Dialpad alternatives: power dialers ranked by what they really cost
Most teams find this page the same way. They bought Dialpad as their phone system, went looking for the power dialer, and found it on Sell Premium at $79 a seat. I read Dialpad’s pricing and help pages today, priced every alternative by the cheapest plan that actually dials a list, and added the minutes, because that is the bill you pay.
Does Dialpad have a power dialer? Which plan you need
Dialpad sells two products that people mean when they say “Dialpad”. Connect, which used to be called Dialpad Talk, is the phone system. Sell is the outbound sales product, and only Sell power-dials. Inside Sell, the dialer moved to the top tier this year: help.dialpad.com’s “Dialpad Dialer” page says it is available to organizations with Sell Premium licences, for users assigned to a Contact Center where the Dialer is enabled. The older Powerdialer runs on any Sell licence but only inside Salesforce Lightning, and its help page is now headed “Legacy feature”.
| Dialpad plan | Per user, yearly | Monthly | Can it dial a list? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Connect Standard (was Talk) | $15 | $27 | No |
| Connect Pro | $25 | $35 | No |
| Sell Essentials | $39 | $49 | Only the legacy Powerdialer, inside Salesforce |
| Sell Advanced | $59 | $70 | Local presence and voicemail drop; no Dialpad Dialer |
| Sell Premium | $79 | $95 | Yes: the Dialpad Dialer, in a Contact Center |
dialpad.com/pricing (Connect and Sell tabs) and help.dialpad.com, read October 13, 2026. USD.
10 Dialpad alternatives, ranked by the real entry cost of a power dialer
The column that decides this list is the cheapest plan that power-dials outside Salesforce, times the number of licences the vendor will sell you. The list Google ranks first for this search, nobelbiz.com’s, is a contact-centre list without that column. Its quote-led suites (Talkdesk, Genesys Cloud CX, NICE CXone, UJET and NobelBiz itself) publish no dialer price and are a different purchase from a sales team’s dialer; every tool on it that does publish one is here.
| Tool | Cheapest plan that power-dials | Seats | Real entry cost | The catch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DialSheet (we build this) | Free: the power dialer is on every plan | 1 | $0 | Calls run on your own Twilio, about $14 a month at 50 dials a day |
| Dialpad (the tool you are replacing) | Sell Premium, billed yearly | 1 | $79 | the Dialpad Dialer needs Premium and a Contact Center |
| CloudTalk | Starter $25 + the $15 Power Dialer add-on, billed yearly | 1 | $40 | the dialer and the $39 parallel add-on are annual only; Expert at $49 needs three licences |
| RingCentral RingCX | RingCX Standard, billed yearly ($75 monthly) | 1 | $65 | a contact-centre product sold apart from the RingEX phone system |
| JustCall | Pro, billed yearly ($69 monthly) | 2 | $98 | a two-licence minimum on every plan, and "unlimited" minutes sit inside a fair-use policy |
| Close | Growth, billed yearly | 1 | $99 | you buy a whole CRM to get the power dialer |
| PhoneBurner | Standard, billed yearly ($165 monthly) | 1 | $140 | one line per rep by design; the browser softphone starts on Professional at $165 |
| Ringover | Business, billed yearly | 3 | $141 | a three-user minimum and a twelve-month term, plus $0.08 a minute for automated dialing |
| Aircall | Professional, billed yearly ($70 monthly) | 3 | $150 | the Power Dialer needs Professional, and the three-licence minimum applies to a team of one |
| Aloware | uPro + AI, billed yearly | 5 | $300 | the $30 iPro tier has no Power Dialer and needs ten users |
| Five9 | Core, the published bundle with voice | 50 | $7,950 | a stated 50-seat minimum, so it is a contact-centre purchase, not a team tool |
| Kixie | Quote only, no figure on any tier | — | No published price | reported near $145 single-line and $185 for four lines, on annual terms under ten users |
Real entry cost = the cheapest published plan that includes a power dialer, times the vendor's published seat minimum. Dialpad re-read live on October 13, 2026; the others from each vendor's own pricing page in September and October 2026, kept in lib/aeo/competitors.ts. Prices are for comparison, not quotes. The DialSheet row is software only, as every other row is; the bill with telephony is the next table.
