20 Best Real-Time AI Sales Assistants (2026–2027)

The short answer: which one to pick

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All 20 real-time AI sales assistants compared

Free real-time AI sales assistants compared

Most tools on this list start with a demo and a quote. Three let you use real-time answers for free, and each means something different by “free”.

Realtimer Free is the one you can use on client calls without limits or asking permission. Cluely Free is a trial of the paid product. Natively Free is generous but meant for personal use. Trellus also lists a free tier for its dialer; check how much live coaching it includes. More on our free Cluely alternative page.

What “real-time” means on each of these products

Every vendor here says “real-time”, and they mean three different things. Some give you live answers: the tool hears the question and answers it from your documents or a model, as Realtimer, Cluely and Natively do. Others give you live cards, written in advance by someone on your team and shown when a keyword comes up; Dialpad, Clari Copilot, Outreach Kaia, Avoma and Nooks work this way. The rest nudge your behaviour (talk ratio, pace, monologue alerts, “set next steps”), like Trellus, Ringover, Gong’s Zoom app and Revenue.io.

Cards are reliable while someone keeps them current, and generated answers cover the question nobody wrote a card for. Nudges work more slowly, by changing habits over weeks. Decide which problem you have before you book demos.

Five kinds of real-time sales assistants

Desktop assistants run on your computer and work with any call app, from Zoom to WhatsApp, and one rep can start alone today. Dialers add live prompts to the outbound calls you place through them. Phone systems sell live coaching as an extra on their own calling. Revenue platforms treat live help as one feature among recording, coaching and forecasting. Contact center platforms guide hundreds of phone agents at once, with QA and supervisors watching.

1. Realtimer: real-time AI sales assistant that answers from your own playbook

This one is ours, so weigh it accordingly; we’ve kept it to what the app does today. It’s a small native Mac app (about 1.5 MB) that sits next to your call in Zoom, Meet, Teams, WhatsApp or any other app and hears both sides. When the buyer asks something, you press a key: Fast (⌃⌘↵) for a short answer in about a second, or AI (⌥⌘↵) for a fuller one.

Most tools on this list answer from cards that someone writes in an admin panel. Realtimer answers from the files you already have: playbook, battlecards, case studies, price lists. The source shows under each answer. Price lists in CSV get extra care. When a plan or a unit comes up, you see exactly its row, and every number in the answer is checked against that row. If quoting the wrong price worries you most, try this part first.

The window stays hidden from screen sharing and recordings, and nothing joins the call. The free version runs on your own free keys with no limit on calls. Pro includes AI and transcription, up to 2 screenshots per answer, call history and a talk ratio. More in Realtimer for sales and on Pricing; agents can read Realtimer for real estate.

Of the free versions on this list, Realtimer Free has the widest set of real-time features we know of (compare them in the free versions table). On paid plans, ours included, results depend on setup: your playbook, price lists, call briefs and vocabulary have to match how your team sells. On Team, we do that setup with you.

• Free with your own keys · Pro €29/month (7-day free trial, no card) · Team €49/seat.
• Skip it if you need Windows today, or a dialer for hundreds of cold calls a day.

Source: realtimer.ai/pricing

2. Cluely: the general purpose undetectable AI meeting assistant

Cluely is a desktop app for Mac and Windows. It reads your screen and the conversation, suggests what to say, and writes meeting notes afterwards. It wasn’t built for sales in particular: its marketing has covered interviews and meetings of every kind, and its “undetectable” pitch has drawn criticism.

Sellers should check the pricing ladder. Hiding the window from screen sharing, which you need on a demo, comes only with the most expensive tier, and the free tier gives you limited answers and a few files.

We compared the two products line by line in Realtimer vs Cluely and on the free Cluely alternative page.

• Free tier with limits · Pro $19.99/month · Pro + Undetectability $149.99/month · Enterprise on request (checked October 2026).
• Skip it if you need it hidden on screen shares without paying $149.99 a month.

Source: cluely.com/pricing

3. Trellus: AI dialer with a real-time coach for outbound

Trellus comes from cold calling. It’s a power and parallel dialer with a coach that watches each call and nudges you as it goes: “pause” when you’ve talked too long, “set next steps” when you’re about to hang up without them, “ask about the current state” when an objection lands. The prompts coach your behaviour and leave the answer to you.

On the sixtieth dial of the day, that’s what an SDR wants. On a 45 minute demo with a buying committee, it helps much less.

Its pricing page has changed several times, sometimes with heavy promotions, and live coaching for teams sits in the custom Business plan.

• Individual plans about $60 to $150 a user a month at list price (promotions vary) · Business plan with team coaching: custom.
• Skip it if most of your selling happens on scheduled video demos.

Source: trellus.ai/pricing

4. Nooks: AI dialer with live battlecards and a virtual salesfloor

Nooks wants remote SDR teams to feel like they share a sales floor again. Reps dial up to five lines at once. Managers drop into the virtual salesfloor, listen to live calls and whisper coaching. Battlecards appear when a competitor or an objection comes up.

Nothing has a public price, so expect a demo first. If your team lives on the phone and you want managers in the room, put it on the shortlist.

