3CX Live Chat vs GoToMeeting comparison

3CX and GoTo are both solutions in the Virtual Meetings category. 3CX is ranked #17 with an average rating of 7.0, while GoTo is ranked #8 with an average rating of 8.0. 3CX holds a 1.5% mindshare in VM, compared to GoTo’s 3.5% mindshare. Additionally, 91% of 3CX users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 88% of GoTo users who would recommend it.

3CX Live Chat

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91% willing to recommend

GoToMeeting

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88% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Feb 3, 2025

3CX Live Chat and GoToMeeting are competitive products catering to communication and collaboration solutions. 3CX Live Chat typically has the upper hand due to its versatile range of functionalities beyond meeting requirements.

Features: 3CX Live Chat offers simplified VoIP implementation, call queuing, and recording features. It supports mobility with mobile and desktop clients, integrating robustly with SIP gateways and WebRTC. GoToMeeting enables seamless virtual meetings, offering screen-sharing capabilities without installation requirements, providing a reliable experience.

Room for Improvement: 3CX Live Chat needs better Linux support and increased flexibility in open-source environments. Its call recording management and deployment settings require enhancements. GoToMeeting can be slow, its interface needs modernizing, and it would benefit from improved mobile device support and enhanced security features.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: 3CX Live Chat supports diverse deployment options, including public, private, hybrid cloud, and on-premises, offering a wider range of deployment flexibility than GoToMeeting's public cloud focus. Both provide strong international support but vary regionally, with 3CX having more deployment options.

Pricing and ROI: 3CX Live Chat presents cost-effectiveness with competitive pricing and no per-user license fees, offering scalable licensing options tailored to organizational needs. This results in a shorter ROI period due to its inclusive pricing model. GoToMeeting's pricing is perceived as higher, though it offers both free and paid subscriptions, with some users finding it expensive compared to alternatives despite recent price adjustments improving competitiveness.

To learn more, read our detailed 3CX Live Chat vs. GoToMeeting Report (Updated: April 2025).

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

3CX Live Chat

Ranking in Virtual Meetings

17th

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

IP PBX (1st), Unified Communications (2nd), Live Chat (4th), Hosted and Cloud Based VoIP (4th)

GoToMeeting

Ranking in Virtual Meetings

8th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Virtual Meetings category, the mindshare of 3CX Live Chat is 1.5%, down from 2.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of GoToMeeting is 3.5%, down from 4.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Ahmed ACHOUR

General Manager at Beyond IT Services

Enhanced service desk workflow which streamlines operations and offers strong integration capabilities

The customers use 3CX for IP telephony and call center activities. Additionally, they use 3CX for service desk activities, including integration with other ITSM products to collect data from customers who need technical support on their platforms 3CX has proven to be a good solution, particularly…

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Jacky Hood

CEO at FieldDay Solutions, Inc.

A straightforward setup with good stability and decent pricing

The new version crashes my ISP. I don't like the new version. I hope they continue to support the Classic version. I didn't like the fact that LogMeIn tried to make their new version look like Zoom. The feature in the Classic version includes a little panel for GoToMeeting to be off to the side, and it doesn't interfere with your browser. It is much better. All these companies, including the new version of GoToMeeting, have a useless bunch of controls at the top that blocks the tabs of your browser. This makes it so that you can't jump around from tab to tab when you're showing your screen. Those controls are so tiny. Yesterday I was on a session on one of the products (not GTM), and it had shrunk it down to one inch by one inch. It was so small that I couldn't find the tab to make it bigger. That's a big issue. In this attempt to look like Zoom, GTM has gone to the extent where the controls are a little skinny line above your browser. That's not good. The controls need to be highly visible, and contrast so they are easy to read and find. It would be nice if they would have a whiteboard where everybody in the meeting can draw or write on it. We use Google Docs for that purpose, but Google Docs doesn't really allow you to draw. When I was running a different college system, the college system had a whiteboard. All the students and the teachers could all write on the whiteboard with their fingers, as I recall. It'd be nice if they would have something similar available in the future.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"3CX is easy to use. It's pretty a much regular PBX system. It is quite easy to configure aspects of it, and it has a good soft client."

"3CX is useful and easy to use. I can talk to my colleagues from anywhere."

"The integration between the video and voice is the most valuable solution."

"This solution gives our customers mobility. They can use their phone system everywhere. The other key feature is the security."

"The solution is stable."

"It’s straightforward to set up."

"With the reporting feature you can get all the incoming and outgoing call details."

"The dashboards and interface of the solution are very good, they have covered most of the main features needed for our needs."

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"The solution worked well specifically for audio meetings."

"We can record meetings and share the screen with participants."

"Screenshare is the most valuable feature as well as the number of meeting participants possible in a meeting. It also has good quality."

"The most important feature for me was the iPhone app."

"I like GoToMeeting because it is lighter than other solutions, such as Webex."

"It's cost-effective."

"I think all the features are very useful, especially the rooms features and we present with screen sharing. Instead of organizing conferences, we are able to do that online. This has been saving us from spending on travel. From the beginning of this year, because of GoToMeeting, I have canceled I think three or four business trips."

"We don't have any link issues whether you use it to browser, or use it as a client. It worked perfectly fine for us."

