Directory/Outreach
Cold outreach tools send and manage prospecting emails at scale. They handle sequencing, follow ups, personalization, reply detection, and inbox rotation across multiple sending domains. The category is sometimes called sales engagement. The goal is the same either way. Turn a list of prospects into booked meetings without burning your domain.
Deliverability features matter more than the sequence builder. Look for automatic warm up, inbox rotation, spam testing, and reply sentiment detection. Personalization at scale is next. The best tools pull in custom variables and AI written openers so every email feels individual. Check CRM sync, since activity data should flow back to your system of record. For teams doing high volume, Apollo combines contact data with built in sequencing in one platform.
Per seat pricing is standard, usually 50 to 100 dollars per month for core plans. Deliverability add ons, extra mailboxes, and verification credits cost more. Many vendors now offer free outreach plans with limited sending volume, which work for testing but rarely for production.
Sending before the infrastructure is ready. Most deliverability problems come from new domains with no warm up, missing authentication records, or lists that were never verified. Fix the foundation first. Then worry about subject lines. The directory below lists the top tools in this category so you can compare features side by side.
Prices last checked 11 Nov 2026 against each vendor's own pricing page. How we check · Missing a Outreach tool? Suggest it
Our 4 picks are listed first, then every other tool A to Z. How we pick
Outreach · Email finders and Deliverability, Dialers, Lead generation, LinkedIn
AI sales platform for B2B outbound: contact data, intent signals, multichannel sequences, deliverability, and a first-party MCP for Claude and ChatGPT.
From $600/mo
Outreach · LinkedIn
Cloud LinkedIn outreach with multi-account campaigns, a built-in CRM, a Claude copilot and an MCP server.
From $59/seat/mo
Outreach · LinkedIn and Lead generation, AI outreach
AI SDR for LinkedIn that finds buyers from your website, invites the ones showing a fresh signal from your own account and writes when they accept. Pay as you go from $20, Pro $119/mo, 14-day trial.
From $20 pay as you go
Outreach · Lead generation
AI SDR that prospects, writes outreach, answers replies and books meetings, for $39/mo plus $250 per meeting held.
From $39/mo
Outreach · Deliverability
Cold email sequencer billed on monthly sends, with unlimited contacts, inboxes and warm-up from $9.99/mo.
From $9.99/mo
Outreach · Sourcing and Email finders, AI sourcing
AI sourcing agent Sherlock searches 800M+ profiles from a brief or an ideal candidate, then reaches the shortlist by email, chat and WhatsApp.
Free plan, paid from €95/seat/mo
Outreach · Recruitment marketing
Permission based email newsletters, SMS and event registration for small teams, from $12/mo.
From $12/mo
Outreach · Sourcing and Healthcare recruiting, Job boards
Physician recruiting on the Doximity network: search 3M+ verified clinicians, message them with DocMails and post Smart Jobs.
Sales-quoted
Outreach · Email finders and Lead generation, Sourcing
AI prospect discovery and multi-channel outreach platform with ranked matching, sequences and a developer API.
From $99/mo
Outreach · LinkedIn
Runs LinkedIn connection requests, messages and InMails from HubSpot workflows, Claude or its API, with approvals on and every touch logged in HubSpot. $99/sender/mo, 14-day trial.
From $99/sender/mo
Outreach · LinkedIn and Lead generation
LinkedIn and email outreach at scale with a cloud browser per account, enrichment, AI agents, API and MCP server.
From $39/seat/mo
Outreach · LinkedIn
AI agent finds intent leads and outreaches.
From $99/user/moNew MCP Oct 19
Outreach · Lead generation
Robots write your notes in real pen and mail them, so you can send handwritten thank you and follow-up cards to clients and candidates at scale.
From $3.75/card
Outreach · LinkedIn
Multichannel outreach automation across LinkedIn, email, and more.
From €50/user/mo
Outreach · Email finders and Lead generation
Chrome prospecting finder with light outreach.
Free plan, paid from $29/mo
Outreach · Lead generation and LinkedIn, Sourcing
LinkedIn automation API with official MCP and cloud browser workflows.
From $49/user/moShipped Nov 8
Outreach · LinkedIn and Sourcing
Hosted LinkedIn MCP server with 50 tools for search, sequences and inbox work, with human review and per-account limits.
From $29/mo
Outreach · LinkedIn
Cloud LinkedIn automation for invites and message sequences, with native CRM sync and an AI commenting add-on.
From $65.95/user/mo
Outreach · Deliverability
Email marketing platform with a first-party MCP.
Free plan, paid from $10/mo
Outreach
Mail merge and email campaigns from Gmail and Google Sheets.
