Overloop vs Instantly.ai
Overloop and Instantly.ai side by side: what each one is, what it costs to start, and whether you can try it free. Everything below comes from the vendors' own sites and other public sources, not from hands-on testing.
At a glance
| Overloop | Instantly.ai | |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Sales & CRM | Sales & CRM |
| Starting price | $69/mo (checked October 2026) | $47/mo (checked October 2026) |
| Free tier | Not listed | Not listed |
| Profile | Read profile | Read profile |
Prices are in US dollars unless shown otherwise. Confirm the current price on the vendor's site before you buy.
Key differences
Neither lists a free tier, so expect to pay to use either one.
Instantly.ai has the lower starting price ($47/mo against $69/mo for Overloop). The cheapest plan rarely has the same limits or features, so compare plans before choosing on price.
Both are in our Sales & CRM category.
About each tool
Overloop
Sales prospecting and outreach platform with a B2B contact database and AI-drafted email and LinkedIn sequences. Starter is $69 per user a month (Reported as billed monthly).
Who it is for
It suits sales teams and individual sellers who run email and LinkedIn outreach and want contact sourcing and sequences in one tool. The vendor's own review page says Overloop is not a CRM, not enterprise RevOps software and not a fully autonomous AI SDR.
Strengths
- Overloop says its database holds over 450M contacts and that it surfaces buying signals such as job changes, hiring and funding.
- Overloop lists multichannel sequences that combine email and LinkedIn steps with conditions, such as skipping follow-ups when a prospect replies.
- The homepage says AI drafts messages and inbox replies for you to review, edit or approve before they are sent.
- Overloop lists Slack and Zapier on Starter, HubSpot, Pipedrive and the REST API on Growth, and Salesforce on Enterprise.
- Overloop publishes privacy and DPA documentation and a GDPR page, and its FAQ describes processes for access, deletion and portability requests.
Limitations
- Sourcing a prospect costs 1 credit and finding a valid email costs 1 credit. Credits are capped per user each month: 250 on Starter and 500 on Growth. When credits run out, sourcing and email finding stop, while existing sequences continue.
- The FAQ says unused credits expire at the end of each billing cycle on monthly plans. Yearly plans grant all credits upfront and keep them valid for 12 months, but no yearly prices were found.
- Email accounts and active campaigns are capped by plan: Starter allows 1 email account and 3 active campaigns, and Growth allows 3 email accounts and 10 active campaigns. Sending limits are applied to protect domain reputation.
- The FAQ does not state whether customer data is used to train AI models, and gives no refund policy; it directs those questions to the Privacy Policy and to support.
Instantly.ai
Cold email outreach platform with unlimited email accounts and warmup, plus separate credits plans for lead data and AI agents. Outreach starts at $47 a month, billed monthly.
Who it is for
Instantly's pricing and help pages describe sales and outbound teams that send email campaigns from many mailboxes. It also sells done-for-you domains and email accounts and a custom-priced VIP setup service for teams that want hands-on help.
Strengths
- Instantly lists unlimited email accounts, automated warmup, analytics, scheduling, bounce detection, and API access on all Outreach plans.
- Instantly lists the Automation Builder at no extra cost on all plans.
- Instantly says there are no overage fees: when a plan's volume is used up, you move to a higher tier.
- Instantly lists native webhooks and a Deliverability AI Agent from the Hypergrowth plan. Its blog describes native HubSpot and Pipedrive connections and Zapier and Make workflows, and says Salesforce works through a partner, OutboundSync.
- Instantly's help center says the CRM covers email, calls, SMS, tasks, and LinkedIn in one place, with a unified inbox and opportunity stages; it describes unlimited seats at a flat price.
- Instantly sells done-for-you sending infrastructure: domains at $15 a year, and email accounts at $4, $5, or $10 a month depending on type.
Limitations
- Under the Terms, you keep ownership of your data but grant Instantly a license to process it and to use de-identified or aggregated data to improve its service. AI inputs and outputs count as your data, and Instantly says it is not responsible for how third-party AI services handle them, including for model training.
