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SquareTalk vs Nextiva for outbound calling: the dialers, the cost, and which to buy

By Abhi Chawla, founder · Last updated November 6, 2026

SquareTalk is a contact-centre platform that publishes the price of its power and predictive dialers. Nextiva is a business phone system whose dialer sits in a contact centre it sells by quote. Both come up when a sales team asks which one to call prospects from, and neither of the pages Google ranks for the comparison prices an outbound team on both. I priced a team of one, three, five and ten on each against the dialer I build, including where SquareTalk wins.

TL;DR — our pick, and we build it

For a sales team choosing between SquareTalk and Nextiva to call a list, DialSheet is the pick: a 2–5 line parallel dialer and a power dialer in one $29 seat, month to month, with no annual contract and no user minimum. Start free; add seats as reps join.

2–5Lines per rep in the DialSheet seat, with voicemail screened. Nextiva’s phone plans dial no list at all, and SquareTalk’s multi-line answer is predictive dialing with an 8-user floor.
$87Three DialSheet seats a month, month to month, against $200 for SquareTalk Connect’s 5-user monthly floor or $125 on its yearly contract, both before minutes. Three DialSheet reps at 150 dials a day pay about $210 all in, Twilio included.
$88Five DialSheet seats a month on annual billing, against $125 for five SquareTalk Connect seats on its yearly contract, minutes extra. On a year against a year, the DialSheet seat still costs less.
$156One rep parallel-dialing 300 numbers a day on DialSheet a month: seat, every Twilio leg, a number and answering machine detection on every dial.

Pick something else if your floor of 8 or more agents needs predictive dialing (SquareTalk Engage, $30 a user on a yearly contract), the purchase is the whole company’s inbound phone system with a dialer as an afterthought (Nextiva), or one rep will parallel-dial past about 81 a day on a yearly contract (CloudTalk, calls included).

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Comparing more than these two? The whole field is ranked on the best power dialer software in 2026, and priced by true monthly cost on the cheapest power dialers, ranked by real entry cost.

SquareTalk, smallest dialer account$125/mo5 users × $25 Connect, yearly, minutes extra

Nextiva, dialer planQuoteContact Center Professional, above $75 an agent

DialSheet, 1 person$0/mofree plan; Pro $29 a seat with parallel

SquareTalk vs Nextiva at a glance: who to pick, and why

Tool	Price	Pick it if	Key advantage
DialSheet	$29/seat, month to month; free to start	You want a 2–5 line parallel dialer in the seat, with no annual contract and no user minimum	$156 a month all in for a rep parallel-dialing 300 a day; $210 for three single-line reps
SquareTalk	$25/user/mo Connect, yearly, 5-user minimum; predictive $30, 8 users	Your floor of 8+ agents needs predictive dialing, or one platform for calls, WhatsApp and email	Published predictive-dialer pricing, answering machine detection and lead recycling, local numbers in 150+ countries
Nextiva	$15–$75/user/mo phones; dialer by quote above $75	You are buying the company phone system, inbound routing and desk phones, and outbound is a small part of it	A full business phone and contact-centre suite from one vendor

squaretalk.com/pricing (every tab, both billing toggles) and nextiva.com/nextiva-pricing read November 6, 2026. DialSheet figures computed from our published pricing and Twilio's US rates, with the method in the cost section below.

How SquareTalk and Nextiva each handle outbound calling

	SquareTalk	Nextiva
What it is	A contact-centre platform: voice, WhatsApp, SMS, email, dialers and conversation analytics	A business phone system (NEXT plans) with a separately priced contact centre
Cheapest plan that dials a list	Connect: $25 a user yearly or $40 monthly, 5 users minimum	Contact Center Professional, by quote above $75 an agent
Predictive dialing	Engage: $30 yearly or $45 monthly, 8 users minimum; Maximize quoted from 30	Progressive and predictive on Contact Center Professional, by quote
Calling minutes	Sold as packages; no published price	Part of the contact-centre quote
Contract	Annual for the low price; Core rises to $25 and a 5-user floor monthly	Yearly price needs a paid 12-month term
AI	Transcripts, summaries and sentiment on an allowance of AI minutes per user; more from $7.50 a month	XBert AI at $1.50 a conversation on every plan

Facts from squaretalk.com/pricing and nextiva.com/nextiva-pricing read November 6, 2026; Nextiva's contact-centre tab as read on November 2, 2026.

The phone-system side of Nextiva, and every alternative a Nextiva customer weighs, is priced on Nextiva alternatives. If Dialpad is the third name on your list, Dialpad vs Nextiva compares the two phone systems, and power vs auto vs predictive dialers explains what SquareTalk’s predictive tier does that a power dialer does not.

Power, auto and predictive dialers in a minute: who is on the line when the prospect picks up. Watch the video or open it on YouTube.

