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

Gane Index, October 2026 Edition. Asked as "sales dialer" and as "outbound calling platform for sales teams", six framings each, to fourteen models with search on, on behalf of an enterprise B2B company. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/sales/sales-dialers-and-calling/2026-10/enterprise

This is the permanent record of the October 2026 Edition, published October 1, 2026 and superseded since. The current standing: https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/sales/sales-dialers-and-calling/enterprise/index.md

**Standing:** Five9 leads with 16% of first choices; verdict contested. 57 first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts.

## First-choice share

| Rank | Product | Share | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | [Five9](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/five9/index.md) | 16% | 15% | 41 |
| 2 | [Outreach Voice](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/outreach-voice/index.md) | 12% | 5% | 19 |
| 3 | [Salesloft Dialer](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/salesloft-dialer/index.md) | 9% | 9% | 23 |
| 5 | [Orum](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/orum/index.md) | 7% | 16% | 31 |
| 6 | [Nooks](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/nooks/index.md) | 5% | 14% | 22 |
| 7 | [Dialpad](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/dialpad/index.md) | 5% | 18% | 17 |
| 8 | [RingCentral Events](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/ringcentral-events/index.md) | 5% | 17% | 18 |
| 9 | [Genesys Cloud CX](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/genesys-cloud-cx/index.md) | 4% | 12% | 17 |
| 13 | [Aircall](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/aircall/index.md) | 4% | 40% | 15 |
| 14 | [PhoneBurner](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/phoneburner/index.md) | 4% | 41% | 17 |
| 15 | [JustCall](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/justcall/index.md) | 4% | 45% | 11 |
| 20 | [Talkdesk](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/talkdesk/index.md) | 0% | 8% | 13 |

Rank is by share of first choices among all 70 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: Artisan; alternatives Nooks, Orum, SmartDialer
- GPT-5.4 mini: Salesloft Dialer; alternatives Five9, Genesys Cloud CX, NICE CXone, Orum
- Gemini 3.5 Flash: Nooks; alternatives Dialpad Ai Sales, Koncert, Orum, PhoneBurner
- Perplexity Sonar: ZoomInfo Copilot Dialer; alternatives Orum, Outreach Voice, Salesloft Dialer
- Grok 4.20: Koncert, ZoomInfo Copilot Dialer; alternatives Outreach Voice, Salesloft Dialer
- Mistral Small: Aircall, JustCall; alternatives FiveCRM, Klenty
- DeepSeek V4 Flash: Outreach Voice; alternatives Five9, Genesys Cloud CX, Nooks, Orum
- Llama 4 Maverick: Artisan; alternatives Aloware Power Dialer, CloudTalk, Orum, ZoomInfo Copilot Dialer
- Qwen 3.7 Flash: RingCX; alternatives Dialpad, Kixie PowerCall, Outreach Voice, Salesloft Dialer
- Kimi K2: Outreach Voice, Salesloft Dialer; alternatives Five9, Orum, RingCentral RingCX
- GLM 4.7 FlashX: Dialpad, RingCentral Events; alternatives Aircall, Ringover, Talkdesk
- MiniMax M2.5: JustCall; alternatives Orum, ZoomInfo Copilot Dialer
- GPT-6 Luna: Orum; alternatives Nooks, Salesloft Dialer
- Muse Glimmer 30B: Five9, Orum; alternatives Kixie PowerCall, Klenty, Nooks, PhoneBurner

## Sources the answers cite

82 of 84 answers came back with a source list, from 14 of 14 models. Sites named in the most answers:

- cloudtalk.io: 46 answers, 67 citations
- artisan.co: 44 answers, 53 citations
- justcall.io: 42 answers, 73 citations
- aloware.com: 34 answers, 50 citations
- guideflow.com: 30 answers, 34 citations
- prospeo.io: 24 answers, 35 citations
- 11x.ai: 23 answers, 23 citations
- retellai.com: 21 answers, 22 citations

Pages named in the most answers:

- https://artisan.co/blog/the-best-enterprise-sales-dialers-compliance-admin-controls-and-scale (37 answers)
- https://justcall.io/blog/best-sales-dialer-software.html (32 answers)
- https://aloware.com/blog/the-8-best-sales-dialers (26 answers)
- https://cloudtalk.io/blog/best-ai-sales-dialer-software (25 answers)
- https://guideflow.com/blog/sales-dialer-software (24 answers)
- https://11x.ai/guides/sales-dialer-tools-b2b-sales-teams (23 answers)
- https://retellai.com/blog/best-outbound-dialer-tested-and-ranked (18 answers)
- https://gane.ai/index/gtm/sales/sales-dialers-and-calling/enterprise (16 answers)
- https://close.com/blog/sales-dialer (14 answers)
- https://salesmessage.com/blog/best-power-dialer-software (14 answers)

## Warned against

- PhoneBurner: 7 of 17 labels negative. "older platforms (such as PhoneBurner) have been criticized by enterprise sales ops leaders for being stagnant" (Gemini 3.5 Flash, negative prompt)
- Aircall: 6 of 15 labels negative. "What I'd avoid for predictable cost at scale- Aircall, JustCall, CloudTalk, RingCentral" (Muse Glimmer 30B, negative prompt)
- CloudTalk: 6 of 15 labels negative. "What I'd avoid for predictable cost at scale- Aircall, JustCall, CloudTalk, RingCentral"; "Call quality is flagged as inconsistent" (Muse Glimmer 30B, negative prompt)
- JustCall: 5 of 11 labels negative. "What I'd avoid for predictable cost at scale- Aircall, JustCall, CloudTalk, RingCentral" (Muse Glimmer 30B, negative prompt)

## Movement since September 2026

Floor: 11 points of share, measured on the calibration repeat.
New leader: Outreach Voice (20%) to Five9 (14%). Margin 2 points, within noise.

- Outreach Voice: 20% to 12%, −8. Inside the floor by 3 points · rank 1 → 2 of 67.
- Orum: 7% to 0%, −7. Inside the floor by 4 points · rank 6 → 19 of 67.
- NICE CXone: 7% to 0%, −7. Inside the floor by 4 points · rank 5 → 21 of 67.
- RingCentral Events: 0% to 6%, +6. Inside the floor by 5 points · rank 78 → 6 of 67.
- Salesloft Dialer: 15% to 10%, −5. Inside the floor by 6 points · rank 2 → 3 of 67.
- Nooks: 2% to 6%, +4. Inside the floor by 7 points · rank 10 → 5 of 67.
- Dialpad: 2% to 6%, +4. Inside the floor by 7 points · rank 11 → 7 of 67.
- Aircall: 0% to 4%, +4. Inside the floor by 7 points · rank 77 → 12 of 67.
- JustCall: 0% to 4%, +4. Inside the floor by 7 points · rank 21 → 13 of 67.
- CloudTalk: 4% to 0%, −4. Inside the floor by 7 points · rank 9 → 23 of 67.
- Aloware: 11% to 8%, −3. Inside the floor by 8 points · rank 4 of 67, unchanged.
- PhoneBurner: 2% to 4%, +2. Inside the floor by 9 points · rank 13 → 14 of 67.

## Record

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