6sense vs. Salesforce Sales Cloud

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
6sense
Score 8.6 out of 10
N/A
The 6sense Account Engagement Platform helps B2B organizations achieve predictable revenue growth by putting the power of AI, big data, and machine learning behind every member of the revenue team. 6sense uncovers anonymous buying behavior, prioritizes accounts for sales and marketing, and enables them to engage resistant buying teams with personalized, multi-channel, multi-touch campaigns. 6sense helps revenue teams know everything they need to know about their buyers so they can…N/A
Salesforce Sales Cloud
Score 8.7 out of 10
N/A
Salesforce Sales Cloud is a platform for sales with a community of Sellers, Sales Leaders, and Sales Operations, who use the solution to grow sales and increase productivity. The AI CRM for Sales features data built right in, so that companies can sell faster, sell smarter and sell efficiently. Salesforce Sales Cloud is used for, and supports: Buyer Engagement Sales Engagement Enablement Sales AI Sales Analytics Team…
$25
per month
Pricing
6senseSalesforce Sales Cloud
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
Starter
$25.00
Per User/Per Month
Professional
$80.00
Per User/Per Month
Enterprise
$165.00
Per User/Per Month
Unlimited
$330.00
Per user/Per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
6senseSalesforce Sales Cloud
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
6senseSalesforce Sales Cloud
Considered Both Products
6sense
Chose 6sense
There's something to be said for just a very seamless user experience. I think that's paramount, especially when you're trying to align sales and marketing. You're never going to get a salesperson to say, "oh, I want to sit here and learn this tool." You need to make it super …
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Much better data and ease of use. We are able to really get deep into which accounts are viewing our ads or visiting our website.
Chose 6sense
We've used a couple other ABM softwares. We've done ZoomInfo, we've worked and partnered with RollWorks as well and there are some other quasi ABM tools and features and some other marketing automation platforms that align but not necessarily have the full breadth of experience …
Chose 6sense
6sense had multiple predictive models which was a no brainer for us.
Chose 6sense
Compared to the other products we vetted, 6sense is a more full-funnel and robust tool that fits our needs. It helps us with marketing orchestration needs, display, and analytics functions, and at the same time, supports sales and sales developers in their efforts. It is a tool …
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Better integrations with our existing tools, great account management and training resources.
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The added predictive analytics goes above and beyond
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6sense had the most impressive and easy to use dashboards both natively and within Salesforce.
Chose 6sense
I have had a chance to use all of the above and after careful evaluation, I feel 6sense has a step up because I find it more accurate and easy to use. When you are in sales and customer success you want to sound confident and build credibility with clients and channel partners, …
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6sense seems to have a much more rounded data set. Not sure, but the backend seems a lot more customizable.
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6sense is harder to navigate through. Outside of this I think the accounts that come through Wheelhouse is more detailed and straightforward.
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I have not evaluated other products.
Chose 6sense
I have not evaluated other vendors in this space. I've heard of other companies using Demandbase, however, I am unaware of the pro's/cons of each. Ultimately, I 6sense helps sales. Depending on your company, you'll have to decide what's best for you. Try to weigh costs vs …
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6sense is far more in-depth than AWS. 6sense is far easier to navigate and gives you many clues to spend your time wisely and go after the strongest profile fit possible. This is a solution that is easy to integrate into Salesforce and while it has many layers to it they are …
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Oracle is not user-friendly. It is outdated and confusing, also makes it hard to enter in and out of certain tabs/areas within the platform. 6sense is more in-depth and has more functional abilities compared to Salesforce.
