OneAway vs ColdIQ

“Outbound is one output of the system.”For us, it’s the whole job.

That’s ColdIQ’s managed service page. ColdIQ builds a go-to-market system around data, signals and plays, and its homepage now leads with a data API. Its FAQ says “Pricing is scoped around the complexity of your data, stack, markets, and required plays”. OneAway does one thing: AI agents we built run your cold email and LinkedIn, from $3,250 a month with data and inboxes included, and you take the meetings.

  • Live in 7 days
  • No setup fee
  • Month-to-month after 3 months

OneAway wrote this page, and we sell one of the two options on it. ColdIQ facts were read from coldiq.com, its managed service, mailbox and consulting pages and its terms on November 15, 2026, and every one is sourced at the bottom. Where ColdIQ is the better pick, we say so.

Who does the work

Ten jobs. Watch where they land.

Both are done for you, so most jobs leave your desk either way. ColdIQ asks your point of contact for “an hour a week approving audiences and messaging and reading the numbers.” The differences are in the replies and the calls. Flip the switch.

On your desk

2 yours alone, 3 shared with ColdIQ

5 of 10 jobs on your desk with ColdIQ

  • Pick who to targetYou + ColdIQ
  • Review the messagesYou + ColdIQ
  • Handle repliesYou + ColdIQ
  • Call interested leadsYou
  • Take the meetingsYou

Off your desk

Done by ColdIQ’s team

5

  • Build and verify the listColdIQ does it
  • Set up and watch the inboxesColdIQ does it
  • Write the messagesColdIQ does it
  • Run LinkedInColdIQ does it
  • Fix what isn’t workingColdIQ does it
Every job in full, with what each side’s own pages say

ColdIQ

5 of 10 jobs need you

OneAway

3 of 10 jobs need you

Decide who to target
ColdIQYou + ColdIQWeek 1: “ICP and persona matrix signed off”. Your point of contact joins the ICP workshop at kickoff.
OneAwayYou + usOur agents build your company profile. An expert on our team goes through it with you.
Build and verify the lead list
ColdIQColdIQ“Segment sourced, enriched, and scored”, from ColdIQ’s own data and 40+ providers, with verified emails.
OneAwayUsOur agents pull buyers and check every lead against your filters. Every email is verified.
Sending domains and inboxes
ColdIQColdIQSecondary domains and mailboxes, SPF, DKIM and DMARC, gradual warm-up and deliverability checks, in accounts your company owns.
OneAwayUsWe set up and warm separate domains and check every inbox daily. Never your main domain.
Write the messages
ColdIQColdIQColdIQ picks the play and builds it in Claude Code. “No build work on your side.”
OneAwayUsOur agents research each lead, and we write a version for every mix of facts they find.
Review the messages
ColdIQYou + ColdIQYour point of contact spends “an hour a week approving audiences and messaging and reading the numbers.”
OneAwayYou + usYou approve the copy before launch and after each revision. We do the rest.
LinkedIn
ColdIQColdIQEmail and LinkedIn plays, and LinkedIn content. The page doesn’t say whose LinkedIn accounts send.
OneAwayUsOn Managed and Scale, avatar accounts we source, set up and run, so your team’s own accounts are never at risk.
Answer replies
ColdIQYou + ColdIQ“Launch to reply handling” is in ColdIQ’s cycle, then your team “takes the conversations we create.” No reply time published.
OneAwayUsOur reply agent answers interested leads in under 2 minutes and follows up to 4 times.
Call interested leads
ColdIQYouNot on ColdIQ’s managed service page, so plan for your team to dial.
OneAwayUsOptional warm calling: our appointment setter calls them up to 6 times.
Fix what isn’t working
ColdIQColdIQ“We cut the plays that do not book meetings and put the budget behind the ones that do.”
OneAwayUsA weekly optimization pass on every plan.
Take the meetings
ColdIQYouYours. “Your reps get meetings on the calendar.”
OneAwayYouYours. That’s the one job that should be.

Cost

Two receipts for the same month.

