Outreach vs Salesforce Sales Cloud comparison

Outreach and Salesforce are both solutions in the Opportunity Management category. Outreach is ranked #8 with an average rating of 8.5, while Salesforce is ranked #1 with an average rating of 8.2. Outreach holds a 2.3% mindshare in OM, compared to Salesforce’s 13.6% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Outreach users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 94% of Salesforce users who would recommend it.

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94% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 2, 2025

Salesforce Sales Cloud and Outreach compete in the CRM and sales engagement category. While Salesforce offers robust support and competitive pricing, Outreach stands out with feature-rich capabilities, delivering higher perceived value.

Features: Salesforce Sales Cloud includes comprehensive CRM functionalities, customizable dashboards, and integration with third-party applications. Outreach specializes in sales engagement, enhancing email sequencing and automated task management while providing analytics-driven insights.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Salesforce Sales Cloud offers a scalable cloud-based deployment with extensive training resources and responsive customer service. Outreach provides quicker deployment with intuitive onboarding and emphasizes personalized support, facilitating rapid implementation.

Pricing and ROI: Salesforce Sales Cloud features a tiered pricing structure with higher initial costs, balanced by extensive features and integration potential for a strong ROI in comprehensive CRM solutions. Outreach offers flexible pricing with lower initial investment, emphasizing cost-effective sales engagement tools for quicker ROI in sales automation.

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Categories and Ranking

Outreach

Ranking in Opportunity Management

8th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Salesforce Sales Cloud

Ranking in Opportunity Management

1st

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

117

Ranking in other categories

CRM (2nd), Sales Force Automation (2nd), Conversation Intelligence Software (3rd)

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the Opportunity Management category, the mindshare of Outreach is 2.3%, down from 2.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Salesforce Sales Cloud is 13.6%, down from 14.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Opportunity Management Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Salesforce Sales Cloud	13.6%
Outreach	2.3%
Other	84.1%

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Featured Reviews

NUR HAQUE

Frontend Developer at The Alt Cloud

Offers AI capabilities for transcription and image recognition modeling tasks

In terms of improvements, one significant area for the product is efficiency, particularly when processing large data loads. Similar to other platforms, long recording times lead to extended processing times, which can be inconvenient for users. For instance, a previous client encountered delays due to lengthy recording times. To address this, I implemented a live transcription approach where data is transcribed in real-time, immediately sent to the AI model, and returned quickly. This optimized the process, but enhancing the platform's inherent efficiency would be beneficial.

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Kamal Deep

Founder and Salesforce Consultant at SaaSnic

Experience exceptional project enhancements and seamless automation integration

Salesforce Sales Cloud itself is a wonderful solution, and there are two different versions: Lightning and classic. The Lightning version is a new generation version compatible with any mobile device, whether it's a phone, iPad, or any size of screen. The reporting and analytics functionalities, especially with the Einstein feature, are wonderful because it allows for analysis of data regarding your opportunity pipeline, giving insight into how long it will take to close deals. This gives a great understanding of running different levels of campaigns and defining smart workflows, where if one task is done, the other task can automatically get created and assigned to different team members. This flexibility is a key benefit of Salesforce Sales Cloud. Lead management is a great feature in Salesforce Sales Cloud because if you go for enterprise and above licenses, you can define different record types. For example, if one company is into two different businesses such as real estate and car reselling, both being opposite, this can be defined in Salesforce Sales Cloud, allowing for different workflows, fields, and mechanisms that do not affect each other's operations. The predictive insight feature known as forecasting is a very old feature of Salesforce Sales Cloud, giving predictions based on your pipeline and previous opportunity closings. The new Einstein analytics feature is more advanced and is enabled with AI, providing better forecasting based on your current pipeline. Salesforce Sales Cloud is working smartly with AI to help close more deals based on opportunity stages, trends, and industries, advising on the steps to take next. Lead generation is the most important thing because every sale starts from the lead. At the lead level, different stages and resources can be defined. You can capture leads from various resources, with Salesforce Sales Cloud offering a web-to-lead feature and integrations with LinkedIn to fetch data. Once a lead is qualified and converted into opportunities, there are stages with percentages, and workflows can help in easily closing deals.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The solution facilitates Git workflow management, enabling me to handle various pull requests from team members. Additionally, I use these tools to deploy applications to different cloud providers, such as GCP and AWS, including AWS EC2 services. The automation tools also streamline testing processes for the code submitted by other developers."

