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title: "TalaLevel vs Orum: the Orum alternative with no seat minimum and no demo call"
description: "TalaLevel vs Orum, November 2026: what each costs, the nine-seat minimum, lines dialed at once, texting, email and AI. We used both on our own floor."
url: https://talalevel.com/compare/talalevel-vs-orum/
date: 2026-11-10
updated: 2026-11-10
competitor: "Orum"
---

# TalaLevel vs Orum: the Orum alternative with no seat minimum and no demo call

TalaLevel does what Orum does and what Orum leaves to other tools: a dialer that rings several lines at once, plus the CRM, texting, email and an AI that answers your leads, in one app. You sign up on the website and pay by the month, from $47 a seat, for one rep or a full floor. Orum publishes no prices, sells through a demo, bills annually and lists a nine-seat minimum on both plans; when our own floor bought it, the price was $250 a seat a month.

## At a glance

Orum is a calling platform. It works alongside the CRM and the sales engagement tool you already pay for, and makes the phone part faster. TalaLevel is the CRM itself, with the dialer, texting, email and AI inside it. Most of the differences below come from that one choice.

| | TalaLevel | Orum |
| --- | --- | --- |
| What it is | A sales CRM with a dialer, texting, email and AI | A dialer and coaching platform that works alongside your CRM |
| Published price | $47, $97 or $247 a seat a month | None; a "Request pricing" form |
| Smallest purchase | One seat | Nine seats, on both plans |
| How you buy | On the website, today | A demo, then a quote |
| What we paid | The published price | $250 a seat a month |
| Contract | Monthly, cancel anytime; or a year for the price of ten months | Annual |
| Trial | Seven days, card on file | Limited to 500 dials |
| Lines dialed at once | 1 on Dialer, up to 3 on Pro, up to 10 on Scale | Up to 5 on Launch, up to 10 on Ascend |
| Texting and email to prospects | On Pro and Scale | Not on its plans |
| AI that talks to your leads | Tala by text (Pro, Scale), Joey by phone (Scale) | None |
| Help for reps and managers | Live call assistant (Pro, Scale); listen, whisper and take over (Scale) | Live Listen, rooms, leaderboards; AI roleplay and scorecards as an add-on |
| Your CRM | It is the CRM; sign in to the one you use now and your leads, deals and history come across, and if yours has to stay, the two stay connected | Required: Salesforce, HubSpot, Outreach, Salesloft, Gong, Apollo |

## Price, and what you buy alongside it

TalaLevel publishes three plans, priced per seat per month:

- **Dialer, $47.** The CRM (leads, lists, pipeline, calendar, reports), unlimited US calling, a power dialer on one line, recordings and transcripts kept 30 days. Phone numbers are $2 a month each.
- **Pro, $97.** Adds up to three lines at once, texting from your own numbers with the carrier registration done with you, 2,000 texts and three numbers a seat, 1,500 AI credits a seat, the live call assistant, and email from your Gmail.
- **Scale, $247.** Adds up to ten lines, Joey the AI caller, 6,000 texts and ten numbers a seat, 5,000 AI credits a seat, listen, whisper and take over on reps' calls, and an onboarding call.

A year costs ten months. More texts or credits are $10 per 1,000.

Orum publishes no prices, so here is what we know first-hand. Our own sales floor has paid for Orum. The price was $250 a seat a month, on an annual contract with a seat minimum, and the only way to buy was a demo call and a quote. Your quote may be different, and that is the point: you can't know until you've sat through the call.

Its pricing page shows two plans, Launch and Ascend, each tagged "Minimum 9-Seat" with a "Request pricing" button, and its FAQ says pricing is per user, billed annually. Launch dials up to five lines and gets five caller IDs a month. Ascend, the plan Orum recommends, adds up to ten lines, ten caller IDs per user a month, international calling, data enrichment credits, AI call summaries and objection detection. AI roleplay, scorecards and the coaching portal are an add-on on either plan.

The larger difference is what sits next to the bill. Orum's FAQ says it works alongside your CRM and your sales engagement platform, which "manage sequences and digital outreach." So an Orum seat comes on top of a CRM seat and, if your reps text or email prospects, a sales engagement seat too. A TalaLevel seat is the CRM, and on Pro and Scale it is the texting and email as well.

Worked through, using the $250 we paid as Orum's price:

| | TalaLevel Pro | Orum |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Four reps, a month | 4 × $97 = $388 | 9 seats × $250 = $2,250 (nine is the minimum) |
| Nine reps, a month | 9 × $97 = $873 | 9 × $250 = $2,250 |
| Nine reps, a year | 9 × $970 = $8,730 | 9 × $250 × 12 = $27,000, committed up front |
| Also needed | Nothing | A CRM, and a sales engagement tool if you text or email |

TalaLevel Scale, with up to ten lines and the AI caller, is 9 × $247 = $2,223 a month for nine reps. That is level with what we paid Orum for the dialer alone.

