Predictive dialer software: vendors and prices

Prices below come from each vendor's own page, checked on October 29, 2026, in US dollars per seat per month unless a line says otherwise. A predictive dialer calls more numbers than you have free agents and connects only the people who answer. Our guide to auto dialers explains how predictive pacing differs from power and parallel dialing.

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Best predictive dialer: which vendors actually sell it

The best predictive dialer for most outbound call centers is ReadyMode or Five9, because they are the two in this group built around predictive pacing. JustCall adds predictive on its top SalesPro plan only. CloudTalk, Aloware and PhoneBurner are good dialers, but none of them sells a predictive mode, whatever a roundup calls them.

• ReadyMode includes preview, power, progressive and predictive dialing on every plan, and its multi-line modes run 20 or more calls at once per agent. It also has a built-in CRM.
• Five9 is a full cloud contact center with predictive, progressive, power and preview modes. It's built for large inbound and outbound centers more than sales teams.
• JustCall puts its predictive dialer, at up to 10 lines per agent, on the SalesPro plan only. The cheaper Pro plan has a power dialer.
• Aloware sells a one-line power dialer on its uPro and xPro plans. No predictive mode appears on its pricing page.
• PhoneBurner answers "Is PhoneBurner a predictive dialer?" with a flat no in its own FAQ. It sells power dialing only, by design, because it doesn't want the dead air predictive dialing causes.

Is there a CloudTalk predictive dialer?

No. CloudTalk sells a power dialer and a parallel dialer that rings up to 10 numbers at once and connects the first person who answers, but no predictive mode. Its dialer lineup is parallel, power and click-to-call, even though CloudTalk's own "best predictive dialer" roundup ranks CloudTalk first. For a team of under 15 agents on one campaign, parallel is often the better fit anyway.

Predictive dialer pricing: cost at 10, 25 and 50 seats

Predictive dialer pricing is published by only one of the big vendors: ReadyMode iQ costs $2,490 a month for 10 seats billed yearly, or $2,990 monthly. At 25 and 50 seats, ReadyMode, Five9 and JustCall all sell by custom quote, so the list math below is where that negotiation starts, not where it ends.

Seat prices only. "Quoted" means the vendor sells that team size by quote: ReadyMode from 20 licenses and CloudTalk from 25 seats. CloudTalk's $68 is Essential at $29 plus the $39 Parallel Dialer add-on, from CloudTalk's own dialer price list ($78 billed monthly).

At 25 agents, ReadyMode's predictive dialer costs about $6,225 a month at list, against about $1,700 for CloudTalk's parallel dialer. That gap is why a smaller team should ask whether it needs predictive at all.

Source: ReadyMode pricing page, annual billing, October 29, 2026.

ReadyMode Starter costs $199 billed yearly or $239 monthly and also includes predictive dialing, but iQ is the plan ReadyMode points to from 5 licenses up. The page says "Save 20%" on annual billing; $249 against $299 works out closer to 17%.

Predictive dialer cost beyond the seat

The seat is only part of what a predictive dialer costs. These are the lines that move the bill:

• Phone numbers. ReadyMode includes up to 30 numbers per Starter license and 75 per iQ license. Aloware charges $4 to $6 a local number a month, and JustCall sells local number bundles as an add-on.
• Spam and caller ID tools. Aloware lists spam label removal and local presence as add-ons. CloudTalk prices spam remediation by quote.
• Fees. CloudTalk adds a cost recovery fee of 11% of the subscription for customers billed in the US or Canada.
• Leads. Predictive dialing goes through a list fast. When we ran ReadyMode, a fairly small team went through about 30,000 leads a month. Price your data before you price your seats.

Five9 predictive dialer

The Five9 predictive dialer is part of Five9's cloud contact center suite, and Five9 doesn't publish a price on its site, so you get one from its sales team. Five9 recommends predictive mode for more than 10 active agents, so it's built for large call centers, not a 10-seat sales team.

Five9's campaign admin guide goes further: never run predictive with fewer than 15 agents consistently active in the campaign, and keep those agents off other campaigns, inbound included. Shared or patchy staffing drives up abandoned calls.

One competitor publishes what it says Five9 charges, with a 50-seat minimum. Five9 doesn't confirm it, so treat it as a reason to ask about minimums, usage fees and auto-renewal on your first call, not as a price. Five9 is a strong pick for a center of 50 or more agents that also handles inbound. Below that, you're paying for a suite you won't use.

