Five9

The New CX Starts Here. Transformed by AI, powered by Five9.

Dialers & VOIP
★★★★☆ 4.1
2001 Founded
1001-5000 Employees
3,000+ Customers
San Ramon, CA, USA Headquarters

Quick Facts

Website
five9.com →
Starting Price
119
Pricing Model
per-user
Company Type
public

About Five9

Five9 is a leading provider of cloud contact center software, founded in 2001 to help organizations move from legacy on-premise call centers to flexible, scalable contact center-as-a-service (CCaaS). Headquartered in San Ramon, California, the company has grown into a global CX vendor serving thousands of customers across industries such as financial services, healthcare, retail, higher education, government, technology, and business process outsourcing.

The Five9 Intelligent CX Platform combines omnichannel routing, global voice, workforce engagement management, and deep analytics with Five9 Genius AI. Organizations can engage customers over voice, email, SMS, chat, social messaging, and video, while AI-powered Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVAs) and Agent Assist provide self-service, real-time transcription, summaries, and guidance to human agents. A unified Agent Desktop Plus experience, Supervisor tools, and powerful reporting give operations teams the visibility and control they need to run large, distributed contact centers.

Five9 differentiates itself with a broad ecosystem of prebuilt integrations and adapters for leading CRM and UC platforms including Salesforce, ServiceNow, Microsoft, Zoom, Zendesk, and others. Open APIs and SDKs allow customers and partners to extend the platform and build custom workflows, data pipelines, and AI use cases. The platform is designed for high reliability and security with 99.999% uptime, global voice coverage, and support for stringent compliance needs.

Publicly traded on NASDAQ under the ticker FIVN, Five9 has surpassed $1 billion in annual revenue and continues to be recognized as a Leader in analyst evaluations such as the Gartner Magic Quadrant and IDC MarketScape for CCaaS. With more than 3,000 customers and over 2,600 employees worldwide, Five9 positions itself as a strategic partner for enterprises looking to modernize their customer experience with AI-driven, human-centered contact center solutions.

Key Features

Omnichannel routing - Manage customer conversations across voice, email, SMS, chat, social messaging and video in a single cloud platform.

Predictive & power dialer - Automate outbound dialing with predictive, progressive and power modes to maximize agent talk time and connect rates.

Intelligent Virtual Agent (IVA) - AI-powered voice and chat bots that handle routine inquiries and seamlessly hand off complex issues to live agents.

Agent Assist & real-time guidance - Provides live transcription, suggested responses and next-best actions to agents during customer interactions.

Agent Desktop Plus - Unified agent desktop that consolidates channels, customer history and workflows into a single, intuitive interface.

Workforce Engagement Management (WEM) - Forecasting, scheduling, quality management, performance management, analytics and gamification tools.

Reporting & analytics - Real-time dashboards and historical reporting for queues, agents, campaigns and channels with drill-down analytics.

CRM & UC integrations - Prebuilt adapters and connectors for platforms such as Salesforce, ServiceNow, Microsoft, Zoom, Zendesk and others.

Workflow automation - Low-code engagement workflows to orchestrate routing, back-office actions, notifications and AI services across journeys.

Global voice & telephony - Carrier-grade global voice services, call recording, encryption, and compliant call handling with 99.999% uptime.

AI summaries & insights - Automatically generates post-call summaries, sentiment and interaction insights using Five9 Genius AI.

Compliance & security controls - Features to support PCI-DSS, TCPA and regional data protection requirements plus secure data handling.

Blended inbound/outbound - Single platform for inbound service, outbound sales and collections, with skills-based routing and campaigns.

Supervisor & quality tools - Monitor, whisper, barge-in, scorecards and coaching workflows for improving agent performance.

CX marketplace ecosystem - Access to a marketplace of certified integrations, add-ons and partner solutions for extending the platform.

Pros & Cons

👍 Pros

  • Intuitive agent and supervisor interfaces that are relatively easy for teams to learn and use day-to-day.
  • Strong omnichannel capabilities, letting customers interact via voice, chat, email, SMS and social from a single platform.
  • Deep CRM integrations with platforms like Salesforce, ServiceNow and Zendesk that streamline workflows and reduce manual data entry.
  • Robust monitoring, call recording and reporting tools that give managers real-time and historical insight into queues and agent performance.
  • Flexible outbound dialing, campaign management and scripting features that support sales, collections and proactive outreach use cases.
  • Scalable cloud architecture and 24/7 support that make it suitable for large, distributed or remote contact center teams.

