Looking for an Instantly alternative? Only if you also send a newsletter.
Historical comparison from Fable’s September 2026 research, not a current vendor quote. Confirm current provider features, prices, currency and billing periods. Pulse is unbuilt. Instantly is built for one job and does it well: high-volume cold outreach, from $47 a month for 5,000 emails on Growth to $97 for 125,000 on Hypergrowth and $358 on Lightspeed, with unlimited email accounts throughout. What it does not do is a newsletter — so a business that does both ends up with two products, two suppression lists and $67 a month for one job. Centilio Pulse does both halves on one list, one domain and one sending reputation, from $19 a month.
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Product design preview · Pulse has not shipped. All features, screens and prices are proposals.
Pulse has not shipped yet.
Pulse has not shipped. These screens, features and prices are proposals, not an app or beta. Email Outreach is described in the source as its precursor—not the full Pulse product. See the product directory for current stages.
List prices as published on the vendor's public pages in September 2026. Check their page for today's figure and tell us if we are out of date.
Historical comparison from Fable’s September 2026 research, not a current vendor quote. Confirm current provider features, prices, currency and billing periods. Pulse is unbuilt.
Centilio Pulse
Instantly
Price
Free (1,000 emails/mo); Pro $19 for 25,000; Business $39 for 100,000
Growth $47 for 5,000; Hypergrowth $97 for 125,000; Lightspeed $358 for 500,000
Free plan
Unlimited contacts, 1,000 emails a month
None
Campaigns and newsletters
Yes, on the same list and the same reputation
No — this is not what it is for
Cold outreach
Ramped, capped, on your own domain. Deliberately not high-volume on day one
Yes, at volume, and it is excellent at it
Mailboxes
Unlimited on Business
Unlimited on every plan
Lead database
No
Yes, and it is part of the appeal
Replies
Classified onto the customer record in Relate
In their unified inbox, which is good
Best fit
A business doing both newsletters and outbound
An agency or sales team doing outbound at volume
Availability
Not shipped — wave 2, in design
Shipped, and the category leader
If you switch, later
What moving from Instantly will take.
Historical comparison from Fable’s September 2026 research, not a current vendor quote. Confirm current provider features, prices, currency and billing periods. Pulse is unbuilt.
Choose Instantly if
Outbound is the whole business. You are running hundreds of thousands of cold emails across many domains, you want their lead database, and you do not send a newsletter at all. Pulse will deliberately refuse to send at the volumes you need on day one.
Choose Centilio Pulse if
You do both. A newsletter to customers and sequences to prospects are the same list, the same domain and the same reputation, and paying two vendors to keep two suppression lists that disagree is how people accidentally email someone who unsubscribed.
Export the suppression list first. Everyone who ever unsubscribed or complained on Instantly, before anything else. Emailing a past unsubscriber is the worst first send you can make, and it is the mistake this migration produces most often.
Authenticate before you import. SPF, DKIM and DMARC verified on the new tool, so your first send is not also your first experiment.
Start with your best segment. The people who opened something recently. A first send that gets read and answered establishes the new setup; a first send to the whole list establishes the opposite.
Proposed approach: authenticate first, preserve suppressions, and increase volume only as relevant delivery and complaint evidence supports it. There is no fixed warmup or migration duration that guarantees inbox placement.
Questions
About switching.
Is Centilio Pulse a Mailchimp alternative?+
Historical comparison from Fable’s September 2026 research, not a current vendor quote. Confirm current provider features, prices, currency and billing periods. Pulse is unbuilt. For a business that wants campaigns, sequences and outbound on one list, yes — and with unlimited contacts instead of a price that climbs as your list grows. For a Shopify store that needs product-feed automation, no; that is Klaviyo.
Is it a Klaviyo alternative?+
Historical comparison from Fable’s September 2026 research, not a current vendor quote. Confirm current provider features, prices, currency and billing periods. Pulse is unbuilt. For a business that is not an ecommerce store, yes. For one that is, Klaviyo is genuinely the best product in that niche and we would rather say so than sell you a year of disappointment.
Is it an Instantly or Smartlead alternative?+
For a business that also sends a newsletter, yes, and it is the only tool on this list that does both on one list and one reputation. For an agency running high-volume outbound across dozens of domains, no — they are built for that and we are not.
Is it a Brevo alternative?+
Historical comparison from Fable’s September 2026 research, not a current vendor quote. Confirm current provider features, prices, currency and billing periods. Pulse is unbuilt. It is aimed at the same buyer, and Brevo is the only large vendor that already prices the right way, by emails sent rather than contacts stored. Our argument is that they then charge extra for removing their own logo and sell SMS credits separately, and that replies going onto a customer record is worth more than either.
Are these prices current?+
List prices seen on the vendors' public pricing pages in September 2026. Check their page for today's figure and tell us if we are out of date.
Next for you
What people add after Pulse.
The tools Pulse sits between. Check each product’s current stage while Pulse is built.
These proposed connections depend on the participating products launching. No shared-record service is operating in this preview.
Historical comparison from Fable’s September 2026 research, not a current vendor quote. Confirm current provider features, prices, currency and billing periods. Pulse is unbuilt.
Wave 2 is the next build after the currently available tools. Leave your name and you will hear before the announcement — and tell us what you actually send, while it is still being designed.