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Five9 vs Genesys Cloud CX comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Apr 6, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score
7.0
Five9 enhances efficiency and revenue through features and CRM integration, boosting growth and optimizing marketing and appointments management.
Sentiment score
5.5
Genesys Cloud CX boosts profit margins and satisfaction through improved interactions, cost-effectiveness, and enhanced global capabilities despite price increases.
In terms of cost-effectiveness, I find Genesys Cloud CX provides overall ROI benefits; however, after the first year, customers usually expect lower pricing at the time of renewal.
Cx Product Manager at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
7.3
Five9 support varies from satisfactory to excellent, with responsiveness and communication praised but some report delays and mixed experiences.
Sentiment score
7.3
Genesys Cloud CX support is responsive and helpful, with variability; larger clients often receive better assistance.
The technical support for Five9 has been exemplary.
Five9 offers multiple support options.
They were good about hosting regular, recurring meetings, understanding priorities, and getting things escalated that were appropriate to escalate.
CX Intelligence Analytics at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The impact of the real-time dashboards on the decision-making processes is excellent.
Cx Product Manager at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
Many agents report not receiving alerts or calls consistently—missing two or three calls out of thirty on a given day.
Associate | Genesys Cloud Developer at Conizant Technological Solutions
Genesys support is very good.
BA at Rise Asia Technology Limited
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.7
Five9 is praised for scalability and adaptability, though some users experience challenges with large-scale feature additions.
Sentiment score
7.3
Genesys Cloud CX is scalable and efficient for large call centers, user-friendly, and supports thousands of agents smoothly.
We face scaling issues, especially when trying to scale up bigger contact centers.
We have not faced any issues such as system slowness or degraded call quality despite handling over 200,000 calls.
Associate | Genesys Cloud Developer at Conizant Technological Solutions
The solution is considered scalable and receives a rating of seven on a scale of one to ten.
Manager, Customer Experience Country (France) at Stellantis
The scalability of Genesys is excellent.
BA at Rise Asia Technology Limited
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.3
Five9 is generally stable, offering quick resolutions to issues, though updates occasionally cause challenges, with room for improvement.
Sentiment score
7.5
Genesys Cloud CX is stable and reliable, with AWS support, though occasional call consistency and support delays are noted.
In my experience, I have not encountered major downtime.
Sr Specialist - Analytics Metrics and Reporting at Mercer
During training and demos, resiliency tests failed, which was not ideal.
Genesys is brilliant concerning stability.
BA at Rise Asia Technology Limited
The stability and reliability of Genesys Cloud CX are good, as it can handle multiple agents, numbering in the hundreds or even thousands, located in different parts of the world.
Associate | Genesys Cloud Developer at Conizant Technological Solutions
 

Room For Improvement

Five9 needs enhancements in call quality, reporting, integration, UI, support, costs, international compatibility, and workflow tools.
Genesys Cloud CX needs more flexible pricing, improved AI, enhanced outages handling, and better integration and customization options.
I would like a feature where reports such as AHT or workforce-related reports can be generated automatically without starting from scratch.
Sr Specialist - Analytics Metrics and Reporting at Mercer
Five9 should provide free training resources for end users, including agents, supervisors, and admins.
The solution lacks versioning in scripting, making it crucial to manually back up scripts to prevent rollbacks from causing issues.
If I have over 100 organizations in Genesys Cloud CX, my support team struggles with access management, and there's no single pane of glass to manage the entire set of tenants.
Cx Product Manager at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
Genesys Cloud CX is hosted on the AWS environment, and if there's an issue on AWS or any outage, there is no other alternative provided by Genesys.
Associate | Genesys Cloud Developer at Conizant Technological Solutions
There is room for improvement in the solution's pricing structure.
Manager, Customer Experience Country (France) at Stellantis
 

Setup Cost

Five9's pricing, though initially high, is cost-effective and scalable, with cloud benefits offering value and flexibility for enterprises.
Genesys Cloud CX pricing varies by licensing and needs, offering value and flexibility with negotiable, tiered pricing and additional integration costs.
They just rent the specific resources they need, which reduces high costs from hardware, software licenses, and operating systems.
Overall it's affordable, as indicated by a pricing rating of four out of ten.
Manager, Customer Experience Country (France) at Stellantis
Genesys' licensing model is flexible, though not the cheapest.
BA at Rise Asia Technology Limited
 

Valuable Features

Five9 offers cloud-based CRM integration with AI features, enhancing service levels, efficiency, and user satisfaction through comprehensive tools.
Genesys Cloud CX enhances efficiency with omni-channel support, AI, integration, analytics, and user-friendly features for improved customer engagement.
The ability to automatically populate borrower details when the call comes in using the Loan Pop feature enhances call efficiency dramatically.
Five9 provides powerful CRM integration capabilities with platforms like Salesforce, Zendesk, and Oracle Service Cloud, making it highly valuable for large companies.
It pre-fills variables from a form and routes to the correct agent, reducing handling times and increasing single-call resolution.
It has helped to optimize customer interactions as a contact center solution by improving Average Handle Time, and as AHT improves, customer satisfaction and NPS turn green as a whole for the customer, leading to more business generation for us.
Cx Product Manager at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
The real-time analytics feature has impacted decision-making by providing visibility to service SLAs and understanding customer journeys.
BA at Rise Asia Technology Limited
The features and capabilities of Genesys Cloud CX that I have found most valuable so far include its omni-channel support.
Associate | Genesys Cloud Developer at Conizant Technological Solutions
 

