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Yesware vs Salesloft vs Salesforge: Comprehensive Sales Outreach Tool Comparison

Choosing a cold outreach platform is less about a glossy feature list and more about how reliably your outreach campaigns run, what channels the tools tackle, how safely you can scale, and whether your sales teams can unify replies and CRM data without stitching together several other tools. In this comparison we’ll look at three titans in the outreach sphere, Salesforge, Yesware and Salesloft. We’ll focus on what each tool actually offers and how that translates into outreach capabilities for everyone from small teams, up to agencies and enterprises.
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Pricing
Starts from $48/mo/company
Starts from $19/mo/user
Contact for pricing
Free Trials
14-day free trial
Free plan with very limited features
Team Usage
Unlimited LinkedIn senders, mailboxes, shared workspaces and seats with Growth plan ($96/mo)
Scales with pricing
Scales with pricing
Multichannel Outreach
Outreach Channels
LinkedIn + email (phone planned in the future)
Email + LinkedIn touches (Sales Navigator subscription required)
LinkedIn + email + phone
Automated Messaging
Automated multi-channel sequences, A/B testing, multi-source AI hyper-personalization, automatic AI writing, consolidated reply inbox (Primebox)
Automated multi-touch campaigns (can include LinkedIn Sales Navigator touches), dynamic merge fields for personalization, A/B testing
Multi-channel cadences, A/B tests, AI agents / generative email assistant to draft & personalize messages
Analytics & Reporting
Advanced analytics (real-time, channel-specific reporting, A/B tests, campaign metrics, reply tracking)
Standard reporting dashboard (My Dashboard, Email Activity, Campaign reports, open/click/reply tracking
Centralized Analytics (team cadence Analytics, platform-level reports, channel metrics)
Email Deliverability
Free premium warm-up via Warmforge, mailbox rotation, dynamic IPs, ESP matching, placement tests
Chrome Extension
Mobile App
Whitelabel
Customer Support
24/7 email and live chat support, extensive knowledge base, large Slack community, weekly AMA sessions, video tutorials, Salesforge Academy
Email, live chat and phone support, knowledge base, webinars, Yesware University
Email, phone and live chat support, knowledge base, Salesloft Academy, occasional webinars
Integrations
Forge Stack, major CRMs, API, Zapier, webhooks, Make, Clay, Sendspark, RB2B
Salesforce, Zoom, Clari, DocSend, Teams
Major CRMs, API, Zapier, webhooks, Make, Clay, Sendspark, RB2B

For a thorough understanding of what each option offers, a brief comparison table isn't enough to grasp all intricacies that come with each tool, so let's dive deeper into what makes Salesforge, Yesware and Salesloft unique.

Salesforge vs Yesware vs Salesloft: LinkedIn & Cold Email Sales Engagement Platform Key Features

At a surface level, each vendor seems targets similar needs, but they're far from identical.

  • Salesforge pitches a stack-based, scale-first solution for teams that run high-volume multi-channel campaigns, with everything from lead generation to email infrastructure bundled together under one roof so you don’t need separate add-ons or platforms.

That positioning is perfect for teams whose sales strategy depends on running prospect lists at scale with little operational friction.

  • Yesware’s primary focus is different. It's a basic mailbox-centric sales engagement tool built to live inside Gmail and Outlook offering fast setup with barebones campaign management - a classic lightweight tool without a steep learning curve.
  • Salesloft aims at mid-market and enterprise organizations that need full-featured workflow automation, conversation intelligence and sales analytics tied closely to CRM data. Its platform emphasizes enterprise-grade orchestration to support massive teams, though with large-scale capabilities come large-scale pricing as well.

Pricing Plans

Salesforge provides 2 plans oriented around outreach scale and a 14-day free trial (with 2 free months granted when billed annually):

  • $48/mo/company for Pro plan (you get: 1000 active contacts in sequence, 5000 messages/mo, 100 email validation credits/mo, 100 personalization credits/mo, unlimited mailboxes, unlimited contact storage, free premium warm up via Warmforge, unlimited workspaces, connect unlimited mailboxes, a unified inbox (Primebox), mailbox rotation, dynamic IPs, live chat support and more)
  • $96/mo/company for Growth plan (you get: 10x the credits from the Pro plan, unlimited seats, A/B testing, personal onboarding, API access, 100 social action credits/month, multi-language sequences, Primebox AI reply crafting, ESP matching, access to a massive knowledge base and more)

Yesware provides 3 tiered plans oriented around outreach scale + a very limited free tier (annual billing saves up to ~23%):

  • $19/seat/month for Pro plan (You get: unlimited email open/link/attachment tracking, 20 campaign recipients/month, personal activity & recipient engagement reports, email & phone support, templates & meeting scheduler, campaign building from Gmail/Outlook)
  • $45/seat/month for Premium plan (You get: everything in Pro + removes Yesware branding, unlimited campaigns, unlimited teams, shared templates & campaigns, team reporting, centralized team billing, customer success)
  • $85/seat/month for Enterprise plan (You get: everything in Premium + Salesforce Inbox sidebar, email & reply sync, calendar sync, background & bi-directional activity sync, import Salesforce list views to campaigns, SSO, trusted IP ranges, some more enterprise controls)

Salesloft requires contacting sales for pricing information, though it's likely their pricing doesn't go lower than triple digits.

