Automate Basics

Instantly vs Outreach

Pick up to 4 tools and see their free plans, entry prices, platforms and limits in one table. Every fact comes from each vendor's own pages, checked 21 October 2026.

Compared on
Instantly

Free trial · from $37.60/mo

Outreach

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What it isCold email platform with unlimited sending accounts and warmup, priced by emails sent and contacts uploadedSales engagement and AI agent platform for revenue teams, sold by quote as user seats plus AI credits
Free planNoNo
Cheapest paid plan$37.60/mo billed annually (Growth)Instantly pricingNot publishedOutreach pricing
What it coversOutreach plan: 5,000 emails a month, 1,000 uploaded contacts, unlimited email accounts and warmup. Lead data and AI agents need a separate Instantly Credits plan; the cheapest, Nano, is $9 a month for 150 credits.Not stated
Free trial14-day free trial, no card needed, with 250 uploaded contacts and 1,000 emailsNone stated
PlatformsWeb, APIWeb, API
Integrations (vendor's figure)Not statedCRM sync plus Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Cisco Webex and Slack integrations
Open sourceNoNo
Good for
  • Sending cold email from many mailboxes without per-inbox fees
  • Agencies running high-volume campaigns for several clients
  • Finding leads and writing sequences with AI in the same tool that sends them
  • Large sales teams that want sequencing, call recording and forecasting in one platform
  • Revenue operations teams standardizing prospecting playbooks across reps
  • Teams that want AI agents to research accounts and draft personalized emails
Watch out for
  • Growth caps sending at 5,000 emails and 1,000 uploaded contacts a month; going over a plan's volume means upgrading, not paying overage
  • Lead data and AI agents need a separate Instantly Credits subscription
  • Webhooks and full in-app Unibox replies start on Hypergrowth
  • No prices are published; every package is quoted by sales
  • AI features draw on a pool of AI credits; extra credit packs cost more
  • Multi-channel sequencing is not listed in the Amplify Essentials package
Made byFoo Monk, LLCOutreach Corporation

Entry prices are the cheapest paid plan, as each vendor publishes it; “What it covers” says what that price is per (a user, a channel, a brand, a number of contacts). The sources are listed on each tool's page.

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