Kixie vs PhoneBurner: Which Dialler for Your Team

Quick answer: Kixie’s PowerDialer can ring several lines per rep (up to 4 on its pricing page, up to 10 in its help centre); PhoneBurner dials one line per rep, from US$140 a user a month billed annually, and only to US and Canadian numbers. On our worked model, two lines keep dropped live answers under the US 3% limit only when fewer than 6% of dials reach a person. As at 2 November 2026.

“Kixie vs PhoneBurner” is mostly a question about lines. Kixie sells a PowerDialer that can ring several numbers at once for one rep and hand over whoever answers first, plus Business SMS, IVR, call queues and ConnectionBoost local presence. PhoneBurner sells one line per rep, delay-free, with a built-in CRM, 1-click voicemail, LeadStream lead distribution, ARMOR® spam-flag remediation and Connect Scores. Which one fits depends on how often your list answers, whether every seat needs texting and inbound callbacks, and whether you dial outside the United States and Canada. Real estate teams, insurance agencies and B2B SDR teams land in different places. Every vendor fact below comes from Kixie’s and PhoneBurner’s own pricing pages, help centres and blogs, read on 2 November 2026, and the regulation is quoted from the eCFR text of 47 CFR 64.1200.

Where Zian fits before you pick a dialler

If the real problem is leads nobody calls, or callbacks nobody answers, start with an AI agent rather than more dialler seats. Zian AI is an AI sales and reception agents platform: its agents answer inbound calls 24/7 as an AI receptionist (qualifying, booking, transferring and taking messages), place outbound calls, follow up by SMS, email, WhatsApp, Instagram DMs and Facebook Messenger, and book appointments from those conversations.

That matters on this page for one reason. Both diallers create callbacks: local-presence numbers get rung back, and a person whose answered call was dropped may ring back to find out who called. Zian’s agents handle answering machines and voicemail on calls, work in 30+ languages, and connect to HubSpot, Salesforce, HighLevel and Zapier. Zian’s home page reports 28x more contact attempts, a 926% increase in follow-ups and AI that books 40+ meetings/week for many teams.

Zian is not the only AI caller here. Kixie now runs a Follow-Up AI Agent, in beta and switched on per business, that calls a contact back after a rep logs a chosen outcome, says it is an AI assistant and books a time with the rep. We could not find an AI agent that places calls in PhoneBurner’s 496 help-centre articles, its sitemap or its product pages, as at 2 November 2026. PhoneBurner’s AI is a Premium call transcription and AI note-taker.

The honest limit: Zian is in a partnership-application beta with no published prices; each of its three listed plans, including Intel + Widgets (Free Forever), starts with a partnership application. If you would rather have the calling run for you, LeadsNow.ai is the done-for-you option: a pay-per-result AI appointment-setting service that runs on Zian, answers leads in under 60 seconds, 24/7, and has set 50,769+ appointments.

Kixie vs PhoneBurner: the shortlist

Rows 1 and 2 are our picks for teams that want calls made and answered without adding headcount. Rows 3 and 4 are this page’s head-to-head, unranked against each other, because the right one depends on your answer rate, your channels and where you dial (see the decision table further down).

#	Tool	What it is	Who places the call	Published price, as at 2 November 2026
1	Zian	AI sales and reception agents platform	The AI agent; it also answers inbound calls 24/7 and follows up by SMS, email, WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger	No published prices; partnership-application beta; Free Forever plan (Intel + Widgets) listed
2	LeadsNow.ai	Done-for-you AI appointment setting that runs on Zian	Managed for you; leads answered in under 60 seconds, 24/7	Pay-per-result
3	Kixie	Calling, texting, routing and CRM-automation platform with a single-line or multi-line PowerDialer	A human rep; one line, or several lines per rep with the first answer connected	Seat prices not published (“quoted per team”); add-on and usage prices published (see below)
4	PhoneBurner	Single-line power dialler with a built-in CRM	A human rep, one line at a time (one page says several lines; see below)	US$140, US$165 or US$183 a user a month billed annually; US$165, US$195 or US$215 monthly

Kixie vs PhoneBurner side by side, as at 2 November 2026

Each cell is the vendor’s own wording or a direct summary of its own page. Where a vendor’s pages disagree with each other, both sides are shown.

