Ringy vs Salesmate
An independent, review-free comparison compiled by the SaaSTracker editorial team. Both products are profiled in full, and neither can pay for placement here.
The short answer
Both sides assessedRingy compared with Salesmate
Salesmate is the broader product: a full CRM with quotes, tickets, goal management, and sequences that combine email, text, and call steps, at $39 to $63 a seat. Ringy is narrower and flat-priced for unlimited users. A five-person team pays roughly $3,780 a year for Salesmate Business against about $2,500 for a fully loaded Ringy plus usage. Choose Salesmate if you need a real CRM, Ringy if the phone is the business.
Salesmate compared with Ringy
Both bundle a CRM with calling and drip campaigns for small teams. Ringy is $119 a month with metered minutes and texts and is squarely aimed at insurance and high-velocity lead calling. Salesmate is cheaper per seat, has a broader CRM with quotes and tickets, and offers proper email sequences. Ringy suits a pure lead-calling operation; Salesmate suits a business that also runs email and needs a real pipeline.
Choose Ringy if
Lead-calling businesses where speed to dial is the whole game, particularly insurance agencies, financial services, and any small team buying internet leads that need calling and texting within minutes of arrival.
Choose Salesmate if
Small and mid-sized sales teams that want a CRM, a dialer, and a sequence engine in one subscription instead of three, especially phone-heavy motions in insurance, real estate, agency, and local services where texting and calling matter more than LinkedIn.
Side by side
13 attributes| Attribute | Ringy | Salesmate |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Engagement | Engagement |
| Starting price | $119 per month for unlimited users (free trial) | $23 per user per month (Basic); $39 for sequences; $63 for the power dialer (15 days trial) |
| Pricing model | A single flat monthly plan covering unlimited users, with telephony metered as outbound minutes, texts, and emails, and three functional add-ons priced separately. | Per-seat subscription across four tiers with published prices for the first three, automation credits allocated per user per month, and a separately quoted onboarding package at the top. |
| Free plan | No | No |
| Free trial | A free trial is offered; the duration is not published on the pricing page | 15 days with full feature access |
| Best for | Lead-calling businesses where speed to dial is the whole game, particularly insurance agencies, financial services, and any small team buying internet leads that need calling and texting within minutes of arrival. | Small and mid-sized sales teams that want a CRM, a dialer, and a sequence engine in one subscription instead of three, especially phone-heavy motions in insurance, real estate, agency, and local services where texting and calling matter more than LinkedIn. |
| Setup time | Two to four days. The CRM and campaigns are quick to configure, but provisioning numbers, setting up local caller ID coverage for your calling territories, and testing call quality take the bulk of the time. | Two to five days for a small team. Import and field mapping take a day, pipeline and sequence configuration another, and provisioning phone numbers and configuring the dialer a third. A single user can be productive the same afternoon. |
| Learning curve | Low for agents, since the daily interface is a dialer and a lead card. Moderate for whoever configures lead distribution, drip campaign triggers, and number pools, which is where the product's value is actually unlocked. | Moderate. The CRM is conventional and familiar, but the product is broad, and teams commonly under-use the automation, ticketing, and marketing sides because they never get configured. Budget training time on sequences and on automation credits specifically. |
| Platforms | Web application, Mobile CRM app, Cloud VoIP softphone | Web application, iOS app, Android app, Native cloud phone system, Chrome extension |
| Compliance | TCPA-relevant controls for calling and SMS, A2P 10DLC registration for United States texting, GDPR | GDPR, SOC 2, TCPA-relevant controls for SMS and calling |
| Founded | 2013 | 2016 |
| Headquarters | Denver, Colorado, United States | Charlotte, North Carolina, United States |
| Ownership | Privately held and independently operated | Privately held and unfunded; a product of Rapidops Inc. |
Strengths and limitations
Ringy
Strengths
- Flat pricing for unlimited users means the software bill does not grow with headcount, which is close to unique among products that include telephony.
- The VoIP softphone is native rather than an integration, so calling, recording, and logging work as one system with nothing to configure between vendors.
- Local caller ID is built in, which is the difference between a viable and a non-viable cold calling operation.
- SMS drip campaigns genuinely send off lead status rather than prompting a rep, making texting a first-class automated channel.
Limitations
- The power dialer is a $70 add-on, so the realistic price for a calling floor is $189 rather than the advertised $119.
- There is no conditional sequence engine. Drips are linear cadences off status, not branching flows that fork on opens, clicks, or replies.