## Dialing

Both apps ring several lines at once and put you on the call when a person answers. Orum has been building its dialer since 2018 and it has more controls. TalaLevel's dialer sits inside the CRM, so the call, the text and the follow-up are on the same lead.

On Orum's Dialer page you pick a list from Salesforce or a CSV, set how many lines to dial, and choose a Detector mode that states its own trade-off: "Default: fewer voicemails with a slightly longer connection time" or "Fastest: minimal delay time but you may run into more voicemails." The list splits into Callable and Uncallable tabs with the reason on each row (Bad phone, Failed phone, DNC in Orum). Every number carries a temperature of one to five dots, Orum's prediction of how likely it is to connect. Scout finds numbers across more than ten data sources, and Orum rotates your caller IDs and watches their reputation. Orum quotes a median connect time of 0.7 seconds. If two people pick up at once, you get the first and the second goes to a Canceled Calls bucket to call back.

TalaLevel's dialer works from your own lists in the CRM, or a spreadsheet you import. Each rep sets how many calls ring at once, up to the plan's limit. It answers call screeners and leaves voicemails in your own voice, as Orum does, and every call is recorded, transcribed, summarised and filed on the lead. TalaLevel doesn't score numbers or enrich them, and its plans cover US calling.

Both top plans reach ten lines. More lines also means more people answering while you're already talking to someone, so the right number depends on how often your list picks up, not on the biggest figure on a pricing page.

## After the connect

In Orum you can log the call from the prospect's card: a Disposition dropdown, a Note box and a Log Call button, with a default disposition so the next dial never waits on you. With AI call summaries (an Ascend feature), the AI writes the call's notes, and the transcript opens with the objections it heard, each tagged with a category such as "Timing". The follow-up itself, whether that's an email, a text or the next step in a sequence, happens in your CRM or sales engagement tool.

In TalaLevel the follow-up happens where the call did. What the lead said lands on the lead under "What we know": the need, the date, who decides. Statuses move as calls and texts happen, so the pipeline doesn't wait for someone to update it. Promise a callback at 2pm their time and it is waiting on Home at 2pm their time. On Pro and Scale you text from your own registered numbers and email from your Gmail with follow-ups. Every text goes through the same checks: opt-outs, your numbers' registration, and quiet hours by the lead's own clock.

If your follow-up has steps of its own, we build that workflow with you in your workspace. On our own floor it is a document review: the app reads the files a lead sends, checks them for signs of tampering and tells the rep what is missing.

## AI

Both apps use AI, for different jobs. Orum's works on the dialing and the coaching. TalaLevel's works with your leads.

Orum's AI is three agents. Scout picks the numbers, Operator tells a person from a screener, a voicemail or a phone tree in 20+ languages, and Coach scores calls and runs practice. None of them talks to your prospects for you.

TalaLevel's AI does four things:

- **Tala** answers a new lead from your own number within seconds, even at 3am when they have just filled in your form, asks what you would ask, and books the call. It works in three places, each off until you switch it on: leads who text you, follow-ups after a call, and leads from your website form. If someone asks, Tala says it is an AI assistant and that a person on your team reviews every conversation. A conversation uses about 20 AI credits, so Pro's 1,500 a seat cover about 75 conversations a month.
- **The live call assistant** (Pro and Scale) listens to both sides of a rep's call. When the lead pushes back, a suggested next line appears on screen, and a checklist of what you need to learn fills itself in as they talk.
- **Joey** (Scale) is an AI caller. Set a list running and Joey works it, handing you the people who want to talk, at about 10 credits a minute. Joey is the voice on talalevel.com's homepage, so you can hear him before you buy.
- **Ask Tala** answers questions in plain words from every call and text, and does the work. Anything that would reach a lead waits for your click.

## Coaching and reports

Orum puts its coaching after the call and off the phone. TalaLevel puts it on the call. In Orum's coaching tools each rep gets a score and a word for every metric against the team's goals, from "Keep focusing" to "Crushing it". Battlecards pair an objection with a one-line rule and two questions, are matched to calls by keywords, and show a win rate. AI roleplay writes practice scenarios from your company's own website. The salesfloor adds shared rooms, live leaderboards, a feed of booked meetings with the objections faced, and Live Listen on any call.

TalaLevel has no roleplay or scorecards. Its live call assistant gives the rep the next line during the call, when it can still change the outcome. Orum's AI scorecards come after the call, its roleplay is practice off the phone, and its pricing page lists live battlecards as coming soon. On Scale a manager can listen to a rep's call, whisper so only the rep hears, or take the call over. Reports show dials, connects, conversations and calls booked by rep and by day against the month before, and the hours your leads pick up on their own clock.

