Comparing Dialpad Ai and Observe.AI? Both are Agent Assist & Copilots and Voice & Phone AI tools in the directory, which is why buyers put them on the same shortlist. Below is a side-by-side look at how they price, what they integrate with, and when each is the better fit, so you can pick on the facts rather than either vendor's own sales page.
| Attribute | Dialpad Ai | Observe.AI |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Paid · $15/user/mo | Paid · Custom |
| Founded | 2011 | 2017 |
| Categories | Agent Assist & Copilots Voice & Phone AI | Agent Assist & Copilots QA & Conversation Analytics Voice & Phone AI |
| Integrations | Salesforce Zendesk Google Workspace Microsoft Teams HubSpot ServiceNow | Amazon Connect Avaya 8x8 Aircall Jira BambooHR |
Dialpad's founders have been building phone systems for the internet age longer than almost anyone: CEO Craig Walker previously created the products that became Yahoo Voice and, via GrandCentral, Google Voice. Founded in 2011, Dialpad is a cloud phone system and contact center with AI baked into every call, and its 2018 acquisition of voice AI startup TalkIQ, roughly $50 million, turned out to be the masterstroke. That technology, matured into DialpadGPT and trained on billions of minutes of business conversations, now powers live transcription, sentiment analysis, real-time coaching cards, automatic summaries, and AI scorecards across the platform.
For support teams the draw is having telephony, contact center, and support AI from one vendor. Dialpad Support, the contact-center product, starts around $80 per user per month, while the base Connect phone system starts at $15, and unusually for the industry the core AI features are bundled into standard plans rather than sold as add-ons. Newer agentic AI agents that autonomously handle scheduling, order lookups, and ticket updates are priced per conversation on a quoted basis. Integrations cover Salesforce, Zendesk, HubSpot, ServiceNow, Google Workspace, and Microsoft Teams.
The company was valued at $2.2 billion after an ICONIQ-led round in 2021 and has raised roughly $450 million from investors including Andreessen Horowitz and Google Ventures.
Dialpad fits teams that want to consolidate: if you are buying a business phone system anyway and support runs heavily on calls, getting transcription, coaching, QA, and virtual agents in the same box is genuinely efficient. Voice-AI purists may prefer a specialist like PolyAI; pragmatists consolidating vendors will like Dialpad a lot.
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Observe.AI made its name by fixing quality assurance, the least loved job in the contact center. Instead of a QA team sampling two percent of calls and arguing about scores, it transcribes and analyzes one hundred percent of interactions, scores them automatically against your rubrics, flags compliance risks, and turns the results into coaching. For support leaders it answers the questions that sampling never could: why are customers calling, which behaviors actually move CSAT, and which agents need help this week rather than at quarter end.
Founded in 2017 by Swapnil Jain and headquartered in Redwood City, the company raised a $125 million Series C led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 in 2022, with Zoom as a strategic investor, and serves names like DoorDash, SoFi, Accolade, and Asurion. Like most of the conversation-intelligence category it has pushed aggressively into agents themselves: its VoiceAI agents now automate routine calls end to end, real-time assist guides live agents mid-conversation, and an Agent Harness handles the unglamorous work of testing and versioning AI agents before they meet customers.
The platform advertises more than 250 integrations across contact-center, CRM, and workforce systems, and pricing is custom, scoped to seat counts and interaction volume, with nothing published.
Observe.AI fits operations large enough that measuring conversations is a full-time problem: if you have dozens of agents or more and your QA process is a spreadsheet and good intentions, full-coverage automated scoring changes how you manage. Teams that just want a bot to deflect tickets have simpler options; teams that want to understand and improve every conversation, human or AI, should shortlist it.
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