At a glance
Alta HQ 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
CRM record for contacts, companies and deals
Outsales
Alta HQ
Sends from your own mailbox
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Alta HQ
Runs on top of an existing CRM
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Alta HQ
Payments and revenue on the contact
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Alta HQ
Product usage signals on the contact
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Alta HQ
Reaching people
Built-in contact data
Outsales
Alta HQ
Multichannel orchestration
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Alta HQ
AI phone agent for inbound
Outsales
Alta HQ
Meeting booking by the agent
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Alta HQ
Every email written for the person receiving it
Outsales
Alta HQ
The autonomy layer
Decides who to act on, contact by contact
Outsales
Alta HQ
A decision log in plain English, with the reason
Outsales
Alta HQ
Autonomy you can dial down
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Alta HQ
Buying intent scoring
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Alta HQ
Replies read, classified and routed
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Alta HQ
Calls and meetings recorded and summarised
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Alta HQ
Commercials
Free plan with no end date
Outsales
Alta HQ
Published pricing
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Alta HQ
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
Alta HQ
- Not published: a quote is generated from a form about team size and use case
- Priced to scale with the team and with usage
- White-glove onboarding included in the agreement
- No free plan or public trial documented
Alta HQ pricing as published on their own pricing page in September 2026. Plans change, so check it before you decide.
What switching from Alta HQ takes
Alta is bought as a set of agents for motions you do not staff, so the question is which motions you keep. Contacts and mailboxes move; the phone agent and the external data sources do not.
Effort: Medium
Contacts and lists
ImportsCSV export, or the shared CRM if both are connected
Mailboxes
ImportsReconnect Gmail or Outlook; caps and windows are set once
Sequences
RebuildSteps recreate quickly; copy is written per contact here
Inbound call qualification
RebuildNo voice agent is documented here
External data sources
RebuildSignals here come from your own email, billing and product data
Outsales vs Alta HQ in depth
Best fit
Alta suits a team that wants three motions covered at once: outbound prospecting, inbound qualification by phone and account growth, all from external signals. Outsales suits a team that wants one thing done properly on the relationships it already has.
How the pricing behaves
Alta quotes from a form and scales with team size and usage, so the number arrives after a conversation. Outsales publishes both plans, starts free and charges credits rather than seats.
Signals from outside or inside
Alta reads 50 sources: intent data, job postings, news, product usage. This reads a much smaller set that you own outright, which makes the score harder to argue with and the action easier to justify.
Inbound by phone
Alex answers and qualifies calls. Nothing here does that, and a team whose inbound arrives by phone should weigh that heavily rather than take the rest of this table at face value.
What you can audit
A plain-English decision log and graduated approval settings are not documented for Alta. Both are core here, which is what lets a team widen autonomy over time instead of quietly switching it off.
Where Alta is the better answer
If you need outbound, inbound phone qualification and account expansion covered by agents, and you are buying outcomes rather than software, Alta is designed 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 Alta HQ is strong
- Multiple coordinated agents (SDR, calling/inbound, intelligence)
- AI voice calling and inbound qualification
- Revenue-intelligence and pipeline monitoring layer
Best for: Teams wanting a suite of GTM agents, including AI voice/calling and revenue intelligence.
The main difference
Alta offers a suite of GTM agents spanning outbound, AI calling and revenue intelligence. Outsales is an all-in-one autonomous platform centered on email outbound, follow-up, autonomous CRM and buy intent, running on top of your CRM and inbox on credits, $99/month for around 45 to 50 contacts.
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 Alta HQ if…
Teams wanting a suite of GTM agents, including AI voice/calling and revenue intelligence.
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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.