AgentPhone vs Dial
Compare AgentPhone and Dial side by side: iMessage features, channels, developer tools, pricing and compliance, checked on each provider's own site.
AgentPhone
Phone numbers with voice, SMS and iMessage for AI agents
- Starting price
- $3/month per number plus usage; iMessage from $150/month per line
- Free plan
- $5 starting credit, no card required
Dial
Phone numbers with calls, SMS and iMessage for AI agents
- Starting price
- $3/month per standard number; $250/month per iMessage number
- Free plan
- $5 free credit, no credit card required
AgentPhone supports 44 of the 77 features compared here, and Dial supports 44.
Feature comparison
| Feature | ||
|---|---|---|
| iMessage messaging | ||
| iMessage | ||
| Group chats | ||
| Group management | ||
| Group name and photo | Not listedGroup names are read live from the line; no way to set a name or photo is documented. | |
| Mentions | Not listed | Not listed |
| Tapbacks | ||
| Threaded replies | ||
| Typing indicators | ||
| Read receipts | Not listedThe pricing page mentions read receipts; no API or webhook for them is documented. | |
| Edit and unsend | Not listed | Not listed |
| Message effects | Not listed | |
| Animated text effects | Not listed | Not listed |
| Stickers | Not listed | Not listed |
| Formatted text | Not listed | Not listed |
| Attachments | ||
| Live Photos | Not listed | Not listed |
| Rich link previews | Not listed | Not listed |
| Voice messages | Not listed | |
| Contact cards | ||
| Polls | Not listed | |
| Chat backgrounds | Not listed | |
| Location sharing | Not listedThe API has location endpoints returning coordinates per number, but their use is not described. | Not listed |
| iMessage apps | Not listed | Not listed |
| Live app cards | Not listed | Not listed |
| Sender name and photo | ||
| FaceTime calls | Not listed | Not listed |
| Delivery status | ||
| iMessage availability check | ||
| Focus and Notify Anyway | Not listed | Not listed |
| Numbers and delivery | ||
| Managed lines | ||
| Dedicated numbers | ||
| Shared numbers | Not listed | Not listed |
| Bring your own number | Not listed | Not listed |
| Line pooling | Not listed | Not listedDocs suggest splitting recipients across several iMessage numbers by hand; no automatic pooling found. |
| SMS fallback | ||
| RCS fallback | ||
| Outbound-first messaging | ||
| Calls on the iMessage number | Not listed | |
| Other channels | ||
| SMS | ||
| RCS | ||
| Telegram | Not supportedNot offered | Not supportedNot offered |
| Slack | Not supported | Not supportedNot offered as a channel. A Zapier app can forward messages to Slack. |
Not supported | Not supportedNot offered | |
| Phone calls | ||
| Apple Messages for Business | Not supportedNot offered | Not listedDocs say iMessage numbers send over Apple Messages for Business, but no business chat product is documented. |
| Unified channel API | ||
| Developer tools | ||
| REST API | ||
| TypeScript SDK | ||
| Python SDK | ||
| Other SDKs | Not listedDocs list only TypeScript and Python; an agentphone-go repo holds only a placeholder README. | |
| CLI | Not listedNo own CLI found; numbers can be provisioned through the Stripe Projects CLI. | |
| Webhooks | ||
| Signed webhooks | ||
| MCP server | ||
| Open source | ||
| Self-hosting | Not supportedHosted cloud service only | Not listedSelf-Hosted mode only means calls are driven by your own agent server; the platform itself is hosted. |
| Local testing | Not listed | |
| Custom channel providers | Not listed | Not listed |
| Event replay | ||
| OpenTelemetry | Not listed | Not listed |
| No-code integrations | ||
| CRM integrations | Not listed | Not listed |
| Built for AI agents | ||
| Agent framework | ||
| Agent framework integrations | ||
| Streaming replies | Not listed | |
| Agent group chats | Not listed | |
| Human handoff | ||
| Audit logs | Not listed | Not listed |
| Message history API | ||
| Plans and compliance | ||
| Free plan | ||
| Public pricing | ||
| No per-message fees | ||
| Uptime SLA | ||
| Isolated infrastructure | Not listedSub-accounts isolate agents, numbers and data per client; no dedicated infrastructure offer found. | Not listed |
| SOC 2 Type II | ||
| GDPR |
Checked on each provider's own site and docs on 2026-10-25. “Not listed” means the provider does not mention it.
Pricing
AgentPhone
Pay as you go with $5 of starting credit: $3 per number a month, $0.13 to $0.22 a voice minute and $0.02 per SMS segment, with iMessage lines at $150 or $250 a month and no per-message charge.
Pricing model: usage-based, flat per line for iMessage
SourceDial
Pay-as-you-go starts with $5 of free credit. A standard number is $3 a month plus metered SMS and calls, an iMessage number is $250 a month with free messages, and Enterprise is custom.
Pricing model: per number plus metered usage; iMessage messages free on an iMessage number
SourceWhich should you choose?
Choose AgentPhone if you need group management, group name and photo, message effects and chat backgrounds.
Choose Dial if you need read receipts, voice messages, polls and calls on the iMessage number.
Frequently asked questions
AgentPhone supports 44 of the 77 features compared here, and Dial supports 44. AgentPhone adds group management, group name and photo, message effects, chat backgrounds and local testing. Dial adds read receipts, voice messages, polls, calls on the iMessage number and CLI.
AgentPhone: Pay as you go with $5 of starting credit: $3 per number a month, $0.13 to $0.22 a voice minute and $0.02 per SMS segment, with iMessage lines at $150 or $250 a month and no per-message charge. Dial: Pay-as-you-go starts with $5 of free credit. A standard number is $3 a month plus metered SMS and calls, an iMessage number is $250 a month with free messages, and Enterprise is custom.
Dial does not support group management.
Dial does not list group name and photo on its site or in its docs.
Dial does not list message effects on its site or in its docs.