The whole bill: one rep, three and ten, with the minutes
Every rival in the table puts the minutes in the seat. Ours are Twilio’s, at cost, so the honest comparison adds them. This is the same team on each tool at 100 dials a rep a day.
| Per month | One rep | Three reps | Ten reps |
|---|---|---|---|
| DialSheet Pro + own Twilio | ~$56 | ~$168 | ~$560 |
| Dialpad Connect + DialSheet | ~$71 | ~$213 | ~$710 |
| Dialpad Sell Premium | $79 | $237 | $790 |
| CloudTalk Starter + Power Dialer | $40 | $120 | $400 |
| JustCall Pro | $98 | $147 | $490 |
| Aircall Professional | $150 | $150 | $500 |
| PhoneBurner Standard | $140 | $420 | $1,400 |
Rivals on annual billing at their seat minimums (JustCall two, Aircall three). DialSheet: $29 for the first seat and $29 for each one after, plus each rep's Twilio from perRepTelephony(): 21 working days, 25% voicemail, 10% connects at three minutes, both call legs, one number. Month to month, JustCall Pro is $69 and Aircall Professional $70 a licence, and CloudTalk's dialer add-on is not sold monthly.
Dialpad power dialer alternatives, one by one
CloudTalk: the cheapest bundled seat, on an annual contract
Starter at $25 plus the $15 Power Dialer add-on, $40 a user billed yearly, with a $39 parallel add-on. Its “unlimited” US and Canada calling stops at a 10,000-minute fair-use line. The pick if you sign for a year and dial all day.
JustCall: a phone system with the dialer one tier up
Pro at $49 billed yearly ($69 monthly) carries the sales dialer, with a two-licence minimum on every plan and unlimited minutes inside a fair-use policy. The pick if you want texting, a phone system and a dialer from one vendor and have two or more reps.
Aircall: the phone layer for a CRM-heavy team
The Power Dialer is on Professional at $50 a licence billed yearly, three licences minimum, so $150 a month for a team of one. The pick if your helpdesk and CRM integrations matter more than the dialer.
PhoneBurner: one line, no delay
$140 a seat billed yearly, unlimited calling, one line per rep with no connect delay and ARMOR spam remediation as an add-on. The pick for consultative callers who dial all day. Compared in full in Kixie vs PhoneBurner.
Kixie: Dialpad’s closest shape, without a price
A phone system and a dialer of up to four lines, like Dialpad Sell, but quote-only: reported near $145 a seat single-line and $185 multi-line, annual under ten users. The pick if you want that shape and deep HubSpot or Salesforce sync.
RingCentral RingCX, Ringover, Aloware, Five9
RingCX is $65 a user, a contact-centre product apart from RingEX. Ringover needs three users and charges $0.08 a minute for automated dialing. Aloware’s dialer tier needs five users ($300 a month). Five9 states a 50-seat minimum.
What Dialpad does that we do not
- Live AI coaching during the call. Dialpad’s transcription, real-time guidance and scorecards run while the rep is talking. Our transcripts, AI summaries and script scoring arrive after the call.
- An inbound phone system. No IVR, queues, desk phones or meetings. Keep Dialpad Connect for that; the two run side by side on separate numbers.
- Answering-machine detection in Power Dial. The rep hears the greeting and presses V to drop a recorded voicemail; the parallel dialer screens voicemail on every line.
- Narrower integrations. HubSpot is the one native CRM sync; others go through the REST API, MCP server and call webhooks.
- A Twilio account first, about ten minutes, or the $49/month managed line with 1,500 minutes and Pro included.
- No contact database. You bring the list, as you do on Dialpad.
For a team that already has its lists, wants power and parallel dialing without Sell Premium, and can keep Connect or any phone for inbound, none of those is a reason to pay $79 a seat, and DialSheet is the better buy.
If you are buying for a team
The team case is arithmetic before it is anything else: Dialpad Sell Premium charges the same rate for your tenth rep as your first, so 10 seats is $790 a month, while DialSheet is $29 for the first seat and $29 for each one after it, $290 in all, a difference of $500 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.
- 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
- CSV export of the whole stats table
- invite by email with seats managed in one place
Recordings and transcripts come with Pro, with no per-minute transcription meter; for a three-rep team at 50 dials a day the whole bill is about $129 a month, and a rep who wants several lines ringing at 200 dials a day is about $115 all-in with answering machine detection on every dial.
Who runs on it
A nine-rep accountancy floor that went live in a day, what customers say on the record, a customer's own story on its own site, and a third-party listing.
- dialsheet.ioUK accountancy practiceA UK accountancy practice put a 9-rep outbound floor live in one day
- dialsheet.ioWhat customers sayCourtney Whitehouse, who runs a growing UK contact centre, on support, cost and fit, in her own words.
- garagescape.caHow we book same-day jobsA Calgary garage-cleanout business on booking same-day jobs by phone. “Calling and booking run on DialSheet.”
