Best Auto Dialer Software in 2026: 13 Tools Sorted by Dialing Mode

The best auto dialer software is the one whose dialing mode matches the calls you make. For B2B prospecting by one rep or a small team, pick a power or parallel dialer: Skipcall, Close, PhoneBurner and Trellus sell single seats at a published price, Orum and Nooks sell multi-line dialing on quote. For a contact center pooling agents on consumer campaigns, pick a predictive or progressive dialer such as Five9, Convoso or MightyCall. Every price below was read on the vendor’s own page on November 11, 2026.

You’re probably here for one of three reasons.

What is auto dialer software, and why is the word misleading?

Auto dialer software places calls from a list so a person does not have to type each number. That is the whole definition, and it is why the word says so little: a tool that calls one researched account at a time and a tool that launches thousands of consumer calls an hour are both “auto dialers”. Our guide to what an auto dialer is and how it works covers the mechanics. This page starts where that one stops: which mode, then which product.

Each mode has its own explainer on this site, so the descriptions here stay short.

Which auto dialer mode fits which job?

Three kinds of teams buy auto dialers, and they need different machines. The grid below is the shortcut most comparisons skip.

Two consequences follow. First, a ranking that puts a 50-seat contact center suite next to a single-seat sales dialer compares tools nobody hesitates between. Second, the mode decides the legal questions you will have to answer, which is why compliance has its own section further down.

If you already know you need a power dialer, our dedicated comparison of the best power dialers goes deeper on that family, and the best parallel dialers roundup does the same for multi-line tools. This page keeps the wide view.

How did we select and check these 13 tools?

A tool is on this page if it sells automatic dialing as a product you can buy today, and if its vendor states which mode it runs. We grouped the 13 tools by the job they are built for, not by a score.

For each tool we read the official pricing page on November 11, 2026 and noted five things: the dialing modes the vendor names, the first plan that includes automatic dialing, its price per user per month billed annually, the seat minimum, and whether the price is published at all. Line counts for Orum and Nooks come from the vendor pages we checked for our parallel dialer comparison earlier in November; neither pricing page states a number.

Prices are in US dollars, excluding tax. CloudTalk’s pricing page showed euros when we loaded it (€25 for Starter, €15 and €39 for the dialer add-ons), so its figures are converted at the European Central Bank rate of October 14, 2026 (€1 = $1.1195) and marked “about”.

Skipcall comes first in its family because it is our product and the one we know best. That is an editorial choice, stated as such.

Which are the best auto dialers in 2026, at a glance?

Data read on official vendor pages on November 11, 2026, excluding tax. “Not stated” means the page gives no figure, not that there is none.

Which auto dialers fit B2B prospecting? Power and parallel tools

These seven tools are built for a rep working a list of business contacts. All of them keep a person on the line for every answered call.

Skipcall

Skipcall is the tool we build, so read this section knowing that. The Starter plan, from $70 per seat per month billed annually, includes both prospecting modes: a power dialer that calls one number after another, and a parallel dialer that calls 4 numbers at once, detects voicemail and connects the rep to the first person who answers. The rep chooses the mode per session, which matters more than it sounds: a list of 80 researched accounts and a list of 2,000 contacts do not deserve the same treatment.

Calls are written back to HubSpot, Pipedrive, Salesforce and Attio through native integrations; other tools connect through the open API or a CSV import. Recording, transcripts and AI summaries are included.

What Skipcall is not: it has no predictive dialer, no automated prerecorded calls and no AI voice agent. Every answered call reaches a rep. A rep can leave a pre-recorded voicemail when a call lands on a mailbox, which is not the same thing as an automated campaign; our article on ringless voicemail and voicemail drop explains the difference.

Close

Close is a CRM where the phone is part of the product. Its pricing page, read on November 11, 2026, shows four plans: Solo at $9, Essentials at $35, Growth at $99 and Scale at $139, each displayed next to a higher figure ($19, $49, $109 and $149). The power dialer starts on Growth, described as calling “through any list of contacts without touching your keyboard or mouse”. The predictive dialer is reserved for Scale and described as dialing “multiple numbers at once”.

Close is the rare sales tool that sells a predictive mode to small teams. Before you switch it on, read the compliance section below: a mode that dials more numbers than you have free reps behaves differently from a power dialer when two people answer.

PhoneBurner

PhoneBurner’s pricing page lists three plans at $140, $165 and $183 per user per month billed annually ($165, $195 and $215 monthly), with power dialing marked “Unlimited” and “delay-free connections” on all three. The browser softphone is included from Professional; Standard connects through your phone. The page states no seat minimum and mentions a free team admin account.

It is a power dialer in the strict sense: one rep, one call at a time, no multi-line mode advertised. That makes it a clean choice for teams that want sequential dialing and nothing else, at a price above the phone systems below.

