Every published price in this category is half a price. The seat fee is one half; the telephony is the other, and whether you see it depends entirely on the vendor's business model.
The three bands
| Band | Range per user per month | Examples |
|---|---|---|
| Phone system with a dialer | $30 to $60 | JustCall $49, Aircall Professional $50, CloudTalk Expert €49 |
| Dedicated power dialer | $90 to $215 | Kixie ~$95, Dialpad Advanced $95, Mojo $139+, PhoneBurner $140 to $183, Readymode $199 to $249 |
| AI parallel dialer | $250 to $420 | Orum ~$250 est., Salesfinity $299, Nooks $333 to $417 est. |
Below all three sits pack pricing: $29 a month for three seats works out at $9.67 a user, which is an eighth of the cheapest mainstream band.
The telephony half
Four models exist and they are not equally honest.
Bundled unlimited. PhoneBurner, Kixie, Mojo, Salesfinity and Readymode include minutes in the seat price. Simple, and you pay a margin you cannot see.
Metered on top. Close bills about $0.02 a minute plus $1 a month per number, on top of a $99 seat. Apollo bills two credits a minute against the same credit pool that buys contact data.
Capped by tier. CloudTalk allows 250, 500 or 1,000 outbound minutes depending on tier, with unlimited only on Expert. HubSpot pools 500, 3,000 or 12,000 minutes per account per month.
Bring your own carrier. DialSheet and Myphoner connect to your own Twilio account; CloudTalk, RingCentral, Five9 and Talkdesk support SIP carriers. You pay Twilio's published rates: $0.0140 a minute US outbound, $0.0085 inbound, $1.15 a month for a local number and $2.15 for toll-free.
What a rep's minutes actually cost
The arithmetic that decides which model wins. One rep, 150 dials a working day, 5 percent connect rate, 22 percent voicemail rate, 2.5 minutes average talk time, 21 working days.
| Line item | Monthly |
|---|---|
| Dials | 3,150 |
| Voicemails, billed 1 minute each | ~693 minutes |
| Connects, talk time rounded up per call | ~473 minutes |
| Total billable minutes | ~1,166 |
| At $0.014 a minute | ~$16 |
| One local number | $1.15 |
| Telephony per rep | ~$17 |
Two details most calculators skip. Carriers bill per call rounded up to the whole minute, so a 40-second call bills a minute. And a voicemail that picks up bills a full minute even if you hang up in ten seconds, while an unanswered ring costs nothing. Ignoring those is why other people's estimates run low.
The break-even for unlimited bundling: a $140 seat pays for itself against wholesale telephony at roughly 9,000 talk minutes a month. Our rep above uses 1,166. Very few B2B reps get near the break-even.
Real monthly bills at three team sizes
One person, 120 dials a day
| Tool | Software | Telephony | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| DialSheet Free | $0 | ~$14 | ~$14 |
| Myphoner Basic | $27 | ~$14 | ~$41 |
| JustCall Pro | $49 | included | ~$49 |
| PhoneBurner Standard | $140 | included | ~$140 |
| Salesfinity Gold | $299 | included | ~$299 |
Three people, 150 dials a day each
| Tool | Software | Telephony | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| DialSheet Pro | $29 | ~$50 | ~$79 |
| Myphoner Basic | $81 | ~$50 | ~$131 |
| JustCall Pro | $147 | included | ~$147 |
| Close Growth | $297 | ~$60 metered | ~$357 |
| PhoneBurner Standard | $420 | included | ~$420 |
Ten people, 150 dials a day each
| Tool | Software | Telephony | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| DialSheet Pro (4 packs) | $116 | ~$166 | ~$282 |
| JustCall Pro | $490 | included | ~$490 |
| Kixie multi-line | $950 | included | $950+ add-ons |
| PhoneBurner Standard | $1,400 | included | ~$1,400 |
| Orum (est., 9-seat min) | ~$2,500 | included | ~$2,500 |
The costs that are not on the pricing page
Seat minimums. Orum requires nine seats. Nooks about five. VanillaSoft five. Aircall, CloudTalk Expert, Ringover and Toky Business three. JustCall two. Convoso twenty. Five9 fifty. A four-person team buying Orum pays for nine.
Add-ons. Kixie's quoted tier is not the bill. AI human voice detection around $30, DNC compliance around $20, ConnectionBoost around $50 plus $1 a number, which is why realistic all-in spend is reported at $109 to $290.
Line-item stacking. Mojo's $139 headline becomes about $214 once you add the required $10 Agent Access, $25 call recording, $10 caller ID and one data subscription.
Annual contracts with no scale-down. Orum, Nooks, Readymode and Kixie under ten seats all require annual commitment. If your team shrinks, the bill does not.
Implementation fees. Common on contact centre products including RingCX and Talkdesk. Ask.
Number costs at scale. Parallel dialing needs a pool. At $1.15 a number that is trivial on your own Twilio and $10 to $15 a number on some bundled platforms, which for a team of ten rotating six numbers each is $600 to $900 a month.
The question that settles it
How many talk minutes does one of your reps actually use in a month?
Under 3,000, which covers most B2B reps, bring-your-own-carrier or a cheap bundled tier wins decisively and the difference is thousands of dollars a year.
Over 9,000, which covers consumer-facing desks with long conversations, bundled unlimited is genuinely cheaper and PhoneBurner's price stops looking absurd.
Nobody can answer that question for you, and no vendor will ask it.
Frequently asked questions
- How much does a power dialer cost per user?
- Between $0 and $420 per user per month depending on the band. Phone systems with a dialer attached, including JustCall at $49 and Aircall Professional at $50, run $30 to $60. Dedicated power dialers including Kixie, PhoneBurner and Mojo run $90 to $215. AI parallel dialers including Orum, Nooks and Salesfinity run $250 to $420. Pack-priced tools sit below all three, at about $9.67 per user on a $29 three-seat pack.
- What is the cheapest power dialer?
- DialSheet is the cheapest, at $0 for one user on a permanent free plan and $29 a month for a three-seat pack, with calls billed by your own Twilio account at about $0.014 a minute. Myphoner at $27 a seat is the cheapest per-seat option that also supports bring-your-own-Twilio. Among tools that bundle telephony, JustCall Pro at $49 a seat is the cheapest with a real power dialer and unlimited outbound minutes.
- How much does the telephony cost on top of a dialer?
- On your own Twilio account, about $0.014 a minute for US outbound plus $1.15 a month per local number, which is roughly $16 a month for a rep dialing 150 numbers a working day. Tools that bundle minutes include that cost in the seat price at a markup you cannot see. Tools that meter it, like Close at about $0.02 a minute and Apollo at two credits a minute, charge above wholesale.
- Is unlimited calling worth paying for?
- Above roughly 9,000 talk minutes per rep per month, which is about 150 hours, a bundled unlimited plan costs less than paying wholesale per minute. Very few B2B reps reach that; most sit at 1,500 to 3,000 billable minutes a month, where wholesale telephony is decisively cheaper. Consumer-facing desks with long conversations are the case where unlimited genuinely pays.
- What hidden costs do dialer vendors not advertise?
- Seat minimums, which force you to buy nine seats at Orum or five at Nooks regardless of team size; add-ons, which commonly double the real bill at Kixie from a quoted $95 to $109 to $290; per-line-item pricing, as at Mojo where the $139 headline becomes about $214 with recording, caller ID and data; annual contracts with no scale-down; and metered minutes billed on top of a seat price, as at Close.