In this article
- Best dialer for cold calling at a glance
- How to choose a dialer for cold calling
- Power dialer for cold calling, or parallel?
- The best dialers for cold calling, by team sizeCold calling software for small business: JustCall ProAuto dialer for cold calling at 6 to 20 reps: Aloware or AircallBest cold calling dialer for 50+ reps: Orum or ReadyMode iQBest auto dialer for cold calling: the rest of the list
- What a dialer for cold calling costs at 10, 25 and 50 repsCheapest dialer for cold callingFree dialer for cold calling
- The add-ons a dialer for cold calling leaves out
- Is B2B cold calling illegal?
- Rent a dialer for cold calling or own one
- Sources
- Frequently asked questionsWhat is the best dialer for cold calling?What is the cheapest dialer for cold calling?Is there a free dialer for cold calling?Is a power dialer or a parallel dialer better for cold calling?Is B2B cold calling illegal?Does local presence dialing work?
Short answer
The best dialer for cold calling depends on how many reps you have: JustCall Pro for 1 to 5 reps, Aloware uPro or Aircall Professional for 6 to 20, and Orum or ReadyMode iQ for 50 or more. Seat prices run from $49 to $249 a month, but for cold lists the bill is decided by what the plan leaves out: local numbers, spam monitoring and extra lines.
Prices come from each vendor's own pricing page, checked November 2, 2026, in US dollars per seat per month billed yearly unless noted. We sell no dialer seats. More on how each kind of auto dialer works and what it costs.
Best dialer for cold calling at a glance
The best dialer for cold calling for a small team is JustCall Pro at $49 a seat, for a mid-size team Aloware uPro ($60) or Aircall Professional ($50), and for a floor of 50 or more Orum (quote only) or ReadyMode iQ ($249 list). Each pick has a catch, listed here.
| Team size | Our pick | Seat price | The catch | Runner-up |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 to 5 reps | JustCall Pro | $49 | Spam monitoring is on the quote-only SalesPro plan | PhoneBurner, $140 |
| 6 to 20 reps | Aloware uPro | $60 | Local Presence and spam label removal are add-ons | Aircall Professional, $50 |
| 50+ reps | Orum | Quote only | 9-seat minimum, no published price | ReadyMode iQ, $249 |
| Any size | Cleanform, owned, no seat fees | $0 | A build, not a sign-up |
Cleanform is $0 a seat at any team size: you pay monthly for the build until it's paid off, then mostly hosting. How pricing works.
How to choose a dialer for cold calling
Choose a dialer for cold calling on the things that change the result on a cold list, not on recording or CRM sync, which almost every plan has. Check these:
- Lines per rep. One line suits a small team. Several at once get more conversations on lists where few people answer.
- Number health. Spam monitoring is an add-on or a higher tier everywhere here except Orum and ReadyMode iQ.
- Local numbers. Local presence needs a pool of numbers, and you pay for each one.
- Voicemail drop and DNC. One click should leave a message, and your own do-not-call list should block before every dial.
Power dialer for cold calling, or parallel?
A power dialer for cold calling calls one number at a time per rep, and a parallel dialer calls several at once and connects the first person who answers. Parallel gets more conversations an hour on cold lists with low pickup. Power gives better calls on numbers that have answered before.
Orum's own data on power and parallel dialing points the same way: parallel wins on meetings per hour, power on the quality of each call, and its advice for cold lists is to dial parallel first, then move the people who answer into power call blocks. That's a vendor's view; no independent study exists.
Our guide to what a power dialer is and what a seat costs covers single-line dialing in depth. Predictive dialing is a call-center tool for about 15 reps or more (which vendors sell it).
The best dialers for cold calling, by team size
The best dialers for cold calling by team size are JustCall Pro for 1 to 5 reps, Aloware uPro or Aircall Professional for 6 to 20, and Orum or ReadyMode iQ for 50 or more.
Cold calling software for small business: JustCall Pro
JustCall Pro is our pick of cold calling software for a small business with 1 to 5 reps: a power dialer, a full business phone system and CRM integrations for $49 a seat billed yearly, $69 monthly, with a 2-seat minimum on JustCall's pricing page. Outbound minutes in the US and Canada are unlimited, and there's a 14-day trial.
The catch: local number bundles are an add-on, and Number Health and multi-line dialing sit on SalesPro, which is quote only. For two reps on a fresh list, Pro is enough.
Source: JustCall pricing page, November 2, 2026.
The runner-up is PhoneBurner: $140, $165 or $183 a seat billed yearly ($165 to $215 monthly), a built-in CRM, one-click voicemail drop and unlimited single-line dialing on every plan. Pick it if reps live in the dialer all day and don't need a phone system around it.
