ProfitLayer vs Origami
Origami is a lead-research workbench built for sales teams. ProfitLayer is an autonomous engine built for solo founders. Both are good — at different jobs. Here's the difference, shown honestly.
The whole comparison in one sitting: a workbench you drive, or an engine you point.
Origami ·Sales teams — SDRs, RevOps, agencies. SSO/SCIM and custom SLAs on Enterprise.
ProfitLayer ·One founder with a shipped product and no appetite for sales tooling.
Origami ·Credits — spent on searches, enrichment, and AI research. Verified contacts billed at cost on top.
ProfitLayer ·Customers found — a fit company with a real contact, counted once. Junk never counts.
Origami ·1,000 one-time credits and 20 agent messages — no contact reveals, no CSV export.
ProfitLayer ·15 customers found every month, contacts and sending included. No card.
Origami ·You drive: prompt the agent, work the tables, pick leads, enroll them in sequences.
ProfitLayer ·You point it: paste your URL. The loop runs daily on its own until your goal.
Origami ·Sequencer on paid plans — unlimited email + LinkedIn from your own accounts, multi-account rotation.
ProfitLayer ·From your own Gmail — one personal note per company, every address verified before it sends.
Origami ·50+ live sources, waterfall-validated emails and phones. Built for volume prospecting.
ProfitLayer ·Live web search tuned for the niche, indie buyers the lead databases miss.
Origami ·$29 – $499 / mo, plus Enterprise.
ProfitLayer ·Free – $449 / mo, metered on outcomes. Overage never auto-charged past your cap.
Pick Origami if…
- ·You're a sales team running volume prospecting across many segments.
- ·You want the workbench: tables, CRM sync with Attio, Salesforce, or HubSpot, LinkedIn sequencing.
- ·Someone's actual job is working lead lists every day.
Pick ProfitLayer if…
- ·You're the founder, the marketer, and the support desk — and you'd rather be building.
- ·You want an outcome you can count: customers found, replies in your inbox.
- ·You'd rather pay per result than learn a credit system.
- Is Origami bad? Should I avoid it?
- No — Origami is the strongest research workbench in the category, with real depth: 50+ live sources, validated contact waterfalls, CRM sync, a free unlimited sequencer on paid plans. If you're a sales team working lead lists every day, it's an easy recommendation. This page exists because a solo founder's job is different: you don't want a better workbench, you want the work done.
- Don't both send from my own inbox?
- Yes — both send from your own accounts. The difference is who drives. In Origami you build the sequence, pick the leads, and enroll them. ProfitLayer's loop is autonomous by default: it finds, verifies, writes one personal note per company, sends, and follows up daily until you hit your goal — with unsubscribe and do-not-contact rails built in.
- What's the real pricing difference?
- The unit. Origami meters inputs: credits spent on searches, enrichment, and AI research, with contacts billed at cost on top — you learn what a credit buys as you go. ProfitLayer meters the outcome: a customer found, meaning a company that fits, confirmed a likely buyer, with a real contact — counted once, junk never counted. You can predict your bill from your goal.
- Can I just try both?
- You should — both have free tiers. Note what each free tier holds back: Origami's is 1,000 one-time credits and 20 agent messages with no contact reveals or export; ProfitLayer's is 15 customers found every month with contacts and sending included. Point each at your own site and compare what lands in your inbox.
See what it finds for your site.
The fair test is your own product. Your first 15 finds every month are free.
Compared from origami.chat's public pricing and docs, July 2026. Spot something out of date? support@profitlayer.app — we'll fix it.