ReadyMode is one of the few dialers in this category that puts a per-licence price on a public page, which is unusually helpful and unusually clarifying. It means you can work out what a switch would save you in about ten seconds — and most small floors, having done that arithmetic, discover the saving is smaller than they assumed and the reason they wanted to leave was never really the price.
Disclosure: Scout Data does not sell a dialer. We sell the records that go into one, so read the panel below with that in mind.
The published tiers
| Starter | iQ | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $199 per licence / month | $249 per licence / month |
| Licence range | 1–4 | 5 and up |
| Numbers per licence | 30 | 75 |
| Caller-ID reputation monitoring | Not included | Included, with managed remediation |
| Integrations | None | Unlimited |
| Minutes | Outbound under a fair-use policy; inbound at 2¢ per minute | |
| Setup fee | Advertised as waived | |
Every figure above is what ReadyMode publicly advertised on its own pricing page at the time of writing, and rate cards change. Confirm current pricing and inclusions with the vendor directly, and with our sales team for Scout Data.
What the tier boundary is really about
Read the two columns again and the fifty-dollar gap resolves into one idea: on the lower tier you manage your own caller-ID reputation, and on the higher tier the platform does. Monitoring which of your numbers have been flagged, retiring them, and pursuing remediation with carriers is genuine ongoing labour, and it is the single most common cause of a connect rate falling for reasons nobody on the floor can see.
That reframes the upgrade decision. It is not “more features for more money”; it is “does someone on my team own number reputation as a job.” If nobody does, the lower tier is cheaper per licence and more expensive per connect, and the difference will not show up anywhere in your invoice. Why that matters, and how to monitor it yourself if you stay on the cheaper tier, is in outbound dialer setup for solar floors.
The arithmetic at the boundary
The five-licence minimum on the upper tier produces a genuinely awkward step. Four Starter licences is $796 a month as advertised. Five iQ licences is $1,245. Adding one seat costs $449, not $199 — a 56% jump in platform spend to grow the floor by 25%.
That step is where most switching conversations begin, and it is worth being precise about what you are buying on the other side of it: a fifth agent, plus reputation management for the whole floor, plus integrations, plus a much larger number pool. Whether that is good value depends on whether the fifth agent is fully utilised and whether the reputation work was already costing you connects. Growing floors that cross this line and then stall at five seats are the ones that end up shopping.
Three reasons small floors actually leave
- The step at five licences. Covered above. This is a packaging problem, not a product problem, and it is solved by pricing the same seat count at two or three vendors and comparing totals with telecom included.
- Integrations on the entry tier. If you need the dialer to talk to a CRM and you are under five seats, the advertised Starter tier does not do it. That is a hard blocker rather than an inconvenience, and it pushes small teams either up a tier or out.
- Connect rate, misattributed. The most common stated reason, and the least often correct. Before migrating, split connect rate from right-party rate for a week. If the numbers connect but the person who answers is not the homeowner, the platform is not the variable — the file is. A quarter spent migrating will not change it.
Where to look, by which reason applies
If the problem is the packaging step, the useful comparison is against other seat-priced platforms at your exact seat count — and against quote-priced vendors, which requires normalising the proposal first. CallTools alternatives sets out that normalisation method, and Convoso alternatives covers the enterprise end of the same field including the carrier-fee question that makes quotes hard to line up.
If the problem is that per-seat licensing simply does not fit a floor whose headcount swings seasonally, the honest alternative is self-hosting, where the licence is free and the cost moves into operations — VICIdial alternatives prices that trade properly. And if you are a very small team dialing modest volume, a line-based dialer may be a better shape than a contact centre platform at all; that is Mojo Dialer alternatives.
If the problem is connect rate, none of the above helps. Start with list hygiene for call centers and confirm the file is the constraint before you spend a quarter on a migration that changes the invoice and not the result.
Frequently asked questions
How much is ReadyMode per seat?
At the time of writing ReadyMode publicly advertises two tiers on its pricing page: Starter at $199 per licence per month for one to four licences, and iQ at $249 per licence per month from five licences up. Both list a waived setup fee, outbound minutes under a fair-use policy, and inbound at 2¢ a minute. Confirm current rates with the vendor.
Is ReadyMode the same as XenCall?
Yes — XenCall rebranded to ReadyMode in 2021. Reviews and comparison posts still circulate under the old name, so a page describing “XenCall’s dialer” is describing this product at an earlier point in its life. Treat any pricing in those older pages as historical.
What is the difference between ReadyMode Starter and iQ?
As advertised, the higher tier adds caller-ID reputation monitoring, managed remediation when numbers get flagged, call cadencing, automatic cycling of clean numbers, and unlimited integrations — and it carries a five-licence minimum. Starter advertises 30 numbers per licence and no integrations; iQ advertises 75. The boundary is essentially about who manages your number reputation, you or the platform.
Is a per-seat dialer worth it for a four-person floor?
Compare it against the alternative honestly. Four seats on a published per-licence price is a predictable monthly number with support attached. The cheaper-looking options either shift cost into telecom you buy separately or into an administrator you have to employ. Small floors that switch on sticker price alone frequently rediscover this three months later.