Clozo vs Aircall

Aircall is a Phone. Clozo is a Closing Machine.

Aircall is a solid cloud phone — but it's only a phone, so you still have to buy a CRM, outreach, and analytics on top. It also carries a hard 3-license minimum (a $90–$150/mo floor even for one caller) on an annual contract. Clozo is a complete phone system too — your own business number in about a minute, smart IVR, SMS & WhatsApp, call recording with AI summaries, dialing anywhere at transparent prepaid rates, and 200–2,500 outbound actions a month for your whole workspace — and a full sales & marketing platform: CRM and visual pipeline, AI that re-scores every deal the moment a call finishes transcribing, an AI co-pilot on screen before you dial, email & social marketing, and every call, text, WhatsApp message, live chat and social reply in one timeline. No seat minimum, no lock-in, and a 30-day free trial with no credit card required — from $79/user/month.

Aircall is a good phone system — but that's all it is. Clozo matches it feature-for-feature on telephony — your own number, smart IVR, call recording, SMS & WhatsApp, dialing anywhere at transparent prepaid rates, and 200–2,500 outbound actions a month for your whole workspace — and then keeps going: a full CRM, AI deal scoring, an on-call AI co-pilot, revenue forecasting, email & social marketing, and every call, text, WhatsApp message, live chat and social reply in one timeline, all on one bill. With Aircall the sticker isn't the cost. Licenses run $30/mo (Essentials) or $50/mo (Professional) annually — but there's a 3-license minimum, monthly billing costs 33–40% more, extra phone numbers add ~$5–$10 each, unlimited analytics history needs the $15/license Analytics+ add-on, and the AI Voice Agent is metered after just 50 free minutes a month. Then, because there's no CRM, you bolt on a CRM subscription plus a separate outreach tool — three contracts, three bills — and still have no deal scoring, forecasting, or social selling. And Aircall users report real friction: a 3.0/5 Trustpilot score (vs 4.4/5 on G2) driven by surprise invoices, aggressive auto-renewal, billing support that goes quiet for days, and recurring call-quality complaints. Clozo gives you the phone system and the whole platform for $79/user/month.
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Clozo vs Aircall: Side by Side

Aircall gives you a phone. Clozo gives you everything you need to close.

Feature
Clozo Recommended
Aircall
Starting Price
$79/user/mo (whole stack included)
From $30/license/mo (phone only)
Seat / License Minimum
None — pay for exactly the seats you use
3-license minimum (Custom tier needs 25)
Free Trial
30 days — cancel anytime
Annual contract to start
Power Dialer
Built in from Launcher, with an AI co-pilot script on screen
Locked to Professional tier ($50/license/mo)
Your Own Business Number
Free with every paid plan — live in about a minute; extra numbers $4.99/mo
1/user; extra numbers billed
Smart IVR + Inbound Routing
Included on every plan — menus, hours, screen-pop
Yes
Included Outbound Volume
200–2,500 calls or messages a month for your whole workspace, by tier — then prepaid pay-as-you-go
Metered — pay per minute
International Calling
Prepaid pay-as-you-go from a wallet you top up from $10, with a daily spend cap
Metered
SMS + WhatsApp Texting
Included on every paid plan — SMS & WhatsApp from your own number, in the same timeline as the call
SMS limited; WhatsApp paid add-on
Call Recording + AI Summary
Included on every plan, including Free
Recording yes; AI on higher tiers
Bring Your Own Number / Mobile
Connect any number — even your mobile
Port-in only
Invoicing, Estimates & Booking
Invoices, estimates with a secure customer portal, plus public booking pages — free on every plan
Not available
On-Call AI Co-Pilot
Prospect-specific script and predicted objection rebuttals, on screen before you dial
Post-call AI summaries only (metered add-on)
Built-in CRM
Visual pipeline with unlimited leads, contacts and deals on every plan
None — need separate CRM
AI Deal Scoring
0–100 health score, re-computed automatically from every recorded call (Launcher+)
Not available
Revenue Forecasting
Commit, best case & weighted pipeline side by side (Scaler+)
Not available
Email Cadences
Cron-driven cadences that run every five minutes, with branching on opens, clicks and replies
Not available
Email & Social Marketing
Campaigns, cadences & publishing to all 6 social platforms, built in
Not available
Multichannel Engagement
One timeline per contact — calls, texts, WhatsApp, live chat, social comments and the emails you send
Phone only
Conversation Intelligence
Recording, transcription and AI analysis free on every plan — with talk ratio measured from real dual-channel timings
Transcription & summaries as metered add-ons
Full Analytics
Every plan, no reporting upsell — pipeline, win-loss, stage activity and composable dashboards
6-month cap unless you buy Analytics+ ($15/license/mo)
Integration Ecosystem
Native Apollo, Clay and MCP connectors, migration from Salesforce/HubSpot/Pipedrive, and a public REST API across 27 resources — and you need fewer, because the CRM, dialer & outreach are built in
250+ one-click integrations
Billing Support
Support included on every plan, with in-app bug reporting that routes straight to engineering
Reviewers report slow billing & cancellation support
Contract
Monthly or annual — cancel anytime, no exit fee
Annual lock; monthly billing costs 33–40% more; auto-renews
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The Dialer, With the Pipeline Attached

