Comparison
Lead Scorer vs Folk
Folk is the most pleasant contact CRM in this comparison and it does not prospect for you. Lead Scorer keeps a CRM free underneath an agent that finds, qualifies and writes. They overlap on intake and diverge on everything after it.
Verdict
Pick Folk if you want a beautiful, collaborative contact CRM with email at the centre. Pick Lead Scorer if the CRM is not the point — getting the first fifty qualified conversations is.
What Folk really costs one person
500 new prospects a month, one person, a 3-touch email sequence (1,500 emails).
Advertised
€24/user/month, as published when this page was written
Real month, one person
Not measured — Folk was not part of our 2026-08-09 pricing survey
Lead Scorer, same month
€0 for the CRM, forever. €49/month adds the outbound agent, an inbox and 500 credits. Our overage is published: €49 per 1,000 credits.
Billed monthly, cancel anytime. Yearly billing takes 20% off Solo, Pro and Scale: €468, €948 and €1,908 a year (€39, €79 and €159 a month). Optional — monthly still cancels anytime.
Vendor-published figure from when this page was first written. It was NOT re-read during our 2026-08-09 survey of 17 AI SDR and outreach tools, so treat it as indicative and verify before budgeting.
folk.appWhat the advertised price leaves out
- Folk is a contact CRM, not an AI SDR or a sequencer, so it fell outside the 17-tool survey we ran on 2026-08-09.
- We have not re-read its pricing page with the rigour we applied to the others, and we will not compute a 'real cost' from a figure we did not verify on the day.
- Check folk.app/pricing before you budget.
How we priced this
- Scenario
- 500 new prospects a month, one person, a 3-touch email sequence (1,500 emails).
- Infrastructure counted in every total
- 3 mailboxes at 30 emails/day (Google Workspace Business Starter, ≈$21/month) and 2 secondary domains (≈$1.74/month) are counted in every stack, because every vendor leaves them out.
- Billing
- Annual commitment wherever one exists — the assumption most favourable to the vendor.
- LinkedIn cap
- LinkedIn's ~100 invitations/week soft cap means a single account cannot physically work 500 new prospects a month. The totals model 500 by email and ~400 on LinkedIn.
- Exchange rate
- €1 = $1.155 (US Federal Reserve H.10, 2026-08-06). Conversions are marked ≈.
- Limits
- No purchase was made. Every official figure comes from a vendor page read on 2026-08-09; third-party figures are labelled as such and never used as prices.
Side by side
| Feature | Lead Scorer | Folk |
|---|---|---|
| Free tier | Full CRM, forever | Trial only |
| Entry price | €0 · €49/mo with the agent | €24/user/mo (not re-checked in our 2026-08-09 survey) |
| Finds companies for you | Official French State registry (SIREN, dirigeant) | No |
| Scores against your product | Company and decision-maker, 0–10 | No |
| Writes and sends sequences | Email and LinkedIn, approval-gated | No — CRM and email, not outreach |
| Email integration | Connected inbox, unified replies | Native Gmail/Outlook two-way sync |
| Collaboration | Per-user data isolation | Group workspaces and shared views |
| LinkedIn capture | Chrome extension + CSV import | Chrome extension |
| Agent access | MCP server, 104 tools, OAuth 2.1 | API |
Where Folk beats Lead Scorer
Written by us, about our own product.
- The UX and onboarding are better than ours. Folk is genuinely lovely to use and people stay in it.
- Native Gmail and Outlook integration with two-way sync — our email integration is narrower.
- Group workspaces and shared views built for collaboration; we isolate data per user.
- A funded roadmap and an established product. We are a small team shipping fast, which cuts both ways.
Where Lead Scorer wins
Same standard of evidence, opposite direction.
- The CRM is free forever; Folk's entry plan is €24/user/month.
- An agent that sources real companies from the official French State registry, resolves the decision-maker and scores both against your product. Folk does not prospect.
- The agent writes LinkedIn and email sequences from a versioned playbook, then sanitizes placeholders and email HTML.
- Signals radar on LinkedIn posts and topics, with a suggested reply.
- MCP server with 104 tools over OAuth 2.1 — your agent can read and write the CRM directly.
Which one is for you
Pick Folk if…
Teams who want a polished, collaborative contact CRM with email at the centre, and who already have deal flow to organise.
Pick Lead Scorer if…
Founders whose problem is not organising contacts but not having any yet.
Frequently asked questions
Is Lead Scorer cheaper than Folk?
The CRM is free forever against Folk's €24/user/month, and the agent plan is €49/month. But they are not the same purchase: Folk is a contact CRM you will enjoy living in, and we are an outbound agent with a CRM attached.
Does Folk find or score prospects?
No. Folk organises contacts you bring; it does not source companies or qualify them against what you sell. That is the whole difference between a CRM and an SDR.
How much does Folk cost today?
€24 per user per month at the tier we recorded when this page was written. Folk was not in our 2026-08-09 survey of 17 AI SDR and outreach tools, so that number has not been re-verified with the same rigour as the others on this site. Check folk.app before you budget.
Can I move my Folk contacts over?
Yes. Export to CSV and import — the wizard maps standard CRM fields automatically, and you can score the whole list against your product in one batch.
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