What cheapest actually means
Three costs, and the pricing page shows one.
Software. The seat price, or the pack price.
Telephony. Bundled invisibly, metered on top, capped by tier, or billed to your own carrier at wholesale.
The minimum. A $30 seat with a three-seat minimum is a $90 purchase.
A tool is only cheap if all three are.
The all-in table
One rep dialing 120 numbers a working day; three reps dialing 150 each.
| Tool | Solo, all in | Three reps, all in |
|---|
| DialSheet Free / Pro | ~$14 | ~$79 |
| Myphoner Basic | ~$41 | ~$131 |
| JustCall Pro | ~$98 (2-user min) | ~$147 |
| CloudTalk Expert | ~$54 (3-seat min: ~$162) | ~$162 |
| Aircall Professional | ~$150 (3-seat min) | ~$150 |
| Close Growth | ~$120 | ~$357 |
| Kixie multi-line | ~$95+ add-ons | $285+ add-ons |
| PhoneBurner Standard | ~$140 | ~$420 |
Two rows deserve a note. JustCall's two-user minimum doubles the solo price to $98 even though one person is working. CloudTalk's Expert tier carries a three-seat minimum, so its €19 headline is unavailable to anyone who actually needs the power dialer.
Click-to-call sold as a dialer. Close Essentials at $35, JustCall Team at $29, Aircall Essentials at $30 and Kixie Integrated at $35 are all click-to-call. A link that dials is not a power dialer, and a rep on one completes 50 to 80 dials a day rather than 150.
Seat minimums. Aircall, CloudTalk Expert, Ringover and Toky Business want three. JustCall wants two. VanillaSoft wants five. Orum wants nine.
Add-ons. Kixie's third-party estimated $95 tier commonly lands at $109 to $290 once AI voice detection at about $30, DNC compliance at about $20 and ConnectionBoost at about $50 are added.
Metered minutes. Close bills roughly $0.02 a minute on top of the seat, which one analysis put at a 40 to 75 percent add-on for calling-heavy reps.
Annual lock-in. Kixie under ten seats, Orum, Nooks and Readymode all require an annual commitment. A cheap seat you cannot leave is not cheap.
Where cheap is the wrong call
You dial more than 9,000 talk minutes a rep a month. Above that, PhoneBurner's unlimited calling costs less than wholesale metering. Very few B2B reps get there, but consumer-facing desks with long conversations do.
Your reps live in HubSpot. Kixie's integration is better and rebuilding it is not a weekend project.
You need nine-plus reps at maximum throughput. Against $85,000 of loaded SDR cost, a $250 dialer seat is not the variable to optimise.
The one-line rule
If a tool costs $400 a month more than the cheapest credible option, it needs to be $400 a month better, and you should be able to name what the $400 buys in one sentence. For most small teams nobody can.