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Freshsales vs Outreach comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 2, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

Freshsales
Ranking in Opportunity Management
10th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
8
Ranking in other categories
CRM Customer Engagement Centers (9th), CRM (23rd), Sales Force Automation (11th)
Outreach
Ranking in Opportunity Management
7th
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
5.1
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Opportunity Management category, the mindshare of Freshsales is 4.0%, down from 5.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Outreach is 3.7%, up from 1.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Opportunity Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Outreach3.7%
Freshsales4.0%
Other92.3%
Opportunity Management
 

Featured Reviews

Manojkumar Reddy - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Technology Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Automation has boosted sales efficiency and improves follow-ups across multiple customer segments
The automation runs whenever a certain trigger point is met. For example, if the person details captured indicate they are interested in proceeding further, then when we update the particular field, it automatically goes to the next person at a higher level, and then the status gets changed. There are many features including recently enabled AI that gives a brief description to the contact person about what that particular promotion is about. There are also features like auto email getting triggered and marketing emails. All of those features are part of Freshsales.
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.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Freshsales has impacted us positively; it has saved time, increased sales, and improved customer relationships."
"Freshsales is user-friendly, scalable and stable."
"One of the most valuable features is the ability to divert deals based on the potential revenue or specific market to certain sales teams."
"The solution is a low-cost CRM product compared to other CRM alternatives."
"To conclude, the productivity and automation features are the most useful."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its well-organized sales cycle, which is important to us."
"Freshsales is very simple to use, but it's fairly limited in its functionalities, and it's very cheap."
"Freshsales is user-friendly, scalable and stable."
"Outreach is very good when engaging with sponsors to understand their expectations."
"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."
"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."
"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."
 

Cons

"The solution needs to improve the user experience and leads capture."
"We can use only one domain in the basic package."
"The price of this solution could be improved as well as the reporting functionality."
"We have a problem with the time to delivery for our customers, although this is not specific to this solution. Time to delivery can be 90 days."
"The licensing costs should be based on the amount of data and number of clients that one can insert into the application."
"It lacks customizability for complex and larger use cases."
"The reporting for this solution across all their products could be improved. Currently, we have clients who export their data from Freshservices to third party solutions such Power BI to create more comprehensive reports."
"The reporting for this solution across all their products could be improved."
"Outreach can be improved as analytics sometimes feel quite rigid."
"Reporting at the 20,000 foot level needs to be improved."
"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."
"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."
"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."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Freshsales is an economical product."
"The tool is not that expensive."
"The price for this solution is good in general, but in Brazil we do pay additional taxes."
"The basic price is affordable. The add ons are expensive."
"If one is a very low price and ten is expensive, I rate the product price as a three."
"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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11%
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11%
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Company Size

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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business6
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise1
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Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Freshsales?
The licensing costs should be based on the amount of data and number of clients that one can insert into the application. The number of clients in the tool is 500, which is less in number.
What is your primary use case for Freshsales?
I use the solution in my company since we are interested in the application and all the activities that salespeople do. We track the email, then the appointment, and the feedback from the appointme...
What advice do you have for others considering Freshsales?
I can tell others that it is a good product and it is perfect for medium and large-sized companies because the setup phase is fast, and you don't need to do many customizations apart from the confi...
What needs improvement with Outreach?
Outreach can be improved as analytics sometimes feel quite rigid. Customizing reports is quite difficult, and we often rely on other tools for reporting. The features of Outreach mobile app are sti...
What is your primary use case for Outreach?
Outreach helps set up sequences and track activities such as notices and whether customers read email messages. It integrates with our CRM, which is Salesforce, and tracks contact name and informat...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Outreach?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that the price is very affordable and the setup was easy. The customer support has always been supportive in case we have any questions.
 

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