Per-seat dialing makes no economic sense.
Most dialers charge $150+ per rep, every month, forever — whether the rep dials twice or two thousand times. graph8 dials for fractions of a cent, on the same platform that does data, sequences, inbox, and analytics. One bill: $499/mo, unlimited users.
$0.012
per dial attempt
$0.06
per connected minute
$0
per seat
One platform replaces
The math
A 5-rep team. Same call volume. The only thing that changes is how the bill is structured.
Per-seat dialers bill on chairs. graph8 bills on usage. Below: actual annual spend at standard SDR cadence.
Power dialer · PhoneBurner Standard
$8,400/yr
5 reps × $140/seat/mo annual × 12. Flat — whether they dial 100/day or zero. Premium tier ($183) = $10,980/yr.
Parallel dialer · Orum / Nooks
$15k-25k/yr
5 × Orum Launch ($250/seat/mo) = $15k/yr. 5 × Nooks ($333-$417/seat/mo) = $20-25k/yr. Both annual-only, 3-5 seat minimums.
graph8 · everything in
$5,988 /yr
$499/mo, unlimited users. 75,000 credits/mo included — plenty for ~6,000 dials and 7,500 connected minutes.
PhoneBurner ($140-$183) and Five9 Core ($159) from each vendor's pricing page. Orum Launch ($250) triangulated across CloudTalk, MarketBetter, and Prospeo. Nooks ($4k-$5k/seat/yr) converged across MarketBetter, Prospeo, and OutboundSalesPro. SalesLoft and Outreach all-in costs from Vendr marketplace, MarketBetter, and Docket. Your real number depends on dial volume; graph8's per-call cost stays the same whether you have 1 rep or 50.
Why per-seat breaks
A dialer is a usage tool. Per-seat pricing punishes the wrong things.
You pay for empty chairs.
New hire ramping? PTO? Slow week? You're billed full price. graph8 charges per dial — a quiet day costs nothing extra.
Scaling up is a tax.
Every new SDR is another $1,500–$3,000/yr in dialer fees alone, before they pick up the phone. graph8 adds zero cost per user.
Three contracts, three places data drifts.
Standalone dialer + standalone sequencer + standalone CRM = vendor lock × 3, integration debt, sync bugs. graph8 is one stack.
Pricing comparison
What you'd pay elsewhere — just for the dialer.
Public pricing pages where listed. Sales-gated vendors (Orum, Nooks, SalesLoft, Outreach Voice) triangulated across CloudTalk, MarketBetter, Prospeo, Vendr, Docket, and OutboundSalesPro — sourced quotes in each row's note column.
| Vendor | Per-seat / mo | Minimum | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| | $250 / seat / mo (Launch) | 3-seat min · annual only | Launch = 5 parallel lines. Ascend tier $400-$500. Source: CloudTalk, MarketBetter, Prospeo. |
| | $333-$417 / seat / mo | ~5-seat min · annual only | $4k-$5k per seat per year converged across MarketBetter, Prospeo, OutboundSalesPro. |
| | $140-$183 / seat / mo | Annual billing | Standard ($140) to Premium ($183). Source: phoneburner.com/pricing. |
| | $30-$50 list · ~$80 real | 3-seat min · 25 for Custom tier | AI Assist +$9, Analytics+ +$15, extra numbers $6/ea. Source: aircall.io/pricing + help docs. |
| | $185-$210 / seat / mo all-in | 10-15 seat min · annual | Platform $125-$180 + dialer $17-$25 add-on. Source: Vendr, MarketBetter, Docket. |
| | $130-$170 / seat / mo all-in | 5-10 seat min · annual | Platform $100-$160 + Voice $10-$25. Source: Vendr, MarketBetter, Outreach billing docs. |
| | $159 Core list · ~$300+ real | 50-seat minimum | Forrester TEI modeled $378/seat/mo over 3yr (500 agents). Source: five9.com/pricing, Vendr. |
| graph8 | $0 per seat | Unlimited users | $499/mo · 75k credits · everything in |
Sources & pricing breadcrumbs
Run your numbers
What's your team actually paying to dial?
Move the sliders. Math updates live. Per-seat dialer cost vs graph8 usage-based cost on the same volume.
Defaults: typical SDR cadence (5 hrs dialing, 200 working days). Adjust freely.
Per-seat dialer · annual
$8,400
+ separate spend for data, sequences, inbox, analytics.
graph8 · annual · everything in
$5,988
$499/mo platform · no overage
Includes unlimited graph8 contact data — 750M+ contacts, 150M+ companies, sequences, inbox, analytics, agents.
You'd save
$2,412 / yr
Before counting the data, sequencer, inbox, and analytics you'd no longer need to buy separately.
Rate card
Pay for what you dial.
1 credit = $0.006 on the $499/mo plan. Power and parallel dialing share the same rates.
Dial attempt
per outbound dial
Connected minute (out)
per minute talk time
Connected minute (in)
per minute talk time
Voicemail drop
per personalized drop
Voicemail captured (in)
per inbound voicemail
Phone number
per number, per month
A typical SDR day
$2.46 of dialer cost.
For a full day of dialing. Less than a coffee.
- 120 dial attempts 240 cr · $1.44
- 15 connected minutes 150 cr · $0.90
- 10 voicemail drops 20 cr · $0.12
- Total 410 cr · $2.46
A per-seat dialer at $140/mo bills the same SDR ~$7/day flat — whether they made 0 calls or 200.
In the platform
Power, parallel, voicemail drop — one console.
Single-line for high-intent lists, parallel for cold volume, pre-recorded voicemail drops on no-answer, captured inbound voicemails, instant rep handoff on connect. Every call writes back to the contact, the sequence step, and analytics — automatically.
And the contact data
Same $499. Also gets you unlimited contact data.
750M+ B2B contacts. 150M+ companies. 30B+ intent signals monthly. No per-seat caps, no monthly export limits, no "credits ran out two weeks into the month." The same $499/mo your dialer runs on.
ZoomInfo
Annual contract · gated
$15k+/yr
Per-seat with credit caps. Starting price quoted for small teams; serious teams quote $30k+. Public pricing not listed.
Apollo Professional
Per-seat · capped credits
$5,940/yr
5 seats × ~$99/mo × 12. Mobile credits capped (~200/seat/mo); exports capped. Run out → wait, or pay overage.
graph8 · unlimited
$0 extra
Already in your $499/mo. No per-contact charges, no monthly caps. Reveal as many emails and phones as you want.
ZoomInfo pricing is sales-gated; $15k+/yr is widely-cited starting tier for small teams. Apollo Professional pricing not currently published; ~$99/seat/mo is the long-standing public tier. Lusha Premium publishes $399.90/seat/mo with 3,400 credits/mo (lusha.com/pricing) — for reference, that's $23,994/yr at 5 seats with hard credit caps.
Stop paying $150 per chair just to make a call.
Power and parallel dialing included. Plus unlimited graph8 contact data — 750M+ contacts, 150M+ companies — sequences, inbox, analytics, and agents.
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