Two Tools, Two Separate Bills
A dialer and a texting platform solve two different parts of the same outbound problem, and most solar sales stacks run both, on two separate invoices from two separate vendors. Readymode is the named dialer here, SimpleTexting the named texting platform, both priced directly from their own public pages. Neither vendor is the only option on the market, but both give a solar outbound team a real, current number to budget against.
What a Predictive Dialer Costs: Readymode’s Two Tiers
Readymode’s Starter tier runs $239 a license a month, available starting at just 1 license. Its iQ tier runs $299 a license a month, with 5-plus licenses recommended. Both tiers include free outbound minutes under fair-use terms and inbound calling at $0.02 a minute, plus 30 numbers per license on Starter or 75 numbers per license on iQ, and neither carries a setup or activation fee. For a small team, Starter’s $239-a-month entry point is the real number to plan around; for a team running five or more seats, iQ’s $299 becomes the recommended tier instead.
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The jump from Starter to iQ is not just more numbers per license, it adds Caller ID and DID reputation monitoring, spam-flag remediation, and call cadencing through an Autopilot feature. That bundle targets a real, specific problem: outbound numbers getting flagged as spam or scam likely by carrier-side filtering, a risk this site’s own coverage of local-presence dialing and robocall mitigation already treats as a serious, ongoing cost of doing business in outbound solar. A team dialing at real volume is paying that extra $60 a license a month specifically to keep its numbers reachable, not for a cosmetic feature upgrade.
What Texting Costs: SimpleTexting’s Credit-Based Model
SimpleTexting’s Base tier starts at $39 a month, billed yearly at $398.40 a year, for 500 credits. A local number adds $10 a month plus a one-time $4 activation fee. Credits beyond the base allotment are billed at 5.5 cents each, and additional users run $20 a month per user, with three included. SimpleTexting’s credit tiers scale from that 500-credit base up to 50,000-plus texts a month, and enterprise or custom plans are available for higher-volume outbound teams through a direct sales conversation rather than the public rate card.
Running the Dialer and the Texting Platform Together
Put both bills side by side and the real monthly number for a small, 5-rep outbound team lands somewhere between $1,195 a month, five Readymode Starter licenses at $239 each, and $1,495 a month, five Readymode iQ licenses at $299 each, before texting is even added in. SimpleTexting’s own bill starts separately at that $39-a-month base tier and scales with credit and user counts from there. Neither platform’s pricing depends on the other, which is exactly why budgeting for outbound tooling means adding two genuinely separate line items, not one combined software cost.
| Platform | Tier | Monthly Cost | What It Includes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Readymode | Starter (1+ licenses) | $239/license | 30 numbers/license, free outbound minutes (fair use), inbound at $0.02/minute |
| Readymode | iQ (5+ licenses recommended) | $299/license | 75 numbers/license, plus Caller ID/DID reputation monitoring, spam-flag remediation, call cadencing, Autopilot |
| SimpleTexting | Base | $39/mo (billed yearly, $398.40/yr) | 500 credits; extra credits at 5.5 cents each; local number +$10/mo plus $4 one-time activation |
Readymode figures independently corroborated by a separate fetch of the same page for a different vertical’s own research; SimpleTexting figures per its own published pricing page. Confirm current rates directly before budgeting.
What this means for you
- Readymode’s dialer runs $239 a license a month (Starter, 1+ licenses) or $299 a license a month (iQ, 5+ recommended), both with fair-use free outbound minutes and no setup fee.
- The iQ tier’s extra $60 a license a month adds Caller ID and DID reputation monitoring, spam-flag remediation, and call cadencing, aimed at keeping outbound numbers from getting flagged.
- SimpleTexting’s Base tier starts at $39 a month for 500 credits, with extra credits at 5.5 cents each and additional users at $20 a month.
- A dialer and a texting platform are two separate bills from two separate vendors; a small 5-rep team’s dialer cost alone runs roughly $1,195 to $1,495 a month before texting is added.
Sources
The external data in this guide draws on the sources below. Figures described in the text as estimates or industry triangulations are directional and are not attributed to a single dataset.
- Readymode, Pricing, on Starter and iQ tier costs and inclusions
- SimpleTexting, Pricing, on credit-based tier costs and add-on fees