Salesforce Sales Cloud

No answer on this topic

Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
6senseSalesforce Sales Cloud
Engagement
Comparison of Engagement features of Product A and Product B
6sense
7.8
86 Ratings
2% above category average
Salesforce Sales Cloud
-
Ratings
Automated routing and prioritization7.870 Ratings00 Ratings
Customer interaction histories7.979 Ratings00 Ratings
Syndicated content7.558 Ratings00 Ratings
Personalization7.672 Ratings00 Ratings
Engagement data tracking7.983 Ratings00 Ratings
Ad Campaigns
Comparison of Ad Campaigns features of Product A and Product B
6sense
7.9
84 Ratings
2% above category average
Salesforce Sales Cloud
-
Ratings
Ad campaign creation8.079 Ratings00 Ratings
Display advertising7.981 Ratings00 Ratings
Contextual advertising8.070 Ratings00 Ratings
Social advertising7.876 Ratings00 Ratings
Ad reporting and analytics7.882 Ratings00 Ratings
Audience Segmentation & Targeting
Comparison of Audience Segmentation & Targeting features of Product A and Product B
6sense
8.3
96 Ratings
5% above category average
Salesforce Sales Cloud
-
Ratings
Standard visitor segmentation8.593 Ratings00 Ratings
Behavioral visitor segmentation8.195 Ratings00 Ratings
ABM sales intelligence8.389 Ratings00 Ratings
Intent Data
Comparison of Intent Data features of Product A and Product B
6sense
8.3
101 Ratings
9% above category average
Salesforce Sales Cloud
-
Ratings
3rd party intent signals8.499 Ratings00 Ratings
Downstream intent signals8.193 Ratings00 Ratings
Account identification8.497 Ratings00 Ratings
ABM Integrations
Comparison of ABM Integrations features of Product A and Product B
6sense
7.7
86 Ratings
6% below category average
Salesforce Sales Cloud
-
Ratings
Automated workflow & orchestration7.786 Ratings00 Ratings
Sales Force Automation
Comparison of Sales Force Automation features of Product A and Product B
6sense
-
Ratings
Salesforce Sales Cloud
8.2
262 Ratings
6% above category average
Customer data management / contact management00 Ratings9.0262 Ratings
Workflow management00 Ratings8.2253 Ratings
Territory management00 Ratings7.7205 Ratings
Opportunity management00 Ratings8.7254 Ratings
Integration with email client (e.g., Outlook or Gmail)00 Ratings8.1239 Ratings
Contract management00 Ratings7.7210 Ratings
Quote & order management00 Ratings7.8193 Ratings
Interaction tracking00 Ratings8.2224 Ratings
Channel / partner relationship management00 Ratings8.0185 Ratings
Customer Service & Support
Comparison of Customer Service & Support features of Product A and Product B
6sense
-
Ratings
Salesforce Sales Cloud
7.8
100 Ratings
3% above category average
Case management00 Ratings8.198 Ratings
Call center management00 Ratings7.779 Ratings
Help desk management00 Ratings7.683 Ratings
Marketing Automation
Comparison of Marketing Automation features of Product A and Product B
6sense
-
Ratings
Salesforce Sales Cloud
8.2
240 Ratings
8% above category average
Lead management00 Ratings8.5235 Ratings
Email marketing00 Ratings8.0202 Ratings
CRM Project Management
Comparison of CRM Project Management features of Product A and Product B
6sense
-
Ratings
Salesforce Sales Cloud
8.0
243 Ratings
5% above category average
Task management00 Ratings8.1232 Ratings
Billing and invoicing management00 Ratings7.575 Ratings
Reporting00 Ratings8.3196 Ratings
CRM Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of CRM Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
6sense
-
Ratings
Salesforce Sales Cloud
8.2
256 Ratings
9% above category average
Forecasting00 Ratings7.9224 Ratings
Pipeline visualization00 Ratings8.1243 Ratings
Customizable reports00 Ratings8.5253 Ratings
Customization
Comparison of Customization features of Product A and Product B
6sense
-
Ratings
Salesforce Sales Cloud
8.6
247 Ratings
13% above category average
Custom fields00 Ratings8.8245 Ratings
Custom objects00 Ratings8.7234 Ratings
Scripting environment00 Ratings8.5174 Ratings
API for custom integration00 Ratings8.5204 Ratings
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
6sense
-
Ratings
Salesforce Sales Cloud
8.9
248 Ratings
7% above category average
Single sign-on capability00 Ratings9.0216 Ratings
Role-based user permissions00 Ratings8.9220 Ratings
Social CRM
Comparison of Social CRM features of Product A and Product B
6sense
-
Ratings
Salesforce Sales Cloud
8.3
157 Ratings
13% above category average
Social data00 Ratings8.4155 Ratings
Social engagement00 Ratings8.2153 Ratings
