Alternatives · October 2026

Close CRM alternatives in 2026, priced for a team that calls

By Abhi Chawla, founder · Last updated October 3, 2026

The lists ranking for Close alternatives compare CRMs: pipelines, workflows, enrichment. Most small teams that search the phrase are paying $99 a seat for one thing, the power dialer, plus a separate invoice for every minute. This page prices both kinds of replacement, the CRMs the round-ups name and the dialers built for the job, from each vendor’s own pricing page read today.

TL;DR — our pick, and we build it

If your team bought Close to call lists, DialSheet is the best Close alternative: the same power dialer and a built-in CRM for $29 a seat instead of $99, free for one person. Stay on Close if you run your pipeline, email and workflows in it.

$168Three DialSheet reps a month at 100 dials a day, software and their own Twilio together, against $369 on Close Growth with its calling usage.
$99Close’s cheapest seat with a power dialer. Essentials at $35 can call, but dials one number at a time.
5 linesDialSheet’s parallel dialer, included in the same seat. Close has none; its predictive dialer needs Scale at $139.
$0DialSheet for one person up to 500 calls a month. Close has a 14-day trial and no free plan.

Pick something else if your team runs its deals, email sequences and automations in Close and calling is a side job (stay on Close), you need predictive pacing (Close Scale), or you want minutes bundled into the seat with inbound routing (JustCall or Aircall).

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What did you buy Close for?

Close sells a CRM with calling inside it. The calling comes in three steps: Essentials ($35) can place and take calls, Growth ($99) adds the power dialer and workflows, Scale ($139) adds the predictive dialer and live coaching, all per user on annual billing, with calls metered at about $0.02 a minute on a separate usage invoice. The full breakdown is on our Close pricing page.

So the question decides the answer. If the Growth seat is paying for the dialer, a dialer with a CRM attached replaces it for less. If it is paying for workflows and the pipeline, a cheaper CRM replaces it and you still need something to dial with. A Reddit thread on r/CRM about leaving Close says it plainly: power-dialing in HubSpot “isn’t as native or aggressive as Close’s”, and the suggested fix was to add Kixie or 3CX beside it.

Close alternatives compared: can it call a list, and what does it cost?

Tool	Kind	Cheapest plan that calls	Power dialer?	3 reps a month, 100 dials/day	Main caveat
DialSheet	Dialer + CRM	$0 / $29 a seat	Yes, free plan up; parallel to 5 lines on Pro	$168	Calls on your own Twilio; no predictive, no inbound IVR
Close	CRM with calling	$35 Essentials	Growth, $99	$369	Calls metered at ~$0.02/min on top
HubSpot	CRM	Free, ~$15–20 Starter	No; calling from a minute pool	—	500 minutes for the whole account on Starter, no top-up
Pipedrive	CRM	CA$19+	No calling on the plan cards	—	20% off CloudTalk on Ultimate
Attio	CRM	$0 / $35 / $79	No dialer on the page	—	Call Intelligence on Pro
folk	CRM	$24 / $48	No calling on the page	—	Email sequences on Premium
Zoho CRM	CRM	Free (3 users)	Zoho Voice from US$34, dialer an add-on	—	Calling is a second subscription
JustCall	Phone + dialer	$49 Pro	Yes, on Pro	$147	2-seat minimum; fair-use minutes
Aircall	Phone + dialer	$50 Professional	Yes, on Professional	$150	3-seat minimum
PhoneBurner	Dialer	$165 Professional	Yes, single line	$495	Standard at $140 has no browser softphone
Kixie	Dialer	Quote	Up to 4 lines	—	no price is published at all, the power-dialer tiers are the expensive ones, and AI human detection on the multi-line plan is a further premium add-on

Per user a month on annual billing. Close, Attio, folk and Pipedrive (shown in Canadian dollars to our browser) read October 3, 2026; HubSpot and Zoho from our September 2026 reads; JustCall, Aircall, PhoneBurner and Kixie from our competitor file (September 22 to October 1, 2026). The three-rep column adds calling: DialSheet's from perRepTelephony() (25% voicemail, 10% connects at three minutes, 21 days, both Twilio legs, one number a rep); Close's the same billed minutes at its ~$0.02 plus a $1 number; JustCall and Aircall include US minutes. Salesforce, Copper, OnePageCRM and the newer tools on the round-ups were not priced.