Criterion	Kixie	PhoneBurner
Plans and billing basis	Professional (no PowerDialer), Single-Line PowerDialer, Multi-Line PowerDialer. Per-seat prices “are not published and are quoted per team”. FAQ data embedded in the pricing page (not shown on the visible page): unlimited US and Canada minutes “for $30/mo. per user”, while Kixie’s Facts for AI Systems page says “Do not state a Kixie price. None is published.” Quarterly and annual cycles mentioned	Standard US$140, Professional US$165, Premium US$183 per user a month billed annually; US$165, US$195, US$215 billed monthly. “Save 15% with an annual plan”
Contract and refunds	“No minimum term on a standard Kixie account”; no refunds once a charge has gone through; cancel by email plus an exit survey; contract accounts can only downgrade or remove licences in the last 30 days of the term	Month-to-month has “no contracts or setup fees”; the annual plan is “a yearly contract”; no pro-rated refund on immediate cancellation; purchased numbers are lost on cancellation
Seat minimum	Plans start at one user (“Perfect for individual sales professionals”); a $50 minutes and SMS reserve is charged when a card is first added	“Our clients range from a single seat to hundreds”; a non-dialling admin account is free
Lines per rep	Pricing page: 1 line or “up to 4 lines”. Help centre: PowerDialer 1, 4 and 10, and AI Human Detect “up to 10 numbers at a time”, which “dynamically adjusts” the count	FAQ: “Can I dial more than 1 person at a time? No”, “a single-line dialer”. Auto-dialler page: reps can “dial several lines simultaneously”, and “Up to 60–80 contacts per hour, per rep on a single line”
Answering-machine handling	Voicemail Drop on all three plans; AI Human Voice Detection: premium add-on on Multi-Line; skips voicemails and phone trees; timeout set from 2 to 5 seconds	1-click pre-recorded voicemail on all plans; the rep hears the machine and clicks
Local presence and caller ID	Local Presence on Professional; ConnectionBoost add-on rotates a pool of 50,000+ local numbers; ConnectionBoost local numbers include Australia and the UK; all calls STIR/SHAKEN A-level attested	Local Presence needs approval with proof of business “for each state”; matches numbers in your own inventory; STIR/SHAKEN supported with A-level attestation on purchased numbers
Spam-flag tools	Number Health Reputation Manager: $50 a month per ConnectionBoost user plus $1 a month per number; automatic First Orion registration	ARMOR®: US$5 a month per PhoneBurner-purchased number; monitoring and done-for-you remediation. Connect Scores add-on scores numbers by pickup likelihood
SMS	Text messaging, Team SMS and SMS templates on all three plans; $0.011 a text to US and Canada numbers; inbound free; 10DLC required	Premium only: 1,000 outbound a user a month, unlimited inbound; overage “$15 per 1,000” on the pricing page but “$25 per additional 1,000” in the help centre; US$50 one-time application fee
Inbound	IVR, ring groups, call queues, call recording and rule-based routing on all three plans	Callbacks and call forwarding on all plans; in-app callback answering, a PhoneBurner number and custom inbound routing on Premium
AI features	AI Dashboard on all plans; Conversation Intelligence add-on; Follow-Up AI Agent (beta, per business)	Call Transcription with AI Note Taker on Premium; Krisp AI noise cancellation on Professional and Premium
CRM integrations	HubSpot, Salesforce, Zoho, Pipedrive, HighLevel, BoomTown and Microsoft Dynamics (the last two tagged “Custom”) and more in a public directory; Zapier; API and webhooks	FAQ “direct”: Salesforce, iJungo, Zoho CRM, HubSpot, SugarCRM, monday.com; integrations page also names Close and GoHighLevel as native; Microsoft Dynamics, Pipedrive and others “third-party”; open API on Professional and Premium
Where you can dial	“Almost any country”; unlimited minutes cover US and Canada; Australia per minute, e.g. US$0.098 to most mobile prefixes and US$0.033 to most landlines	“Can only be used to dial numbers in the United States and Canada”
Trial	7 days, no credit card; must use the Chrome dialler during the trial	“Free minutes” with no credit card; a help article last updated in 2020 says 60 minutes

