Rilla vs Gong

    Checked November 5, 2026 against each vendor's public pages.

    Rilla: AI coaching for in-person sales teams: reps record appointments in the Rilla app, managers coach from virtual ridealongs or listen live with Rilla Live, and Rick, its AI assistant, answers questions across every recorded conversation and runs practice roleplays.

    Gong: Revenue AI platform built on recorded customer conversations, now extended into enablement with AI roleplay (Gong Enable / AI Trainer), forecasting and account management.

    Where they differFull feature table

    At a glance

    Who each product is for, how you buy it, and its rating on G2.

    Rilla

    Conversation intelligence

    Also known as Rillavoice

    Best for
    In-person sales teams in home services, home building, automotive and dental that want to coach from recorded appointments.
    Pricing
    Quote onlyNot publicly listed. rilla.com has no pricing page and every call to action books a demo. Rilla Phone and Rilla Follow Up are included in the subscription at no extra cost, Lessons comes with Rilla Roleplay, and Rilla Intelligence is charged by how much conversation it processes. Checked November 5, 2026Source: rilla.com
    Free plan
    Not stated publicly
    Free trial
    Not stated publicly
    Self-serve sign-up
    No
    G2
    4.7 out of 5 from 105 reviewsSource: g2.com
    Our 14 capabilities
    • 6 yes
    • 4 partly
    • 0 no
    • 4 not verified

    Gong

    Conversation intelligence
    Best for
    Mid-market and enterprise revenue teams wanting call analytics, deal/forecast intelligence and practice grounded in their own recorded calls.
    Pricing
    Quote onlyNot publicly listed (quote required). Pricing page says licenses are priced per user plus a platform fee based on user count; no dollar figures shown.
    • Custom quote: Not published, per-user licenses + platform fee
    Source: gong.io
    Free plan
    Not stated publicly
    Free trial
    No
    Self-serve sign-up
    No
    G2
    4.7 out of 5 from 6,777 reviewsSource: g2.com
    Our 14 capabilities
    • 8 yes
    • 2 partly
    • 0 no
    • 4 not verified

    Where they differ

    Only verified differences: rows where one is a yes and the other a no or partly. Rows we couldn't verify are left out here; we couldn't verify 4 of 14 for Rilla and 4 for Gong.

    Where Rilla is ahead

    No row where Rilla is a verified yes and Gong a no or partly.

    Where Gong is ahead

    • Custom scenario builderRilla:Partly
    • Methodology scorecardsRilla:Partly

    Which one fits

    Strengths come from each vendor's own positioning; the rest is computed from the verified rows and pricing.

    Choose Rilla if

    • Built for in-person selling: reps record appointments in the Rilla app and managers review them as virtual ridealongs
    • Rilla Live lets a manager listen to an appointment as it happens and coach the rep in the moment
    • Rick, its AI assistant, answers questions across every recorded conversation and turns top performers' calls into roleplays, lessons and dashboards

    Choose Gong if

    • Deep conversation analytics and deal/forecast intelligence (Gong Forecast) on a large recorded-call corpus
    • AI Trainer roleplay personas grounded in the customer's own Gong calls and scored with the same scorecards as live calls
    • Broad native CRM coverage (Salesforce, HubSpot, Dynamics) and pre-built methodology playbooks
    • You want full support for custom scenario builder and methodology scorecards, where Rilla is partial.

    Rilla and Gong, feature by feature

    All 14 capabilities we track, with the note and public source behind every value. "Not verified" means we couldn't confirm it either way, not that it's missing.

    Rilla and Gong compared on 14 capabilities
    CapabilityRillaGong
    Practice
    AI voice roleplaySpoken practice calls with an AI buyer that responds and pushes back.Yes

    Reps talk to Rick, Rilla's AI, to roleplay sales scenarios and objections hands-free.

    Source: rilla.com    		Yes

    Gong Enable AI Trainer (launched Feb 25, 2026, Mission Andromeda): reps practice by speaking with an AI buyer persona; admins pick a voice profile; sessions 5-30 min.