The pipeline inside DialSheet: a lead goes from first dial to closed deal without a separate CRM. Watch the video or open it on YouTube.

If you used Close for the dialer

Three reps on Close Growth dialing 100 a day cost about $369 a month: $297 of seats and about $72 of calling. The same three on DialSheet pay $87 of software and about $81 of Twilio, $168 in all, with recordings, transcripts and AI call summaries included in Pro. The minutes cost about the same on both sides; the gap is the $99 seat against $29, about $2,412 a year for three people.

What carries over: power dialing with one-click outcomes, notes, tasks, a pipeline, call recordings and transcripts, AI summaries and script scoring, a caller ID pinned to each rep, and a team dashboard. Calls run on your own Twilio account, so the numbers and recordings stay yours. One DialSheet rep at 100 dials a day is $56 a month all-in.

If you used Close for the pipeline: keep a CRM, add a dialer

HubSpot, Pipedrive and Attio all cost less than a Close Growth seat at their entry tiers, and all three leave calling to somebody else. HubSpot’s Starter pool is 500 minutes for the whole account, which one rep at 100 dials a day uses up in about a week (see HubSpot calling minutes). Pipedrive points you to CloudTalk; the two CRMs are priced head to head, with the calling included, on Close vs Pipedrive. Attio and folk do not call at all.

DialSheet sits beside any of them. On Pro every finished call syncs to HubSpot as an activity with the outcome, notes and the AI summary, and a signed call.completed webhook sends the same to any other CRM through Zapier or Make.

Every DialSheet call logged in HubSpot with its outcome, notes and AI summary, on Pro. Watch the video or open it on YouTube.

Is Close.io a CRM?

Yes. Close, which used the close.io domain until it moved to close.com, is a sales CRM built for inside sales teams, with calling, SMS, email, workflows and reporting in one product and now an AI sales agent called Chloe. That is the reason it costs more than a dialer: the seat buys the whole sales system. DialSheet is narrower, a dialer with the CRM a calling team needs, which is why it costs $29 a seat.

What people complain about with Close

Two invoices. The seat is one bill and calling, SMS and numbers are another, invoiced separately from a usage balance.
The dialer is a tier, not an add-on. A team that only wants power dialing pays for Growth’s workflows and bulk email too.
Outbound calls cannot use your own carrier. Close’s help centre says its Bring Your Own Carrier option does not affect outgoing calls; they all go over Close’s network.
Summaries cost extra. Call Assistant is $50 a month per billing account plus $0.02 a transcribed minute (read September 24, 2026).

Close’s own pricing page shows 4.7 stars on G2 from 2,000-plus reviews, its figure as displayed on October 3, 2026; buyers praise the calling and the support. We have not counted those reviews ourselves.

If you are buying for a team

The team case is arithmetic before it is anything else: Close Growth charges the same rate for your tenth rep as your first, so 10 seats is $990 a month, while DialSheet is $29 for the first seat and $29 for each one after it, $290 in all, a difference of $700 a month that widens every time you hire. What that buys is a product built for teams: assign leads to reps, or let the team work a shared pool, a caller ID per rep, pinned to that rep, shared call scripts, so a new hire opens the same way as the floor, a team dashboard: assigned, connected, meetings booked, no-answers and talk time per rep, over any date range.

The team features that shipped: assign leads to reps, or let the team work a shared pool; a caller ID per rep, pinned to that rep; shared call scripts, so a new hire opens the same way as the floor; a team dashboard: assigned, connected, meetings booked, no-answers and talk time per rep, over any date range. Our largest published team is a nine-rep UK accountancy floor that went live in a day.

DialSheet pricing: $29 for the first seat, $29 for each teammate, free to start, no seat minimum. Watch the video or open it on YouTube.

Who runs on it

Production numbers on our customer pages, a customer's story on their own site, and a third-party listing.

Close or an alternative: which should you actually buy?

Our opinion, and we are not neutral

We build DialSheet, so weigh this accordingly. Having priced every dialer in this category line by line: for a team whose day is dialing a list, DialSheet does the same core job as Close, with power dialing, call recordings and transcripts, AI call summaries, a built-in CRM and parallel dialing included in Pro, and it costs about $168 a month for three reps at 100 dials a day, against $369 on Close Growth. It is also moving faster (we shipped 251 changes across 15 releases in the 30 days to September 8, 2026) because the people using it are the ones asking for the changes. Where it loses to Close is narrow and specific, and it is listed below rather than buried. The teams running on it are published with their numbers at dialsheet.io/customers: a 12-seat UK accountancy practice that put a nine-rep calling floor live in a day, a two-person US acquisition team sustaining about 8,200 dials a month, a solo funding desk at 1,335 calls last month, and an insurance agency at about 1,000 calls a month, retained month over month.

