Salesflare Review (2026)From $29 a User, No Contact Caps
By Daan Haket · Researched and written with an AI assistant · who does what
Salesflare is deliberately lean: no built-in dialer, no quoting or invoicing, and reporting feels basic unless you export. The tool we compare it with at each step below is HubSpot.
- Best for Small B2B teams whose reps skip data entry
- Not for inside sales teams that phone prospects all day
From $29 · per month billed yearly ($39 monthly) · read 2026-10-21
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Is Salesflare right for you?
Your pain“Reps never type their emails and meetings into the CRM, so our records go stale.”
Does Salesflare solve it?YesBuyer reports (G2, Capterra, TrustRadius, Aug 2026): it fills itself from email and calendar, so teams keep it current; G2 gives 4.8 across 304 reviews.
Your planGrowth, $29 per user a month billed yearly ($39 monthly); 5 lead credits a month
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Your pain“Some reps should only see their own deals, and we cannot restrict that today.”
Does Salesflare solve it?YesVendor help article, updated 15 Jan 2026: view, create, edit and delete rights can be set to own, group or team data, but only from Pro.
Your planPro, $49 per user a month billed yearly ($64 monthly); sequences are included too
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- Inside sales teams that phone prospects all day. Buyer reports (G2, Capterra, TrustRadius, Aug 2026): the most common complaint is missing features, starting with no native dialer. Better fit: Close.
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Which Salesflare plan do you need?
3 plans, 3 questions, no signup.
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Your plan
Growth
$39 a month, or $29 billed annually, per user
Auto data capture, email tracking, mobile and LinkedIn, 5 lead credits
Your plan
Pro
$64 a month, or $49 billed annually, per user
Sequences, user permissions, 100 lead credits
Your plan
Enterprise
$124 a month, or $99 billed annually, five-user minimum
250 lead credits, per user
Probably not Salesflare
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What Salesflare costs at your size
What each plan costs a month on annual billing (monthly billing below it), per user from Salesflare’s own pricing page. The cheapest plan at each size is marked. Enterprise bills at least 5 users.
| Users | Growth | Pro | Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 user | $29Best value at this size $39 monthly | $49 $64 monthly | $495 $620 monthly |
| 3 users | $87Best value at this size $117 monthly | $147 $192 monthly | $495 $620 monthly |
| 5 users | $145Best value at this size $195 monthly | $245 $320 monthly | $495 $620 monthly |
| 10 users | $290Best value at this size $390 monthly | $490 $640 monthly | $990 $1,240 monthly |
| 25 users | $725Best value at this size $975 monthly | $1,225 $1,600 monthly | $2,475 $3,100 monthly |
| 50 users | $1,450Best value at this size $1,950 monthly | $2,450 $3,200 monthly | $4,950 $6,200 monthly |
Prices read 2026-10-21; tax excluded unless the vendor says otherwise. Calculated by our cost engine; the same numbers are in our open data.
See current prices on Salesflare →Exit test (measured 2026-10-29)
- Export route
- Not tested: stopped at signup/onboarding under the connection and identity limits of the test plan
- Formats
- Not tested
- Attachments included
- Not tested
- Re-import tested
- No
- Lost on export
- Not tested
Formats describe this export route; offered formats may not have been inspected. Full exit test and scope ↓
We tried to sign up for Salesflare by email on 29 October 2026. The route led to a mailbox connection screen, and we stopped there because connecting a real mailbox was outside our test rules. We never got into the CRM, so nothing below is a finding about the product itself.
How we tested
- Followed the e-mail sign-up route and read the screen it led to
- Opened the app afterwards and recorded the login screen
- Stopped without connecting a mailbox, as the test protocol requires
- After the sign-up form, Salesflare showed 'Please fill out your email settings' with fields for email, password and an IMAP server marked as required, plus an optional SMTP server and a Connect button. We saw no skip, later or back option.
- Opening the app afterwards showed the login screen, with no signed-in session.