👎 Cons

  • Reporting and analytics configuration can be complex and unintuitive, often requiring admin expertise to build custom reports.
  • Some users report intermittent call quality issues, softphone glitches or agents being logged out unexpectedly, especially in browser-based setups.
  • Integrations such as the Salesforce softphone sometimes require troubleshooting (e.g., Chrome extension or desktop adapter issues) and can create login friction.
  • Pricing is higher than many SMB-focused dialers and basic VoIP tools, particularly once advanced AI, WEM and premium connectors are added.
  • Initial implementation and configuration can be time-consuming for complex environments, with a learning curve for new administrators.

User Reviews

G2
4.1
★★★★☆
Capterra
4.2
★★★★☆
TrustRadius
8.2
★★★★★

Integrations

Salesforce Sales Cloud Salesforce Service Cloud Salesforce Platform ServiceNow Customer Service Management ServiceNow IT Service Management Microsoft Dynamics 365 Microsoft Teams Zoom Workplace Zendesk Support Zendesk Sell Zendesk Sunshine Freshdesk Zoho CRM NetSuite Pega Platform Kustomer Jira Microsoft Power BI Tableau Snowflake Verint Workforce Management SAP C/4HANA 2Ring Dashboards & Wallboards Quickbase

Best For

Company Size

smb mid-market enterprise

Industries

Financial Services & Banking Healthcare & Life Sciences Retail & E-commerce Technology & SaaS Telecommunications & Media Business Process Outsourcing (BPO)

Use Cases

Inbound customer service and technical support Outbound sales, telemarketing and lead follow-up Blended omnichannel service across voice, chat, email, SMS and social Collections, payment reminders and renewal outreach Appointment scheduling, patient outreach and notifications Migrating from legacy on-premise call centers to cloud contact center infrastructure

FAQ

What is Five9?

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Five9 is an AI-powered cloud contact center platform (CCaaS) that helps organizations manage inbound and outbound customer interactions across voice, email, chat, SMS, social messaging and video. It combines global telephony, omnichannel routing, workforce engagement management, analytics and Five9 Genius AI to improve customer experience and agent productivity while replacing legacy on-premise call center systems.

How much does Five9 cost?

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Five9 publishes per-seat bundle pricing that starts at about $119 per user per month for the Digital plan (digital channels only) and $159 per user per month for the Core plan that includes voice plus digital channels. Higher tiers such as Plus, Pro and Enterprise are priced via custom quotes based on AI, workforce engagement and enterprise requirements. Contracts are typically annual or multi-year, with no free plan and no standard free trial, so most customers engage with sales for a tailored proposal.

What are the main features of Five9?

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Key features of Five9 include global cloud telephony; omnichannel routing across voice, email, chat, SMS, social and video; predictive and power dialing; Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVAs) and Agent Assist; real-time transcription and AI-generated summaries; workforce engagement management with forecasting, scheduling and quality management; robust monitoring, recording and analytics; workflow automation; and deep integrations with leading CRM and UC platforms such as Salesforce, ServiceNow, Microsoft, Zoom and Zendesk.

Who are Five9's main competitors?

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Five9's primary competitors in the cloud contact center and dialer space include Genesys Cloud CX, NICE CXone, Talkdesk, RingCentral Contact Center and Vonage Contact Center. In smaller or more telephony-focused deployments it may also be compared with tools like 8x8 Contact Center, Aircall, CloudTalk and other VoIP and auto-dialer solutions.

Is Five9 good for small businesses?

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Five9 can work for small and midsize businesses and has many SMB customers, but it is generally best suited to organizations that run structured contact center operations and can fully leverage its omnichannel, AI and workforce management capabilities. Very small teams or businesses that only need a basic phone system or simple sales dialer may find Five9 more complex and expensive than necessary and might prefer a lighter-weight, lower-cost solution, while growing SMBs with an emerging contact center often use Five9 as a scalable platform they can grow into.

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