Readymode Pricing: The Seat Is Dear for What Is Inside It

Readymode's pricing page lists $199 USD per licence per month for its Starter plan and $249 for iQ, at or near the top of the dialer prices this corpus has recorded. The interesting part is what sits inside the seat: a pool of 30 or 75 phone numbers per licence, and on iQ the caller ID monitoring that other dialers sell as an add-on.

Everything below was read from readymode.com's own pricing page. It publishes one rate per plan, with no billing qualifier beyond per licence per month. An earlier version of the page showed an annual rate beside a crossed-out monthly one, and that second state is gone. The page's browser title also reads "TEST PAGE", so the vendor's pricing surface is visibly in flux, and a quote in writing is the figure to budget on.

Readymode pricing: the two dialer plans

Readymode Starter is $199 USD per licence per month. Its card reads "Core outbound dialing features for individuals and small teams", bands it at 1 to 4 licences, and includes 30 phone numbers per licence. Its call to action is "Buy now. No demo required.", offered on the page for 1 to 2 licences, so the two bands the page states for the same plan do not agree.

Readymode iQ is $249 USD per licence per month. Its card reads "Advanced features for high-performance outreach", bands it at 5 or more licences, and includes 75 phone numbers (DIDs) per licence. Its route to purchase is a conversation with the team rather than a buy button.

Both plans list unlimited support, a waived set-up fee and a waived number activation fee, and both include implementation and training for customers with three or more licences. The page has no annual toggle and no saving line, so a buyer offered an annual discount should ask for the figure in writing rather than rely on a badge.

There is one licence type on the page that costs nothing and is easy to misread. The footnote reads "One complimentary Admin license is included with all plans." and immediately clarifies that an admin licence differs from the standard agent licence and does not include standard licence features such as the floor plan and the web phone. So the free licence cannot dial. Headcount planning uses the agent count.

Line	Starter	iQ
Licence cost	$199	$249
Licences	1 to 4	5 or more
Phone numbers included	30 per licence	75 per licence
Outbound minutes	Free, fair use	Free, fair use
Inbound minutes	0.02 a minute	0.02 a minute
Caller ID monitoring	No	Yes, with remediation
Integrations	None listed	Unlimited
How to buy	Buy now, no demo	Talk to the team

The number inventory is inside the seat price

Up to 30 numbers per licence on Starter, up to 75 on iQ, with the activation fee waived on both. That is the line that reframes the comparison.

Outbound dialing at volume burns caller ID. Carriers and analytics providers flag numbers that generate short-duration calls and no answers, and once a number is flagged its answer rate collapses. The standard mitigation is to hold a pool of numbers across area codes and rotate through it, which means the pool size and the rotation policy decide how fast the reputation cost arrives. Dialer modes and what a seat costs sets out that mechanic in full, and its buying checklist says plainly that number inventory and its monthly cost should be quoted rather than assumed.

PhoneBurner sells numbers as an add-on, and JustCall includes two numbers per account and sells more, including local number bundles. Readymode has put a pool inside the licence. Thirty numbers per seat is a substantial pool for a single agent, and seventy-five is a large one, so a comparison that reads only the seat figure is comparing an all-in price against a partial one.

The same include-or-add-on question decides fit elsewhere, since entitlements that arrive only as add-ons change the total bill more than the tier a buyer picks.

Minutes are less unusual than they look. The comparison table lists outbound minutes as free, with an asterisk pointing at a fair use policy, and inbound minutes at 0.02 a minute. PhoneBurner's cards also list unlimited calling on every tier, and JustCall pools 1,000 outbound minutes per user on its seat plans, with unlimited minutes only on its quoted SalesPro dialer. So free outbound calling is not what sets Readymode apart, and the line to confirm in writing is the fair use ceiling, because the page does not publish it.

Where the Readymode licence sits in this category

Published per-seat pricing for dialers clusters in two bands, and this corpus has both recorded. PhoneBurner publishes three tiers running from $140 to $215 per user per month depending on tier and billing state. JustCall's page sits far below that, at $29 to $89 per user per month billed annually with a two-licence minimum. Kixie's PowerDialer publishes line counts and no price at all.

Readymode's iQ licence sits above both bands, $34 over PhoneBurner's Premium tier billed monthly. Starter does not: at $199 it sits inside PhoneBurner's range, $4 above its Professional tier billed monthly ($195) and $16 below Premium ($215). Against JustCall's $29 entry tier it is nearly seven times the price.

Three things account for the gap over the cheaper seats, and only one of them is margin.