SquareTalk vs Nextiva cost for a team of 1, 3, 5 and 10

SquareTalk’s seat is shown with its user minimum applied and without minutes, because it sells them as packages with no published price. Nextiva’s dialer has no published price, so its column shows the $75-an-agent Essential floor the quote sits above. DialSheet is $29 for the first seat and $29 for each after it, and Twilio bills your own account ~$0.014/min on the carrier leg, $0.004 a minute on the browser leg including ringing, and ~$1.15/month a number. The parallel column adds Twilio’s $0.0075 answering machine detection on every dial.

Reps	SquareTalk Connect, yearly	SquareTalk Connect, monthly	SquareTalk Engage (predictive)	Nextiva dialer	DialSheet, 150/day single	DialSheet, 300/day parallel
1	$125 + minutes	$200 + minutes	$240 + minutes	quote, > $75	~$70	~$156
3	$125 + minutes	$200 + minutes	$240 + minutes	quote, > $225	~$210	~$468
5	$125 + minutes	$200 + minutes	$240 + minutes	quote, > $375	~$350	~$780
10	$250 + minutes	$400 + minutes	$300 + minutes	quote, > $750	~$700	~$1,560

Method: per-seat price times reps with each vendor's published minimum applied (SquareTalk Connect 5, Engage 8), checked November 2026. DialSheet columns assume 25% of dials reach voicemail (one billed minute each) and 10% reach a person for three minutes, over 21 working days, with one local number per rep, and include all telephony.

How DialSheet Pro pricing works: $29 a seat, month to month, free to start. Watch the video or open it on YouTube.

Nextiva for outbound calling: what a sales team gets

Nextiva’s NEXT Core, Engage and Scale plans are a business phone system: numbers, routing, voicemail, video and texting, from $15 to $75 a user a month on a yearly term. On November 2 no phone plan listed outbound or a dialer; until October 20, Scale was the only card that mentioned blended inbound and outbound. A rep on a Nextiva phone plan dials by hand. The dialer, progressive and predictive, is on Nextiva Contact Center Professional, which Nextiva sells by quote above the $75-an-agent Essential plan. That makes Nextiva the right purchase for a company replacing its phones, and an expensive way to get a dialer for a sales team.

SquareTalk for outbound calling: what a sales team gets

SquareTalk publishes three outbound tiers. Connect adds a Power Dialer to the contact centre at $25 a user yearly or $40 monthly, 5 users minimum. Engage, on the Predictive Dialer tab, adds smart predictive dialing, answering machine detection, lead recycling and agent ranking at $30 or $45, 8 users minimum. Maximize is quoted from 30 users. Every tier sells minutes as packages, and the pricing page prints no package price, so the seat is not the bill.

Parallel dialing on DialSheet Pro: several lines at once, voicemail screened, the first answer bridged. Watch the video or open it on YouTube.

What people complain about

SquareTalk

The checkable complaints are on its own pricing page: user minimums on every tier (3 on Core yearly, 5 monthly, 5 on Connect, 8 on predictive), the low price only on an annual contract, and minutes sold as packages with no price printed, so the real monthly bill needs a sales call.

Nextiva

The yearly price needs a paid 12-month term, XBert AI is metered at $1.50 a conversation, add-ons can carry setup and licensing fees, and the plan that dials a list has no published price at all.

What DialSheet does not do

No predictive dialing: parallel tops out at 5 lines a rep, with a live rep on every bridged call.
No inbound phone system, IVR or call queues for the rest of the company.
No minutes in the seat: Twilio bills your own account, which takes about five minutes to set up (or a managed line at $49/month).
No WhatsApp channel, no contact database and no video meetings.

If the purchase is a dialer for reps who need more conversations an hour, none of those is the deciding line, and DialSheet does the dialing month to month with no user minimum.

Who runs on it

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

If you are buying for a team

The team case is arithmetic before it is anything else: SquareTalk Connect, billed monthly, charges the same rate for your tenth rep as your first, so 10 seats is $400 a month, while DialSheet is $29 for the first seat and $29 for each one after it, $290 in all, a difference of $110 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.

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 SquareTalk and Nextiva, with power dialing, call recordings and transcripts, AI call summaries, a built-in CRM and parallel dialing included in Pro, and it costs about $117 a month for three reps, with no user minimum or annual contract. 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 SquareTalk and Nextiva 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 sales team that wants more conversations an hour. 2–5 lines a rep in the $29 seat, about $156 a month all in at 300 dials a day, month to month.

DialSheet

A team under 5 reps, or one adding reps in ones and twos. $29 a seat with no minimum: three seats are $87 a month against a $200 SquareTalk floor month to month ($125 yearly), both before minutes.

SquareTalk

A floor of 8+ agents that needs predictive dialing. Engage publishes predictive dialing with answering machine detection at $30 a user on a yearly contract; DialSheet has no predictive mode.

Nextiva

A company replacing its whole phone system, inbound first. NEXT plans from $15 a user cover routing, desk phones and texting; add a dialer later from its contact centre or run outbound on DialSheet beside it.

