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Aircall alternatives in 2026

Six alternatives to Aircall, compared on the total bill rather than the seat price, with the one case where staying is the right call.

MNAbhi ChawlaLast substantive update 6 tools compared8 min read

The shortlist

Prices verified against each vendor's own pricing page on 2026-09-20. Aircall is included in the table for reference.

DialerFrom, with power dialerFree planBring your own TwilioMin seatsScoreLink
1.Aircall
$50/user/mo7-day trialNo33.2Visit
2.DialSheet
FreeYesYes14.5Visit
3.JustCall
$49/user/mo14-day trialNo23.6Visit
4.CloudTalk
$49/user/mo14-day trialSIP only13.4Visit
5.Myphoner
$27/user/mo14-day trialYes13.9Visit
6.Apollo.io
$49/user/moYesNo13.7Visit
7.Allo
$82/user/mo7-day trialNo13.5Visit
Aircall is the first row. Everything below it is an alternative.
1

DialSheet

Open source

Best for solo sellers and small teams choosing free software, their own Twilio account or a managed line

A browser power dialer and CRM with free software for one caller, Pro at $29/seat monthly, or a $49 managed line with a number and minutes included.

4.5/ 5

Free plan

What works

  • Free browser power dialer with a CRM: one user, 500 leads and 500 calls a month, no card and no expiry
  • Bring your own Twilio, so minutes cost about $0.014 rather than being bundled into a $150 seat
  • Pro at $29/seat monthly includes AI summaries, transcripts and call scoring; parallel dialing on your own Twilio is a separate add-on
  • The $49 managed line includes a US/Canada number, 1,500 minutes, Pro and up to 3 parallel lines once verified

What does not

  • Free and Pro need your own Twilio connection to place calls; the $49 managed line supplies the phone service
  • No pre-built Salesforce or HubSpot connector, only a REST API, MCP server and CSV
  • Voicemail drop requires Pro, a recorded message and confirmation of consent for prerecorded messages
  • Support is community and email, not a 24/7 phone line

Our take

The cheapest credible replacement for Aircall and the only one on this list with a free forever plan that includes the dialer. Five seats cost $1,740 a year against $3,000 on Aircall, plus about $87 a month in Twilio charges you pay Twilio directly. The gaps against Aircall are pre-built CRM connectors and a public review corpus.

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2

JustCall

Best for small teams that want calling, SMS and a hundred integrations at a mid-market price

A well-priced business phone and dialer with over a hundred integrations, where the power dialer starts at the $49 tier and predictive dialing needs the enterprise suite.

3.6/ 5

From $49/user/mo with a power dialer

What works

  • The $49 Pro tier is one of the cheapest ways to get a real power dialer with unlimited minutes
  • Two-way SMS is properly built rather than an afterthought
  • Over a hundred CRM integrations
  • 14-day free trial, which is longer than most

What does not

  • Two-user minimum doubles the entry cost for a solo seller
  • Multi-line dialing is quote-only: the SalesPro plan carrying the predictive dialer publishes no price at all
  • AI features are gated to the $89 tier
  • G2 reviewers report dropped calls on unstable connections

Our take

For a two to ten person team that needs calling and SMS in one tool with real CRM integrations, $49 a seat with unlimited minutes is a fair deal that a bring-your-own-Twilio tool cannot match on integration depth.

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3

CloudTalk

Best for teams that want SIP bring-your-own-carrier and international number coverage

A cloud call centre platform, restructured since build day from four euro-priced tiers to three, that sells its power and parallel dialers as add-ons on top of the seat price.

