Sales outsourcing: companies, pricing and how to choose
Updated 24 September 2026 // by Mark Glazer, ReplyLead // what transfers well, what does not, and what it should cost
- 12sales outsourcing companies compared, ReplyLead first
- 5sales outsourcing models, side by side
- $2,023a month and up: ReplyLead infrastructure, plus revenue share
- 7of the other 11 print no exact price
The short answer: Our #1 pick for outsourcing the top of the funnel is ReplyLead, which runs cold email and LinkedIn outbound, books qualified meetings onto your calendar and ties part of its fee to closed revenue, from $2,023 a month in infrastructure; your team keeps the close. Of the other 11 companies compared below, four print an exact price: SalesRoads $11,950 per four weeks for one dedicated SDR, Belkins from $5,000 (billing period not stated), Callbox an estimated $16,000 to $32,000 a month for one pod, and CIENCE $7,499 for the first month. Rent A Sales Rep says 'a few thousand dollars per month' for its main programs, and the rest quote privately. Sales Service, Rent A Sales Rep, Sales Focus Inc, MarketStar, Martal Group's upper tiers and memoryBlue's sales teams can also close deals for you.
Sales outsourcing is contracting an outside firm to run part of your sales motion. In B2B that means one of five things: outsourced SDR / sales development (an external team opens conversations and books meetings), inside sales outsourcing (remote reps work your inbound and mid-funnel), full-cycle outsourcing (the vendor sells and closes under your brand), outsourced sales management (leadership without the headcount), or done-for-you outbound - the model ReplyLead operates, where the entire cold-email machine is built and run for you and qualified meetings land on your calendar.
The pattern that holds across all five: top-of-funnel work transfers well; closing transfers badly. Prospecting, sending infrastructure, qualification and booking are systems an outside team can run at least as well as you can. The final yes usually still needs someone who owns the product.
What to plan against: across 115 outbound campaigns and 429,763 sends (April to August 2026), the median campaign with at least 500 contacted leads recorded replies from 2.12% of them, automatic replies included; the middle half landed between 1.38% and 2.97%. A reply or meeting figure a provider quotes only means something against a denominator like this one. Full benchmark and method.
ReplyLead publishes this comparison and sells one of the services on it (done-for-you outbound). Every other company is summarised from its own site on 24 September 2026, with verbatim lines in quotation marks; we did not buy or test these services.
Where to draw the handoff line
Seven stages of a B2B sale. The first five are process work an outside team can run; for a considered sale, keep the last two with people who own the product.
Transfers well to an outside team
- List and data01
- Sending infrastructure02
- Outreach03
- Replies and qualification04
- Meeting booking05
Keep in-house for a considered sale
- Discovery06
- Negotiation and close07
What sales outsourcing actually covers
"Outsource sales" hides a scope question that decides everything downstream, and it is where every B2B sales outsourcing conversation should start: which part of the sales motion changes hands? A sales process is really three jobs - creating conversations (prospecting and outreach), progressing them (discovery, qualification, mid-funnel work) and closing them (negotiation and signature). Vendors package those jobs differently, and most bad outsourcing outcomes trace back to buying a package whose scope did not match the problem: hiring meeting-bookers when the real gap was closing skill, or handing a complex product's close to reps who learned it two weeks ago.
The reliable rule from running outbound for client programmes: the further a job sits from product expertise, the better it outsources. List building, sending infrastructure, sequencing and reply triage are process-and-infrastructure problems - an outside specialist runs them with more discipline than most internal teams, because it is all they do. Discovery outsources tolerably. Closing a considered B2B sale rarely does, and the vendors who claim otherwise are usually describing transactional products.
What you are actually buying, drawnList
Who gets contacted - defined, built and verified per campaign.
Infrastructure
Domains and mailboxes, warmed and volume-managed so mail lands.
Copy and cadence
Sequences written, tested and stopped on schedule.
Reply handling
A human reads every answer and qualifies real interest.
Meetings
Qualified conversations on your calendar - where the machine hands off to you.
The five models, side by side
| Model | What the vendor runs | You keep | Fits best when |
|---|---|---|---|
| Done-for-you outbound (ReplyLead's lane) | The whole outbound machine: list, domains and mailboxes, copy, cold email and LinkedIn outreach, reply handling, booking | Every conversation from the booked meeting onward | You want pipeline as a system, priced on results rather than effort |
| Outsourced sales development / outsourced SDR | Prospecting, outreach, qualification, meeting booking | Discovery onward - every deal is closed by your team | You can close but cannot feed the calendar |
| Inside sales outsourcing | Remote reps working inbound leads and mid-funnel motion, often with quota | Strategy, pricing, usually the largest accounts | Lead flow exists; working it is the bottleneck |
| Full-cycle / sales as a service | Prospect to signature under your brand | Product and fulfilment | Transactional deal sizes, simple products, new-market entry |
| Outsourced sales management | Leadership: process, coaching, pipeline discipline over your reps | The reps themselves | Founder-led sales needs structure before headcount |
Which sales outsourcing model fits you?
Five questions, scored against the "fits best when" column above. The result names the model and what stays with your team; it is a starting point for scoping, not a quote.
Answer every question to see the best fit.
The first and last rows overlap and differ in one structural way. A classic outsourced SDR engagement rents you people - an outsourced sales team whose hours you pay for while they use whatever tools the contract includes. Done-for-you outbound sells you a system: the sending infrastructure, the list engine, the copy and the reply desk are the product, and the human effort is priced into the outcome. Which framing a vendor uses tells you a lot about what they actually optimise. And if what you are really shopping for is pipeline rather than a sales function, the buying guide across all provider types is lead generation services.
Sales outsourcing companies compared
Twelve companies that sell sales outsourcing, ReplyLead first. The first seven mainly book meetings for your team to close (memoryBlue's sales teams can also take the full cycle); the last five can also close deals for you, on some packages. Each is summarised from its own site on 24 September 2026; lines in quotation marks are verbatim, and a missing price means the pages checked publish none.
1. ReplyLead
- What it runsDone-for-you outbound: lists, sending infrastructure, copy, outreach, reply handling and meeting booking
- ChannelsCold email and LinkedIn
- Who closesYour team: ReplyLead books qualified meetings onto your calendar
- PriceInfrastructure from $2,023 a month plus an agreed share of attributable closed revenue
- Best forCompanies with a team that can close, that want the top of the funnel run as a system and priced partly on what closes.
- Watch forThe infrastructure amount remains in a month where nothing closes; no revenue share is owed for it.
2. SalesRoads
- What it runs"That's why we build fit-to-purpose, 100% outsourced sales development teams, designed to serve your specific goals."
- ChannelsPersonalized email prospecting and outbound calling
- Who closesYour team: "We'll create opportunities; your sales team closes deals."
