At a glance
Woodpecker 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
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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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Sending
Multi-step sequences
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Warm-up and verification included
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Inbox rotation across mailboxes
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Every email written for the person receiving it
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Agency panel for client accounts
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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
Woodpecker
- Priced per contacted prospect, from around $7 per 100 contacts
- Unlimited team members, email accounts and email verification included
- Free warm-up included, with extra warm-ups sold per mailbox
- LinkedIn outreach, lead credits and domains as paid add-ons
- Agency panel priced per active client; 14-day trial, no free plan
Woodpecker pricing as published on their own pricing page in September 2026. Plans change, so check it before you decide.
What switching from Woodpecker takes
Woodpecker is a sending tool with a deliberately small surface, so there is little to port: a list, a mailbox and the copy. What does not come with you is the warm-up and the multi-mailbox rotation.
Effort: Low
Prospects
ImportsCSV export, with extra columns kept as custom fields
Mailboxes
ImportsReconnect Gmail or Outlook; caps and send windows are set once
Campaigns
RebuildSteps and timing recreate quickly; copy is written per contact here
Warm-up and rotation
RebuildNot part of this product, so a rotating setup stays in Woodpecker
Agency client panel
RebuildNo white-label client layer documented here
Outsales vs Woodpecker in depth
Best fit
Woodpecker is for teams and agencies that want cold email done simply and safely, with warm-up and verification included rather than sold as extras. Outsales is for the work that starts once somebody answers, and for the contacts you already have rather than the ones you are still contacting for the first time.
How the pricing behaves
Woodpecker charges by contacted prospects with unlimited seats and mailboxes, which is honest and predictable for a sending tool. Outsales charges by contacts run end to end by the AI, with the manual half free forever, which prices depth rather than reach.
Deliverability included
Free warm-up and unlimited verification, catch-all included, is a real advantage and cheaper than buying those separately. There is no equivalent here: an established address is protected by caps, a send window and suppression, and a cold domain needs warming elsewhere.
What happens to a reply
Woodpecker detects the reply and stops the campaign, which is the correct minimum. Here the reply is classified, stops the sequence for the whole company, and lands on a record that already holds meetings, payments and product usage.
Small surface as a feature
Woodpecker is deliberately narrow and that is why people like it. This product is narrow in a different direction: it does not try to be your sending infrastructure, it tries to be the thing that decides and writes.
Where Woodpecker is the better answer
If you want cold email with warm-up and verification in the price, unlimited mailboxes and an agency panel for clients, Woodpecker 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 Woodpecker is strong
- Multi-step cold-email sequences with automated follow-ups
- Warmup, A/B testing and a spam-word checker
- Agency panel with white-label options
Best for: Teams and agencies running straightforward cold-email sequences with solid deliverability.
The main difference
Woodpecker focuses on cold-email automation and deliverability. Outsales is a broader autonomous platform that also handles follow-up, intent scoring and CRM. Different scope: a cold-email tool vs an end-to-end system.
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 Woodpecker if…
Teams and agencies running straightforward cold-email sequences with solid deliverability.
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.