In one line: Kixie is the pick when lines per rep, texting on every seat or dialling outside North America decide the purchase; PhoneBurner is the pick for single-line North American calling with published seat prices and a CRM included.

Multi-line or single-line: what each vendor actually says

Kixie publishes two different ceilings. Its pricing page sells a Multi-Line PowerDialer that can “PowerDial up to 4 lines simultaneously”, and a Kixie Research Team post on insurance dialling calls four lines “a real ceiling”. Its help article on PowerLists lists add-ons called PowerDialer 1, PowerDialer 4 and PowerDialer 10 (“ability to dial up to 10 numbers at a time”) and says AI Human Detect dials “up to 10 numbers at a time”. The AI Human Detect FAQ says the tool “dynamically adjusts” how many numbers it dials. Ask Kixie in writing which ceiling applies to the plan you are quoted.

Kixie is also candid about the cost of extra lines. Its 21 October 2026 post on multi-line dialling says a multi-line dialler “hands you whoever picks up first. The other lines get dropped, and dropped calls are the ones the rules count.” Its PowerList help article confirms that a number “dropped when another number picks up in multi-line dialing” still counts as an attempt. We could not find a Kixie help article that says what a dropped second answer hears, as at 2 November 2026; Kixie’s own post says that depends on “how the platform was configured”.

PhoneBurner argues the opposite position. Its FAQ says multi-line diallers “result in dropped calls that put companies at risk of costly TCPA and TSR violations” and calls PhoneBurner “a single-line dialer”. One PhoneBurner page disagrees: its auto-dialler page says “The platform allows each rep to dial several lines simultaneously”, while the comparison table on the same page says “Up to 60–80 contacts per hour, per rep on a single line”. If you need more than one line per rep from PhoneBurner, get the answer in writing; our comparison of PhoneBurner’s power dialling with Nooks’ parallel dialling covers the same split.

Answering machines change the picture. On several lines at once, Kixie notes that voicemails and phone trees “tend to ‘win the race’ on pickups”, which is why it sells AI Human Detect. That add-on waits a set time to decide whether a human answered; the setting runs from 2 to 5 seconds, and Kixie says accuracy “increases significantly” at 3 seconds. Because US rules count a call as abandoned if no rep is connected within two seconds of the completed greeting, ask Kixie how that window is measured before you choose the setting.

What a 5-rep team pays per connected conversation

Seat prices are the smaller number. The worked calculation below uses a 5-rep team dialling 4 hours a day for 21 days (84 dialling hours a rep a month), a loaded rep cost of US$30 an hour, 45 seconds for every dialling round that reaches no human (one dial on a single line, or one dial on each line at once on multi-line), and 3.5 minutes per conversation including wrap-up. These inputs are our assumptions, not vendor figures: replace them with yours. We model each line answering independently and only the first human answer reaching the rep, which is how Kixie describes multi-line dialling.

Mode	Human answer rate	Dials a rep-hour	Conversations a rep-hour	Team conversations a month	Live answers dropped	Labour per conversation
1 line (PhoneBurner, or Kixie Single-Line)	8%	61.9	4.95	2,078	0%	US$6.06
2 lines (Kixie Multi-Line)	8%	102.4	7.86	3,302	4.0%	US$3.82
4 lines (Kixie Multi-Line)	8%	156.9	11.12	4,671	11.4%	US$2.70
1 line	4%	69.8	2.79	1,172	0%	US$10.75
2 lines	4%	124.3	4.87	2,046	2.0%	US$6.16
4 lines	4%	206.1	7.76	3,261	5.8%	US$3.86

Our single-line rates of 61.9 and 69.8 dials an hour sit inside PhoneBurner’s own “60–80 contacts per hour” range, which is a fair check on the inputs. The team’s labour is US$12,600 a month (5 reps × 84 hours × US$30).