    Source: help.gong.io
    AI video avatar roleplayFace-to-face practice with an animated AI avatar, not just a photo.Not verified

    Roleplay is described as talking to Rick by voice; no video avatar buyer is documented.

    		Not verified

    Personas can be given a name and a static avatar image; no animated/video avatar buyer documented.

    Source: help.gong.io
    Cold call simulationOutbound drills such as openers, gatekeepers and voicemail.Not verified

    Roleplay covers in-person sales scenarios, objections and price conversations; cold-call drills aren't documented.

    		Not verified

    AI Trainer scenarios are custom (discovery, objection handling, negotiation named); cold calling not explicitly marketed.

    Source: gong.io
    Custom scenario builderDiffersBuild your own buyer personas, objections and goals.Partly

    Roleplays are generated for you: Rick builds one on request, for example around your toughest objection, and Lessons builds them from your uploaded sales process. A manual persona and objection builder isn't documented.

    Source: rilla.com    		Yes

    Enablement teams build scenarios (persona, company context, objectives, scorecard) in AI Trainer.

    Source: help.gong.io
    Scenarios from your own materialGenerate practice scenarios from your company documents or past calls.Yes

    Rick builds a roleplay from how top performers handle an objection in recorded calls, and Lessons turns an uploaded sales process into practice.

    Source: rilla.com    		Yes

    Admins paste links to Gong calls/snippets to ground personas; Dry Run (June 2026 announcement, July 2026 availability) builds a rehearsal from a calendar invite using account context and call history.

    Source: gong.io
    Coaching and analysis
    Methodology scorecardsDiffersCalls scored against frameworks like MEDDIC, SPIN or NEPQ.Partly

    Script score grades each conversation against the steps of your own sales process (greeting, agenda, inspection, pricing, financing); no named frameworks such as MEDDIC or SPIN found.

    Source: rilla.com    		Yes

    Pre-built playbooks for MEDDICC, BANT, SPIN, Challenger, SPICED, Solution Selling, Sandler; AI Call Reviewer scorecards also score AI Trainer sessions.

    Source: help.gong.io
    Real call analysisScoring and insights on real customer calls, not just practice.Yes

    Core product: records in-person appointments in the Rilla app and scores them with metrics such as script score and talk ratio.

    Source: rilla.com    		Yes

    Core product: records, transcribes and analyzes calls across Zoom, Meet, Teams, Webex and more.

    Source: help.gong.io
    Live in-call coachingReal-time prompts while a rep is on a live call.Partly

    Rilla Live lets a manager listen to an appointment as it happens and coach the rep live. The guidance comes from the manager, not automated in-call prompts.

    Source: rilla.com    		Partly

    Gong app for Zoom shows real-time interaction stats (e.g., speaking time/talk ratio) during calls; no current live cue-card/objection-prompt feature documented.

    Source: gong.io
    Team and hiring
    Candidate assessmentsCandidates complete AI roleplays that are scored before you interview them.Not verified

    Not found.

    		Not verified

    Only interview-question content marketing found; no candidate-assessment product.

    Courses and learning contentStructured training tracks, courses or content hubs.Partly

    Rilla Lessons (Oct 2026) is a path of one- to two-minute drill units built from your sales process, ending in a roleplay. No course authoring or content library found.

    Source: rilla.com    		Partly

    Gong Enable trainings mix lessons (text, images, embedded calls) with AI practice; marketed course formats include micro-learnings and assessments. Not a full standalone LMS.

    Source: help.gong.io
    Games and leaderboardsCompetitive drills, challenges or leaderboards.Yes

    Rick builds leaderboards from conversation data, and team roleplays show scores live so the room can see who's winning.

    Source: rilla.com    		Not verified

    No native leaderboards found on Gong Enable page; third-party Plecto integration on Gong Collective offers leaderboards/badges.