Integrations with 3rd-party Software
Comparison of Integrations with 3rd-party Software features of Product A and Product B
6sense
-
Ratings
Salesforce Sales Cloud
8.2
213 Ratings
12% above category average
Marketing automation00 Ratings8.2209 Ratings
Compensation management00 Ratings8.1143 Ratings
Platform
Comparison of Platform features of Product A and Product B
6sense
-
Ratings
Salesforce Sales Cloud
7.5
228 Ratings
1% above category average
Mobile access00 Ratings7.5228 Ratings
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User Ratings
6senseSalesforce Sales Cloud
Likelihood to Recommend
8.7
(225 ratings)
8.7
(393 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.0
(13 ratings)
9.8
(58 ratings)
Usability
9.7
(27 ratings)
8.1
(121 ratings)
Availability
10.0
(3 ratings)
9.8
(27 ratings)
Performance
9.8
(3 ratings)
9.0
(18 ratings)
Support Rating
9.7
(28 ratings)
8.0
(92 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
7.9
(11 ratings)
Online Training
1.0
(1 ratings)
9.1
(15 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.7
(4 ratings)
1.3
(18 ratings)
Configurability
9.8
(3 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
-
(0 ratings)
8.8
(9 ratings)
Ease of integration
10.0
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
9.9
(3 ratings)
8.7
(53 ratings)
Professional Services
-
(0 ratings)
9.3
(8 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
10.0
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
6senseSalesforce Sales Cloud
Likelihood to Recommend
6sense
I think it's more suited for people or the access that we have. Sales intelligence and the predictive model. It's more suited for people on the demand gen side, the actual iframe itself. Then sales intelligence is for our sales team. It makes sense for demand gen and ABM analysts have access to both, but truthfully, our source of truth and bread and butter is the predictive model.
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Salesforce
Salesforce Sales Cloud is an intuitive and easy-to-use platform. It is easy to customize this platform to meet the ever-changing business needs and requirements. It is easy to integrate with other platforms and offers incredible features that help businesses generate leads, automate their marketing processes, and collaborate effectively.
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Pros
6sense
  • It makes my job a lot easier in terms of sales is an art as well as a science. It provides that science and the methodology of understanding who is the best people for me to reach out to and at what time should I prioritize certain companies for Q4 versus immediate. It kind of helps balance with my book of who's worth engaging with and getting out in front of versus those that I can probably schedule something for down the line and continue to nurture.
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Salesforce
  • Logging notes: SF makes it easy to log notes in the timeline or static notes that live in an easy-to-see spot for longevity.
  • Logging activities: It's easy to post a call, text, email, etc.
  • API data: Once connected, SF is critical to automation, such as website activity, login activity, pages visited, etc., which saves the Customer Success side time in understanding account activity.
  • Custom fields: you can add custom fields to really personalize your experience. We use quite a few and it's brilliant.
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Cons
6sense
  • The only thing that I can think of, and it's not something that I particularly find annoying, but I know that executives, when they do have pushback about the tool, the thing that I hear them say is that they want that ability to see not just how 6sense is impacting from an attribution standpoint, the sale, they want to see more broad attribution capabilities within the tool. I actually think that having a marketer's level knowledge of the technology, I think it probably could be accomplished. That's a possibility that I think would make it an even easier sell internally or externally.
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Salesforce
  • Sometimes setting up the interface can be overly complex.
  • Depending on what level of salesforce you are paying for, the SLA for their service team to respond can take a decent amount of time.
  • Wish there was more connection between the salesforce apps like service and sales.