• By quote; coaching is sold on top of the dialer.
• Skip it if you don’t run an outbound phone team.

Source: nooks.ai

5. Aircall AI Assist Pro: real-time AI coaching inside the Aircall phone system

Aircall launched AI Assist Pro in July 2025. During a call you get a live transcript, prompts and a playbook of your choice (SPICED, BANT, MEDDIC or PACTT). After it you get a call score, CRM updates and a follow-up email.

It’s one of the few tools here with a public price. One review worked out a team of ten on Professional plus AI Assist Pro at about $990 a month, before numbers and international calls.

• $49 a user a month (billed annually), added to any Aircall plan.
• Skip it if your important calls happen on Zoom, Meet or Teams.

Source: aircall.io: AI Assist Pro

6. Dialpad Ai Sales Coach: AI Live Coach Cards in the Dialpad phone system

Dialpad uses cards triggered by keywords. A manager writes a card for pricing, a competitor objection or a compliance script, and when either side says the word, the card appears on the rep’s screen. A second live coach works without prebuilt cards, and speech coaching flags talking too fast or filler words.

Someone has to keep the cards current, so decide who owns that job before you buy. Dialpad doesn’t print a price for coaching, and one reviewer on Gartner mentioned confusion about what the licence covers.

• Part of Dialpad plans; outside estimates around $60 to $80 a user a month for tiers with coaching.
• Skip it if nobody on your team will maintain the cards.

Source: dialpad.com: AI Live Coach Cards

7. Ringover AIRO Coach: real-time AI coaching as a Chrome extension

Ringover ships its live coach as a Chrome extension tied to its Empower product. It works with Zoom, Teams and Meet and coaches how you speak (tone, pace, engagement) more than what you answer.

• AIRO is included in Ringover plans; no standalone price for Coach.
• Skip it if you need answers to the buyer’s questions, not delivery tips.

Source: ringover.com: AIRO Coach

8. Clari Copilot (formerly Wingman): live cue cards and monologue alerts

Wingman is now Clari Copilot. Admins set rules: when the prospect says “Is this the best you can do?”, show a card with the product’s value and a case study. Reps also get live battlecards and an alert when they’ve talked too long.

Reviews split along experience. New reps find the cards a big help; experienced reps can find them distracting, and some users say a card shows up after the moment has passed. Pricing is by quote, and outside estimates disagree, from about $500 a user a year to $60 to $120 a user a month.

• By quote.
• Skip it if you want answers generated from your documents rather than cards someone writes.

Source: Capterra: Clari Copilot reviews

9. Salesloft Conversation Intelligence: live coaching inside Salesloft

Clari and Salesloft relaunched Salesloft Conversation Intelligence in July 2026. Live coaching and next steps now sit on top of call summaries, action items, follow-up emails and CRM updates. Their pitch: conversation intelligence should be a live layer, not a place you go to review calls.

Public detail on what the live prompts look like, and which plans include them, is still thin.

• Part of Salesloft plans, by quote.
• Skip it if you don’t use Salesloft.

Source: destinationcrm: launch

10. Outreach Kaia: real-time content cards in Outreach meetings

Outreach introduced Kaia in 2020 as a “knowledge AI assistant”. It joins and records the meeting, transcribes it live and shows content cards when the prospect raises a question. Reps can also search the cards by title mid call, which is why Outreach tells admins to name cards with the words reps will type in a hurry.

Kaia works best when an enablement team curates the content. The recorder joins the meeting, so the buyer sees it in the participant list.

• Part of Outreach, by quote.
• Skip it if you don’t want a recorder in the guest list.

Source: outreach.ai: Kaia

11. Revenue.io Moments: real-time guidance built into Salesforce

Revenue.io (formerly RingDNA) builds everything around Salesforce. Moments listens for phrases and behaviour and shows talking points, compliance nudges or reminders, chosen from Salesforce fields such as deal stage, campaign, buyer role or industry. It also nudges reps when their energy drops or they interrupt.

The vendor says new hires ramp 50% faster; check that against your own ramp data.

• By quote.
• Skip it if you’re not on Salesforce.

Source: revenue.io: Moments

12. Avoma: AI meeting assistant with live answer cards

Avoma began as an AI meeting assistant and grew into conversation intelligence. During a call it spots objections, competitor mentions and gaps in qualification, then shows an answer card for about 20 seconds; the rest wait in a drawer. Managers update the cards in one place, so every rep says the same thing.

A midsize team gets notes, coaching and some live help in one subscription. One review reports the recorder sometimes failing to join or dropping mid call.

• Paid plans; revenue intelligence costs extra.
• Skip it if you don’t want a bot in your meetings.

Source: avoma.com: real-time guidance

13. Zoom Revenue Accelerator Sales Assist: real-time deal guidance inside Zoom

Zoom made Sales Assist generally available in July 2026, inside new Essentials and Premium tiers of Revenue Accelerator (once called Zoom IQ for Sales). During the call it surfaces competitive intelligence, objection guidance, discovery prompts, battlecards and your qualification framework.

If your whole team meets on Zoom, there’s nothing to install. A call in Meet or Teams gets nothing.

