NICE CXone
Contact Center & CCaaS Enterprise Voice & Phone AI
Enterprise cloud contact center platform with omnichannel routing, Enlighten AI copilots and AI agents, and workforce management built in.
- Pricing
- Paid from $110/agent/mo
- Founded
- 1986
- Integrations
- Salesforce Microsoft Dynamics Oracle ServiceNow Zendesk Kustomer Pega Snowflake
NICE CXone is an enterprise cloud contact center platform covering the full span of customer service work: omnichannel routing across voice, chat, email, and social, IVR and self-service AI agents, copilots that assist human agents and supervisors in real time, plus workforce management, quality management, and interaction analytics. The AI layer runs on Enlighten, NICE's family of models trained on billions of customer interactions, and the platform powers more than 25 billion interactions a year.
The company story stretches back to 1986, when NICE was founded in Israel as Neptune Intelligence Computer Engineering. It trades on Nasdaq and the Tel Aviv exchange under the ticker NICE, and spent decades in call recording and analytics before buying cloud contact center pioneer inContact in 2016, the deal that created CXone. In June 2024 it bundled Copilot, Autopilot, and Actions into a rebranded platform called CXone Mpower. In 2025 came a new CEO, Scott Russell, a lowercase rebrand to NiCE, and the roughly 955 million dollar acquisition of German conversational AI firm Cognigy, announced in July and closed in September.
Pricing is refreshingly public for an enterprise vendor. The current page lists five suites billed per agent per month: Omnichannel at 110 dollars, Essential at 135, Core at 169, Complete at 209, and Ultimate at 249 plus 25 cents per session. Industry packages for banking, insurance, healthcare, and retail sit at the top tier. Many AI capabilities are add-ons or consumption based, so a realistic AI-heavy rollout still ends in a custom quote.
Choose NICE if you run a large or regulated contact center and want routing, workforce management, quality, and AI from a single vendor with decades of compliance pedigree. The Cognigy deal also makes it a credible bet for enterprises going all in on agentic AI. Look elsewhere if you run a small support team: the packaging and implementation lift assume hundreds or thousands of seats, and a lighter helpdesk with a bolt-on AI agent will get you live much faster.
Key features
- Omnichannel routing and IVR
- Copilots for agents and supervisors
- AI agents for self-service
- Workforce and quality management
- Enlighten AI interaction analytics
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Updated July 2026
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