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Likelihood to Renew
6sense
I rated 6Sense a 10 because it has become an indispensable tool for our sales and marketing teams. The platform’s ability to identify high-intent accounts and provide actionable insights has significantly improved our targeting and engagement strategies, resulting in better conversion rates and a more streamlined workflow. Its predictive capabilities give us a competitive edge by allowing us to reach prospects at the right time with personalized messaging. Additionally, 6Sense’s seamless integration with our existing tech stack and CRM makes it easy for our teams to collaborate and align on shared goals. The value it brings to our business development efforts ensures it remains a crucial part of our growth strategy.
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Salesforce
There are days when I wish we hadn't switched, but I know that if we put in the time, we will get to where we want to be with the software and that it has many more capabilities than anything else we looked at. However, the amount of time and onboarding we need to do is also far greater than we realized/were told when we originally bought the product. They told us we should hire onboarding support, but at the end, after we had already reached our budget maximum for this, so it's been slower than we had hoped.
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Usability
6sense
The platform is pretty straightforward as far as creating new segments and what's available to do so. The launch of digital advertising has greatly improved in recent months which has been great for our digital team. Adding or removing users and updating integration points is pretty easy as well. Reporting has also been recently updated which makes reporting on usage and ROI much easier too.
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Salesforce
Salesforce has been designed on the basis of "Clicks, not code". So anyone willing to learn the Salesforce user interface (which is quite good as far as management software platforms go) is able to become a Salesforce user or even a Salesforce administrator. You don't have to know coding language to work in the Salesforce environment. Also, Salesforce has one of the best software training resources (Trailhead) that I have ever encountered. It is free to all, easy to use, and most importantly it is interactive. No scrolling through endless text in a user manual. There are hands-on modules and related videos interlaced and through it all you earn points and badges to display your level of learning.
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Reliability and Availability
6sense
I've never noticed it being down but I rarely log into the web interface
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Salesforce
Salesforce is always available securely from any internet-capable device anywhere in the world, UNLESS you choose to set security measures so that ONLY trusted IP ranges may access the system at certain times of the day. It's all about choice and flexibility with Salesforce products.
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Performance
6sense
Most of the time pages load quickly and the UX is great there are moments like every platform where it is laggy though
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Salesforce
Salesforce performance in general is excellent. "The cloud infrastructure beneath Force.com has been fine-tuned over the past 10 years. It powers nearly 100,000+ businesses running more than 185,000 applications that 3 million users count on every day."
Points per Salesforce -
1) Multitenant kernel - With a multitenant platform, each business that uses the app doesn’t have its own copy. Instead, all businesses share a single copy and then customize it for their specific needs.
2) ISO 27001 certified security - You can’t compromise when it comes to enterprise-level security. Force.com is road-tested and trusted by nearly 100,000+ companies, including many of the world’s most security-conscious organizations, such as banks and health care providers.
3) Proven reliability - All Force.com apps run on world-class data centers with backup, failover, and disaster-recovery facilities. Force.com has had a proven 99.9 percent uptime record for years.
4) Proven, real-time scalability - Force.com is used by many of the world's largest enterprises, including Cisco, Japan Post Network, and Symantec. Applications can automatically scale from a few users to millions of page views, as needed.
5) Real-time query optimizer - You need fast access to your data. The Force.com query optimizer delivers under 300ms response time, at a massive scale.
6) Real-time transparent system status - You can always see real-time system performance, availability, and security information at trust.salesforce.com.
7) Real-time upgrades - Unlike traditional software platforms, our upgrades never break your customizations, code, or integrations. We upgrade the platform for you 3 to 4 times each year. As a result, you’re always on the latest version, with access to the latest features, performance, and security enhancements.
8) Real-time sandbox environments - With a single click, you can create copies of your applications, configuration, and data in separate environments for development, testing, and training.
9) Three global production data centers and disaster recovery - Force.com runs on three geographically dispersed, mirrored data centers with built-in replication, disaster recovery, a redundant network backbone, and no single points of failure
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Support Rating
6sense
We hardly needed any support but in the initial days we got some had to contact support for the product understanding, the suppor t was prompt and they were very quick to resolve any issues. The support team is very helpful and gives a lot of importance to unresolved issues.
