Comparison · Alleyoop vs. CIENCE
CIENCE is one of the biggest names in outsourced sales development, and over time it has become a platform company that sells outbound in modules. We're a service that sells one thing. The difference decides which one fits you.
They scaled the old playbook. We changed the play.
Choose CIENCE if you want to assemble and operate an outbound stack: platform license, data depth, modular SDR capacity you manage, and a per-held-meeting commission on top. Choose Alleyoop if you want the outcome: one flat monthly fee, dedicated onshore Playmakers, demand gen and sales development under one roof, and 8 to 36 qualified meetings a month.
This isn't a takedown, CIENCE has served thousands of clients and their data infrastructure is genuinely large. It's a fork in the road: do you want to run outbound, or receive it? Their model is built for operators. Ours is built for executives who want the function owned, end to end, by a team contractually pointed at meetings.
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CIENCE pricing details reflect their published model and third-party reporting as of mid-2026; confirm current terms with them directly. Ours are on the Programs page.
Bottom line: CIENCE assembles a modular stack you operate, setup fee, platform license, retainer, and a commission per held meeting. Alleyoop is one flat fee from $5,250/mo with the qualified meeting as the deliverable, data and technology included, and no per-meeting commission.
The proof: Alleyoop booked 10,000+ qualified meetings as ZoomInfo’s outbound arm while they scaled from 50 to 3,500 people, plus programs for Adobe, AWS, Srixon and ACV Auctions.
| CIENCE | Alleyoop | |
|---|---|---|
| What you're buying | A platform with services attached, you operate, they supply. | An outcome, qualified meetings on your closers' calendars. |
| Pricing shape | Setup fee + platform license + retainer + per-held-meeting commission. | One flat monthly fee. Meetings are the deliverable, not a meter. |
| The people | SDR marketplace; global delivery; pay split between base and performance. | Dedicated onshore Playmakers, assigned to you, coached by us. |
| Where AI sits | AI agents handle initial contact and follow-ups alongside human SDRs. | AI decides who and when. Humans have every conversation. |
| Marketing | Yours to run, or bought as separate scope. | Same roof, same system, warm-up reaches the exact companies we'll call. |
| The endgame | Explicitly built for your internal team to take over the stack. | Built to compound, the history we build and the companies we've warmed up get better every quarter we run it. |
Pick CIENCE if you have revenue-ops capacity and want to own the machinery: platform access, big data coverage, modular capacity you can scale across geographies, and a clear plan to run outbound internally on their stack. If you're an operator who wants the keys, that's their design, literally.
If instead you read "setup fee, license, retainer, marketplace, commission" and felt your calendar fill up with vendor management, you're our kind of client. You don't want to run a second company inside your company. You want the pass thrown so your closers can finish.
It depends on your meeting volume, that's the honest answer. The structural difference matters more than the sticker: their cost rises with a per-held-meeting commission on top of fixed fees; ours is flat, so your cost per meeting falls as the program performs. Model both on the Math page →
No. Meetings are the deliverable of the program, not a metered line item on top of it. A commission per held meeting creates an odd incentive: you pay more precisely when the thing you already paid for works.
We use AI heavily, to find which companies, when, and with what context. We don't let AI have the conversations, write the emails your market sees, or make voice calls. Here's the full case for why →
Twenty minutes, your numbers, and a straight answer, including "CIENCE fits you better," if it's true.
The assist is ours. The win is yours.