Guide · Call Tracking
The cheapest call tracking software in 2026 is free to start — until you turn the phones on
Ranked strictly by published monthly base, the cheapest entry tiers cluster under $40 with one true $0 pay-as-you-go option — but add the per-minute rates these platforms meter on top and the order flips.
Re-verified 2026-06-23. The cheap end held: Dialics $0 PAYG ($0.045/local-min), Convirza $29, WhatConverts $30 (with its $30 credit), WildJar $39, and Ringba $147 are all confirmed. Two adjustments: Nimbata’s $35 is the annual-billing price — its monthly rate is $39 — and CallRail’s numbers are now third-party only, because its live pricing grid is JavaScript-rendered and unreadable: Lead Tracking is $55/mo ($50 billed annually), and its per-minute rate is no longer published (trackers cite ~$0.05–$0.06/local-min, not the older $0.045).
If “cheapest” means the lowest published monthly base to open an account, the answer is Dialics at $0 — a pure pay-as-you-go plan with no named subscription tier, just metered usage at $0.045 per local minute (toll-free $0.055/min), local numbers at $1/mo (toll-free $2/mo), and a 7-day trial that includes a $10 credit. Below the one free option, the paid floor is a tight cluster: Convirza Starter at $29, WhatConverts Call Tracking at $30, Nimbata Pro at $39 ($35 on annual billing), and WildJar Starter at $39 — every entry tier in the dataset that publishes a base price sits at or under $40 except the incumbents. But none of these numbers is what you pay, because call tracking bills subscription plus usage, and the cheapness inverts the moment the phones ring.
The published-base ranking
Ranked strictly by recurring monthly base, ignoring usage:
| Vendor | Entry plan | Monthly base | Local per-minute rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dialics | Pay As You Go | $0 | $0.045/min |
| Convirza | Starter | $29 | $0.08/min |
| WhatConverts | Call Tracking | $30 | $0.045/min |
| Nimbata | Pro | $39 ($35 annual) | per answered call |
| WildJar | Starter | $39 | $0.05/min |
| CallRail | Lead Tracking | $55 ($50 annual) † | not readable † (third-party ~$0.05–$0.06) |
| CallTrackingMetrics | Marketing Lite | $79 | live transcription $0.02/min |
| Ringba | Business | $147 | $0.055/min |
† CallRail’s live pricing grid is JavaScript-rendered and not machine-readable; its figures here are third-party (GetApp/SoftwareAdvice show $55/mo, with the $50 most plausibly the annual-billing rate), and its per-minute rate is no longer published openly.
That is the headline order, and it is genuinely tight at the bottom: $0, then four plans within $10 of each other. The quote-only enterprise names — Invoca, Marchex, Phonexa, CallSource, Retreaver — publish no base at all, so they cannot enter a price ranking honestly and are left out rather than guessed at.
Where the cheapness flips
Two of these plans carry their value inside the base (and we put them head to head separately). WhatConverts bundles a $30 usage credit into its $30 fee, covering roughly 148 calls before any overage — so its real floor for a light user is the $30 sticker, not $30-plus-usage. CallRail’s Lead Tracking (≈$55/mo, or $50 billed annually) includes 250 local minutes and 5 tracking numbers; you pay the base and nothing more until you cross those allowances, then a per-minute rate CallRail no longer publishes openly (third-party trackers put it near $0.05–$0.06/min).
The pure-metered plans have no such cushion. Price a steady 1,000 local minutes a month and the ranking rearranges:
| Vendor | Base | + 1,000 local min | Effective monthly |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dialics | $0 | 1,000 × $0.045 | ~$45 (+$1/number) |
| CallRail | $50 (annual) | 750 billable × ~$0.05–$0.06 ‡ | ~$88–$95 ‡ |
| WildJar | $39 | 1,000 × $0.05 | ~$89 |
| Convirza | $29 | 1,000 × $0.08 | ~$109 |
‡ CallRail’s metered rate is no longer readable from its (JavaScript-rendered) grid; this estimate uses the third-party ~$0.05–$0.06/min range over the 750 minutes past its 250-minute bundle, on the $50 annual base. The older $0.045 figure that produced a $83.75 estimate can no longer be sourced.
The $29 plan becomes the most expensive of the four. Convirza’s low base hides the highest per-minute rate in this group — $0.08/min plus $3.00 per number — so at volume it overtakes WildJar, CallRail, and the nominally-free Dialics. Dialics, which looked like a curiosity at $0, is the cheapest real answer at this workload precisely because its only cost is usage and that usage is priced at the floor of the market.
The per-call wrinkle
Two vendors don’t meter minutes at all. Nimbata ($39 Pro, $35 on annual billing) and Infinity bill per answered call regardless of length — Nimbata doesn’t publish its per-call rate on the page, so it can’t be normalized against the per-minute field, but the model matters: short calls are penalized and long ones are cheap, the mirror image of per-minute billing. If your calls run long, a per-call base like Nimbata’s $39 can undercut a per-minute plan that looks cheaper on the sticker.
How to read this
The lowest entry price to get started is $0 (Dialics, pay-as-you-go), and the cheapest paid base is $29 (Convirza). But the only two figures you can take at face value are the bundled ones — WhatConverts’ $30 (with its $30 credit covering ~148 calls) and CallRail’s ≈$55 ($50 billed annually, with 250 minutes and 5 numbers included, though CallRail no longer publishes the metered rate beyond that bundle) — and the cheapest plan at any real volume is whichever pairs a low base with a low per-minute rate, which is Dialics at $0 + $0.045/min, not Convirza at $29 + $0.08/min. Fix your monthly minutes before you rank, because in this category the base price and the bill are two different numbers.