VA Horizon vs SalesHive. Two Different Bets.
SalesHive sells a dedicated SDR team on a monthly retainer. We sell booked meetings, billed one at a time. Both models are legitimate. They just put the risk in opposite places. Every SalesHive number on this page comes from their published pricing, and we tell you plainly when their model is the better pick.
The two models, line by line
SalesHive publishes pricing, which most outbound agencies do not. That makes a real comparison possible. Their US SDR tiers run $7,000, $8,000, and $12,000 per month (Starter, Growth, and Crush), with Philippines-based tiers at $4,500, $5,000, and $7,000. Annual prepay takes roughly 10% off. Terms are month to month with a 30-day cancellation notice, setup is $0, and each tier is priced by activity: 150+, 250+, or 500+ outbound touches per day. Two things are not on that pricing page: a booked-meeting guarantee, and a way to pay per meeting. That is not a hidden flaw. It is a different bet, and the table below shows exactly where the two bets diverge.
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The math that matters: cost per meeting
A retainer has no cost per meeting until the month is over. So run the arithmetic on SalesHive's published $7,000 Starter tier at a few meeting counts. To be clear: these counts are hypothetical scenarios we picked to show the math. They are not claims about what SalesHive delivers in any given month.
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The pattern is the point. On a retainer, your cost per meeting is set by a number you only learn after the money is spent, and the slowest month is the most expensive one per meeting. Flip the billing trigger and the math flips with it. With a per-meeting rate, twenty meetings cost exactly twenty times one meeting, and a month with zero booked meetings costs zero. You are not betting on activity converting. You are buying the converted unit directly. Your exact rate is quoted for your industry and qualification bar on a 15-minute call, and the full billing mechanics are on the pricing page.
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When SalesHive is the right choice
We would rather lose a deal than pretend the retainer model never wins. It wins in specific situations, and if you are in one of them, take the retainer. We wrote the same honest treatment for retainer agencies broadly, in-house SDRs, and live transfers.
You want human SDRs across channels
Their tiers fund a dedicated human team running high daily outbound activity, from 150+ to 500+ touches per day depending on tier. If your motion needs calls, email, and LinkedIn worked by people, that is what a retainer buys and an SMS channel does not replicate it.
You sell into the enterprise
Long cycles, buying committees, and multi-quarter sequences fit an activity retainer better than per-meeting billing. Enterprise deals are won by sustained presence across many stakeholders, not by a single booked slot.
You need one fixed budget line
A flat retainer never surprises finance. Per-meeting spend scales with output, which we consider the feature, but some budgeting processes want the same number every month more than they want the number tied to results.
You want presence beyond meetings
Hundreds of daily touches put your name in front of prospects who never book. If that awareness has standalone value in your market, a retainer is how you pay for it. Per-meeting billing does not charge for it and does not optimize for it.
When pay per meeting is the right choice
Our model wins when the thing you actually want is a qualified meeting on your calendar, and you want to pay for exactly that. The full offer lives on the B2B lead generation hub, and the machine behind it is broken down step by step on the how it works page.
The Trigger
You pay when a meeting exists
The charge fires when a meeting is booked on your calendar, double-confirmed, and matches the one-page qualification criteria you signed. Every charge carries the SMS transcript where the prospect chose the time plus the confirmation log. Not activity, not touches, not effort.
The Audience
Your buyers answer texts
We work six verticals where SMS reaches the real decision-maker: SaaS, marketing agencies, commercial insurance, business funding, merchant services, and staffing. Owner-operators who reply to a text about their own revenue are the audience behind our 40% reply rate. Browse the industries hub.
The Budget
Zero fixed monthly cost
One-time setup at kickoff, then per-meeting billing only. Card on file, auto-charged per booked meeting, weekly statement, optional weekly cap so volume never outruns your calendar. No retainer, no monthly minimum, cancel anytime.
The Risk
The downside sits with us
A meeting outside your written criteria is replaced or credited free. A prospect who has not shown within 10 minutes of start time is not counted as held and is rebooked within 5 business days. You never pay for a ghost twice.
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Commercial disclosure: VA Horizon authored this page and is a competing provider. No payment, affiliate commission, or endorsement from the compared company is claimed. Favorable VA Horizon statements are first-party positioning, not independent proof.
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