Auto Dialer Pricing: Auto Dialer Software Cost, Predictive and Power Dialer

How much does an auto dialer cost?

For a published, self-serve plan you can buy with a credit card, budget $59 to $249 per seat per month. That is the honest band across every vendor above that prints a number. Below it you are usually looking at preview dialing, which is a rep reviewing a record and clicking to call, not automated dialing. Above it you are usually looking at contact center software priced per concurrent user rather than sales dialer software priced per rep.

The band is wide because vendors are not selling the same unit. Wavv $59 Preview Line and Readymode $199 Starter licence are not comparable products, and neither is comparable to predictive dialer software priced per concurrent seat. Before comparing two numbers, check that both are per named user, per month, on the same billing cycle. BatchDialer prints $95 per agent on annual billing and $119 on monthly, a 20 percent gap that a roundup quoting one figure will not tell you about.

The more useful question is what a specific team pays in a specific month, which is the arithmetic further down this page.

How much does a predictive dialer cost, and why is it priced differently?

Predictive dialing is the one mode that is usually priced as contact center software rather than sales software, and that is a pricing consequence of how it works. A predictive dialer places more calls than there are available agents and uses a pacing algorithm to guess when one will free up. The unit that matters to the vendor is therefore the concurrent agent, not the named user, which is exactly what the Five9 footnote says: prices are per concurrent user, usage-based pricing may apply, minimum 50 seats.

That is why predictive dialer pricing tends to start higher and to come with a seat floor. Readymode at $199 and $249 per licence is the cheapest genuinely predictive option here with a published number. Convoso publishes nothing. Five9 publishes $119 and $159 and then tells you the minimum is 50.

There is also a compliance cost sitting under the price list. The FTC safe harbor at 16 CFR 310.4(b)(4) caps abandoned calls at three percent of calls answered by a person, measured per campaign or over each successive 30-day period, and requires a 15 second or four ring wait, a recorded identification message, and record retention. Under 16 CFR 310.5(a) those per-call records are kept for five years and include the script used, the caller ID transmitted and the disposition of each call. Somebody has to build and run that, and it is not in the seat fee. We wrote up the mechanics in predictive dialer vs power dialer.

Power dialer pricing versus parallel dialer pricing

A power dialer places one call per available rep and advances automatically, so it structurally cannot abandon a call. A parallel dialer opens several lines for one rep and drops the losers when somebody answers. The price difference between them is usually an add-on line, not a different product.

CloudTalk is the clearest illustration: the Power Dialer is 15 EUR per user per month on top of the plan and included on Expert, while the Parallel Dialer is 39 EUR per user per month. Apollo bundles both into a single $119 per team per month Advanced Dialer. Aircall puts its Power Dialer in a Custom tier that states 25 licences. Kixie markets PowerDial up to 4 lines on Professional, which is parallel dialing sold under the power dialer label, so read the line count and not the product name.

On a per seat basis power dialer pricing and parallel dialer pricing are close. The real cost difference shows up in phone numbers. Parallel dialing burns caller ID reputation faster because it places several times as many calls, which is why Readymode gates DID reputation monitoring behind iQ, PhoneBurner sells ARMOR on every tier, and Kixie sells ConnectionBoost. We covered the fallout in how to avoid spam likely on outbound calls.

When the advertised price is not the dialer

Mojo Dialer is the sharpest example in this entire table, and it is worth understanding because the pattern repeats. Mojo advertises Agent Access at $10 per user per month. That $10 is required for every user and it buys CRM and platform access. It does not buy dialing. The Single Line Dialer is a separate $89 per month licence and the Triple Line Dialer is $139. Mojo is transparent about this: its own worked examples on the same page total $198, $273 and $347 a month. But the $10 is the number that travels.

Apollo does the same thing more subtly. The seat is $49, $79 or $119, and the Advanced Dialer that holds power dialing, parallel dialing, international dialing and local presence is a $119 per team per month line on top. For a three-seat team on Professional that is $237 of seats plus $119 of dialer, so the dialer is a third of the bill.

