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Sealrep vs an appointment setting agency: billed by the meeting, or a plan you run

An appointment setting agency writes and sends outreach for you and bills by the meeting or by the month: SalesHive’s own guide puts a qualified, held meeting at $300 to $600,^[1] and Belkins lists an average starter price from $5,000.^[4] Sealrep is software you or your client approve, with no per-meeting fee and no commission.

By Naman Jain, founder of SealrepPublished 9 October 2026Last reviewed 12 October 2026Prices checked on 2 October 2026

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#side by side

An appointment setting agency and Sealrep, topic by topic.

An appointment setting agency runs outbound for you and hands over meetings. The ones named on this page describe themselves in their own words: Belkins offers “Lead generation and appointment setting services”,^[4] CIENCE “builds qualified sales meetings through managed SDR teams”,^[5] Callbox “books sales meetings with real decision-makers”,^[6] and SalesHive is “The B2B sales agency that books qualified meetings”.^[2]

An appointment setting agency and Sealrep, from the firms’ public pages, read on 2 October 2026
Topic	An appointment setting agency	Sealrep
Who writes	They do, for you. Belkins: “We thoroughly analyze your marketing and sales materials to capture your brand’s voice.”[4]	Sealrep drafts each email in your voice, or your client’s, from approved facts. Nothing is sent until a person approves it: one email at a time, or a whole sequence at once, with undo before each send.
How it bills	By the meeting, by the month, or both. SalesHive: “a normal price for a qualified, held meeting through a reputable pay-per-meeting vendor is $300-$600”; CIENCE lists SDR services “From $5,600 per month”.[1]	A monthly plan plus credits, shown on the pricing page. No per-meeting fee, no commission.
What is promised	Belkins’ plans list yearly appointments (100+, 200+, 30+) and its appointment setting page shows “100 guaranteed appts/year” at its average starter price.[3]	No meetings or clients are promised. You see what happened in a results ledger, with verified, confirmed and self-reported kept apart.
Mailboxes and domains	Belkins: “We finalize your email domain and begin the warm-up process for outreach.”[4]	Any mailbox you own that offers SMTP and IMAP: Gmail and Google Workspace with an app password (it needs 2-Step Verification), Zoho, Fastmail or your own host. Microsoft 365 mailboxes wait for Microsoft sign-in, which is coming soon, because Microsoft no longer accepts passwords for IMAP. Google sign-in is coming soon too. Sealrep does not sell or warm mailboxes.
Who owns the leads	Belkins: “You own all the leads we find for you, and we outline this in our agreements”.[4]	Your workspace, your contacts, your threads. Payment links go to your own Stripe.
Calls	Many run calling too: Belkins lists intent-based cold calling; SalesHive’s SDRs run cold calling and email.[3]	No calls.
Terms	Each firm sets its own: SalesHive says there are “no setup fees and no long-term contracts, and you are billed only after you approve the strategy”; Callbox says its “core model is subscription-based”.[2]	A monthly plan; the free trial needs no card once your request is approved.

An appointment setting agency and Sealrep, from the firms’ public pages, read on 2 October 2026

#price

What each one costs. In their words, and ours.

An appointment setting agencyAs shown on 2 October 2026

SalesHive’s guide (updated 10 July 2026): $300 to $600 for a qualified, held meeting; hybrid deals “a smaller base retainer plus roughly $150-$300 per qualified meeting”
Belkins: “The average starter price: from $5,000”, with 1,500 leads a month and 3 outreach channels; plan prices are not shown
CIENCE: SDR services “From $5,600 per month”
DealForce: “Pay only when meetings happen”; SalesGent: “Only pay for meetings that are held”

Each line is from that firm’s own page, linked in the sources. Prices can change; check theirs before you decide. Source: SalesHive blog, “Pay-Per-Meeting Models: Pricing & ROI for B2B (2026)”, updated 10 July 2026 (vendor).

SealrepToday

Freelancer: $59 a month300 credits/mo
Founder: $149 a month1,200 credits/mo
Agency: $299 a month, 3 clients included1,200 credits/mo per client
Sending: free; researching an account: 1 credit; a verified email: 3 credits, only when found.

