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Honest comparison · updated September 2026

Reply.io vs. Rocketship:
every channel is its own bill. Ours is one number.

Reply.io sells outbound the way a phone carrier sells minutes: a base plan for email, then LinkedIn as its own add-on, then calling as its own add-on, each priced per seat. Add them up for one person running true multichannel and independent pricing guides put the total near $187 a month, and that still doesn't answer a reply on its own. The capability that would, an autonomous AI SDR called Jason, isn't part of any plan; Reply.io sells it separately, starting around $500 a month for a sliver of contacts. Rocketship includes all of it (finding, writing, sending, reading, answering, booking, and answering the phone) for $24.99 a month, one price, no per-channel add-on.

Disclosure: Rocketship publishes this page. Reply.io capability and pricing notes reflect publicly reported plans and add-on pricing as of September 2026: verify current details at reply.io.

Finds your buyersROCKETSHIP: Yes, from a plain-English description, credit-billed to what Sophie sendsReply.io: Data credits included (about 50/mo on Multichannel); deeper enrichment via a separate Live Data add-on, reported around $39/mo
Email sendingROCKETSHIP: Yes, from your own GmailReply.io: Yes, Email Volume plan, priced by contact-list tier, reported $49–$59/user/mo
LinkedIn automationROCKETSHIP: Not a separate line item: Sophie's channels are included in the planReply.io: Separate add-on, reported around $69/account/mo
Calling and SMSROCKETSHIP: AI voice calls includedReply.io: Separate add-on, reported around $29/user/mo
Drafts a replyROCKETSHIP: Yes, and sends it, unsupervisedReply.io: Yes, on Multichannel: an AI assistant drafts inside a sequence you built
Answers replies unsupervised, on the base planROCKETSHIP: Yes, standard, at any hourReply.io: No, autonomous reply handling isn't part of Email Volume or Multichannel at any price
Autonomous AI SDRROCKETSHIP: Included standard at $24.99/moReply.io: Sold as a separate product, "Jason": reported from $500/mo for 1,000–3,000 contacts, ~$1,500/mo at the next tier
Answers inbound callsROCKETSHIP: Yes, 24/7 on your existing numberReply.io: No, no Reply.io product answers a call
Books meetingsROCKETSHIP: Yes, into your real calendarReply.io: Not standard outside Jason
CRMROCKETSHIP: Pipeline board with custom stages, in the same productReply.io: Syncs out to your CRM
Builds the site + takes paymentROCKETSHIP: Yes, Stripe Connect, your custom domainReply.io: No
Reported cost for one seat, true multichannelROCKETSHIP: $24.99/mo flat, all channels includedReply.io: ≈$187/user/mo (Multichannel $89–$99 + LinkedIn $69 + Calls $29), before data or verification add-ons

The cost math

Price out one person doing what Sophie does by default. Reply.io's Multichannel plan is $89–$99 a month per user for email; add LinkedIn automation (reported ~$69/account/mo) and calling (reported ~$29/user/mo) and independent pricing breakdowns land near $187 a user, a month, before the data-enrichment add-on (~$39/mo) or email verification (~$20/mo). Every channel Sophie already speaks is its own line item on Reply.io's bill.

None of that reaches unsupervised. The AI assistant on Multichannel drafts inside a sequence a person built and approves: the same shape as Instantly's unibox or Smartlead's Reply Agent. The product that actually claims to run the loop end to end (find, write, send, read, answer, book) is Jason, and Reply.io doesn't fold it into Email Volume or Multichannel at any tier. It's sold separately, reported from $500 a month for 1,000–3,000 contacts, climbing toward $1,500 a month at the next size. Reply.io's own price list is the clearest evidence in this whole comparison that unsupervised handling is worth paying extra for. They charge $500+ for it.

Rocketship doesn't charge extra for it. $24.99 a month is one number for every channel: the buyer found, the email sent, the voice touch that would be its own line item elsewhere, and whatever comes back read and answered without a person standing in between. That's the whole stack Reply.io prices out as a base plan, two add-ons, and a five-hundred-dollar separate product on top.

Add it up yourself

Reply.io is self-serve, so run the honest test: start on Email Volume, then add LinkedIn, then add calling, and watch the bill assemble one add-on at a time. Then ask what it would cost to make a reply get answered without a person opening the inbox. That's a different product, priced separately, starting around $500 a month. Compare that final number to Rocketship's one number and keep whichever is actually lower for what it does.

When Rocketship is the right choice

  • You don't want to price outbound the way a phone plan prices data: a base rate, then a fee for LinkedIn, then a fee for calling. Rocketship's channels are the product, not add-ons.
  • You want unsupervised reply handling without paying for it as a second product. Reply.io sells that capability separately, starting around $500/mo; Rocketship includes it in the $24.99 plan.
  • No Reply.io product (not the base plan, not either add-on, not Jason) answers a phone. Rocketship does, day and night, on the number you already publish, and turns the callback into a meeting on the spot.
  • You'd rather not reassemble a channel plan every time you add one. One subscription sends the email, holds the page it links to, and takes the payment on that page: Reply.io's sequencer stops at the send and has no page or payment anywhere in it.
  • You're pricing this per person on your team. Reply.io's add-ons are per seat; Rocketship's plan doesn't grow because you hired someone.

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