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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Salesloft

    Score7.5 out of 10
    N/ASalesloft’s Revenue Orchestration Platform uses AI to help market-facing teams prioritize and take action on what matters most, from first touch to upsell and renewal.N/A

    Smartlead.ai

    Score7.4 out of 10
    N/AA solution to scale cold email outreach featuring unlimited mailboxes, unlimited warmups, deliverability-focused infrastructure, and a unibox to handle the revenue cycle.

    $39

    per month

    Pricing
    SalesloftSmartlead.ai
    Editions & Modules
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    Basic
    $39
    per month 2000 active Leads & 6000 Emails per month
    Pro
    $94
    per month 30000 active Leads & 150000 Emails per month
    Custom
    starting at $174
    per month upto 12M Active Lead Credits
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    SalesloftSmartlead.ai
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—Discount of up to 17% available for annual billing.
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    Community Pulse
    SalesloftSmartlead.ai
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    SalesLoft
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    Smartlead.ai
    Chose Smartlead.ai
    I have used all above platform in my career. Instantly is the nearest one which can compete. relying on Apollo was my biggest mistake over the years in my previous org. Apollo does not give clear picture whether the email is bounced what the health score of my domain. I kept on …
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    Would buy again
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    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    96%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    93%
    Happy with the feature set
    95 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    95%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    73 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    93%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    SalesloftSmartlead.ai
    Email & Online Marketing
    Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of Salesloft and Smartlead.ai
    Feature
    Salesloft
    -
    Ratings
    Smartlead.ai
    7.6
    4 Ratings
    5% below category average
    WYSIWYG email editor00 Ratings7.43 Ratings
    Dynamic content00 Ratings6.63 Ratings
    Ability to test dynamic content00 Ratings7.13 Ratings
    Landing pages00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    A/B testing00 Ratings8.14 Ratings
    Mobile optimization00 Ratings7.73 Ratings
    Email deliverability reporting00 Ratings8.03 Ratings
    List management00 Ratings7.52 Ratings
    Triggered drip sequences00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Salesloft and Smartlead.ai
    Feature
    Salesloft
    -
    Ratings
    Smartlead.ai
    8.0
    4 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Dashboards00 Ratings7.64 Ratings
    Standard reports00 Ratings8.73 Ratings
    Custom reports00 Ratings7.73 Ratings
    Pre-Send Testing
    Comparison of Pre-Send Testing features of Salesloft and Smartlead.ai
    Feature
    Salesloft
    -
    Ratings
    Smartlead.ai
    7.2
    4 Ratings
    12% below category average
    URL Validation00 Ratings6.53 Ratings
    Link Tracking00 Ratings6.23 Ratings
    Image Validation00 Ratings5.72 Ratings
    Inbox Display00 Ratings7.34 Ratings
    Email Accessibility Tools00 Ratings7.34 Ratings
    Spelling and Grammar Check00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Spam Testing00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Email Previews00 Ratings8.54 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    SalesloftSmartlead.ai
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.9
    (325 ratings)
    7.3
    (4 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.1
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    7.8
    (8 ratings)
    8.5
    (4 ratings)
    Availability
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.1
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    8.7
    (143 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    SalesloftSmartlead.ai
    Likelihood to Recommend
    SalesLoft
    I find it to be the best resource for scheduling calls with clients. Specifically when the call includes multiple people using Salesloft, it's so simple and easy to use to send open times to client and then to be able to send active links to the client where with one click the calendar invite shows up on my calendar? it's the best most efficient tool I have in my toolbelt at the moment. When it comes to logging, it's also simple but I wish I could add a contact to SL from the Microsoft integration.
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    Smartlead.ai
    Smartlead is well suited in many aspects. Thats why we are working on it from past 3-years or so. Running email campaigns can be a challenge because other bulk email providers do support sending email but the accuracy of landing in the inbox no one guarantee. I have used it and based on the experience I am using Smartlead. I have used mailshake, apollo, instantly, salesloft etc. none has given such results compared to Smartlead. When it comes to less appropriate: Smartlead is for sending bulk email, one cannot maintain records on the same. I have to delete the campaigns because it will pile up in the home screen once completed. Also Auto-tagging feature should be there based on the response received from prospect. If we use it as CRM, there are chances it can fail. Since it provides unanimous master inbox- I can not respond to my prospect from the dashboard because other colleagues might see my response. This is a security concern.
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    Pros
    SalesLoft
    • Salesloft enables us to outreach at scale.
    • Salesloft helps us identify our warmest, most buyer ready prospects to streamline our outreach.
    • Salesloft helps us to identify quickly areas to course correct and provides the necessary data to do that.
    • Salesloft also surfaces data around outreach so we can ensure we are targeting our team with sensible KPIs that connect to our business goals.
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    Smartlead.ai