JustCall predictive dialer

The JustCall predictive dialer is only on the SalesPro plan, which is quote only with a 2-license minimum. SalesPro dials up to 10 lines per agent and also includes power dialing, unlimited outbound calling in the US and Canada, and number health tools. JustCall's Pro plan at $49 a seat billed yearly is power dialing only.

JustCall is the stronger pick for a sales team that wants predictive and a modern phone system in one login, and already likes JustCall's CRM integrations. Get the SalesPro quote in writing next to a ReadyMode quote at the same seat count.

Predictive dialer for call center teams: how many agents you need

A predictive dialer for a call center needs about 10 to 15 agents logged in to the same campaign at the same time to work well. Below that, the dialer's guess about who will be free next breaks down, and you get dropped calls or agents waiting. Five9 draws the line at more than 10, and at 15 in its admin guide.

Predictive dialing also needs a big list and a low answer rate. The dialer rings ahead because most calls aren't picked up. If your list answers often, a predictive dialer will over-dial and drop people. Start low, at about two lines per free agent, and raise it only while the abandon rate stays under the limit.

The limit is a rule, not a setting. For telemarketing calls, the FCC and the FTC both cap abandoned calls at 3% of live answers per campaign over 30 days. A call counts as abandoned when no rep picks up within two seconds of the person's hello. Rules checked October 28, 2026. This is not legal advice, and consent, calling hours and Do Not Call rules apply too: see our TCPA rules for sales calls.

The other cost is trust. When we ran a predictive dialer, the answering machine detection left a pause after people said hello, and that pause lost them. Some hung up, and our numbers got flagged as spam, which burned more leads.

Cloud based predictive dialer vs hosted predictive dialer

A cloud based predictive dialer and a hosted predictive dialer are the same thing for buying purposes: the vendor runs the predictive dialer system on its servers, and your agents log in from a browser or app. Every vendor on this page sells it that way. Some vendors call dedicated servers "hosted" and shared ones "cloud", but the bill and the contract look the same.

The real choice is between renting and running it yourself. An on-premise or open-source dialer such as VICIdial has no per-seat license, but you pay for servers, phone carrier setup and someone who keeps it running. That trade only makes sense for a team with its own technical staff.

Predictive dialer vs power dialer

A predictive dialer calls ahead of your agents based on who it expects to be free, while a power dialer waits for a free agent and calls one number for them. Predictive gets more talk time an hour from a big team. Power rarely drops a live answer and suits teams of any size.

Predictive dialer vs progressive dialer

A progressive dialer adjusts its pace from how the campaign is going and only dials for agents who are free, so it drops far fewer calls than a predictive dialer. Five9 recommends progressive mode under 10 active agents and predictive above that. ReadyMode and Five9 sell both, so a growing team can switch modes without switching vendors.

Owning your predictive dialer software instead

Owning your predictive dialer software makes sense once you spend about $2,000 to $3,000 a month or more on dialer seats, and that's 10 seats of ReadyMode iQ. Under $1,000 a month, keep renting: the tool you have is probably fine.

Past that line, a dialer you own can dial the way your floor works, with power, parallel or predictive pacing, the script, dispositions and pipeline in one screen, and no fee for the next hire. One sales team we built for was paying about $4,500 a month for a per-seat dialer, a per-seat CRM, a scheduling tool and a Zap for eight closers. It now pays about $300 a month in hosting, and an added seat costs $0 (the dialer and CRM case study).

However much you pay a dialer vendor, the system never becomes yours. Stop paying and the account, the campaigns and the setup stop with it.

The dialers we build also watch their own numbers. A nightly check reads each number's spam label on every carrier. A number flagged on one carrier stops calling that carrier, a number flagged everywhere is rested, and one flagged twice is retired and replaced. Calling-hour limits run in each customer's local time, and your do-not-call list is checked before every dial. These are tools that help you follow the rules, not legal advice.

How it's paid for: typically less than you spend today, paid monthly, and the build payments have an end date. You get the code, the data and the IP. Here's how pricing works.

Sources

Prices checked October 29, 2026; federal rules checked October 28, 2026. Prices change, so check the vendor's page before you buy.

• ReadyMode pricing and ReadyMode FAQ
• Five9 dialer system and Five9 predictive dialing mode guide
• JustCall pricing (Sales Suite tab for SalesPro)
• CloudTalk pricing, CloudTalk dialer prices and CloudTalk dialer types
• Aloware pricing
• PhoneBurner pricing and PhoneBurner FAQ
• 47 CFR 64.1200 (FCC) and 16 CFR 310.4 (FTC)

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