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Ken is our productKen vs Outreach
Pick Ken if you want email and LinkedIn steps in one campaign: Platform is $200 a month with unlimited seats. Pick Outreach if you run a large Salesforce or Dynamics team and want sequences, a dialer, call intelligence and forecasting from one vendor.
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Ken or Outreach: Which Should You Pick?
In short Ken wins on email and LinkedIn steps in one campaign; Outreach wins when you run a large Salesforce or Dynamics team and want sequences, a dialer, call intelligence and forecasting from one vendor.
Ken vs Outreach
Ken's view: Ken publishes its prices and includes unlimited seats, and its LinkedIn steps run in the same sequence as email instead of as manual tasks. Ken has no phone dialer, so a team that works from a call queue needs another tool.
Pick Ken if
- You want email and LinkedIn steps in one campaign
- You want one price for the whole team: Platform is $200 a month with unlimited seats and workspaces
- You want prices you can check: credits cost $0.02 each on a public rate card
Pick Outreach if
- You run a large Salesforce or Dynamics team and want sequences, a dialer, call intelligence and forecasting from one vendor
- You want AI agents sold as per-user seats plus credits, and you are fine buying through sales
At a Glance
In short Ken and Outreach on the 10 features buyers of sales engagement platforms compare, checked Oct 17, 2026.
| Feature | Ken(ours) | Outreach |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | Yes - 1,000 credits once, no card | No - demo only, no free plan or trial listed |
| Prices published on the website | Yes - Platform $200 a month, credits at $0.02 each | No - contact sales for every plan |
| Unlimited users without per-seat fees | Yes - unlimited seats and workspaces on Platform | No - priced per user |
| Email and LinkedIn steps in one sequence | Yes - 1,500 credits ($30) per LinkedIn account a month | Partial - multi-channel sequences on Core and up, LinkedIn steps are manual tasks |
| Built-in phone dialer | No | Yes - Outreach Voice on every plan |
| Built-in meeting scheduler | Coming - Ken Scheduler | Yes - meeting scheduling on every plan |
| Meeting recording and AI notes | Coming - Ken Notetaker | Yes - real-time transcription and AI summaries |
| Built-in B2B contact database | Yes - 250M people and 24M companies | No - data enrichment only, no contact database listed |
| Native CRM sync | Partial - email events one way to HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, Attio, Close and GoHighLevel through OutboundSync; native two-way sync coming | Yes - Salesforce and Dynamics 365 Sales, HubSpot through HubSpot data sync |
| Deal pipeline and opportunity tracking | Coming - Ken CRM | Partial - listed on Essentials, Plus and Pro, not on Core |
Outreach facts come from its own website on Oct 17, 2026. Ken facts come from Ken's product pages.
How Much Does Each Cost?
In short Outreach is priced by quote (checked Oct 17, 2026). Ken has a Free plan, then Platform at $200 a month with unlimited seats.
| Plan | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | 1,000 credits once, no card |
| Platform | $200 a month ($180 a month quarterly, $160 a month annual) | 200,000 sends and 5,000 credits a month, unlimited seats and workspaces; 1 credit = $0.02 |
| Managed (VIP done-for-you) | $4,597 a month | Done-for-you: the Ken team runs it |
Ken prices from /pricing. Data, AI, Ken inboxes and LinkedIn accounts are credits on a public rate card.
| Plan | Monthly billing | Annual billing | What you get |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amplify Essentials | Contact sales | Contact sales | 10,000 AI credits; Outreach Voice dialer and meeting scheduling; Conversation intelligence and AI summaries; Deal and pipeline management |
| Amplify Core | Contact sales | Contact sales | 25,000 AI credits; Multi-channel sequences; 250,000 API calls and 5 custom objects; Plus support |
| Amplify Plus | Contact sales | Contact sales | 50,000 AI credits; AI agents and AI coach cards; 500,000 API calls and 10 custom objects |
| Amplify Pro | Contact sales | Contact sales | 100,000 AI credits; AI forecast projection, scenario planner and territory management; 1,000,000 API calls and 20 custom objects; Managed services |
Source: Outreach pricing page (https://www.outreach.ai/pricing), checked Oct 17, 2026. Annual prices are per month, billed yearly.
- Outreach lists no free plan.
- Contact sales: no plan has a published price. Outreach says to reach out for custom pricing based on team size, usage, active AI workflows and capabilities.
- Per-user seat access plus consumption-based AI credits. The page says no platform fees and support is included.
- Extra AI credit packs can be bought at any time. Add-ons include Data Sharing, Connectors, Additional Instances and Listener Licenses, all quote-only.
- Implementation, onboarding and training are sold as professional services packages, by quote.
Where Is Outreach Stronger?
In short Ken's view: Outreach does more than Ken on the 5 points below, each from its own website on Oct 17, 2026.
- Four packaged plans, Amplify Essentials to Pro, with 10,000 to 100,000 AI credits.
- Outreach Voice dialer and meeting scheduling are listed on every plan.
- Real-time call transcription, action item detection and AI summaries for meetings and deals.
- Amplify Pro adds forecast rollups, a scenario planner and territory management.
- Syncs with Salesforce and Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales, and with HubSpot through HubSpot's data sync.
Switching From Outreach
In short Move your lists first, then rebuild what you run in Outreach and run both side by side before you cancel.
- Open a Ken workspace on Free: 1,000 credits once, no card.
- Export your contacts from Outreach as a CSV and upload them to Ken; emails you upload or find with your own provider key cost nothing.
- Connect your own inboxes and domains free, with unlimited basic warmup.
- Rebuild each sequence as a Ken campaign: one campaign can mix email and LinkedIn steps.
- Run both side by side for a few weeks before you cancel Outreach.
FAQ
Is Ken an Outreach alternative?
For sales engagement platforms, it can be. Ken's view: Ken publishes its prices and includes unlimited seats, and its LinkedIn steps run in the same sequence as email instead of as manual tasks. Ken has no phone dialer, so a team that works from a call queue needs another tool.
How much does Outreach cost?
Outreach is priced by quote, per its pricing page on Oct 17, 2026. It lists no free plan.
How much does Ken cost?
Free: 1,000 credits once, no card. Platform: $200 a month with 200,000 sends, 5,000 credits a month and unlimited seats. Managed (VIP done-for-you): $4,597 a month. 1 credit = $0.02.
Can I use Outreach and Ken together?
Yes, side by side. Ken lists no integration with Outreach today, so each keeps its own data.
When is Outreach the better choice?
Pick Outreach if you run a large Salesforce or Dynamics team and want sequences, a dialer, call intelligence and forecasting from one vendor; or if you want AI agents sold as per-user seats plus credits, and you are fine buying through sales.
Do This in Ken
Build a Campaign in Ken
Ken builds a campaign from a chat. One campaign can mix email and LinkedIn steps. Every email gets a spam and quality check before it sends.
- Connect your own inboxes and domains.
- Upload your list or search Ken's database.
- Describe the campaign in a chat, review the steps and launch.
- Module
- Campaigns
- Open in Ken
- /waitlist
- Cost
- AI qualification 50 credits ($1) per 1,000 rows; AI personalization 300 credits ($6) per 1,000 rows
The new Ken opens to the waiting list in batches.
Related
Sources
| Source | Checked |
|---|---|
| Outreach pricing page | |
| Outreach CRM connection overview | |
| Outreach and HubSpot FAQ | |
| Outreach: manage LinkedIn tasks | |
| Ken pricing |
Changelog
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