Skipcall vs Trellus: which one to choose

The verdict, in three lines

What decides is not the number of lines dialled: it is what you already own, and the moment you expect the tool to step in. On the dialler line alone, Trellus is cheaper than we are, including per conversation obtained: the question is what else you have to buy for it to work.

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

What Trellus does better than us

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

What Skipcall does better than Trellus

The same exercise the other way round, and open to the same checks: four areas where the gap runs in our favour.

Two families of tools, and only one that covers both

Most companies 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 receive calls. The reps who prospect take a plan from €75, with parallel dialling. Same tool, same directory, same invoice, and nothing to own elsewhere.

The dialling mode, then the moment the tool steps in

In this head to head, dialling is not the breaking point: both vendors offer both modes. You still need to understand the gap, because it drives the volume of conversations and therefore the plan to pick.

The real difference lies elsewhere: Trellus steps in during the conversation, Skipcall before and after. We prepare the call by screening out what is not worth taking, then we document it through the transcription and the summary. In between, there is only your rep and the person on the other end. The next table puts figures on what the dialling mode changes.

A typical day, hour by hour

Same rep, same list, same working hours. Only the dialling mode changes.

Assumptions on show: four working slots, a connect rate of 3% in sequential dialling, the upper bound of our published range of 2 to 3%, and of 8% in parallel dialling. These are the figures published by Skipcall, applied to dialling modes and not to brands. A plan that dials one number at a time reads in the left column, a plan that dials several lines in the right one, whichever the vendor. The detail is in the section on method and sources, further down.

The cost per conversation, and what it covers

Since both tools dial in parallel, the volume of conversations is identical on both sides: 1,120 a month, from the typical day above and twenty working days. What is left to compare is the price against that volume, then what each licence actually contains.

On the dialler line alone, Trellus is cheaper, and it has to be said that way. The figure on the left is a floor, though: it includes neither the engagement platform without which the product does not start, nor a business phone number for the rest of the organisation. The figure on the right includes both. The Skipcall plan used here is the one whose quota actually covers the projected volume: at this pace, Starter and its 400 conversations would be passed in the second week. The next point explains how to pick the right tier.

The Trellus Power plan dials one number at a time: at an equal pace it produces 120 conversations a month, that is $0.83 per conversation for a licence at $99.99. Real time coaching and the team dashboard belong to the Business plan, whose price is not public: priced on request.

Amounts excluding tax, in the billing currency of each vendor, without conversion. A promotional price of $34.99 was shown on both individual Trellus plans on 3 September 2026; the calculations use the reference prices, which are the ones a renewal will be charged at.

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

Skipcall caps the number of conversations on three of its four plans. Better to explain it clearly: picked badly, the plan becomes the real hidden cost.

Any conversation lasting more than ten seconds is counted. Calls under ten seconds, answering machines and invalid numbers consume nothing. Included SMS volumes run from 100 to 1,000 a month depending on the plan, and are unlimited on Expert. No minimum number of licences is required. 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 fundamental difference between Skipcall and part of the market, in both directions: we put more of it in than the tools that have none, and we refuse to put it where others place it. On this page it is the central point, because it explains why we do no real time coaching.

The detail, criterion by criterion

Trellus scope recorded on trellus.ai on 3 September 2026. The wording “not announced” means the feature does not appear in the public documentation of the vendor, not that it is absent from the product. Plans 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 each figure on this page comes from, including what it does not prove.

• Trellus pricing · plans, listed prices and the contents of each offer, accessed on 3 September 2026
• Trellus, real time coaching · signals tracked during the call and deliverables after the call
• Skipcall pricing · public price list, conversation quotas and countries covered
• How parallel dialling works · where the connect rates used here come from

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