Comparison · September 2026

Aircall vs Orum: a single-line dialer, an AI parallel dialer, and the seat floors between them

By Abhi Chawla, founder · Last updated September 28, 2026

Both sell a “power dialer”, and the resemblance ends there. Aircall is a phone system with a single-line dialer on its Professional plan. Orum is an AI parallel dialer sold to funded SDR floors behind a nine-seat minimum and a pricing form. This page prices both from what each one publishes, marks which Orum figures are reported, and prices parallel dialing for the team neither of them serves well: one to eight reps.

TL;DR — our pick, and we build it

Orum is built for a funded SDR floor of nine or more, and Aircall is a phone system with a single-line dialer. For a team under nine that wants parallel dialing at a published price, DialSheet is the pick.

9 seatsOrum’s own minimum. At the reported ~$250 a seat, the smallest deal is about $2,250 a month, $27,000 a year.
$150Aircall’s floor for its dialer: three Professional licences, one line at a time. Month to month it is $210.
$72One DialSheet rep on the two-to-5-line parallel dialer at 100 dials a day, included in Pro, with Twilio’s answering machine detection counted in. No seat minimum.
$846Nine DialSheet reps parallel-dialing 150 a day, all-in, against a reported ~$2,250 for Orum’s nine seats.

Pick something else if you run nine or more full-time SDRs and want AI answer detection across up to 10 lines with a coaching Salesfloor (Orum), or you need an inbound phone system and one line is enough, especially past about 101 dials a rep a day, where Aircall’s bundled minutes win (Aircall Professional).

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For the rest of the field, see the best power dialer for 2026, ranked with the exception for each pick, and the most affordable power dialers priced with their seat minimums.

Aircall vs Orum, side by side

	Aircall	Orum	DialSheet
What it is	Cloud phone system with a dialer	AI parallel dialer and Salesfloor	Power dialer and CRM on your own Twilio
Dialer	One line, Professional only	Up to 10 lines, AI answer detection	Single line free; 2–5 lines included in Pro
Price with the dialer	$50/licence annual, $70 monthly	Quote only	$29 a seat, parallel included
Reported price	–	~$250/user/mo entry	–
Seat minimum	3	9	None
Smallest bill	$150	~$2,250 (reported)	Free, then per seat
Minutes	Unlimited US and Canada	Unlimited dials	Metered by Twilio, ~$0.014/min
Caller IDs	One per account, $6 each after	Up to 10 a month	~$1.15/month each on Twilio
Coaching floor	Live monitoring	Rooms, live listen, AI roleplay (add-on)	AI summaries and script scoring
Inbound, IVR, queues	Yes, the core product	No	No
Free trial	7 days	500 dials	Free plan, no end date

Aircall read on aircall.io/pricing on September 23, 2026 (the fact-patrol read). Orum read on orum.com/pricing on September 28, 2026: a nine-seat minimum and no dollar figure, so its price is a third-party report. Orum's line count is its advertised maximum as reported.

How much does Orum cost per month, and what does Aircall cost beside it?

Reps	Aircall Professional	Orum, reported	DialSheet parallel, 100/day	DialSheet parallel, 150/day
1	$150	Not sold (min 9); floor ~$2,250	$72	$94
3	$162	Not sold (min 9); floor ~$2,250	$216	$282
5	$274	Not sold (min 9); floor ~$2,250	$360	$470
9	$498	~$2,250	$648	$846
12	$666	~$3,000	$864	$1,128
20	$1,114	~$5,000	$1,440	$1,880

Aircall: Professional at $50 a licence annual, raised to 3 licences, with a $6 caller ID for every rep after the first; minutes included. Orum: the reported entry price times seats, raised to 9. DialSheet: Pro software ($29 a seat), parallel dialing included, and each rep's own Twilio from perRepTelephony() (25% voicemail, 10% connects at three minutes, 21 days, both call legs, one number) plus answering machine detection at $0.0075 a dial.