Now add the seats. Five PhoneBurner Standard seats billed annually cost US$700 a month (5 × US$140). At an 8% answer rate that is US$13,300 ÷ 2,078 = US$6.40 per connected conversation, of which the dialler is US$0.34. At 4% it is US$13,300 ÷ 1,172 = US$11.35. Premium billed annually (US$915 for five seats, which adds SMS and in-app callbacks) moves those to US$6.50 and US$11.53.

Kixie does not publish seat prices, so we ran the calculation backwards. The two figures below are not Kixie prices, and they are not a software-only comparison: they are labour-inclusive break-even points from our model. Each is the all-in monthly cost of one Kixie seat (seat, add-ons and usage together) above which Kixie would cost more per connected conversation than PhoneBurner Standard at an 8% answer rate, and they are this high only because extra lines cut the rep hours each conversation takes. At four lines the figure is about US$3,459 a seat a month; at two lines, about US$1,706. If your all-in Kixie quote is below them, multi-line is cheaper per conversation in every row of this model. But three of the four multi-line rows also drop more than 3% of live answers in the same model, so the column that decides the choice is “live answers dropped”, not price.

The Half-Answer-Rate Rule: how many lines per rep

The Half-Answer-Rate Rule: at two lines per rep, the share of live answers that find no rep free is about half your human answer rate. So two lines keep that share under 3% only while fewer than 6% of dials reach a person. Three lines need an answer rate under about 3%, and four lines under about 2%. It is our own rule of thumb, not a vendor or FCC figure. It follows from the model above and does not depend on the time inputs, but it rests on three assumptions: every line answers independently at the same rate; one rep takes the first person who answers, and every other person who answers in that round is dropped (47 CFR 64.1200(a)(6) bars disconnecting an unanswered telemarketing call before 15 seconds or four rings, so spare lines keep ringing); and answering machines are told apart from people perfectly. Treat it as a planning estimate and measure your own dropped share.

Lines per rep	Dropped share at 2% answer	At 4%	At 6%	At 8%	At 10%	Highest answer rate that stays under 3%
1	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	Any
2	1.0%	2.0%	3.0%	4.0%	5.0%	Under 6%
3	2.0%	3.9%	5.9%	7.8%	9.7%	About 3%
4	3.0%	5.8%	8.6%	11.4%	14.0%	About 2%
10	8.5%	16.2%	23.1%	29.3%	34.9%	About 0.7%

Why 3% matters: for US telemarketing calls, 47 CFR 64.1200(a)(7) bars a caller from abandoning “more than three percent of all telemarketing calls that are answered live by a person, as measured over a 30-day period for a single calling campaign”, with each successive 30-day period of a longer campaign calculated separately, and a call is abandoned “if it is not connected to a live sales representative within two (2) seconds of the called person’s completed greeting.” When no rep is free, the rule also requires a prerecorded identification and opt-out message with an automated opt-out, and records proving compliance; calls made by or on behalf of tax-exempt nonprofits are not covered, and a call that delivers a prerecorded message, made with prior express written consent, is not abandoned if the message begins within two seconds of the completed greeting. Our model counts every dropped live answer as abandoned. This is arithmetic, not legal advice. Our guide to US cold-calling rules under the TCPA covers the rest.

Kixie’s own insurance guidance points the same way: it tells a solo agent to “Start single-line”, and a small insurance agency to “Start at two lines, watch the rate for a 30-day period, then decide.” Its AI Human Detect changes the line count by itself, so measure the dropped share from your own call records rather than from this table.

