The best Close alternative

Autocloz is the strongest free alternative for outbound teams: a free-forever, AI-native CRM with email, calling, LinkedIn, SMS and WhatsApp built into one login. Unlike most Close alternatives, the core CRM stays free for 5 users and 100,000 contacts, and every paid plan lifts the seat count to unlimited — you only pay to raise per-channel daily limits.

For most teams, yes. Autocloz charges no per-seat fee, so adding users never raises the bill, and the CRM is free forever. Calling uses carrier pass-through (your own Telnyx, DIDLogic or FreJun rates, with no per-minute markup), so you scale on volume instead of seats or bundled minutes.

Import your contacts, companies and deals by CSV or API, connect your mailboxes (Google, Microsoft or SMTP) and carrier, and rebuild your sequences as multichannel. You keep every channel — email, calling, LinkedIn, SMS and WhatsApp — on one lead timeline, and built-in warmup means you can move sending over without rebuilding your stack.

As a CRM, yes — Autocloz gives you contacts, companies, deals and a pipeline, plus all five outreach channels native. What it doesn't aim to replicate is Close's deepest enterprise customization and admin governance; lean and SMB teams are the sweet spot.

No. Every paid Autocloz plan includes unlimited users with no per-seat fee, and the CRM is free forever for 5 users — you can start without a card and invite the whole team. Paid plans simply raise per-channel daily limits, mailboxes, contacts and verifications, and you can change or cancel any time.

Most teams are sending the same day. Importing contacts and connecting a mailbox takes minutes; rebuilding your best sequences as multichannel is the bulk of the work. Built-in warmup and deliverability tooling mean you can ramp sending safely rather than cutting over cold.

Yes. Autocloz keeps the call-and-email-from-the-CRM workflow Close is known for and adds LinkedIn, SMS and WhatsApp, unlimited users on paid, and a free-forever CRM core.

No. You connect your own carrier (Telnyx, DIDLogic, FreJun) and pay them directly; Autocloz charges a flat platform fee.

It is a refined product for a team that lives on the phone. Close has spent years on inside-sales specifics — power and predictive dialing on its higher plans, call coaching and listen-in, and reporting shaped around calling activity rather than generic CRM dashboards. If your floor is reps dialing all day inside one CRM, that polish is real and Autocloz is the younger product.

Seats and minutes. Close prices per seat, so every rep, manager and contractor you add costs more, and calling is billed as metered minutes. Autocloz includes unlimited users on every paid plan and passes carrier rates through untouched — you hold the Telnyx, DIDLogic or FreJun account and pay them at their price. For a team that grows headcount faster than send volume, that is usually the larger difference.

If you like Close for its calling and want the same directness across more channels without per-seat pricing, yes. Both put the phone at the centre rather than treating it as an add-on. The difference is what surrounds it: Autocloz adds LinkedIn, SMS and WhatsApp as sequence steps, runs the mailbox layer directly with warmup and authentication monitoring, and includes unlimited users on paid plans (five on free), so the cost of the tool stops tracking headcount.

Its calling workflow is unusually well-built and long-refined — the power dialer, call coaching, and the way the whole product is designed around a rep who lives on the phone all day. If your team is inside-sales-first and Close's dialer is the reason productivity is where it is, that is a real thing to give up. Autocloz dials, records, transcribes and summarises, but it does not have Close's decade of polish on the calling motion specifically.

Autocloz passes carrier rates through at cost and lets you bring your own carrier, so per-minute pricing is a matter between you and Telnyx or Twilio rather than a marked-up line on a SaaS invoice. That matters most for high-volume outbound calling, where the minutes bill can exceed the software bill. Verify the current rates on your own carrier account rather than taking a comparison page's word for it — including this one.

5 users, up to 100,000 contacts, 10 mailboxes, unlimited email verification, booking pages, and the full CRM with companies, deals and pipeline. Since Close prices per seat, the comparison worth running is not the headline monthly figure but the cost of the seats you would stop rationing — the contractors, the founder, the manager who checks pipeline weekly and currently does not have a licence.

Autocloz lets you bring your own carrier, so numbers stay with the carrier account you already control rather than being resold to you. That also means porting is a conversation with your carrier rather than with us, and per-minute rates are whatever you have negotiated. Verify the specifics against your own carrier before planning a migration — number portability rules differ by country and by number type.