Orum floor, reported~$2,2509 seats a month

Aircall floor$1503 licences, annual

Nine DialSheet reps$846parallel, 150 dials a day

Aircall crossover101/daysingle line, per rep

Aircall is the cheapest column once a team is three or more and dials hard, because its minutes are bundled; it is also dialing one line at a time. On single-line Power Dial, a DialSheet rep costs less than an Aircall Professional seat with its caller ID up to about 101 dials a day. Orum is the most expensive column and the only one with AI answer detection across up to 10 lines. For a floor of nine, the reported gap between Orum and DialSheet’s parallel dialer at 150 dials a rep is about $1,404 a month; that is what Orum’s detection, reach and coaching have to earn.

Parallel dialing is included in Pro, with up to 5 lines on your own Twilio and 3 on a verified DialSheet line. This demo shows four lines. Watch the video or open it on YouTube.

Does Aircall have a parallel dialer?

No. Aircall’s Power Dialer is a list-mode feature on Professional that dials the next contact when the last call ends. It removes typing and dead time between calls; it does not ring several numbers at once and has no AI answer detection. If a buyer on Aircall wants parallel dialing, the answer is a second product, which is why “aircall parallel dialer” searches land on pages like this one.

A DialSheet-managed line at $49/month includes parallel dialing on 3 lines once Twilio has verified the business, with 25 hours of calling and a local number, so a small team can try parallel dialing without opening a Twilio account.

Orum alternatives and competitors for a team under nine

Nooks: the closest match to Orum, AI parallel dialing and a virtual salesfloor, ~$100–200/user/mo (reported; Nooks publishes no price). Also sold on a quote to funded teams.
Kixie Multi-Line PowerDialer: up to four lines, unlimited US and Canada minutes, ~$95–185/user/mo (reported; Kixie publishes no price). AI human detection is a premium add-on.
BatchDialer: three lines on Starter and five on Pro, ~$95–199/agent/mo (annual; $119–249 monthly), no seat minimum, built for real-estate teams. We price one agent’s month against a metered seat on BatchDialer pricing.
JustCall SalesPro: the multi-line plan on JustCall’s Sales Suite tab, on a quote with a two-licence minimum.
DialSheet: two to 5 lines included in Pro at $29/month per seat, no minimum, calls on your own Twilio, and a price on the page.

For the two funded-floor dialers side by side, see Orum vs Nooks.

What people complain about

Orum: the price you cannot see. No figure on the pricing page, a nine-seat floor, and annual contracts in the reports, so a team finds out the cost in a demo. The free trial stops at 500 dials.
Aircall: one line. A TrustRadius reviewer comparing the two described Aircall connectivity problems (call drops, poor audio, “infinite” ringing) and called Orum “levels above”. Aircall reviewers credit its interface and integrations, and its dialer is still one call at a time.

We did not test Orum or Aircall ourselves and quote no star ratings; the complaints come from the vendors’ pricing pages and the review named above.

The metered option: parallel dialing on your own Twilio

A single-line power dialer on the free plan, with one-key dispositions that log the call and dial the next lead.
Parallel dialing on two to 5 lines with voicemail screening, switchable to a new caller ID mid-session.
Recordings, transcripts and AI summaries of every answered call on Pro, and voicemail drop.
A native HubSpot sync and a call.completed webhook for any other CRM.

If you are buying for a team

A DialSheet team is $29 for the first seat and $29 for each after it, with no minimum and parallel dialing included: $261 of software for nine reps before Twilio usage. 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. On single-line dialing, Aircall’s bundled minutes beat metered Twilio past about 101 dials a rep a day, so a nine-rep floor dialing one line all day should price Aircall first.

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 own customer pages, including a nine-rep floor, a customer's story on their own site, and a third-party listing.

Aircall, Orum or DialSheet: which power dialer 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 Aircall and Orum, with power dialing, call recordings and transcripts, AI call summaries, a built-in CRM and parallel dialing included in Pro, and it costs about $72 a rep a month parallel-dialing 100 a day, with no seat minimum against Orum's nine. 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 Aircall and Orum 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

One to eight reps who want parallel dialing. Orum will not sell below 9 seats and Aircall has no parallel dialer. $72 a rep at 100 dials a day, with a price on the page.

DialSheet

A founder or solo rep who wants a dialer before a phone system. free for one person, with a list of up to 500 leads and 500 calls a month, then $56 a month at 100 dials on one line, against Aircall’s $150 three-licence floor.

