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Outbound Calling Software: Outbound Calling System Pricing at Five Seats
Roundups in this category rank platforms without ever saying which of them will actually sell to a five-person sales team.
On August 14, 2026 we opened fifteen vendor pricing pages and worked out the five-seat monthly bill on each. Two of them will not take the order.
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Outbound calling software is the phone system and dialer a sales team uses to work a list it built, rather than to answer a queue somebody else joined. On August 14, 2026 we opened the public pricing pages of fifteen platforms and priced a five-seat US sales team on each. Five9 will not sell one: its own pricing footnote states a minimum of 50 seats. Aircall publishes a three-licence entry point but keeps its power dialer in a Custom tier carrying a 25-licence minimum. Among the platforms that will take a five-seat order, published monthly totals run from roughly 245 euros on CloudTalk Expert and $495 on Close Growth up to $1,245 on Readymode iQ. Kixie, Convoso, Nooks and Orum publish no price at all, so a five-seat budget cannot be built from their websites.
Why it works
What your team gets with outbound calling software
No seat floor to clear
The single most common reason a shortlisted platform gets crossed off is that it will not sell you five seats. Five9 publishes a 50-seat minimum, Talkdesk packages its small-business offer as a 25-licence bundle, and the Aircall tier holding the power dialer needs 25 licences. Our plans start at one AI seat and scale by usage, so there is no floor to clear before you can start.
The dialer is not a separate invoice
On four of the platforms we priced, the dialer you are actually buying the product for sits outside the seat: Apollo bills its Advanced Dialer at $119 per team per month, CloudTalk charges 39 euros a user for parallel dialing, and JustCall keeps its multi-line Sales Dialer in a quote-only column. Our published price includes the calling; there is nothing to unlock afterwards.
Nobody is waiting on a line
Every conventional outbound calling system exists to keep a seated rep fed with live answers, which is where pacing ratios, dropped lines and the FTC three percent abandoned-call cap come from. The AI agent takes every call it places, so there is no ratio to tune and no abandoned call created by a bad guess about talk time.
What it handles
Dialed, disclosed and booked on autopilot
The agent works your lead list, discloses it is an AI on every call, scrubs against DNC in real time, qualifies the prospect, handles objections, and books the meeting straight into your calendar and CRM.
- Prices a five-seat US sales team without a licence minimum, an onboarding fee or a dialer add-on
- Places the call, discloses that it is AI, qualifies against your criteria and books straight into the calendar
- Scrubs against your suppression and Do Not Call lists before dialing, and honors a revocation request on the call
- Calls inside the 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. local window at the called party location, automatically
- Writes every call, disposition and recording back to the CRM, with the five-year record set the FTC requires
- Runs the same script at 40 calls or 4,000 without a hiring cycle, a ramp period or turnover
The landscape
What fifteen outbound calling platforms charge a five-person US sales team
Every row was checked by rendering the vendor own public pricing page on August 14, 2026, except the three noted as read on August 11. The column that decides most shortlists is the second one: the smallest team the vendor will sell to. Telephony minutes, phone numbers and caller ID registration are billed on top of every row, ours included.
| Platform | Smallest team it will sell to | Five seats per month, as published | Is the dialer in that price? |
|---|---|---|---|
| ColdCalls.ai | One seat. No licence floor and no minimum contract length | Starter $499/mo covers one AI SDR seat and about 1,500 connected minutes; Growth $1,490/mo covers three seats and about 6,000 minutes; Scale $3,900/mo covers ten seats | Yes. There is no dialer add-on, because the AI agent places and holds the call itself. Connected minutes beyond the bundle are $0.12/min |
| Five9 | 50 seats. Its pricing page states verbatim that prices are per concurrent user with a minimum of 50 seats | Not available at five seats. Published seat prices are $119 Digital and $159 Core, with Plus, Pro and Enterprise quote-only | Not reachable. A five-person team cannot buy this platform on its published terms |
| Talkdesk | 25 licences for the US and Canada Express bundle aimed at firms under 50 employees | About $425 on the $85 per user tier if bought outside the Express bundle. Tiers run $85, $105, $165 and $225 per user per month (read August 11, 2026) | Yes on the standard tiers, but the packaged small-business offer is the 25-licence one |
| Readymode | One licence. Starter is explicitly the 1 to 4 licence tier and iQ begins at 5 licences | $1,245 for five iQ licences at $249 USD per licence per month. Starter is $199 USD per licence but caps at four | Yes, the dialer is the product. iQ includes 75 DIDs per licence, DID reputation monitoring, managed spam remediation and Autopilot number cycling; Starter includes none of those |
| PhoneBurner | No minimum published | $700 for five Standard seats at $140 per user per month billed annually, or $825 billed monthly. Tiers are $140, $165 and $183 annually | Yes, the power dialer is the product. ARMOR, its spam flag monitoring and remediation service, is a paid add-on on every tier |
| CloudTalk | One licence on the lower plans, three on Expert | About 245 euros for five Expert licences at 49 euros each billed annually, or 145 euros for five Essential licences at 29 euros | Partly. Power dialing is included on Expert but is a 15 euro add-on below it, and parallel dialing is 39 euros per user on top. CloudTalk states it charges no setup or onboarding fee |