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The Real Cost of Aircall + Separate Tools

Aircall looks cheap — until you add the CRM, outreach tools, and AI you actually need.

Aircall Stack (10 Users)
4 bills
Aircall licenses (3-license minimum)
+ Analytics+, extra numbers & metered AI
+ a separate CRM subscription
+ a separate outreach tool
Clozo Launcher (10 Users)
$9,480
$79/user/mo × 10 users = $9,480/yr
CRM, dialer, AI, outreach included
One bill — everything built in
Add-On Fees
$0
No analytics tier, no metered AI,
no seat minimum, no setup fee —
deal scoring and forecasting included

And that's before the extra numbers, metered AI minutes and analytics tier that get added on top.

One platform. One price. No surprise charges.

5-User Team
$4,740/yr
Clozo Launcher, all in • no seat minimum
25-User Team
$23,700/yr
Clozo Launcher, all in • no analytics tier to buy
100-User Team
$94,800/yr
Clozo Launcher, all in • same price in year two
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Aircall is a Phone. Clozo is Everything Else Too.

Stop stitching together a phone system + CRM + outreach + analytics. Clozo unifies it all.

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Power Dialer with AI Scripts

Click-to-call, SMS and WhatsApp from your browser — with a prospect-specific script, their likely objections and your written rebuttals already on screen before you dial. It regenerates itself after every recorded call, so the next conversation starts smarter than the last.

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Full CRM & Visual Pipeline

Kanban deal board, unlimited leads, contacts, deals and tasks on every plan, per-team pipeline overrides, and 30-day trash recovery across 24 record types. No separate CRM subscription needed — it's all built in.

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AI Deal Scoring & Unified AI

Every recorded call is transcribed and automatically re-scores the deal 0–100 — probability, risk, momentum, champion strength and competitive position — and one AI across all your data lets you ask anything in plain English and get answers, charts and drafts back. The assistant is free on every plan, including Free. Aircall has nothing like this.

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Revenue Forecasting

Commit, best case and weighted pipeline side by side, plus a blended projection — computed in SQL from your real stage probabilities, FX-normalised, with accuracy tracked period over period. Available on Scaler and up. Know your number before the quarter ends.

Email & Social Marketing

Clozo is sales and marketing. Run email campaigns, templates and multi-step cadences with AI-written content, merge-tag personalisation and open/click tracking — sent through your own Gmail, Outlook, SMTP or SendGrid account, so your domain reputation stays yours — plus schedule and publish across LinkedIn, X, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok and YouTube. Aircall offers zero email or marketing capabilities.

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Unified Engagement — One Timeline

Every conversation with a prospect — calls, texts, WhatsApp, live chat, social comments and the emails you send — consolidated into one chronological timeline per contact, automatically, with AI drafting and AI Q&A over the whole history. Aircall shows you phone calls; nothing else.

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Conversation Intelligence

Every phone call is recorded, transcribed, PCI/SSN-redacted, AI-summarized and kept searchable — objections raised and handled, competitor mentions, topics, intent and a suggested stage — with talk/listen ratio, longest monologue and questions per minute measured from real dual-channel timings rather than guessed by a model. Aircall's basic transcription add-on doesn't come close.

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AI Pipeline Intelligence

Deal risk signals — going dark, no next meeting booked, single-threaded, stalled in stage — computed continuously across your whole pipeline, plus web-grounded prospect research with stored citations at a flat $0.10 per prospect from a prepaid balance. Aircall gives you a phone; you have to manage the pipeline yourself.

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Self-Serve Setup

Get your team up and running in under an hour — buy a US, Canada, UK or Australia number in one click, or verify a number you already own. No implementation consultants, no setup fees.

6 Things Aircall Can't Do (That Clozo Does)

Aircall is built to make calls. Everything that turns a call into a closed deal lives in another tool — or nowhere.

No Native CRM or Pipeline

Aircall has no pipeline, deal records, or contact database — it plugs into a CRM you buy separately (Salesforce, HubSpot, Pipedrive). Clozo is the CRM: a visual Kanban pipeline with unlimited leads, contacts, deals and tasks on every plan, built in.