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Cons

"Message management in 3CX Live Chat is a little tricky. You can transfer a conversation to someone else if it comes into a group, but it isn't always easy to return the conversation to the group."

"The support team can appear to be condescending."

"The analytics need to have a granular depth on how the customer details and the data sends information through this medium."

"3CX Live Chat could improve by having better integration with other solutions because we had multiple calls in which information was not extracted correctly. We had to modify their names, and some other data needed to be sorted out for a better understanding of the calls."

"There should be an option to save some extensions."

"You cannot make a group call on 3CX. That feature would make my life easier because I could talk to two suppliers or a supplier and management together. I wouldn't need to end the call and call another person."

"The solution was simple to install, but the configuration was not as simple. The full installation process took a few days."

"Its features for scheduling and generating reports need improvement."

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"The enrolment for a non-IT user should be easier. It should be simplified for non-IT users."

"Using GoToMeeting in a meeting-sized conference room is kind of a letdown. The camera is supposed to track the speaker and focus on that person so that they can be on the screen. That feature rarely worked. We tested it thoroughly, so maybe it was an issue with the size of the conference room. It may not be suitable for large conference rooms."

"The newer user interface takes a bit longer to get used to."

"Manageability needs to be improved."

"I didn't like the fact that they tried to make their new version look like Zoom."

"I don't know whether it is an issue or not but my boss was asking me if person one is in one room, and another person wanted to use another room at the same time, I don't know whether it is possible."

"I would like to see better support for mobile devices."

"In addition to the features it already has, I think GoToMeeting should also have additional features that are not present at the moment."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"We have purchased an annual license to use 3CX Live Chat. There are different options available, you can pay monthly or yearly. I am completely satisfied with the pricing of 3CX Live Chat, it is cheaper than competitors and it is a better solution."

"We used a yearly license depending on the customer's requirements, and the customers did not complain about the pricing."

"The price of the solution has been reasonable. We have not had any problems or complaints with the licensing model. We have not reached a point where we need to upgrade. We have all the correct channels."

"The price of the solution is in the middle range compared to other solutions. There are different license options available. For example, there is a professional version and an enterprise version, and with the enterprise version, you have the ability to modify the dashboards. You can purchase a license at many different time frame increments, such as monthly, yearly, or two years."

"Switching from POTS or PRI to SIP Trunk save the customer real costs. ROI is seen in less than a year."

"The price of the solution is reasonable. There are a few license options and we are using an enterprise license."

"There aren't any additional costs. With the license I purchased, I have all features that I need. I don't have to buy an add-on or another license."

"There is no add-on costing on the standard fees."

More 3CX Live Chat pricing and cost advice

"It is a little expensive although now, with the competition from Zoom and other products, they have lowered their prices and it is better."

"Negotiate for discounts."

"GoToMeeting is a little bit expensive compared to other products."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

13%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Government

Real Estate/Law Firm

Financial Services Firm

21%

Computer Software Company

18%

Real Estate/Law Firm

14%

Educational Organization

14%

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about 3CX Live Chat?

The solution is stable.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for 3CX Live Chat?

The pricing of 3CX is around six out of ten. For some customers, the first year may be free of charge, allowing them to try the solution before deciding to implement it.

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What needs improvement with 3CX Live Chat?

The reporting and dashboards of 3CX could be improved.

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What do you like most about GoToMeeting?

Reduced the need for physically commuting between offices.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for GoToMeeting?

This is not an expensive solution, we pay around $5,000AUD maximum per year. There are other fees for data carriage, PABX fees, and the like but they would apply to any similar product.

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What needs improvement with GoToMeeting?

The solution must include archive options to save the recorded meetings for future reference. The recording functionality can benefit our team by improving how meetings are recorded and shared. Pre...

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Overview

Connect with your website visitors for free with the 3CX Live Chat plugin. With more than 1,900,000 downloads, 3CX Live Chat is the most popular, effective and reliable live chat plugin for WordPress. Increase conversions and boost customer satisfaction by communicating directly with your website visitors in real-time.

Integrate with 3CX for a multichannel communications suite including voice and video (requires 3CX V16). Get 3CX for free for one year for unlimited users hosted by 3CX, in your own cloud account or on-premise on Windows or Linux.

Easy and convenient for visitors
Build rapport with potential customers via live chat
Increase sales
Reduce customer support line costs by using live chat
Learn to understand the pain points of your customers

FEATURES

Simple and clean UI for all users
Option to elevate a live chat to a call or video call
Free iOS or Android apps to respond to messages through a smartphone
Ability to transfer chats to other agents
Agent’s picture is shown in the live chatbox
Customizable chatbox. Add a company logo, change the colors of the chatbox
All chats are saved in chat history
Dedicated storage system for all offline messages
Create unlimited agents to handle live chats and calls
Customizable offline message form
Supports animations in the chatbox
Ability to choose whether you want to accept or decline a chat

3CX

GoToMeeting web conferencing software makes it simple and cost-effective to collaborate online with colleagues and customers. Best of all, meeting participants can share their webcams in high definition, so you can enjoy more personal interactions _ without needing a complicated setup.

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Sample Customers

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AAPT, ACD Groupe, Addison Fire, Avigilon Corporation, Basic Industries Ltd., Bitdefender, Branson School Online, Budd Van Lines, Business Fitness, Business Wire

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