ColdIQ quotes its managed service after a scoping call, with third-party software listed apart. Its data plans are on its homepage. Pick a route and read both receipts.

How you buy from ColdIQ

ColdIQ

Receipt · 1 month

Managed service, scoped on a call

ColdIQ’s monthly fee“Scoped around the complexity of your data, stack, markets, and required plays”

Not published

Third-party softwareListed apart from ColdIQ’s fee in your proposal

On top

First termPayment schedule agreed before work begins

90 days

Your team’s timeColdIQ’s estimate, to approve audiences and messaging

1 hr a week

Total this month

Not published

First play sending by day 14, by ColdIQ’s page. Ask for the proposal and set it against ours.

OneAway

Receipt · 1 month

Managed plan, one flat monthly fee

Up to 20,000 leads, 2 emails each

$6,200

LinkedIn, avatar accounts we runCold email + LinkedIn (5 avatar accounts)

$0

Sending domains, inboxes and warm-up

$0

Reply agent, under 2 minutes

$0

Setup fee

$0

Your team’s timeBiweekly, dedicated account manager

A call

Total this month

$6,200

  • ColdIQ’s data plans cost less.

    $99 to $1,999 a month, against $3,250 for Intro. If someone on your team runs outbound, ColdIQ data with your own sending tool is the cheaper route.

  • The units aren’t the same.

    A data plan buys contacts and enrichment. Our fee covers the list, the inboxes and warm-up, the copy, the sending and the replies. ColdIQ’s managed service covers more than outbound: signals, routing and dashboards too.

  • Neither guarantees meetings.

    No ColdIQ page we read states a meeting guarantee. OneAway does not guarantee a meeting count.

Contract

Two weeks, if your team is quick.

ColdIQ’s managed service page makes a clear promise on timing. Its FAQ says what the date depends on, and what the price leaves out.

“Live in two weeks. Ours to run after that.”
coldiq.com/implementation

How quickly will the first GTM play go live?

“Within two weeks of kickoff. That means an approved pilot audience is actively receiving sends by day 14; volume then ramps safely through day 28. To hold that date, your team provides the required system access and approvals within the agreed one-business-day windows. A missed dependency moves only the affected milestone day for day.”

And on price, from the same FAQ: “Your proposal separates ColdIQ's monthly fee from any third-party software costs. The payment schedule, the initial 90-day term, and what happens after it are agreed before work begins.”

coldiq.com/implementation, FAQ, “How quickly will the first GTM play go live?”

Our terms. All of them.

The same on every plan.

  • 3 monthsMinimum, paid monthly. Then month-to-month.
  • No setup feeIntro starts at $3,250/mo, all in.
  • Your leads stay yoursIf you leave, you keep the interested leads.

Our 7 days needs you too: the kickoff call on day 1, and your approval of the copy before it sends. ColdIQ, for its part, runs everything in accounts your company owns.

A data company that handed us outbound

From 0 to over 100 opportunities.

Fullenrich sells B2B contact enrichment, so it had the data. Its own cold email campaigns took time and brought poor results. One dot is one opportunity.

Running it themselves

Time-consuming campaigns, poor results

no qualified opportunities from outbound

With OneAway

102 opportunities generated

102 opportunities
“OneAway helped us scale our outbound motion from 0 to generating over 100 qualified opportunities.”
Benjamin DouablinBenjamin DouablinCEO, Fullenrich

2.1%

reply rate achieved

$2M

raised in funding

Read the case study

Replies

People at OpenAI, Oracle and Revolut wrote back.

Real replies to cold emails we wrote for OneAway and our clients. Pick a logo to read what they said.

2,928 positive replies since April 2025

Wiza

SaaS · 500,000+ users

“This is a really good cold email. I haven't replied to one in probably 12 months until now. Show me what you got. Also - can you share the tools you used to find me and write this?”

Later in the thread

“I booked a meeting for Tuesday with my CEO and CRO as well. Looking forward to it.”

Name hiddenCOO and Founding Investor, Wiza · Jan 2026
Meeting booked

+2,900 more positive replies

Company facts are the latest public figures, as of November 2026. Logos belong to their owners. Replies come from people at these companies and are not endorsements. Names are blurred.