- That answers our test question for this route only: the email sign-up we followed asked for a mailbox connection before CRM access. We cannot say whether other routes, such as Google or Microsoft sign-in, work differently; those routes stayed outside the test.
Pricing (2026)
✓ Pricing re-verified 21 Oct 2026
Three plans, and the page carries both billing terms plus a $/€ switch: Growth $39 a month or $29 billed annually, Pro $64 or $49, and Enterprise $124 or $99 with a minimum of five users. The euro column prints the same numerals, €39/€29, €64/€49, €124/€99, so a European buyer pays the same figure in a different currency rather than a converted one.
Our earlier reading called this “$29–99 per user” with Growth at about $29–39 and Pro at about $49. The range was right and the label was not: the low number in each pair is the annual rate and the high one is what month-to-month costs, and the five-seat floor on Enterprise never appeared. Lead credits are part of the ladder rather than an add-on, 5 on Growth, 100 on Pro, 250 on Enterprise.
There is a 30-day free trial with no card. On that same page the vendor commits to no onboarding fees and to no caps on contacts, users, email templates, tracked emails, custom fields, workflows, dashboards or pipelines. Plans change, so check the live price on their site before you buy.
Category context: Growth & Revenue. Across the 84 tools in this category that we researched with a public US-dollar price, the median entry price is about $30 a month (lowest paid plan as listed, per seat where the vendor prices per seat). Salesflare’s entry price of $29 a month sits roughly at that median. Compare pricing conditions in the Software Cost Atlas →
What the price did
We read Salesflare’s own pricing page on a schedule and keep every reading, so this is our record of the page. It is not a forecast, and not someone else’s summary. A change appears here only after we confirmed the new price on the page itself.
Unchanged. Every price on Salesflare’s pricing page was identical across our 13 reads from 2 Aug 2026 to 7 Nov 2026 (97 days).
Salesflare has raised its month-to-month prices once, and announced it in public. Its product update of 13 August 2025 moved Growth from $35 to $39 per user a month, Pro from $55 to $64 and Enterprise from $115 to $124, applying to existing customers from 1 September at their next renewal, and called it the first change to monthly pricing. The annual rates stayed at $29, $49 and $99, so the gap between paying monthly and paying yearly widened from $6, $6 and $16 per user to $10, $15 and $25. The same update replaced the old email-finding credits with lead credits and reset that month's usage to zero. Our readings of 14 September, 27 September and 21 October 2026 show the same six per-user figures.
What the pricing page doesn’t say
Integrations cover the essentials (Gmail, Outlook, Zapier) but niche tools lean on Zapier, and at higher seat counts the price overlaps fuller CRMs. Two further limits come from Salesflare's own help centre. Microsoft 365 users who send campaigns can land on Microsoft's restricted-users list: the article updated 17 September 2026 says this happens when a mailbox exceeds its sending limit or is flagged by spam filters, that Salesflare's own quotas do not always prevent it, and that an admin then has to unblock the user in the Microsoft 365 Defender portal. And the no-limits promise has a fair-use edge, set out in the record-limits article.
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What Salesflare does
CRM for small B2B teams that auto-logs emails, meetings and contact details from your inbox and calendar.
What buyers report about Salesflare
Hands-on: sign-up refused 2026-10-29Reported by buyers: G2, Capterra and TrustRadius, read August 2026
Themes from the buyer-review sites listed at the foot of this page, read in August 2026. We tried to sign up for Salesflare on 2026-10-29 and were refused, so we could not use the product; this is other buyers' experience rather than ours. We summarise it here because the complaints are usually the part a vendor page leaves out.
- • 4.8 on G2 across 304 reviews with 85% five-star, 4.7 on Capterra, 10/10 on TrustRadius: among the highest-rated CRMs anywhere.
- • It fills itself in from your email and calendar, which is the reason reviewers say their team actually keeps it up to date.
- • Missing features tops the complaint list: no native dialer, no advanced multichannel sequences, no deep ABM.