DialSheet

A team that bought Close to dial lists. The power dialer, a pipeline, recordings and AI summaries for $29 a seat, $168 a month all-in for three reps.

DialSheet beside your CRM

A team on HubSpot or Pipedrive that needs to call. Calls sync to HubSpot on Pro, or post to any CRM by webhook, without a $99 seat or a minute pool.

Close

A team whose pipeline, email and workflows all live in Close. Replacing the system the whole team works in costs more than the seat saves.

Close Scale

A floor that needs predictive pacing inside the CRM. Predictive dialing, unlimited recording retention and live coaching at $139 a user annual. DialSheet does not do predictive.

JustCall or Aircall

Reps who want minutes bundled and inbound routing. US minutes in the seat and a real phone system, from $49 (two-seat minimum) or $50 (three).

Close alternatives: common questions

What is the best alternative to Close CRM?

It depends on what you use Close for. If your team bought Close for the power dialer, DialSheet is the cheaper replacement: a power and parallel dialer with a built-in CRM, free for one person, with a list of up to 500 leads and 500 calls a month, then $29/month per seat, about $168 a month all-in for three reps at 100 dials a day against about $369 on Close Growth with its calling usage. If you use Close mainly for pipeline, email and workflows, HubSpot, Pipedrive and Attio are the alternatives the round-ups name, and none of them includes a power dialer on its plan cards.

Is Close.io a CRM?

Yes. Close (formerly Close.io, now close.com) is a sales CRM with calling, SMS, email and workflows built in. Its plans, read on October 3, 2026, are Solo $9, Essentials $35, Growth $99 and Scale $139 a user a month on annual billing; calling starts on Essentials, the power dialer on Growth and the predictive dialer on Scale, and calls are billed as usage at about $0.02 a minute.

Is there a free alternative to Close?

For calling, yes: DialSheet is free for one person, with a list of up to 500 leads and 500 calls a month, with the power dialer on the free plan and calls billed by your own Twilio at ~$0.014/min. For a CRM without a dialer, Attio has a free plan for up to three seats and HubSpot's free tools include 15 calling minutes a user a month. Close itself has a 14-day trial and no free plan.

Which Close alternative has a power dialer?

Among the CRMs the round-ups name, none lists a power dialer on its pricing page: Pipedrive, Attio and folk show no calling line on their plan cards, HubSpot meters calling from a minute pool (500 minutes for the whole account on Starter), and Zoho sells calling as Zoho Voice from US$34 a user with the power dialer as an add-on. Tools built around the dialer are the closer match: DialSheet (power and parallel dialing on Pro at $29 a seat), JustCall (dialer on Pro, $49 a seat with a two-seat minimum), Aircall (Professional, $50 with a three-seat minimum), PhoneBurner and Kixie.

What do Close alternatives cost for a team of three?

At 100 dials a rep a day, read October 2026: Close Growth about $369 a month including its ~$0.02 calling usage; DialSheet about $168 all-in on single-line Power Dial or $216 on the parallel dialer, Twilio included; JustCall Pro about $147 and Aircall Professional $150 with US minutes inside their fair-use terms; PhoneBurner Professional $495. Over a year, DialSheet saves about $2,412 against Close Growth.

Should I leave Close if my team lives in its pipeline and workflows?

Probably not. Close's workflows, email sequences, reporting and 100-plus integrations are what the Growth seat pays for, and a dialer will not replace them. The cheaper move for a team that wants more calling is to stay on Close, or to move the heavy callers onto a dialer such as DialSheet ($29/month per seat) and keep Close seats only for the people who run the pipeline.

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Close, Attio, folk and Pipedrive prices read on their own pricing pages on October 3, 2026; other vendors on the dates in the table caption. Pipedrive and HubSpot showed Canadian dollars to our browser, so HubSpot is quoted from our September US read. DialSheet figures are computed from our published pricing and Twilio’s published rates. We build DialSheet, so weigh this as a disclosed first-party comparison.