Both are very capable for the US market. ConnexCS is the more global platform: operate worldwide, get the best experience in the US, and help shape the roadmap with your votes.
ISO 9001:2015Certified quality management
Comms Council UKProud memberWhy many carriers start by comparing switches and end up choosing a platform.
46 Labs is a serious switch, and both platforms are very capable for the US market. Its PeerEdge Orchestrator gives carriers and enterprises a clean trunk-group model, call admission control, SPID-based STIR/SHAKEN filtering and a documented route into Microsoft Teams. If that is all you need, it does that job well.
Across the 21 capabilities compared below:
Scored on the rows below. 46 Labs strengths such as SPID filtering, Teams Direct Routing and the managed voice firewall are covered in the compliance section and are not scored.
See the full comparisonConnexCS against 46 Labs, grouped by what matters when you run a carrier.
How you get started and how you pay.
Moving calls to the right place, within the right limits.
Authentication, spam control and customer vetting for the US market.
What you can capture, analyse and keep.
What you can build on top of the switch and put your name on.
The controls carriers need to authenticate traffic, block illegal robocalls and show regulators what they do.
Sign outbound calls with your own certificate, with free consultancy to get you set up.
STIR/SHAKEN docsFilter inbound traffic by A, B or C attestation, for example permit only A-level calls.
Attestation docsSpam Scout CLI scoring, IPQS and the FTC DNC ANI block, tuned from block-all to allow-all.
CLI docsRules on calls per minute, duration, daily volume, channels and repeat destinations.
Fraud profile docsCollect and review verification documents per customer before traffic is allowed.
Documents docsAlways-on SIP trace and real-time CDRs to answer traceback requests quickly.
Logging docsBuild your Robocall Mitigation Database plan faster. Our editable template maps the ConnexCS capabilities that help you combat illegal robocalls, so you can adjust it and submit.
We want this comparison to be fair. These are documented 46 Labs strengths.
Customers post feature requests on a public board and vote on the ones they want. Every month, the requests with the most votes are added to the product roadmap and developed for free.
Describe what you need on the public feature request board.
Other customers back the ideas that matter to them.
The most-voted requests each month join the roadmap.
We develop them at no charge to you.
Urgent, customer-specific requirements can also be prioritised and delivered for a fee.
How feature requests workExample requests and vote counts, for illustration only. Try the vote buttons.
Everything below runs on the same account, with the same customers, billing and CDRs.
IVR, call queues, conferencing, voicemail and campaign dialling on the same platform as your switch.
Class 5 docsLLM-driven voice agents with transcription, TTS and guardrails, plus an MCP server for diagnostics.
AI agent docsWrite custom routing, call control and batch jobs in JavaScript, and build apps in the Anvil IDE.
Anvil docsAn App Store and 50+ UI components to extend the Control Panel and customer portal.
Apps docsBranded customer and carrier portals on your own domains, with payments and 30+ permissions.
Customer portal docsWholesale-volume call recording and live transcription over WebSocket.
Transcription docsWatch how your setup maps onto ConnexCS, step by step.
Each 46 Labs trunk group type has a natural home in ConnexCS, so your traffic relationships carry over one to one.
This comparison uses publicly available documentation, last reviewed in October 2026. Capabilities not listed in 46 Labs's documentation are shown as not available. Products change, so please check 46 Labs's own documentation for the latest details, and tell us if anything is out of date.