"It's allowed us greater visibility into the number of touches it takes to generate a real opportunity as well as overall visibility to seller activity. We are getting better data on what messaging works when reaching out to prospects."

"Outreach is very good when engaging with sponsors to understand their expectations."

"It is a very good tool. There are a lot of interesting features. It is one of the best solutions."

"The performance is good, and it is easy to use."

"I find the forecasting the most valuable feature. It's valuable because there are two types of forecasting, customizable and collaborative forecasting."

"The type of customization that comes with Salesforce CRM gives me a lot of liberty and ease of access to add any information that I wish to add. For example, the name, email ID, designation, the name of the decision maker, when the client joined the company, and the amount of influence he will have on the product."

"Salesforce Sales Cloud is very user-friendly, and simple to create dashboards and extract the reports. Additionally, it integrates well with other applications."

"It is a very stable solution."

"Salesforce provides a lot of tools out of the box like opportunity tracking, automation, and linking between account, contact, and posting."

"Our use case within the organization covers the entire cycle from lead generation, demand planning, and opportunities to realization and closure. For our clients, Salesforce is used more to plot the cycle from products to cash and lead to revenue. They mostly build offers and pricing quotations in the Salesforce environment through their field marketing agents."

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Cons

"Reporting at the 20,000 foot level needs to be improved. I want to be able to see how many emails are opened twice vs three times vs four times."

"Improvements can be made to accommodate sponsors who are not physically available in the same state. If sponsors are open to it, meetings could be conducted on an online platform to finalize deals more effectively."

"In terms of improvements, one significant area for the product is efficiency, particularly when processing large data loads. Similar to other platforms, long recording times lead to extended processing times, which can be inconvenient for users. For instance, a previous client encountered delays due to lengthy recording times. To address this, I implemented a live transcription approach where data is transcribed in real-time, immediately sent to the AI model, and returned quickly. This optimized the process, but enhancing the platform's inherent efficiency would be beneficial."

"In the next release, I would like to see more integration."

"The areas revolving around archiving and backup in Salesforce Sales Cloud are not as advanced as some of the other solutions in the market."

"I would like to see licensing fees reduced in the next release."

"When importing from other apps, it gets messy."

"We prefer using local solutions like RD Station in Brazil due to pricing considerations."

"The solution's design could be improved."

"Auto clean for duplicate leads, accounts, and contacts needs improving."

"Its licensing can be improved to accommodate small companies. They provide a certain number of licenses in a set or batch, and you have to buy the set. For example, if they have 20 licenses in a set, you have to get the whole set, even if you need just three licenses, which could be a barrier for small companies. There is no option to buy fewer licenses. So, small companies have to go for a smaller CRM, such as HubSpot."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Outreach uses a request-based pricing model. It's pretty affordable. They offer different packages for various scenarios, depending on how you're trying to develop your platform using Outreach. I think that's a good starting point. If our organization scales up or needs more services from the tool, we'd consider upgrading."

"We must pay for the licenses."

"Price-wise, the product does not fall under the category of cheaply priced products."

"The main thing is it is costly. Salesforce it is not cheap, it's costly. Some of our customers say it is a costly solution. So, we have lost some sale opportunities regarding the high price. This is the main thing that we are facing. It is sales per user and the user price is about $150 per month, per user for the Enterprise Edition. The other edition is less than this, but it is costly. A company that has 70 or 80 users would pay more than $8,000 USD yearly because it is cloud based."

"Sales Cloud is expensive."

"The main issue is the price. Because it's SaaS, you will have to pay on a monthly or yearly basis."

