Call.com vs. Skype: Compare features, pricing, and security to find the best communication platform for personal or business use.
After many years, Microsoft has announced that it is retiring the much-loved Skype, leaving millions of users searching for a new, and better alternative.
While platforms like Zoom and Teams offer the video calling capabilities that Skype was best known for, Call.com also has this advantage but also integrates the calling, texting, and virtual number element that Skype was never able to fully realise.
In this comparison guide, we’ll look at many features of Call.com compared to Skype including the reliability, features available, and pricing.
Skype uses a pricing structure for credits in a pay-as-you-go style, with subscription plans too for calling various countries around the world. Skype’s pricing was never competitive compared to the alternatives, and offered around 450 minutes of calltime for £10.
The price per minute varies, and for UK calls it was approximately 2.1p per minute for landlines, and a massive 9.3p per minute for mobile calls.
In comparison, Call.com offers very low rates when calling international destinations frequently, that’s when you’re not using the completely free texting, calling, and video conferencing capabilities.
When calling within the UK, it costs just 1.5p per minute for landlines, and only 3p per minute for mobiles, three times cheaper than Skype. In the USA, this drops to just 1p per minute for both mobiles and landlines. Call.com even has shared team credit which is perfect for managing a remote team.
Skype offered something that most video calling platforms today don’t, a Skype number that could be linked to your regular phone for easy calling and texting whether on the internet or the usual way.
Call.com takes these features to the next level, with modern virtual phone numbers allowing you to operate from anywhere in the world, and have separate personal and business phone numbers. Skype’s video calling capabilities are matched by the high-quality video and audio offered by Call.com, however Call.com also has the ability to share everything from voice messages and images to videos and links all in one seamlessly integrated platform.
Security and privacy is a major concern for any communication platform, and you only have to look at some of the major data breaches that have occurred in recent years to understand how important this is to the trust of users.
Skype had some of the most basic privacy settings which were limited to parental controls as well as the ability to show yourself as online or offline.
Call.com offers superior security features, with the ability to not only manage your availability settings like Skype, but also to personalise voicemails, add call forwarding to different numbers, and periodic validation of your account to maintain a high level of security.
In addition to all of these features, Call.com also has an excellent infrastructure which means the quality of calls and video constantly remains high. Skype, on the other hand, was plagued with issues of fuzzy video and low quality audio.
The flexibility of having a virtual number greatly exceeds anything offered by Skype, and Call.com has been designed to be future proof whether you’re using it for personal or business use, and it’s easy to set up too.
