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Both bill monthly whatever the results. What each publishes on channels, term, guarantee and ramp, plus the zero-meeting month neither mentions.
By Moe Alhosni · Published 13 October 2026 · Updated 27 October 2026 · 8 min read
Short answer: Belkins and SalesHive both charge a monthly fee that does not move with results. Belkins is the wider, multi-channel retainer that sizes its packages in appointments per year and asks you to get a quote. SalesHive is a phone-led, US-based SDR team on a flat monthly fee, month to month, and says plainly that it does not guarantee meetings. Neither tells you what a month with zero meetings costs. The answer is the full fee.
How this page was made. Written by Moe Alhosni, who runs ROI Maximizer, a pay-per-meeting lead generation agency that competes with Belkins and SalesHive. Figures come from both firms' own sites and dated reviews on Clutch and Trustpilot, each linked and checked in October 2026. Where a figure is third-party, it is labelled. The verdict below says when each is the better choice.
Where they publish nothing, I say so instead of guessing.
Belkins sells "monthly retainer packages" sized by appointments per year, with no prices listed (pricing page, as of October 2026). The "budget-friendly" tier, Small business at 30+ a year, is "delivered through partnering agencies from the Belkins ecosystem", so a partner agency, not Belkins, runs it. The estimates in circulation, and what they come to per held meeting, are in Belkins pricing.
SalesHive sells "One monthly fee", "custom quoted", with "no setup fees", and states: "SalesHive does not price by the meeting" (pricing page, as of October 2026). Plans come with one or two dedicated SDRs, US-based by default, with an offshore option at a lower rate. Starter is phone only. Growth and Crush add email. "Annual plans have a lower monthly rate than month-to-month plans." What 2026 clients report paying, and what went wrong for some of them, is in SalesHive review.
| What to compare | Belkins | SalesHive | Pay per qualified meeting (us) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Channels | Email, LinkedIn, cold and intent calling, voicemail, WhatsApp, paid ads, events (pricing, as of Oct 2026) | Phone on every plan; email on Growth and Crush; no LinkedIn listed (pricing, as of Oct 2026) | Cold email |
| Pricing model | Monthly retainer, custom quote, sized by yearly appointments (30+, 100+, 200+) | Flat monthly fee, custom quote, sized by daily touches (100+, 250+, 500+) | Setup $1,000–$3,000, then $200–$500 per qualified meeting, billed in arrears, approved meetings only, nothing for a no-show, no minimum spend. Or a flat $5,000/month retainer with no per-meeting fee. Full terms |
| Minimum term | "Six-month agreement with a three-month checkpoint" on its own blog (20 Oct 2026); no contract length or cancellation terms on the pricing page | Month to month. Written notice, then billing ends at the close of the next billing month | No retainer, no minimum spend. Ask for the term in writing, same as the other two. |
| What is guaranteed | Nothing on the pricing page. The homepage says "We deliver 100–400+ qualified appointments in a year", then in a footnote "The results depend on multiple factors" (homepage, as of Oct 2026) | No meeting count. The homepage answers the question directly: "No. Meetings depend on your offer, your market, and how your buyers respond" (homepage, as of Oct 2026). It commits to activity instead | Nothing. The difference is who pays when it does not work |
| Ramp time | "We set up and launch your campaign in the first 14 days" and "The first results within a month" (homepage, as of Oct 2026) | Most clients launch "typically in about three weeks" (pricing, as of Oct 2026); meetings "typically start landing in the first few weeks of active outreach" (homepage, as of Oct 2026) | PR Noir: 27 leads, 10 meetings, one $90K close in the first 45 days. One client, not a promise |
| Who it suits | My read: companies with reps to take 100+ appointments a year and a budget that survives a slow quarter | SalesHive's own words for Starter: "Teams testing outbound or adding focused phone coverage." My read: anyone who wants US callers and a month's notice to leave | PR agencies, marketing agencies and B2B SaaS that know their deal size and cannot carry a retainer through a dry month |
Belkins' Clutch profile shows 4.9 from 234 reviews and a minimum project size of $1,000+ (Clutch, as of October 2026). The reviews worth reading are about pace. A CMO at a software company wrote in April 2024: "The first appointment was scheduled in the first month of our collaboration." Then: "In the first three months the target goal was not achieved, so we received a free month." A Director of Strategic Marketing at Syncro Medical wrote in March 2024, under areas for improvement: "Getting off to a faster start would have been better." On Trustpilot, Belkins has 4.4 from 13 reviews (Trustpilot, as of October 2026). A two-star reviewer in June 2025 wrote: "I have yet to see one lead that has been any good."