- Price"at the base price of $11,950 per 4-week period", for one dedicated SDR; $16,750 per four weeks for two
- Best forTeams that want a dedicated SDR working email and calls on a four-week billing cycle, and will consider the 12-week go-to-market lab it recommends first.
- Watch forFour-week billing means 13 billing periods a year, and it says "we recommend experiencing the full 12-week go-to-market lab" before making any decisions.
3. Belkins
- What it runsAppointment setting and SDR services: "We find, verify, and warm up your prospects to deliver 20 monthly meetings that are worth your time."
- ChannelsEmail, LinkedIn and cold calling
- Who closesYour team: "All that's left for you to do is attend booked appointments, run sales negotiations, and sign new deals."
- Price"The average starter price: from $5,000", with no billing period printed beside it (its structured data gives 8000 for the same plan); its pricing page describes monthly retainer packages
- Best forTeams buying a fixed monthly meeting target across email, LinkedIn and calling, on a monthly retainer.
- Watch forTiming: "Typically, the first meetings are booked within the first 30-45 days". Rep location varies: "North America-based for industries where local presence matters, European talent for clients who need the same quality at a lower cost."
4. Callbox
- What it runs"A full-service B2B lead generation agency combining AI-powered outreach with dedicated SDR teams"
- Channels"Multi-channel execution (phone, email, LinkedIn, web retargeting)"
- Who closesYour team: "Your pipeline fills with sales-ready leads and confirmed appointments. Your team closes the deals."
- PriceAn estimated $16,000 to $32,000 a month for one pod; "Each pod includes 1 dedicated SDR"
- Best forCompanies that want multi-channel prospecting from one pod with a dedicated SDR, and accept a price that is not tied to outcomes.
- Watch forPricing is not tied to results: "the cost of our services is pre-agreed upon and is not based on performance outcomes."
5. CIENCE
- What it runs"CIENCE runs SDR outsourcing with trained SDRs, AI-supported research, multi-channel outreach, and appointment setting on graph8."
- ChannelsEmail, social, phone and LinkedIn
- Who closesYour team: "the handoff is a booked, qualified meeting on your calendar"
- Price"$7,499 First month, all in": $5,000 setup, $2,000 a month strategic team and $499 a month platform; optional SDRs, SDR commission and a per-meeting fee are extra
- Best forTeams that want SDR outsourcing with itemized prices and will scope SDR levels and the per-meeting fee on top of the core package.
- Watch forSDR levels run from $1,500 (Level 1, offshore) to $6,500 (Level 3, US) with no billing period printed, plus "SDR onboarding and recruitment $1,000 one-time per SDR"; its homepage separately says "From $5,600 per month".
6. SalesHive
- What it runs"SalesHive runs your entire top of funnel: prospecting, cold calling, personalized email, and appointment setting, with US-based SDRs on the AI platform we built."
- ChannelsPhone only, or phone plus email
- Who closesYour team: "Qualified meetings land on your calendar. Your closers do what only they can do."
- Price"Plans are custom quoted." "Annual plans run at a lower monthly rate than month to month."
- Best forCompanies that want calling-led top of funnel from US-based SDRs without a long-term contract.
- Watch for"No setup fees. No long-term contracts. Cancel anytime with written notice." Its pricing FAQ adds that once outreach has started, "all outreach and billing will end at the end of your next billing month".
7. memoryBlue
- What it runs"memoryBlue provides ready-to-go sales teams that plug directly into your go-to-market strategy."
- ChannelsPhone, email and LinkedIn: "cold outreach, lead qualification, appointment setting and account-based prospecting across phone, email and LinkedIn"
- Who closesYour team on SDR programs: "Our SDRs qualify prospects based on your criteria before booking meetings directly with your sales team." Its sales teams can also close: its sales page lists "The ability to take on the full sales cycle or any part of it".
- PriceQuote only: "Pricing varies depending on team size, program scope, outbound volume and target markets."
- Best forB2B technology and professional services companies that want an SDR program, or a team that can take the full cycle.
- Watch for"memoryBlue specializes in outsourced sales development for B2B technology and professional services companies"; no contract terms are published on the pages checked.
8. Martal Group
- What it runsLead generation through to an outsourced sales team, in three tiers
- Channels"Outbound outreach (emails, LinkedIn & calls)"
- Who closesMartal on Tiers 2 and 3: "facilitate closing process, negotiate with prospects and onboard new clients"; Tier 1: "Get qualified leads delivered to your CRM."
- PriceA flat fee per month, plus sales commission on the upper tiers; "Inquire about pricing"
- Best forCompanies that want an outsourced sales team that helps close on the upper tiers, and accept a 3- or 4-month pilot first.
- Watch forEach outbound tier starts with a pilot: 3 months on the flat-fee tier and 4 months on the commission tiers, then a monthly subscription.
9. MarketStar
- What it runs"We provide high-impact B2B sales, partner, and success teams that are trained on your product, aligned to your goals, and accountable for growth"
- Channels"outbound calls, email, LinkedIn, and intent-based outreach"
- Who closesDepends on the model: engagement models run from SDR/BDR teams to account executives, channel managers and full-cycle sales
- PriceQuote only: "Our pricing flexes with your needs based on scope, team size, region, and services like SDRs, AEs, or SEs."
- Best forB2B tech and SaaS companies buying a sales, partner or customer-success team, from SDR/BDR teams up to full-cycle sales.
- Watch for"MarketStar is purpose-built for B2B tech and SaaS companies that demand more than basic lead generation." Launch: "we can launch a dedicated team in as little as 30-45 days".
10. Sales Focus Inc
- What it runs"We handle some or all of the sales activities for our client. We become an extension of their business."
- ChannelsInside (remote) and outside (in-person) sales reps
- Who closesSales Focus, on its Standard and Premium packages: "We build the funnel and close the deals."
- PriceQuote only: "Typically, there is a monthly fee plus a commission structure to incentivize the sales agents"
- Best forCompanies that want a built sales team that closes, with the option to acquire that team after 12 months.
- Watch forA minimum commitment of typically 90 to 180 days, and its FAQ rules out commission-only and pay-for-performance pricing. "You also have the option of acquiring the sales team we built for you after 12 months with us".
11. Rent A Sales Rep
- What it runs"We are a nationwide B2B contract sales company helping IT, software, health tech and other B2B/B2C companies generate qualified meetings and close sales."
- ChannelsIn person and by phone: "We can also close sales in person or over the phone."
- Who closesRent A Sales Rep can: "We perform the face to face visit, present the solution or product and close the sale on your behalf."
- Price"Our compensation always includes a base monthly fee along with a potential commission schedule if we are closing sales for you."
- Best forCompanies that need in-person or phone closing and can prepay a minimum 4-month program.
