Groove, a Clari company vs. Reply

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Groove, a Clari company
Score 6.2 out of 10
N/A
Groove is a sales engagement platform that enables sales leaders to execute their strategy in a smarter and more adaptive way. With Groove, revenue leaders can use automation to do more with less, with the goal of driving greater efficiency and effectiveness across the customer lifecycle. Groove states they enable more than 75,000 users at ADP, Google, Uber, iHeartMedia, Capital One, and other large enterprises.N/A
Reply
Score 10.0 out of 10
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
Reply.io helps sales teams book more meetings by automating outreach with smart AI. It finds leads, writes personalized messages, handles replies, and books meetings, so you can focus on closing deals. Reply.io's AI SDR learns the product, targets its potential users, and engages across email, LinkedIn, SMS, WhatsApp, and calls. Additionally it: Handles replies, books meetings, and works in multiple languages Has access to 1B+ leads with…
$50
per month
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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AI Chat
$50
per month
Email Volume
$59
per month per user
Multichannel
$99
per month per user
Agency
$166 (starts at)
per month (billed annually) per account
AI SDR Starter
starting with $800
per month 1000 active contacts
AI SDR Growth
Starts from $2500
per month 5000 active contacts
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeRequiredOptional
Additional DetailsDiscount available for annual pricing.
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Community Pulse
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Considered Both Products
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Chose Groove, a Clari company
I had less issues with logging with he other two, compared to Groove, a Clari company.
Chose Groove, a Clari company
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Chose Groove, a Clari company
Groove is at the top of my list in comparison to others in the market.
Chose Groove, a Clari company
I prefer Groove because of its seamless integration with Salesforce and Gmail, and the User Interface is much more simple and user friendly,
Chose Groove, a Clari company
Didn't choose as this was a company wide decision, but outreach is less user friendly and the UI on Groove is better overall
Chose Groove, a Clari company
Groove's integration with Salesforce is its primary differentiator. Outreach/Salesloft cater to all CRMs and their sync with SFDC has a delay, requires additional configuration, and is often frustrating for admins.

Salesforce Sales Engagement (formerly High Velocity Sales) also …
Chose Groove, a Clari company
I have not used other products like Groove before in the past.
Chose Groove, a Clari company
Orum is better for calls, Groove is better for emails (my opinion, others may see it differently).
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It's not that Hubspot is better than Groove, it's that our data does not pull over to groove very well from hubspot.

So, if you are going to attract hubspot customers, you need to have a better process for moving your data over
Chose Groove, a Clari company
We demo'd Ourtreach and Outplay. Outreach would never really focus on what I, as a salesperson, was looking for - they liked to talk about the features geared to management and marketing in regards to reporting and the dashboard. They didn't have a trial either - and I would …
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I have not tried others
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I used Outreach at a previous company, and Outreach works very well. The fact is, when we were looking at programs like Groove, we were, and still are, comparatively, pretty small. Price was a big factor in our decision and what had us in the end going with Groove. Yay!
Chose Groove, a Clari company
We used 2 other products not listed above and both were awful, especially Zynbit (crashed my computer any time i used it).
Chose Groove, a Clari company
Groove.cm is a feature-rich online software option for marketing and CRM-related purposes for any business. I may not able to compare it to other products but I know Groove gave me a chance to perform more efficiently since I don't need to check my email from time to time. As …
Chose Groove, a Clari company
Groove is definitely more user friendly than SalesLoft
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I have used Dialpad.