- • Reporting is limited. Custom dashboards come with Pro and even then it is not analytics-grade.
- • Data import and large migrations are described as frustrating: plan that work if you are moving from another CRM.
- • Growth rose 34% from $29 to $39.
When the paid plan is worth it
Salesflare's plans start after a 30-day trial that requires no credit card; there is no permanently free tier. Solo users or small teams evaluating basic contact and email tracking can run the entire trial on any plan since core CRM functions (automated data capture, email tracking, mobile and LinkedIn access) are already present in the entry-level Growth plan ($39/month, or $29/month billed annually). The concrete push toward Pro ($64/month, $49 annual) is the lead credit allotment: Growth includes 5 lead credits per month, versus 100 on Pro and 250 on Enterprise, and multi-step email sequences and user permission controls are Pro-only.
What upgrading does not solve is capacity: Salesflare states there are no hidden limits on contacts, users, templates, or pipelines on any paid plan, so moving to a higher tier does not buy more storage or seats. Running out of lead credits is addressed by purchasing separate credit packs (from $39 for 250 on the pricing page; the help article says $49 on monthly billing), not by the plan tier itself beyond the monthly allotment.
Against the two CRMs it is most often weighed with, the per-seat arithmetic is close. Pipedrive's Growth plan is €39 per seat a month billed annually and €49 monthly, excluding VAT (read 17 October 2026); folk's Standard is $24 per member a month billed yearly or $30 monthly (read 19 September 2026). Salesflare's Growth at $29 or $39 sits between them. The difference shows up in permissions: on Salesflare they start at Pro, so a five-person team that needs reps restricted to their own records pays $245 a month on annual billing rather than $145.
Our monthly capture read this vendor's pricing page in September 2026 and again in October 2026, and the amounts were the same both times, including $99, €99, $124 and €124 from the pricing above. We keep watching, and the registry records what moves.
What happened when we tried to sign up for Salesflare
The findings are at the top of this page.
Claim vs. what we measured
We set a claim from Salesflare's own pages next to what we saw in our test, on the plan named. The status says whether the two describe the same thing and match; it is not a verdict on the product. Confirmations are listed too.
| What the vendor says | What we measured | Status | What it means if you buy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Please fill out your email settings.Source: our test notes, read 11 Nov 2026 | Measured 2026-10-29: Email signup led to an IMAP connection screen asking for email, password and a mandatory IMAP server. No skip, later or back option was observed. The app subsequently showed its login screen. The tester stopped without connecting the real mailbox; Google/Microsoft sign-in was not attempted.Our test, 29 Oct 2026; No usable product session | Not comparableSalesflare: one historical email signup route only; no general eligibility or product-quality conclusion. | Core product use remains untested. |
| Please fill out your email settings.Source: our test notes, read 11 Nov 2026 | Measured 2026-10-29: Not tested: no checkout inspected.Our test, 29 Oct 2026; No usable product session | Not testableSalesflare: pricing page, checkout and cost rule not compared; the quoted text describes only the signup boundary. | Price and purchase terms remain unknown. |
Exit test: can you take your data out?
On 29 October 2026 the email signup route led to a mailbox connection screen requiring IMAP settings and a password. No skip or later option was visible. We stopped without connecting the mailbox; opening the app then showed the login screen. Whether the CRM can be used without a mailbox connection remains not tested beyond this observed signup route. Test date: 29 Oct 2026. We describe the friction rather than score it; this is one run with synthetic records, not a verdict on Salesflare.
| What we checked | What we saw |
|---|---|
| Fields offered by the export dialog | |
| Not offered in the field selector | None noted. |
| The exported file | We did not inspect the file, so data retention and loss remain unverified. |
| Awkward but not lost | Not tested: stopped at signup/onboarding under the connection and identity limits of the test plan. No core product action or export. |
| Export route | Not tested: stopped at signup/onboarding under the connection and identity limits of the test plan. No core product action or export. |
| Export format | No exported file inspected. |
| Re-importing the export | No reimport tested. |
| Cancelling | No cancellation tested. |
What the exit test does not show:
- Core action, export and reimport.
