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Calabrio ONE
Workforce management, quality and analytics suite for contact centres, now owned by Verint
As of 31 August 2026, Calabrio ONE's pricing is not published; the vendor quotes on request. Calabrio ONE is a forecasting, scheduling and quality suite that built its reputation as the friendlier alternative to Verint. Softwr lists it under Customer Support. Calabrio ONE is made by Verint (formerly Calabrio, Inc.), available on Web, iOS, Android.
Overview
What Calabrio ONE does
Calabrio ONE is a workforce engagement suite for contact centres covering forecasting, automated scheduling, intraday management, real-time adherence, agent self-service shift swapping, call and screen recording, quality management and speech analytics. It is sold as a cloud platform that layers on top of whichever CCaaS or telephony platform an organisation already runs, and it is one of the small number of independent workforce management products certified across the major cloud contact centre vendors. The fact that changes a shortlist is ownership. Thoma Bravo completed a roughly two billion dollar take-private of Verint in November 2025 and combined it with Calabrio, its existing portfolio company; Calabrio chief executive Dave Rhodes became chief executive of the combined business, calabrio.com now redirects to verint.com, and the combined company has been through significant layoffs. Verint has stated that Calabrio products will continue to be supported and enhanced with no forced migration, which is the correct thing to say and also what every acquirer says. Anyone who put Calabrio on a shortlist specifically to avoid Verint needs to redo that evaluation. The buyers are contact centre operations leaders running several hundred to several thousand agents who need real forecasting and adherence rather than the thin scheduling included with their CCaaS licence. The trade-off is that this is enterprise workforce optimisation with the usual characteristics: quoted pricing in the region of 75 US dollars per agent per month and upwards depending on modules, no free trial, a professional services implementation, and a forecasting engine that rewards operations teams who understand queueing theory and frustrates those who do not.
What people use it for
- A 1,200-seat contact centre on Amazon Connect needing forecasting and adherence that the native scheduling tools do not provide
- A multi-site operation replacing spreadsheet rostering that no longer copes with skills-based routing and part-time shift patterns
- A retailer forecasting seasonal contact volume across voice, chat and email to decide temporary hiring numbers months ahead
- A compliance-bound centre needing call and screen recording with retention and redaction controls independent of its telephony vendor
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- Ownership changed in November 2025 when Thoma Bravo took Verint private and merged it with Calabrio, so the product is no longer the independent alternative to Verint that most shortlists put it on for, and roadmap priorities across two overlapping suites will be decided by one company.
- The combined business has run substantial layoffs following the buyout, which raises real questions about support responsiveness and module investment that a prospective buyer should press on in contract negotiation.
- Pricing is quoted per agent per month, commonly cited from around 75 US dollars, with analytics and quality sold as separate modules, so the headline figure understates a full suite deployment considerably.
- There is no free trial and no self-service tier, meaning evaluating the forecasting engine against your own historical data requires a sales-led proof of concept measured in weeks.
- The forecasting and scheduling engine assumes an operations team that can configure shift rules, service level targets and skill routing correctly; deployed by a team without that expertise it produces schedules people override manually, which negates the reason to buy it.
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Pricing
What Calabrio ONE costs
Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.
Calabrio ONE
On request
- Workforce management forecasting and scheduling
- Real-time adherence
- Agent self-service and mobile app
- Call and screen recording
- Quality management
- Analytics modules licensed separately
Capabilities
Features
Intelligent forecasting
Builds volume and staffing forecasts from historical interaction data across channels
Automated scheduling
Generates schedules against service level targets, skills and shift rules
Intraday optimisation
Reforecasts during the day and flags where staffing is drifting from need
Real-time adherence
Compares live agent state against schedule and alerts supervisors
Agent self-service
Lets agents bid, swap shifts and request time off from a portal or mobile app
Call and screen recording
Captures interactions with compliance retention and redaction controls
Quality management
Scores interactions against evaluation forms with calibration workflows
Speech and desktop analytics
Surfaces contact drivers, sentiment and agent desktop behaviour from recorded interactions
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Questions people ask
Each answer names the page it came from, so you can check it rather than take our word for it.
Is Calabrio still a separate product from Verint?
It is still sold and supported under the Calabrio name, but the companies merged under Thoma Bravo ownership in November 2025 and calabrio.com now redirects to verint.com.
Will Calabrio customers be forced to migrate to Verint?
Verint has publicly committed to supporting and enhancing Calabrio solutions with no forced migration. Get that commitment written into your contract term rather than relying on the statement.
Does it replace my contact centre platform?
No. It sits on top of your CCaaS or telephony platform and handles workforce management, recording and quality.
What does it cost?
Nothing is published. Independent reporting puts the entry point near 75 US dollars per agent per month, rising with quality and analytics modules.
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