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Outreach vs SalesLoft comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Outreach
Ranking in Opportunity Management
4th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
4.7
Number of Reviews
11
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
SalesLoft
Ranking in Opportunity Management
10th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
8.3
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the Opportunity Management category, the mindshare of Outreach is 3.5%, up from 2.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SalesLoft is 3.5%, up from 2.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Opportunity Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Outreach3.5%
SalesLoft3.5%
Other93.0%
Opportunity Management
 

Featured Reviews

Evelina Mungai - PeerSpot reviewer
Digital Marketing Manager at Unilever
Targeted outreach has boosted engagement and improves collaboration across the sales cycle
According to my experience, the best features Outreach offers are its helpfulness and effectiveness. It also offers a set of free trial and an intuitive, user-friendly interface. It offers sales engagement, revenue intelligence, and revenue operation functionality in a unified platform. Outreach leverages automation and artificial intelligence to help revenue leaders decrease the inefficiency and ineffectiveness of go-to-market activities and personnel across the revenue cycle. Outreach helps automate sequences and ensures consistent and timely customer engagement. I also appreciate that it provides clear analytics on opens, clicks, and replies to refine the outreach strategy. Additionally, the use of AI captures real-time meeting notes and action items, saving time and preventing missed details.
reviewer2668035 - PeerSpot reviewer
Account Executive at a tech company with 51-200 employees
Connecting directly with sales tools facilitates seamless outreach and messaging
Being able to set up the cadences in steps is very helpful, where it moves on to the next step, and also where it connects with SalesLoft Sales Navigator. So far, being able to connect directly, instead of switching back and forth to Sales Navigator, has worked well. Also, being able to send messages directly from SalesLoft through LinkedIn Sales Navigator messaging is very useful. I can do everything right from the SalesLoft page without continuously switching between SalesLoft and Sales Navigator.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Outreach has positively impacted my organization by enabling me to double the number of contacts I can engage with over calls, thereby allowing me to double my outreach effectively."
"Outreach is an essential tool for doing outbound work and speeds up my workflow significantly."
"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 also very cost-effective compared to Freshsales and other alternatives, and it has helped us achieve our marketing goals and reach out to more customers easily, improving my organization's productivity for the last five years."
"Outreach has positively impacted my organization by streamlining how we work individually and allowing us to see what others are doing."
"Outreach has impacted our organization positively because it has become a medium for us to reach out to an audience which we were not able to reach out to earlier."
"When it comes to time saved, I would say approximately half an hour of an SDR's time daily, which is quite a significant improvement, and when it comes to meetings booked, especially from cold calls, we managed to book almost two times more cold calling leads."
"SalesLoft's customer support has been really good."
 

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."
"Outreach can be improved because its AI features are not strong."
"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."
"Outreach crashed, especially when we were making cold calls. The call recordings frequently were not being recorded when they should have been, which was frustrating."
"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."
"Outreach can be improved in several ways. Every now and then, it will have sync issues, especially with voice headsets."
"Outreach can be improved as analytics sometimes feel quite rigid."
"If Outreach could connect to LinkedIn, it would enhance my experience, allowing me to view prospects' roles within organizations and their tenure while I am on calls."
"Navigating through emails and LinkedIn messages to find which ones have been opened could be improved. I can see email open rates, but identifying who actually opened them is difficult."
 

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."
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12%
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Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Outreach?
If Outreach could connect to LinkedIn, it would enhance my experience, allowing me to view prospects' roles within organizations and their tenure while I am on calls.
What is your primary use case for Outreach?
I have been using Outreach for more than six months constantly. It is a daily part of my role while reaching out to prospects, and it is one of the pages where I constantly look up to. I particular...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Outreach?
My experience with pricing, setup costs, and licensing is limited, as I am just the end user and do not manage those aspects.
What needs improvement with SalesLoft?
Navigating through emails and LinkedIn messages to find which ones have been opened could be improved. I can see email open rates, but identifying who actually opened them is difficult. Possibly ad...
What is your primary use case for SalesLoft?
Currently, I am focusing on new business, so outreach is important, and cadences are very important.
What advice do you have for others considering SalesLoft?
Be precise about your cadences and make them your own. Being able to add or remove steps within the cadences to customize them is amazing. Also, make sure to name your cadences possibly by outreach...
 

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