# Cleverly review (2026): is it worth $397 a month? > Done-for-you LinkedIn and cold email lead generation agency Checked Nov 13, 2026 ยท graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. Cleverly is a B2B lead generation agency rather than a self-serve app: its team handles targeting, copy and outreach on LinkedIn, by cold email and by phone, and hands over leads or booked meetings. Clients sign in to a dashboard to follow campaigns. LinkedIn lead generation is priced monthly, and cold email is priced per lead. - **Category:** Cold Outreach - **Made by:** Lead Generation, Inc. - **Website:** https://www.cleverly.co - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Not for you if you want software you control, as this is a service. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 13, 2026, Cleverly is a paid product, starting at $397 per month and up (LinkedIn lead generation). - **Pricing model:** Paid - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | LinkedIn Lead Generation | $397 per month and up | The FAQ gives a range of $397 to $997 a month depending on campaign needs, with discounts for team plans of 3 or more users. | Read from https://www.cleverly.co/faq on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Cleverly before buying. ## Key features - **LinkedIn lead generation:** Connection requests followed by a 3-touch drip sequence, with a nurture campaign for people who have not replied. - **Cold email outreach:** A managed service that the site says books qualified B2B meetings each month, sold per meeting-ready lead on a month-to-month basis. - **Appointment setting:** A dedicated response handler takes over replies for clients on the appointment setting plan. - **Other services:** Cold calling lead generation, outsourced SDRs, LinkedIn recruiting and white-label lead generation are listed on the site. ## Good for - Companies that want outbound run for them instead of learning a tool - Agencies that want a white-label LinkedIn lead generation partner ## Worth knowing - It is a service, not software: the price covers Cleverly staff running campaigns. - Only a price range for LinkedIn lead generation is published; the cold email per-lead price and other services are not shown as figures. - The FAQ says no number of leads is guaranteed, and that most clients see 20 to 40 new leads a month. - Cold email is sold month to month with no contracts, according to the FAQ. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 1.2 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. Cleverly is an agency that runs LinkedIn and cold email lead generation for you, from $397 a month. But it's a service, not software, no lead count is guaranteed, and only the LinkedIn price range is published. - **Value for money: D.** $397 to $997 a month for LinkedIn lead generation, paid to staff who run your campaigns. That's well above the $39 software middle, though a different kind of thing. - **Free plan and trial: F.** Nothing free: no plan and no trial, since you pay a monthly fee for the agency work. - **Features: C.** LinkedIn lead generation, cold email outreach and appointment setting, done by Cleverly's people. The FAQ says no number of leads is guaranteed. - **Ease of use: B.** Nothing to install or set up on your side, since the agency runs the campaigns. - **Platforms and integrations: F.** There's no product to run or connect: it's a service, with no apps or integrations on record. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Cleverly's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among cold outreach tools - Cleverly's GPA of 1.2 is higher than 0 of the 81 other cold outreach tools we grade. - It stands best on ease of use (B, above 77 of 81) and worst on free plan and trial (F, above 0). - Its paid plans start at $397 a month, against a middle price of $39 for the category: 72 of the 73 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 1.7 out of 4. 66 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/cold-outreach ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace Cleverly you would be making newsletters sent to thousands of people that still reach the inbox. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 81 of the 81 other cold outreach tools grade higher. It costs $4,764 a year. - You could not: Newsletters sent to thousands of people that still reach the inbox. - You could not: Email sent in volume that still reaches the inbox. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. **Tags:** Email campaigns, Marketing automation ## Alternatives - [Growbots](https://toolgpa.com/tools/growbots): Cold email and prospecting software, plus a done-for-you service. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/cleverly-vs-growbots) - [AiSDR](https://toolgpa.com/tools/aisdr): AI sales agent that finds leads and runs email and LinkedIn outreach. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/aisdr-vs-cleverly) - [Valley](https://toolgpa.com/tools/valley): AI outbound platform for signal-based LinkedIn and email outreach. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/cleverly-vs-valley) - [Closely](https://toolgpa.com/tools/closely): LinkedIn and email outreach automation with AI-written messages. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/cleverly-vs-closely) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026: - https://www.cleverly.co/faq - https://www.cleverly.co - https://www.cleverly.co/cold-email-outreach-agency - https://www.cleverly.co/linkedin-lead-generation Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/cleverly Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).