    • Slick API integration with both our waterfall and CRM
    • Quick email verification tool
    • Handles high volume sending with ease
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    Cons
    SalesLoft
    • Would be nice to have custom reporting available. Coming from Salesforce, the included canned reports are useful but I like to roll my sleeves up and build exactly what I want.
    • Conversations will record meetings booked via MSTeams but requires the BDR/SDR to hit record. Other solutions (e.g. Chorus.ai) join as a participant and don't require a user hitting the "record" button. We have to change our flow to make this work and it is a bit clunky.
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    Smartlead.ai
    • Context based output.
    • Layout and image generation.
    • Multiple language support.
    • Multiple format support.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    SalesLoft
    SalesLoft is absolutely VITAL to our daily operations. We could not function without it or a program like it. Speaking as a Sales Person who has had to operate without a product like this, the difference is night and day. The ability to stay organized, automate tasks, easily log activities and notes, review calls, and coach team members is an absolute gamechanger.
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    Smartlead.ai
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    Usability
    SalesLoft
    Drift was extremely easy for both our demand gen team and SDR to jump right into. It was feature rich and purpose-built for marketers—it was remarkably easy to connect our marketing automation, CRM, and more to the platform and get everything to work together. Now the ability to create digital experiences and conversation landing pages is democratized—empowering our team to do better work and provide better prospect/customer experience.
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    Smartlead.ai
    It's a good tool and you can figure out your way around it, but overall visibility from a bird's eye view could be better. Oftentimes you have to open up multiple tabs to see different client views
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    Reliability and Availability
    SalesLoft
    The availability is pretty good, we do sometimes have errors or delays in syncing activities but nothing that has been too detrimental to our workflow. Most recently we had an issue with Lofting through Outlook due to a change in security token that took a few weeks to resolve but it is fixed now.
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    Smartlead.ai
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    SalesLoft
    Yes timely and easy to use. The only delays we have are when we run our big month sales blitz and activities take some time to sync to the reporting as well as SalesForce
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    Smartlead.ai
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    Support Rating
    SalesLoft
    The support team was very responsive but at the end of the day they took a long time to fix our issue. The issue did get fixed, though, so that is what matters. Very nice people who are there to help in any way they can.
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    Smartlead.ai
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    Online Training
    SalesLoft
    We had some virtual training with our CSM which was very well constructed. It took some time to get into the full swing of things but with a few weeks of hands on experience I was feeling confidant. The SL team was always available to answer questions or jump an a call to walk us through stuff. I also used the Customer Help Center for a few self guided learnings on how to use specific features related to reporting and team management.
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    Smartlead.ai
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    SalesLoft
    must invest time and effort in define the best way to integration with Salesforce in order to get data visualization
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    Smartlead.ai
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    Alternatives Considered
    SalesLoft
    Salesloft blows outreach out of the water in all aspects. One of the biggest issues I had was their unwillingness to listen to customer feedback. I had requested several small changes to be made when I had previously used the platform that unfortunately fell onto deff ears. I am much happier using Salesloft and the positive results I've experienced are a direct result of that.
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    Smartlead.ai
    I have used all above platform in my career. Instantly is the nearest one which can compete. relying on Apollo was my biggest mistake over the years in my previous org. Apollo does not give clear picture whether the email is bounced what the health score of my domain. I kept on using the same mailbox and my emails kept on landing in spam. I couldn't understand the reason behind my poor performance until I used Smartlead. All other tools gives fake health score, no AI suggestion on setting up campaigns. Here Smartlead outstand with other tools.
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    Scalability
    SalesLoft
    The scalability was pretty good, we started with 4 or 5 users on one team and scaled into 30+ members across 3 teams
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    Smartlead.ai
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    SalesLoft
    • I have been with a company that was using Salesloft, but moved to a competitor. I can't say it was exactly the competitors fault, as a lot of other internal changes were happening, (hence leaving the system that was working well), but we had the worst sales year in company history that year. Reps who consistently performed at or above quota were suddenly struggling to keep their pipelines in order, and the middle of the pack reps were going on PiPs and being let go.
    • Is it the dialer, or the leadership? You decide.
    • But the leadership also changed the dialer - so maybe it's both?
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    Smartlead.ai
    • Negligible return
    • Open rates and response rates run below 10%
    • Best for single channel buziness development
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