3.4/ 5

From $49/user/mo with a power dialer

What works

  • Supports bring-your-own-carrier over SIP, which almost no sales dialer does
  • Unlimited US and Canada calling is now included on every tier, not gated to the top one
  • Parallel dialing up to ten lines as a $39 add-on, far cheaper than a dedicated parallel dialer
  • Very strong international number coverage

What does not

  • The power dialer is an Expert-only inclusion and a $15 add-on below it; the parallel dialer is a $39 add-on on every tier, so Expert-plus-parallel is $88 a user
  • Three-seat minimum on Expert, the only tier with the power dialer included
  • No refunds for partial periods
  • The entry-level Lite tier this site recorded on 2026-09-04 no longer appears on the pricing page; the cheapest tier is now Starter

Our take

For a team dialing multiple countries, CloudTalk's number coverage and SIP carrier support are better than anything a US-first tool offers, and ten-line parallel at $39 undercuts every dedicated parallel dialer.

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4

Myphoner

Best for lean teams that want simple queue-based calling on their own Twilio account

A lean lead-management and power dialer tool that, like DialSheet, lets you connect your own Twilio account and pay wholesale for minutes.

3.9/ 5

From $27/user/mo with a power dialer

What works

  • Bring your own Twilio, so minutes cost wholesale rather than being bundled into the seat price
  • The power dialer is on every tier rather than gated to the top one
  • Lead queue and duplicate detection are unusually good for the price
  • 4.7 on Capterra across 99 reviews

What does not

  • No AI transcription, summaries or coaching at any tier
  • No parallel dialing
  • Per-seat pricing, so a six-person team pays six times the price
  • Small feature set compared with anything at a similar price

Our take

If you want bring-your-own-Twilio economics with a more established vendor and a longer track record than DialSheet has, Myphoner is the closest thing to a like-for-like alternative.

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5

Apollo.io

Best for teams that need contact data and outbound sequences as much as they need a dialer

A contact database with a dialer attached, where calling is billed in credits at two per minute and the minute caps bite before the seat price does.

3.7/ 5

From $49/user/mo with a power dialer

What works

  • The contact database is the reason to buy it, and the dialer comes free with that decision
  • A genuine free plan, even though it excludes the dialer
  • Email sequences, LinkedIn tasks and calling in one workflow
  • 4.7 on G2 across more than 9,400 reviews, the largest sample of any tool here

What does not

  • Calling burns credits at two a minute, so heavy dialing competes with data enrichment for the same budget
  • Call recording caps at 150 minutes a month on Basic, the cheapest tier that has a dialer, which is under two hours
  • The dialer itself is noticeably less capable than a dedicated power dialer
  • Parallel dialing is a paid add-on on top of the seat price, $119 per team per month billed annually

Our take

If you are buying contact data anyway, Apollo's dialer is effectively free and removes an integration. For a team making thirty calls a day alongside email, that is the right trade.

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6

Allo

Best for a one-to-five person sales team that wants AI summaries, transcripts and CRM sync inside the phone system, and dials a list one number at a time

An AI-first business phone system whose power dialer is a $50 a month add-on for the whole team, a charge Allo's own price-comparison articles leave out of Allo's row.

3.5/ 5

From $82/user/mo with a power dialer

What works

  • No seat minimum and no contract, so a single rep can start at $82 a month on annual billing where CloudTalk's Expert plan forces three seats at $147
  • The flat $50 dialer fee stops being the expensive part as the team grows: five seats are $210 a month against $410 if the same fee were charged per head
  • AI transcription, AI summaries, AI call tags and native CRM sync to HubSpot, Pipedrive, Salesforce and Attio are in the seat price rather than sold as AI add-ons the way Aircall ($9 to $49 a licence) and Apollo do
  • An MCP server the vendor documents on its own pricing page, so a call queue can be built by asking an assistant rather than exporting a CSV

What does not

  • The power dialer is an add-on at a flat $50 a month for the whole team, and three of Allo's own published articles describe it as included in the $45 Business plan, one of them in the words "without add-on fees"
  • Single-line only, stated by the vendor as a deliberate choice, so there is no parallel or predictive mode at any price
  • No voicemail drop, which rules it out for the high-volume real estate and insurance desks that lean on it
  • The Solo tier is priced at $10 a user a month on the pricing page, $18 in Allo's own Pipedrive article, and sits behind a waitlist ("Solo opens soon"), so the cheapest tier a buyer can actually reach is Business

Our take

For a three-person team that wants AI summaries and CRM sync in one subscription and does not need parallel dialing, Allo is $146 a month on annual billing ($32 a seat plus the one $50 dialer fee) against $420 for three PhoneBurner Standard seats, and it needs no Twilio account to get there.

