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Why Five9

The hard part is making your best the standard.

Any contact center can have a great interaction. Five9 is built for the hard part: making the best of your people and AI show up in every interaction.

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Trusted by leading enterprises across every industry

Why Five9

How Five9 makes your best the standard.

Your best interaction shouldn’t be a one-off. Five9 is built around four ideas that make it repeatable.

Platform

Make the whole CX operation work together.

Your customers experience one company. Your CX should work like one. Five9 connects voice, digital, routing, data, workflows, people and AI, and the systems you already run, so context travels with the customer.

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Voice

Bring your best to the hardest moments.

When the issue is complex or urgent, customers still pick up the phone, and there is no room for a bad experience. Five9 has run mission-critical cloud voice since 2001, on carrier-grade infrastructure it owns and operates in 140+ countries, with AI and people working in tandem.

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Intelligence

Put what your people and AI know to work in every interaction.

The model is interchangeable. Your intelligence is not. Five9 turns every conversation into real-time context that people and AI use in the moment, so every interaction makes the next one smarter.

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Partner Fusion

Build around choice and what works for you.

Keep the CRM, WEM and AI models you trust, add what’s better and change your mind later without starting over. Openness should create choice, not dependency.

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Risk & Readiness

Built for the interactions you can't afford to get wrong.

The answers your security, compliance and migration teams will ask for: owned voice infrastructure, a 99.999% uptime SLA and certifications that are independently audited, not self-attested.

99.999% uptime

Keep critical customer interactions available when demand is high and the stakes are higher.

Global Voice Network

Carrier-grade voice Five9 owns and operates in 140+ countries, with in-region routing built for real-time customer conversations.

Security & Compliance

SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, PCI DSS, GDPR, ISO 27001, C5 and DORA, with audit reports and sub-processors available in the Trust Center.

Security & Compliance

  • SOC 2 Type II, audited annually
  • HIPAA compliant, BAA available
  • PCI-DSS compliant, payment security
  • GDPR compliant, EU data residency
  • C5, BSI certified
  • ISO 27001 certified, information security management
  • DORA compliant, EU digital operational resilience
Customer Results

Real outcomes that you can measure.

See how Five9 customers make their best the standard, across more interactions and under real pressure.

4,000+
Customers
7B+
Interactions handled annually
40%
Avg. cost reduction
99.999%
Platform uptime SLA
Hospitality · Hotels & Resorts

Wyndham Hotels & Resorts

Disconnected systems were slowing guest support. Wyndham brought its contact center onto Five9, connected critical systems and automated routine interactions.

Five9 had the integrations and AI capabilities to serve as the foundation for our future state.

— Wyndham Hotels & Resorts
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62%
Automation rate
Reservation confirmed Loyalty tier: Elite Sentiment: Positive
Frequent traveler — offer priority check-in
Retail · Consumer

Omaha Steaks

Holiday demand was pushing Omaha Steaks’ contact center to the limit. Five9 helped it scale from 200 to more than 1,500 seasonal agents, automate payments, cut average wait time and protect $2.4 million in holiday sales.

Five9 gives us the flexibility and efficiency to meet customers where they are, without delay.

— Omaha Steaks
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70%
Reduction in wait times
Order confirmed Payment verified Sentiment: Delighted
Loyal customer — fast-track for the holidays
Healthcare · Diagnostics

Exact Sciences

Growing call volumes were making it harder for Exact Sciences to scale patient support. With Five9 AI agents, patients can schedule test-kit pickups without waiting for an agent.

It now takes about 60% less time than before to schedule a carrier pickup. Automating this piece of the process has been great for us and the patients.

— Exact Sciences
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45%
AI containment rate
Patient verified Test: Cologuard Sentiment: Reassured
Results ready — route to the care team
Real Estate · PropTech

Yopa

Manual dialing and disconnected workflows were slowing Yopa’s growth. Five9 automated outreach and connected Salesforce, helping the same team make more calls and cut speed-to-lead to under 60 seconds.

With Five9 we can reach more customers, connect with more people, and have more conversations, giving us more opportunities to work toward long-term profitability.

