# Aircall vs RingCentral

An honest side-by-side. Each is the right answer for someone.

## Aircall
A popular business phone system with the Power Dialer on its Professional tier.

- Pricing: $30/seat Essentials excludes the Power Dialer; Professional at $50/seat includes it.
- Billing: Monthly or annual, with a three-licence minimum.
- Dialing: Power Dialer on Professional and above. No predictive.
- Best for: Teams that primarily need a great phone system, with light outbound.

**Pros of Aircall:** Very polished product; Large integration marketplace; Reliable and well supported.

**Cons of Aircall:** Power Dialer requires the $50 tier; Three-licence minimum; No predictive dialing.

## RingCentral
A large business phone system. Outbound dialing lives in a separate contact-centre product, not in the plan most buyers start on.

- Pricing: Core is about $20 per user per month billed annually, or $30 monthly; Advanced $25 and Ultra $35 annually. The RingCX contact-centre product, which is where the dialer lives, starts around $65 per user per month.
- Billing: Annual billing is materially cheaper than monthly. Contract terms apply.
- Dialing: Not in the core phone plans, even Ultra requires an add-on. Predictive and progressive dialing come with RingCX, the contact-centre tier.
- Best for: Companies that need a full business phone system first and outbound dialing second.

**Pros of RingCentral:** Enormous, stable company with global carrier infrastructure; Excellent as a business phone system, which is what it actually is; Deep integration catalogue and enterprise compliance certifications; Genuinely useful if you need a full UCaaS platform alongside outbound.

**Cons of RingCentral:** The dialer is not in the plans people quote: reaching it means the contact-centre product at roughly triple the price; Outbound dialer minutes can be metered separately on top of the seat; Sold and priced for organisations with a procurement process; Substantial platform for a team that only wants to dial leads.

## Which to pick
- Choose **Aircall** if you are teams that primarily need a great phone system, with light outbound.
- Choose **RingCentral** if you are companies that need a full business phone system first and outbound dialing second.

## Disclosure, DialerSeat is our product
$35 per seat per week on Pro. $75 per week on Manager+, which adds team ownership and white-labeling. Billed weekly from day one: no trial, no contract, no setup fee, cancel any week. Lead data is preserved if a subscription lapses. Preview, power, progressive, and predictive: all four included at the base price, selectable per campaign.

Where we are not the right answer: National DNC scrubbing and consent records remain the customer’s responsibility; No built-in lead marketplace: bring your own list.

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