The bundled inventory. Thirty to seventy-five numbers per seat, with activation waived, is capacity that a JustCall or PhoneBurner buyer purchases separately.

Caller ID health on iQ. Reputation monitoring, managed remediation and Autopilot number cycling are in the iQ licence. PhoneBurner sells number monitoring and remediation as its ARMOR add-on, on top of the seat.

The market it is sold into. Readymode's own navigation sells a predictive dialer, a CRM, lead management, reporting and compliance tooling as one platform, and its solutions menu names real estate, solar, health insurance, outsourcing (BPO), travel and home improvement. That is a call-centre platform rather than a seat that plugs into an existing stack, so the seat is buying more surface.

Whether that trade is right depends entirely on volume. A four-person B2B SDR team dialing curated lists does not need seventy-five numbers a head, and parallel dialing makes the case that line count is the whole decision for exactly that reason: past a certain aggression the constraint stops being dialing capacity and becomes list quality. A fifty-seat floor working high-volume consumer or SMB lists is a different arithmetic, and it is the one this pricing is built for.

Dialer	Seat	Numbers	Outbound
Readymode	$199 or $249	30 or 75 each	Free, fair use
PhoneBurner	$140 to $215	Add-on	Unlimited
JustCall	$29 to $89	2 an account	1,000 minutes a user

What the tier split actually gates

The feature comparison is worth reading as two groups rather than a list.

The first group is caller ID health: reputation monitoring, managed remediation when a number gets flagged as spam, and Autopilot, whose own line reads "Automatically cycles clean DIDs to protect caller ID reputation". All three are iQ only.

The second is orchestration: call cadencing, described as building intelligent contact strategies, unlimited integrations, and early access to new features. All iQ only.

Caller ID health

• Reputation monitoring for every number
• Managed remediation when a number is flagged
• Autopilot, which cycles in clean numbers

Orchestration

• Call cadencing for contact strategies
• Unlimited integrations
• Early access to new features

So the upgrade is not more dialing. It is number health plus connective tissue, and the first of those is the one that decides whether a floor still works in month six. A team buying Readymode Starter to save $50 a licence is buying the same dialer with none of the machinery that keeps its numbers answering, which is a false economy at any volume where numbers actually burn.

One capability is deliberately fenced on both plans. The footnote states that voicemail drop is available to those who qualify, that it is based on opt-in and consent, and that it incurs a cost for dropping voicemails. That is a compliance posture rather than a packaging decision, and it is the right one: voicemail drop is a regulated motion wherever these floors operate, and a vendor that hands it to every account on signup is creating a problem for its customers rather than solving one.

How to price a floor against this page

Readymode prices per licence, so the only arithmetic a buyer needs is multiplication, and the only judgement is which licence count to multiply.

A four-agent floor on the Readymode Starter licence is four times $199, or $796 a month, and Starter is banded at 1 to 4 licences on the card, so that is its ceiling. A ten-agent floor is iQ territory at ten times $249, or $2,490 a month. Those multiplications are ours, taken over the per-licence figures on Readymode's own card.

Two adjustments belong in the same spreadsheet and neither appears on the page. Inbound minutes bill at 0.02 a minute on both plans, so a floor that takes callbacks has a usage line the outbound side does not. And the fair use policy governing free outbound minutes is referenced without a ceiling beside it, so a high-volume floor should ask for that number in writing before treating outbound telephony as zero.

Usage limits decide more of a bill than the headline rate, and a monitoring plan where two limits compete shows how to work out which cap actually binds.

The self-serve split is worth noticing too. Starter is sold with a buy-now button and no demo, and iQ routes through the team. That is a normal packaging decision and it has a practical consequence: the plan you can buy without a conversation is the one without caller ID reputation monitoring, so the quicker path to a live floor is also the one that degrades first.

The claim to read as a claim

The pricing page opens with a line worth separating from the numbers: it invites buyers to see 4x faster return on investment compared to competitors. No method, no baseline, no comparison set and no date accompany it. That is a marketing statement made by the seller about itself, and it belongs in the same category as every vendor outcome claim, which is to say it is not evidence of anything and should not enter a business case.

The published figures are different. A price on a pricing page is checkable, dated and binding in a way an ROI multiple is not, which is why this article quotes the first and reports the second.

If the reason a dialer is on the table is that outbound is not producing enough conversations to justify a floor at all, the dialer is not the variable to solve first. Get a free campaign plan and fix the input.

Pricing and features are from Readymode's own pricing page, in US dollars per licence per month before tax. Prices change; check the page before you buy.