Which dialler for real estate, insurance and SDR teams

The decision table below applies the Half-Answer-Rate Rule and the channel facts above to the teams that search this question most.

Your team	Typical list	Pick	Why, from the vendors’ own pages
Real estate team calling its own enquiries and past clients (US)	Warm; answer rate likely above 6%	PhoneBurner Premium, or Kixie on one line	Warm lists fail the rule at two lines. Both offer texting and callbacks, but PhoneBurner only on Premium. PhoneBurner accepts a real estate licence as local-presence proof; Kixie lists a BoomTown integration
Real estate prospecting (expired listings, cold areas)	Cold; answer rate often low	Kixie Multi-Line at 2 lines, measured	Low answer rates are where extra lines pay; Team SMS on every seat
Insurance agency working purchased leads	Mixed; leads bought from several sources	Measure first; PhoneBurner if the answer rate is above 6%	PhoneBurner says purchased leads cannot be texted without written consent. Kixie advises solo agents to stay single-line
B2B SDR team on Salesforce or HubSpot	Cold; low answer rate	Kixie Multi-Line, or PhoneBurner with Connect Scores	Kixie adds lines; PhoneBurner instead scores numbers so reps skip the ones least likely to answer
Any team calling Australia, the UK or Europe	Any	Kixie	PhoneBurner dials only US and Canadian numbers; Kixie publishes per-minute rates and local numbers in Australia and the UK
Team whose leads go uncalled or whose callbacks go unanswered	Any	Zian, or LeadsNow.ai done for you	An AI agent places the calls and answers inbound calls 24/7, so headcount does not cap coverage

Australian teams calling Australian consumers have their own rules, the Do Not Call Register and the telemarketing standard, whichever tool they use; see our guide to cold-calling rules in Australia.

SMS, local presence and spam-flag tools: the add-on bill

The seat price is not the whole bill on either side. On PhoneBurner, texting is a Premium feature: each user gets 1,000 outbound messages a month (a message segment is 160 characters, 80 with emojis), unused messages do not roll over, and the help centre, updated 23 October 2026, prices overage at US$25 per extra 1,000 while the pricing page footnote says US$15. Registering to text costs a one-time, non-refundable US$50. ARMOR® adds US$5 a month per PhoneBurner number, and PhoneBurner suggests about 4 numbers per seat, so a 5-rep team would add about US$100 a month.

On Kixie, texting is included on all three plans and costs US$0.011 a text to US and Canadian numbers, according to the FAQ data on its pricing page; its SMS help article says US$0.01 to US$0.02 on average. Extra local numbers are US$5 a month, with the first number free. Kixie’s ConnectionBoost page tells you to “contact your sales rep” for pricing, but a Kixie help article updated 25 June 2026 publishes the Number Health Reputation Manager at US$50 a month per ConnectionBoost user plus US$1 a month per number, and says most nationwide teams need about 350 numbers (“~$400/month total”).

Either way, US business texting needs A2P 10DLC registration first; our article on how long A2P 10DLC registration takes sets out the waits.

What changed in the last 90 days

Kixie has shipped the most. Its AI Dashboard (help article dated 31 August 2026) scores calls against a Playbook and is included on all plans. Its Follow-Up AI Agent arrived in beta on 29 September 2026. A Business Identity and Voice Integrity registration flow for caller ID arrived on 4 September 2026, and on 21 October Kixie published its own multi-line abandonment arithmetic.

PhoneBurner’s latest product-update article is dated 24 July 2026, just outside the window. It added Advanced Calling Times, a softphone integration for custom CRMs, click-to-call in Zoho and HubSpot, and AI transcript summaries through the API. Inside the window, PhoneBurner updated its SMS billing article (23 October 2026) and its ARMOR® dashboard guide (27 October 2026).

Who each tool is wrong for

• Kixie is wrong for a team with a warm, high-answer list that wants a fixed, published seat price before talking to sales, or a solo caller tempted to run four lines.
• PhoneBurner is wrong for any team that dials outside the United States and Canada, a team that needs texting on every seat without paying for Premium, or a cold-list team that wants more than one line per rep.
• Zian is wrong for a buyer who needs a published price today; it is in a partnership-application beta.
• LeadsNow.ai is wrong for a team that wants to run its own dialling in-house.