- Watch for"Our sales outsourcing services start with a minimum 4 month program." "Our sales outsourcing services are prepaid." On its lower-cost lead programs, "With these lower cost programs it will be your responsibility to follow-up after we've made the initial contact with the prospect."
12. Sales Service
- What it runs"Outbound, qualification, demos, deal closing, and the pipeline behind it. We run the entire motion top to bottom, on commission only."
- ChannelsCold calling and cold email
- Who closesSales Service: "Our reps run the full cycle and close the deal under your name."
- PriceCommission only: "There is no base, no setup fee, no per-seat license, and no monthly minimum."
- Best forCompanies that want a commission-only, full-cycle team closing under their name, and accept exclusivity and a clawback window.
- Watch forThe rate is set on a strategy call and is not published. "Commission paid on collected revenue, not signed contracts"; the term sheet sets the "Commission rate, payout cadence, exclusivity, clawback window."
| Company | What it runs | Who closes | Published price | Watch for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ReplyLead #1 pick | Done-for-you outbound over cold email and LinkedIn | Your team | From $2,023/mo + revenue share | Infrastructure amount remains when nothing closes |
| SalesRoads | Outsourced SDR teams (email and calls) | Your team | $11,950 per 4 weeks (1 SDR) | 13 four-week billing periods a year |
| Belkins | Appointment setting and SDRs (email, LinkedIn, calls) | Your team | From $5,000 (period not stated) | First meetings typically in 30-45 days |
| Callbox | Lead generation with dedicated SDR pods (multichannel) | Your team | Est. $16,000-$32,000/mo per pod | Pricing not tied to results |
| CIENCE | SDR outsourcing on its own platform (multichannel) | Your team | $7,499 first month, then $2,499/mo + extras | SDRs, commission and a per-meeting fee extra |
| SalesHive | US-based SDRs: calling, email, appointment setting | Your team | Quote only | Billing runs to the end of the month after notice |
| memoryBlue | SDR teams; full-cycle sales on request | Your team on SDR programs; its sales teams can take the full cycle | Quote only | B2B tech and professional services focus |
| Martal Group | Lead generation to an outsourced sales team (email, LinkedIn, calls) | Martal on Tiers 2 and 3; your team on Tier 1 | Quote only (flat fee; + commission on upper tiers) | A 3- or 4-month pilot first |
| MarketStar | SDR, AE, channel and full-cycle sales teams | Depends on the model (AE and full-cycle teams close) | Quote only | Built for B2B tech and SaaS |
| Sales Focus Inc | Inside and outside sales teams, lead generation to close | Sales Focus (Standard and Premium) | Quote only (monthly fee + commission) | Typically a 90 to 180 day minimum |
| Rent A Sales Rep | Contract sales reps, from meetings to an in-person close | Rent A Sales Rep, or your team on lead programs | Base monthly fee + commission (no exact figure) | Prepaid, 4-month minimum |
| Sales Service | Full-cycle outbound sales on commission only | Sales Service | Commission only (rate not published) | Rate set privately; read the clawback terms |
Inside sales, sales management, sales as a service: the three purchases most guides blur
Three rows of the table above are bought by mistake more often than any other, because vendors sell all three under one word. Each has its own scope, contract variables, pricing trap and measurement standard. They are set out here so the comparison can be made on one page rather than three.
Inside sales outsourcing: renting revenue-carrying capacity
Inside sales outsourcing hands the remote selling function to an external team: reps who work inbound leads, run discovery and mid-funnel calls by phone, video and email, and in transactional motions close. It is a different purchase from outsourced sales development, which only creates conversations. The boundaries are clean: field sales travels; sales development opens conversations and books meetings but never carries a deal; inside sales carries deals. An outsourced inside sales team is therefore revenue-carrying capacity, and the purchase deserves more scrutiny than an SDR contract, not less.
Decision rule. Outsource inside sales when qualified conversations already arrive and speed-to-lead or coverage hours are the constraint. Outsource sales development when the calendar is empty. Inside-sales capacity with nothing to work is the most expensive idle time in sales.
| Provider shape | What it is | Fits | Watch for |
|---|---|---|---|
| BPO-scale operators | Hundreds of seats shared across clients | High-volume transactional motions, renewals | Process over product fluency |
| Boutique B2B firms | Small teams working close to your product | Considered sales | Higher cost per seat |
| Hybrid outbound-plus-inside vendors | Conversation creation bundled with deal working | When both functions are genuinely needed | Insist the two functions are priced and measured separately, or the bundle hides whichever half is underperforming |
Contract variables that decide the outcome:
- Dedicated or shared reps, stated per seat.
- Ownership of CRM data and call recordings when you leave.
- Replacement time for an underperforming rep.
- The utilisation assumption, in writing. The share of rep time that is selling rather than logging is the number per-seat economics are built on, and the one vendors least like to commit to.
The per-seat trap. Inside sales outsourcing prices almost universally per seat per month, and the invoice line reads like a salary saved. The real unit is cost per advanced opportunity: seats multiplied by the fully loaded seat price, divided by opportunities advanced per month. A seat at 60 percent utilisation working thin leads produces opportunities at a unit cost nobody computed before signing. Compute it first, and judge the team on metrics that predict revenue rather than dials and talk time.
Measuring the team honestly takes three disciplines: per-rep denominators (conversion per rep per lead source, never a team average that lets one strong rep carry the invoice); source-controlled comparison (internal and outsourced reps fed the same lead mix before either is judged); and windowed measurement (the period since the last process change, not a cumulative average that buries current performance).
Outsourced sales management: rent the leader, keep the reps
Outsourced sales management, usually sold as fractional sales leadership, puts an experienced external sales leader over your own reps for one to three days a week. The engagement covers five things: process design (pipeline stages, qualification criteria and exit rules written down), a weekly pipeline review that happens whether the founder is travelling or not, call coaching and deal strategy, forecasting with its definitions stated, and structure (territory, compensation, hiring profiles). It is the inverse of every other model on this page: the others rent you people while you keep the management problem; this one rents the management while the people stay yours. The outsourced sales management guide covers the engagement in more depth.
- Fits: founder-led sales that works but has outgrown the founder's hours, and a first team of two or three reps reporting to a founder who has never managed sellers.
- Does not fit: an empty pipeline (management multiplies what exists; the constraint is sales development) and a team that needs replacing rather than coaching.
- Pricing: a monthly fractional retainer scaled to days per week. It carries the retainer's standard risk, so the engagement needs written, measurable goals - pipeline coverage, stage conversion, forecast accuracy - reviewed on a schedule, or it drifts into expensive advice.
- Evaluating a fractional leader: what changed measurably at their last three clients (coverage before and after, conversion by stage, rep retention); how many concurrent clients they carry, because fractional attention dilutes quietly; who executes on the days they are not there; and whether their background matches your motion - a leader who built field-sales teams will structure an inbound SaaS team badly.