- Support, roles, API and downgrade.
- Core question: can the CRM be used without a mailbox connection? not_tested: the observed email route stopped at mandatory mailbox setup before CRM access. This is a route-specific observation, not a claim that every possible account route requires a connection.
How this compares: across our exit tests of 102 tools, 57 gave us an export file. For Salesflare no usable export file reached us during the test session. Report 08: can you get your data out?
Mail in the first 14 days
0 emails in the 14-day window; first email: none observed; 0 with an explicit offer.
Retained inbox and junk only; removed or archived mail is outside this observation. Ambiguous supplier attribution is excluded. Day numbers use elapsed 24-hour periods since the recorded signup date at midnight Europe/Amsterdam; the signup hour is unknown. Offer flags quote literal subject/body text. Replies in our own correspondence (support tickets, our comment requests) are excluded; one-time codes, our own address, our account name and our name are replaced in brackets.
| Day | Time (UTC) | Sender | Literal subject | Folder | Offer evidence |
|---|
What this test does not show:
- Whether the CRM can be used without a mailbox connection by any other route
- Everything after sign-up: contacts, import, export and re-import
- Checkout, tax and the final price
- Support, roles, API access, downgrade and cancellation
Most of our reviews are researched rather than run. How we review explains which is which, and why we do not pretend otherwise.
Questions we are still checking
Facts about Salesflare that would change a buying decision, and where we stand on each. An unanswered question does not mean the feature is missing; it means we have not confirmed it yet.
- What does an extra lead-credit pack cost on monthly billing? Sources disagree
Applies to: all plans; packs of 250, 500, 1,000, 3,000 and 5,000 credits.
Why it matters: a team that runs out of lead credits mid-month pays the pack price on top of its seats, and the two vendor pages quote different amounts.
Answer: The pricing page (read 21 October 2026) gives 250 for $39, 500 for $69 and 1,000 for $129 without naming a billing term. The help article updated 3 July 2026 calls those the yearly per-month prices and lists $49, $79 and $139 on monthly billing, plus 3,000 for $399 or $349 and 5,000 for $549 or $499.
Checked: Salesflare pricing (2026-10-21); Salesflare help: Can I buy more lead credits? (2026-10-21) - Which plans include the Salesflare MCP server for ChatGPT and Claude? Still checking
Applies to: announced in the 17 June 2026 product update; official connectors still to come.
Why it matters: giving an AI assistant access to CRM data is a data-access decision, and the plan it needs changes the per-seat cost.
Checked: Salesflare product update, 17 June 2026 (2026-10-21); Salesflare pricing (2026-10-21) - Is unused time refunded when an annual Salesflare plan is cancelled? Still checking
Applies to: annual billing, $29 to $99 per user a month.
Why it matters: the FAQ says charging stops immediately on cancellation but does not say what happens to the rest of a prepaid year.
Checked: Salesflare pricing FAQ (2026-10-21)
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How to actually use Salesflare
Initial setup means installing the Salesflare sidebar in your email inbox and, optionally, the Chrome extension for LinkedIn. Then connect your email account under Settings > Email Settings so contact capture, email tracking and signature sync start working automatically; the mobile app is a separate install. Existing contacts come in through Settings > Import Data as a CSV or from another database. Because Salesflare merges any re-imported contact with a matching email address into the existing record instead of creating a duplicate, messy or duplicate-heavy source files need cleaning before import or contacts silently merge into the wrong record.
A common stall point is expecting full functionality from the trial. Multi-step email sequences and user permission controls are gated to the Pro plan. So a team trialling or buying the entry-level Growth plan will not see those features, even though the rest of the CRM is fully automated from day one. Since the 17 June 2026 update the importer proposes the column mapping itself from your headers and a sample of rows, recognises most date formats, and asks you to choose when a date such as 12/06/2026 could be read two ways; answer that prompt rather than accepting a default.
