
Reply.io alternative
Reply.io sequences, without the per-seat bill.
Zoe writes the sequence, sorts every reply and drafts the answer with your booking link. All in the same app as your deals, calls and invoices, with unlimited users.
Free plan, no card. Bring your contacts as a CSV and connect the inboxes you already use.
Reply.io and Alori, side by side.
Reply.ioAloriFrom a cold email to a booked demo.
Zoe writes the sequence, Alori sends it slowly from your inboxes, and every reply comes back sorted with an answer ready. One click puts the interested ones on your pipeline.
- 1Zoe writes the sequence
- 2Alori sends from warmed-up inboxes
- 3Replies come back sorted
- 4Interested people become deals
What changes on Monday.
- 01
BeforeEvery rep and founder is another paid seat
With AloriUnlimited users on every plan
- 02
BeforeAn AI SDR is its own monthly bill
With AloriZoe sorts and drafts replies on your plan's credits
- 03
BeforeInterested replies get copied into the CRM by hand
With AloriAdd to deals puts them on your pipeline, with the whole exchange
Every reply, sorted, with the answer drafted.
Replies from every inbox land in one list, one row per person, with the whole exchange beside it. Zoe sorts each one and drafts your answer, so you only read, edit and send.
- Interested, not now, wrong person and out of office, sorted for you. Change a sort and Zoe learns from it.
- Your answer goes from the inbox they wrote to, in the same thread.
- Press Add to deals and they land on the pipeline and stage you pick.
Zoe writes the sequence for you.
Answer one question: who do you want to reach, and what do you offer them? Zoe plans the sequence with you, then writes every email from what Alori already knows about your business.
- A first line for each lead, from a web search about their company. When the search finds nothing solid, Alori writes no first line and the email goes out in its plain version.
- Preview the first 10 leads' emails before you press Start.
- The editor flags spam words, a link in the first email and shouting in capitals.
From a reply to a deal, in the same app.
Cold emails lives next to your CRM. Every email sent is on the customer's record, and an interested reply becomes a deal in one click, beside their calls, meetings, quotes and invoices.
- A sequence can follow a deal stage: every open deal on it joins, once.
- Unlimited users: sales, founders and account managers all see the same customer.
- Ask Sam "Which cold email leads became deals this month?"
Nobody gets an email they shouldn't.
A lead stops the moment they or a colleague reply, unsubscribe, bounce or become a real deal. Every email carries your postal address and a way to stop.
- "No", "stop" or "unsubscribe" puts them on your do-not-email list for good.
- Block a whole company domain in one step.
- An inbox pauses by itself when more than 3% of its last 100 emails bounced.
Change it by asking.
Your app isn’t frozen on day one. Write what you need, the way you’d text it. Alori makes the change and shows you before anything goes live.
- Write a sequence for founders of 10 to 50 person SaaS companies
- Answer Emma with the drafted reply
- Which email version is winning?
- Who replied interested this week?
The full guide
Everything above, in detail: how it works, what it replaces and what it does not.
Short answer: Alori is a Reply.io alternative for small software companies and agencies that sell mostly by email and want their sequences in the same app as their CRM, calls and invoices. Zoe writes the sequence, sorts every reply and drafts the answer, and every plan has unlimited users. Switching takes a CSV of your leads and the inboxes you already use.
Why teams leave Reply.io
Reply.io is a strong sales engagement platform, with email, LinkedIn, calls and texts in one sequence, and an AI SDR. Small teams leave it for the bill and the split:
- Multichannel is priced per user, so every rep, founder and account manager is another seat.
- Sequences run in Reply.io, while the pipeline, quotes and invoices sit in a CRM.
- A team that books meetings by email pays for LinkedIn, calls and texts it rarely runs.
What you pay
Reply.io, as listed on its pricing page in November 2026:
| Team of 5 | Reply.io | Alori |
|---|---|---|
| Multichannel plan | $99 per user a month: $495 for 5 ($89 per user on yearly billing) | Cold emails in your plan; AI writing uses credits |
| AI SDR | Jason AI SDR from $500 a month | Zoe sorts replies and drafts answers, on credits |
| CRM, calls, quotes, invoices | Other tools | Included |
| Plan | Per user, plus add-ons | Free to start, Solo from $99 a month, Business from $249, unlimited users |
See Alori's pricing.
What Alori replaces
- In Cold emails › Inboxes, click Get an inbox: Alori buys new domains close to yours and Google inboxes on them, with two weeks of warm-up, billed each month in credits. Or connect your own Google or Microsoft 365 inboxes by signing in, or any other inbox with its password.