Every price and credit on the pricing page.

#pricing models

How appointment setting firms charge, from their own pages.

Each row is one firm’s own words, read on 2 October 2026. These are examples of each model, not a ranking, and prices change.

Appointment setting pricing models, from each firm’s own page, read on 2 October 2026
Topic	Model	In the firm’s words	What gets counted
Belkins	Monthly retainer, custom quote	“The average starter price: from $5,000”[4]	Yearly appointments by plan; “100 guaranteed appts/year” at the starter price[4]
CIENCE	Managed SDR team	“From $5,600 per month”[5]	“qualified sales meetings”[5]
SalesHive	Flat monthly fee	“one flat monthly fee that covers your SDR team, your strategist, the AI platform, data, and tools”[2]	“qualified meetings”[2]
Callbox	Subscription, custom pricing	“Our core model is subscription-based”[6]	“sales meetings with real decision-makers”[6]
DealForce	Pay per meeting	“Pay only when meetings happen”[7]	“qualified B2B sales meetings”[7]
SalesGent	Pay per meeting	“Only pay for meetings that are held”[8]	Held meetings[8]

Appointment setting pricing models, from each firm’s own page, read on 2 October 2026

#are they worth it

Are lead generation companies worth it? It depends on your deal size and your time.

SalesHive, which sells this service, does the sum this way in its own guide: an in-house SDR team “often lands at $821-$1,150 per meeting once fully loaded costs are included”, against $300 to $600 for a qualified, held meeting from a pay-per-meeting vendor.^[1] Those are a vendor’s numbers, not ours.

An agency is worth it when nobody on your team can run outreach and a meeting is worth far more to you than its fee. It is a poor fit when you want to see every email before it goes out, or when your offer is small enough that a $300 meeting eats the margin. Sealrep cannot tell you a cost per meeting: it is priced by the month, and it has no customer results to show yet.

#before you sign

Questions to ask any agency. The answers decide what you are paying for.

What counts as a meeting? Booked, held or qualified, and who decides it was qualified.
Who writes, and in whose voice? Will you see each email before it goes out?
Who owns the domains, mailboxes and threads when the contract ends?
What happens to no-shows and to meetings you reject?
What do the cancellation and refund terms say, and is there a minimum term?
What do you report, and can you see the raw activity behind it?

#which one

Pick the one that fits how you sell.

Choose an appointment setting agency if

You want someone else to write, send and book, and you only take the meetings
Your deals are large enough that a per-meeting fee is small next to them
You want cold calling as part of the outreach

Choose Sealrep if

You or your client want to see and approve what goes out in your name
You want no per-meeting fee and no commission
You sell an offer a buyer can say yes to in an email, and want the payment link in the reply
You want to see every number behind the results

#straight answer

What Sealrep does not do.

Sealrep will not run your outreach for you. Someone on your side approves the emails, sends on LinkedIn and takes the calls. If nobody on your team can read and approve the drafts each day, an agency that does the work is the better fit.

Questions people ask. Answered from their pages and ours.

how much does appointment setting cost?

From the firms’ own pages on 2 October 2026: SalesHive’s guide puts a qualified, held meeting at $300 to $600, Belkins lists an average starter price from $5,000 and CIENCE lists SDR services from $5,600 a month. See how much appointment setting costs.

what is pay per appointment?

You pay a fee for each meeting instead of a monthly retainer. DealForce says “Pay only when meetings happen”; SalesGent says “Only pay for meetings that are held”. Ask what counts as a meeting before you compare prices.

is Sealrep cheaper than an agency?

We cannot say per meeting: Sealrep is priced by the month, not by the meeting, and has no customer results to show yet. Compare its plan on the pricing page with the agency’s quote, and count the time someone on your side spends approving and taking calls.

what are the alternatives to Belkins?

Other firms by pricing model, and the software route.

Another question? Talk to us

#sources

Where every fact comes from. Read on 2 October 2026.

We make Sealrep. This page describes Belkins and the other tools from their public pages, read on 2 October 2026. We have not used any of them.

Belkins, SalesHive, CIENCE, Callbox, DealForce and SalesGent are trademarks of their owners. Sealrep is not affiliated with any of them.

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