Multi-Channel Campaigns

If your outreach efforts combine cold emails with LinkedIn touches, the way a platform orchestrates those channels is a primary buyer concern.

  • Salesforge offers multi-channel campaigns that span both email outreach and LinkedIn touches, while handling deliverability and infrastructure within the same stack. Salesforge even offers unlimited LinkedIn senders, unlimited mailboxes, unlimited shared workspaces and even unlimited seats - guaranteeing that scale won't include any ceiling or hidden costs.

The fact that Salesforge aims to consolidate email and LinkedIn actions into one workflow reduces the need for separate platforms for social touches and email campaigns - a clear operational win when your sales playbooks require many users to coordinate on the same prospect list.

  • Yesware is strongest for email-centric campaigns inside the inbox. While it offers some basic LinkedIn touches (with a Sales Navigator subscription being necessary), it is best where the primary channel is email.
  • Salesloft supports multi-channel cadences (email, calls, LinkedIn) and robust cadence automation that enterprises often rely on for complex sequences and conversation intelligence. Its Conversations and Cadence features let teams capture customer interactions and apply analytics to call and meeting data, so multi-channel orchestration ties directly into sales analytics.

Unified Reply Handling

Managing replies across multiple campaigns and multiple channels is where outreach operations either scale elegantly or fall into chaos. Salesforge’s Primebox is a worthwhile highlight in this aspect - it isn’t just another “unified inbox", it’s a core part of the tool that actively ties replies back to campaigns while also layering deliverability-aware tooling and AI analysis on top.

  • Salesforge's Primebox consolidates replies from both email and LinkedIn into a single place, while capturing responses even when prospects reply from a different address, and adds AI-assisted analysis and smart tools that surface context and prioritization so teams don’t miss active leads or lose threads in a sea of mailboxes.

By contrast, the standard sequence behavior you see in Yesware and Salesloft doesn't offer the advanced consolidated reply capabilities across channels like Salesforge does.

Email Deliverability & Infrastructure

Deliverability is a “make-or-break” capability for any cold outreach program: you can have the best email templates and campaign management but if your message doesn’t reach the inbox, the campaigns fail.

  • Yesware offers deliverability guidance and tracking and helps sales reps understand engagement through email tracking and reporting, but it does not include any form of proprietary deliverability capabilities other than that.
  • Salesloft includes deliverability-adjacent features (like inbox tools and coaching) and offers robust cadence controls, but it relies on third party tools for warm-up and other deliverability functionality.

This is the area where Salesforge shines:

  • Unlimited free warm-up via Warmforge
  • Dynamic IPs
  • Rotating mailboxes
  • Spam checkers
  • Placement tests
  • ESP matching
  • Mailbox health monitoring
  • A/B testing
  • Deliverability metrics

And more. Building sender reputation gradually while spreading volume across addresses and IPs to avoid single-mailbox throttles or sudden reputation hits is crucial for a scaling business. And that's paired with proprietary infrastructure options:

Those infrastructure features reduce the risk of landing in spam and make multi-channel outreach more reliable, especially when you have a leads database and want to integrate email at scale.

If your current sales process is seeing deliverability erosion, prioritizing a platform like Salesforge is a practical way to streamline sales processes and improve campaign ROI.

Integrations & Proprietary Stack

Scaling from a handful of reps to an enterprise sales organization changes the platform requirements. At that point, practical outreach depends on clean contact data and tight CRM integrations.

  • Yesware is lightweight and mailbox-centric: its integrations include some practical connectors (Gmail, Outlook, Salesforce), but the overall integration abundance isn't as robust.
  • Salesloft offers an extensive marketplace and partner ecosystem designed to let enterprise teams assemble a comprehensive suite of external tools - everything from conversation intelligence to intent providers - into a revenue orchestration system.

Salesloft's model is great for massive enterprise teams that need predictive analytics, deep CRM integration, and pipeline management across many systems, but it assumes you will leverage other specialist platforms as part of a larger proprietary or semi-proprietary tech stack.