Trellus

Trellus publishes two prices: Power at $99.99 per seat per month and Power + Parallel at $149.99, with up to 5 lines and no seat minimum, according to its pricing page, read on November 11, 2026. It plugs into the engagement platform or CRM a rep already uses and adds dialing and live coaching on top.

Kixie

Kixie’s pricing page names three plans and no price: Professional, without a dialer; Single-Line PowerDialer; and Multi-Line PowerDialer, which dials “up to 4 lines simultaneously”. AI human voice detection appears as a premium add-on on the multi-line plan card. Unlimited minutes cover the US and Canada, and the page offers a 7-day free trial with no credit card.

Orum and Nooks

Orum and Nooks are the reference names for multi-line dialing in North American SDR teams. Neither publishes a price. Orum’s pricing page states a 9-seat minimum; Nooks’ pricing page points to a sales conversation. Both integrate deeply with Outreach and Salesloft and bundle coaching and analytics.

They belong in an auto dialer comparison for one reason: they show how far the parallel mode has moved from the “auto dialer” of the call center era. One rep, several lines, a person on every answered call. The detail of each, line counts included, is in our parallel dialer comparison for SDR teams.

Which phone systems include an auto dialer?

These three are business phone systems first. The dialer is a feature of a higher plan or an add-on, which is fine if sales and support share the system, and a detour if you only need to prospect.

The catch is the plan ladder. On Aircall and JustCall the advertised entry price buys a phone system with no dialer; automatic dialing starts one tier up, and the seat minimum applies to that tier too. The arithmetic is in the cost section, and the cost per rep of this family is compared in our guide to the best VoIP for sales teams.

Which auto dialers are built for call centers? Predictive and progressive tools

This family answers a different question: how to keep a pool of agents in conversation. It is where predictive dialing lives, and where the minimums are counted in dozens of seats.

Five9

Five9’s outbound page names predictive, power, progressive and preview dialing, plus a “Manual Touch” mode that removes automatic dialing altogether. Its pricing page, read on November 11, 2026, lists Digital at $119 and Core at $159 per seat per month, sends Plus, Pro and Enterprise to sales, and states prices are per concurrent user with “a minimum of 50 seats”.

Fifty seats at $159 is $7,950 a month before usage. That is the right order of magnitude for a contact center and the wrong one for a sales team of five, which is the point of sorting tools by family.

Convoso

Convoso’s pricing page publishes no price: it says a customized quote follows an initial consultation, that carrier fees are billed separately, and it names predictive and power dialing. It is built for outbound lead generation floors that call consumers at volume, with the compliance tooling that work requires.

MightyCall

MightyCall is the entry point to this family. Its pricing page lists Core at $20 and Pro at $38 per user per month billed annually, with no dialer mode listed, then Power at $54 with preview and progressive dialing, and Enterprise at $65, which adds the predictive dialer. Core, Pro and Power require 3 users; Enterprise requires 5.

How much does auto dialer software cost?

The price on the page is per seat. The bill is per seat multiplied by the seats the vendor makes you buy, on the plan that actually dials. Here is that arithmetic, with published prices billed annually.

Three readings of those numbers.

The cheapest seat is not the cheapest dialer. JustCall Team at $29 and Aircall Essentials at $30 are the lowest prices on this page, and neither plan includes automatic dialing. Our comparison of power dialers with no minimum seats tracks that gap vendor by vendor.

Multi-line dialing at a published price is rare. Skipcall includes 4 lines at $70. CloudTalk sells its parallel mode as an add-on at about $44, so about $72 on Starter. Trellus lists $149.99 for up to 5 lines. Everything else in multi-line is on quote.

Predictive dialing has a floor size. The cheapest published predictive plan here is MightyCall Enterprise at 5 users. That is consistent with how the mode works: a pacing model needs several agents to average over.

What you are buying, in the end, is conversations per hour. The formula is short enough to run on your own numbers.

The reasoning behind a moderate number of lines is detailed in how many lines a parallel dialer should run.

Is auto dialer software legal? TCPA and the rules by mode

Auto dialer software is legal in the United States. What is regulated is how you use it, and the mode you choose decides which rules you meet. This section is a map, not legal advice. The federal rules quoted below were read on November 11, 2026 in 47 CFR 64.1200 (FCC) and 16 CFR 310.4 (FTC). Our guide to whether cold calling is legal in the US and the note on the TCPA rule changes of November 2026 go into the texts.

Where does parallel dialing sit? One rep, a few lines, the first live answer connected and the ringing calls cancelled. The exposure is not the pooled-agent bet of a predictive dialer, but two people can answer at the same moment, and the chance grows with the line count. That is the practical argument for keeping lines moderate, alongside the commercial one: a prospect who picks up to nobody is a contact lost. Answering machine detection also plays a part, since a slow detection adds silence at the start of the call.