No Forecasting or Deal Scoring

There's no sales forecasting, deal scoring, or win-probability anywhere in Aircall. Clozo includes AI deal scoring (0–100) and win probability from Launcher, and commit, best-case and weighted-pipeline forecasting from Scaler.

No Invoicing, Estimates or Booking

No invoicing suite, no estimates, no booking calendar. Clozo includes invoices and estimates with true multi-currency and a secure customer portal link for every document — free on every plan, including Free — plus public booking pages with atomic slot claiming.

Power Dialer Isn't on Every Plan

Aircall's Power Dialer is locked to the Professional tier ($50/license/mo annual) — Essentials buyers must upgrade the whole team to dial faster. Clozo's power dialer, with the AI co-pilot on screen, is on every paid plan.

AI & Full Analytics Cost Extra

The AI Voice Agent is metered after 50 free minutes a month, unlimited analytics history needs the $15/license Analytics+ add-on, and Professional caps history at 6 months. Clozo bakes AI call analysis, the co-pilot and full analytics into every plan — including the free one.

Thin Multichannel

SMS is limited to a handful of countries with per-user caps, WhatsApp is a paid add-on, and there's no native social outreach or video. Clozo runs calls, texts, WhatsApp, live chat, social comments and the emails you send natively, all on one timeline.

What Aircall users actually complain about. Aircall scores 3.0/5 on Trustpilot versus 4.4/5 on G2 — a gap driven almost entirely by billing. The most repeated Trustpilot theme is aggressive auto-renewal and surprise invoices, including year-long contracts that keep charging after a cancellation request. Reviewers report billing and cancellation support going quiet for days to weeks (one describes a disputed double-charge unanswered for ~9 days), and one reviewer says they were charged an extra €1,200 for missing a renewal-notice window. On G2, call-quality and connectivity complaints recur — dropped calls at peak traffic, robotic audio under bandwidth constraints, and one-way "callers couldn't hear us" reports. (Reviewer reports paraphrased from Trustpilot and G2, 2026.)

What Aircall Does Well

We'd rather you switch with clear eyes. If all you need is a phone layer, Aircall is a genuinely good one.

Fast, Clean Setup

Provision numbers and start calling in minutes with minimal IT, wrapped in an intuitive interface. It's well-regarded for day-to-day usability — 4.4/5 across 1,500+ G2 reviews.

Deep Integration Ecosystem

250+ one-click integrations with tight native Salesforce, HubSpot, and Pipedrive connectors that auto-sync call activity. If your CRM is already chosen, Aircall bolts on cleanly.

Solid Call-Center Features

IVR, smart and skill-based routing, call tagging, warm transfer, shared numbers, and live dashboards — plus a modern AI direction with AI Voice Agents and AI Assist for transcription and summaries.

The question isn't whether Aircall is a good phone — it is. The question is whether you want to pay for a phone and a CRM and outreach and analytics, on separate bills with a 3-seat minimum. Clozo gives you all of it, on one bill, with no lock-in.

Your Data. Your Rules. Forever.

With Aircall, annual licenses lock for the full 12-month term, seats can't be reduced mid-contract, and larger accounts auto-renew unless you give written notice in time. With Clozo, there's no lock-in, no notice window, and you own every byte.

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Export Everything

One-click export on Scaler and up of contacts, calls, messages, tasks, pipeline history, invoices and social posts — plus lead export as CSV on every plan, including Free. CSV, JSON, or the REST API. No export fee, and no hostage negotiations.

Data Stays With You

An expired subscription drops you to the permanent Free plan instead of locking you out — the workspace keeps working and nothing is deleted. No 30-day deletion windows, no "pay to keep your history" extortion. Your recordings, transcripts, and deal data are still there in five years.

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Zero Lock-In

Month-to-month or annual with no multi-year lock-in, no cancellation fee, and no auto-renewal notice window to miss. No data export fees. If Clozo ever stops earning your business, you leave with everything — instantly and completely.

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about switching from Aircall to Clozo.