| Aircall | Three licences on the published tiers, 25 licences on the Custom tier | About 250 euros for five Professional licences at 50 euros each billed annually, or 150 euros for five Essentials licences at 30 euros | No. The power dialer sits in the Custom tier, which carries the 25-licence minimum, so a five-seat team cannot reach it. AI Assist is 9 euros and AI Pro 49 euros per licence on top |
| JustCall | Two licences on the published plans, ten on the quote-only Business plan, fifteen before personalized onboarding | About 250 euros for five Pro licences at 50 euros each billed annually. Team is 30 euros and Pro Plus 90 euros per user | No. The multi-line Sales Dialer sits in the quote-only column, so the published price buys the phone system rather than the dialer |
| Apollo | One seat on Basic and Professional, three seats on Organization | $514 for five Professional seats at $79 each billed annually, plus the $119 dialer add-on. Five Organization seats would be $714 with the add-on | No. Power dialing, parallel dialing, international dialing and local presence all sit in an Advanced Dialer add-on billed at $119 per team per month |
| Close | No minimum published | $495 for five Growth seats at $99 each billed annually, or $545 monthly. Tiers are $9, $35, $99 and $139 per user annually | Yes at Growth, which is where the power dialer sits, but call minutes are billed on usage on top of the seat |
| RingCentral | One seat, with a published 1 to 5 seat price band and a higher band at 6 to 100 | From about $325 for five Contact Center seats at the published from-price of $65 per user. RingEX is $20, $25 and $35 per user at 1 to 5 seats (read August 11, 2026) | Depends on the tier. AI Receptionist from $39, conversational intelligence from $60 and the call queues booster at $35 are separately priced |
| Kixie | Not published | No price published anywhere on the site, despite a full feature comparison table | Cannot be determined. PowerDial up to 4 lines sits on Professional, and Do Not Call scrubbing, ConnectionBoost and AI human detection are sold as add-ons |
| Convoso | Not published | No price published. States there are no hidden fees, while noting that carrier fees and optional add-ons such as omnichannel are billed separately | Cannot be determined without a quote |
| Orum | Three seats on Ascend | No price published. Publishes a cheaper Ascend Limited seat without naming a figure | Cannot be determined. Publishes a line ceiling of five on Launch and ten on Ascend |
| Nooks | Not published | No price published on its pricing page | Cannot be determined without a quote |
ColdCalls.ai is our own product and is marked as such. Every other row records only what the vendor publishes publicly on the date shown. No published price means the vendor does not publish one, not that it is high or low. Five-seat totals are our own arithmetic applied to each vendor published per-seat figure at its stated annual rate, and are shown to make the rows comparable; they are not quotes and they exclude telephony minutes, phone numbers, caller ID registration and taxes. Currencies are reproduced exactly as each page rendered them to us in the United States, which is why some rows are in euros. Ringover and CallHippo are absent because their pricing pages returned almost no content to us in a headless browser, which we record as unverified rather than guessed.
What outbound calling software is, and where it stops being a call center platform
Outbound calling software is the stack a sales team uses to work a list it assembled: a phone system, a dialer that advances through records, caller ID and number management, call recording, and a write-back into the CRM. The defining feature is direction. Nobody chose to call you, which is why every regulatory obligation that matters here attaches to the outbound side and not the inbound one.
That is also the line where this category separates from the contact center platforms. A contact center product is built around queues, routing, workforce management and service levels for agents who answer. It can dial out, but you are buying a lot of machinery you will never staff. We compare that category and its per-seat prices separately on outbound call center software, and the cost side of it on outbound call center pricing. If you are still deciding which of the two shapes your team needs, the practical differences are set out in inbound vs outbound call center software.
The five-seat test above is the fastest way to tell them apart in practice. Products designed for sales teams take a five-seat order without a conversation. Products designed for contact centers either refuse it, like Five9 at 50 seats, or package it as a bundle sized for somebody bigger, like the Talkdesk 25-licence Express offer.
The seat floor is the spec that actually disqualifies a platform
Every comparison article in this category prints the per-seat price. Almost none print the minimum number of seats, and that is the number that decides whether you can buy at all.
Here is the full set as published on the vendor pages on August 14, 2026, ordered by how much it constrains a small team. Five9 requires 50 concurrent seats, stated in a footnote directly beneath its per-seat prices. Talkdesk sells its US and Canada Express package as 25 licences, aimed at firms under 50 employees, which is a strange definition of small. Aircall publishes a three-licence entry but places the power dialer in a Custom tier requiring 25 licences, so the feature most outbound teams are shopping for is the one behind the floor. JustCall steps from two licences to ten on the quote-only Business plan and fifteen before you get personalized onboarding. Readymode splits at four, with Starter capped at 1 to 4 licences and iQ beginning at 5. CloudTalk needs three on Expert, Apollo three on Organization, and Orum three on Ascend. PhoneBurner, Close and RingCentral publish no minimum at all.
