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

GTM AI Recommendation 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://gtm-ai-index.com/sales/sales-dialers-and-calling/enterprise/

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

## First-choice share

| # | Product | Share | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Outreach | 20% | 0% | 21 |
| 2 | Salesloft | 15% | 4% | 26 |
| 3 | Five9 | 13% | 14% | 42 |
| 4 | Aloware | 11% | 17% | 24 |
| 5 | NICE CXone | 7% | 7% | 27 |
| 6 | Orum | 7% | 25% | 32 |
| 7 | Genesys Cloud CX | 4% | 8% | 12 |
| 8 | CloudTalk | 4% | 28% | 32 |
| 9 | Nooks | 2% | 21% | 19 |
| 10 | Dialpad | 2% | 24% | 17 |
| 11 | PhoneBurner | 2% | 42% | 12 |
| 12 | Talkdesk | 0% | 6% | 16 |

## 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; alternatives Five9, Genesys Cloud CX, NICE CXone, Orum
- Gemini 3.5 Flash: Orum; alternatives Aloware, Convoso, Five9, Outreach
- Perplexity Sonar: Aloware; alternatives JustCall, ZoomInfo Copilot Dialer
- Grok 4.1 Fast: Five9; alternatives Genesys Cloud CX, NICE CXone, Talkdesk, ZoomInfo Dialer
- Mistral Small: Skipcall; alternatives Kixie, Nooks, Orum, Salesloft Dialer
- DeepSeek V4 Flash: Orum, Outreach, Salesloft; 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, Salesloft, ZoomInfo

## 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:

- cloudtalk.io: 10 answers, 22 citations
- justcall.io: 9 answers, 13 citations
- aloware.com: 8 answers, 13 citations
- trellus.ai: 8 answers, 10 citations
- croclub.com: 8 answers, 8 citations
- skipcall.io: 7 answers, 7 citations
- 11x.ai: 5 answers, 5 citations
- trustradius.com: 5 answers, 5 citations

Pages named in the most answers:

- https://cloudtalk.io/blog/best-ai-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://skipcall.io/en/blog/best-sales-dialer-software (7 answers)
- https://aloware.com/blog/the-8-best-sales-dialers (6 answers)
- https://trellus.ai/post/best-sales-dialer-software (5 answers)
- https://11x.ai/guides/sales-dialer-tools-b2b-sales-teams (4 answers)
- https://cloudtalk.io/blog/dialers-for-cold-calling (4 answers)
- https://guideflow.com/blog/sales-dialer-software (4 answers)
- https://prospeo.io/s/best-sales-dialer (4 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: 6 of 11 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://gtm-ai-index.com/methodology/
- Raw judge labels and full responses: https://gtm-ai-index.com/data/
- License: CC BY 4.0. Cite as GTM AI Recommendation Index, September 2026 Edition, gtm-ai-index.com.