Fit

Not everyone should switch.

ColdIQ does more than outbound, and its data plans start at $99 a month. If that’s what you need, pick it.

PickColdIQ if…

  • You want a whole go-to-market system, not only outbound.ColdIQ’s managed service covers buying signals, routing to your reps, dashboards and attribution, and LinkedIn content as well as outreach. We run cold email and LinkedIn outreach and book meetings.
  • You want to own it all and take it in-house later.ColdIQ runs everything in accounts your company owns, and offers to “hand over the keyboard” at the day-90 review. With us, you keep the interested leads and the data export.
  • Someone on your team runs outbound and needs data.ColdIQ’s data plans start at $99 a month for 700M+ contacts and 40+ providers behind one API, with no seat price. That costs far less than any of our plans.

Moveto OneAway if…

  • You want the price before the first call.Intro is $3,250/mo, Managed $6,200/mo, Scale $11,500/mo, with data, inboxes and warm-up included and no setup fee. ColdIQ scopes its managed fee and lists software on top.
  • You want to be live in a week.We go live on day 7. ColdIQ’s first play sends by day 14 and ramps through day 28.
  • You want interested leads answered in minutes.Our reply agent answers in under 2 minutes and books the meeting onto your calendar. ColdIQ doesn’t publish a reply time.
  • You want someone to call the interested ones.Optional warm calling: an appointment setter calls everyone who replied with interest, up to 6 times, at 2% of your ACV per held meeting, minimum $150.

Switching

Switch in 7 days, without a gap.

Book the call a week before ColdIQ stops. By the time it does, we’re sending.

Book a call
  1. Today

    Check your ColdIQ term

    The managed service starts with a 90-day term, and your proposal sets what follows, so check it for notice. On a data plan, ColdIQ’s terms say you may stop at any time.

  2. Day 1

    Kickoff

    Our agents build your company profile and we go through it with you. Send your unsubscribes and the contacts ColdIQ’s plays have reached; we leave those people out.

  3. Days 2 to 6

    Inboxes, list, research, copy, reply agent

    New sending domains set up and warmed, your list built and verified, every lead researched, the copy written for you to approve, the reply agent set up.

  4. Day 7

    Live. Wind down ColdIQ.

    Sending starts, and interested replies get an answer in under 2 minutes.

FAQ

Sources

Each page was read on November 15, 2026. OneAway figures come from our pricing page and case studies.

All comparisons
  1. coldiq.com: The GTM data API (“700M+ B2B contacts”, “40+ data providers”), the Pro, Scale and Enterprise data plans at $99, $547 and $1,999 a month with 7,000, 44,000 and 175,000 credits, “up to 1,450 free credits”, no per-seat price, the ColdIQ agent in beta, and “our Managed services team builds and runs your GTM system with you”.
  2. coldiq.com/implementation: The managed service: “Live in two weeks. Ours to run after that.”, sends “by day 14” and ramps “through day 28”, the one-business-day approval windows, “an hour a week approving audiences and messaging”, “Everything runs in accounts your company owns”, the day-90 review, “Launch to reply handling”, building plays in Claude Code, Email and LinkedIn plays, and the pricing answer: scoped, third-party software apart, “the initial 90-day term”.
  3. coldiq.com/inboxes: Google Workspace inboxes at $4.50 each a month, a 100-inbox Microsoft Azure tenant at $179 a month, domains at $15 for the first year, and “Warm-up is the one thing it does not do”.
  4. coldiq.com/consulting: 1-on-1 consulting with ColdIQ’s founder: $700 for 1 hour, $2,000 for 4 hours.
  5. coldiq.com/legal/terms-and-conditions: A signed managed-service agreement controls those engagements, credits are “generally nonrefundable”, and “You may stop using the Services at any time”. Effective July 12, 2026.

Bring us the proposal.

Book a 30-minute call. Bring your ColdIQ proposal, and we’ll tell you honestly whether we’d beat it.

  • Live in 7 days
  • No setup fee
  • Month-to-month after 3 months