Competitor pricing · 2026
ReadyMode pricing in 2026: Starter and iQ, the seat rules, and the whole bill at 1 to 10 agents
Last updated September 4, 2026 · prices read from readymode.com/pricing the same day
ReadyMode, the dialer that used to be XenCALL, publishes two prices and most of the articles about them get the seat rules wrong. Below is the page as read today, the one difference between the plans that a wholesaling or funding floor actually cares about, and the total next to a metered alternative.
The short answer
Starter is $199 a licence a month for 1–4 licences; iQ is $249 for 5 or more. Outbound minutes included under fair use, inbound $0.02 a minute, 30 or 75 numbers per licence. Caller-ID reputation monitoring, cadencing and integrations are iQ-only. Three agents: $597 on Starter, or about $117–$210 all-in on a free dialer with their own Twilio.
ReadyMode is call-centre software priced per licence from $199; DialSheet is a dialer priced at $29/month per seat with free for one person, with a list of up to 500 leads and 500 calls a month and calls at ~$0.014/min a US minute and ~$1.15/month a number, billed to you by Twilio. Five reps land near $195 a month all-in against $995–1,245 on ReadyMode. On sequential outbound the workflows are close — power dialing, recordings, transcripts, AI summaries, script scoring, sequences, CRM. ReadyMode keeps the edge on predictive dialing, agent management and inbound handling.
The two plans
| Plan | Per licence / month | Licences | Numbers | Includes | Excludes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | $199 | 1–4 | 30 per licence | Predictive and power dialing, unlimited support, training at 3+ licences | Cadencing, Autopilot, integrations, reputation monitoring, managed remediation |
| iQ | $249 | 5+ | 75 per licence | Everything in Starter plus cadencing, Autopilot, unlimited integrations, reputation monitoring, early access | Voicemail drop is an add-on for qualifying customers |
Both plans: outbound minutes listed as free with a fair-use note, inbound $0.02 a minute, one complimentary admin licence. No contract length or trial is stated on the page.
The whole bill: ReadyMode vs a free dialer on your own Twilio
ReadyMode bundles outbound minutes and a number pool, so the fair comparison is software plus telephony plus numbers. DialSheet is $29 a month for the first seat and $29 for each teammate; Twilio bills ~$0.014/min on the carrier leg, $0.004/min on the browser leg including ringing, and ~$1.15/month per number. Light is 34 dials a day per agent (~$10 of Twilio a month); heavy is 150 (~$41).
| Agents | ReadyMode (plan) | DialSheet + Twilio, light | DialSheet + Twilio, heavy |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $199 (Starter) | ~$39 | ~$70 |
| 3 | $597 (Starter) | ~$117 | ~$210 |
| 5 | $1,245 (iQ) | ~$195 | ~$350 |
| 10 | $2,490 (iQ) | ~$390 | ~$700 |
ReadyMode column excludes inbound minutes at $0.02. DialSheet columns assume 25% of dials reach voicemail (one billed minute each), 10% reach a person for three minutes, 21 working days and one number per agent; add ~$1.15/month per extra number you rotate. A solo caller under 500 calls a month pays $0 for the software.
Where ReadyMode is the better buy
A predictive floor. Five or more agents working consumer lists at low answer rates, with pacing across lines, a supervisor watching, 75 numbers a licence rotating under reputation monitoring, and cadencing that schedules the second and third attempts: that is what iQ's $249 buys and DialSheet does not sell it. On minutes alone, bundled-unlimited beats Pro plus metered Twilio above about 9,381 billed minutes per agent per month, which a 150-dial day (about 1,743 minutes) does not reach; the case for ReadyMode is the floor, not the minutes. Under five agents, with no supervisor and a list you can work sequentially or with a parallel dialer, the licence is paying for a call centre you are not running.
Things to get in writing
- The fair-use threshold behind “free outbound minutes”, in minutes per licence per month.
- Contract length and cancellation notice. The page does not state them.
- Whether Starter can upgrade to iQ below five licences if you need reputation monitoring at three seats. The page says no.
- Predictive dialing and the TCPA. The federal cap on abandoned telemarketing calls is 3%; ask how pacing enforces it. See are parallel dialers legal.
If ReadyMode is one of several tools on your list, the whole field is priced on the best power dialer software in 2026 and the cheapest power dialers, ranked by true cost.