• Revenue Accelerator Essentials and Premium; pricing on request.
• Skip it if your buyers pick the meeting platform.

Source: zoom.com: Revenue Accelerator

14. Gong: conversation intelligence with light live features

Gong is built for analysing calls after they happen: coaching, deal risk, forecasting. Its live side is smaller than people expect. The Gong app for Zoom gives you notes, bookmarks, an alert after about 2.5 minutes of monologue, and a live transcript if your admin switches it on.

So Gong and a live assistant answer different questions. Gong helps the manager next week; a live assistant helps the rep while the buyer is waiting. We went through the difference in Realtimer vs Gong and in Cluely vs Gong.

The outside estimates we found for Gong’s price disagree with each other, so treat the range loosely.

• By quote; outside estimates around $100 to $250 a user a month with everything added.
• Skip it if what you need is an answer while the buyer is talking.

Source: help.gong.io: Gong app for Zoom

15. Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales: real-time conversation intelligence for Teams calls

Companies on Dynamics 365 and Teams may already own live help, with a licensing catch. Microsoft’s FAQ says real-time conversation intelligence on Teams calls comes with Dynamics 365 Sales Enterprise and Premium, not with the lighter Copilot for Sales. Copilot can also recap a live Teams meeting and pull account details from Dynamics while you talk, which helps if you joined late.

• Included in Dynamics 365 Sales Enterprise and Premium licences.
• Skip it if you’re on another CRM.

Source: Microsoft Learn: conversation intelligence FAQ

16. Balto: real-time guidance for contact center sales

Balto is built for teams on the phone all day. It follows the flow of each conversation, prompts the agent as it goes and runs QA alongside.

• Custom quote; no free plan.
• Skip it if you run a few long B2B demos a day.

Source: balto.ai

17. Cresta: enterprise real-time agent assist

Cresta gives large contact centers live guidance, knowledge answers and next steps for agents, plus AI agents and a Knowledge Agent launched in March 2026.

• Annual contracts; AWS Marketplace lists Agent Assist for Voice at $150,000 a year for up to 100,000 calls ($1.50 per extra call).
• Skip it if you’re a team of fewer than a few hundred agents.

Source: Cresta pricing breakdown

18. Observe.AI: real-time AI for contact center agents

Observe.AI launched its real-time suite for contact centers in 2023. Live prompts are shaped by each agent’s past performance, and supervisors can watch live calls and step in when a sale or a customer is at risk. The vendor’s conversion claims are large, so ask for references in your industry.

• Custom quote.
• Skip it if you’re a field or B2B sales team rather than a contact center.

Source: CMSWire: launch

19. Abstrakt: real-time call guidance in about 0.2 seconds

Abstrakt, founded in 2020 in Phoenix, competes on speed. Recommended responses to objections appear about 0.2 seconds after the trigger, and QA issues are flagged while the agent is still on the phone. It has also integrated with Salesloft for phone calls.

• Not published.
• Skip it if your calls are video demos.

Source: abstrakt.ai

20. Natively: open source AI meeting assistant

Natively is open source and runs on Mac and Windows. It connects to a dozen AI providers, runs local models through Ollama and can recognise speech locally if you want everything on your machine. The free version includes screenshots, auto answer and notes.

For work, read the licence first. The free version covers personal, educational and non-commercial use; using it on client calls needs written permission. It’s also a large Electron app with a “stealth” mode that can disguise itself as system apps, so check with IT before installing it on a work laptop. Our comparisons: Realtimer vs Natively and a Natively alternative for work.

• Free for personal use · managed API $8 to $35 a month · Pro licence yearly or lifetime.
• Skip it if you need it for client calls at work without asking for permission.

Source: natively.software

How each kind of tool handles one buyer question

The buyer says: “We already looked at Gong. Why would we need you?” With live cards (Dialpad, Clari Copilot, Kaia), a “Gong” card pops up with your talking points, if someone wrote one. If nobody did, nothing happens.

A behaviour coach like Trellus or Ringover might nudge you to ask a question back, but you still need the answer.

A revenue platform like Gong or Salesloft records the moment, and your manager can coach you on it next week.

With a live answer engine (Realtimer, Cluely), you press a key and get an answer built from your battlecard on Gong. In Realtimer, the battlecard’s file name shows under the answer.

How to choose a real-time AI sales assistant

Start with where your calls happen. Video demos on Zoom, Meet or Teams point to a desktop assistant or your meeting platform’s own tool; phone outbound points to a dialer or your phone system’s coach. Then decide where answers should come from: cards your enablement team maintains, or the documents and price lists you already have. If a wrong price can lose the deal, favour answers tied to your own price list.

On the buyer’s side, a recorder in the guest list changes the conversation, and on a demo the assistant’s window should stay hidden when you share your screen. Finally, check whether one rep can start today or whether you need an admin, a CRM integration and a contract first.

Four questions to ask on any vendor demo:

• How long from the buyer’s question to the answer on my screen, on a real call rather than a recording?
• Who writes and updates the cards or the knowledge, and how many hours a week does that take?
• Does anything join the meeting, and does the panel show when I share my screen?
• Which plan includes the live features, and which parts cost extra?

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