The fastest way to tell a real sales manager from a rented title is the report that arrives on Friday. A competent fractional leader puts these numbers in front of you every week without being asked:
| Metric | Why it decides anything | A usable answer looks like |
|---|---|---|
| Pipeline coverage | Whether next quarter is already lost | Open qualified pipeline against target as one ratio, trended week over week |
| Stage conversion | Where deals actually die | Conversion per stage with the denominator stated, not a win-rate headline |
| Activity-to-meeting arithmetic | Whether the top-of-funnel maths holds | Meetings per rep per week traced back to activities. If cold email feeds the funnel, the measured reference is a median 2.12 percent of contacted leads replying, with the middle half of campaigns between 1.38 and 2.97 percent (our published book); a leader promising several times that is reporting hope |
| Deliverability health | A dying sending domain silently zeroes the funnel | Monitor delivery failures separately from complaints and replies. The historical pooled bounce rate was 1.32% across 429,763 sends. A higher rate warrants investigation of addresses, authentication, provider responses and sending patterns; this observation cannot identify the cause. |
| Forecast against closed | Whether the forecast means anything | Last week's committed forecast next to what actually closed, kept in writing |
| Rep-level variance | Where the coaching time should go | The spread between the best and the median rep, not the team average |
A leader who cannot produce this table is reporting activity, not managing outcomes - and that distinction is exactly what the engagement is supposed to buy. Rent first, usually: a fractional leader is cheaper, faster to start and reversible, and the engagement teaches you exactly what to hire for. Convert to a full-time VP of Sales when team size and cadence demand daily presence.
Sales as a service: an umbrella, not a model
Sales as a service means buying the sales function - people, process and tooling - from an external provider on subscription-style terms instead of hiring and building it. The phrase borrows its shape from software-as-a-service, and the analogy holds in three ways: speed (a run-in function on day one instead of a two-quarter build), elasticity (capacity that scales down as easily as up) and cost shape (a predictable operating expense instead of salaries, tools and management time). It hides one thing: scope. Software delivers the same product to every customer; two providers using this label may not be competitors at all. Underneath it a vendor is always selling one of the five models in the table above, and the first question is the one that governs this whole page: which part of the motion changes hands?
- What the bundle contains: some subset of people (reps and sometimes a manager over them), process (sequences, qualification frameworks, pipeline stages), infrastructure (sending domains and mailboxes, dialers, CRM), data (target lists and enrichment) and reporting. The bundle is the product.
- The pricing implication buyers miss: subscription framing normalises subscription pricing, which is a retainer in service-economy clothes - it bills identically in a quarter that produces nothing. Per meeting, per lead, performance-based and revenue share allocate that risk differently; the arithmetic is on the revenue model comparison.
- Fits: speed matters more than ownership; the motion is proven but unstaffed; demand is lumpy (seasonal businesses, launch cycles). Does not fit: deeply technical, considered sales where product fluency compounds inside your own team, or deal sizes that cannot carry the subscription at realistic conversion rates.
- Three questions that separate providers: which of the five models is under the label, in writing; what measured evidence exists, with denominators; and who carries a bad month - the pricing shape answers that before the sales pitch does.
Verdict. Treat "sales as a service" as a pricing wrapper, not a model. Identify the model underneath, then apply that model's fit test from the table above. Our own lane inside the umbrella is the conversation-creating slice, done-for-you outbound, priced mostly as a share of closed revenue.
Sales outsourcing pricing: what each model and company costs
Most providers quote privately. The company tables on this page show what twelve sales outsourcing companies publish on their own sites; our B2B lead generation company comparison does the same for fourteen lead generation providers. The shape of the price still decides your risk far more than the number does. Four dominate the category, compared in detail in our five-model pricing breakdown:
- Monthly retainer. The default for SDR and inside-sales engagements. Predictable for the vendor, all performance risk on you: the invoice arrives whether meetings do or not. Retainers pay for effort, not results - the buyer complaint the whole no-retainer category exists to answer.
- Per seat / per rep. Inside-sales pricing dressed as headcount arithmetic. Simple to compare, and quietly detached from output: a seat is a cost, not a pipeline.
- Pay per meeting or per lead. Performance-priced top-of-funnel. Aligns incentives on volume - and creates a new failure mode where meeting count gets optimised over meeting quality. What to check before buying this shape is on pay-per-lead agencies.
- Revenue share. The vendor's pay rides on what actually closes. This is ReplyLead's model: a technology fee covers the sending infrastructure the campaign runs on, published by volume tier on pricing, and most of our compensation is an agreed share of closed revenue. It is the only shape where the vendor loses money on meetings that go nowhere.
Published sales outsourcing prices, company by company
ReplyLead publishes infrastructure from $2,023 a month plus an agreed share of closed revenue. Of the other eleven, four print an exact figure and seven quote or set rates privately, so compare billing units before totals: SalesRoads bills per four weeks (13 billing periods a year), CIENCE's first month includes setup and its SDRs and per-meeting fee are extra, and Callbox's figure is an estimate for one pod.
| Company | Published price | Billing unit and terms |
|---|---|---|
| ReplyLead | From $2,023/mo + revenue share | A month for infrastructure, set by send volume, plus an agreed share of attributable closed revenue |
| SalesRoads | $11,950 per 4 weeks (1 SDR) | Per 4-week period for one dedicated SDR ($16,750 for two); "SalesRoads programs run without long-term commitments, and you can cancel at any time." |
| Belkins | From $5,000 (period not stated) | "The average starter price: from $5,000"; no billing period printed beside it; monthly retainer packages on its pricing page |
| Callbox | Est. $16,000-$32,000/mo per pod | "Estimated Monthly Investment $16,000 - $32,000 Estimated range based on 1 pod"; "Each pod includes 1 dedicated SDR"; subscription-based engagement terms |
| CIENCE | $7,499 first month, then $2,499/mo + extras | "$7,499 First month, all in", then $2,499 a month for team and platform; optional SDRs, SDR commission and a per-meeting fee are extra ("The per-meeting fee is calculated from the agreed ROI goal, typically 4x ROI"); "No contracts. Month to month. Quoted to scope." |
| SalesHive | Quote only | "Plans are custom quoted." "Annual plans run at a lower monthly rate than month to month." |
| memoryBlue | Quote only | "Pricing varies depending on team size, program scope, outbound volume and target markets." |
| Martal Group | Quote only (flat fee; + commission on upper tiers) | "Inquire about pricing": a flat fee per month, plus sales commission on Tiers 2 and 3 |
| MarketStar | Quote only | "Our pricing flexes with your needs based on scope, team size, region, and services like SDRs, AEs, or SEs." Its FAQ says clients start "without the need for a fixed team size or contract length to get started". |
| Sales Focus Inc | Quote only (monthly fee + commission) | "Typically, there is a monthly fee plus a commission structure to incentivize the sales agents" |
| Rent A Sales Rep | Base monthly fee + commission (no exact figure) | "Our compensation always includes a base monthly fee along with a potential commission schedule if we are closing sales for you." Its FAQ puts its main Lease A Sales Rep programs at "For a few thousand dollars per month"; its lower-cost lead programs: "These are pay as you go programs." |
| Sales Service | Commission only (rate not published) | "Commission paid on collected revenue, not signed contracts"; "Monthly settlement, no rolling minimums, no annual lock-in" |
Which shape is the best revenue model at your meeting volume has a worked, numbers-in answer on the revenue model comparison - the crossing-point arithmetic generalises to every provider type on this page.
