Banyan vs Skylead: which is right for an Indian team?
Skylead is a capable cloud platform that bundles LinkedIn outreach with cold email at $100 a seat. OutPilot by Banyan goes deeper on LinkedIn and bills in rupees. Here is the fair comparison.
Best for Indian teams who want LinkedIn depth, a built-in CRM and INR billing with GST: Banyan. Best for teams who need LinkedIn and cold email with email warm-up in one subscription: Skylead.
Feature comparison
| Feature | 🌳 Banyan | Skylead |
|---|---|---|
| Runs in the cloud, no Chrome extension | ✓ | ✓ |
| LinkedIn sequences with conditional steps | ✓ | ✓ |
| Cold email sending + warm-up built in | ✗ | ✓ |
| Built-in CRM with custom stages | ✓ | ✗ |
| AI Copilot over your own pipeline | ✓ | ✗ |
| MCP server for your own AI agents | ✓ | ✗ |
| Priced in INR (₹) | ✓ | ✗ |
| GST invoice for Indian businesses | ✓ | ✗ |
| UPI / RuPay / netbanking checkout | ✓ | ✗ |
| Support in IST | ✓ | ✗ |
Price comparison
- Solo₹30,000/seat/yr (₹2,500/mo)
- Team₹25,000/seat/yr (₹2,083/mo)
- Business₹20,000/seat/yr (₹1,667/mo)
INR billing. GST included. UPI accepted.
- All-in-one (1 seat)$100/mo (≈₹9,592)
- AnnualPay 10 months, get 12
- White labelCustom
USD/EUR billing. Forex fees apply for Indian cards.
Skylead pricing as published on their own pricing page, checked 27 July 2026; plans and prices change, so check theirs before deciding. ₹ equivalents are indicative only, converted at ₹95.92/$ and ₹109.24/€ on 27 July 2026, and exclude the forex markup Indian cards are charged and any GST. Banyan's prices are per seat, exclusive of GST.
Three reasons it's different
If you want cold email in the same tool, Skylead has it and we do not
Skylead bundles email finding, verification, unlimited email accounts and infinite warm-up alongside LinkedIn. That is a real advantage and worth paying for if email is half your motion. Banyan is deliberately LinkedIn-deep rather than channel-wide: campaigns, the unified inbox, the CRM and the agent surface all assume LinkedIn is where the relationship lives. Pick on that, not on the logo.
One seat at $100 is roughly four seats on Banyan
Skylead lists $100 per month for a single seat, close to ₹9,600 before your card adds its forex markup. Banyan's Solo tier is ₹30,000 per seat per year, about ₹2,500 a month, and the per-seat rate falls to ₹20,000 a year once you are at ten seats or more. For an Indian team of five, that gap is the difference between a line item you argue about and one you do not.
The pipeline lives in the product, not in a second subscription
Replies are where outreach either becomes revenue or evaporates. Banyan ships a built-in CRM with your own stages, reminders, notes and tags, an AI Copilot that can read and act on that pipeline, and an MCP server so your own agents can too. There is no second seat to buy for the place your leads actually live.
Ready to make the switch from Skylead?
Your first 10 warm conversations on Banyan are free. See the difference in one week.