Categories and Ranking

Five9
Ranking in Contact Center Platforms
3rd
Ranking in Workforce Engagement Management
3rd
Ranking in Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS)
3rd
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.5
Number of Reviews
25
Ranking in other categories
Contact Center Infrastructure (1st), Sales Force Automation (8th)
Genesys Cloud CX
Ranking in Contact Center Platforms
2nd
Ranking in Workforce Engagement Management
1st
Ranking in Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS)
2nd
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.5
Number of Reviews
14
Ranking in other categories
Customer Experience Management (3rd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2026, in the Contact Center Platforms category, the mindshare of Five9 is 8.1%, down from 15.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Genesys Cloud CX is 13.7%, down from 23.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Contact Center Platforms Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Genesys Cloud CX13.7%
Five98.1%
Other78.2%
Contact Center Platforms
 

Featured Reviews

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Sr Specialist - Analytics Metrics and Reporting at Mercer
Real-time monitoring and reporting help with better operations
The Intelligent Virtual Agent (IVA) feature helps to monitor the agents. We can see if an agent is getting stuck. For example, if an agent has not been logged out properly, we can log out that particular agent from a particular session because it hampers productivity. It helps us to be more productive. Our call center agents use the Agent Assist feature. Our call center leaders are also using it to monitor agents' quality metrics. We are also using Qlik Sense along with Five9. Five9 is for monitoring, and Qlik Sense is for service-level reports. Five9 provides us with real-time information, whereas solutions like Verint take a lot more time. Qlik Sense can have intermittent logging issues where it might not work properly, whereas Five9 works properly. Among these three, Five9 is the best. Five9 also gives more bifurcation options. Five9 is good and intuitive. It helps to know how things are. I love it and use it every day. There are always new reports to generate. There are a lot of opportunities within Five9. Additionally, the real-time agent monitoring and ability to skill agents based on calls in the queue are invaluable and much easier than previous solutions like the AWS application. Previously, using the AWS application involved cumbersome steps to manage users and agents, making Five9 a welcome change. Overall, Five9 has made my job easier compared to before, and I do not struggle with it. Five9 has helped improve our call center’s speed to answer. Our leaders are using Five9 to monitor everything. It is not a time-consuming application.
GD
Associate | Genesys Cloud Developer at Conizant Technological Solutions
Omnichannel contact center has supported global healthcare calls and improves SLA-backed support
Improvements in Genesys Cloud CX, from my perspective as our client is a healthcare system with an SLA with their partners, are necessary since we faced an outage due to AWS. Genesys Cloud CX is hosted on the AWS environment, and if there's an issue on AWS or any outage, there is no other alternative provided by Genesys. We need to rely on a third-party system such as Microsoft or carriers during outages. They need to expand their cloud providers and consider different solutions so that if there's any outage, it doesn't happen in all regions. They might configure a secondary region as a backup, which could help. I am not exactly sure how they resolve that particular issue, but we faced this issue recently. Currently, the AI-driven tools in Genesys Cloud CX have not helped us in personalizing customer engagement. I know Genesys provides some services with Genesys Cloud AI, but we have never used that. However, we use bot flows, especially the Digital Bot flow that they have changed to, to automate customer engagement. We use it to send automated emails in response to common questions we receive from customers, based on pre-built responses in the system.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
12%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Insurance Company
8%
Healthcare Company
7%
Financial Services Firm
14%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Computer Software Company
8%
Government
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business7
Midsize Enterprise7
Large Enterprise7
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business6
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise7
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Five9?
I like the capability of call and screen recording. It has helped us to hold our agents accountable to the expectations for the role. It creates a clearer picture than giving feedback that is just ...
What needs improvement with Five9?
The reporting suite needed improvement. I saw recently that Five9 released a new platform for reporting, as the reporting was not great previously.
What is your primary use case for Five9?
I was using Five9 in the senior living space.
Which is better - Genesys Cloud or Amazon Connect?
Our organization ran comparison tests to determine whether the Genesys Cloud or Amazon Connect contact center management software was the better fit for us. We decided to go with Genesys Cloud. Ge...
What do you like most about Genesys Cloud?
Genesys Cloud CX has very good training material and training – instructor-led training, self-paced training, and documentation – things are very organized and helpful.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Genesys Cloud?
Genesys' licensing model is flexible, though not the cheapest. Customers have seen benefits with global operations, increased security, and seamless remote working.
 

Also Known As

No data available
Genesys PureCloud, Genesys, Genesys Customer Interaction Management Platform, Interactive Intelligence PureCloud
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Agilysys, BISSELL, From You Flowers, SumUp, Kyndryl, PING, Alaska Airlines, Omaha Steaks International, NextRep, AdventHealth
1. Adobe 2. Airbnb 3. American Express 4. AT&T 5. BMW 6. Coca-Cola 7. Delta Air Lines 8. eBay 9. FedEx 10. General Electric 11. Hilton 12. IBM 13. Johnson & Johnson 14. Marriott International 15. Microsoft 16. Netflix 17. Nike 18. Oracle 19. PepsiCo 20. Procter & Gamble 21. Salesforce 22. Samsung 23. Siemens 24. Sony 25. Starbucks 26. Target 27. Toyota 28. Uber 29. Verizon 30. Visa 31. Walmart 32. Xerox
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