What is a cheaper alternative to Salesloft for a small team?

SalesCrew publishes one price per instance with unlimited seats: Core is $299 a month. Cadences send from your own mailboxes, and replies land in a shared inbox beside the pipeline. Close, Apollo, Instantly and Smartlead also publish their prices.

Does Salesloft publish its pricing?

No. As of September 2026, salesloft.com/pricing asks you to talk to sales and lists no plan prices. Salesloft is now part of Clari, and its suite covers Cadence, conversation intelligence, deals and forecasting.

Which Salesloft alternative works for an agency running several clients?

SalesCrew gives each client its own instance and its own database, with full export on churn. The Agency tier at $1,200 a month adds marketplaces, data sources, the marketing module and all agents.

What comes across when I leave Salesloft?

Contacts, companies, deals, notes and tasks come across from a CSV export. Email history arrives when you connect each mailbox over IMAP, which backfills the last 90 days on the first sync. Migration help is included on every tier, and a standard import completes within 7 business days.

Salesloft alternatives for small teams

Five tools you can price without a sales call. SalesCrew runs cadences, inbox and pipeline in one database for $299 a month.

app.salescrew.io/deals

Pipeline with weighted forecast and stage breakdown

Small teams moving off Salesloft usually shortlist SalesCrew, Close, Apollo, Instantly and Smartlead. SalesCrew leads for a team that wants cadences and the pipeline together: $299 a month on the website, no seat count, and replies that land next to the deal they belong to.

The short answer

Salesloft, now part of Clari, sells Cadence, conversation intelligence, deals and forecasting, with pricing through its sales team (salesloft.com, September 2026).
SalesCrew publishes its price and includes unlimited seats. Core is $299 a month with cadences, the inbox, the Data Bank and the MCP server.
Instantly and Smartlead both include unlimited email accounts and set plan limits by sending volume, which suits cold email at scale.
Close and Apollo price per user, with calling built into Close and a contact database at the heart of Apollo.

How we ranked the field

We read each vendor's own pricing and product pages in September 2026. Nothing came from review sites or comparison directories.

Evaluated from Salesloft's own documentation and pricing, September 2026.

Two tests sorted the field. Can a small team see the price and start today? And does the tool keep sending and the pipeline in one place, or leave you syncing two systems? Tools that did both ranked highest. After that, billing decided ties: a price that stays flat as you hire beat one that climbs with every rep.

Salesloft and five alternatives

Pricing and scope, from each vendor's own pages.

Tool	Price on the website	Billing unit	Built around
Salesloft	Through its sales team	Quoted by sales	Cadence, conversation intelligence, deals and forecasting
SalesCrew (our product)	Yes	One price per instance, unlimited seats	Cadences, a shared inbox, the pipeline and an approval queue
Close	Yes	Per user, plus usage for calls	Calling, email and SMS in one CRM
Apollo	Yes, with a free plan	Per user, with credits	A contact database with sequencing
Instantly	Yes; top tiers by quote	Tiered plans by sends and contacts	Cold email across unlimited email accounts, plus a separate CRM product
Smartlead	Yes	By contacts and monthly sends	Cold email across unlimited email accounts

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. One published price, unlimited seats from $299 a month, and cadences that send from your own mailbox pool with per-mailbox and per-domain daily caps. Best for: small teams and agencies that want engagement and CRM in one database.

2. Close

Per-user plans with calling, email and SMS included, and a free trial with no card. Best for: small teams that sell by phone.

3. Apollo

Per-user plans with credits, a free plan, and sequences and a dialer that open up as you move up the plans. Best for: teams that need contact data first.

4. Instantly

Cold email across unlimited email accounts, with plan limits set by monthly sends and contacts and a CRM sold as its own product. Best for: senders running many inboxes.

5. Smartlead

Pricing by contacts and monthly sends with unlimited email accounts and no long-term contract. Best for: agencies sending volume for several clients.

What to check before you switch

Export your cadences as a written list before you leave. Salesloft's Cadence steps, delays and templates are the pieces you'll rebuild, and each one becomes a step in a SalesCrew cadence.

Next, bring your records. SalesCrew imports contacts, companies, deals, notes and tasks from a CSV export, matching existing contacts on email and never overwriting them. Connect your reps' mailboxes over IMAP and the first sync pulls in 90 days of threads.

Then set your send rules. Freeze each audience so suppression applies at that moment, set a business-hours send window, and keep every AI-drafted email in review until you trust it.

Questions

What is a cheaper alternative to Salesloft for a small team?: SalesCrew publishes one price per instance with unlimited seats: Core is $299 a month. Cadences send from your own mailboxes, and replies land in a shared inbox beside the pipeline. Close, Apollo, Instantly and Smartlead also publish their prices.
Does Salesloft publish its pricing?: No. As of September 2026, salesloft.com/pricing asks you to talk to sales and lists no plan prices. Salesloft is now part of Clari, and its suite covers Cadence, conversation intelligence, deals and forecasting.
Which Salesloft alternative works for an agency running several clients?: SalesCrew gives each client its own instance and its own database, with full export on churn. The Agency tier at $1,200 a month adds marketplaces, data sources, the marketing module and all agents.
What comes across when I leave Salesloft?: Contacts, companies, deals, notes and tasks come across from a CSV export. Email history arrives when you connect each mailbox over IMAP, which backfills the last 90 days on the first sync. Migration help is included on every tier, and a standard import completes within 7 business days.