Comparison
NumberBroom vs. BatchDialer
Do I need BatchDialer to run a litigator scrub?
Short answerNo. BatchDialer's litigator scrub is a bundled feature of its dialer subscription, which is sold per agent per month, billed annually or month-to-month (as of October 8, 2026), and only screens lists that live inside BatchDialer. NumberBroom is a per-job scrub for a list from any source at $0.20 per number, $5 minimum -- and for $0.55 it also grades every surviving number A to F and checks whether the phone belongs to the name on the record, which BatchDialer does not publish as a feature.
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BatchDialer is a multi-line predictive dialer for outbound teams, real-estate wholesalers among them, and it includes a DNC and litigator scrub on every plan. If you already dial from it, you are already scrubbing. So the honest version of this comparison is not "which scrub is better" -- it is which question you are trying to answer, and whether the list you need to clean is even inside BatchDialer to begin with.
How each one charges, and what you get
| BatchDialer | NumberBroom | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Per-agent monthly plan with the scrub bundled; billed annually or month-to-month | Pay as you go, per number, no subscription |
| Way in | A dialer plan for each agent | One list: $0.20/number to 2,000 rows, $0.16 to 5,000, $0.08 to 10,000, $5 minimum |
| What is removed | Known litigators by default, federal DNC optional | Litigators, landlines, VoIP, disconnected; federal DNC matches too on a signed-in scrub of up to 1,000 numbers under your own SAN |
| What is ranked | Lead scores from verified numbers, last-call result, phone type | A-to-F contact grade + name match + activity score ($0.55 tier) |
| Lists it can screen | Lists inside BatchDialer | Any CSV, from any source |
| What you get back | A dialer campaign | A clean CSV plus a dated screening record |
| Litigator source published? | No | Yes -- public court filings |
| Developer access | API and Zapier | REST API and an MCP server for AI agents |
| Try before paying | 7-day trial, converts to paid automatically | Free 300-row report, no account, no card |
The seat model is the thing to reason about. For a team already on BatchDialer, the scrub arrives inside a dialer subscription it was paying for anyway, so scrubbing one more list adds nothing to the bill. It also grows with headcount, not with how many numbers you check, and it tells you nothing about scrubbing a list you have not loaded into BatchDialer.
The question a litigator scrub cannot answer
A litigator scrub answers "who might sue me". On a skip-traced list, that is not the only expensive question. The other one is which of these numbers is actually the person.
Skip tracing routinely returns three to five phone numbers for one property owner: a current mobile, an old mobile, a relative's line, a disconnected landline. Remove the litigators and the dead lines and you still have a file where most rows are a guess, and agents burn the day discovering that in real time.
NumberBroom's Scrub + Grade tier, $0.55 per number, adds two things to the rows that survive the scrub:
- An A-to-F contact grade -- how reachable the number actually is, so a worklist can be sorted rather than worked top to bottom.
- A name match -- whether the phone belongs to the name on the record. This is the one that turns a skip-traced export into a call order, and it is why the tier needs a name column. Where no name is on file for a number the cell is left blank, never marked "no", so an unknown is not reported as a mismatch.
BatchDialer's published ranking feature is custom lead scoring built from verified numbers, last-call result and phone type. That is genuinely useful for working a campaign over time, and it is not the same thing: it scores from dialing outcomes and line attributes, not from whether the number belongs to the person named. As of the October 8, 2026 scrape, no contact grade and no name match appear on their pricing page.
A dated record, not just a cleaner file
Every completed NumberBroom job writes a Record of compliance screening at /certificate/{jobId}: the file, the rows submitted, the rows screened, the date, and how many were removed as litigators, as landlines or VoIP, and as disconnected.
Statutory damages under the TCPA start at $500 per violation and a court may raise them to up to $1,500 where it finds the violation willful or knowing. A dated screening step performed before any dial shows diligence, though a willfulness finding turns on what you knew about consent. BatchDialer publishes no equivalent artefact, which is unsurprising for a feature inside a dialer -- but if you ever have to show your work, a campaign setting is harder to produce than a document.
