The best Outreach 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 Outreach 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.

For multichannel engagement, yes — Autocloz runs the email, calling and LinkedIn cadences Outreach is known for and adds native SMS and WhatsApp, a free CRM and a compliance gate. The main thing it doesn't chase is enterprise-only RevOps tooling, which is where the largest orgs may still prefer Outreach.

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.

For SMBs and agencies, yes — Autocloz covers multichannel engagement + a free CRM without enterprise seat minimums. Large enterprises with heavy Salesforce + forecasting needs may still prefer Outreach.

Enterprise governance and forecasting. Deal intelligence, rep coaching, territory and permission models, and the admin controls a large revenue org needs — Outreach is built for that and Autocloz is not. If you have an ops team administering the stack, that is a real advantage.

SMBs and agencies who want the multichannel sequencing without the seat minimums and the implementation project. You get email, calling, LinkedIn, SMS and WhatsApp in one sequence, plus a free CRM, and you can be sending the same week.

Neither tool sells you a contact database. Autocloz includes email finding and unlimited free verification for the contacts you already have, plus per-org Apify actors for sourcing. Bring your own data either way.

For a team under roughly fifty reps, often yes — and the trigger is usually the annual per-seat commitment rather than a missing feature. For a large org it is not a like-for-like swap: Outreach's value at scale is in governance, forecasting, deal intelligence and the enablement layer around it, which Autocloz does not ship. Be honest about which of those your team actually uses before comparing prices, because the ones you use are the ones that will hurt.

Mostly process scaffolding. Structured rollout, admin controls over who can send what, and the reporting an ops team builds around sequence performance. Autocloz gives you the sequences, the five channels, deliverability tooling and a CRM, with configuration per workspace rather than a permissions matrix. Teams that were fighting Outreach's overhead read that as a feature; teams that depend on the overhead should not move.

Outreach sells per seat on annual contracts, so the cost of adding a rep is known and recurring, and the cost of a rep who only needs read access is the same as one who sends all day. Autocloz includes unlimited users on paid plans (five on free) and prices on per-channel sending volume, so the marginal user is free and the bill tracks activity instead of headcount. Whether that is cheaper depends entirely on your ratio of senders to seats.

It usually improves, because the mailbox layer becomes visible. Autocloz runs a warmup pool, rotates sends across connected mailboxes, monitors DMARC, DKIM and SPF, and runs inbox-placement seed tests, so a domain drifting toward spam surfaces as a measurement instead of as a slow decline in replies. The risk in any migration is volume, not vendor: move mailboxes across at their existing daily rate and raise it afterwards, rather than treating the switch as an excuse to double sending on day one.