power dialer review

Trellus review

A Chrome extension that adds power and parallel dialing plus real-time AI coaching on top of the CRM or sequencer you already use.

MNAbhi ChawlaLast substantive update 8 min read

Our score

3.4/ 5

Starts at

$100/user/mo with a power dialer

Minimum seats

1

Contract

Month to month available

Price last verified by Quarterly price check (Claude, run by the publisher); human review pending, read from vendor pricing page, from the source page (archived copy). Text read: “Power, For individuals, $ 99.99 /month. Power + Parallel, For individuals, $ 149.99 /month, Multi line dialing, 8 additional phone numbers + spam remediation. Business, For teams, Custom Pricing.”. Full log

Pros and cons

Pros

  • Works inside the tool you already use rather than asking you to move
  • Real-time coaching during the call is novel and useful for ramping reps
  • Dials from a Google Sheet, which almost nothing else does
  • Five-line parallel dialing at $149.99 undercuts every dedicated parallel dialer

Cons

  • Pricing changed in 2026 and the older free tier no longer appears on the pricing page
  • Browser extension reliability is the most common complaint
  • No SMS, no email, no CRM
  • Small G2 review sample, around 4.3 on very few reviews

Trellus pricing

Every figure below is from the verification record shown above this review. Vendors change prices without notice; the verification log shows every check we have made.

PlanPriceNotes
Power$100per user per month$99.99 list. A $34.99 figure sits in the page markup and is not displayed to readers; the page's own source comment calls it a leftover disabled promo. Single line.
Parallel$150per user per month$149.99 list. Up to 5 lines.
BusinessNot publishedquote only

Minutes: Minutes are not clearly stated on the pricing page. Power includes five additional phone numbers and Parallel includes eight.

How we scored Trellus

Five weighted criteria, applied identically to every dialer. The total of 3.4 is computed from the five sub-scores below using the weights on the methodology page; it is never typed in by hand. The line under each bar is generated from the same record the score came from.

Value for money weight 30%

3.4 / 5

$100 per user per month for the cheapest tier with a power dialer, minutes partly bundled, partly metered.

Dialing engine weight 25%

3.9 / 5

Parallel dialing; voicemail drop included; local presence included.

CRM and data weight 20%

2.2 / 5

No CRM; integrates with one you already pay for.

Setup and time to value weight 15%

4.3 / 5

No free plan or advertised trial; telephony provisioned by the vendor, no carrier setup.

Support and terms weight 10%

3.3 / 5

Month-to-month available; pricing published; G2 4.3 across ~undefined reviews.

Feature checklist

Dialing modespower, parallel, click-to-call
Free planNo
Bring your own TwilioNo
CRM built inNo, integrates only
AI transcriptionYes
AI call summariesYes
Call recordingYes
Voicemail dropYes
Local presenceYes
Two-way SMSNo
Email sequencesNo
Open sourceNo
APIPaid tier
IntegrationsSalesforce, HubSpot, Outreach, Salesloft, Apollo, Google Sheets, Clay
G2 rating4.3 / 5 across ~ reviews

Contract and pricing details that change the bill

Where Trellus loses

Loses to JustCall as a general-purpose dialer: $99.99 for single-line dialing with no CRM, SMS or email is more than JustCall's $49 Pro tier with unlimited minutes and a hundred integrations.

Every review on this site carries this section. The aggregate is on where DialSheet loses.

Full review

Trellus solves a problem the rest of this list ignores: your team already lives in Outreach or Apollo, the sequencing is fine, and the dialing is the only bad part. Trellus is a Chrome extension that fixes the dialing without a migration.

Pricing on the current page is $99.99 a month for Power, single line, and $149.99 for Parallel with up to five lines, and no promotional figure was displayed on either of the last two reads. A Business tier is quote-based. Third-party guides from late 2025 list a free tier of 30 power dials a week and a $59.99 Power plan; those no longer appear on the pricing page, so the pricing changed in 2026 and the free tier appears to be gone. Check the page before you budget.

What makes it different

It works inside Salesforce, HubSpot, Outreach, Salesloft, Apollo, Clay and Google Sheets, as a layer rather than a destination. There is no data migration, no second system of record, and no argument with RevOps about where the truth lives.

Dialing from a Google Sheet is rare and useful. If your list is a spreadsheet, almost nothing else on this list will call it without an import step.

