Aircall vs Quo

Quo for lean founders: shared phone line starting at half Aircall's price. Aircall for bigger sales teams.

The verdict Side by side Plans and pricing Who each is for Other options

The verdict

For a lean B2B team, Quo is the default pick. It starts at half the price, drops the three-user minimum that makes Aircall expensive before you've made a call, and its Sona AI agent actually answers the phone rather than just transcribing it. That's the right shape for a founder or a small team running shared numbers and texting without a legacy PBX.\n\nAircall earns its higher price in exactly one situation: a sales or support team putting real volume through a power dialer, wired into a deep CRM and helpdesk stack with strong analytics. If that's you, the 250+ integration catalogue and the auto dialer are worth the 30-USD-a-seat, three-seat floor. If it isn't, you're paying for a call-centre engine you won't run.

What the data says

Aircall covers more of the features we compared: 5 of 5, against 4.
Quo starts lower, at $15/mo against $30/mo.
Only Quo has an MCP server, so an AI employee can work in it directly.
In our Sales calls ranking, Aircall places 2 and Quo 5 of 16.

Side by side

Aircall and Quo compared
9 points compared	Aircall	Quo
Starts at	$30/mo	$15/mo
Free plan	Not known yet	No
API	Yes	Yes
MCP server	No	Yes
AI call summaries & transcripts	Yes	Yes
Built-in SMS/texting	Yes	Yes
International numbers	Yes	Yes
IVR / auto-attendant	Yes	Yes
Power/auto dialer	Yes	No
Links	Visit	Visit

Plans and pricing

Aircall

EssentialsPer license per month billed annually; includes one number, call recording, SMS, 250+ integrations; minimum 3 licenses.$30/mo/seat
ProfessionalPer license per month billed annually; adds advanced analytics, smart routing, Power Dialer and AI conversation intelligence.$50/mo/seat

Quo

StarterPer user per month; $15 per user when billed annually.$19/mo/seat
BusinessPer user per month; $23 per user when billed annually.$33/mo/seat
ScalePer user per month; $35 per user when billed annually.$47/mo/seat

Prices as the vendors list them. They change often; the final price is on their sites.

Who each is for

Choose Aircall if…

Pick Quo if you're a founder or a small team that wants a shared business number, texting and AI call handling without a legacy PBX or a three-seat commitment. At 15 USD/user a month with no real minimum, you can start solo, and Sona, the AI agent that answers calls 24/7 and captures caller details, covers the hours you can't pick up. It connects to the modern stack (HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, Zoho, Attio) and keeps calls, texts and voicemails in one shared inbox. The one gap: no auto dialer, so it's not for high-volume outbound.

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Choose Quo if…

Pick Aircall if you've got at least three people and you're running outbound sales or a support desk where calling is the core of the day. The power/auto dialer, IVR and the 250+ integration catalogue, HubSpot, Salesforce, Zendesk, Pipedrive and the helpdesk side, are built for a team that lives in a CRM and wants the analytics to match. The three-user minimum and 30 USD/seat stop being a tax once calling is genuinely your engine.

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