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Nextiva vs Zoom Phone: which is more reliable? (2026)

Nextiva is more reliable than Zoom Phone, scoring 66.1 vs 51.7 out of 100. Over the last 90 days Nextiva reported 8 incidents and Zoom Phone reported 13, with effective uptime of 99.37% and 99.21% respectively. Nextiva resolves incidents faster on average (2h 35m).

Data updated Nov 1, 2026 · How we score

Nextiva

66.1/100

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Zoom Phone

51.7/100

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MetricNextivaZoom Phone
Reliability score66.151.7
Rank (business phone systems)#10#12
Uptime (90 days)99.37%99.21%
Incidents (90 days)813
Partial / major outages60
Avg time to resolve2h 35m1d 1h
Outages we detected00
Transparency score100/100100/100

Where Nextiva and Zoom Phone differ

  • Zoom Phone reported 63% more incidents than Nextiva over the last 90 days (13 vs 8).
  • Nextiva had 6 partial or major outages, compared with 0 for Zoom Phone.
  • Nextiva fixes problems faster: 2h 35m on average, against 1d 1h for Zoom Phone (9.7× quicker).
  • Nextiva's longest outage on record lasted 8h 45m (Oct 1, 2026); Zoom Phone's lasted 3d (Sep 25, 2026).

90-day uptime

Nextiva

Aug 4, 2026 – Aug 6, 2026: no incidentsAug 7, 2026: 89.30% uptime, 1 incident (Major outage)Aug 8, 2026 – Aug 12, 2026: no incidentsAug 13, 2026: 80.36% uptime, 1 incident (Major outage)Aug 14, 2026 – Sep 10, 2026: no incidentsSep 11, 2026: 99.07% uptime, 1 incident (Partial outage)Sep 12, 2026 – Sep 17, 2026: no incidentsSep 18, 2026: 99.77% uptime, 1 incident (Partial outage)Sep 19, 2026 – Sep 30, 2026: no incidentsOct 1, 2026: 94.81% uptime, 1 incident (Partial outage)Oct 2, 2026: 86.95% uptime, 1 incident (Partial outage)Oct 3, 2026 – Oct 19, 2026: no incidentsOct 20, 2026: 98.55% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Oct 21, 2026 – Oct 26, 2026: no incidentsOct 27, 2026: 99.52% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Oct 28, 2026: 95.55% uptime, 1 incident (Major outage)Oct 29, 2026 – Nov 1, 2026: no incidents
90 days ago99.377% average daily uptimeToday

Zoom Phone

Aug 4, 2026 – Sep 2, 2026: no dataSep 3, 2026 – Sep 15, 2026: no incidentsSep 16, 2026: 99.62% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Sep 17, 2026 – Sep 23, 2026: no incidentsSep 24, 2026: 98.50% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Sep 25, 2026: 96.09% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Sep 26, 2026: 85.00% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Sep 27, 2026: 85.00% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Sep 28, 2026: 88.90% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Sep 29, 2026 – Nov 1, 2026: no incidents
90 days ago99.218% average daily uptimeToday

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