Outside the US the map changes. Our overview of cold calling laws by country covers the UK, the EU and Canada.

How do you choose an auto dialer in five questions?

1. 01

   Who answers when someone picks up?

   If the answer is “the rep who owns the list”, you want preview, power or parallel. If it is “whichever agent is free”, you want progressive or predictive. This single question removes half the market.

2. 02

   How long is the list, and how precious?

   A few hundred named accounts: power or preview. Thousands of contacts with a low answer rate: parallel. Tens of thousands of consumer records: contact center modes.

3. 03

   How many seats will you really pay for?

   Multiply the price by the vendor’s minimum, on the plan that includes your mode. One seat at Skipcall, Close, Trellus or PhoneBurner; two at JustCall; three at Aircall and MightyCall; fifty at Five9.

4. 04

   Where do calls get logged?

   A dialer that does not write to your CRM creates data entry. Check the named integrations and what is written: outcome, duration, recording, notes.

5. 05

   Who are you calling, and where?

   Consumers, cell phones and regulated industries call for consent records and pacing controls. Business lines in several countries call for local numbers and country coverage. Ask before you sign.

If your question is the whole calling session rather than the dialing mode, from list import to CRM logging, our telesales software comparison follows a session end to end.

The matching, once the five answers are in:

How do you test an auto dialer on your own list?

A demo shows the tool on the vendor’s list. The only test that tells you something is a session on yours. Here is a protocol that fits in a free trial or a first paid month, and that works for any mode.

1. 01

   Split one list in two

   Take a single file of at least 400 contacts from the same segment and cut it randomly into two halves. Same source, same titles, same time zones. If the halves differ, the test measures the list, not the dialer.

2. 02

   Run one session per mode, same day, same hours

   Work half A in power mode and half B in the mode you are considering, parallel or predictive, for the same duration. Keep the same rep and the same opening line.

3. 03

   Count four numbers

   Dials placed, live answers, conversations of more than 30 seconds, and answers that reached nobody or reached the rep late. The last one is the number vendors do not put on a dashboard.

4. 04

   Read the result per hour, not per dial

   Divide conversations by hours on the phone. Then look at what the faster mode cost you in missed or delayed answers. A mode that adds two conversations an hour and loses one good prospect an hour is not obviously ahead.

5. 05

   Check what landed in the CRM

   Open ten records at random after each session. Outcome, duration, notes and recording should be there without anyone typing. If they are not, the time saved on dialing goes back into data entry.

One caution for the US: run the test on a list you are allowed to call in the mode you are testing. A trial is not an exemption from consent or Do Not Call rules.

What should you ask a vendor before a demo?

Sales pages blur the modes. A short written message gets you answers a demo will not. Copy it and adapt it.

Subject: five questions before our demo

1. Which dialing modes are included on the plan you would quote me: preview, power, progressive, parallel, predictive? Which are add-ons, and at what price?
2. What is the seat minimum on that plan, and the commitment length?
3. In your multi-line or predictive mode, what happens when two people answer at the same time? Can I set the maximum number of lines or the pacing myself?
4. How do you detect voicemail, and how long does the detection take before the rep is connected?
5. What does your tool write to my CRM after each call, and is the opt-out list permanent across imports?

For reference, Skipcall’s answers: power and 4-line parallel dialing on Starter, no add-on; no seat minimum; 4 lines maximum, with the first live answer connected and the other calls cancelled while ringing; voicemail detected before the rep is connected; call outcome, duration, recording, transcript and summary written to HubSpot, Pipedrive, Salesforce or Attio.

Which mistakes do buyers make with auto dialers?

What to remember

• “Auto dialer” names five modes. Decide the mode from one question: who takes the call when someone answers.
• For B2B prospecting, power and parallel dialing keep a rep on every answered call. Skipcall, Close, PhoneBurner, Trellus and Kixie cover that ground at team sizes from one seat; Orum and Nooks from nine seats, on quote.
• Phone systems (Aircall, JustCall, CloudTalk) include a dialer on a higher plan or as an add-on, with 2- and 3-seat minimums on two of them.
• Predictive and progressive dialing belong to contact centers: MightyCall from 3 to 5 users, Five9 from 50 seats, Convoso on quote.
• In the US, the rules follow the use: consent for prerecorded or artificial voices and for autodialed calls to cell phones, the Do Not Call Registry, calling hours, and a 3 percent cap on abandoned telemarketing calls.
• Skipcall has no predictive dialer, no automated prerecorded calls and no AI voice agent. If you need those, the shortlist is elsewhere on this page.

If your calls are B2B and your team is small, the fastest test is a real session on your own list: you can start with one Skipcall seat and compare a power session and a parallel session on the same file.