- No deliverability infrastructure whatsoever: no warm-up, no inbox rotation, no ESP matching, no custom tracking domain, so email is a nurture channel here rather than a prospecting one.
- No LinkedIn capability of any kind, automated or manual.
Salesmate
Strengths
- One subscription covers CRM, sequences, a native phone system, texting, a shared inbox, scheduling, ticketing, and marketing automation, which removes three or four vendor relationships for a small business.
- SMS steps genuinely send inside sequences rather than appearing as reminders, which very few tools at this price actually do.
- The phone system is native rather than an integration, with click-to-call, recording, automatic logging, and a power dialer at $63.
- SSO appears at the $39 Pro tier rather than being reserved for an enterprise plan, which is better placement than most competitors.
Limitations
- No LinkedIn capability of any kind: no connection steps, no message automation, no InMail handling, which rules it out for social-selling motions.
- Sequences do not exist below $39 and the power dialer does not exist below $63, so the $23 headline price is not the price of the product most buyers are shopping for.
- No deliverability infrastructure. Sending is through connected mailboxes with no inbox rotation, no secondary domains, and no warm-up, so it is unsuitable for cold volume.
- Enterprise pricing is a custom quote with onboarding starting at $1,999, which breaks the self-serve pattern at the top of the range.
Pricing compared
Ringy
A single flat monthly plan covering unlimited users, with telephony metered as outbound minutes, texts, and emails, and three functional add-ons priced separately.
- Ringy CRM$119
- Power Dialer add-on+$70
- Call Scripting add-on+$10
- AI Tools add-on+$10
For a calling operation this is exceptional value and the flat-rate structure is the reason. A five-agent floor with the power dialer, scripting, and AI pays $209 a month plus usage, roughly $42 a head, against $63 a seat for Salesmate Business or considerably more for a CRM plus a separate dialer plus a texting platform. At ten agents the per-head figure halves again. The value evaporates entirely if you are not calling. There is no conditional sequence engine, no deliverability infrastructure, no LinkedIn, and no email warm-up, so an email-led team is paying $119 a month for a phone system it will not use. Judge Ringy purely on whether the phone is your primary channel.
Salesmate
Per-seat subscription across four tiers with published prices for the first three, automation credits allocated per user per month, and a separately quoted onboarding package at the top.
- Basic$23
- Pro$39
- Business$63
- EnterpriseCustom quote
Measured against the assembled alternative, Salesmate is strong value. A five-rep team buying a CRM at $30, a dialer at $30, and a sequencer at $60 per seat would spend far more than $63 and get three systems that disagree about the same account. Measured against pure-play engagement tools, it is mid-market: Klenty and Outplay give you LinkedIn steps and deeper sequence analytics for similar money, and Reply.io throws in a contact database and an AI SDR. The deciding question is whether you want Salesmate to be your CRM. If yes, $39 to $63 is a good price for the whole stack. If you already have a CRM, you are paying for a system of record you will not use, and the engagement layer alone is not the best in class.
Editorial verdict on each
Ringy
Ringy is a narrow product that is very good at its one thing. If your business is calling and texting a lead list, the combination of a native softphone, local caller ID, status-triggered SMS drips, and a flat fee for unlimited users produces a cost per agent that per-seat competitors cannot match, and rollover minutes plus free inbound usage make the metering unusually fair. Budget $189 rather than $119, because the power dialer is not really optional for a calling floor, and start your A2P registration early. Just do not mistake it for a sales engagement platform. There is no conditional sequencing, no deliverability infrastructure, and no LinkedIn, so if email is your primary channel you are buying a phone system you will not use.
Read the full Ringy profileSalesmate
Salesmate is the right answer to a specific question: what should a small sales team buy when it needs a CRM, a dialer, and sequences and cannot justify three subscriptions? At $39 for sequences and $63 for the power dialer, the consolidation genuinely saves money and produces a single accurate record of what happened with an account. Automated SMS inside cadences and a native phone system are real advantages at this price. The gaps are equally clear: no LinkedIn at all, no deliverability infrastructure for cold volume, and a $23 entry tier that does not include the feature most engagement buyers are shopping for. If you already run Salesforce or HubSpot, buy Klenty or Outplay instead and keep your CRM. If you run nothing, Salesmate is one of the best-value complete sales stacks a small business can buy.
Read the full Salesmate profileRingy profile last reviewed 2026-08-22; Salesmate last reviewed 2026-08-22. Pricing is compiled from public sources and can change without notice. See our methodology.