Loops vs Outgrow

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Loops sends product-driven email for SaaS teams. Outgrow builds quizzes and calculators that capture and qualify leads. Pick Loops to email users and trial sign-ups, and Outgrow to win better leads on your website.

The verdict

If you already have users and your emails to them are scattered across two systems, I'd pick Loops. It brings onboarding, lifecycle and transactional email together and gives you one set of rules.

If traffic is fine but sign-ups are weak or sales call the leads thin, pick Outgrow. An ROI calculator or readiness assessment gives visitors a useful answer and gives you qualification data.

For most SaaS teams, email to existing users is the better first fix. Add Outgrow when you know which page needs a stronger lead magnet. Check the integration list first, since Outgrow lists API access as a custom feature.

What the data says
  • Both have a free plan, so you can try each before you pay.
  • Outgrow starts lower, at $14/mo against $49/mo.
  • In our Email nurture ranking, Loops places 5 and Outgrow 8 of 8.

Side by side

Loops and Outgrow compared
At a glance
Starts at$49/mo$14/mo
Free planYesYes
APIYesYes
MCP serverYesNot known yet
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Plans and pricing

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Loops

  • FreeFree forever for up to 1,000 subscribed contacts and 4,000 sends in any rolling 30 days, with Loops branding.Free
  • Early Stage PlanPaid, priced by subscribed contacts with unlimited sends, no branding and free team seats; entry price covers up to 5,000 contacts.$49/mo
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Outgrow

  • Free Forms/SurveysFree plan for forms and surveys only: 1 content type, 100 leads per month, 4 content pieces, 1 user.Free
  • Freelancer LimitedEntry plan with 5 content types and 1 user. Annual billing shown as $14 per month.$22/mo
  • Freelancer Pro7 content types and 1 user. Annual billing shown as $25 per month.$45/mo
  • Essentials9 content types and 3 users. Annual billing shown as $95 per month.$115/mo
  • BusinessAll content types with 10 users. Annual billing shown as $600 per month.$720/mo

Prices as the vendors list them. They change often; the final price is on their sites.

Who each is for

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Choose Loops if…

Pick Loops if you run a SaaS product and engineers can send product events. You want marketers to change copy without a deploy and engineers to stop maintaining email templates in the codebase.

Paid plans are priced by subscribed contacts with unlimited sends. The free plan covers a limited number of contacts and sends, with Loops branding. Your workflows depend on clean events, so plan engineering time. It is not suited to cold outreach.

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Choose Outgrow if…

Pick Outgrow if you are a B2B marketer with decent traffic and want lead magnets that educate before they ask. Pricing estimators, readiness assessments and ROI calculators suit long B2B decisions.

You build without developers, branch results by answer and publish as an embed, popup or exit-intent prompt. The free plan is for forms and surveys only, so check that your content type is on the plan you pick. Complex formulas need several rounds of testing before you publish.

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