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Salesforce
The overall support has been good. More and more features are being released quite frequently. Very small features are also making big difference in how the tool can be adapted and used better. If there is anything we need or are stuck, the support team sets up a call and helps in resolving the issue/provides workarounds.
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In-Person Training
6sense
No answers on this topic
Salesforce
I attended two training sessions. I would rate them a 4 as an advanced user. It was very basic – great for someone new – would give 8+ for new person.

I had 3 years of experience at the time. I skipped basic and went onto advanced and still not helpful. A lot of it was best practices that didn’t feel relevant for our business
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Online Training
6sense
It was too fast, too complex, no one could follow along. If you miss a step, you're lost for the rest of the time and there is SO MUCH to learn and keep up with.
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Salesforce
I have gone through multiple. The content that’s delivered is quite basic – I wish they had more advanced training.

We are grandfathered into premium support plus training. We get unlimited access to instructor led and online training for free. We have taken advantage of this
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Implementation Rating
6sense
dont implement it
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Salesforce
Just from an organizational standpoint - we standardized our data prior to moving to Salesforce. But we essentially standardized it wrong. That's created a big disgusting mess for us know that I'll have to deal with as the Admin. Be sure you think through use cases prior to doing something like that - seek outside opinions on how the data will work best, especially depending on what else you're going to integrate with Salesforce.
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Alternatives Considered
6sense
6sense sales team spent a lot more time with me building out a use case and example to take back to my team. I appreciated the support and felt confident in getting the help I needed to implement the tech.
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Salesforce
At our company, we use Salesforce and HubSpot. I personally like both for different reasons. Salesforce makes it easy to generate reports, keep track of dealer and customer information, tie customers to dealers, and is easy to use. However, I like HubSpot for the marketing features. I think HubSpot has easier-to-use workflows and email creations.
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
6sense
No answers on this topic
Salesforce
Salesforce is the most widely used CRM system. Professionalism tends to increase when things go wrong for market leaders. Salesforce considers us as users because they own the market. Having all of our data in one place and all of our teams working within Salesforce. Anyone who uses Salesforce is impacted by it, even if they don't.
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Scalability
6sense
Has been used by a few teams cross functionally and the scalability of this product is great as we continue to grow
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Salesforce
Salesforce Sales Cloud is highly scalable and designed to accommodate the needs of businesses of all sizes, from small startups to large enterprises. It offers flexible subscription models and can easily scale up or down based on the organization's requirements. Whether a company is expanding its sales team, increasing its customer base, or adding new features and functionalities, Sales Cloud can adapt to support growth without sacrificing performance or reliability. Additionally, Salesforce's cloud-based architecture ensures that users have access to resources and capabilities as needed, making it a highly scalable solution for organizations looking to automate customer relationship management at scale.
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Professional Services
6sense
No answers on this topic
Salesforce
Using Salesforce.com has made my daily routines more efficient and simplified the manual tasks I had to perform independently. I can now access data from any device, online or offline, and provide better guidance to my team about the forecasts provided by the built-in artificial intelligence (AI). A chat with a Salesforce support specialist would be great. The knowledge base has a community forum where Salesforce users can ask questions and learn more about the product.
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Return on Investment
6sense
  • I would say prioritizing accounts that 6sense is telling us to do has increased our win rates, has increased our meeting rates, our SDRs, prioritizing six QA from 6sense has greatly increased the amount of meetings they've been able to book. Then from there, open opportunities. Almost all of our closed won opportunities had extensive outreach via marketing. That was because of our knowledge of them through 6sense.
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Salesforce
  • The inbox feature allows me to see when the customer opens my email, and hence a timely follow-up could result in a higher response rate.
  • The mobile app allows users to gain access to leads and customer contacts on the go, which increases sales team productivity and enhances customer conversations.
  • The reports of the notes on the account level are not working, which is causing manual work in the weekly report to leadership.
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