Aircall is a cloud phone system with a basic dialer. Clozo is a complete AI-powered revenue platform that includes a power dialer with an AI co-pilot on screen before you dial, a built-in CRM with visual pipeline, AI deal scoring, revenue forecasting, email marketing and cadences, social publishing, and one timeline per contact for calls, texts, WhatsApp, live chat and social comments. With Clozo, you replace your entire sales and marketing tool stack — not just your phone system.
More than the sticker. Licenses are $30/mo (Essentials) or $50/mo (Professional) on an annual contract — but there's a hard 3-license minimum, so the real floor is $90–$150/mo even for one caller, and monthly billing costs 33–40% more. Add ~$5–$10/mo per extra number, the $15/license Analytics+ add-on for full history, and metered AI. Then, because Aircall has no CRM or outreach, you add a CRM subscription plus outreach software — three contracts, three bills. Clozo includes all of it for $79/user/month, with no seat minimum, no add-on tiers and no setup fee.
Not the way Clozo does. Aircall's AI Assist provides post-call transcription and summaries (with AI features metered), but that reviews a call after it happens — it doesn't coach your rep during it. Clozo puts the script on screen before the phone rings: an AI-written opening for that exact prospect at that exact stage, the objections they are most likely to raise with your rebuttal already written, and the battlecard for the competitor on the deal — regenerated automatically after every recorded call.
Yes. Clozo replaces Aircall (phone/dialer), your CRM (Salesforce, HubSpot, Pipedrive), your outreach tool (Outreach, Salesloft), and your social selling tools — in one platform. You get a power dialer, visual CRM pipeline, email marketing and cadences, social publishing, one timeline per contact for calls, texts, WhatsApp, live chat and social comments, AI deal scoring, and revenue forecasting without juggling multiple subscriptions.
For outbound sales, Clozo is significantly more capable. Aircall provides phone calling only. Clozo provides a power dialer with an AI co-pilot on screen before you dial, email marketing and cadences, social publishing across LinkedIn, X, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok and YouTube, one timeline per contact, web-grounded prospect research at $0.10 each, and AI deal scoring — everything an outbound team needs to prospect and close.
Both — but start with the phone. Clozo is a complete built-in phone system: grab your own business number in about 60 seconds (or connect one you already own, even your mobile), route inbound calls with smart IVR and screen-pop, record and AI-summarize every call, text over SMS and WhatsApp, and call internationally. Every paid plan includes a monthly allowance of outbound actions for your whole workspace — one call of any length, one text or one WhatsApp message each count as one. So you can cancel Aircall and your separate CRM — Clozo gives you the phone system, the CRM, the AI, email & social marketing, and one timeline per contact on one bill.
Every paid Clozo plan includes a monthly allowance of outbound actions for your whole workspace — 200 on Launcher up to 2,500 on Closer, where one call of any length, one text or one WhatsApp message each count as one — plus IVR, recording, and AI summaries. International, and anything past your allowance, is simple prepaid pay-as-you-go from your wallet: top up from $10, with published rates for the US, Canada, UK and Australia, a conservative flat rate everywhere else, and a daily spend cap so there's never a surprise bill. It's honest, metered international you control — not an empty "unlimited" promise — with no separate phone vendor to manage.
Yes. Aircall enforces a hard 3-license minimum, so a solo founder or 2-person team still pays for three seats — a $90/mo floor on Essentials or $150/mo on Professional (annual). The Custom/Enterprise tier goes further with a 25-license minimum. Clozo has no seat minimum: pay for exactly the seats you use, add or remove them anytime, and start with a 30-day free trial — no credit card required.
On annual contracts over 10 seats, yes — Aircall's Help Center states you must give 30 days' written notice before renewal or the contract auto-renews and re-invoices (accounts of 1–10 seats were recently exempted from the notice rule). Reviewers report being charged for missing the window, including one who was billed an extra €1,200. Clozo has no auto-renewal notice window — cancel anytime, with no exit fee.
No. The Power Dialer is locked to Aircall's Professional plan ($50/license/mo annual). Essentials buyers who need automated outbound have to upgrade the entire team's tier to get it. Clozo includes a power dialer — with the AI co-pilot script on screen before you dial — on every paid plan.
Clozo is better for teams that want one platform instead of a point tool: it bundles the CRM, cloud phone and dialer, conversation intelligence, email, and social that you'd otherwise buy alongside Aircall. Compare them feature by feature above and start a 30-day free trial to decide for yourself.
Yes — for most teams Clozo replaces Aircall and the extra tools you run next to it, because the CRM, phone, dialer, intelligence, and outreach are all built in. You can import your data in minutes and run both side by side during the switch.
For most teams, yes — because Clozo's $79–$999/user/month includes the CRM, phone, dialer, email, and social that cost extra alongside Aircall. See the full cost breakdown above; there are no platform fees, no setup fee, and annual billing is 2 months free.
No. Aircall is a cloud phone with no native CRM, pipeline, or forecasting — you buy those separately. Clozo is the CRM and the phone system in one platform on one bill.
Yes — Aircall enforces a 3-license minimum and best pricing needs an annual commitment. Clozo has no seat minimum and a 30-day free trial.
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