Whatever the shape, audit the infrastructure line. The cost buyers report resenting most is the one quoted last: domains, mailboxes, data, sequencing tools and verification, added after signature as pass-through "tooling". Run the totals with the cold email agency cost breakdown and the SDR cost calculator before comparing any two quotes - the cheaper retainer is frequently the more expensive programme.
Compare the engagement models on your numbers
Enter your own deal economics and each model's quoted price - the table computes monthly cost, cost per meeting and cost per closed deal for the same programme under each pricing shape. Defaults are neutral EXAMPLE inputs; replace them with real quotes.
| Model | Monthly cost | Cost / meeting | Cost / closed deal | If zero closes this month |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Retainer you carry the risk | - | - | - | - |
| Per-seat you carry the risk | - | - | - | - |
| Per-meeting shared: paid on activity | - | - | - | - |
| Revenue share + tech fee provider carries most of it | - | - | - | - |
Enter your numbers above - the crossing point between the models depends entirely on deal value and close rate, which is why no one shape is cheapest for every business.
Arithmetic runs on the numbers you enter; nothing here quotes market prices. The written comparison with the crossing-point math is on the revenue-model guide.
What results to expect, with data
Every figure in this section is measured on ReplyLead's own sending or on our email-provider census, published with its method on the linked page. One fact per sentence, so each can stand on its own.
- Across 429,763 emails to 242,669 contacted leads in 115 outbound campaigns (ReplyLead campaign book, 2026-04-05 to 2026-08-12), 6,249 unique replies were received: 2.58% of contacted leads pooled, 1.45% per email sent. Source.
- Among the 81 campaigns that contacted at least 500 leads, the median reply rate was 2.12% of contacted leads; the 25th percentile was 1.38%, the 75th 2.97%, the 90th 3.79%, and the best single campaign 8.08%. Source.
- 50 of those 81 campaigns replied below the pooled average, and 14 campaigns produced half of all replies, which is why a pooled "average reply rate" overstates what a typical campaign delivers. Source.
- Among the 81 eligible campaigns, the median bounce rate was 1.33% of sends, with 25th / 75th percentiles of 0.95% / 1.68%. Across all 115 sending campaigns, 5,679 bounces / 429,763 sends gives a 1.32% pooled rate. Bounce errors are separate from spam complaints and replies. Source and scope.
- A sequence sends more than one message per lead: 1.77 messages per lead reached on this book (56.5% first touches, 43.5% follow-ups), so a reply rate quoted per email is about 1.8 times lower than the same replies quoted per lead. Source.
- A separate 12-month client programme is reported by ReplyLead as 263 sales-qualified leads. That is not a verified count of attended meetings, accepted opportunities or wins. The displayed client email supports one lead qualitatively, not the aggregate. Case evidence and limitations.
- Published benchmarks can use different numerators, denominators, eligibility rules and aggregation. A pooled rate, unweighted campaign mean and campaign median answer different questions. These differences must be checked before comparing providers; they do not prove what caused a performance gap. Definitions and sensitivity analysis.
- Who hosts your prospects' email changes the outcome: of 9,058,780 domains with a mail record in the ReplyLead MX census (resolved 19 July 2026), Microsoft 365 hosts 27.52% and Google Workspace 25.37%, and 6.45% sit behind a security gateway such as Proofpoint, Mimecast or Barracuda. Source.
- Microsoft 365 peaks at 42.45% of companies with 51 to 250 employees, while Google Workspace is strongest among the smallest companies at 28.14% and falls to 18.77% above 1,000 employees. Source.
- Security-gateway share rises with company size, from 5.33% of companies with 1 to 10 employees to 18.06% at 251 to 1,000 employees. Source.
- On one 3,908-send outbound forensic (September 2026), hard bounces ran 1.0% on Google-hosted recipients, 3.3% on Microsoft-hosted recipients and 5% on other hosts, and 36 of 122 hard bounces were policy blocks by Microsoft tenants rather than dead addresses. Source.
- Getting a reply took 215 emails and a sales-qualified meeting took 4,100 emails on the 12-month programme above; those two ratios, not a headline reply rate, are what a sales outsourcing budget should be built on. Source.
Method notes and the full tables: the campaign benchmark, the per-campaign distribution, the 12-month single-programme benchmark and the email provider market share census.
Outsourced vs in-house: the actual trade
The honest comparison is not rep salary versus vendor invoice. An internal outbound function carries costs that arrive on different lines: the tools and data stack, the sending infrastructure that must be built and warmed weeks before the first campaign, management attention, and the three-to-six-month ramp during which a new SDR produces training cost rather than pipeline. The outsourced column buys you speed (an operating system on day one), transferred execution risk, and elastic capacity - and pays for it with less product fluency in every conversation and a dependency you must manage at renewal.
The decision usually resolves on three questions: how fast you need pipeline (in-house builds take quarters; a run-in vendor system starts inside a month, warmup included), whether your ACV supports specialist headcount at all, and whether outbound is core enough to your motion that you want the capability owned internally in the long run. The full argument, including when the in-house column genuinely wins, is on cold email agency vs in-house SDR - we wrote both sides of it deliberately.
What an in-house seller costs: US and Canadian government data
The US government has no "SDR" job category. The closest is sales representatives of services (SOC 41-3091), people who "sell services to individuals or businesses". In May 2025 their median annual wage was $69,990, with the middle half between $47,670 and $100,480, across 1,256,010 jobs (BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics). Sales managers (SOC 11-2022) had a median of $148,270. Wages are not the whole cost. In private industry, wages and salaries made up 75.3% of total compensation for sales and related occupations and 67.5% for management, business and financial occupations in 2026 Q2 (BLS Employer Costs for Employee Compensation). Dividing by those shares puts the median rep at about $92,950 a year in wages plus benefits and the median sales manager at about $219,660. That is before recruiting, management time, tools, data, sending infrastructure and the months a new hire spends ramping.
