Asisto vs Quo
A modern business phone and messaging app for teams, formerly called OpenPhone, sold per user.
The short answer
Quo, the product formerly known as OpenPhone, is an excellent shared phone and messaging workspace for a team, and now includes an AI agent that answers calls. Asisto goes further into receptionist work - booking onto your calendar, routing by intent, and 58 languages - and is priced per business rather than per user.
The honest read
Quo is the best-designed product in this comparison set, and its shared inbox genuinely changes how a team handles a phone line. Since the rename from OpenPhone it also ships an AI agent that answers calls on every tier, which closes the most obvious old gap. The remaining difference is depth and shape. Quo charges per user and centres on US and Canadian numbers; Asisto charges per business, carries numbers in 30 countries, and its AI does receptionist work - booking appointments during the call, routing by what the caller wants, switching language mid-sentence.
Where Quo wins
- A shared inbox and internal threads that make a team’s phone line genuinely collaborative - Asisto has no equivalent.
- The cleanest interface of anything here, on desktop and mobile.
- A deep native CRM catalogue including HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, Clio and Jobber.
- A very low per-seat entry price for a small team that mostly wants to text customers.
Where Asisto wins
- Books appointments onto Google and Microsoft calendars during the call rather than taking a message.
- Numbers in 30 countries rather than a US and Canada focus.
- 58 languages, switching the moment the caller does.
- Priced per business, so adding staff does not add cost.
- Intent-based routing, IVR menus and an outbound dialer built for calling leads back in seconds.
Side by side
| Feature | Asisto | Quo |
|---|---|---|
| Answers calls 24/7 | Yes | AI agent on all tiers |
| Books appointments on your calendar | Native Google and Microsoft calendar booking | No |
| Two-way SMS conversations | AI-handled, with MMS photo understanding | Excellent shared inbox, staffed by your team |
| Outbound calling | Browser dialer plus automated lead callback | Yes |
| Business phone numbers included | Local, mobile and toll-free in 30 countries | One per user, US and Canada focus |
| Languages | 58 | English |
| Multi-location | Unlimited locations on every plan | Per-user seats rather than locations |
| CRM integration | Native HubSpot, plus API and webhooks | Extensive native catalogue |
| Setup effort | Guided onboarding, live in about ten minutes | Self-serve, very quick |
| Built for | Appointment-driven businesses across 35+ industries | Startups and small teams |
How each one charges
Rates change, so no figures are quoted here. What matters when you compare is the shape of the bill, and that is below.
Asisto
Priced per business rather than per user, with unlimited minutes, texts and locations, and numbers in 30 countries included.
See the plansQuo
Per user, per month, on three tiers with a discount for annual billing. Extra phone numbers cost more per month. Calling and messaging centre on the US and Canada, with international as an add-on.
Their pricing pageQuestions people ask
- Is Quo the same company as OpenPhone?
- Yes. OpenPhone rebranded to Quo, and openphone.com now redirects to quo.com. The product and the team are the same.
- Quo has an AI agent now - what does Asisto add?
- Quo’s agent answers calls so an opportunity is not lost. Asisto’s does the receptionist job around that: booking the appointment onto your calendar while the caller is on the line, routing by what they actually want, handling the conversation in any of 58 languages, and calling a new lead back within seconds.
- Which is cheaper?
- It depends on shape rather than rate. Quo charges per user, so cost grows with headcount; Asisto charges per business, so it does not. A large team that mostly needs texting may well pay less on Quo. Both publish their plans - the links are below.
- Can I get a number outside the US and Canada?
- With Asisto, yes - local, mobile and toll-free numbers across 30 countries. Quo centres on US and Canadian numbers with international calling as an add-on.
Where this came from
Claims about Quo were checked against its own website on . Products change - if something here is out of date, the sources below are the place to check, and tell us so it gets fixed.
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