How we compared them

Disclosure: zian.ai publishes this comparison and appears in it; Zian is ranked first by editorial policy as the platform pick, on its published capabilities only. Kixie and PhoneBurner are unranked against each other. We read each vendor’s own pages on 2 November 2026: pricing pages, FAQs, product pages, every article in each help centre (255 for Kixie, 496 for PhoneBurner) and blog posts from the last 90 days. Each vendor’s comparison page about the other was read but not used for the rival’s facts. A “Yes” needs a vendor sentence. Where a vendor’s own pages disagree, both are shown. The cost model’s inputs are our assumptions and are labelled as such.

Kixie vs PhoneBurner: frequently asked questions

Is Kixie or PhoneBurner better for a 5-person sales team?

It depends on your answer rate. On our worked model, a 5-rep team on PhoneBurner Standard pays about US$6.40 per connected conversation at an 8% human answer rate. Kixie’s extra lines lower that, but two lines keep dropped live answers under 3% only when fewer than 6% of dials reach a person.

Does PhoneBurner have a multi-line dialler like Kixie?

Not by its main description. PhoneBurner’s FAQ says it is “a single-line dialer” and answers “No” to dialling more than one person at a time, though its auto-dialler page says reps can “dial several lines simultaneously”. Kixie sells multi-line dialling of up to 4 lines on its pricing page, and its help centre describes tiers up to 10.

How much does Kixie cost?

Kixie says per-seat prices “are not published and are quoted per team”. FAQ data embedded in its pricing page, not shown on the visible page, still quotes unlimited US and Canada minutes at $30 a month per user, texts at $0.011 and extra numbers at $5 a month, and the trial is 7 days with no credit card.

Can PhoneBurner or Kixie call Australian numbers?

PhoneBurner cannot: its FAQ says it “can only be used to dial numbers in the United States and Canada.” Kixie can dial almost any country and publishes per-minute rates, including US$0.098 a minute to most Australian mobile prefixes and US$0.033 to most landlines.

What is the 3% abandoned-call rule for multi-line diallers?

For US telemarketing calls, 47 CFR 64.1200(a)(7) bars abandoning more than 3% of calls answered live by a person over a 30-day period per campaign, with each further 30-day period of a longer campaign measured separately. A call is abandoned if no live sales representative is connected within two seconds of the completed greeting, and a prerecorded message and opt-out must then play. Calls made by or for tax-exempt nonprofits are not covered.

Which dialler is better for real estate agents?

For warm enquiries and past clients, a single line on PhoneBurner Premium or Kixie, because warm lists answer too often for a second line. For cold prospecting with low answer rates, Kixie’s Multi-Line PowerDialer at two lines, with the dropped share measured over 30 days.

