A PhoneBurner alternative
that doesn't charge per seat.

Current is a free cold-calling CRM and power dialer. You pay Twilio for the minutes you use, usually a small fraction of a seat, and nothing to us.

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What a month costs

For a caller dialing full time, about 1,000 billed minutes a month each. PhoneBurner's price includes minutes; Current's column is what Twilio bills you.

Callers	Current + your Twilio	PhoneBurner Standard, monthly	PhoneBurner Standard, yearly
1	about $19	$165	$140 a month
2	about $38	$330	$280 a month
3	about $57	$495	$420 a month

How Current's figure is worked out: a call from Current costs about $0.018 a minute on Twilio ($0.014 for the call plus $0.004 for the browser side), and each caller's number is $1.15 a month. Your bill follows your minutes, and Twilio rounds each answered call up to the whole minute, so lots of short calls add up faster than your talk time suggests.

Calling from your own phone or Google Voice and logging in Current costs nothing extra. Auto-dial, voicemail drop and recording need calls inside Current, on your Twilio account.

Prices checked 13 November 2026 from PhoneBurner's and Twilio's pricing pages. PhoneBurner's Standard plan is $165 a user billed monthly or $140 billed yearly; its higher plans cost more.

Where PhoneBurner is the better pick

One bill. Minutes are in the seat price, so there's no Twilio account to set up or watch.
Every plan comes with an onboarding session with their team.
Managers can listen in and coach live on the Professional plan and up.
Bigger teams. Current's free plan holds up to 3 people in a workspace.

What you get with Current

Auto-dial: log a call and the next one rings after a short countdown.
Drop your recorded voicemail after the beep and move on.
Check numbers before you dial: valid or not, mobile or landline.
Transcripts of recorded calls, and coaching on any of them from Claude.
Texts from the same number you call from.
Claude can build your list, brief you before a call and log how it went, from its connector directory.
Export everything as CSV or JSON in one click, and leave whenever you like.

Switching takes an afternoon

Bring your contacts as a CSV, or paste the list straight in, however messy. Then connect a Twilio account; Claude can walk you through it a step at a time. Try it alongside PhoneBurner before you cancel anything.

See the whole app

Keep the dialer. Drop the seat price.