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Spruce: A Magileads Alternative for LinkedIn Prospecting

Magileads is a French all-in-one platform: a prospect database plus automated campaigns across email, LinkedIn, SMS and voice messages, often sold with a managed onboarding and a dedicated project lead. Teams looking for an alternative are usually after one of two things: a lighter, self-serve tool, or a product that goes deep on a single channel instead of spreading across four. Spruce is the second kind.

At a glance

Entry price

Conflicting figures: ~$133 Basic on aggregators, 490€–1,480€/user/month per a French reseller. No self-serve pricing page found.

Pricing model

Per seat, sales-led

How the AI writes

No generative writing documented. Outreach described as multichannel campaign animation.

Positioning

All-in-one omnichannel acquisition platform with a bundled B2B contact database.

Four channels versus one, on purpose

Magileads' pitch is breadth: email, LinkedIn, SMS and voice messages, one dashboard, one database. That is a real advantage if your outbound genuinely needs to ring phones and send texts. Spruce does none of that. Spruce is LinkedIn only, deliberately, and puts all its effort into that single channel rather than spreading it across four.

Where the contacts come from

Magileads ships with its own B2B database and enrichment, useful if you do not have a list yet. Spruce assumes you bring the list, typically from LinkedIn Sales Navigator or an import, and spends its effort deciding who on that list is worth an invitation and what to say to them.

Qualification and personalisation

Nothing in Magileads' public materials describes a per-profile qualification gate before outreach. The language used is campaign 'animation' across channels and lead scoring by engagement (opens, clicks, replies) — scoring after contact, not filtering before it. Spruce scores every profile against the personas you declared before the invitation goes out, and writes each message from that profile.

What happens after someone replies

Magileads syncs replies into your CRM through its integrations, but nothing in its public materials describes carrying the conversation itself toward a booked meeting. Spruce goes further: replies are handled manually on Essentiel, and from Professionnel upward, Spruce's AI Setting takes the conversation through to a booked meeting, then you close.

Pricing, opaquely

Public numbers conflict. Some aggregators list a $133 Basic tier; a French reseller page lists per-user tiers at 490€, 990€ and 1,480€ a month. No self-serve pricing page was found, which usually signals custom, sales-led pricing. Spruce publishes its numbers: 149€ per user per month on Essentiel (124€ billed annually), 249€ Professionnel, 499€ Accompagnement.

Which to choose

If your outbound is genuinely multichannel — email, SMS, phone and LinkedIn together — and you want a bundled database with a managed onboarding, Magileads is built for that. If LinkedIn is where your buyers actually reply, and the problem is generic messages sent to a list nobody filtered first, plus nothing to carry a reply to a booked meeting, Spruce is the more focused alternative.

Side by side

SpruceMagileads
Channels coveredLinkedIn only, deliberately.Email, LinkedIn, SMS and voice messages in one platform.
Contact database includedNo. You bring the list, typically via LinkedIn Sales Navigator.Yes, a bundled B2B database with enrichment.
Qualification before outreachEvery profile is scored against the personas you declared. Non-matches are dropped before the invitation.No qualification gate described publicly. Scoring appears to happen after contact, based on engagement.
Who writes the messageEach message is generated for that prospect, from their profile.No generative writing is documented. Outreach is described as multichannel campaign 'animation'.
Connection requests included800 per month, on every plan.Not published.
After the replyManual Setting on Essentiel. From Professionnel upwards, AI Setting carries the conversation through to the booked meeting, then you close.Replies sync to your CRM through integrations. Nothing carries the conversation to a booked meeting.
OnboardingSelf-serve, configure personas and sequence yourself.Managed onboarding option with a dedicated project lead.
Pricing transparencyPublished: 149€ Essentiel (124€ annual), 249€ Professionnel, 499€ Accompagnement.Conflicting public figures ($133 to 1,480€/user/month); no self-serve pricing page found.

Magileads figures are drawn from third-party aggregators and a reseller page, not an official self-serve pricing page — treat them as approximate and verify directly with Magileads before deciding.

Where they are strong

Where they fall short

Our verdict

Magileads and Spruce solve adjacent but different problems: breadth across four channels with a bundled database, against depth on LinkedIn with per-profile qualification and generated messages. If you are evaluating Magileads because you are not sure LinkedIn alone is enough, this page cannot answer that for you. If you already know LinkedIn is where the replies come from, Spruce is the more focused alternative.

Frequently asked

Is Magileads a direct competitor to Spruce?

Only partly. Magileads is a broader multichannel platform (email, LinkedIn, SMS, voice) bundled with a contact database. Spruce is a LinkedIn-only product focused on per-profile qualification and generated messaging. They overlap on LinkedIn outreach but solve different scopes of the problem.

Does Magileads have AI qualification like Spruce?

Nothing in Magileads' public materials describes a pre-outreach qualification step. Their language centers on multichannel campaign 'animation' and post-contact engagement scoring, not on filtering a list before anyone is contacted.

Why is Magileads pricing hard to find?

Public sources disagree: some list a $133 entry tier, a French reseller page lists 490€ to 1,480€ per user per month, and no official self-serve pricing page turned up in research. That pattern usually means pricing is sales-led and negotiated rather than published.

When is Magileads the better choice?

When your outbound genuinely spans several channels — email, SMS, calls and LinkedIn together — and you want a bundled database plus a managed onboarding rather than a self-serve setup.

When is Spruce the better alternative?

When LinkedIn is where your buyers actually reply, and the bottleneck is generic messages sent to an unfiltered list rather than a lack of channels.

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