The real-time coaching is the standout feature. During a live call, Trellus surfaces talk-ratio, pacing and objection prompts. For a ramping rep that is more useful than a post-call summary, because the correction happens while it can still change the outcome.

Where it is fragile

Browser extension reliability is the most common complaint, and it is structural. An extension depends on the host page not changing, and Salesforce and HubSpot change constantly.

There is no SMS, no email and no CRM. Trellus is deliberately a thin layer, which is the point and also the limit.

The G2 sample is very small, around 4.3 on few reviews, so there is little public evidence to weigh.

The price question

Five-line parallel dialing at $149.99 undercuts Salesfinity by half and Orum by more, with no seat minimum. That is a serious value proposition for a team that wants parallel dialing on top of an existing sequencer.

Single-line at $99.99 is harder to justify. That is more than JustCall's full Pro tier with unlimited minutes and a hundred integrations, and roughly one and a half times what a bring-your-own-Twilio dialer costs for three seats. You are paying for the coaching layer and the no-migration property, and those are worth something, but $99.99 a seat is a real number for a browser extension with no system of record behind it.

Buy Trellus for the parallel tier and the coaching. Do not buy it as a general-purpose dialer.


Vendor response

None received. Trellus may reply to anything in this review by writing to abhixchawla@gmail.com from a company address; the reply is published here unedited within five working days. Policy.

Trellus FAQ

How much does Trellus cost?
Trellus's pricing page currently lists Power at $99.99 a month for single-line dialing and Parallel at $149.99 for up to five lines, neither showing a promotional figure on either of the last two reads, with a quote-based Business tier. Third-party guides from late 2025 list a free tier of 30 power dials a week and a $59.99 Power plan; those no longer appear on the pricing page, so the pricing changed in 2026 and the free tier appears to have been discontinued.
Does Trellus work with Google Sheets?
Yes. Trellus is a Chrome extension that dials from Salesforce, HubSpot, Outreach, Salesloft, Apollo, Clay and Google Sheets, which makes it one of the few tools that will call a spreadsheet without an import step. That is its main structural advantage: it adds dialing to the system you already use rather than asking you to migrate.
Does Trellus have a free plan?
No. Trellus has neither a free plan nor a publicly advertised free trial.
Can you bring your own Twilio account to Trellus?
No. Trellus provides the telephony itself, so minutes are billed inside the seat price rather than at wholesale. Sales dialers that do support bring-your-own-Twilio include DialSheet and Myphoner.
Who is Trellus best for?
Trellus is best for reps who want dialing inside a sequencer they already pay for, without changing systems. It is a poor fit for teams that want a system of record, because Trellus deliberately is not one.
Changelog (3 entries, last 2026-09-28)
  1. · Quarterly price check. Both published prices unchanged: Power $99.99 a month and Power + Parallel $149.99 a month, with Business still custom. The script flags this vendor every week because the dataset rounds those figures to $100 and $150, which the tier notes disclose. One correction, and the vendor's own page source settles it. This site said the prices were frequently promoted at $34.99 and frequently discounted. The 34.99 string is in the page markup, but Trellus left a developer comment beside its schema block reading that the visible prices are 99.99 and 149.99, that the page also contains a hidden 34.99 element which is a leftover or disabled promo that automated scrapers pick up, and that users do not see it. That matches the 2026-09-21 read, which found no promotional figure displayed either. The promotion claim is therefore removed from the tier note, the summary, the review body and the FAQ, and replaced with what can be shown: no promotional figure was displayed on either of the last two reads. This makes Trellus more expensive on this site, not less, and it is made on the vendor's own evidence. Recorded separately as a question rather than edited: the page says Multi line dialing with no line count, so the up to five lines claim in the tier note, the summary and the review is not supported by the pricing page. Filed on /corrections. Scores untouched. (Quarterly price check (Claude, run by the publisher); human review pending)
  2. · Total score is now computed from the five rubric sub-scores (was hand-typed 3.5; rubric gives 3.4). Sub-scores unchanged and awaiting named-human review. (Automated web-research pass (Claude, run by the publisher); human review pending)
  3. · Initial entry from a web-research pass against the vendor pricing page and dated third-party guides. (Automated web-research pass (Claude, run by the publisher); human review pending)

How to cite this page

Abhi Chawla. "Trellus review." MRR Nerds, 2026-09-28. https://www.mrrnerds.com/dialers/trellus. Accessed 2026-10-16.

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