Location moves the number more than title does. Among 12 large metros, the median services sales rep earns the most in San Jose ($116,510) and the least in Austin ($62,900). Reps who sell technical and scientific products (SOC 41-4011) earn a national median of $104,920.
| Area | Sales rep, median wage (41-3091) | Sales rep with benefits (/ 0.753) | Sales manager, median wage (11-2022) | Sales manager with benefits (/ 0.675) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | $69,990 | $92,950 | $148,270 | $219,660 |
| San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA | $116,510 | $154,730 | $201,780 | $298,930 |
| San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA | $96,960 | $128,760 | $170,810 | $253,050 |
| New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ | $93,750 | $124,500 | $215,150 | $318,740 |
| Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH | $83,420 | $110,780 | $206,610 | $306,090 |
| Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA | $82,540 | $109,610 | $184,320 | $273,070 |
| Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO | $80,650 | $107,100 | $181,580 | $269,010 |
| Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA | $79,450 | $105,510 | $132,330 | $196,040 |
| Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA | $78,950 | $104,850 | $166,920 | $247,290 |
| Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV | $78,110 | $103,730 | $175,820 | $260,470 |
| Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN | $70,710 | $93,900 | $158,690 | $235,100 |
| Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX | $63,280 | $84,040 | $144,290 | $213,760 |
| Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX | $62,900 | $83,530 | $151,760 | $224,830 |
In Canada, Job Bank publishes hourly medians. Sales and account representatives in wholesale (NOC 64101) earn a national median of C$31.50 an hour, technical sales specialists C$37.07 and corporate sales managers C$60.10. The annual figures below assume 2,080 paid hours (40 hours for 52 weeks). The benefits share above is a US measure, so it is not applied to the Canadian wages.
| Region | Sales and account representatives, wholesale, non-technical (NOC 64101) | Technical sales specialists, wholesale (NOC 62100) | Corporate sales managers (NOC 60010) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Canada | C$31.50/hr (about C$65,520 a year) | C$37.07/hr (about C$77,110 a year) | C$60.10/hr (about C$125,010 a year) |
| Toronto | C$31.25/hr (about C$65,000 a year) | C$40.06/hr (about C$83,320 a year) | C$59.55/hr (about C$123,860 a year) |
| Montreal | C$31.45/hr (about C$65,420 a year) | C$34.62/hr (about C$72,010 a year) | C$53.37/hr (about C$111,010 a year) |
| Calgary | C$33.00/hr (about C$68,640 a year) | C$36.85/hr (about C$76,650 a year) | C$65.10/hr (about C$135,410 a year) |
| Lower Mainland, BC | C$33.65/hr (about C$69,990 a year) | C$41.03/hr (about C$85,340 a year) | C$57.04/hr (about C$118,640 a year) |
Set against published outsourced prices. ReplyLead publishes an infrastructure amount from $2,023 a month ($24,276 a year) plus an agreed share of closed revenue. It books qualified meetings onto your calendar, with no large fixed retainer and no per-meeting fee. SalesRoads publishes $11,950 per four weeks for one dedicated SDR, a price it says includes a dedicated team and a complete demand generation infrastructure; its cost per SDR falls to $8,375 at two SDRs. One SDR comes to $155,350 over 13 four-week periods, about 1.7 times the $92,950 wage-plus-benefits cost of a median US services sales rep, before the in-house side adds recruiting, management, tools, data and ramp. To model a hire on these figures, use the SDR cost calculator, whose employer-cost default is this BLS figure: 32.8% of wages for sales occupations.
Sources: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 estimates, retrieved through the BLS public API (series IDs in the download); BLS Employer Costs for Employee Compensation, 2026 Q2, private industry, series CMU2020000210000P and CMU2020000110000P; ESDC Job Bank wages, 2025 file (revised 2025-11-19); the corporate sales manager figures for Montreal and Lower Mainland, BC are Job Bank small area estimates for 2024. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Canada. Download the table: CSV or JSON (CC BY 4.0, cite ReplyLead).
Advantages and disadvantages of sales outsourcing
Sales outsourcing trades control for speed and specialist systems. The table sets the advantages against the disadvantages, with the check that tells you which side your programme lands on.
| Side | What it means | The check |
|---|---|---|
| Advantage | Speed without a hiring cycle. An outside team starts on a working system instead of a recruit-and-ramp cycle; outbound still needs new mailboxes warmed for about two to two and a half weeks before they carry volume | Ask for the launch plan in writing, week by week |
| Advantage | Specialist systems you do not build. List building, sending infrastructure, sequencing and reply triage are process work a specialist runs every day | Ask how many mailboxes and domains per client, what daily volume per mailbox, and who reads the replies |
| Advantage | Cost that can follow results. Pay per meeting and revenue share move part of the risk to the provider; retainers and per-seat pricing do not | Ask who loses money in a month that produces nothing |
| Advantage | Capacity that scales with the contract. Coverage grows or shrinks with the agreement rather than with hiring and notice periods | Read the minimum term, the pilot length and the cancellation notice |
| Disadvantage | Closing transfers badly. For a considered B2B sale, discovery and the close depend on product knowledge an outside team takes time to build | Draw the handoff line at the first discovery call unless the product is transactional |
| Disadvantage | You can pay for effort, not results. Retainers and per-seat contracts bill whether meetings happen or not | Convert every quote to cost per held, qualified meeting |
| Disadvantage | Brand and data leave your hands. Another firm writes to your market in your name and holds call recordings and CRM notes | Put data ownership, recordings and brand approval in the contract |
| Disadvantage | Quoted results need a denominator. Reply and meeting figures mean little without the population, the window and the definition | Ask for replies per contacted lead and meetings per campaign, across how many campaigns |
The pattern behind the table: top-of-funnel work transfers well and closing transfers badly, so most of the advantages sit before the first meeting and most of the disadvantages after it.
By company type
Small businesses. Outsourcing exists here to avoid a hire that cannot be justified: a full sales stack plus a dedicated rep against a small revenue base. The fit test is arithmetic, not ambition - a programme has to pay for itself out of a realistic number of closed deals, so measured reply rates and your close rate set the ceiling on what any vendor is worth. Favour models where cost scales with results rather than headcount. The full small-company treatment, trap list included, is on outsourced sales for small business.
SaaS and software companies. The most heavily outsourced segment for a reason: defined ICPs, demo-shaped sales motions and recurring revenue make top-of-funnel outsourcing measurable. The specific dynamics - trial motions, product-led overlap, why outbound still works alongside inbound - are covered in outbound for B2B SaaS and cold email for SaaS.
If your SaaS team is targeting US accounts, use the US SaaS prospect-list brief to specify the buyers, exclusions and qualification criteria before commissioning outreach.
Companies with long, considered sales cycles. Outsource the top of the funnel only. An external team can open doors at scale; asking it to carry a nine-month enterprise deal is how considered deals die politely. Draw the handoff line at the first discovery call and staff everything after it with people who own the product.
