# Sales dialers and calling: 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 a mid-market B2B company. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/sales/sales-dialers-and-calling/2026-10

This is the permanent record of the October 2026 Edition, published October 1, 2026 and superseded since.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/index.md

**Standing:** CloudTalk leads with 22% of first choices; verdict contested. 51 first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts.

## First-choice share

| Rank | Product | Share | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | [CloudTalk](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/cloudtalk/index.md) | 22% | 3% | 32 |
| 2 | [JustCall](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/justcall/index.md) | 12% | 2% | 43 |
| 3 | [Kixie PowerCall](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/kixie-powercall/index.md) | 10% | 12% | 33 |
| 4 | [Orum](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/orum/index.md) | 8% | 23% | 30 |
| 5 | [Aloware](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/aloware/index.md) | 6% | 0% | 13 |
| 7 | [Nooks](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/nooks/index.md) | 4% | 14% | 22 |
| 8 | [PhoneBurner](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/phoneburner/index.md) | 4% | 19% | 27 |
| 9 | [HubSpot Sales Hub](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/hubspot-sales-hub/index.md) | 4% | 0% | 11 |
| 11 | [Dialpad](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/dialpad/index.md) | 2% | 5% | 21 |
| 13 | [Outreach Voice](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/outreach-voice/index.md) | 2% | 20% | 10 |
| 21 | [Salesloft Dialer](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/salesloft-dialer/index.md) | 2% | 33% | 15 |
| 22 | [Aircall](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/aircall/index.md) | 0% | 17% | 35 |

Rank is by share of first choices among all 72 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; alternatives Aircall, JustCall, Orum
- GPT-5.4 mini: CloudTalk; alternatives Aircall, Gong Dialer, Salesloft Dialer
- Gemini 3.5 Flash: Nooks, Orum; alternatives Aloware, Apollo.io, Kixie PowerCall, PhoneBurner
- Perplexity Sonar: JustCall; alternatives Aircall, Orum, Salesfinity
- Grok 4.20: Kixie PowerCall; alternatives Aircall, Close, JustCall, PhoneBurner
- Mistral Small: Koncert, PhoneBurner; alternatives Aircall, Genesys Cloud CX, JustCall
- DeepSeek V4 Flash: JustCall; alternatives Aircall, Aloware, Nooks, Orum
- Llama 4 Maverick: PowerDialer.ai; alternatives Nooks, PhoneBurner, RingCentral Events, Skipcall
- Qwen 3.7 Flash: Aloware; alternatives Close, Nooks
- Kimi K2: Kixie PowerCall; alternatives JustCall, Koncert, Nooks, Orum
- GLM 4.7 FlashX: Aloware; alternatives Aircall, CloudTalk, JustCall, Koncert
- MiniMax M2.5: Outreach Voice, Salesloft Dialer; alternatives Aircall, Koncert, PhoneBurner
- GPT-6 Luna: Orum; alternatives HubSpot Sales Hub, Nooks, Salesloft Dialer
- Muse Glimmer 30B: JustCall, PhoneBurner; alternatives Aircall, Aloware Power Dialer, Convoso

## Sources the answers cite

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

- justcall.io: 55 answers, 93 citations
- cloudtalk.io: 39 answers, 57 citations
- aloware.com: 38 answers, 54 citations
- kixie.com: 32 answers, 40 citations
- guideflow.com: 29 answers, 30 citations
- blog.hubspot.com: 24 answers, 26 citations
- close.com: 24 answers, 25 citations
- prospeo.io: 19 answers, 21 citations

Pages named in the most answers:

- https://justcall.io/blog/best-sales-dialer-software.html (44 answers)
- https://guideflow.com/blog/sales-dialer-software (27 answers)
- https://close.com/blog/sales-dialer (23 answers)
- https://aloware.com/blog/the-8-best-sales-dialers (22 answers)
- https://blog.hubspot.com/sales/sales-dialer-software (21 answers)
- https://aloware.com/blog/best-power-dialer-software-b2b-sales-teams (20 answers)
- https://retellai.com/blog/best-outbound-dialer-tested-and-ranked (16 answers)
- https://cloudtalk.io/blog/best-ai-sales-dialer-software (15 answers)
- https://skipcall.io/en/blog/best-sales-dialer-software (14 answers)
- https://ranktracker.com/blog/best-outbound-dialers-for-sales-teams (13 answers)

## Warned against

- Orum: 7 of 30 labels negative. "Labeled overpriced ($250/user/mo min. 3 users). Frequent reports of bugs, dropped calls, and poor audio quality" (Grok 4.20, negative prompt)
- Aircall: 6 of 35 labels negative. "What I'd avoid for predictable cost at scale- Aircall, JustCall, CloudTalk, RingCentral" (Muse Glimmer 30B, negative prompt)
- Salesloft Dialer: 5 of 15 labels negative. "Often called "overpriced legacy tech." Complaints include outdated interface, glitchy calling" (Grok 4.20, negative prompt)
- PhoneBurner: 5 of 27 labels negative. "Avoid premium options like PhoneBurner ($140/user/month)" (DeepSeek V4 Flash, budget prompt)

## Movement since September 2026

Floor: 11 points of share, measured on the calibration repeat.
New leader: Aloware (18%) to CloudTalk (23%). Margin 16 points, beyond the floor.

- Aloware: 18% to 7%, −11. Cleared the floor by 0 points · rank 1 → 4 of 71.
- Allo: 14% to 5%, −9. Inside the floor by 2 points · rank 4 → 9 of 71.
- CloudTalk: 16% to 23%, +7. Inside the floor by 4 points · rank 2 → 1 of 71.
- Aircall: 7% to 0%, −7. Inside the floor by 4 points · rank 7 → 22 of 71.
- JustCall: 14% to 9%, −5. Inside the floor by 6 points · rank 3 → 2 of 71.
- Kixie PowerCall: 5% to 9%, +4. Inside the floor by 7 points · rank 8 → 3 of 71.
- Nooks: 7% to 5%, −2. Inside the floor by 9 points · rank 5 → 6 of 71.
- Orum: 7% to 5%, −2. Inside the floor by 9 points · rank 6 → 7 of 71.
- PhoneBurner: 0% to 2%, +2. Inside the floor by 9 points · rank 15 → 11 of 71.
- Outreach Voice: 0% to 2%, +2. Inside the floor by 9 points · rank 17 → 14 of 71.
- Dialpad: 2% to 2%, ±0. Inside the floor by 11 points · rank 9 → 10 of 71.
- Salesloft Dialer: 2% to 2%, ±0. Inside the floor by 11 points · rank 10 → 21 of 71.

## 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.