— Yopa
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4×
Contact center productivity
Lead: Warm Property matched Intent: Detected
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Analyst Recognition

Recognized by the analysts buyers check first

Independent evaluations from Gartner and IDC, and ratings from the teams who run Five9 every day.

Leader

Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for CCaaS

Named a Leader for the 8th consecutive time. “Five9 was the first vendor in this Magic Quadrant with an AI studio offering.”

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Leader

IDC MarketScape: Agentic CCaaS Platforms 2026

“Strong, well-documented examples of R&D investment translating into platform enhancements.”

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4.5/5

Rated by customers

4.5/5 on Gartner Peer Insights and 4.1/5 on G2, from the people buying and running Five9.

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What it adds up to

Same technology. A bigger ambition.

Everyone is promising AI will cut the cost of your contact center. Deflect. Automate. Reduce. When every interaction builds on the last, your best becomes the standard, and service stops being a cost to shrink.

Resolve.

Solve it, don’t deflect it.

AI takes the routine so people can take the moments that need judgment. The problem gets solved, and customers have a reason to trust you.

Deepen.

Every interaction teaches the next.

What you learn in one conversation reaches the next one and the decisions behind it, so customers feel known, not processed.

Grow.

Service that grows the account.

Customers stay, spend more and tell others. Your people get time to reach the accounts that matter most.

Go deeper

See the platform behind the proof.

Every part of the Five9 Genius CX Platform takes on its share of the hard part. Explore how each one works.

FAQs

Ask the hard questions first.

Clear answers on what Five9 is, how it compares and how it holds up when it matters.

  • Five9 is a contact center as a service (CCaaS) provider that helps organizations manage customer interactions across voice and digital channels. The Five9 platform connects customer context, AI, people and workflows so interactions can move across systems and channels without losing what the customer or business already knows. Five9 has provided cloud contact center software since 2001.

  • Contact center as a service, or CCaaS, is cloud-based software for managing customer interactions without operating the underlying contact center infrastructure on premises. A CCaaS platform can bring together capabilities such as voice and digital engagement, routing, AI and automation, workforce tools, analytics and integrations with CRM and other business systems. Because the software is delivered through the cloud, organizations can add capabilities, support distributed teams and scale as customer demand changes.

  • Organizations comparing Five9 with other CCaaS providers should look beyond feature checklists and evaluate how the platform performs when interactions become more complex. Five9 is built around four priorities: connecting what every interaction needs across systems and workflows, supporting demanding voice interactions, putting AI and human intelligence to work together and giving organizations flexibility in the technology they keep, connect or change.

    If you’re evaluating a Five9 alternative, compare how each provider handles voice reliability, context across handoffs, AI governance, integrations, model and technology choice and the ability to evolve your stack over time.

  • Five9 maintains security and compliance programs designed to support organizations with regulated customer interactions. Five9 is a Level 1 PCI DSS Service Provider and, as a HIPAA Business Associate, has implemented administrative, physical and technical safeguards for protected health information.

    Organizations should review the Five9 Trust Center and their specific regulatory requirements to determine which Five9 services and deployment options meet their needs.

  • Five9 lists a 99.999% targeted uptime SLA for its VCC Voice, email, chat, Five9 AI and other generally available Five9 subscription services, subject to the terms and exclusions of the applicable service-level agreement. Service credits may apply when contracted service levels are not met and the required claim conditions are satisfied.

    The SLA should not be confused with measured availability. Five9 publishes actual system availability separately in its Trust Center so customers can see recent operational performance.

  • Five9 is built around the parts of customer experience that become harder to deliver consistently as interactions, systems and AI grow more complex.

    Platform: Make the whole CX operation work together.

    Voice: Bring your best to the hardest moments.

    Intelligence: Put what your people and AI know to work in every interaction.

    Choice: Build around what works for you.

    Together, those capabilities help organizations apply the right mix of people, AI and systems to what each interaction requires.

Smarter CX with every interaction

Bring your shortlist. We’re used to the comparison.

If your best interaction should be every interaction, Five9 is the right decision. Let’s walk through the hard part of your operation: the voice, the AI and the stack you already run.