SalesHive's Trustpilot score is 3.7 from 39 reviews (Trustpilot, as of October 2026). A one-star reviewer in April 2026, under the title "13 of Our First 22 Calling Days Were Wasted on the Wrong Script", wrote: "We signed with SalesHive in March 2026 for outbound SDR services at $7,000/month." SalesHive replied in May 2026: "We strongly disagree with the characterization presented in this review." Another one-star reviewer in May 2026 wrote: "They promised results but couldn't deliver, even sent emails stating that my case was an isolated case." SalesHive replied that it does not guarantee sales outcomes. A five-star reviewer in July 2026 wrote: "They were focused, highly professional, and consistently hit the targets we set together."
That $7,000 a month is one client's number in one review. Treat it as one data point.
Neither prints a price on its pricing page. Belkins' own blog does give a floor, "From $5,000/month", and a separate "pay-per-appointment plan starting from $750/meeting" (Belkins vs Callbox, 20 October 2026). Both also say how to think about price.
Belkins' CEO, in a guide to pay-per-appointment lead generation updated 19 February 2026, describes Belkins as a retainer model and refers to "the $10K/month 'floor' of a full-service retainer". He says an in-house team or a retainer is more cost-effective if you need "20+ meetings a month", and paying per appointment suits you if you "only need 3–5 high-value conversations a month". The $10,000 is a figure for the market, not Belkins' price list.
SalesHive's pricing page says how to judge any of them: "divide its total cost by qualified meetings held and track the opportunities those meetings create" (pricing page, as of 26 October 2026). Here is that division at three monthly fees already quoted on this page or the two linked above, none of them a quote:
| Monthly fee | 5 held meetings | 10 held meetings | No meetings |
|---|---|---|---|
| $5,000, Belkins' own floor, "From $5,000/month" (Belkins pricing) | $1,000 each | $500 each | $5,000 |
| $7,000, what one 2026 SalesHive client paid (Trustpilot, above) | $1,400 each | $700 each | $7,000 |
| $10,000, the full-service "floor" in Belkins' guide | $2,000 each | $1,000 each | $10,000 |
| Pay per qualified meeting (us), $200–$500 each | $1,000–$2,500 in all | $2,000–$5,000 in all | $0 |
The last row leaves out our one-off $1,000–$3,000 setup. Ask Belkins and SalesHive for their own monthly number and run the same division.
What do you pay in a month with no meetings?
Belkins' pricing page says nothing about shortfalls, cancellation or refunds. The only data point is the Clutch review above: a target missed over three months, answered with a free month. That is a gesture, not a term you can rely on.
SalesHive is more direct. It does not guarantee meetings, and the fee buys the SDR team, the strategist and the platform. Its homepage adds that the 106K+ meetings it cites are "bookings, not attendance or closed revenue" (homepage, as of October 2026). A zero-meeting month at SalesHive costs the full fee, by design.
That is not a scandal. It is what a retainer is, and I set out the trade in pay-per-meeting vs retainer. The point is to go in knowing it. Ask both, in writing, what you pay in month two if the meeting count is zero. If the answer is "we review it together", you have your answer.
You sell a five-figure-plus deal, have reps to take the calls, and want 100+ appointments a year across several channels. Belkins. The retainer is built for volume and the channel list is the longest of the three. Budget for the slow start the reviewers describe, and get shortfall terms in writing, because the pricing page has none.
You want US callers, phone first, and a contract you can leave on a month's notice. SalesHive. Month to month, no setup fee, playbook approved before the first invoice. Accept that the fee buys activity, not meetings, and read the 2026 Trustpilot reviews before you sign.
You are an agency or a B2B SaaS, you know your deal size, and a month with no meetings would hurt. Pay per qualified meeting. You pay when a qualified person turns up and nothing when they do not. We are one of several pay-per-appointment companies, and the model is only as good as the written definition behind it. Read what counts as a qualified meeting before you talk to anyone, including us.
Pay per meeting is wrong for you if you need phone coverage, because we run cold email. It is wrong if your market is a few hundred companies, because per-meeting pricing rewards volume and you cannot afford to burn the list. It is wrong if you have never closed a deal from outbound, because no pricing model fixes an offer nobody wants; run it through the free GTM teardown first. In those cases Belkins or SalesHive may serve you better, or a hire might; the in-house SDR vs agency cost comparison does that maths. Whichever way you go, run the agency checklist against all three.
Get three things in writing:
A qualified meeting is defined line by line at what counts as a qualified meeting. Before you take any quote, use the ROI calculator to work out the most you should pay per meeting. Anything above that number is a loss before the first call.
About the author: Moe Alhosni, founder of ROI Maximizer. He runs the campaigns behind the first-hand data on this site. LinkedIn
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