What a parallel dialer costs: price, minimum, term, then minutes
Five at a Time costs $150 a seat a month, and because one seat is the minimum and nothing is annual, $150 is also the smallest commitment. For most parallel dialers the first-year cost is the seat price, times the fewest seats they sell, times the months you sign for, plus what the minutes cost.
The formula
seat price×timesseat minimum×timescontract term+plusminutes
- Five at a Time
- $150 × 1 seat × 1 month, plus 5 cents a minute past 2,500
- $150
The smallest first year, vendor by vendor
The fewest seats each vendor sells, at its listed price. The dark part is what you must buy to start. The pale part is the rest of twelve months.
Bars share one scale, set by the largest listed figure (Salesfinity, $3,588). Usage past a plan’s included minutes is not in any bar, ours included. Two of these are ours: Five at a Time and DialSheet.
The same numbers, as a table
| Dialer | Listed price, a seat a month | Fewest seats | Term | Smallest purchase | Twelve months |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Five at a Time | $1502,500 minutes, then 5 cents each | 1 | Month to month. No annual plan | $150One month | $1,800If you stay |
| DialSheet Pro | $29[7]Calls billed by Twilio | 1 | Per seat, per month | $29 | $348Plus Twilio’s per-minute charges |
| Trellus | $149.99 a seat a month (Power + Parallel)[8] | 1 | Not stated where we read | Term not stated | $1,799.88 |
| Salesfinity | $299 a seat month to month, $249 on an annual plan (Gold)[9] | 1 | Month to month | $299 | $3,588 |
| CallCloud | $125 a seat a month for parallel[10] | 1 | Month to month | $125 | $1,500 |
| Koncert | No price published[11] | Not stated | Not stated where we read | No listed price | Not computed |
| Kixie | No price published[12] | Not stated | Not stated where we read | No listed price | Not computed |
| Apollo | A $149 a month per-team add-on ($119 annual) on top of Apollo seats[13] | An Apollo plan | Not stated where we read | An add-on to another plan. Not computed | Not computed |
| CloudTalk | A €39 a user a month add-on, on plans from €25[14] | Depends on the plan | Not stated where we read | An add-on to another plan. Not computed | Not computed |
| Nooks | No price published[4] | 2[5] | Not stated on Nooks’ site | Quote only. Minimum 2 seats | Not computed |
| Orum | No price published[1] | 9[1] | Per user, billed annually[2] | Quote only. 9 seats, billed annually | Not computed |
Prices as each vendor listed them on the dates in the sources below. A figure appears only where the vendor lists a dollar price per seat. DialSheet also has a free plan for one person, without parallel dialing.
Where the page gives no price
Nooks and Orum sell by quote, so the formula has a blank in it. The other two terms are on their own pages. Orum states a minimum of 9 seats, per user, billed annually.[1] Nooks states a minimum of 2.[5] Whatever the seat price turns out to be, you are multiplying it by at least those.
The nearest thing to a public number is Vendr, which collects contracts its buyers report. It puts the median Nooks contract at $30,105 a year across 59 purchases[6] and the median Orum contract at $24,000 a year across 93.[3] Vendr calls its ranges indicative, and a median contract covers teams of every size, so treat these as reported and not as a price list. Nooks pricing and Orum pricing go through each.
Quotes also carry lines a seat price does not. Orum’s pricing page lists AI Coaching and Webhooks as paid add-ons.[1] Vendr reports onboarding fees of $2,000 to $10,000 or more on Nooks contracts.[6] Ask for the full first-year total in writing before you compare it with anything on this page.
Metered against flat, at three volumes
Our plan is metered: 2,500 minutes a seat, then 5 cents each. This is one seat’s month at 0.93 billed minutes a dial, the average on DialSheet’s managed lines in early September 2026.
100 dials a day
$150
1,953 minutes. All inside the included minutes.
Seat price listed for less: CallCloud and Trellus.
250 dials a day
$269.15
4,883 minutes. 2,383 past the pool, which adds $119.15.
Seat price listed for less: CallCloud and Trellus.
500 dials a day
$513.25
9,765 minutes. 7,265 past the pool, which adds $363.25.
Seat price listed for less: CallCloud, Trellus and Salesfinity.
