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Conversation intelligence with prohibitive pricing

Gong has pioneered the conversation intelligence category, using AI to record, transcribe, and analyze sales calls to surface insights that help teams understand what works and replicate success. For organizations with high call volumes and sophisticated coaching programs, Gong provides visibility into customer conversations that was previously impossible to achieve at scale. Enterprise sales organizations with dedicated enablement teams can derive genuine value from the platform's deep analytics. However, Gong's pricing creates a significant barrier for most organizations. At $100-150 per user per month, a 10-person sales team faces $12,000-$18,000 annually - just for insights into calls that are already happening. When budgets are constrained, spending this much on analytics rather than activities that directly generate pipeline is a difficult decision to justify, especially when connecting Gong insights to actual revenue impact proves elusive. The fundamental challenge with Gong is that it analyzes existing conversations rather than creating new ones. Teams with insufficient call volume derive limited value because there simply is not enough data to analyze. Teams already hitting their numbers question why they need expensive insights into what is already working. And teams struggling to generate meetings find themselves in a paradox: they cannot afford Gong because they do not have enough calls, but they cannot get more calls without help that Gong does not provide. BookingBomb addresses this root cause directly. Instead of analyzing your conversations, we generate more conversations to have. Our done-for-you prospecting delivers qualified meetings with decision-makers who match your ICP. For teams struggling with top-of-funnel, investing in meeting generation typically delivers more immediate impact than investing in analytics for meetings that are not happening.

Common Gong Frustrations

If any of these sound familiar, you're not alone.

Extremely Expensive

Gong's per-seat pricing at $100-150 per user per month creates substantial costs that scale with team size. A 15-person sales team faces $18,000-$27,000 annually just for conversation analytics. For many organizations, this investment in understanding existing conversations comes at the expense of investments that could generate new conversations, creating an uncomfortable prioritization trade-off.

ROI Hard to Quantify

While Gong surfaces interesting insights about sales conversations, connecting those insights to actual revenue impact proves challenging. Did win rates improve because of Gong coaching or because of market conditions? Are reps performing better because they reviewed calls or because they gained experience? The attribution challenge makes it difficult to justify continued investment, especially when budgets tighten.

Recording Everything Concerns

Recording all customer conversations raises privacy and compliance considerations that vary by industry and geography. Healthcare, financial services, and government-adjacent organizations face regulatory scrutiny. European prospects may object to recording under GDPR. Some customers simply refuse to be recorded, creating awkward moments that can derail sales conversations.

Feature Overload

Most Gong customers primarily use call recording and basic analytics but pay for the full platform including AI coaching, deal intelligence, and pipeline forecasting. This feature creep drives pricing higher while delivering value that many teams never activate. The gap between what you pay for and what you actually use represents persistent inefficiency.

Requires Call Volume

Gong's insights become meaningful only with sufficient conversation data to analyze. Teams with fewer than 50-100 calls monthly struggle to derive statistically significant patterns. This chicken-and-egg problem means the teams who most need help - those with low meeting volume - benefit least from conversation intelligence. You need to solve the meeting generation problem before analytics become valuable.

Insights Without Action

Gong excels at showing what happened in conversations but does not directly improve outcomes. The platform identifies talk ratios and competitor mentions but cannot fix them automatically. Converting insights into behavioral change requires coaching programs, manager attention, and rep discipline that Gong cannot provide. Many organizations find themselves information-rich but action-poor.

Feature Comparison

See how BookingBomb compares to Gong

Pricing
Gong
$100 - $150/user/month
BookingBomb
Pay-per-meeting, no per-seat costs
Feature
Gong
BookingBomb
Call Recording
Not needed - you take the meetings
Conversation Analytics
Meeting metrics provided
Deal Intelligence
Qualified meeting handoff
Meeting Generation
Core focus
Outbound Prospecting
Results-Based Pricing

Why Teams Switch to BookingBomb

Get more meetings before worrying about analyzing them
Pay per meeting instead of per seat
Improve conversation quality by having more conversations
No privacy concerns - we handle initial outreach only
Direct ROI: meetings booked = pipeline = revenue
Invest in results, not analytics
"We spent $60K on Gong analyzing calls, but we didn't have enough calls to analyze. BookingBomb filled our calendar first - now Gong makes more sense."
Patrick O'Brien
CRO, Enterprise Solutions Inc
3x increase in calls to analyze

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BookingBombRECOMMENDED

PROS

Generate meetings first, analyze later

CONS

Different solution type

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about switching from Gong

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