Auto dialer for cold calling at 6 to 20 reps: Aloware or Aircall
Aloware uPro is the pick for 6 to 20 reps who want number tools from the same vendor: a one-line power dialer, voicemail drop and AI call transcripts at $60 a seat billed yearly or $70 monthly, 5-seat minimum, on Aloware's pricing page. Local Presence and spam label removal are add-ons.
Aircall Professional is the pick when the phone system and its interface matter more than number tooling: $50 a license billed yearly, 3-license minimum, with a power dialer and voicemail drop. Aircall had the best interface of any dialer and phone system we've used.
Aircall's catch is numbers. Local Presence is included in Professional, but each extra number is $6 a month, and for us that came to about $250 to $300 a month in early 2026. Spam monitoring is $0.03 per reputation check.
Best cold calling dialer for 50+ reps: Orum or ReadyMode iQ
For 50 or more reps on cold lists, Orum is the pick for parallel dialing and ReadyMode iQ for predictive. At this size, numbers and list burn matter more than the seat price.
Orum publishes no price, only a 9-seat minimum. Its plans include power and parallel dialing, voicemail drop and Number Temperature (hot and cold numbers), with unlimited dials.
ReadyMode lists iQ at $249 a license billed yearly ($299 monthly) and quotes 20 or more licenses. Each iQ license comes with 75 phone numbers, caller ID reputation monitoring and Assisted Remediation. Starter ($199) has 30 numbers per license.
ReadyMode was the dialer we used most, and it worked well. When we ran it, fixing flagged numbers was on us, and a fairly small team of ours went through about 30,000 leads a month on predictive and parallel dialing.
Best auto dialer for cold calling: the rest of the list
Other tools that show up on best auto dialer for cold calling lists:
- CloudTalk: Starter €25 a seat billed yearly, Power Dialer add-on €15, Parallel Dialer add-on €39 on any plan (CloudTalk pricing, shown to us in euros). CloudTalk vs Aircall.
- Kixie: no published prices; Multi-Line PowerDialer dials up to 4 lines, with a 7-day trial (Kixie pricing).
- Salesfinity: a parallel dialer on up to 5 lines, $249 a license billed yearly on Gold (Salesfinity pricing).
- Mojo: $89 single-line or $139 triple-line, plus $10 agent access, built for real estate (Mojo pricing). See our real estate auto dialer guide.
- Five9 and Nooks: quote only.
What a dialer for cold calling costs at 10, 25 and 50 reps
A dialer for cold calling costs $490 to $2,490 a month for 10 reps on our picks, billed yearly at list price, and $2,450 to $12,450 a month for 50. These are seat prices only, before extra numbers, spam tools and taxes.
| Vendor and plan, billed yearly | 10 reps | 25 reps | 50 reps |
|---|---|---|---|
| JustCall Pro ($49) | $490 | $1,225 | $2,450 |
| Aircall Professional ($50) | $500 | $1,250 | $2,500 |
| Aloware uPro ($60) | $600 | $1,500 | $3,000 |
| PhoneBurner Standard ($140) | $1,400 | $3,500 | $7,000 |
| ReadyMode iQ ($249) | $2,490 | $6,225, quoted | $12,450, quoted |
| Orum | Quote only | Quote only | Quote only |
| Kixie | Not published | Not published | Not published |
| Cleanform, owned, no seat fees | $0 | $0 | $0 |
"Quoted" means ReadyMode sells 20 or more licenses by custom quote. Over a three-year term at 25 reps, seats alone come to $44,100 on JustCall Pro, $45,000 on Aircall, $126,000 on PhoneBurner and $224,100 on ReadyMode iQ at list.
Cheapest dialer for cold calling
Of the per-seat vendors, the cheapest dialer for cold calling with a power dialer built into the plan is JustCall Pro at $49 a seat billed yearly (2 seats), then Aircall Professional at $50 (3 seats). CloudTalk Starter plus its Power Dialer add-on is €40 a seat in euros, with no seat minimum.
Free dialer for cold calling
There's no free dialer for cold calling from the main vendors: none of them puts a dialer on a free plan. You get a trial instead: 14 days on JustCall and CloudTalk, 7 days on Kixie and Aloware, and 500 dials on Orum.
The add-ons a dialer for cold calling leaves out
A dialer for cold calling usually leaves out the two things cold lists need most, local numbers and spam monitoring, and several vendors don't print a price for either. Each pick's own page shows:
| Vendor | Local numbers | Spam monitoring |
|---|---|---|
| JustCall Pro | Local number bundles, add-on | Number Health on SalesPro, quote only |
| Aircall Professional | Local Presence included; extra numbers $6 a month | $0.03 per reputation check |
| Aloware uPro | $5 a number; Local Presence add-on | Spam label removal add-on, no price |
| PhoneBurner | Numbers add-on, no price | ARMOR add-on, no price |
| ReadyMode iQ | 75 numbers per license included | Included, with Assisted Remediation |
| Orum | Up to 10 caller IDs a month | Number Temperature included |
Local presence is the add-on with the weakest proof. The only large head-to-head test we found is Orum's study of about 1.5 million calls in 2021: 4.6% of calls from a matching area code connected, against 5.5% from other numbers, no significant difference. Test it on half your list before you pay for it.
