigns are all stranded on a custom-quoted Advanced tier. Add twelve-month commitments on every plan, a three-user minimum on Business, and modules that push a fully equipped seat to roughly $145, and the picture is clear: buy Ringover as European phone infrastructure with prospecting attached, not as an outbound dialer. If dials per hour is the number your quarter depends on, CloudTalk costs less and does far more.
Read the full Ringover profileQuo (formerly OpenPhone) profile last reviewed 2026-08-22; Ringover last reviewed 2026-08-22. Pricing is compiled from public sources and can change without notice. See our methodology.