Looking for CounterPath Bria alternative?
Bria softphone is a flagship product of CounterPath Company, which developed its first softphone back in 2003. It also has a separate platform for softphone deployment, which is called Bria Stretto™. But can they keep up with the requirements of the modern business? Let’s find out.
Why Ringotel is a better alternative to Bria?
The Softphones
Modern and feature-rich softphones for all your devices
Ringotel Softphones designed to empower remote workers to better productivity and customer outcomes.
The Platform
Easy-to-use and powerful provisioning platform
Streamline your softphone deployment via the centralized admin portal or API that gives you the ability to remotely provision, monitor and maintain users’ apps
Compare Bria with Ringotel
 | CounterPath Bria | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Ringotel costs $2.49 per user/per month or $24.90 per user/per year, and you can register a single user on any number of desktop or mobile devices. | Bria’s costs $50 per user/per year for the Basic Bundle, which does not include messaging, presence and shared directory. For the Business Bundle license, you have to pay $120 per user/per year. |
| Messaging | Rich messaging features, like personal and group chats, files and media sharing, video calls, advanced filters and more out-of-the-box. | Messaging features are included only in the much more expensive bundle while providing fewer capabilities. |
| Synchronization | Real-time synchronization of calls, chats and contacts between all users devices. | Calls and chats are not synchronized between the mobile and desktop apps, while shared contact list available only in the much more expensive bundle. |
| Security | Integrated VoIP tunnel encrypts all communication from/to the Ringotel clients and forward calls to your PBX server from a single IP address – no need to use VPN or SBC solution to protect your infrastructure. | To provide secure connectivity for remote workers, you generally need to implement VPN solution for each remote user or deploy SBC which could be highly complex and expensive. |
| On-premise deployment | For mission-critical systems or for compliance with the data protection policies, Ringotel backend can be deployed within your corporate network, to have complete control over the data. | CounterPath does not provide on-premise deployment option for Bria solution. |
More reasons to switch to Ringotel
Easy-to-use admin portal with a straightforward setup process that takes less than 5 minutes.
Quick user provisioning via QR codes. Users don’t require to register their account.
Import all PBX extensions into a shared teams directory with their real-time statuses and contact details, and pay only for those who are using Ringotel apps.
Create dial plans with easy and simple rules, like “For all calls with prefix ___ substitute prefix with ___”.
Create shared contacts with a shared activity that sync between all team members who serve the same call queue. So the next time a client reach your office, your colleague will know exactly who’s calling.
Save a context to any call by adding conversation subject and comment. Easily find call records by call subject.
Set various types of call forwarding, like on busy, unregistered, on no answer, unconditional.
Unified up-to-date directory of PBX extensions with real-time statuses and contact details for a one-tap dial.
Ring snooze feature allows postponing a ring signal on the mobile app to avoid distraction during a parallel ringing on the desk phone.