Salesforge highlights a broad, practical integrations surface designed to let teams plug the platform directly into existing sales stacks. Notable Salesforge integrations include:

  • Major CRMs
  • SMTP
  • API
  • Webhooks
  • Slack
  • Zapier
  • Clay
  • Sendspark
  • RB2B
  • Whitelabel
  • The Forge Stack (Salesforge + Mailforge, Infraforge, Primeforge, Warmforge, Leadsforge)

And many more. Salesforge is also available as a Chrome extension and can be downloaded as a mobile app to provide as much convenience as possible.

If your priority is to keep the team aligned and ensure prospects are tracked consistently in your CRM, all tools cover the essentials - but Salesforge’s emphasis on consolidated data and comprehensive campaign tracking makes it slightly better when you want uniform access to replies and campaign insights across both LinkedIn and email channels.

Customer Support Channels & Resources

Customer support channels and resources are an underrated but mission-critical part of selecting the right sales engagement platform. They directly affect time-to-value for onboarding, how quickly you can streamline sales processes, and whether your sales teams can sustain outreach campaigns without frequent operational fire-drills.

Salesforge takes customer support & resources very seriously, while coupling product tooling with a people-first enablement stack that’s designed to reduce onboarding friction.

  • Salesforge focuses on customer support and convenience and reduces the manual tasks sales teams often struggle with - no separate deliverability vendor, fewer manual data entry steps, and a partner focused on ironing out initial list hygiene and infrastructure.

Besides that, Salesforge customers also get:

  • 24/7 email and live chat support
  • Extensive documentation
  • Youtube tutorials
  • An active Slack community
  • The Salesforge Academy
  • And even weekly AMA sessions

Final Recommendation

There’s no universal “best” option - only the right fit for your sales goals.

  • For very small teams who want an intuitive interface, quick email templates, and basic scheduling features - Yesware is a practical and lightweight sales engagement tool with a minimal learning curve.
  • For major enterprise organizations that need extensive conversation intelligence, complex workflow automation, and deep CRM orchestration across many users, Salesloft provides the advanced features and reporting necessary, as long as you can afford the steep enterprise pricing.
  • But if your primary objective is to scale AI hyper-personalized multi-channel outbound quickly while avoiding vendor sprawl, deliverability headaches, and steep pricing - Salesforge is engineered specifically around those needs.

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Frequently asked questions

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How does Salesforge help sales teams run multichannel campaigns and scale email outreach?

Salesforge is a sales engagement platform built for multichannel campaigns - email outreach and LinkedIn touches - so sales reps can run high-volume outreach efforts from one console. It supports email campaigns and email marketing campaigns with customized templates and email templates, engagement tracking and automation features to sequence actions, schedule meetings, and keep outreach efforts synchronized across reps and workspaces.

What automation features and engagement/email tracking does Salesforge include to improve deliverability and campaign performance?

Salesforge bundles automation features (cadences, mailbox rotation, dynamic IPs) with built-in email tracking and engagement tracking, A/B testing, spam/placement checks and deliverability tooling. That combo means email campaigns hit inboxes more reliably, reporting features surface valuable insights on opens/replies, and sales reps can optimize sales outreach and shorten the sales cycle with data-driven adjustments.

How do Salesforge pricing plans compare to competitors and what should sales reps know when evaluating Salesloft vs Yesware?

Salesforge’s pricing plans focus on scale (Pro/Growth tiers) and include high contact/message limits, unlimited seats/mailboxes options and bundled deliverability tools - giving more features per plan for large outreach. Yesware is lightweight and mailbox-centric; Salesloft targets enterprise with advanced reporting but higher cost. For teams weighing Salesloft vs Yesware, Salesforge is often better when you need bundled infrastructure, automation features and fewer add-on fees.

Can Salesforge consolidate replies, provide reporting features and help track the sales cycle including presentation tracking?

Yes - Salesforge’s unified inbox ties replies from email and LinkedIn back to campaigns, supports presentation tracking, and centralizes engagement tracking. Built-in reporting features and analytics give sales teams valuable insights on campaign performance, funnel velocity and which email templates or outreach efforts shorten the sales cycle - so reps can prioritize leads, schedule meetings and iterate faster.

What customer support does Salesforge offer for onboarding, technical support and getting the most from all the features?

Salesforge emphasizes timely assistance with 24/7 email and live chat, guided onboarding, knowledge bases, community resources and technical support. New teams get help with list hygiene, customized templates, integrating CRMs, and training on automation features and reporting. That people-first approach reduces time-to-value and helps sales reps adopt email templates, phone calls and multichannel campaigns without long ramp-up.