    Source: collective.gong.io
    Platform
    CRM integrationNative sync with a CRM such as Salesforce or HubSpot.Yes

    Salesforce, HubSpot, Zoho CRM, Pipedrive and Microsoft Dynamics, per a Merge case study quoting Rilla's co-founder; Rilla also partners with ServiceTitan.

    Source: merge.dev    		Yes

    Native: Salesforce, HubSpot, Microsoft Dynamics 365; CRM API for others; one CRM at a time.

    Source: help.gong.io
    Mobile appA native iOS or Android app.Yes

    Rilla: The AI Sales Coach iOS app (RillaVoice, Inc.), updated Oct 31, 2026; also on Google Play.

    Source: apps.apple.com    		Yes

    Gong.io iOS app (Gong.io Ltd.) for calls, deals, mobile meeting recording. AI Trainer on mobile not documented.

    Source: apps.apple.com
    SSO (SAML)Single sign-on through your identity provider.Not verified

    Not found on rilla.com.

    		Yes

    Any SAML SSO provider; help doc says available on any Gong plan; Okta/OneLogin/Rippling guides.

    Source: help.gong.io
    • YesYes
    • PartlyPartly
    • NoNo
    • Not verifiedNot verified from public sources

    Neither lists prices publicly. Pricing details for both are in the cards above.

    Good to know about Rilla

    • The Home Depot announced on Jan 13, 2026 that it will use Rilla's AI coaching for its service and sales teams prnewswire.com
    • Launched Rilla Lessons on Oct 15, 2026: short daily drills in the mobile app, built from a team's own sales process, with each unit ending in a full roleplay rilla.com
    • Launched Rilla Phone on Oct 16, 2026 to record calls made from a rep's own phone, included in the subscription at no extra cost rilla.com
    • Upgraded Rilla Intelligence on Oct 16, 2026: Rick can now analyze up to 100,000 conversations in one question and save the answers as live dashboards rilla.com
    • Partnered with ServiceTitan in November 2023 to bring AI ridealongs to contractors on ServiceTitan legacy.rilla.com

    Good to know about Gong

    • Launched Gong Enable with AI Trainer roleplay on Feb 25, 2026 as part of Mission Andromeda gong.io
    • Mission Big Dipper (June 24, 2026) added Dry Run calendar-based roleplay, AI Coach and AI Builder for Scorecards gong.io

    Rilla vs Gong: common questions

    What's the difference between Rilla and Gong?

    Rilla: AI coaching for in-person sales teams: reps record appointments in the Rilla app, managers coach from virtual ridealongs or listen live with Rilla Live, and Rick, its AI assistant, answers questions across every recorded conversation and runs practice roleplays. Gong: Revenue AI platform built on recorded customer conversations, now extended into enablement with AI roleplay (Gong Enable / AI Trainer), forecasting and account management. Of the 14 capabilities we track: Gong fully supports custom scenario builder and methodology scorecards, where Rilla is partial.

    Do Rilla and Gong publish their pricing?

    Neither lists prices publicly. Rilla: Not publicly listed. rilla.com has no pricing page and every call to action books a demo. Rilla Phone and Rilla Follow Up are included in the subscription at no extra cost, Lessons comes with Rilla Roleplay, and Rilla Intelligence is charged by how much conversation it processes. Checked November 5, 2026. Gong: Not publicly listed (quote required). Pricing page says licenses are priced per user plus a platform fee based on user count; no dollar figures shown.

    Do Rilla and Gong have AI video avatar roleplay?

    We couldn't verify it for Rilla from public sources. We couldn't verify it for Gong from public sources.

    Do Rilla and Gong offer live in-call coaching?

    Rilla partly does. Rilla Live lets a manager listen to an appointment as it happens and coach the rep live. The guidance comes from the manager, not automated in-call prompts. Gong partly does. Gong app for Zoom shows real-time interaction stats (e.g., speaking time/talk ratio) during calls; no current live cue-card/objection-prompt feature documented.

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