Free plan, paid from $5.99/user/mo
Outreach · Workflow automation
One AI-labeled inbox for every email and LinkedIn reply from Smartlead, Instantly, EmailBison and HeyReach, with client workspaces.
From $599/mo
Outreach · Lead generation and LinkedIn
LinkedIn + email + X, cheap cloud sequencer.
From $29/user/mo
Outreach · AI sourcing and AI outreach, Sourcing
AI hiring assistant that finds candidates, writes from your own mailbox and books the intro call.
Free plan, paid from €49/mo
Outreach · ATS and CRM, AI sourcing, Sourcing
AI-native recruiting platform: source 800M+ profiles, multi-channel outreach, optional ATS/CRM, plus MCP.
Free plan, paid from €49/mo
Outreach · LinkedIn
Chrome extension that automates LinkedIn invites, messages, profile visits and endorsements, with a built-in CRM.
From $9.99/account/mo
Outreach · Lead generation and CRM
Pipes Instantly, HeyReach, Clay, and EmailBison activity into HubSpot and Salesforce.
From $99/mo
Outreach · LinkedIn
Free LinkedIn outreach workspace: capture prospects from search, post engagement or CSV, run visible connection and follow-up flows, with a hosted MCP.
Free
Outreach · Lead generation and LinkedIn
Cloud automations for LinkedIn and web scraping workflows.
Free plan, paid from $69/mo
Outreach · Deliverability
Cold email campaigns, inbox warmup, deliverability monitoring and shared reply management for agencies and outbound teams.
From $100/mo
Outreach · LinkedIn and Lead generation
AI agent that watches LinkedIn for buying signals, scores each lead against your ICP, then sends paced connection requests and DMs.
From $99/account/mo
Outreach · Deliverability and Lead generation
Cold email platform with unlimited inboxes, AI warmup, an AI lead finder and a sentiment sorted unified inbox.
Free plan, paid from $30/mo
Outreach · Lead generation and Sourcing, AI sourcing
Four Slack specialists sharing one desk memory.
From $600/mo
Outreach · ATS and Dashboards & leaderboards, CRM
Agency ATS with a real API.
From $149/user/mo
Outreach · Lead generation and LinkedIn
Business development for recruitment agencies: watches 120+ job portals, finds the hiring decision maker for each new role and sends your email and LinkedIn sequence. Sold by quote.
Quote-based
Outreach · Deliverability
AI cold email tool with unlimited warmup, a unified inbox with reply agents and its own MCP server for AI agents.
From $29/mo
Outreach · Lead generation and LinkedIn
AI cold email plus LinkedIn.
From $40/mo
Outreach · LinkedIn
Cloud LinkedIn and cold email outreach with AI replies, voice notes, video messages, an API and an MCP server.
From $59/account/mo
Outreach
Cold email outreach with sequences and deliverability tools.
From $29/mo
Outreach · Lead generation and Email finders, Visitor ID
AI ABM and GTM platform bundling 20+ data sources, intent signals, visitor identification and multichannel outreach.
Sales-quoted
Outreach · Email finders and Lead generation, LinkedIn
Hiring-signal BDR for staffing firms.
Free trial, paid from $197/mo
Outreach · Workflow automation
Text expander for Chrome, Windows and Mac: type a shortcut to insert templated messages, forms and AI prompts in any app.
Free plan, paid from $2.99/mo
Outreach · Deliverability and Verification, Lead generation, LinkedIn
Cold email, warmup and LinkedIn outreach your AI agent can run over MCP, from $29/mo.
From $29/mo
Outreach · LinkedIn
Cloud LinkedIn automation with a visual workflow builder, AI lead scoring, email steps and native CRM sync.
From $49/seat/mo
Outreach · Verification and Lead generation, LinkedIn
Agency-friendly cold email.
From $26/mo
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152. Each listing records its starting price, free plan, free trial, MCP and API support the same way, so the cards can be compared line for line.
129 of the 152 list a US dollar starting price, and the median of those is about $49. Units differ by vendor (per seat, per month, per check or credit pack), so compare the unit on each card, not just the number. 14 are priced by quote, so the vendor sets the number after a call.
32 of them have a permanent free plan rather than a timed trial. 56 offer a free trial.
72 of the 152 ship a first party MCP server, and 93 publish a public API. MCP is only marked where the vendor runs the server themselves, so an agent can query the tool directly.
The tools we use ourselves are marked as picks and listed first, then everything else runs A to Z. There is no paid ranking: a sponsored slot is labelled as such and never changes a listing, its category or its position.
Counted from every published listing in this category, so the numbers move with the directory.