CloudTalk

One rep parallel-dialing past about 81 a day, on a yearly contract. Its $64 annual parallel seat includes US and Canada calls, which beats metered Twilio at that volume.

Common questions

How does SquareTalk compare to Nextiva for outbound calling?

SquareTalk is a contact-centre platform that sells outbound dialing on published plans: the Power Dialer starts on Connect at $25 a user a month on a yearly contract ($40 monthly), 5 users minimum, and predictive dialing on Engage at $30 ($45 monthly), 8 users minimum, with calling minutes bought as packages. Nextiva is a business phone system first: its NEXT phone plans ($15 to $75 a user) list no dialer, and progressive and predictive dialing sit in Nextiva Contact Center Professional, priced by quote above the $75-an-agent Essential plan. For a team that wants to dial a list without a seat floor or a yearly contract, DialSheet is the cheaper answer than either: a power dialer and a 2–5 line parallel dialer in a $29 seat, month to month, about $210 a month for three reps at 150 dials a day including Twilio.

How much does SquareTalk cost?

On squaretalk.com/pricing, read November 6, 2026: Contact Center Core is $15 a user a month on an annual contract (3 users minimum) or $25 monthly (5 users minimum); Connect, the first plan with the Power Dialer, is $25 annual or $40 monthly, 5 users minimum; the Predictive Dialer's Engage plan is $30 annual or $45 monthly, 8 users minimum, and Maximize is quoted from 30 users. Minutes are sold as packages with no published price. The smallest SquareTalk account that power-dials is $125 a month on a yearly contract, before minutes. DialSheet is free for one person and $29 a seat on Pro, month to month, plus Twilio usage of about $41 a rep at 150 dials a day.

How much does Nextiva cost per month?

Nextiva's phone plans, read on nextiva.com/nextiva-pricing on November 6, 2026, are NEXT Core at $15 a user a month billed yearly or $23 monthly, NEXT Engage at $25 or $50, and NEXT Scale at $75; the yearly price needs a paid 12-month minimum term, and XBert AI is $1.50 a conversation on every plan. None of the phone plans dials a list. The contact centre is priced separately: Essential from $75 an agent a month with no dialer, and Professional, the plan with progressive and predictive dialing, by quote. DialSheet's dialer is $29 a seat, month to month.

Does Nextiva have a power dialer?

Not on its phone plans. Nextiva's NEXT Core, Engage and Scale plans list no dialer and no outbound campaign feature; progressive and predictive dialing are on Nextiva Contact Center Professional, sold by quote above the $75-an-agent Essential plan (read November 6, 2026). A Nextiva customer who wants to dial a list from a spreadsheet can keep Nextiva for the company's phones and run outbound on DialSheet: a power dialer and a 2–5 line parallel dialer in a $29 seat, on its own Twilio account, month to month.

Does SquareTalk have a predictive dialer, and what is the minimum?

Yes. SquareTalk's Predictive Dialer tab sells Engage at $30 a user a month on a yearly contract or $45 monthly, with a 8-user minimum, so the smallest predictive account is $240 a month yearly or $360 monthly, before minutes; it lists smart predictive dialing, answering machine detection and lead recycling. DialSheet has no predictive dialer. Its multi-line mode is a 2–5 line parallel dialer per rep with voicemail screened, inside the $29 seat, with no user minimum: about $156 a month all in for one rep dialing 300 numbers a day.

Who are Nextiva's main competitors?

For a business phone system, RingCentral, Dialpad, 8x8 and Quo (OpenPhone) are the names buyers weigh against Nextiva. For outbound calling, the comparison is with dialers and contact-centre platforms: SquareTalk (power dialer from $25 a user, 5 users minimum), CloudTalk, JustCall, Aircall and DialSheet. DialSheet is the one that sells its dialer with no seat minimum and no contract: a 2–5 line parallel dialer in a $29 seat, free to start, running on your own Twilio account at about ~$0.014/min.

Related guides

Nextiva alternativesEvery phone system and dialer a Nextiva customer weighs, priced with a dials-a-list column.
Dialpad vs NextivaThe two phone systems side by side, and which one dials a list.
Power vs auto vs predictive dialerWhat SquareTalk’s predictive tier does that a power or parallel dialer does not.
Parallel dialer vs power dialerWhat a second, third and fifth line buys, and when one line is the right call.
JustCall pricing 2026Another phone system with a dialer tier, its seat floor, and its Black Friday sale.

SquareTalk prices from squaretalk.com/pricing, every tab with both billing toggles, read on November 6, 2026; minute packages are not priced there. Nextiva phone-plan prices from nextiva.com/nextiva-pricing read the same day; its contact-centre tab as read on November 2, 2026. DialSheet figures are computed from our published pricing and Twilio’s US voice rates rather than typed in. Confirm both vendors’ prices before you buy.