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 "schema_version": "1.0",
 "id": "outsends",
 "name": "OutSends",
 "research_status": "researched",
 "vendor_domain": "outsends.com",
 "category": "Sales & CRM",
 "task": "Sales outreach, leads & CRM",
 "summary": "Cold email platform for Gmail senders: contact management, campaigns with automated follow-ups, peer-to-peer warm-up and reporting, on flat plans metered by monthly emails and active contacts.",
 "best_for": "founders, freelancers and small agencies who run cold email from Gmail and want flat monthly plans by email volume, with warm-up and follow-up sequences included",
 "skip_if": "several people need their own logins and the $199 Team plan is more than you want to spend; you want a refund option before you commit; or you send a few hundred emails a month and a mail merge does the job",
 "honest_knock": "Paid fees are non-refundable, and every plan below the $199 Team / Agency plan has a single seat. The FAQ promises 100% primary inbox placement from its warm-up, which no sending tool controls. The cards do not name their currency, and annual totals were not shown to us.",
 "pricing": {
  "status": "public",
  "entry_price": "$19",
  "entry_price_terms": "Starter · billed monthly, excluding VAT",
  "from_price_usd_month": 19.0,
  "plans": null,
  "plans_source": null,
  "notes": "(read 2026-10-17 in a browser on outsends.com/pricing, monthly view; the cards show a $ sign without naming the currency, and the page says prices exclude VAT) Four fixed plans, each with unlimited campaigns, sequences and templates and no daily sending caps. Starter is $19 a month for 20,000 emails a month and 10,000 active contacts, 1 seat, 15 AI credits a day and 3 warm-up accounts. Pro is $49 for 100,000 emails and 50,000 contacts, 1 seat, 50 AI credits a day and 10 warm-up accounts. Growth is $99 for 200,000 emails and 100,000 contacts, 1 seat, 100 credits and 20 warm-up accounts. Team / Agency is $199 for 350,000 emails, 200,000 contacts, 10 team seats, 200 credits and 50 warm-up accounts. Starter keeps logs for 30 days, the others for 60. Above that, Custom starts at $300 a month for 300K to 2M+ emails at $1.00 per 1,000 emails. Annual billing is advertised as two months free, saving up to $398 a year; we did not get the annual totals to display, so check them at checkout. Monthly plans start with a 14-day free trial. The terms say paid fees are non-refundable unless the law requires otherwise, and a cancellation takes effect at the end of the billing period.",
  "verified_at": "2026-10-17",
  "source_url": "https://outsends.com/pricing"
 },
 "free_plan": false,
 "free_plan_evidence": null,
 "cost_traps": [
  {
   "id": "usage_metered",
   "label": "Usage-metered",
   "evidence": "Starter is $19 a month for 20,000 emails a month and 10,000 active contacts, 1 seat, 15 AI credits a day and 3 warm-up accounts.",
   "verified_at": "2026-10-17",
   "source_url": "https://outsends.com/pricing"
  },
  {
   "id": "annual_lock",
   "label": "Annual commitment",
   "evidence": "Annual billing is advertised as two months free, saving up to $398 a year; we did not get the annual totals to display, so check them at checkout.",
   "verified_at": "2026-10-17",
   "source_url": "https://outsends.com/pricing"
  }
 ],
 "compare_with": {
  "name": "lemlist",
  "why": "lemlist is in our dossiers too: its Email plan was $69 a month, or $55 billed yearly, for unlimited users and 50,000 emails a month when we read it on 5 October 2026. OutSends is cheaper per email for one sender, from $19 for 20,000 emails, but gives extra seats only on its $199 Team plan."
 },
 "links": {
  "record": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/api/v1/products/outsends.json",
  "review": "https://marketingandsalessoftware.com/outsends-review.html",
  "marketplace": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/marketplace/outsends/",
  "vendor_site": "https://outsends.com"
 },
 "purchase": {
  "seller": "the vendor",
  "how": "AIBuilder Marketplace does not sell this software. Sign up, start a trial or buy on the vendor's site.",
  "handoff_url": "https://outsends.com?aff=6NyDVn",
  "affiliate": true,
  "disclosure": "Where purchase.affiliate is true, purchase.handoff_url is an affiliate link: AIBuilder Marketplace may earn a commission at no extra cost to the buyer. Commission never changes what a record says, and products are not ranked by commission. Where it is false the link is the vendor's plain site."
 },
 "provenance": {
  "research": "hand-researched dossier, read on the vendor's own pages",
  "researched_since": "2026-07",
  "method": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/how-we-review/",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0. Credit 'AIBuilder Marketplace' with a link to https://aibuildermarketplace.com/atlas/.",
  "note": "A rebuild is not a new measurement: pricing.verified_at is the date that matters."
 },
 "cost": {
  "status": "not_yet",
  "engine": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/agents/#cost",
  "rules": null,
  "growth": null
 },
 "unknowns": [
  "Plan-by-plan prices are not structured in this record yet; pricing.notes has the full text.",
  "Contract terms (cancellation, data export, data location, minimum seats) are not researched as separate fields; pricing.notes mentions them only where the vendor's pricing page does.",
  "No computable price rules yet: cost at a given team size cannot be calculated for this product.",
  "Not tested hands-on by us: what the product does comes from the vendor's pages and our reading of them."
 ],
 "task_evidence": null,
 "open_questions": [
  {
   "question_id": "outsends:cancellation_terms",
   "key": "cancellation_terms",
   "question": "Can a customer cancel at any time, and what happens to an annual plan that is cancelled mid-term?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "outsends:data_export",
   "key": "data_export",
   "question": "Which data can a customer export, in which formats, on which plans?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "outsends:data_location",
   "key": "data_location",
   "question": "Where is customer data stored, and can a customer choose the region?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "outsends:minimum_seats",
   "key": "minimum_seats",
   "question": "Is there a minimum number of seats or users on any plan?",
   "status": "open"
  }
 ],
 "vendor_answers": [],
 "agent_channels": {
  "vendor_mcp": null,
  "agent_checkout": {
   "status": "not_checked",
   "detail": "We could not read the vendor's pages as plain HTML.",
   "checked_at": "2026-10-07",
   "method": "homepage, /pricing and the pricing page we cite, read as plain HTML (no JavaScript) and searched for explicit support of purchases by AI agents: Agentic Commerce Protocol, Instant Checkout, Agent Payments Protocol, buy in ChatGPT, agentic checkout"
  }
 }
}