ColdMeetings is an alternative to CIENCE for companies that would rather run cold email themselves, in one account with an API, than hire an agency. It runs email only. Professional is $495/month and Enterprise is from $36,000/yr and is arranged on a call. Professional includes 10,000 verified prospects a month, 12 sending domains, 30 mailboxes and 5 active campaigns. Prices are in US dollars. This page compares CIENCE with ColdMeetings using only what CIENCE states on its own pages, read on 2026-10-19.
Sign up and start on Professional at $495/month, with the first month refundable within 7 days. It includes sending-domain setup; mailbox setup; SPF, DKIM and DMARC records.
See the plansProfessional is $495/month with 10,000 verified prospects a month, 12 sending domains, 30 mailboxes and 5 active campaigns. Every plan lists what it allows on the pricing page.
See the pricing pageThe API reference has a page for each of account, domains, mailboxes, campaigns, replies, events, suppressions, with the requests and responses written out.
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| What it is and who it suits | Teams that want to run email outreach themselves in software they control, with sending domains and mailboxes set up for them and a published price for each step up. | The cold email agency page names four fits: teams without sending infrastructure, teams whose closers are prospecting, teams that tried software alone, and teams entering a new market. The about page names business owners who need pipeline without an internal SDR team, marketing leaders and sales leaders.Source 1 and Source 2, read 2026-10-19 |
| Published pricing | Professional is $495/month and Enterprise is from $36,000/yr and is arranged on a call. Prices are in US dollars. | The pricing page lists a campaign team at $2,000 per month and the graph8 platform at $499 per month (75,000 credits a month included), plus SDRs charged per person per month: starting at $1,750 offshore, $2,500 in Europe and $3,500 in the US. A performance bonus is paid on top when an SDR reaches a held-meeting target. Setup is a one-time fee whose amount the page does not state. The page shows a worked example of five offshore SDRs at $11,249 per month before any bonus.Source, read 2026-10-19 |
| Contract | Professional bills every month and Enterprise bills every year. The first month of Professional can be refunded within 7 days. The plans and what each one allows are listed on the pricing page. | The pricing page says "Month to month, no long contract" and that SDRs can be added or removed month to month. The cold email agency page repeats "No contracts. Month to month."Source 1 and Source 2, read 2026-10-19 |
| Channels | Email only: sending domains, mailboxes, prospect lists, sequences and replies. We do not run calling or LinkedIn outreach. | The cold email agency page says cold email runs as one channel of an outbound campaign alongside phone and LinkedIn against the same accounts on one cadence. The homepage lists appointment setting, outbound SDR teams, cold calling, cold email, inbound SDR and B2B contact data as services.Source 1 and Source 2, read 2026-10-19 |
| Tools and infrastructure | One product covers domains and inboxes, prospect lists, sequences and replies. On Professional you pay the domain, mailbox and sending-software suppliers directly at cost; Enterprise includes infrastructure. | The cold email agency page says campaigns run inside graph8, where sequences, replies and sender health sit in one place, on separate sending domains that are authenticated and warmed before volume. The pricing page says setup is described as covering email, phone and LinkedIn infrastructure with its domains set up to be protected, plus four campaigns: buyer intent, best-fit accounts, website visitors and competitor customers.Source 1 and Source 2, read 2026-10-19 |
| Who does the work | You or your team run campaigns in the software. Enterprise adds ongoing copywriting, larger lists, continuous A/B testing and campaign success manager. | The cold email agency page says a person reads every reply, SDRs handle the replies, and the handoff is a qualified meeting placed on the rep's calendar. The homepage says AI reads the account and drafts the opener, and the SDR reviews it, calls and handles the reply; a growth manager supervises the account.Source 1 and Source 2, read 2026-10-19 |
CIENCE publishes its price structure. A campaign team costs $2,000 per month and the graph8 platform $499 per month, both stated as flat amounts regardless of how many SDRs you add. SDRs are charged per person per month, starting at $1,750 offshore, $2,500 in Europe and $3,500 in the US.
A performance bonus is paid on top when an SDR reaches a held-meeting target, and a one-time setup fee applies, though the page does not give its amount. The page works through an example of five offshore SDRs at $11,249 per month before bonus.
Source: https://www.cience.com/pricing/, read 2026-10-19.
The pricing page and the cold email agency page both say the engagement is month to month with no long contract, and that SDRs can be added or removed monthly.
Sources: https://www.cience.com/pricing/ and https://www.cience.com/cold-email-agency/, read 2026-10-19.
CIENCE treats cold email as one channel inside an outbound program, not a stand-alone product. Email, phone and LinkedIn run against the same accounts on one cadence, and the homepage lists cold calling, inbound SDR work and contact data alongside cold email.
The pricing page says setup builds four campaigns: buyer intent, best-fit accounts, website visitors and competitor customers.
Sources: https://www.cience.com/cold-email-agency/ and https://www.cience.com/, read 2026-10-19.
Work is done by SDRs supervised by a growth manager. The pages say a person reads every reply, and that AI drafts research and openers which the SDR reviews before calling.
The campaigns run inside CIENCE's graph8 platform on separate sending domains that are authenticated and warmed before volume, and the platform fee includes 75,000 credits a month.
Sources: https://www.cience.com/ and https://www.cience.com/cold-email-agency/, read 2026-10-19.
Teams that want to run email outreach themselves in software they control, with sending domains and mailboxes set up for them and a published price for each step up.
The cold email agency page names four fits: teams without sending infrastructure, teams whose closers are prospecting, teams that tried software alone, and teams entering a new market. The about page names business owners who need pipeline without an internal SDR team, marketing leaders and sales leaders.Sources: https://www.cience.com/cold-email-agency/ and https://www.cience.com/about-us/, read 2026-10-19
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