HighLevel
From $97/mo
The agency operating system — CRM, funnels, and conversations in one login.
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Outbound CRM for calling and sequences
The job is outbound motion inside the CRM — calling, sequences, and a board that does not die when reps live in the inbox. Afterstack filters on the same outbound signals the CRM quiz uses. Sales engagement is a separate category when the sequencer is the product you are replacing.
20 products in this job, filtered from the CRM catalog with the same use-case signals as the quiz. Affiliate programs are not an input. Specialists stay outside the software rank.
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Inclusion criteria
A shallow job inside a live category — not a sprawling directory taxonomy. Paid placement cannot buy a row.
- CRM catalog products with an outbound use case, a calling flag, or a strong outbound-sales attribute — the quiz dimension, not a new tree.
- Incumbents whose outbound SKU is why teams stay or leave, plus substitutes that actually dial or cadence.
- Pure sequencers that are not CRMs belong in Sales engagement. We do not dump that category onto this page.
- Specialists never sit in this list.
Incumbents people leave
Start from the system you already pay for. These are not quiz winners — they are leave-candidates that still match this job.
Pipedrive
From $14/user/mo
The visual pipeline CRM salespeople actually update.
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Salesforce
From $25/user/mo
The default enterprise CRM — and the one most teams are trying to leave.
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Dynamics 365 Sales
From $65/user/mo
Microsoft’s enterprise CRM — Copilot on a platform that still feels like Dynamics.
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HubSpot
Free plan
The inbound suite that became a CRM — free to start, pricey once you grow up.
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Oracle Sales
From $25/user/mo
Enterprise CX sales cloud — accounts, quotes, and Oracle gravity.
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SugarCRM
Custom pricing
The configurable mid-market CRM that predates the AI-native wave.
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Editorial AI-native score 8+, not an incumbent, and not already owned by an incumbent in this category. A pending acquisition stays here and is labeled on the card.
A social-first CRM for founders who sell in DMs and communities.
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The AI CRM that fills the pipeline so reps do not have to.
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AI revenue orchestration — warm inbound, not another empty pipeline.
Agreement to be acquired by HubSpot (not recorded as closed).
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Listed substitutes for this job that sit outside the independent AI-native crop, including products an incumbent already owns.
Close
From $9/user/mo
The CRM built around the call, not the contact record.
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Freshsales
From $9/user/mo
Freshworks CRM with Freddy AI sitting on the pipeline.
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Salesmate
From $23/user/mo
Modern mid-market CRM — pipeline, calling, and sequences without Salesforce theater.
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Bitrix24
Free plan
Free-to-start collaboration suite with a CRM attached.
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Creatio
Custom pricing
Low-code CRM and workflow studio for mid-market process teams.
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Nutshell
From $16/user/mo
Small-business CRM plus email marketing in one lid.
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Vtiger
From $12/user/mo
Open-core CRM suite — sales, support, and marketing at a mid-market price.
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Zendesk Sell
From $19/user/mo
The sales CRM next to Zendesk Support — pipeline for the same customer record.
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Zoho CRM
Free plan
A full CRM suite at a price that makes Salesforce look theatrical.
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Bigin by Zoho
Free plan
Zoho’s small-business pipeline CRM — simple on purpose.
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High-intent jobs only, mapped to live quiz dimensions. We do not sprawl this list.
Compares
Selective pairs where both products match this job. Affiliate programs never change the order.
Replace an incumbent
Scored alternatives for incumbents that match this job.
- Replace Dynamics 365 SalesMicrosoft’s enterprise CRM — Copilot on a platform that still feels like Dynamics.
- Replace HighLevelThe agency operating system — CRM, funnels, and conversations in one login.
- Replace HubSpotThe inbound suite that became a CRM — free to start, pricey once you grow up.
- Replace Oracle SalesEnterprise CX sales cloud — accounts, quotes, and Oracle gravity.
- Replace PipedriveThe visual pipeline CRM salespeople actually update.
- Replace SalesforceThe default enterprise CRM — and the one most teams are trying to leave.
- Replace SugarCRMThe configurable mid-market CRM that predates the AI-native wave.
Questions teams actually ask
Is outbound CRM the same as sales engagement?+–
No. This page is CRMs whose daily job is outbound calling and sequences. Sequencers and AI SDRs you replace as their own stack live under Sales engagement.
How does the quiz treat outbound?+–
The CRM quiz scores outbound-sales attributes, calling, and the outbound use case. This page uses those catalog flags. Affiliates are still ignored.
Can I start the quiz on this job?+–
Yes. The CRM quiz CTA on this page prefills the outbound use case. You still answer incumbent, team, and filters.
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