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Bigtincan vs ConnectAndSell

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Bigtincan

Sales Enablement

AI-Powered Sales Enablement

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On request
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ConnectAndSell

Sales Enablement

Live human agents navigate phone trees and gatekeepers, then bridge your rep to a decision maker

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The short version

  • Each has a real cost: Bigtincan no published pricing makes budgeting difficult and requires contacting sales for quotes; ConnectAndSell cost per seat sits an order of magnitude above self-serve parallel diallers, with third-party figures around $1,500 to $3,000 per rep per month, so the tool is unforgiving of a ramping rep, a holiday or a slow quarter.
  • They diverge on capability: Bigtincan covers AI content recommendations, ConnectAndSell covers Agent-assisted parallel dialling.
  • Prices and features above were last checked on 31 August 2026.

Where they differ

Only the attributes on which Bigtincan and ConnectAndSell actually diverge.

Attributes where Bigtincan and ConnectAndSell differ
AttributeBigtincanConnectAndSell
Pricing modelUnknownquote
PlatformsWeb, iOS, AndroidWeb
Founded2008Unknown

Identical on both: starting price (On request), free tier (No), user rating (Not yet rated), category (Sales Enablement).

What each one covers

Drawn from each product's published feature list. An absence here means we hold no record of it - not that the product lacks it.

Only in Bigtincan

  • AI content recommendations
  • Mobile enablement
  • Document automation
  • Training
  • Analytics
  • Salesforce
  • Microsoft Dynamics
  • SAP

Only in ConnectAndSell

  • Agent-assisted parallel dialling
  • Gatekeeper and IVR navigation
  • Live answer detection
  • Call recording and monitoring
  • List and cadence management
  • Real-time AI coaching
  • AI call summaries
  • Conversation rate analytics

What people use each for

The jobs each tool is most often brought in to do.

Bigtincan

  • Customer Successnot ConnectAndSell
  • Sales Enablementnot ConnectAndSell
  • Ai Automationnot ConnectAndSell

ConnectAndSell

  • An enterprise sales team where a single conversation with the right VP is worth five figures and the phone is the only channel that reaches them.not Bigtincan
  • An SDR organisation whose reps spend most of their day dialling voicemail and cannot raise conversation counts by working harder.not Bigtincan
  • A company selling into industries with switchboards and receptionists, where software diallers hit a wall no amount of parallelism fixes.not Bigtincan
  • A sales leader who wants to test whether the pipeline problem is list quality or activity volume, by holding the list constant and raising conversations tenfold.not Bigtincan

Where each one falls short

Documented limitations, not opinions. Every one is a constraint you would hit in normal use.

Bigtincan

  • No published pricing makes budgeting difficult and requires contacting sales for quotes
  • Steep implementation and onboarding costs on top of per-user fees for enterprise plans
  • Complex setup process requiring significant organizational change management to adopt

ConnectAndSell

  • Cost per seat sits an order of magnitude above self-serve parallel diallers, with third-party figures around $1,500 to $3,000 per rep per month, so the tool is unforgiving of a ramping rep, a holiday or a slow quarter.
  • Nothing is published and seats have minimums, so there is no way to benchmark or budget without entering a sales cycle, and small teams frequently find the entry seat count exceeds their headcount.
  • Reviewers report intermittent downtime and features not behaving as expected, and because the billable unit is effectively a dialling hour, an outage converts directly into quantifiable lost spend rather than mild annoyance.
  • Results are heavily list dependent: the platform accelerates dialling but does nothing about data quality, so reviewers feeding stale contacts report weak returns and you must budget separately for a data vendor.
  • The live agent model is built around US English outbound, with no evidence of meaningful multilingual agent coverage or EU data residency guarantees, which makes European and APAC dialling and GDPR-sensitive campaigns a poor fit.
  • Contract terms are described inconsistently across sources, twelve-month minimum in some and no minimum in others, indicating negotiated non-standard paper, unequal terms between buyers and legal review time on every deal.
  • High-volume parallel dialling attracts TCPA and STIR/SHAKEN scrutiny and carrier spam labelling, and the resulting damage to your number reputation is an operational cost the vendor does not price for.

Pricing, plan by plan

Bigtincan

On request
  • SMB$undefined/custom
    • Average cost $17,937
    • Sales enablement basics
    • Mobile access
  • Enterprise$undefined/custom
    • Average cost $139,644
    • Advanced features
    • Dedicated support

ConnectAndSell

On request
  • Test Drive Experience$undefined/year
    • Free scoped trial session
    • Live agent dialling on your own list
    • Used as the sales qualification step
  • Flight School$undefined/year
    • Seat based
    • Coaching-oriented onboarding programme
    • Live agent dialling
  • Express Connect$undefined/year
    • Seat based
    • Higher dial throughput
    • Call recording and analytics
  • Precision Connect$undefined/year
    • Seat based
    • Highest dial throughput tier
    • AI coaching and call summaries

Which should you pick?

Choose Bigtincan if

  • You need ai content recommendations.
  • You work on Web, iOS, Android.
  • You also want mobile enablement.

Choose ConnectAndSell if

  • You need agent-assisted parallel dialling.
  • You also want gatekeeper and ivr navigation.

Questions people ask

Is Bigtincan or ConnectAndSell better?
Neither clearly leads. Bigtincan starts at On request and ConnectAndSell at On request, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, Bigtincan or ConnectAndSell?
Bigtincan starts at On request and ConnectAndSell at On request.
Does Bigtincan or ConnectAndSell run on more platforms?
Bigtincan runs on Web, iOS, Android. ConnectAndSell runs on Web.
What is Bigtincan best used for?
Bigtincan is most often used for customer success, sales enablement, ai automation. Of those, customer success and sales enablement are not what ConnectAndSell is typically brought in for.
What can Bigtincan do that ConnectAndSell cannot?
Bigtincan covers AI content recommendations, Mobile enablement, Document automation, Training. ConnectAndSell covers Agent-assisted parallel dialling, Gatekeeper and IVR navigation, Live answer detection, Call recording and monitoring.

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

Bigtincan: Does Bigtincan publish transparent pricing?

No. Bigtincan uses quote-based pricing with no published list prices. Most customers report effective costs of $25-$45 per user per month when billed annually, with SMB plans averaging $17,937 and Enterprise plans averaging $139,644.

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ConnectAndSell: How is this different from Orum or Nooks?

Those are software diallers. ConnectAndSell puts live human agents between the dial and your rep to handle gatekeepers and phone trees. That is why it reaches people software cannot, and why it costs roughly ten times more.

Bigtincan: What is included in Bigtincan's mobile capabilities?

Bigtincan includes mobile access for sales teams to access content, run presentations, and engage customers on their devices as part of its mobile-first sales enablement approach.

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ConnectAndSell: What does it cost?

Nothing is published. Third-party reviewers cite roughly $1,500 to $3,000 per rep per month depending on dial rate. Treat that as unverified and get it in writing.

Bigtincan: Does Bigtincan include AI-powered features?

Yes. Bigtincan includes AI-powered features for content recommendations, sales coaching, and engagement analytics to help teams optimize their selling process.

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ConnectAndSell: Is there a trial?

Yes, a free Test Drive session on your own list. It doubles as the sales qualification step.

ConnectAndSell: Does it work outside the United States?

It is built for US English outbound. There is no evidence of substantive multilingual agent coverage or EU data residency guarantees.

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