Dialpad is great, and Groove in my opinion does everything Dialpad does. Dialpad lacks the automation, which makes me feel that Groove is much better.
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I would prefer Groove over RingDNA because when I used RingDNA before I was totally lost. The design was not on point so you really have to navigate and explore it.
Chose Groove, a Clari company
I selected Groove as the best application for our daily job since it gives us a lot of help when we can't reach our client by phone calls and also helps us to monitor our emails, meeting schedule, updates, and client meetings and the very important is we can monitor our sales.
Reply
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We use Reply for our outbound sales initiatives, and the system performs excellently for us, outperforming any other platform. This is a fantastic
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Reply is a very good and widely known platform. I find it to be a lot more sophisticated and composed. I believe this tool works great for both large and small companies, which makes it stand out. There are so many other tools that work great, but they are restricted to the …
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Its customer service is very professional. They respond to my messages within a few minutes. I recently had a hard time creating templates, and their representative gives me the right workable solution, which makes me more comfortable using the platform on the next step. It …
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These tools are great, but they aren't built for what we use Reply for. Reply is perfect for doing these outbound campaigns at scale, whereas with ActiveCampaign and Vitally we were trying to turn the tools into something they are not.
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Reply is more user-friendly and has more features than the other tools I’ve used. It doesn’t have every feature we need, but it works better than the others that exist in the important aspects (connects to Gmail, accurate results, customization, etc.)
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Outreach did not cater to the Indian audience, hence went with my second best choice :)
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Reply is a great tool, but it is not as sophisticated as Outreach. I think Outreach works best for larger companies, while Reply works great for smaller ones. The two tools have a lot of similarities. Outreach has also built a culture around their product, whereas Reply has not …
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We've used MailChimp's email chain automation but they don't work as well as Reply.io when you need a plain text email to write to your contact. Our Business Development Managers are happier with Reply.io and say it has met their needs a lot better than the instruments that …
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I terms of outbound emails, I would say Reply.io is very similar to SalesLoft Cadence. I haven't used Cadence since last year, so there may be upgrades that I'm unaware of. But I prefer the interface for Reply and it's significantly cheaper. For teams smaller than 4 you can't …
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I think Reply.io has the most features for the price and the ability for me to insert dynamic images was the real winner. I have found that this is usually an enterprise feature in most of the platforms I have evaluated. I also like that this is accessible to the every day …
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
4.9
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Likelihood to Renew
8.9
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Usability
5.4
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Availability
9.1
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Performance
9.1
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Support Rating
4.5
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8.0
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In-Person Training
4.7
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Online Training
9.1
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Implementation Rating
9.0
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Configurability
8.9
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Ease of integration
9.1
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Product Scalability
9.1
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Vendor post-sale
9.1
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9.1
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User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
When Groove was able to notify me that the other party already seen the email is pretty nice. It help us a lot to prepare what they will have to say. It will also help our business to grow more since they know that we are professionally waiting for them to reply.
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I find this tool to be the best and most precise Sales Engagement Software that is currently available on the market. [Reply] has some great automation tools that so beautifully keep all the leads on track, which can easily create content and even lead to a better presence in the market arena. Hence, with all that being said, I highly recommend this software to businesses, especially to implement within their Sales and Marketing teams.
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Pros
  • Groove lets us know real-time when a client has checked an email we sent them.
  • Groove helps us streamline our day-to-day events, meetings, and tasks with the help of the Calendar Booking feature.
  • Groove helps us save a lot of time on typing long letters when we explain our products to our customers with the help of their Templates feature.
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  • While building campaigns, Reply shows you how likely it is that your content will receive a reply.
  • Reply has useful training material.
  • The insights are great. I can see when an email has been opened or clicked.
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Cons
  • The footprint of the person who lasts touches the information.
  • The footprint of the person who edited the information.
  • Date and time of the modification of the account owner.
  • Date and time of the modification of the last person touching the account.
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  • There's not much editing options in terms of the email design, but it's not really a con since it allows the emails to get through picky Gmail and other email providers' filters.
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Likelihood to Renew
Groove is integral to our process and we're glad the price is affordable. The only way we would replace Groove is if the price went up or our C-suite decides to want a took that goes beyond Sales Enablement and Sales Automation
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Usability
Groove is incredibly easy to use, and is flexible enough to use in a way that suits each rep. With the Omnibar, it can be used directly from Outlook, or reps can use it directly in the Groove platform itself. You can use their built-in dialer, email functionality, and even some LInkedIn messages.
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Reliability and Availability
Our organization has not experienced any availability issues with Groove
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Performance
Everything is good
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Support Rating
Our Groove representative has been very attentive the the needs of our sales teams. They are always available to provide training for new employees and refreshers for members of the team who have been slow to adopt. The online support is also very good, I have had several questions answered quickly using the online support chat function.
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I generally receive a reply in no time at all and found not only the support org. but the sales team to be extremely helpful. Additionally I found a great onboarding process with plenty of resources to consume.
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In-Person Training
It was okay. But, just the once. I had to figure it out with help of others on my team.
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Online Training
Easy to use
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Implementation Rating
At Nearpod, I have been impressed with the internal expertise and support around Groove as a key tool for the Sales and Customer Success business systems and operations.
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Alternatives Considered
Groove's integration with Salesforce is its primary differentiator. Outreach/Salesloft cater to all CRMs and their sync with SFDC has a delay, requires additional configuration, and is often frustrating for admins. Salesforce Sales Engagement (formerly High Velocity Sales) also has a native integration (with no sync), but Groove is easier to use for the typical sales manager/sales rep end user. With Sales Engagement, I would be needed to help build functionality and alleviate issues, whereas with Groove, our users are much more self-sufficient.
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We
use Reply for our outbound sales initiatives, and the system performs
excellently for us, outperforming any other platform. This is a fantastic
product that offers excellent value for money. I chose this above others for a
range of factors like it has made it simple for us to start up cold outreach
campaigns and execute quick and easy messaging tests. I think the Reply tool is
best for our company because it does a good job of solving our problem of
scaling outbound sales effectively and at a very reasonable price.
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Scalability
Our organization was able to quickly scale Groove from a pilot group of a few users to a department-wide solution
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Return on Investment
  • Reduced several hours a week of logging time in Salesforce that either wouldn't get done or would have been done to the detriment of more value add activities.
  • Saves hours per week by delivering actionable/useful info from Salesforce into Gmail
  • Gives me valuable insight on what emails are being opened and read. This helps plan targeting.
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  • Reply has helped us successfully send hundreds of invitations that turned into customers that attended our events.
  • We have lost money through the inability to export results of campaigns and therefore lost data and leads.
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