We Fired Our Data Provider and Saved $14K per Quarter. Here Is What We Use Now.

Last year our outbound stack cost us roughly $5,800 per month. ZoomInfo for data. Instantly for sending. Clearbit for enrichment. Zapier to connect everything. Four tools, four invoices, four dashboards.
When our ZoomInfo renewal came up with a 15% price increase, I decided to audit what we were actually getting for our money.
The results were uncomfortable. Of the 2,400 leads we sourced monthly from ZoomInfo, about 340 bounced (14.2%). Another 400+ were prospects that our competitors had already contacted from the same database. Our effective cost per qualified prospect was almost $4.80 when you factored everything in.
We trialed CorporateOS for 30 days alongside our existing stack. Same ICPs, same team, same targets.
CorporateOS consolidated prospecting, scoring, sending, and CRM sync into one platform. One dashboard instead of four. Bounce rate: 2.1%. No more Zapier prayers. No more "which tool broke this time" debugging sessions.
After the trial we shut down ZoomInfo, Instantly, and Clearbit. Total previous cost: $5,800/month. CorporateOS cost for the same volume: $1,400/month. Savings: $4,400/month, or roughly $14,000 per quarter.
But the savings were only part of the story. Our SDR team got back about 8 hours per week that was previously spent on cross-tool management and data verification. Reply rates improved from 2.1% to 5.8%. Pipeline increased 41% in the first quarter.
The credit-based pricing meant we could see exactly what each campaign would cost before launching. No surprises. No annual lock-in. No account manager pushing enterprise upsells every quarter.
If your outbound stack has more than two tools in it, add up what you are actually paying across all of them. Then ask: are we getting premium results for this cost? If not, the problem might not be the strategy. It might be the infrastructure.