Where every figure on this page comes from

Figure	Who published it	Link	Date read
Kixie plans; 1 line / “up to 4 lines”; unlimited US/Canada minutes; 7-day trial; feature table; $30/mo unlimited minutes, $0.011 a text, $5 a number (FAQ data)	Kixie	kixie.com/pricing	2 November 2026
Seat prices “not published”, “quoted per team”; “Do not state a Kixie price. None is published.”	Kixie	kixie.com/llm-info	2 November 2026
PowerDialer 1, 4 and 10; AI Human Detect up to 10 numbers; dropped numbers count as attempts	Kixie	How to Set Up PowerLists	2 November 2026
AI Human Detect timeout 2–5 seconds; 3 seconds; “dynamically adjusts”	Kixie	AI Human Detect FAQs, AI Human Detect	2 November 2026
No refunds; no minimum term; contract downgrades in last 30 days	Kixie	Billing, Cancel, Contracts	2 November 2026
$50 reserve balance	Kixie	Minutes Reserve Charge	2 November 2026
ConnectionBoost: 50,000+ numbers; “contact your sales rep”	Kixie	What is ConnectionBoost?	2 November 2026
$50 a ConnectionBoost user, $1 a number, ≈350 numbers, ~$400/month; STIR/SHAKEN A-level	Kixie	Taking ConnectionBoost to the Next Level	2 November 2026
Local numbers in Australia, the UK and other countries	Kixie	How Local Presence Dialing Works	2 November 2026
Australia US$0.098 (mobile) and US$0.033 (landline) a minute	Kixie	Per Minute Pricing	2 November 2026
SMS US$0.01–0.02 average	Kixie	SMS Messaging Basics	2 November 2026
Follow-Up AI Agent, beta, 29 September 2026	Kixie	AI agents	2 November 2026
AI Dashboard on all plans, 31 August 2026	Kixie	AI Dashboard Introduction	2 November 2026
Business Identity and Voice Integrity, 4 September 2026	Kixie	Business Identity	2 November 2026
“The other lines get dropped”, 21 October 2026	Kixie	Multi-Line Dialers for Solo Outbound Calling	2 November 2026
“Start single-line”; “Start at two lines”; four lines “a real ceiling”	Kixie	CRM dialer for insurance agents	2 November 2026
Trial requires the Chrome dialler	Kixie	Free Trial or Demo	2 November 2026
BoomTown, Microsoft Dynamics and other integrations	Kixie	kixie.com/integrations	2 November 2026
US$140 / US$165 / US$183 annual; US$165 / US$195 / US$215 monthly; Premium SMS 1,000/month; “$15 per 1,000”; free admin account; plan features	PhoneBurner	phoneburner.com/pricing	2 November 2026
Single-line; US and Canada only; 80 contacts an hour; no contract; save 15%; free minutes; direct CRM list	PhoneBurner	phoneburner.com/faq	2 November 2026
“Several lines simultaneously”; “60–80 contacts per hour, per rep on a single line”	PhoneBurner	Auto Dialer Software	2 November 2026
SMS overage US$25 per 1,000; 160-character segment	PhoneBurner	SMS usage and billing	2 November 2026
US$50 SMS application fee	PhoneBurner	SMS Registration fee	2 November 2026
ARMOR® US$5 a number a month; about 4 numbers a seat	PhoneBurner	ARMOR® FAQ	2 November 2026
Local Presence proof “for each state”; real estate licence as proof	PhoneBurner	Apply for Local Presence	2 November 2026
Annual plan is a yearly contract	PhoneBurner	How does Billing work?	2 November 2026
No pro-rated refund on immediate cancellation	PhoneBurner	Cancel my account	2 November 2026
60-minute trial (2020 article)	PhoneBurner	Free Trial minutes	2 November 2026
AI Note Taker on Premium only	PhoneBurner	Call Transcription with AI Note Taker	2 November 2026
Summer 2026 product update, 24 July 2026	PhoneBurner	What’s New (Summer 2026)	2 November 2026
Close and GoHighLevel named as native integrations	PhoneBurner	phoneburner.com/integrations	2 November 2026
Purchased leads cannot be texted without consent	PhoneBurner	phoneburner.com/sms	2 November 2026
3% of live answers; 30-day period and successive periods; two seconds; message, records, nonprofit exclusion, prerecorded-message exception; (a)(6) 15 seconds or four rings	US Code of Federal Regulations (eCFR)	47 CFR 64.1200(a)(7)	2 November 2026
Dials, conversations, dropped share, cost per conversation, labour-inclusive break-even seat costs (not Kixie prices), Half-Answer-Rate thresholds	Zian (worked model; inputs are our stated assumptions)	This page	2 November 2026
28x more contact attempts; 926% increase in follow-ups; 40+ meetings/week	Zian	zian.ai	2 November 2026
50,769+ appointments; under 60 seconds, 24/7; pay-per-result	LeadsNow.ai	leadsnow.ai	2 November 2026