# Sales dialers and calling: 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 a mid-market B2B company. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/sales/sales-dialers-and-calling/2026-09

This is the permanent record of the September 2026 Edition, published September 15, 2026 and superseded since.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/index.md

**Standing:** Aloware leads with 18% of first choices; verdict contested. 44 first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts.

## First-choice share

| Rank | Product | Share | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | [Aloware](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/aloware/index.md) | 18% | 0% | 27 |
| 2 | [CloudTalk](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/cloudtalk/index.md) | 16% | 5% | 38 |
| 3 | [JustCall](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/justcall/index.md) | 14% | 5% | 41 |
| 4 | [Allo](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/allo/index.md) | 14% | 0% | 12 |
| 5 | [Nooks](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/nooks/index.md) | 7% | 10% | 31 |
| 6 | [Orum](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/orum/index.md) | 7% | 22% | 37 |
| 7 | [Aircall](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/aircall/index.md) | 7% | 14% | 29 |
| 8 | [Kixie PowerCall](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/kixie-powercall/index.md) | 5% | 13% | 30 |
| 9 | [Dialpad](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/dialpad/index.md) | 2% | 9% | 23 |
| 10 | [Salesloft Dialer](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/salesloft-dialer/index.md) | 2% | 8% | 12 |
| 15 | [PhoneBurner](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/phoneburner/index.md) | 0% | 14% | 22 |
| 16 | Skipcall | 0% | 8% | 13 |

Rank is by share of first choices among all 71 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: Aloware Power Dialer, CloudTalk; alternatives Nooks, Orum, PhoneBurner, SmartDialer
- GPT-5.4 mini: Salesloft Dialer; alternatives Klenty, Nooks, Orum, Regie.ai
- Gemini 3.5 Flash: Nooks, Orum; alternatives Aloware, Kixie PowerCall, PhoneBurner
- Perplexity Sonar: Aloware; alternatives CloudTalk, JustCall, Kixie PowerCall, Nooks
- Grok 4.20: Aloware, Kixie PowerCall; alternatives CloudTalk, JustCall, Nooks, Orum
- Mistral Small: Aloware; alternatives CloudTalk, Nooks, Orum, Skipcall
- DeepSeek V4 Flash: Nooks, Orum; alternatives Aloware, JustCall, Kixie PowerCall, PhoneBurner
- Llama 4 Maverick: Aloware; alternatives Orum
- Qwen 3.7 Flash: Dialer.ai; alternatives Aircall, Kixie PowerCall, Outreach Voice, Salesloft Dialer
- Kimi K2: Aloware; alternatives Aircall, Dialpad, Salesfinity
- GLM 4.7 FlashX: JustCall; alternatives CloudTalk, Dialpad
- MiniMax M2.5: Aloware; alternatives JustCall, Kixie PowerCall, Orum

## Sources the answers cite

21 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: 10 answers, 17 citations
- trellus.ai: 10 answers, 16 citations
- skipcall.io: 10 answers, 10 citations
- justcall.io: 8 answers, 9 citations
- kixie.com: 7 answers, 11 citations
- withallo.com: 7 answers, 10 citations
- learn.g2.com: 7 answers, 8 citations

Pages named in the most answers:

- https://aloware.com/blog/the-8-best-sales-dialers (10 answers)
- https://skipcall.io/en/blog/best-sales-dialer-software (10 answers)
- https://withallo.com/blog/best-power-dialers (6 answers)
- https://cloudtalk.io/blog/best-ai-sales-dialer-software (6 answers)
- https://justcall.io/blog/best-sales-dialer-software.html (6 answers)
- https://marketbetter.ai/blog/best-sales-dialers-for-sdr-teams-2026 (6 answers)
- https://croclub.com/tools/best-sales-dialer-software (5 answers)
- https://nooks.ai/blog-posts/top-6-auto-dialers-for-sales-reps-in-2026 (5 answers)
- https://retellai.com/blog/best-outbound-dialer-tested-and-ranked (5 answers)
- https://aloware.com/blog/best-power-dialer-software-b2b-sales-teams (4 answers)

## Warned against

- Orum: 8 of 37 labels negative. "Orum charges $250 per user per month with a minimum of 3 users ... users already call it overpriced. Additionally, there are complaints about software bugs, dropped calls, poor audio quality" (Claude Haiku 4.5, negative prompt)
- Kixie PowerCall: 4 of 30 labels negative. "Budget Traps to Avoid ... No published pricing; costs escalate quickly with add-ons" (Kimi K2, budget prompt)
- Ooma Office: 4 of 9 labels negative. "Avoid: Preview-only (e.g., Ooma $30/mo)—not true power dialing." (Grok 4.20, budget prompt)
- PhoneBurner: 3 of 22 labels negative. "Budget Traps to Avoid ... Expensive for budget-conscious teams" (Kimi K2, 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.