Enterprise is the only card that lists 'Data migration done for you', and with its five-seat minimum that service starts at $495 a month billed annually. Each user can switch the interface language and dark mode under Settings > Regional settings, both added on 19 March 2026 along with the AI email assistant behind the Assist button.
Sources for this review
- Salesflare pricing and FAQ · read 21 Oct 2026: plans and per-user prices in $ and €, five-seat Enterprise minimum, lead credits per plan, Pro-only permissions, trial, onboarding, cancellation
- Salesflare product update, 13 August 2025 · read 21 Oct 2026: monthly price increase and unchanged annual rates; lead credits replacing email-finding credits
- Salesflare product update, 19 March 2026 · read 21 Oct 2026: AI email assistant, interface language and dark mode
- Salesflare product update, 17 June 2026 · read 21 Oct 2026: bulk opportunities and accounts, AI import mapping and date detection, MCP server
- Salesflare help: visibility and permissions · read 21 Oct 2026: roles, Own/Group/Team data, user groups, pipeline access
- Salesflare help: lead-credit packs · read 21 Oct 2026: pack prices on monthly and yearly billing, pooling, reset, no rollover, no proration
- Salesflare help: record and user limits · read 21 Oct 2026: no caps on contacts, accounts or opportunities, with a fair-use reservation; unlimited users billed per plan
- Salesflare help: Microsoft 365 restricted users · read 21 Oct 2026: sending blocks by Microsoft and how an admin lifts them
Full research notes and reading history (207 words)
salesflare.com/pricing (WebFetch, read directly, 2 passes); WebSearch snippets citing howto.salesflare.com "11 steps to get set up" and "how do I import my data" articles and salesflare.com/sales-crm/email-integration; read 6 Aug 2026. Re-read 27 September 2026 by plain fetch of salesflare.com/pricing: Growth $39/$29, Pro $64/$49 and Enterprise $124/$99 per user (monthly/annual, Enterprise with a minimum of 5 users), the same numerals in euros, 5/100/250 lead credits with extra monthly packs of 250 for $39, 500 for $69 and 1,000 for $129, and the 30-day trial without a card - all unchanged.
The pricing FAQ on the same page: no onboarding fee (one-on-one team training on request), no features charged beyond the listed plans, no hidden limits on contacts, users or pipelines, the trial account and its data carry over to a paid plan, and a plan can be cancelled whenever you want, with charging stopping immediately and no multi-year contract. Re-read 21 October 2026 by plain fetch: salesflare.com/pricing (all figures unchanged), the product-update archive with the posts of 13 August 2025, 19 March 2026 and 17 June 2026, and help-centre articles on permissions, lead-credit packs, record and user limits and Microsoft 365 sending blocks; alongside Codex's quote-checked reading of the pricing page and the permissions article the same day.
Salesflare vs Pipedrive, side by side
Each column shows the vendor’s own published entry price, read on the date shown. Entry prices can cover different services or units, so check what each one buys. We do not average them into a score.
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The natural comparison is Pipedrive: the more customisable, bigger-integration pipeline CRM. Weigh it against HubSpot on the job you actually need done.
Not a fit for you?
Salesflare is not for you if you need deep customisation, a big integration marketplace, or built-in calling and invoicing: Pipedrive or a fuller CRM fit better. In that case, look at Pipedrive, built for sales teams that want a simple, visual pipeline they can use on day one, with a separate marketing tool already in place.
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Frequently asked questions
Can you export your data from Salesflare?
Exit check 2026-10-29; route excerpt: Not tested: stopped at signup/onboarding under the connection and identity limits of the test plan; came along (excerpts): not tested; lost (excerpts): not tested; re-import: not tested.
Can I cancel Salesflare at any time?
Yes. The pricing FAQ (read 27 September 2026) says you can cancel whenever you want and stop being charged immediately, with no multi-year contract and no notice period before renewal. It does not say whether unused months on an annual plan are refunded, so if that matters, ask before choosing the annual rate, which is $10 to $25 per user a month cheaper.