- Each new inbox starts at 5 emails a day and adds 3 a day, up to 30. Emails go out 2 to 6 minutes apart on weekdays, in each lead's working hours. Alori checks each domain's SPF, DKIM, DMARC and MX every day, says in plain words what to fix, and pauses an inbox by itself when too many emails bounce.
- Tell Zoe, Alori's marketing specialist, who you want to reach and what you offer. She plans a 4-step sequence and writes it from what Alori knows about your business, with a first line for each lead from a web search about their company. Up to 12 steps: emails in one thread, plus call or LinkedIn to-dos that land in your tasks.
- A/B test up to 3 versions of each email. Alori names a winner once each version has sent 50 emails and one clearly gets more replies, and Zoe writes the next one to test.
- Cold emails › Replies gathers the answers from every inbox, one row per person. Zoe sorts them (interested, not now, wrong person, out of office) and drafts your answer with your booking link. Send it from the same inbox, in the same thread, or let Zoe answer interested people herself.
- A lead stops when they reply, when someone at their company replies, when they unsubscribe or bounce, or when they become an active deal. An out-of-office reply waits 3 days, then tries again.
- Every email ends with your postal address and a "reply no" line, and carries an unsubscribe header. "No", "stop" or "unsubscribe" puts the person on your do-not-email list, and no sequence writes to them again. Block whole company domains in one step.
- To add leads, upload a CSV or Excel file, paste a Google Sheet link, type or paste emails, pick a Targets list, or find people with Apollo by job title, place and company size, on your own Apollo account. Give Alori a list of company websites and it finds the right people at each one.
- Each email sent lands in the customer's history. Press Add to deals on an interested reply and they go on your pipeline, next to their calls, meetings, quotes and invoices.
- Ask in plain words, to Sam in the CRM, your bot, or Claude through Alori: "Who replied interested this week?", "Pause the agencies sequence", "Block northpixel.io".
What Alori doesn't do yet
- Automated LinkedIn, calls and texts in the sequence. Reply.io runs them as real steps, has an AI SDR that books meetings on its own and a B2B contact database. If multichannel outreach is your engine, stay on Reply.io.
- No lead database of its own. Finding people uses your own Apollo account and its credits, on a paid Apollo plan.
- Plain-text emails only, with no open tracking. Click tracking needs your website on its own domain.
- Sending is capped at 30 emails a day per inbox and 50 inboxes per app.
- No warm-up network for inboxes you bring. Alori ramps them up slowly; warm-up comes with the inboxes you get in Alori. No inbox placement tests either: Alori sees bounces and replies, not spam folders.
- No cold email to Europe or the UK. Leads in Canada need the page where their email is published, as Canada's anti-spam law asks.
- Cold emails is in early access. It isn't offered when you sign up yet: ask Alori in Chat to turn it on.
How to switch
- Start free. Describe your business. Alori builds your app with customers, deals and the modules you pick. Then ask Alori in Chat to "turn on Cold emails".
- Bring your inboxes. In Cold emails › Inboxes, connect the inboxes you used with Reply.io: sign in with Google or Microsoft 365, or click Add with a password and turn on "These inboxes are already warmed up" so they start at 15 emails a day. Or click Get an inbox for new ones.
- Bring your leads. Export your leads from Reply.io as a CSV, without the people who unsubscribed or bounced. In a sequence, click Add leads › Upload a file. Alori finds the columns by their names, and people already in your CRM are matched by email, never doubled.
- Rewrite and start. Paste your best Reply.io emails into the steps, or ask Zoe to write the sequence. Pause the campaign in Reply.io, then press Start sending.
Questions
Another question? Ask it when you start.
Yes, for a small team that sells mostly by email and wants sequences, replies and deals in one app, with unlimited users. For automated LinkedIn, calling and texting steps, Reply.io does more.
A team of 5 on Reply.io Multichannel pays $495 a month. Alori starts at $99 a month on Solo with unlimited users, and includes the CRM, business phone and invoicing. There is also a free plan, no card needed.
Zoe, Alori's marketing specialist, writes the sequence, sorts every reply and drafts your answer with your booking link. Turn on autopilot and she answers interested people herself. She runs on your plan's credits.
Your contacts, from a CSV export, and your sending inboxes, which you connect again by signing in to Google or Microsoft 365 or with their password. LinkedIn and call steps can stay in your sequence as to-dos.
Small software companies and agencies, usually under 50 people.
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