How to choose a provider: hold them to evidence
The category's marketing runs on unfalsifiable claims, so the method that actually separates sales outsourcing companies is demanding evidence in a form that can be checked:
- Denominators, always. "3x more meetings" and "8% reply rates" mean nothing without the population and the base. Ask for replies per contacted lead, meetings per campaign, across how many campaigns, over what window. We publish ours - 429,763 emails across 115 campaigns, pooled 2.58% and a 2.12% median reply rate - precisely because almost nobody in the category will.
- Ask what they run, not what they promise. How many mailboxes and domains per client, what daily volume per mailbox, how lists are verified, who reads the replies. Vendors with a real system answer in specifics and enjoy the question. Vendors renting effort change the subject.
- Check the incentive geometry. Who loses money when a month produces nothing? If the answer is only you, the pricing shape is telling you what to expect.
- Meeting definitions, in writing. Held-versus-booked, qualification criteria, replacement policy for no-shows. Every pay-per-meeting dispute in the category starts here.
- Read exits, not logos. Reference calls with churned clients tell you more than case studies. Where we stand on proof is on case studies and methodology; comparison shopping is what our outsourced SDR company guide is for.
Is outsourcing even the right call? Check what is true
The honest fit test from the sections above, as a checklist. Tick what is true of your business today.
Tick the statements that apply - the verdict updates as you go.
Where ReplyLead fits, stated honestly
We sit in one lane of this category and say so: done-for-you outbound - the top-of-funnel machine, run end to end, with qualified meetings delivered to your calendar and your own team closing them. We are not a full-cycle vendor and do not close deals under your brand; we are not a body shop renting SDR hours. The commercial logic is the inverse of a retainer: a published-by-tier technology fee carries the infrastructure, and most of our pay is a share of the revenue you close - so the programme only makes sense for us when it makes money for you. For right-fit companies we prove it before commitment: the pilot runs a first campaign with build and management at our cost, you carrying only the technology fee.
When this comparison does not apply
- You need field sales, retail or door-to-door selling. The models and pricing analysis assume remote B2B selling; field selling is covered only where a compared company runs it (Rent A Sales Rep, Sales Focus Inc).
- You want to hire one rep, not buy a service. Model the in-house cost first with the government wage data on this page and the SDR cost calculator.
- You buy outside the US or Canada. Company prices are the US-dollar figures on each company's own site and the wage data covers the US and Canada; confirm currency, tax and coverage.
- Your product sells on a short, transactional cycle. A full-cycle provider that also closes fits better than the handoff model ReplyLead runs.
- You are reading this months from now. Every company term here was read on 24 September 2026. Re-check each company's own page before you sign.
How this page was built and checked
We did not buy or test these services. Company facts come from each company's own published pages, read on 24 September 2026 (inspected documentation); every quoted line is re-checked word for word by the build before the page is published, and a company is described only by what its own site states. Companies were included because they sell one of the five models on this page and publish enough on their own site to compare. Directories and review sites were not used as sources. The models, the handoff rule and the reply-rate figures come from ReplyLead's own programmes and its published benchmark. ReplyLead competes with these companies, so read the ordering as ours and the terms as theirs.
Compare providers. Compare providers by model: B2B lead generation companies, outsourced SDR companies, appointment setting companies and pay per lead agencies.
Common questions
What is sales outsourcing?
Contracting an external firm to run part of your sales motion - most commonly the top of the funnel (prospecting, outreach and meeting booking), sometimes inside sales, full-cycle selling or sales management. The scope handed over, not the label, determines whether it works.
Does sales outsourcing work?
Yes, for the top of the funnel, when the provider runs a measured system: prospecting, sending infrastructure, qualification and booking are process work an outside team can run well. Full-cycle outsourcing works mainly for transactional products. Across our 115 outbound campaigns the pooled reply rate was 2.58% per contacted lead, automatic replies included, so judge any provider on held meetings and accepted opportunities against a stated denominator, not on activity.
How much does outsourced sales cost?
ReplyLead publishes infrastructure from $2,023 a month plus an agreed share of closed revenue. Published figures from the other companies here run from $2,499 a month (CIENCE, after a $7,499 first month, with SDRs and a per-meeting fee extra) and $5,000 (Belkins, billing period not stated) up to an estimated $16,000 to $32,000 a month for one Callbox pod; SalesRoads charges $11,950 per four weeks for one SDR, and most others quote privately. The pricing shape matters more than the sticker: retainers and per-seat pricing bill regardless of outcome, pay-per-meeting prices volume, and revenue share prices results. Totals worth comparing come from the cost breakdown and the SDR cost calculator, with the infrastructure line included.
What is the difference between outsourced SDR and full sales outsourcing?
Where the handoff happens. Outsourced SDR work covers prospecting, outreach, qualification and booking, and your team runs every conversation after the meeting. Full sales outsourcing hands over the whole cycle through negotiation and signature. For a considered B2B product the first is usually the better fit, because closing depends on product knowledge; write the actual tasks and decision rights into the scope either way.
How fast can an outsourced sales programme launch?
Plan on weeks, not days, for outbound. In ReplyLead's practice, new sending mailboxes warm up for about two to two and a half weeks before they carry campaign volume, while list building and copy approval run in parallel; warm-up protects domains but cannot guarantee inbox placement on its own. Inside sales and sales management engagements can start sooner because no sending infrastructure is involved.
Is sales outsourcing right for small businesses?
Often, because the alternative is a hire plus a tool stack against a small revenue base. The test is arithmetic: realistic reply, meeting and close rates against your deal size have to cover the programme's full cost, infrastructure included. Pricing tied to results, such as pay per meeting or revenue share, moves more of that risk to the provider.
What is the difference between inside sales outsourcing and SDR outsourcing?
Scope of the funnel. SDR (sales development) outsourcing opens: prospecting, outreach, booking. Inside sales outsourcing works and advances what is opened - discovery, demos and often transactional closes. Buying one when you need the other is the category's most common mismatch.
What reply rate should I expect from outsourced outbound?
Plan on the median, not the average: 2.12% of contacted leads across ReplyLead's 81 measurable campaigns, with the middle half between 1.38% and 2.97%. A vendor quoting 5 to 10% is quoting its best campaign or a different denominator.
Does it matter whether my prospects use Google Workspace or Microsoft 365?
Yes. Microsoft 365 hosts 27.52% of the 9.06 million business domains in our census and peaks at 42.45% in the 51-to-250-employee band, and in one 3,908-send forensic, 36 of 122 hard bounces were policy blocks by Microsoft tenants rather than dead addresses. A provider should show deliverability by hosting, not one blended number.
Which sales outsourcing companies close deals for you?
ReplyLead does not close: it books qualified meetings onto your calendar and your team closes, as with SalesRoads, Belkins, Callbox, CIENCE, SalesHive and memoryBlue's SDR programs. Of the companies compared here, Sales Service's reps close deals under your name, Rent A Sales Rep can close in person or by phone, Sales Focus Inc closes on its Standard and Premium packages, MarketStar's account-executive and full-cycle teams close, Martal Group helps close on Tiers 2 and 3, and memoryBlue's sales teams can take the full sales cycle.