Visit Allo Read the full review

Why teams leave Aircall

Aircall rates 4.4 out of 5 on G2 across roughly 1,500 reviews, so this is not a bad product. The objections below are commercial rather than about quality.

  • The power dialer only exists on the $50 Professional tier and is single line
  • Three-seat minimum on both paid tiers, so the real entry price is $90 a month
  • Each phone number beyond the one included in the plan costs $6 a month on every tier
  • G2 complaint themes are dominated by connection and call quality issues
  • AI Assist is a $9 to $49 per licence add-on on top of the seat price

When to stay with Aircall

As the phone system for a whole company rather than a sales floor. If support, ops and sales all need numbers and routing, Aircall does that job better than any dedicated dialer.

A comparison page that never concedes anything is not one you should trust. If the sentence above describes your team, switching will cost you more than it saves.

Read the full Aircall review

How to switch without losing data

  1. 1Export everything before you cancel. Leads, call history, notes and dispositions. Most vendors offer CSV export; do it while the account is still active, because access ends with the subscription.
  2. 2Deal with the phone numbers first. Porting takes days to weeks and it is the step that goes wrong. If the numbers matter, start the port before you cancel anything. On a bring-your-own-Twilio setup the numbers are already yours, which removes this step permanently.
  3. 3Check your contract end date. Aircall offers month-to-month billing, so you can overlap the two tools for a week without a large penalty.
  4. 4Run both for one week. Put one rep on the new tool with a real list. Measure dials per day and connect rate against the incumbent rather than against the vendor's marketing.
  5. 5Move your do-not-call list first. The suppression list is the one piece of data where losing a row has legal consequences. Migrate and verify it before the first dial.

Aircall alternatives FAQ

What is the best Aircall alternative?
DialSheet is the best Aircall alternative for most teams, because it is free forever for one user, costs $29 a month for the first paid seat and $29 for each teammate, and runs on your own Twilio account at about $0.014 a minute with no markup. DialSheet's managed line is $49/month for one user, with a local US or Canadian number, 1,500 minutes, Pro features and up to 3-line parallel dialing after business verification and readiness checks. No personal Twilio account is needed. Teammates cost $29/month each; extra minutes cost $25 per 500-minute pack. The included minutes are capped, not unlimited. JustCall is the closest like-for-like replacement at $49 per user per month for a tier with a power dialer.
Why do teams leave Aircall?
The most common reasons are the power dialer only exists on the $50 Professional tier and is single line; three-seat minimum on both paid tiers, so the real entry price is $90 a month; each phone number beyond the one included in the plan costs $6 a month on every tier. Aircall still rates 4.4 out of 5 on G2 across roughly 1,500 reviews, so the objection is usually commercial rather than about product quality.
Is there a cheaper alternative to Aircall?
Yes. DialSheet is free for one user, $29 a month for the first paid seat and $29 for each teammate, with telephony billed separately by Twilio. Whether Pro is cheaper depends on the paid plan, seat count and minutes. For a five-person team that is $1,740 a year in software against $3,000 on Aircall. DialSheet's managed line is $49/month for one user, with a local US or Canadian number, 1,500 minutes, Pro features and up to 3-line parallel dialing after business verification and readiness checks. No personal Twilio account is needed. Teammates cost $29/month each; extra minutes cost $25 per 500-minute pack. The included minutes are capped, not unlimited.
When should you stay with Aircall?
As the phone system for a whole company rather than a sales floor. If support, ops and sales all need numbers and routing, Aircall does that job better than any dedicated dialer.

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