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JustCall vs Aircall pricing - $58 vs $90 floor

A $32 gap for one or two people, a $1 gap per seat from three up, and the rows that decide it: numbers, texting, the IVR and the monthly rate.

September 24, 2026 · 8 min read · BY THE PHONER TEAM

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JustCall Team costs $29 per user per month billed annually with a two-license minimum, so the smallest JustCall bill is $58. Aircall Essentials costs $30 per license billed annually with a three-license minimum, a floor Aircall prints on its own plan card as "3 licenses for $90/month". So JustCall is cheaper at every team size: by $32 a month for one or two people, and by $1 a seat from three people up. At that point price stops deciding it, and five rows do: numbers included, texting, the IVR, CRM depth and what monthly billing costs.

Both rate cards were read at source. JustCall's plan cards, monthly toggle and feature matrix were read from justcall.io/pricing on September 24, 2026, with the region selector on United States and Canada. Aircall's plan cards and its 92 row feature matrix were read from aircall.io/pricing and re-checked at source on September 28, 2026. Every minimum and tier placement below comes from the vendor's own table rather than from a comparison article about it.

JustCall vs Aircall pricing, side by side

Read the minimum column first. For a small team it moves the bill more than the headline rate does.

PlanBilled annuallyBilled monthlyMinimumSmallest bill
JustCall Team$29 per user$39 per user2 licenses$58 annually, $78 monthly
JustCall Pro$49 per user$69 per user2 licenses$98 annually, $138 monthly
JustCall Pro Plus$89 per user$109 per user2 licenses$178 annually, $218 monthly
Aircall Essentials$30 per license$40 per license3 licenses$90 annually, $120 monthly
Aircall Professional$50 per license$70 per license3 licenses$150 annually, $210 monthly

JustCall Business (ten licenses minimum), JustCall SalesPro and Aircall Enterprise, formerly Custom (25 licenses minimum), are quoted by sales and left out. Both vendors publish a month to month rate for every self-serve plan. Aircall's three-license minimum applies on monthly billing too, so a one to three person team on Essentials billed monthly pays $120.

Is JustCall cheaper than Aircall?

Yes, at every headcount on both the entry and the sales tier, but the size of the gap depends almost entirely on the minimums. For one or two people JustCall's two-license floor is $58 against Aircall's $90, a $32 difference every month, or $384 a year. From three people up both vendors charge their advertised rate and the gap shrinks to $1 a seat on the entry plans and $1 a seat on the sales plans. Billed monthly the pattern holds: $78 against $120 for one or two people, then $39 against $40 a seat on the entry plans and $69 against $70 on the sales plans.

Team sizeJustCall TeamAircall EssentialsJustCall ProAircall Professional
1 person$58 (2 license floor)$90 (3 license floor)$98 (2 license floor)$150 (3 license floor)
2 people$58$90 (3 license floor)$98$150 (3 license floor)
3 people$87$90$147$150
5 people$145$150$245$250
10 people$290$300$490$500

All figures are monthly, billed annually. At ten people the annual difference on the entry plans is $120 a year. Billed monthly, ten people pay $390 on JustCall Team against $400 on Aircall Essentials. A three-person or larger team should stop reading the price row and read the next section.

What does JustCall Team include that Aircall Essentials does not?

Two phone numbers instead of one. JustCall's matrix reads "2 phone numbers / account" in every column; Aircall's reads one local or toll-free number, with each additional number at $6 a month. Neither is per user, so a five-person team gets two numbers at JustCall and one at Aircall, not five.

A published texting allowance. JustCall Team includes 500 SMS segments per license and Pro includes 1,000, inside your selected region. Aircall lists SMS and MMS on every plan and prints "contact us for rates" in all three columns. If your reps text leads, JustCall tells you what that costs before you sign and Aircall does not.

Unlimited call storage and unlimited AI transcription on the entry plan. Aircall Essentials keeps access to recordings for up to one year by request, and analytics history for six months on both published plans. For a team that reviews calls for quality or disputes, that retention row is worth reading twice.

A lower month to month floor. Team at $39 is 34 percent above the annual rate, which is not cheap, but it lets you leave after a month. Aircall Essentials is $40 month to month, 33 percent above its annual rate, and its three-license minimum still applies, so the smallest monthly-billed Aircall account is $120 against $78 at JustCall.

What does Aircall Essentials include that JustCall Team does not?

