How Much Does an AI Outbound Team Cost? Pricing Explained

2026-07-13

Aphily prices an AI outbound team per result rather than per seat or per license: you pay for each lead contacted and each meeting booked, not for software access or headcount. That's a different pricing model from most GTM software, which charges a flat monthly fee regardless of what it produces.

What are the three pricing tiers?

The Starter tier costs $0.75 for each new lead contacted and $0.20 for each existing lead re-engaged, with a $2,000/month minimum. The Growth tier drops to $0.625 and $0.15 respectively, with a $5,000/month minimum — the lower per-unit price kicks in once volume justifies it. Above that, Enterprise pricing is custom and scales with volume. LinkedIn outreach is billed separately at $250/month per connected account, since LinkedIn seat costs are outside Aphily's control.

Why price per result instead of per seat?

Per-seat software pricing charges the same amount whether the tool produces zero meetings or a hundred — the buyer carries all the performance risk. Pricing per lead and per meeting moves that risk onto the team running outbound: Aphily only gets paid more when it produces more, which is the same logic behind performance-based agency retainers, just applied at a much lower price point.

How does this compare to SDR headcount and tool stacks?

A single fully-loaded SDR costs roughly $750K a year in a typical setup once you include the data, sequencing, deliverability, and enrichment tools most teams layer on top — often another $15K/month. At the Starter minimum of $2,000/month, a team would need to contact under 2,700 new leads a month before the per-result cost even approaches what one SDR's salary alone costs, without counting the tool stack or management overhead.

Which tier should a team start with?

Teams testing outbound for the first time typically start on the Starter tier and move to Growth once monthly volume consistently exceeds the point where the lower per-lead rate outweighs the higher minimum — in practice, once outbound is running as a steady channel rather than a pilot.