Orum

A funded SDR floor of nine or more on low-answer-rate lists. AI answer detection across up to 10 lines, international reach and a coaching Salesfloor; the reported ~$2,250 a month is small next to nine salaries.

Aircall Professional

A team that also takes inbound, or dials one line past about 101 a rep a day. IVR, queues and unlimited US and Canada minutes at $50 a licence; neither Orum nor DialSheet is an inbound phone system.

Aircall vs Orum questions

Is Aircall or Orum better for cold calling?

They solve different problems. Aircall is a cloud phone system whose Power Dialer, on the $50-a-licence Professional plan with a 3-licence minimum, dials one number at a time. Orum is an AI parallel dialer that calls several numbers at once, detects the live human and connects the rep, sold to funded SDR floors with a 9-seat minimum. For a team under nine that wants parallel dialing at a published price, DialSheet is the third option: $29/month per seat with parallel dialing on two to 5 lines included, about $72 a rep a month at 100 dials a day on your own Twilio.

How much does Orum cost per month?

Orum publishes no price. Its pricing page, read September 28, 2026, states a 9-seat minimum and sends every package to a pricing form. Third-party reports put the entry package near $250 a user a month on an annual contract, with a higher package reported from about $500. At the seat floor that is about $2,250 a month, $27,000 a year, before anyone dials. Dials are unlimited on paid plans and the free trial is limited to 500 dials.

Does Aircall have a parallel dialer like Orum?

No. Aircall's Power Dialer works through a list one call at a time on the Professional plan, and no published Aircall plan dials several lines at once or uses AI to detect a live answer. Orum does both. DialSheet's parallel dialer rings two to 5 numbers at once with voicemail screening, included in Pro, and a DialSheet-managed line at $49/month includes it on 3 lines once Twilio has verified the business.

What is a cheaper parallel dialer alternative to Orum?

For a team under nine reps, DialSheet: no seat minimum, $29/month per seat with parallel dialing included, with calls on your own Twilio at ~$0.014/min. Nine reps parallel-dialing 150 numbers a day come to about $846 a month all-in, answering machine detection included, against a reported ~$2,250 for Orum's nine seats. What the price does not buy: Orum's AI answer detection across up to 10 lines, international dialing and a coaching Salesfloor.

Is there really a nine-seat minimum on Orum?

Yes. "MINIMUM 9-SEAT" is printed on orum.com/pricing itself (read September 28, 2026); it is the one number Orum publishes. At the reported entry price that makes the smallest Orum deal about $2,250 a month. Orum also sells an Ascend Limited add-on for seats that dial part-time, which helps a floor mix SDRs and AEs but does not lower the floor for a small team. A team of eight or fewer should ask whether Orum will sell to them before booking a demo.

Who are Orum’s competitors?

Nooks is the closest (~$100–200/user/mo (reported; Nooks publishes no price)), then Kixie's multi-line PowerDialer (~$95–185/user/mo (reported; Kixie publishes no price), up to four lines), BatchDialer for real-estate teams (~$95–199/agent/mo (annual; $119–249 monthly), three to five lines, no seat minimum), JustCall's quote-only SalesPro plan with a two-licence minimum, and DialSheet ($29/month per seat with two to 5 lines included, no minimum). Aircall is not one: it has no parallel dialer.

Related guides

Orum pricing 2026The reported entry and upper bands in full, and what the nine-seat floor costs a year.
Orum alternativesTen parallel dialers by real entry cost, for a team the nine-seat floor rules out.
BatchDialer pricing 2026A three-to-five-line dialer with no seat minimum, priced per agent against the same metered seat.
Aircall vs NooksThe same comparison against Orum’s closest rival.
Aircall alternativesThe full shortlist with seat minimums, if Aircall is the one you are leaving.
Parallel dialer vs power dialerWhat the extra lines buy, and the pause they add, before you pay for them.

Aircall prices read on aircall.io/pricing on September 23, 2026 with both billing toggles. Orum’s pricing page read on September 28, 2026: it publishes a nine-seat minimum and no dollar figure, so Orum prices here are third-party reports and carry “~”. Twilio’s answering machine detection rate read on twilio.com the same day. Confirm both vendors’ prices on their own pages before you buy. 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.