For a team that wants parallel dialing without a call-floor contract.
DialSheet is free for one person and $29 a month, then $29 a seat, with the parallel dialer, recordings and AI coaching on Pro, numbers at ~$1.15/month on your own Twilio. No Twilio? A managed line is $49/month.
Start freeIf you are buying for a team
The team case is arithmetic before it is anything else: ReadyMode charges the same rate for your tenth rep as your first, so 10 seats is $1,990 a month, while DialSheet is $29 for the first seat and $29 for each one after it, $290 in all, a difference of $1,700 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.
What a team actually gets
- 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
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 ReadyMode, with power dialing, call recordings and transcripts, AI call summaries, a built-in CRM and parallel dialing included in Pro, and it costs about $195 a month for five reps against $995–1,245. 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 ReadyMode 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.
A small sequential outbound team
DialSheet
$195 a month all-in for five reps against $995 at ReadyMode’s Starter licence rate. Nothing about a 1–5 person team needs call-centre software.
You want to trial it without a sales call
DialSheet
free for one person, with a list of up to 500 leads and 500 calls a month, no card. ReadyMode is licence-tiered and sold through a conversation.
You run a predictive call centre with supervisors
ReadyMode
Predictive dialing, agent states, supervisor monitoring and inbound routing are the product. DialSheet has none of it.
You want unlimited outbound under fair use
ReadyMode
Outbound is free under fair use on ReadyMode with inbound at $0.02. At genuinely heavy talk volume that beats metered minutes.
Where DialSheet loses
- no predictive dialing, and parallel dialing tops out at five lines
- no answering-machine detection in Power Dial, so the rep listens for the beep and presses V to drop a recorded voicemail, and that drop is Pro-only and not yet on a DialSheet-managed line
- no inbound phone system, so no IVR menus, support queues or desk phones
- no contact database, so you bring your own list
- narrower native CRM integrations than the incumbents, with an API instead
- you connect your own Twilio account first, about five minutes
Questions people actually ask
How much does ReadyMode cost per month?
Two plans, as listed on readymode.com in September 2026. Starter is $199 per licence per month and is sold in quantities of 1 to 4. iQ is $249 per licence per month and requires 5 or more licences. Both include outbound minutes (with a fair-use note), bill inbound at $0.02 a minute, and come with a complimentary admin licence. So one agent is $199, four agents $796, and the first team that needs iQ pays at least $1245.
What is the difference between ReadyMode Starter and iQ?
Starter is the core predictive and power dialer with 30 phone numbers per licence, unlimited support, and implementation training once you have three or more licences; it excludes call cadencing, Autopilot, integrations, caller-ID reputation monitoring and managed remediation. iQ adds all of those plus 75 numbers per licence and early access to new features, and requires five licences. The thing a wholesaling or funding floor usually wants, spam-label monitoring, is iQ-only.
Does ReadyMode have a seat minimum?
Starter is available from a single licence up to four. iQ starts at five. A two-person team can buy Starter; a two-person team that wants reputation monitoring or integrations cannot buy iQ and has to either take five licences or do without. Older articles quoting a five-user minimum for the whole product describe iQ, not Starter.
Are ReadyMode minutes unlimited?
Outbound minutes are listed as free on both plans with a note that some restrictions apply under a fair-use policy; inbound is metered at $0.02 a minute on both. For an outbound floor the licence is effectively the whole bill, plus inbound callbacks. Ask what the fair-use threshold is in writing before you rely on "unlimited" at predictive volumes.
Is ReadyMode worth it for a small real estate or funding team?
For a floor running predictive dialing on consumer lists with five or more agents, yes: pacing, a large included number pool and reputation monitoring on iQ are what that floor needs and the $249 licence buys them. For one to four people the case is weaker: Starter has no reputation monitoring or integrations, and three agents on Starter are $597 a month against about $117–210 all-in on DialSheet Pro plus their own Twilio, where the numbers cost $1.15 each and the parallel dialer is included.
What is ReadyMode's contract and trial?
The pricing page lists monthly per-licence prices and does not state a contract length or a free trial; it mentions implementation and training for accounts with three or more licences. Ask for the term, the cancellation notice and the fair-use minute threshold in writing.