No dialer controls spam labels: carriers set them, and a dialer can only spread calls, watch labels and help replace flagged numbers. If your answer rate has already dropped, read why your business number shows Spam Likely.
Is B2B cold calling illegal?
No, B2B cold calling is legal in the US, and the FTC's Telemarketing Sales Rule exempts most calls to businesses (16 CFR 310.6). The exemptions are narrow, though, and the TCPA and state laws still apply.
The rules a dialer has to help you follow are in the FCC's TCPA rules: calls between 8 a.m. and 9 p.m. in the called person's time, no more than 3% of answered calls abandoned per campaign, and prior express written consent for autodialed or prerecorded telemarketing calls to mobiles.
No dialer makes you compliant out of the box. PhoneBurner's terms, for example, leave scrubbing state lists and running your own do-not-call list to the customer. Rules checked November 2, 2026; this is not legal advice. The full picture is in our guide to TCPA rules for sales calls.
Rent a dialer for cold calling or own one
Rent a dialer for cold calling if it costs under $1,000 a month and fits how you sell. Owning starts to make sense once the dialer, the CRM and the tools holding them together run about $2,000 to $3,000 a month or more, whatever the headcount.
A dialer we build watches its own numbers: a nightly check reads each number's spam label on every carrier, and a number flagged twice is retired and replaced. Calling hours apply in each lead's local time, and your own do-not-call list is checked before every dial. These are tools that help you follow the rules, not legal advice.
One sales floor we built for paid about $4,500 a month for eight closers across a per-seat dialer, a per-seat CRM, a scheduling tool and a Zap. Now dialer and pipeline sit on one screen in a system they own, for about $300 a month in hosting and $0 per added seat (the dialer and CRM case study). If your reps also need a CRM, here's which CRMs include a real dialer.
An owned system typically costs less than you spend on software today, paid monthly, and the build payments have an end date. Here's how pricing works.
Sources
Prices and pages checked November 2, 2026. Prices change, so check the vendor's page before you buy.
- JustCall pricing and JustCall pricing guide (monthly prices)
- Aircall pricing and Aircall outbound campaigns
- Aloware pricing
- PhoneBurner pricing and PhoneBurner terms
- ReadyMode pricing and ReadyMode iQ
- Orum pricing, Orum power and parallel dialing report and Orum local presence study
- CloudTalk pricing
- Kixie pricing
- Salesfinity pricing
- Mojo pricing
- 16 CFR 310.6 (FTC Telemarketing Sales Rule exemptions) and 47 CFR 64.1200 (FCC TCPA rules)
The SaaS cost calculator adds up your whole stack in about two minutes. If it comes out at a few thousand a month, book a free audit and we'll show you what one owned system would replace.
Frequently asked questions
What is the best dialer for cold calling?
It depends on team size. JustCall Pro for 1 to 5 reps, Aloware uPro or Aircall Professional for 6 to 20, and Orum or ReadyMode iQ for 50 or more. Pick the size band first, then check what the plan charges extra for local numbers and spam monitoring.
What is the cheapest dialer for cold calling?
Of the per-seat vendors with a power dialer built into the plan, JustCall Pro ($49 a seat) and Aircall Professional ($50) are the lowest published prices, billed yearly, checked November 2, 2026. CloudTalk Starter plus its Power Dialer add-on is €40 a seat, shown in euros.
Is there a free dialer for cold calling?
No. None of the main cold calling dialers has a free plan with a dialer. You get a trial instead: 14 days on JustCall and CloudTalk, 7 days on Kixie and Aloware, and 500 dials on Orum.
Is a power dialer or a parallel dialer better for cold calling?
A parallel dialer gets more conversations an hour on cold lists where few people answer, and a power dialer gives better calls on numbers that have already picked up. Many teams run parallel to find the people who answer, then call those back on a power dialer.
Is B2B cold calling illegal?
No. B2B cold calling is legal in the US, and the FTC's Telemarketing Sales Rule exempts most calls to businesses. The TCPA, calling-hour limits, the 3% abandoned-call rule and state laws can still apply. This is not legal advice.
Does local presence dialing work?
Not reliably. The one large head-to-head test we found, about 1.5 million calls on Orum in 2021, showed no significant difference: 4.6% of local-number calls connected against 5.5% of non-local ones. The big lifts other vendors quote don't say how they were measured.