Skipcall vs Elto: which one to choose

The verdict, in three lines

Before anything else, check which Elto you are being told about. The name has carried two products: a parallel dialler, which puts a human rep on the line, and Elto AI, a voice agent platform that calls without human involvement, sold today under another brand. If your project is to automate calls with artificial intelligence, the comparison stops here: it is not the same problem, and Skipcall has no AI voice agent. That is not a feature we are behind on, it is a position, and we explain it below. This page compares the dialler.

On that ground, the deciding factor is neither the price nor the number of lines: it is the market you call, and the number of people to equip in your organisation.

If you are still weighing several tools and not only these two, the page devoted to alternatives to Elto compares eight solutions on the market and details the company, the hosting and the reviews of each one.

What Elto does better than we do

Four areas where the choice is not up for debate. Knowing them before you buy avoids a project that goes off the rails in the third month.

What Skipcall does better than Elto

The same exercise, the other way round, and open to the same checks: four areas where the gap plays on our side.

Two families of tools, and only one that covers both

Most organisations that prospect end up with two subscriptions: a telephony tool for everyone, a dialler for the sales team. That is the real hidden cost of this market, and it appears on no price list.

In practice: at Skipcall, a €15 licence is enough to equip someone who simply needs a business number, an app and the ability to take calls. The reps who prospect take a plan from €75, with parallel dialling. Same tool, same directory, same invoice. Elto equips sales reps: for the other seats, you need a second contract, somewhere else.

Everything comes down to the dialling mode

On this point, Skipcall and Elto belong to the same family: both dial in parallel. That is what sets the two of them apart from a sequential dialler, and it explains why the rest of this page is decided somewhere other than on the dialling engine.

Two extra lines mechanically means more attempts per hour, and we do not dispute it. The number of lines is nonetheless only one of the factors behind the answer rate: the number shown to the recipient, how it is routed and the time of the call weigh at least as much. The table below puts figures on what parallel dialling changes, whichever tool carries it.

A typical day, hour by hour

Same rep, same list, same working hours. Only the dialling mode changes. Elto also dials in parallel: this table shows what both tools gain over a sequential dialler, it does not separate them from each other.

Assumptions on show: four working slots, an answer rate of 3% with sequential dialling, the upper bound of our published range of 2 to 3%, and 8% with parallel dialling on four lines. These are the figures published by Skipcall, applied to dialling modes and not to brands. The detail is in the section on method and sources, further down.

The cost per conversation, and what it does not say

Against a tool that dials sequentially, this ratio settles everything. Against another parallel dialler, it comes down to the price of the licence. Here is the calculation, at equal conversation volume, from the typical day above and twenty working days per month.

At this pace, the conversation costs more with us, and we write it down rather than pick another calculation. The plan used is the one whose quota actually covers the projected volume: Starter and its 400 conversations would be exceeded in the second week, Intermediate and its 1,000 conversations before the end of the month. So it is Expert that applies, at €280. On the prospecting scope alone, the price of the licence is the real subject, and Elto is cheaper per licence, in a currency we do not convert.

This is where the gap swings the other way. Elto is a dialler, not a carrier: it equips sales reps, very well, but it does not equip an organisation. The ten other seats need a number, voicemail and an app, so a second subscription, a second invoice and a second directory. We do not put a figure on that second contract, as there is no public price to quote. At Skipcall, those ten seats cost €15 per licence in the same tool.

Amounts excluding tax, in the billing currency of each vendor, with no conversion.

Our plans carry a conversation quota. Here is the one that suits you

The public price of Elto advertises an unlimited number of calls. Skipcall sets a conversation quota on three of its four plans. Better to explain it clearly: badly chosen, the plan becomes the real hidden cost.

Any conversation longer than ten seconds is counted. Calls under ten seconds, answering machines and invalid numbers consume nothing. The SMS volumes included follow the same logic: 100, 200, 500, 1,000 then unlimited depending on the plan. The list of countries you can call is on the pricing page.

Our artificial intelligence serves the rep, it does not replace them

This is the real subject of this comparison, since the name Elto has carried both a dialler for human reps and a voice agent platform. Here is our position, which commits no one but us: we put artificial intelligence everywhere it removes work with no value, and nowhere it would take the floor in place of your team.

The detail, criterion by criterion

Elto scope recorded on eltodialer.com on 3 September 2026. “Not advertised” means the feature does not appear on the public pages of the vendor at that date, not that it is missing from the product. Offers change: check the pricing page of the vendor before you decide.

Method and sources

A comparison published by one of the two vendors is only worth something if its method can be checked. Here is where every figure on this page comes from, including what it does not prove.

• Elto, homepage and pricing · six lines, $179 per licence, US and UK numbers · accessed on 3 September 2026
• Skipcall pricing · public price list, conversation quotas and countries covered
• How parallel dialling works · where the answer rates used here come from

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