Carly vs CallForMe: team phone lines or calls for your agent
Short answer: Carly (usecarly.com, formerly CalBot) works a team's business phone lines through its AI agents: texts, voicemail, calls to leads and customers from your own Carly number, with calling sold as a separate add-on to $35-a-seat plans. CallForMe (callforme.tel) has your agent call other businesses for quotes, bookings and questions, at $1 per answered call, with no number, seat or plan.
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What Carly is
Carly, at usecarly.com and formerly CalBot, is an AI assistant platform. Its Teams connector "works a team's business phone lines through the team's AI agents": business texts, calls, voicemail, voice and text agents, and the team's CRM. You get a business number in Carly during setup, and calls and texts go out from it. You can watch a live call and type instructions to steer it.
Side by side
Carly facts are from its Claude setup guide (October 8, 2026) and pricing page, checked October 31, 2026.
| Carly | CallForMe | |
|---|---|---|
| Main job | Your team's phone lines, texts and lead follow-up | Calls other businesses for you |
| Price | $35/mo per person or seat; calling and SMS are a separate add-on, price not published | $1 per answered call incl. 2 min, $0.40/min after; prepaid from $5 |
| Phone number | Your business number in Carly | Not needed; calls come from (469) 966-0062 |
| Connect | Carly organization account, OAuth | Remote MCP, one click that asks for nothing |
| Steering a live call | Yes, type an instruction | Yes, answer_question also steers a live call |
| Calling several places | Scheduled calls to a list of leads | call_around finds and calls 1 to 100 businesses, up to 10 at a time |
| Try first | Free plan without calling | Free demo lines, no account |
When to pick Carly
- Your team texts and calls its own leads and customers from shared business lines.
- You want calendars, email and CRM work in the same assistant.
When to pick CallForMe
- You want your agent to phone other businesses: quotes, reservations, stock checks, account questions.
- You'd rather pay per answered call than per seat plus a calling add-on.
- You want to try it on a free demo line before adding anything. See the demo lines.
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Questions
Can Claude make calls with either one?
Yes. Both are remote MCP connectors you add to Claude. Carly needs a Carly organization account and a phone line from Carly; CallForMe needs nothing to connect, and the first real call shows a one-time link to add $5 of credit.
What does Carly's calling cost?
Carly's plans are $35 a month per person or per seat, and business calling and SMS are a separate add-on with no published price (its page says to book a call), checked October 31, 2026. CallForMe is $1 per answered call including 2 minutes.
Who should each one call?
Carly's examples are a team's own leads and customers. CallForMe calls businesses only: stores, offices, suppliers and service providers.
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