Breakcold alternatives
Five CRMs with outbound, ranked. SalesCrew sends cadences from your mailboxes and includes unlimited seats for $299 a month.

People leaving Breakcold usually weigh SalesCrew, folk, Attio, Close and lemlist. For a team that sends cold email and keeps adding people, SalesCrew comes first: every seat included, cadences on your own mailbox pool, and one approval queue for every AI-written send.
The short answer
- Breakcold is a multichannel CRM with one plan. The first seat is included and each extra seat or connected account is charged monthly (breakcold.com/pricing, September 2026).
- SalesCrew never charges by the seat. Core is $299 a month for the whole team, with MCP and webhooks included.
- folk and Attio price per member or per seat and put email sequences on their higher plans. Close includes calling, email and SMS on every plan.
- lemlist is the pure sequencer here, with email, LinkedIn, SMS, WhatsApp and calls in one flow.
How we ranked the field
Every fact in the table was read on the vendor's own pricing or product page in September 2026. Nothing came from review sites.
Evaluated from Breakcold's own documentation and pricing, September 2026.
Breakcold sells to founders and agencies who want the pipeline and the conversation in one place. So we scored each option on three things: what an extra person costs, whether cold email actually sends from inside the tool, and how you keep AI in check once it starts writing. A CRM that only logs messages scored below one that sends them.
Breakcold and five alternatives
Seats, sending and AI, from each vendor's own pages.
| Tool | Extra seats | Outbound sending | AI clients | Built around |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Breakcold | First seat included; each extra seat charged | Synced conversations across connected accounts | Claude, ChatGPT and MCP | A pipeline with a multichannel CRM inbox |
| SalesCrew (our product) | Unlimited on every tier | Multi-step cadences from your mailbox pool | 140+ MCP tools, each with a UI twin | Pipeline, outbound and an approval queue |
| folk | Per member | Messages per member; sequences on Premium and up | MCP on every tier | Relationship CRM for small teams |
| Attio | Per seat; Plus has a seat cap | Sequences on Pro and up | Hosted MCP server with OAuth | A flexible data model |
| Close | Per user | Calling, email and SMS on every plan | AI credits on every plan | Inside sales and phone work |
| lemlist | Per user on the multichannel plan | Email, LinkedIn, SMS, WhatsApp, calls | Enrichment agents | Multichannel sequences |
Checked on each vendor's own pricing and product pages, September 2026. Disclosure: SalesCrew is our product.
The alternatives, ranked
1. SalesCrew
Disclosure: SalesCrew is our product. Unlimited seats from $299 a month, cadences that send from your own mailboxes inside a send window, and a Data Bank with suppression enforced at audience freeze. Best for: agencies and founders who run cold outbound beside the pipeline.
Read more2. folk
A light relationship CRM priced per member, with a free trial that asks for no card and MCP on every tier. Sequences arrive on the Premium plan. Best for: small teams that sell through their network.
Read more3. Close
A per-user CRM with calling, email and SMS on every plan and AI credits each month. Best for: teams whose day is spent on the phone.
Read more4. Attio
A per-seat CRM with a free plan, a hosted MCP server and sequences from the Pro plan up. Best for: teams that want to shape their own objects and views.
Read more5. lemlist
A sequencer first, with the widest channel mix in this list, with a lead database on its paid plans. Best for: teams that keep their pipeline elsewhere and want one sequencer.
Read moreWhat to check before you switch
Count your connected accounts. Breakcold ties LinkedIn and email accounts to your plan, so list each one and who owns it. In SalesCrew, email accounts join the sender pool with their own daily caps. LinkedIn runs as a human-executed queue with a ledger of every touch.
Export your pipeline next. SalesCrew imports contacts, companies, deals, notes and tasks from any CRM's CSV export, and connecting each mailbox over IMAP backfills the last 90 days of threads on the first sync.
Finally, decide who approves AI. Every SalesCrew agent starts in review mode, so nothing an agent writes goes out until a person approves it. You can move an agent to auto later, per action class, from the Agents page.
Questions
- What is a good alternative to Breakcold for an agency?
- SalesCrew, if you run outbound for several clients. Each client gets its own instance and database, seats are unlimited, and Core is $299 a month. Cadences send from your own mailbox pool, and every AI-written send waits in one approval queue.
- How does Breakcold charge for extra users?
- Breakcold sells one plan. The first seat and a set number of connected accounts are included, and each extra seat or connected account adds a monthly charge. AI CRM actions draw on a token allowance, per breakcold.com/pricing as checked in September 2026.
- Which Breakcold alternative has email sequences built in?
- SalesCrew runs multi-step cadences from your own mailboxes, with suppression applied when the audience is frozen and checked again at send. lemlist and Close also send sequences, and folk and Attio include them on their higher plans.
- Can I bring my Breakcold data into SalesCrew?
- Yes. Export your contacts to CSV and import them into the SalesCrew Data Bank, where columns are mapped and existing contacts are matched on email. Deals and companies come across through MCP tools. Migration help is included on every tier, and a standard import completes within 7 business days.