A metered plan is cheap when you dial a little and dear when you dial a lot. The included minutes cover about 128 dials a working day. Past that you are paying 5 cents a minute, and a rep doing 500 dials a day spends more on minutes than on the seat.
A flat price does the opposite. CallCloud lists $125 a seat a month for parallel[10] and Salesfinity lists $299 a seat month to month, $249 on an annual plan (Gold).[9] Trellus lists $149.99 a seat a month and its page says: about 2,000 US minutes a seat a week.[8] If you dial hard every day, one of those will cost you less than we do. Read each one’s fair-use terms and caps first, because we did not test where they bite.
The other thing to know about any meter is what it counts. On ours, every answered call bills at least one minute, voicemail boxes included, and each call rounds up. That is why the sums above use billed minutes per dial and not talk time. How dialer minutes work has the detail, the dial math calculator takes your own numbers, and our pricing page has the rest of the plan.
The cheap end
The lowest listed price for parallel dialing here is DialSheet Pro at $29 a seat a month[7], which runs on your own Twilio account. Twilio bills you for the calls, so the true monthly figure is $29 plus Twilio’s per-minute charges, and the setup is yours to do. If that trade suits you, it is the cheapest way in. Here is how it compares with Five at a Time.
Cost questions
How much does a parallel dialer cost?
On the pages we read, listed prices run from $29 a seat a month (DialSheet, on your own Twilio account, which bills calls separately) to $299 a seat a month (Salesfinity, month to month). Five at a Time is $150 a seat a month with 2,500 minutes included. Nooks and Orum publish no price and sell by quote.
What is the cheapest parallel dialer?
Of the ones with a listed price, DialSheet: $29 a seat a month with parallel dialing on your own Twilio account, plus Twilio's per-minute charges. We make DialSheet. CallCloud lists $125 a seat a month for parallel as a flat price.
Why is the seat price not the whole cost?
Seat minimums and contract terms multiply it. Orum's pricing page states a minimum of 9 seats, per user, billed annually, so the smallest purchase is 9 seats for a year whatever one seat costs. Where minutes are metered, as ours are, usage adds to it.
Is Five at a Time metered or flat?
Metered. Each seat includes 2,500 billed minutes a month, shared across the team. Past that, each minute is 5 cents, paid from a wallet that reloads $50 when it runs low. There is no unlimited plan.
How many dials do 2,500 minutes cover?
About 128 dials a working day for one rep, at the 0.93 billed minutes a dial measured on DialSheet's managed lines in early September 2026 and 21 working days a month. Lists that pick up more, or longer conversations, use more.
How much do Nooks and Orum cost?
Neither publishes a price. Vendr, which collects buyer-reported contracts, reports a median of $30,105 a year for Nooks across 59 purchases and $24,000 a year for Orum across 93. Those are reported figures, not price lists.
Do parallel dialers charge for voicemails?
On Five at a Time, yes. Every answered call counts as at least one billed minute, whether a person or a voicemail box picked up, and each call rounds up to the next whole minute. Calls nobody answers cost nothing. Other vendors meter differently, so ask each one what counts as a minute.
Sources
- Orum, pricing page. No prices shown. States "Minimum 9-Seat" and a free trial limited to 500 dials. Read November 13, 2026.
- Orum, homepage. Per user, billed annually; demo request. Read November 13, 2026.
- Vendr, Orum pricing marketplace page. Buyer-reported contract data. Vendr calls its ranges indicative. Read November 13, 2026.
- Nooks, pricing page. No prices shown. Custom quote only. Read November 13, 2026.
- Nooks, "Nooks review" blog post. States a minimum of two seats. Read November 13, 2026.
- Vendr, Nooks pricing marketplace page. Buyer-reported contract data. Vendr calls its ranges indicative. Read November 13, 2026.
- DialSheet, pricing page. Read November 10, 2026.
- Trellus, pricing page. Read November 13, 2026.
- Salesfinity, pricing page. Read November 13, 2026.
- CallCloud, pricing page. Read October 5, 2026.
- Koncert, pricing page. Read November 13, 2026.
- Kixie, pricing page. Read November 13, 2026.
- Apollo, dialer page. Read November 13, 2026.
- CloudTalk, pricing page. Read November 13, 2026.
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