Which sales outsourcing companies publish their prices?
ReplyLead publishes infrastructure from $2,023 a month plus an agreed share of closed revenue. Of the others compared here, SalesRoads publishes $11,950 per four weeks for one dedicated SDR, Belkins from $5,000 with no billing period stated, Callbox an estimated $16,000 to $32,000 a month for one pod, and CIENCE $7,499 for the first month. Rent A Sales Rep says 'a few thousand dollars per month' for its main programs, and SalesHive, memoryBlue, Martal Group, MarketStar, Sales Focus Inc and Sales Service quote or set rates privately.
What are the advantages and disadvantages of sales outsourcing?
The advantages are speed without a hiring cycle, specialist systems you do not have to build, cost that can follow results, and capacity that scales with the contract. The disadvantages are that closing transfers badly for a considered sale, retainers and per-seat contracts bill for effort rather than results, brand and data leave your hands, and quoted results need a denominator to mean anything.
How do I compare outsourced inside sales pricing?
Inside sales outsourcing is priced per seat per month almost universally, so the invoice reads like a salary saved. Compare on the real unit instead: cost per advanced opportunity, which is seats multiplied by the fully loaded seat price, divided by opportunities advanced per month. Then get four contract variables in writing before you sign: dedicated or shared reps, stated per seat; ownership of CRM data and call recordings when you leave; replacement time for an underperforming rep; and the utilisation assumption the economics are built on. ReplyLead's own model is different: it runs cold email and LinkedIn outbound, books qualified meetings onto your calendar, and your team keeps the close.
Sources and check dates
ReplyLead's own facts and open data (archived with DOI 10.5281/zenodo.22920956):
- ReplyLead pricing: infrastructure from $2,023 a month, agreed share of attributable closed revenue, what remains when nothing closes.
- How ReplyLead works: what ReplyLead runs and books.
- ReplyLead case studies: cold email and LinkedIn programmes, including 24K LinkedIn invites.
- Revenue share vs retainer: mailbox warmup of two to two and a half weeks before campaign volume.
- Cold email benchmarks: 429,763 sends across 115 campaigns; 2.12% median reply rate per contacted lead.
Every company figure in the comparison and price tables traces to one of these pages, read from the company's own site on the date shown. Wage data in the in-house section comes from the government sources listed with it.
- SalesRoads homepage: outsourced sales development teams; email prospecting and outbound calling; channels; your team closes. checked 24 September 2026.
- SalesRoads pricing page: $11,950 per 4-week period for one SDR; $16,750 for two; no long-term commitments; 12-week go-to-market lab recommended. checked 24 September 2026.
- Belkins appointment-setting page: appointment setting; the average starter price from $5,000 with no billing period printed; its structured data gives 8000 as the price for the same starter plan. checked 24 September 2026.
- Belkins homepage: email, LinkedIn and cold calling; your team closes. checked 24 September 2026.
- Belkins pricing page: monthly retainer packages. checked 24 September 2026.
- Belkins outsourced SDR page: rep location; first meetings typically within 30-45 days. checked 24 September 2026.
- Callbox homepage: lead generation with dedicated SDR teams; your team closes. checked 24 September 2026.
- Callbox lead generation pricing page: estimated $16,000 to $32,000 a month per pod of one dedicated SDR; subscription terms. checked 24 September 2026.
- Callbox FAQ page: pricing is pre-agreed, not based on performance outcomes. checked 24 September 2026.
- CIENCE outbound SDR page: SDR outsourcing; email, social, phone and LinkedIn; handoff is a booked meeting. checked 24 September 2026.
- CIENCE pricing page: $5,000 setup, $2,000 a month team, $499 a month platform; SDR levels $1,500 to $6,500 with no period printed; $1,000 onboarding per SDR; a per-meeting fee calculated from the agreed ROI goal; SDR commission rules. checked 24 September 2026.
- CIENCE sales outsourcing page: month to month. checked 24 September 2026.
- CIENCE homepage: homepage entry figure 'From $5,600 per month'. checked 24 September 2026.
- SalesHive sales outsourcing page: top-of-funnel scope; your closers close. checked 24 September 2026.
- SalesHive pricing page: custom-quoted plans; no setup fees; cancel with written notice; US-based SDRs with an offshore option; billing ends at the end of the next billing month after written notice. checked 24 September 2026.
- memoryBlue sales services page: sales teams; full sales cycle or any part; 650 SDRs in nine offices. checked 24 September 2026.
- memoryBlue SDR-as-a-service page: SDR scope and channels; meetings booked with your team; pricing varies; B2B tech and professional services. checked 24 September 2026.
- Martal Group pricing page: three tiers; 3- and 4-month pilots; flat fee per month plus commission on upper tiers; top tier closes deals. checked 24 September 2026.
- Martal Group homepage: reps in the EU, North America and LATAM. checked 24 September 2026.
- MarketStar sales-as-a-service page: B2B sales, partner and success teams. checked 24 September 2026.
- MarketStar FAQ page: channels; engagement models from SDR/BDR to full-cycle; pricing flexes with scope; no fixed team size or contract length; 30-45 day launch; B2B tech and SaaS focus. checked 24 September 2026.
- Sales Focus Inc homepage: scope. checked 24 September 2026.
- Sales Focus Inc sales outsourcing FAQ: inside and outside reps; 90 to 180 day minimum; no commission-only or pay-for-performance models. checked 24 September 2026.
- Sales Focus Inc lead generation and inside sales packages page: the Standard package closes deals. checked 24 September 2026.
- Sales Focus Inc sales outsourcing page: monthly fee plus commission; W-2 reps; Charleston sales center; option to acquire the team after 12 months. checked 24 September 2026.
- Rent A Sales Rep homepage: contract sales; closes in person or by phone. checked 24 September 2026.
- Rent A Sales Rep FAQ page: closes on your behalf; lead programs 'a few thousand dollars per month'; 4-month minimum; prepaid; deposit. checked 24 September 2026.
- Rent A Sales Rep sales outsourcing options page: base monthly fee plus potential commission. checked 24 September 2026.
- Sales Service homepage: full-cycle outbound on commission only; reps close under your name; no base, setup fee or monthly minimum; commission on collected revenue; rate set on a strategy call. checked 24 September 2026.
- US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics: median wages for sales representatives and sales managers, May 2025. checked 24 September 2026.
- US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Employer Costs for Employee Compensation: wages as a share of total compensation, used for the with-benefits column. checked 24 September 2026.
- Government of Canada Job Bank wage data: median hourly wages for Canadian sales occupations. checked 24 September 2026.
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