Trellus alternatives: 8 solutions compared (2026)

Trellus is an American Chrome extension that adds a dialler and AI assistance to an existing sales engagement platform. During the call it shows speaking pace indicators, suggested objection handling and questions to ask. After the call it produces the transcription, a report and a draft follow up email. It is published by Outpost Labs Inc., a New York company founded in 2022 and part of the Y Combinator W22 batch.

No. Trellus works as an overlay: it needs one of the supported platforms, namely Salesloft, Outreach, HubSpot, Apollo, Salesforce, Zoho, VanillaSoft or Amplemarket, to which Clay and Google Sheets are added as contact sources. A team that has none of these tools cannot use it. That is the structural difference with a standalone platform, which carries its own contacts, its own call sequences and its own phone line.

On 3 September 2026, the pricing page shows two individual plans: Power at $99.99 per user per month and Parallel at $149.99, both presented with a promotional price of $34.99. The Business plan, the only one to include real time coaching and team analytics, is priced on request. On top of those amounts comes the subscription to the engagement platform, without which the product does not run.

Yes. The Parallel plan gives access to multi line dialling, up to five simultaneous lines according to the vendor documentation, with automatic filtering of answering machines and busy signals. The Power plan dials one number at a time.

It depends on what you are trying to replace. If it is the assistance during the call, the alternatives are Nooks and Orum, positioned on the same American market. If it is the dialler, the question becomes one of scope: a standalone platform such as Skipcall provides the phone line, the four line parallel dialler, contacts, call sequences, transcription and the call summary in a single subscription, with no third party platform to maintain and with data hosted in France.

The data processing agreement published by the vendor names neither a hosting country nor a cloud provider. It identifies the importing company as Outpost Labs Inc., registered in New York, and covers transfers from the European Union, the United Kingdom and Switzerland through the standard contractual clauses. For a French legal department, that means a transfer to a third country, with the assessment paperwork that goes with it.

Monitoring and recording calls at work are allowed provided they are proportionate and declared. The CNIL requires prior notice to employees, consultation of the works council and an announcement of the setup to the other party at the start of the call, with a mention of their right to object. It rules out any permanent or systematic monitoring, unless a specific legal provision applies. Automated analysis of every conversation therefore has to be examined against that standard before it is rolled out.

The French framework, as set out by the CNIL, allows six months at most for the recordings themselves, and one year for the analysis documents drawn from them. It recommends buffer recording: the recording is deleted shortly after the assessment sheet is written. Longer periods exist only where a legal text provides for them, for example five years in banking as evidence.

The two answer different needs. During the call, a pace indicator or a suggested objection response mainly helps a rep still in training, and its effect fades once the reflexes are in place. After the call, listening to a sample of recordings alongside the transcription lets you work on what cannot be fixed live: the structure of the opener, the question asked after an objection, the share of speaking time. That second loop is what produces lasting progress, and it needs no extra tool as long as the recordings and the transcriptions are within reach.

The paid plans include additional numbers with spam flag handling: five on the Power plan, eight on the Parallel plan. The vendor does not present itself as a business telecoms operator for all that: managing extensions, transfers and the switchboard stays outside its scope.

Skipcall is a French telephony and prospecting platform hosted with Scaleway. The scope is not the same: Skipcall does not offer real time coaching during the call, but it provides the phone line, the four line parallel dialler, contacts, call sequences, transcription and the call summary, along with a read API giving access to recordings, transcriptions and metrics. That material is what feeds coaching carried out after the call.