When BatchDialer is the right answer
Plainly: if your team dials out of BatchDialer every day, your lists live there, and you want one vendor and one bill, use the scrub you are already paying for. Adding a second tool to re-clean a list the dialer will clean again is waste.
It stops being the right answer when the list is not in BatchDialer, when you are not paying for seats at all, or when removal is not the only thing you need from the file.
Cleaning a BatchLeads or PropStream export
This is the common case. The list is generated upstream -- BatchLeads, PropStream, a skip-tracing vendor -- and it has to be usable before it goes anywhere, whether that destination is BatchDialer, a different dialer, a CRM or a texting platform.
Export to CSV, upload it, and the phone column is detected automatically. Up to 10,000 rows per job, every original column preserved, cost shown before you pay. A batch litigator scrub at $0.20 a number removes the filers and the dead lines; at $0.55 the survivors come back graded, with a name match wherever a name is on file. See what to do with a skip-traced list for the whole sequence.
Quick check: a bundled scrub or a per-list one
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Where each one fits
BatchDialer is a dialer that includes a scrub. NumberBroom is a scrub that goes wherever the list goes. If you want to know which you need, the quickest way to find out is to look at your own data: the free contact assessment grades the first 300 rows of a real export and counts duplicates across the whole file, with no account and no card.
Grade a list free, or see pricing.
Frequently asked questions
How is BatchDialer priced?
Per agent, per month. Per their pricing page on October 8, 2026, there are three per-agent plans (Starter, Pro and Enterprise), each available billed annually or month-to-month, and the DNC and litigator scrub is included on all three. Seats are the unit, so what you pay scales with headcount rather than with how many numbers you check. There is a 7-day free trial, and their own FAQ notes an account transitions automatically to a paid subscription when the trial ends. Ask BatchDialer for its current prices. NumberBroom has no seats and nothing to prepay: pay per list, after a free preview.
Does BatchDialer scrub litigators?
Yes, and on every plan -- their comparison table lists "DNC & Litigator Scrub" for Starter, Pro and Enterprise, described as automatically identifying and removing federal Do Not Call numbers and known litigators. Their FAQ adds that the DNC scrub is an option you turn on and that known litigators are filtered by default.
What is not published anywhere on their site is where the litigator data comes from, how often it updates, or what the check would cost on its own. That is worth knowing rather than holding against them: bundled compliance features are usually described by outcome, not by source. NumberBroom's is court-sourced, which we say because we can point at the filings.
Which of my skip-traced numbers is actually the owner's?
This is the question a removal-only scrub cannot answer, and on a skip-traced list it is usually the expensive one -- a single owner routinely comes back with three to five phone numbers attached.
NumberBroom's Scrub + Grade tier, $0.55 per number, returns an A-to-F contact grade on every surviving row and, wherever a name is on file for the number, a name match: does this phone actually belong to the person named on the record. Sort by grade and the file becomes a call order rather than a pile. It needs a name column, which a BatchLeads or PropStream export has. BatchDialer's published lead scoring works from verified numbers, last-call result and phone type -- useful, but it is not a contact grade and not a name match.
Can I scrub a BatchLeads list without paying for BatchDialer?
Yes. Export the list from BatchLeads to CSV and upload it -- the phone column is detected automatically, every other column comes back untouched, and the cleaned file drops into whatever dialer, CRM or texting platform you actually use. $0.20 per number for the scrub, $5 minimum, no seat and no subscription.
If you want to see the data quality before paying anything, the free contact assessment grades the first 300 rows of your file and reports duplicates across the whole thing. It asks for your contact details, but no account and no card.
Does NumberBroom check the National Do Not Call Registry?
Only narrowly, and BatchDialer offers its scrub on every plan -- that is a real point in their favour if registry scrubbing at volume is what you need. A signed-in paid NumberBroom scrub includes a federal Do Not Call Registry check, under your own FTC subscription (SAN), included free on lists of up to 1,000 numbers; larger lists run without it. Registry access remains your obligation as the seller.
Beyond that, NumberBroom checks carrier data and a court-sourced litigator database, neither of which requires a credential of your own. See what a SAN actually gates for which category your own check falls into.