# Sales dialers and calling for enterprise buyers: what AI models recommend, September 2026

Gane Index, September 2026 Edition. Asked as "sales dialer" and as "outbound calling platform for sales teams", six framings each, to twelve models with search on, on behalf of an enterprise B2B company. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/sales/sales-dialers-and-calling/2026-09/enterprise

This is the permanent record of the September 2026 Edition, published September 15, 2026 and superseded since. The current standing: https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/sales/sales-dialers-and-calling/enterprise/index.md

**Standing:** Outreach Voice leads with 20% of first choices; verdict contested. 54 first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts.

## First-choice share

| Rank | Product | Share | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | [Outreach Voice](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/outreach-voice/index.md) | 20% | 0% | 23 |
| 2 | [Salesloft Dialer](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/salesloft-dialer/index.md) | 15% | 4% | 27 |
| 3 | [Five9](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/five9/index.md) | 13% | 14% | 42 |
| 4 | [Aloware](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/aloware/index.md) | 11% | 17% | 24 |
| 5 | [NICE CXone](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/nice-cxone/index.md) | 7% | 7% | 27 |
| 6 | [Orum](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/orum/index.md) | 7% | 25% | 32 |
| 8 | [Genesys Cloud CX](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/genesys-cloud-cx/index.md) | 4% | 12% | 16 |
| 9 | [CloudTalk](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/cloudtalk/index.md) | 4% | 28% | 32 |
| 10 | [Nooks](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/nooks/index.md) | 2% | 21% | 19 |
| 11 | [Dialpad](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/dialpad/index.md) | 2% | 24% | 17 |
| 13 | [PhoneBurner](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/phoneburner/index.md) | 2% | 42% | 12 |
| 17 | [Talkdesk](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/talkdesk/index.md) | 0% | 6% | 16 |

Rank is by share of first choices among all 78 products named; products with the same share are tied, and the order among them carries no meaning. The table lists those with at least 10 labels.

## Each model's first choice on the direct prompt

- Claude Haiku 4.5: Five9; alternatives Aircall, Aloware Power Dialer, HubSpot Sales Hub, NICE CXone
- GPT-5.4 mini: Outreach Voice; alternatives Five9, Genesys Cloud CX, NICE CXone, Orum
- Gemini 3.5 Flash: Orum; alternatives Aloware, Convoso, Five9, Outreach Voice
- Perplexity Sonar: Aloware; alternatives JustCall, ZoomInfo Copilot Dialer
- Grok 4.20: Five9; alternatives Genesys Cloud CX, NICE CXone, Talkdesk, ZoomInfo Copilot Dialer
- Mistral Small: Skipcall; alternatives Kixie PowerCall, Nooks, Orum, Salesloft Dialer
- DeepSeek V4 Flash: Orum, Outreach Voice, Salesloft Dialer; alternatives CloudTalk, Five9, Nooks
- Llama 4 Maverick: no first choice
- Qwen 3.7 Flash: Aloware; alternatives Bland AI, CloudTalk, Dialpad, Fastcall
- Kimi K2: Orum; alternatives Aloware, Nooks
- GLM 4.7 FlashX: Five9, NICE CXone; alternatives Apollo Dialer, CloudTalk, Convoso, Dialpad
- MiniMax M2.5: Gong; alternatives Aloware, Outreach Voice, Salesloft Dialer, ZoomInfo Copilot Dialer

## Sources the answers cite

22 of 72 answers came back with a source list, from 4 of 12 models. Sites named in the most answers:

- aloware.com: 12 answers, 19 citations
- cloudtalk.io: 11 answers, 23 citations
- trellus.ai: 11 answers, 13 citations
- justcall.io: 9 answers, 13 citations
- skipcall.io: 9 answers, 9 citations
- croclub.com: 8 answers, 8 citations
- trustradius.com: 8 answers, 8 citations
- 11x.ai: 7 answers, 7 citations

Pages named in the most answers:

- https://aloware.com/blog/the-8-best-sales-dialers (10 answers)
- https://cloudtalk.io/blog/best-ai-sales-dialer-software (9 answers)
- https://skipcall.io/en/blog/best-sales-dialer-software (9 answers)
- https://croclub.com/tools/best-sales-dialer-software (8 answers)
- https://justcall.io/blog/best-sales-dialer-software.html (8 answers)
- https://11x.ai/guides/sales-dialer-tools-b2b-sales-teams (6 answers)
- https://trustradius.com/categories/sales-dialer?company-size=enterprise (6 answers)
- https://guideflow.com/blog/sales-dialer-software (5 answers)
- https://retellai.com/blog/best-outbound-dialer-tested-and-ranked (5 answers)
- https://trellus.ai/post/best-sales-dialer-software (5 answers)

## Warned against

- CloudTalk: 9 of 32 labels negative. "CloudTalk: Call quality is flagged as inconsistent in some Trustpilot reviews, and customer support response times have been a recurring complaint." (Claude Haiku 4.5, negative prompt)
- Aircall: 7 of 12 labels negative. "What I'd avoid for predictable cost at scale- Aircall, JustCall, CloudTalk, RingCentral" (DeepSeek V4 Flash, budget prompt)
- Orum: 8 of 32 labels negative. "Orum - Parallel dialing at scale creates massive compliance and reputation risks" (Mistral Small, negative prompt)
- Kixie PowerCall: 6 of 12 labels negative. "standard sales tools (like PhoneBurner or Kixie) often lack the necessary infrastructure, compliance features, and dedicated support to handle that scale" (Qwen 3.7 Flash, budget prompt)

## Record

- Method: https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/methodology
- License: CC BY 4.0. Cite as Gane Index, September 2026 Edition, www.gane.ai/index/gtm.