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Five at a Time vs Orum: one seat against nine

Five at a Time is $150 a seat a month and one seat is enough. Orum’s pricing page says “Minimum 9-Seat”[1], bills per user, annually[2], and shows no price.

How many reps dial on your team?

Slide it. Below 9, one of these two companies has nothing to sell you.

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Orum’s smallest sale: 9 seats[1]

You need 1 seat. Orum’s minimum is 9, so 8 of the 9 would sit empty.

Five at a Time, a month

$150

1 seat at $150, with 2,500 minutes in the pool. That is $1,800 a year if you stay inside the included minutes.

Orum, at 1 seat

not sold

Orum’s pricing page says “Minimum 9-Seat”.[1] It publishes no price for those 9 seats either.

Our figure assumes each seat stays inside its 2,500 included minutes; past the pool a minute is 5 cents. The pricing calculator works out a month from your own dial count.

The two, side by side

The Orum column is what Orum’s own pages say. Where Orum gives no number, the cell says so.

Five at a Time and Orum compared on price, seat minimum, lines, buying, trial, billing, integrations and calling area
Compared onOrumFive at a Time
PriceNot published.[1]Vendr reports a median contract of $24,000 a year across 93 purchases. Most buyers land between $100 and $200 a user a month.[4]$150 a seat a month2,500 minutes a seat included, then 5 cents a minute.
Seat minimum9[1]1
Lines at onceSet by your admin[3]Orum’s current pricing page gives no line count. Its help centre says an admin sets the cap.Up to 5You pick solo, double, triple or five before a session.
How you buyDemo and quote.[2]Sign up online and pay by card.
Free trialA free trial limited to 500 dials.[1]10 conversations or 24 hours from the first dialA card is saved first. The plan then starts on it unless you cancel.
BillingPer user, billed annually.[2]MonthlyNo annual plan and no annual discount.
Dial volumeUnlimited dials included.[1]MeteredMinutes are metered. There is no unlimited plan.
CRM and sequencerSalesforce, HubSpot, Outreach, Salesloft, Gong and Apollo[1]NoneNo Salesforce, HubSpot, Outreach or Salesloft sync. Leads come in by CSV.
Where it callsInternational calling included.[1]The US and Canada only
Paid add-onsAI Coaching, Webhooks, Ascend Limited seats for part-time dialers.[1]Minutes past your poolCall scoring and coaching notes come in the seat.

Orum’s pages and Vendr’s were read on November 13, 2026. Vendr calls its ranges indicative.

The smallest purchase each will take

Orum’s floor is 9 seats, billed for the year. Ours is one seat for a month.

Orum, 9 seats

not published

Orum prints no price for its 9-seat minimum.[1] Vendr’s buyer data reports a median contract of $24,000 a year across 93 purchases, from $5,400 to $103,376.[4] The median covers all 93 purchases, whatever their seat count.

Five at a Time, 9 seats

$16,200

A year: 9 × $150 × 12. That is $1,350 a month with 22,500 pooled minutes, and you can drop seats or leave after any month.

Five at a Time, 1 seat

$1,800

A year: 1 × $150 × 12, with 2,500 minutes a month. This is the purchase Orum does not offer. More for solo reps.

Our totals stay inside the included minutes. Orum pricing shows what nine seats come to at Vendr’s reported range.

Which one, by situation

Orum is the right buy for a team we cannot serve. These are the conditions that decide it.

  • Fewer than 9 reps dial

    Five at a Time

    Orum’s pricing page says “Minimum 9-Seat”. We sell one seat.

  • 9 or more reps dial, all day

    Orum

    Orum lists unlimited dials as included. Ours are metered at 2,500 minutes a seat.

  • Your team works in Salesforce, Outreach, Salesloft or Gong

    Orum

    Orum lists all four, plus HubSpot and Apollo. We have no sync with any of them.

  • You call outside the US and Canada

    Orum

    Orum lists international calling as included. We call US and Canadian numbers only.

  • You dial from CSV lists

    Five at a Time

    Leads come in by CSV and the importer guesses the phone and name columns.

  • You want to pay by the month

    Five at a Time

    Orum bills per user, annually. We bill monthly and have no annual plan.

  • You want call coaching without an add-on

    Five at a Time

    Orum lists AI Coaching as a paid add-on. Ours scores each call against your script, in the seat.

Orum facts in this list are from its pricing page.[1] Our other gaps, whoever you compare us with: No SOC 2 report or other third-party security audit yet. No virtual sales floor or team video rooms. No mobile app. It runs in a desktop browser.

What Orum includes that we do not

Orum’s pricing page lists these as included: power and parallel dialing, unlimited dials, up to 10 caller IDs a month, voicemail drop, salesfloor rooms, AI call summaries, international calling.[1] We have no voicemail drop, no sales floor and no calling outside the US and Canada, and our dials are metered. A team of 9 or more that needs any of those four should buy Orum.

What we put in the seat that Orum sells as an add-on is coaching: each call is scored against your script after it ends. How the dialer works covers the rest.

Orum or Five at a Time

Does Orum have a minimum number of seats?

Yes. Orum’s pricing page says “Minimum 9-Seat”, as read on November 13, 2026. Five at a Time has no seat minimum, so one seat is enough.

Is Five at a Time cheaper than Orum?

Orum publishes no price, so nobody outside a quote can say exactly. 9 seats of Five at a Time are $16,200 a year at $150 a seat a month, inside the included minutes. Vendr’s buyer data reports a median Orum contract of $24,000 a year across 93 purchases, which is a reported figure and not Orum’s price list.

Can a solo rep buy Orum?

Not as one seat. Orum’s pricing page states a 9-seat minimum. One seat of Five at a Time is $150 a month, or $1,800 a year inside the included minutes.

Does Orum have a free trial?

Orum’s pricing page lists a free trial limited to 500 dials. Five at a Time’s trial is 10 conversations or 24 hours from the first dial, whichever comes first, with a card saved and your business verified before that dial. The plan starts on the card when the trial ends unless you cancel.

Does Five at a Time have unlimited dials like Orum?

No. Orum lists unlimited dials as included. Five at a Time meters minutes: 2,500 a seat a month, pooled across the team, then 5 cents a minute. There is no unlimited plan.

Does Five at a Time work with Salesforce, Outreach or Salesloft?

No. Leads come in by CSV and nothing syncs to a CRM or a sequencer. Orum lists integrations with Salesforce, HubSpot, Outreach, Salesloft, Gong and Apollo.

Sources

  1. Orum, pricing page. No prices shown. States "Minimum 9-Seat" and a free trial limited to 500 dials. Read November 13, 2026.
  2. Orum, homepage. Per user, billed annually; demo request. Read November 13, 2026.
  3. Orum help centre, "Parallel dialer". The number of lines is capped by an admin. Read November 13, 2026.
  4. Vendr, Orum pricing marketplace page. Buyer-reported contract data. Vendr calls its ranges indicative. Read November 13, 2026.
  5. DialSheet, pricing page. Read November 10, 2026.

Other companies change their prices and plans without telling us. If something here is out of date, tell us and we will fix it.

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