## Setup and who each is built for

Orum's site sends buyers to a demo or a pricing form, and its onboarding team handles setup, integrations and rep training. It is built for SDR and BDR teams working lists out of Salesforce or HubSpot, and the details show it: AI-enriched job function and seniority columns on its lists, a LinkedIn column, and SOC 2 Type II and ISO certification for the procurement review.

TalaLevel is bought on its website. Pick a plan and start the seven-day trial. Sign in to the CRM you use now (Close, HubSpot, Pipedrive, Salesforce, Zoho, HighLevel, Attio, Copper, Freshsales or monday) and your leads, people, deals and history come across by themselves; or you import a spreadsheet and TalaLevel matches the columns. You get your numbers inside the app, and we walk you through the carrier registration so your texts arrive. It is built for any team that sells by phone and text, from one person to a full floor of nine reps or ninety.

If your records have to stay in Salesforce or HubSpot, tell us and we set up the connection with you. And if you are leaving one of them, export your leads and import the file.

## Which to pick

*What each seat holds, including where Orum is ahead. A plus is something you pay more for.*

### Pick TalaLevel if

- You want to see the price, sign up today and pay by the month, with no demo call and no annual contract.
- You have one rep or thirty. There is no seat minimum, and nine reps on Pro cost $873 a month.
- You want one app for the CRM, calls, texts and email, instead of a dialer on top of a CRM and a sequencer.
- Your leads text, fill in forms after hours, or need chasing, and you want an AI to answer them from your own number within rules you set.
- You want help on the call while it is happening, not only a score afterwards.

### Pick Orum if

- Your reps only dial, all day, out of Salesforce or Outreach, and you want number scoring and data enrichment built into the dialer.
- You call outside the US.
- You want AI roleplay and scorecards for training.
- You are comfortable with a demo, a quote and an annual contract for nine seats or more.

## How we compared

Orum's screens are described as we saw them in its app in November 2026. Its plans, limits and prices are from orum.com/pricing and its product pages as of November 10, 2026. TalaLevel's come from our own pricing page. The $250 a seat is what our own floor paid Orum, not a list price. We make TalaLevel, so check both sites before you decide; plans change.

## Questions

### Is there a cheaper Orum alternative?

Yes. TalaLevel's Pro plan is $97 a seat a month, dials up to three lines at once and includes the CRM, texting, email and an AI assistant, with no seat minimum and no annual contract. Orum publishes no prices; our own floor paid $250 a seat a month for it, on an annual contract with a seat minimum.

### How much does Orum cost?

As of November 2026 Orum does not publish prices. Its pricing page shows two plans, Launch and Ascend, each with a nine-seat minimum and a request-pricing form, and its FAQ says pricing is per user and billed annually. When our own floor bought Orum, the price was $250 a seat a month; your quote may differ.

### Can TalaLevel handle a floor of nine or more reps?

Yes. TalaLevel has no seat minimum and no maximum. Every plan lets you invite the team, managers can listen, whisper and take over calls on Scale, and reports show dials, connects and conversations by rep. Nine reps on Pro is $873 a month.

### Can I sign up for Orum without a demo?

Orum's site sends buyers to a demo or a request-pricing form, and its plans are billed annually. TalaLevel is bought on its website with a seven-day trial and billed by the month.

### How many lines can Orum and TalaLevel dial at once?

Orum's Launch plan dials up to five lines at once and its Ascend plan up to ten. TalaLevel's Dialer plan dials one line, Pro up to three and Scale up to ten.

### Does Orum send texts or emails to prospects?

No texting or email to prospects is listed on Orum's plans; its own FAQ says your CRM and sales engagement platform handle sequences and digital outreach. TalaLevel's Pro and Scale plans text from your own registered numbers and email from each rep's Gmail.

### Do I need a separate CRM to use TalaLevel?

No. TalaLevel is the CRM, with leads, lists, pipeline, calendar and reports on every plan from $47 a seat a month. If your records have to stay in Salesforce or HubSpot, we set up the connection with you. Orum only works on top of a CRM you pay for separately.

### What does Orum have that TalaLevel doesn't?

Number temperature, data enrichment, caller ID rotation, calling to 160+ countries on its Ascend plan, and AI roleplay and scorecards as an add-on. TalaLevel has the CRM, texting, email, an AI that answers leads and a live assistant during the call, none of which Orum offers.

### Can I try TalaLevel or Orum before buying?

TalaLevel has a seven-day trial with a card on file; cancel before it ends and you pay nothing. Orum's pricing page says its free trial is limited to 500 dials.