Readymode Review (2026)iQ Halves the Cost Per Number
The per-seat price is premium, and the model rewards scale — the predictive dialer, compliance tools and supervisor monitoring earn their keep on a 5-plus-agent floor, but for one or two reps it's expensive for what a lighter dialer would do.
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Pricing (2026)
✓ Pricing re-verified 17 Aug 2026
Two published plans, priced per license per month: Starter $239 for 1+ licenses and iQ $299, which the page calls ideal for 5+ licenses. Both waive the set-up fee and the phone-number (DID) activation fee, both give free outbound minutes subject to a fair-use policy, and both charge inbound at $0.02/min. Starter includes up to 30 DIDs per license; iQ includes up to 75 and adds caller-ID reputation monitoring, assisted remediation, call cadencing, Autopilot and unlimited integrations, none of which Starter has.
Implementation and training are included from 3 licenses. One complimentary Admin license comes with every plan, and the page is explicit that it is not an agent license — no floor plan, no web phone. Voicemail Drop is available only to those who qualify and costs extra per drop. The older $199/$249 pair, and the ~$200 admin fee for sharing a license, are withdrawn: neither appears on the page today. Plans change — always verify the live price on their site.
What the pricing page doesn’t say
Predictive dialing also carries compliance responsibility (TCPA and similar): the speed is only an asset if your calling practices stay compliant. For high-volume outbound teams, it's a genuine efficiency engine.
What Readymode does
Predictive dialler with compliance tooling and supervisor monitoring for high-volume outbound floors. Starter is $239 per license/month and iQ $299 for teams of five or more, both with free outbound minutes under a fair-use policy (prices read on their own pricing page on 17 Aug 2026, after a vendor price change effective 1 Aug 2026). Premium per seat, and predictive dialling carries real TCPA compliance responsibility.
What buyers report about Readymode
Recurring themes from the buyer-review sites listed at the foot of this page, read in August 2026. We have not run Readymode ourselves, so this is other buyers' experience rather than ours. We summarise it here because the complaints are usually the part a vendor page leaves out.
- • Unlimited outbound minutes and an integrated CRM in the price, with no setup fee on the standard plans — for high-volume calling that combination is the draw.
- • Reviewers say it streamlines the daily operation once the team is through the learning curve.
- • Call quality tops the complaints: dropped calls, audio cutting out, and leads hanging up because they cannot hear. For a dialer that is the thing that matters most.
- • Caller ID reputation is a named problem — your numbers can show as Spam Likely.
- • Annual contracts only; monthly adds 20%. Reducing seats needs 30 days' written notice and you keep paying through it.
- • Customisation and setup work can run $500-$2,000 on top of the licence, and support is inconsistent and slow.
iQ is half the price per phone number
Two published plans, priced per licence per month: Starter at $239 and iQ at $299, the latter described as ideal for five or more licences. Both waive the set-up fee and the DID activation fee, both give free outbound minutes under a fair-use policy, and both bill inbound at $0.02 a minute. Start with what changed. The previous pair was $199 and $249, and both went up by exactly 20% on 1 August.
The roughly $200 admin fee for sharing a licence is gone from the page as well. If you are working from a quote or a comparison written before August, every number in it is a fifth too low. The gap between the two plans looks like $60, or 25%. Price it per phone number instead and it inverts. Starter includes up to 30 DIDs per licence, which is $7.97 per number; iQ includes up to 75, which is $3.99.
iQ is exactly half the cost per number — and for an outbound floor, numbers are not a nice-to-have, they are the consumable. Worse, the tooling that keeps those numbers alive lives only on iQ: caller-ID reputation monitoring and assisted remediation. On Starter you get fewer numbers and no way to find out when the carriers have started flagging them, which is the failure mode that quietly halves a dialler's connect rate.
Call cadencing, Autopilot and unlimited integrations are iQ-only too. Two costs that are easy to miss. Implementation and training are included from three licences — so a one- or two-seat deployment pays for them, and the page does not say how much. And the complimentary Admin licence that comes with every plan is explicitly not an agent licence: no floor plan, no web phone. A manager who also dials needs a paid seat, so a 'five-agent floor with a supervisor' is six licences, not five.
Voicemail Drop is extra per drop and only available to those who qualify. At five licences that is $1,195 a month on Starter against $1,495 on iQ — $3,600 a year for the difference. For a genuine outbound floor that is the right side of the trade. For one or two reps, the honest answer is that $239 a seat is a lot of money for a dialler, and a lighter tool does the job.
Predictive dialling also carries compliance weight of its own: TCPA and its equivalents make the speed an asset only while your calling practices stay clean.
Our monthly capture read this vendor's pricing page in July 2026 and again in August 2026, and the amounts were the same both times. We keep watching — the registry records what moves.
How to actually use Readymode
Count your phone numbers, not just your seats, because that is where the two plans genuinely differ. Starter includes up to 30 DIDs per licence and iQ up to 75 — $7.97 against $3.99 per number — and for an outbound floor the numbers are the consumable rather than a nice-to-have. Then decide whether you need the tooling that keeps those numbers alive. Caller-ID reputation monitoring and assisted remediation are iQ-only, so on Starter you get fewer numbers and no way to notice when carriers start flagging them — which is the failure mode that quietly halves a dialler's connect rate.
Count licences correctly before you budget. The complimentary Admin licence that comes with every plan is explicitly not an agent licence — no floor plan, no web phone — so a five-agent floor with a supervisor who also dials is six licences. And implementation and training are included only from three licences, so a one- or two-seat deployment pays for them at a price the page does not publish. Get your compliance in order before you turn on the speed.
Predictive dialling carries TCPA responsibility and its equivalents, and the efficiency is only an asset while your calling practices stay clean. Write down your calling windows, your consent records and your do-not-call process before the first campaign, not after the first complaint.
Distilled from Readymode's own pricing page, readymode.com (the pricing view at /demo/pricing-maxio-test/), read 10 September 2026: the seat rates ($199, $239, $249 and $299 in the published ladder), the per-minute rate of $0.02 and the included-minute allowances. The effective per-seat and per-minute totals our review derives are our own arithmetic on those figures.
The natural comparison is PhoneBurner or Five9 — other dialer/contact-center platforms — Readymode targets high-volume outbound; compare per-seat cost and compliance features at your team size.
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- Buyer reviews on G2, Capterra, GetApp and long-run practitioner tests, read August 2026.
- Re-verified 2026-08-17 on their own pricing page, after the vendor announced a price change effective 1 Aug 2026.
- A dated screenshot of that pricing page, kept on this site as the receipt.
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