- mrrnerds.comDialSheet on MRR NerdsMRR Nerds’ DialSheet review: 4.5 of 5, free-forever plan, no seat minimum, month to month, marked “not hands-on tested”.
Which Dialpad alternative should you actually buy?
DialSheet
A sales team that needs a power dialer and brings its own lists. About $56 a month for one rep and $560 for ten, all-in, power and parallel dialing included, month to month.
Dialpad Connect + DialSheet
A company that likes Dialpad as its phone system. About $213 a month for three reps, phones and dialer, against $237 on Sell Premium.
CloudTalk
Full-time reps on an annual contract, dialing all day. $40 a user billed yearly with minutes bundled; cheaper than metered Twilio above about 40 dials a rep a day.
Dialpad Sell Premium
A team that wants live AI coaching and the dialer in one Dialpad account. Real-time guidance and scorecards during the call, which DialSheet does after it.
Dialpad alternative questions
Does Dialpad have a power dialer?
Yes, but not on the plans most teams buy. Dialpad Connect, the business phone system ($15 or $25 a user billed yearly), has no list dialer. The Dialpad Dialer belongs to Dialpad Sell, and Dialpad's own help centre says it is available to Sell Premium licences assigned to a Contact Center: $79 a user billed yearly or $95 monthly, read on October 13, 2026. The older Powerdialer that runs on any Sell licence works only inside Salesforce and is marked a legacy feature. DialSheet includes power dialing on its free plan and parallel dialing on two to 5 lines in Pro at $29/month per seat.
What is the best Dialpad alternative for outbound sales?
For a team that wants a power dialer without paying $79 a seat for Sell Premium, DialSheet: power and parallel dialing, recordings, transcripts, AI call summaries and a CRM for $29/month per seat, on your own Twilio account at ~$0.014/min a US minute. One rep at 100 dials a day is about $56 a month all-in and three reps about $168, month to month with no seat minimum. On an annual contract with a full-time rep, CloudTalk's Starter plus Power Dialer at $40 a user is cheaper above about 40 dials a day. We build DialSheet, so weigh that accordingly.
What is the difference between Dialpad Talk and Dialpad Sell?
Dialpad Talk is the old name for Dialpad Connect, the business phone system: calls, texts, meetings, live transcription and AI recaps, $15 a user billed yearly on Standard and $25 on Pro. Dialpad Sell is the outbound sales product built on top of it, with coaching teams, monitor/whisper/barge and CRM logging on Essentials ($39), local presence and voicemail drop on Advanced ($59), and the Dialpad Dialer, AI scorecards and inbound queues on Premium ($79). Many teams keep Connect for the phones and add a separate dialer: three reps on Connect Standard plus DialSheet at 100 dials a day is about $213 a month, against $237 on Sell Premium.
What is the cheapest alternative to Dialpad with a power dialer?
On software alone, DialSheet: the power dialer is on the free plan for one person (500 leads, 500 calls a month), and Pro is $29/month per seat. Counting telephony, one rep at 50 dials a day costs about $43 a month all-in on your own Twilio. Among tools that bundle minutes, the lowest real entry cost read on October 2026 pricing pages is CloudTalk at $40 a user billed yearly (Starter plus the Power Dialer add-on), then JustCall Pro at $49 with a two-licence minimum, $98 a month.
Why do teams leave Dialpad?
For outbound teams the usual reason is the price of the dialer: Dialpad Connect cannot dial a list, Sell Advanced at $59 adds local presence and voicemail drop but no dialer, and the Dialpad Dialer needs Sell Premium at $79 a user and a Contact Center. Ten reps on Sell Premium is $790 a month. The same ten reps on DialSheet at 100 dials a day are about $560 a month all-in. Teams that stay usually do so for Dialpad's live AI coaching and because the phone system and dialer share one admin.
Can I keep Dialpad for phones and use a different dialer?
Yes, and for many teams it is the cheapest arrangement. Keep Dialpad Connect for inbound calls, texts and meetings at $15 a user, and run outbound lists from a dialer on separate numbers. DialSheet runs in the browser on numbers from your own Twilio account at ~$1.15/month each, so the two never conflict. Three reps on Connect Standard plus DialSheet at 100 dials a day each is about $213 a month, against $237 on Dialpad Sell Premium. What you give up is one admin and one call log across both.
Dialpad prices and plan contents are from dialpad.com/pricing and help.dialpad.com on October 13, 2026; the other vendors from their own pricing pages in September and October 2026, as dated in lib/aeo/competitors.ts. Confirm before you buy. Twilio figures are US list rates billed to you by Twilio. We build DialSheet, so weigh this as a disclosed first-party comparison.