We make both Five at a Time and DialSheet, and they compete on purpose. Five at a Time is $150 a seat a month for reps who want five lines, their numbers and their minutes handled. DialSheet is $29 a seat for reps who will set up their own Twilio account to pay less.
Most of the choice comes down to how much setup you will do and how many lines you want.
DialSheet
The best dialer for a small business.
$29
a seat a month with parallel dialing. Free for one person without it.
Five at a Time
The best parallel dialer.
$150
a seat a month. One plan, monthly, one seat is enough.
Five at a Time
Of the two, it is the one that runs five lines without a carrier account of your own: $150 a seat a month, with 2,500 minutes and 5 local numbers in the seat.
DialSheet’s plans as listed on its pricing page[1]. How its managed line and Pro plan combine is on that page; we have not restated it here.
| DialSheet | Five at a Time | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free for one person, or $29 a seat a month on Pro[1] | $150 a seat a month. One plan |
| What is free | A free plan: one person, 500 calls a month, 500 leads | A trial: 10 conversations or 24 hours from the first dial. Then the plan starts on your card unless you cancel |
| Lines at once | 2 to 5 on Pro. Up to 3 on the managed line once verified | Up to 5 in every seat: solo, double, triple, five at a time |
| Phone numbers and carrier | Your own Twilio account, which you set up and pay. Or its managed line: $49 a month | We run both. 5 local numbers per business, picked from your list's area codes, on Telnyx. You cannot bring your own carrier account or port in your own numbers. |
| Setup | More. You create a Twilio account and connect it before you dial, unless you take the managed line | Less. Nothing to connect. You verify your business and load a CSV |
| Verification | Needed before the managed line runs parallel lines | Every business, before the first call |
| Minutes | Twilio bills your account by the minute. The managed line includes 1,500 a month | 2,500 a seat a month, shared by the team, then 5 cents each |
| Where it calls | The managed line covers the US and Canada | US and Canadian numbers only |
| Built for | A rep or small team that wants the lowest bill and does not mind some setup | Reps who dial all day and want to open a list and start |
DialSheet’s column is from its own pricing page, read November 10, 2026. It changes on its own schedule, so check dialsheet.io before you decide on a number here.
A solo rep dialing parallel every working day. The two bills are built differently, which is the whole comparison.
$29 plus what Twilio bills you
Twilio sets and bills those charges, so we cannot quote your total. The more you dial, the more of your month is on Twilio’s invoice and not on DialSheet’s.
$150 if you stay inside the minutes
2,500 minutes covers about 128 dials a working day, at the 0.93 billed minutes a dial measured on DialSheet’s managed lines in early September 2026. Past that, each minute is 5 cents. Run your own numbers.
The seat prices are $121 a month apart before Twilio’s charges. Whether that gap closes depends on how much you dial, and how dialer minutes work explains why a minute is rarely sixty seconds of talking.
The best-known parallel dialers are sold through a demo, with no price on the page and a minimum number of seats. We built two that a single rep can buy, because one product could not be both the cheapest and the least work.
DialSheet takes the cheap end. The software is free for one person and $29 a seat with parallel dialing, and you supply the Twilio account, so the cost of the calls is between you and Twilio. Five at a Time takes the other end. The numbers, the carrier and the minutes come in the seat, every business is verified before it dials, and the price is higher because of it.
We let them compete on purpose. A page that only ever recommended the expensive one would be wrong for a lot of the people reading it, and we would sooner lose a customer to our other product than to someone else’s. If DialSheet fits you better, go and use DialSheet. If you are not sure, the page for solo reps and the wider list of parallel dialers cover the options that are not ours.
Yes. One company in Calgary builds and runs both, and they compete on purpose. DialSheet is our dialer for small businesses: free for one person, and the lowest seat price we have found for parallel dialing. Five at a Time is our premium parallel dialer: five lines, your own numbers and your minutes, all handled.
DialSheet. It is free for one person, and $29 a seat a month with parallel dialing. That price does not include calls: Twilio bills those to your own account. Five at a Time is $150 a seat a month with 2,500 minutes included.
Yes, on its $29 Pro plan, with 2 to 5 lines on your own Twilio account. Its $49 managed line runs up to 3 parallel lines once you are verified.
No. We run the numbers and the carrier, and both come in the seat. The other side of that: you cannot bring your own carrier account or port in your own numbers.
Both go to five. On DialSheet that is the Pro plan on your own Twilio account, and its managed line stops at 3. On Five at a Time five managed lines come in every seat.
DialSheet has a free plan for one person: 500 calls a month on your own Twilio account. Five at a Time has a free trial of 10 conversations or 24 hours from your first dial, with a card saved first. When the trial ends the plan starts on that card unless you cancel.
Five at a Time calls US and Canadian numbers only. DialSheet's managed line covers the US and Canada too. For anything beyond that, check DialSheet's own site.
Different reps need different things. Some want the lowest bill and will set up a carrier account to get it. Others want five lines, numbers and minutes handled for one price. We would sooner lose a customer to our other product than to someone else's.
DialSheet changes its prices on its own schedule. If something here is out of date, tell us and we will fix it.
10 conversations or one day on five lines, free. You add a card and we check your business before the first call. After the trial your plan starts on that card at $150 a seat a month unless you cancel.
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