The practical consequence is that a per-seat price is only meaningful once you know the seat count it is available at. A $119 seat you cannot buy fewer than fifty of is a $5,950 monthly commitment, not a $119 one.
The dialer is often not in the seat you just priced
The second thing that moves a five-seat quote is that the dialing mode is frequently sold separately from the phone system. Apollo bills its Advanced Dialer at $119 per team per month, and that add-on is where power dialing, parallel dialing, international dialing and local presence all live. CloudTalk includes power dialing on Expert but charges 15 euros a user below it, and prices parallel dialing at 39 euros a user on top of any tier. JustCall keeps its multi-line Sales Dialer in a quote-only column. Kixie publishes no price at all, and puts Do Not Call scrubbing, ConnectionBoost and AI human detection into add-ons.
Which mode you need is worth settling before you price anything, because the modes carry different risk as well as different cost. A power dialer places one call per available rep and structurally cannot abandon a call; the per-user products are compared on power dialer software. A parallel dialer opens several lines for one rep and drops the losers, with published ceilings from four to ten lines, priced on parallel dialer software. A predictive dialer paces ahead of rep availability, which is the only mode that can strand a person who answered, and it is covered with the full FTC safe harbor on predictive dialer software. The generic category and all four modes are laid out on auto dialer software.
Be careful with vendor labels while you read the pricing pages. Several platforms market multi-line dialing as a power dialer, which is a materially different thing from one call per rep, and the difference is the one your compliance lead will care about.
Number reputation has become a line item, not a setting
A change worth noticing in this round of pricing pages is how much of it is now about keeping your numbers answerable. Readymode iQ bundles 75 DIDs per licence, DID reputation monitoring, managed remediation of spam flags and an Autopilot feature that automatically cycles clean numbers, and none of those appear on its Starter tier. PhoneBurner sells ARMOR, its number monitoring and spam flag remediation service, as a paid add-on on all three tiers. Kixie sells ConnectionBoost the same way.
That is the market pricing a real problem. Heavy outbound from a small pool of numbers is the fastest route to having those numbers labeled, and once labeled they are hard to rehabilitate. The tactics that help, and the ones that quietly hurt, are covered in how to avoid spam likely on outbound calls.
One tactic in particular deserves a careful read before you switch it on, because it is sold as a feature by almost every vendor in the table. Local presence dialing shows the person a number in their own area code. It is lawful, but the FCC and FTC rules attach a specific condition to the number you substitute, and a rotating pool of local numbers that rings nowhere does not meet it. We set out the verbatim rule in is local presence dialing legal.
What US law adds to outbound that inbound never touches
Buying outbound calling software means taking on a compliance surface that an inbound product simply does not have, and it is worth budgeting for the work rather than discovering it later.
Calls to residential numbers are confined to 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. local time at the called party location, under 16 CFR 310.4(c). Numbers have to be scrubbed against the National Do Not Call Registry and your own internal suppression list; the mechanics are in Do Not Call list rules for businesses. Under 16 CFR 310.5(a) a five-year record has to be retained for each call, including the script used, the caller ID transmitted with proof of authorization, and the disposition. If your dialer paces ahead of your reps, abandoned calls have to stay at or under three percent of calls answered by a person, measured per campaign over each successive 30-day period, and any abandoned call must play a recorded identification within two seconds of the greeting; that is 16 CFR 310.4(b), and it is unpacked in are power dialers illegal.
Since April 11, 2025, a called party may revoke consent by any reasonable method and the request has to be honored within a reasonable time not exceeding ten business days, under 47 CFR 64.1200(a)(10). Callers may not designate an exclusive means of revocation. Where the calls are placed by an AI voice, the FCC confirmed in February 2024 that they fall under the TCPA, and the disclosure and consent requirements are set out on TCPA compliant AI calling. None of this is a reason not to run outbound. It is a reason to buy a system that does the scrubbing, the windowing and the record keeping for you rather than one that leaves it to a spreadsheet.
Why ColdCalls.ai
One AI SDR that runs the whole outbound job
Not a dialer, not a script tool, and not an offshore call center. Dial, disclose, qualify, handle objections and book meetings in one place, with compliance built in.
Calls every lead
The AI voice agent works your whole list, discloses it is an AI on every call, qualifies the prospect and handles objections, so no good lead goes uncalled.
Stays compliant
Real-time DNC scrubbing, TCPA and consent-aware calling, and configurable calling hours mean every call goes out inside the rules, automatically.
Books the meeting
Qualified prospects get booked straight into your calendar and synced to your CRM, so your reps walk into meetings instead of dialing all day.
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