At a glance
Zero CRM 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
Outsales
Zero CRM
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-in contact database
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The autonomy layer
Decides who to act on, contact by contact
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Zero CRM
A decision log in plain English, with the reason
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Zero CRM
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
Zero CRM
- Pro: $77 per seat a month on an annual commitment, 500 credits per seat
- Scale: custom, from ten seats, with SSO and white-glove migration
- Credits price the data: a verified email is one, a phone number is ten
- Extra credits at around $0.06 each
- 14-day trial with 2,000 credits and no card; no free plan
Zero CRM pricing as published on their own pricing page in September 2026. Plans change, so check it before you decide.
What switching from Zero CRM takes
Of everything on this site, Zero is the closest neighbour: same signals, same instinct about a CRM that maintains itself. The move is less about data than about which system you want owning the stack.
Effort: Medium
Contacts, companies and deals
ImportsCSV export, with custom fields kept
Email and calendar
ImportsReconnect Gmail or Outlook; the timeline refills
Stripe, Intercom and product signals
ImportsBoth read the same sources, so reconnecting restores them
Sequences
RebuildSteps recreate quickly; copy is written per contact here
Lead database lists
RebuildNo 350M database here: lists come from your own sources or credits
Outsales vs Zero CRM in depth
Best fit
Zero suits a team replacing a whole stack in one decision: CRM, prospecting database and outbound in a single seat-priced product. Outsales suits a team that wants the autonomous half without giving up the CRM it already runs, since it works on top of HubSpot, Pipedrive, Salesforce or ActiveCampaign.
How the pricing behaves
Zero charges per seat plus credits, so a growing team pays twice: once for people and once for data. Outsales charges credits only, so headcount never moves the bill, and the manual half stays free.
The same signals, honestly
This is the one comparison where the signal sets genuinely overlap: Stripe, Intercom, product usage and the email timeline are read by both. Anyone claiming otherwise has not looked. The difference is what happens with them.
Where the difference actually is
Zero leans on a built-in database and AI properties about the market. This leans on the decision layer: a plain-English log of what was decided and why, and autonomy you can set from full to approval on everything.
Replace or sit on top
Zero is designed to be the system of record. This runs either way, which matters when a CRM migration is not a decision the team wants to make this quarter.
Where Zero is the better answer
If you want one product to replace the CRM, the database and the sequencer at once, and per-seat pricing is acceptable, Zero is a serious and well-built answer.
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 Zero CRM is strong
- Positions as a single system from first touch to expansion, rather than a point tool
- AI agents that research leads and draft messaging in the user's own style
- Signal monitoring on job changes, funding rounds and product usage
Best for: High-growth teams consolidating several go-to-market tools into one system.
The main difference
Zero CRM and Outsales are both consolidation plays: one system instead of five. The difference is where the intelligence sits. In Outsales an Orchestrator makes the call on every contact and records the reason, and you set how far each worker may go before it has to ask you.
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 Zero CRM if…
High-growth teams consolidating several go-to-market tools into one system.
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.