The CallHippo alternative for growing teams
Budget-friendly entry, with the trade-offs that implies.
CallHippo
An accessible virtual phone system aimed at small teams getting off personal mobiles for the first time.
- Best for
- Very small teams whose main requirement is a business number.
- Watch out for
- Call quality and support responsiveness are the most common complaints as teams scale past a handful of seats.
Votelly
One platform with every feature included, live the same day, and local numbers in 118 countries. Monthly billing with no minimum term.
$26
per user / month
The four things teams notice when they move from CallHippo
| CallHippo | Votelly | |
|---|---|---|
| Voice quality | Variable by region | Opus HD, regional media edge |
| Uptime commitment | Not published on lower tiers | 99.99% measured |
| Support response | Email, business hours | Under 5 minutes, weekdays |
| Wallboards | Not available | Included from Growth |
Pricing and features reflect each vendor’s public information at the time of writing. If something here is out of date, tell us and we will correct it.
Moving from CallHippo takes about a day
Porting is free, we handle the carrier paperwork, and your old service keeps running until the moment we cut over.
Keep your numbers
We start the port and handle the paperwork with your current provider.
Rebuild the flows
Most teams rebuild their routing in an afternoon, and delete a third of it.
Cut over when ready
Run both in parallel, then switch. No weekend outage, no lost calls.
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Everything you were about to ask
Still not sure? Our team answers in minutes, not business days.
Most teams are taking calls the same day. You pick your numbers, invite your team by email and build your call flow by dragging it together. The median time from signup to first connected call across our accounts is about twelve minutes.
Yes. Porting is free on every plan and we handle the paperwork with your current carrier. Local numbers usually complete in 3 to 10 working days, toll-free in 2 to 3 weeks, and your old service keeps running until the moment we cut over so you never miss a call.
Nothing but a headset if you want one. Votelly runs in the browser and in our desktop and mobile apps, so there is no PBX to rack, no SIP handsets to buy and no cabling. If you already own IP desk phones, most SIP-compatible models can be registered to Votelly.
Calls route through the nearest of our regional media points and we hold direct interconnects with tier-1 carriers in each market. Voice is carried with the Opus codec at up to 48kHz with adaptive jitter buffering, so a call from Hong Kong to Chicago sounds like a call across the office.
Signalling is TLS 1.3, media is SRTP, and recordings are encrypted at rest with AES-256. We support SSO and SCIM, role-based access, immutable audit logs, configurable retention and regional data residency. Healthcare and financial services customers run on Votelly today.
Failover rules take over automatically. You can route to mobile numbers, another site or a voicemail box, per queue or per user, and the switch happens at the network level so callers never hear a dead line.
No setup fees and no minimum term on monthly plans. You add and remove seats whenever you like and only pay for what you used that month. Annual plans are available at a discount if you would rather lock the rate in.
Native apps for HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, Zoho, Zendesk, Intercom and Slack, plus a REST API and webhooks for everything else. Calls, recordings, transcripts and AI summaries sync automatically against the right contact record.
Still have a question?
Talk to a real person, usually within 5 minutes.
Your team could be
taking calls by lunch
Tell us how you call today and we will build the flow with you on a 15-minute demo. Numbers activate the moment you say go.
- 12 min
- Median setup
- 118
- Countries
- 4.8/5
- Customer rating