The general rule when reading any of these pages: find the row in the plan comparison grid that names the dialing mode you need, then find which column it first appears in. That column, not the entry tier, is your price. The same trick applies to the CRM connector, which we mapped across sixteen platforms on cold calling software.

What a five-seat outbound team actually pays per month

Here is our own arithmetic, not a vendor figure, for five reps on the cheapest plan that includes automated dialing, billed annually where annual billing is offered. Wavv Single Line at $99 with the 5 percent discount for 5 to 9 seats is about $470 a month. BatchDialer Starter at $95 is $475. PhoneBurner at $140 is $700. Readymode iQ at $249, which is the tier you land on at five licences, is $1,245. Mojo with Agent Access and a Single Line Dialer each is $495 before any data subscription. CloudTalk Essential at 25 EUR plus the 15 EUR Power Dialer is about 200 EUR.

Now add what the seat fee excludes. Numbers, recording, minutes overage, reputation monitoring, lead data. On Readymode iQ the reputation tooling is included, which is part of why it costs what it does. On PhoneBurner, ARMOR is extra on every tier. On BatchDialer, going past 10 numbers per agent is $2 each and a 5,000 lead package is another $79 flat.

Then add the part nobody prices: five reps. Using the Bridge Group 2025 Sales Development Report, median SDR on-target earnings are $80,000, and BLS Employer Costs for Employee Compensation puts benefits at roughly 43 percent on top of wages, so about $114,000 loaded each. That is roughly $47,500 a month of people to run about $500 a month of software. Software pricing is the small number in this equation, which is the argument for looking at outbound call center pricing as a whole rather than at the dialer line alone.

Is auto dialer pricing per seat or per minute, and which is cheaper?

Almost every dialer in this table is priced per seat per month, with minutes either bundled as unlimited under a fair use policy or billed as overage. Wavv, PhoneBurner and Mojo all advertise unlimited minutes on the dialing licence. Readymode bills inbound at $0.02 a minute and gives outbound free under fair use. JustCall bills overage at $0.025.

Per minute pricing shows up in a different category: AI voice platforms. Those charge for the conversation rather than the seat, typically between $0.07 and $0.31 a minute depending on the model stack, plus a platform fee on some tiers. That model is cheaper when call volume is low and no longer cheaper somewhere around the point where a rep would be dialing full time.

Our own pricing is a third model, and we mention it because it changes the comparison rather than because it is always cheaper. You pay for connected minutes inside a monthly plan, from $0.12 per connected minute beyond the bundle, and there is no seat licence at all because there is no rep to license. If you want the plans side by side with the numbers above, they are on our pricing page, and we broke down the cost model in what AI cold calling costs.

What to ask before you sign

Most of the money in a dialer contract is decided by six questions, and none of them are answered by the number on the pricing page. Ask them in writing during the demo, not after.

• What is the smallest number of licences you will sell, and does that change at renewal?
• Is the price per named user or per concurrent user, and how do you count a part-time dialer?
• Which exact plan tier or add-on contains the dialing mode I just watched in the demo?
• What is billed on top of the seat: minutes, numbers, recording storage, transcription, lead data?
• Is number reputation monitoring and spam flag remediation included, or is it an add-on?
• Is there an onboarding, implementation or professional services fee, and is it one-time or annual?

Where to go next

If you are still deciding which kind of dialer you need before you price it, start with auto dialer software for the category overview, then the best dialer for cold calling for a ranked shortlist. If your shortlist is already down to two names, the SDR dialer comparison puts the head to head pairs side by side.

If you are buying for a small sales team rather than a call center, outbound calling software carries the five-seat monthly totals per vendor. And if the reason you are pricing dialers is that you cannot hire fast enough, the honest alternative to buying more seats is not buying a cheaper seat: see the AI dialer and automated cold calling software.