"You need to pay for the license per user per month. For example, you need to pay $100 per user. If you have 200 users using your Salesforce, that would be multiplied by a hundred, that's $20,000 per month and a quarter million per year."

"Its license is expensive. It is probably a lot more than smaller solutions. It is around £500 a month, but I don't know how many licenses we have."

"The price of the Salesforce Sales Cloud is expensive. We pay monthly for the solution but we are billed quarterly."

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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Manufacturing Company

University

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	54
Midsize Enterprise	26
Large Enterprise	40

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Outreach?

Improvements can be made to accommodate sponsors who are not physically available in the same state. If sponsors are open to it, meetings could be conducted on an online platform to finalize deals ...

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What is your primary use case for Outreach?

I was the PRN Outreach lead of my club and my college. In this role, I conducted promotions and approached sponsors for my events. I was responsible for organizing multiple events and reaching out ...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Outreach?

Outreach uses a request-based pricing model. It's pretty affordable. They offer different packages for various scenarios, depending on how you're trying to develop your platform using Outreach. I t...

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What do you like most about Salesforce Sales Cloud?

The features of Sales Cloud most useful for testing and running email campaigns are highly valuable.

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What needs improvement with Salesforce Sales Cloud?

From a customer perspective, it's a very stable system, and people are used to its functionalities, good and bad. Improvement, in my opinion, would be to include AI functionality in a simpler way; ...

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What is your primary use case for Salesforce Sales Cloud?

For managing two different things, I'm managing some sales pipeline, the pipeline of sales of some products, and also doing marketing automation for after-sales.

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Overview

Outreach, the leading Sales Engagement Platform, accelerates revenue growth by optimizing every interaction throughout the customer lifecycle. The platform manages all customer interactions across email, voice and social, and leverages machine learning to guide reps to take the right actions.

Thousands of customers, including Cloudera, Glassdoor, Pandora, and Zillow, rely on Outreach to drive predictable and measurable growth, increase efficiency and effectiveness of customer-facing teams, and improve visibility into sales activity and performance.

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Salesforce Sales Cloud is a comprehensive CRM platform designed for efficient lead management, sales forecasting, and customer engagement, offering extensive customization and cloud-based accessibility.

Aimed at enhancing business efficiency, Salesforce Sales Cloud supports core business processes like CRM, lead and opportunity management, sales forecasting, and customer engagement. Its robust integration capabilities allow seamless connectivity with ERP systems and various applications. The platform offers pipeline tracking, process automation, and advanced sales cycle management. Users appreciate its cloud-based accessibility, allowing teams to operate remotely and manage sales operations effectively. However, users highlight concerns about its complexity, cost, and the need for a more intuitive interface.

What features does Salesforce Sales Cloud offer?

Customization: Tailor the CRM to meet specific business requirements.
Robust Reporting: Comprehensive analytics and data insights.
Lead Management: Efficiently manage and convert leads.
API Integration: Seamless connectivity with multiple applications.
Cloud Accessibility: Work from anywhere with cloud-based access.

What benefits should be evaluated in Salesforce Sales Cloud reviews?

Enhanced Productivity: Streamline sales processes with automation.
Improved Collaboration: Facilitate team coordination and client engagement.
Accurate Forecasting: Make informed decisions with reliable sales forecasts.
Flexibility: Accommodate diverse industry needs with ease.
Legacy System Integration: Efficiently update and integrate with existing systems.

Salesforce Sales Cloud is widely implemented across industries such as finance, healthcare, and retail, supporting sales teams in tracking and managing sales operations. Its use extends to reporting, collaboration, and enhancing client interactions, allowing companies to tailor Salesforce to meet industry-specific requirements efficiently.

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Sample Customers

cloudera, monogDB, eventbrite, DocuSign, Adobe, Microsoft, Zillow

Coca-Cola Enterprises, Kuoni Global Travel Services, Financial Times, Just Eat, Jobsite, H.R. Owen, PlayerLayer, O2, DMGT, Philips, Xtreme.ie, Business Stream, Remote Asset Management, Dialogue Group

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