A deeper integration catalog. Aircall lists 250+ integrations and API access on Essentials, with HubSpot, Zendesk, Pipedrive, Intercom, Slack and Zoho all ticked on the entry plan. JustCall Team lists 100+ CRM, helpdesk and data integrations, webhooks and an API capped at 1,800 requests an hour. Both put Salesforce on the second tier: Aircall Professional and JustCall Pro. If your team lives in a helpdesk such as Zendesk or Intercom, check your exact tool on both lists before assuming either one covers it.

A phone menu with no published depth limit on the entry plan. JustCall marks its Team IVR "only single level", with multi-level menus from Pro at $49. Aircall lists IVR, call routing, call queuing and ring groups as included on Essentials and does not mark the IVR as single level. For a sales desk that does not matter much. For a support line with "press 1 for billing, then press 2 for a refund", it decides which entry plan works.

JustCall Pro vs Aircall Professional for a sales team

This is the comparison most buyers actually need, because both entry plans leave out the power dialer. JustCall Pro at $49 adds a power dialer with local presence, manual voicemail drop and three reattempt rules, bulk SMS campaigns, live call monitoring with listen, whisper and barge, Salesforce, intelligent routing, queue callback and multi-level IVR. Aircall Professional at $50 adds a power dialer, voicemail drop, Salesforce CTI, call coaching, whispering and live monitoring, smart routing and queue callback.

On paper the two sales tiers are close to identical at almost the same price. The differences are at the edges: JustCall publishes 1,000 texts per license on Pro; Aircall does not. Month to month the two are $69 and $70 a license. Aircall's minimum is three licenses against JustCall's two. For predictive or parallel dialing, JustCall sells SalesPro, which dials up to ten lines per rep with answering machine detection, and it is quoted by sales.

Which is better for a small team, JustCall or Aircall?

For one or two people, JustCall, because a $58 floor beats a $90 floor ($78 against $120 billed monthly) and nothing in the Aircall column changes that arithmetic. For three to ten people on the entry plans, the two are within $10 a month of each other, so pick on the rows above: JustCall for published texting, two numbers and a lower monthly floor; Aircall for a wider integration list and an entry-plan IVR without a single-level limit. For a sales floor on the second tier, trial both with your CRM connected, because the $1 a seat difference is noise and the logging quality is not.

Whichever you choose, the dialer is only as good as the list it dials. Reps who spend the first hour of the day hunting for contact details are not calling, and a team that runs outbound usually pairs its dialer with an email finder with verification built in so the follow-up email after a missed call reaches a real inbox.

What will the invoice actually say?

Neither published rate is the invoice. JustCall's unlimited calling is subject to a fair usage policy that excludes toll-free, international and forwarded calls, and inbound calls count as unlimited only on routes under $0.02 a minute, so a business that forwards its main line to cell phones should ask how those minutes bill. Both vendors, like every US provider including us, add regulatory and E911 line items. The largest is the federal universal service pass-through: the FCC set the fourth quarter 2026 contribution factor at 42.0 percent in Public Notice DA 26-946. It applies only to the interstate and international share of the service, and interconnected VoIP providers may use the 64.9 percent interim safe harbor, so a realistic pass-through lands near 27 percent of the service charge. Texting from a US business number also needs A2P 10DLC brand and campaign registration with The Campaign Registry at both. Ask each vendor for a quote with fees included.

Where Phoner fits

Phoner is worth pricing if the reason you are reading this is the size of the smallest bill rather than a feature. JustCall will not sell you one license and Aircall will not sell you fewer than three. Phoner also starts at three users, at a lower rate: Starter is $9 per user a month on annual billing ($27 for three) or $19 month to month, and Team at $17 or $35 adds a visual IVR phone menu, ring groups, business texting, toll-free numbers and call recording with a consent announcement. On annual billing our Team plan is $17 per user against $29 at JustCall Team, so three people pay $51 against $87, and month to month it is $35 against $39. Our JustCall pricing and alternative page prices both products at every headcount.

We are just as clear about what we do not sell. Phoner has no power dialer, no voicemail drop, no live call monitoring, no Salesforce integration and no ACD hold queue, and our CRM integrations sit on Business at $34 billed yearly. A team whose job is dialing lists or holding callers in a queue should buy JustCall Pro or Aircall Professional. If your phones are mostly inbound customer calls, compare the full field on our business phone system cost breakdown, and the Aircall pricing and alternatives page carries Aircall's full plan matrix.

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