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

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

## First-choice share

| # | Product | Share | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aloware | 18% | 0% | 27 |
| 2 | CloudTalk | 16% | 5% | 38 |
| 3 | JustCall | 14% | 5% | 41 |
| 4 | Allo | 14% | 0% | 12 |
| 5 | Nooks | 7% | 10% | 31 |
| 6 | Orum | 7% | 22% | 37 |
| 7 | Aircall | 7% | 14% | 29 |
| 8 | Kixie | 5% | 14% | 29 |
| 9 | Dialpad | 2% | 9% | 23 |
| 10 | PhoneBurner | 0% | 14% | 22 |
| 11 | Skipcall | 0% | 8% | 13 |
| 12 | Five9 | 0% | 30% | 10 |

## 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; alternatives Klenty, Nooks, Orum, Regie.ai
- Gemini 3.5 Flash: Nooks, Orum; alternatives Aloware, Kixie, PhoneBurner
- Perplexity Sonar: Aloware; alternatives CloudTalk, JustCall, Kixie, Nooks
- Grok 4.1 Fast: Aloware, Kixie; alternatives CloudTalk, JustCall, Nooks, Orum
- Mistral Small: Aloware; alternatives CloudTalk, Nooks, Orum, Skipcall
- DeepSeek V4 Flash: Nooks, Orum; alternatives Aloware, JustCall, Kixie, PhoneBurner
- Llama 4 Maverick: Aloware; alternatives Orum
- Qwen 3.7 Flash: Dialer.ai; alternatives Aircall, Kixie, Outreach, Salesloft
- Kimi K2: Aloware; alternatives Aircall, Dialpad, Salesfinity
- GLM 4.7 FlashX: JustCall; alternatives CloudTalk, Dialpad
- MiniMax M2.5: Aloware; alternatives JustCall, Kixie, 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:

- cloudtalk.io: 10 answers, 17 citations
- trellus.ai: 8 answers, 12 citations
- justcall.io: 8 answers, 9 citations
- aloware.com: 7 answers, 10 citations
- skipcall.io: 7 answers, 7 citations
- learn.g2.com: 6 answers, 7 citations
- marketbetter.ai: 6 answers, 6 citations
- kixie.com: 5 answers, 9 citations

Pages named in the most answers:

- https://skipcall.io/en/blog/best-sales-dialer-software (7 answers)
- https://aloware.com/blog/the-8-best-sales-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://cloudtalk.io/blog/dialers-for-cold-calling (4 answers)
- https://learn.g2.com/best-auto-dialer-software (4 answers)
- https://prospeo.io/s/best-sales-dialer (4 answers)
- https://trellus.ai/post/best-sales-dialer-software (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: 4 of 29 labels negative. "Budget Traps to Avoid ... No published pricing; costs escalate quickly with add-ons" (Kimi K2, budget prompt)
- PhoneBurner: 3 of 22 labels negative. "Budget Traps to Avoid ... Expensive for budget-conscious teams" (Kimi K2, budget prompt)
- Aircall: 4 of 29 labels negative. "Biggest concerns: Aggressive auto-renewal, unreliable call logging, and poor outbound dialing features." (DeepSeek V4 Flash, negative 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.