What happens to my data when the Salesflare trial ends?
It stays. The trial runs 30 days with no credit card, and the FAQ (read 27 September 2026) says Salesflare emails you before it ends; if you then pay, you keep the same account and everything you added during the trial rather than starting a new one. Pick the plan with care: sequences and user permissions are Pro-only, at $49 per user a month billed annually.
Does Salesflare charge for onboarding or extra lead credits?
Onboarding is free; extra lead credits are not. The FAQ (read 27 September 2026) promises no onboarding fee and offers a one-on-one training session for the team on request. Lead credits come with the plan, 5 a month on Growth, 100 on Pro and 250 on Enterprise, and more are sold as monthly packs. The pricing page lists 250 for $39, 500 for $69 and 1,000 for $129 without naming a billing term (read 12 November 2026). The help article (updated 3 July 2026) gives those as the yearly rates and lists $49, $79 and $139 for monthly billing. Enterprise also needs at least five users, so it starts at $495 a month billed annually.
What do extra Salesflare lead credits really cost?
Two Salesflare pages disagree. The pricing page, read 21 October 2026, prints the packs on every plan card as 250 credits for $39, 500 for $69 and 1,000 for $129, even under the euro prices. The help article on buying more lead credits (last updated 3 July 2026) lists those three figures as the per-month cost on yearly billing and gives $49, $79 and $139 on monthly billing, plus two larger packs: 3,000 credits for $399 a month or $349 yearly, and 5,000 for $549 or $499. Credits are pooled for the whole team, reset on your billing day, do not roll over, and pack changes are not prorated: an upgrade is charged at once and a downgrade does not credit earlier payments.
Can a Salesflare rep be limited to their own accounts and deals?
Yes, but only from Pro. The help article on visibility (updated 15 January 2026) sets it up in three places: Settings > Set Permissions, where View Data is switched from 'Team data' to 'Own data' or 'Group data', with the same choice for create, edit and delete; Settings > Manage Your Team, where users are dragged into groups; and Settings > Configure Pipelines, where each pipeline is opened to chosen groups. The four roles are Admin, Manager, Team Member and Viewer, and Viewers are read-only by default. The pricing page lists user permissions, view-only users and manager groups on the Pro card, so a Growth team at $29 a user cannot do any of this.
Is there really no limit on contacts or users in Salesflare?
No hard limit, with one reservation. The help article on record limits (updated 3 July 2026) says there is no cap on contacts, accounts or opportunities, but that Salesflare reserves the right to step in when an account adds more contacts than makes sense in a sales CRM, to avoid misuse and excessive costs. Users are also unlimited; each extra user is billed at your plan's per-user rate, and the next total appears under Settings > Billing & Usage > Overview.
Can Salesflare be used from ChatGPT or Claude?
Through an MCP server announced in the 17 June 2026 product update, which lets an AI assistant look up and work with your CRM data when you ask it to; the post links a setup guide and says official connectors for Claude and ChatGPT are still coming. The same release added bulk creation of opportunities from a filtered account list and of accounts from a contact list. Neither the post nor the pricing page says which plans include the MCP access.
Is this a hands-on review of Salesflare?
No. We tried to start a trial of Salesflare on 2026-10-29 and the sign-up was refused, so this is a researched assessment; the section above shows what happened. We name what each tool is good and bad at, and we earn a commission only if you sign up, at no cost to you.
- Buyer reviews on G2, Capterra and TrustRadius, read August 2026.
- Re-verified 2026-09-14, re-read unchanged 2026-09-27 and again on 2026-10-21 on salesflare.com/pricing, per user a month.
- A dated screenshot of that pricing page, kept on this site as the receipt.
- Our own attempt to sign up for Salesflare (2026-10-29), written up in full further down this page.
Bottom line
Best for: small B2B teams whose reps skip data entry.
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