At a glance
Ahoy details are based on publicly available information as of September 2026. Always verify current details on their website.
Feature by feature
Read as of September 2026 from both products’ own documentation, line by line. A dash means we could not find it published, which is not the same as it being absent.
The record
A CRM that fills itself in
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Sends from your own mailbox
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Runs on top of an existing CRM
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Payments and revenue on the contact
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Product usage signals on the contact
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Built on Google Workspace
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The autonomy layer
Decides who to act on, contact by contact
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A decision log in plain English, with the reason
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Autonomy you can dial down
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Buying intent scoring
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Replies read, classified and routed
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Calls and meetings recorded and summarised
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Commercials
Free plan with no end date
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Priced per seat
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Pricing, side by side
Outsales
- Manual: free forever, one seat, 2,000 contacts and 300 emails a month
- Autonomous: $99 a month with 200 credits, around 45 to 50 contacts run end to end
- No per-seat fee: adding people does not change the price
- Every product and every integration included in both plans
- 50 AI credits once, with no card, to test the autonomous half
Ahoy
- Starter: $79 per seat a month on annual billing, or $99 monthly
- Pro: $165 per seat a month on annual billing
- Growth: custom contract
- AI included on every plan with no additional fees
- One-click import from HubSpot, Salesforce and Attio
Ahoy pricing as published on their own pricing page in September 2026. Plans change, so check it before you decide.
What switching from Ahoy takes
Ahoy is a CRM replacement with import tooling, and this product syncs with the CRMs you already have. Moving between the two is mostly a question of which one you want to be the record.
Effort: Low
Contacts, companies and deals
ImportsCSV export, with custom fields kept
Email and calendar
ImportsReconnect Gmail or Outlook; the timeline refills
Agent briefs and drafts
RebuildWorkers here write and send rather than prepare for approval
Outbound sequences
RebuildSequences are part of this product; build them once
Outsales vs Ahoy in depth
Best fit
Ahoy suits a team living inside Google Workspace that wants a CRM which records itself and hands the rep prepared work. Outsales suits a team that wants the work done rather than prepared, and that needs outbound in the same system.
How the pricing behaves
Ahoy charges per seat and includes the AI at no extra cost, which is clean and predictable. Outsales charges credits with no per-seat component, so a team of six pays the same as a team of one.
Prepared versus done
Ahoy assembles the meeting brief and drafts the follow-up for approval. Here the default is the opposite: the system sends and tells you why, and you can narrow it to approval on everything if you would rather review first.
Where the signals come from
Ahoy watches the pipeline and market signals. This watches your own email, billing, support and product usage, which covers fewer companies and knows much more about each.
Outbound
Sequence sending, daily caps and suppression are not documented for Ahoy. If part of your motion is cold or semi-cold email, that is the row that decides the comparison.
Where Ahoy is the better answer
If you want a CRM native to Google Workspace with agents that prepare rather than act, and per-seat pricing with AI included, Ahoy is built for that.
What Outsales does
- An Orchestrator reads what came in and decides which worker or skill should run, without a workflow builder
- Every decision it takes is written down in plain English, with the reason, so you can read its work before you trust it
- AI Workers that do a job end to end: follow-ups written and sent, meetings joined and summarised, a Slack message to you when a client writes
- Skills the Orchestrator can reach for: score buy intent, enrich a lead, update the CRM, mark a company lost or customer, ask you when it is unsure
- Lead scoring from 0 to 100 on your own signals: email, Stripe, Intercom, calendar and product usage, with deterministic floors so the number is a policy, not a guess
- Outbound, AI follow-up, lead scoring and an AI writer in one place, sharing one contact record
- Runs on top of Pipedrive, HubSpot, Salesforce or ActiveCampaign, or as your CRM if you do not have one
- Sends from your own inbox (Gmail, Outlook, SendGrid, Resend, SMTP) with daily caps, and stops the sequence the moment someone replies
- Every email written from scratch for the person receiving it, under the brand rules you write in plain English, and never sent with a placeholder still in it
- You set how far each worker can go: full autonomy, approval on the ones that matter, or approval on everything
- Priced on credits, not licences: the CRM, inbox sync and sequences are free forever, and $99/month covers around 45 to 50 contacts run end to end by the AI, with no per-seat fees
Where Ahoy is strong
- Deep Google Workspace sync: contacts and deals populate from Gmail and Calendar without entry
- Meeting briefs prepared in advance, and follow-up drafts written with the conversation as context
- SOC 2 Type I and II and HIPAA compliance, which matters for regulated teams
Best for: Google Workspace teams that want contacts and deals to sync themselves, with briefs before meetings.
The main difference
Ahoy is priced per seat, so the bill grows with headcount. Outsales is credit based, so it grows with work done. On capability the split is scope: Ahoy drafts the follow-up for you to send, while Outsales decides when it is due, writes it, sends it from your inbox and stops the sequence when a reply lands, with the reasoning written down either way.
Choose Outsales if…
- You want one autonomous system for outbound, follow-up, CRM and intent
- You'd rather pay for the work done than for seats and add-ons
- You want to keep your CRM and send from your own inbox
Choose Ahoy if…
Google Workspace teams that want contacts and deals to sync themselves, with briefs before meetings.
Trusted by salespeople who work at these companies
The system
Not a bundle of tools. One machine.
An Orchestrator reads what came in and decides who should act. Workers do a job from start to finish. Skills are what they reach for on the way. Everything writes to the same contact record, so what one of them learns the rest already know.
The Orchestrator
Every email, payment, chat and meeting goes through it. It decides which worker or skill should run, and writes down why, in plain English. There is no workflow builder to maintain.
Follow-up Worker
Reads the thread, works out when the next one is due, writes it and sends it from your inbox.
Meeting Notetaker
Joins Meet, Zoom and Teams. Records, transcribes and writes the summary onto the contact.
Personal Assistant
Messages you on Slack when a client writes. Reply, translate or archive without leaving it.
Seven skills
Where you work
Cold Email Software
Every message written from scratch for the person receiving it, then sent from your own inbox with daily caps and reply detection.
Sales Follow-up Software
Keep the CRM you have, or run without one. It decides when the next follow-up is due, writes it, and stops the second someone replies.
AI CRM
Contacts, notes and stages kept current by the workers, with every decision written down so you can read its work before you trust it.
Lead Scoring
Every contact scored 0 to 100 from your own emails, payments, chats and meetings, with the reason behind every move.
AI Email Writer
Teach it your brand, your products and the phrases you never want used. Nothing leaves with a placeholder still in it.
Switch one worker on
Connect what you already use and read what it decided by Friday. Start free, no credit card.