The two products answer different questions. Follow Up Boss is built for teams converting a high volume of new and purchased leads. SphereSync is built for one agent working the relationships they already have. So the useful question is not which tool has more features — it is where your next closing actually comes from. Every Follow Up Boss figure below is taken from their own pages and dated.
All Follow Up Boss details verified 2026-07-26 from their own pages.
If the answer is a lead you bought or captured this month, Follow Up Boss is the better fit, and we would rather say so than sell you the wrong thing. If the answer is a past client, a neighbour, or a referral from someone who already trusts you — and the real problem is that months go by without you contacting them — that is the job SphereSync was built for.
Follow Up Boss prices per user and bundles seats on the upper plans; SphereSync is one flat membership per agent. That makes a straight per-seat comparison misleading, so here are both, exactly as each of us publishes them.
| Capability | SphereSync | Follow Up Boss |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price, one agent | $349 per month, or $3,490 per year (ten months at the monthly rate). | Grow: $69 per user per month, or $58 per user per month billed annually — annual billing is stated as 2 months free. Prices are listed exclusive of tax.Verified 2026-07-26 · source |
| Team pricing | Priced per agent and rolled out across the office; the number depends on your roster, so it is quoted on a call. | Pro: $499/month including 10 users ($416/month billed annually), additional users $49/month ($41 annual). Platform: $1,000/month including 30 users ($833/month billed annually), additional users $20/month ($17 annual).Verified 2026-07-26 · source |
| Calling and texting | No dialer. You call from your own phone and check the person off the week's list. | Two-way texting, a company number, instant text and batch email are on all plans. Calling is a paid add-on on Grow at $39 per user per month ($33 annual) and is included on Pro and Platform.Verified 2026-07-26 · source |
| Free trial | 14 days free, no credit card. Set yourself up in minutes, or book an optional onboarding call and we will import your sphere and build your first weekly list with you. | 14-day free trial, full access, no credit card required.Verified 2026-07-26 · source |
| Contract | Cancel anytime, no contract. | No contract; cancellation any time.Verified 2026-07-26 · source |
| One-time setup or onboarding fee | None. Onboarding is available on request at no extra charge. | Not verified: Follow Up Boss does not state a setup or onboarding fee on any page we were able to load on 26 July 2026, and we are not going to guess at one. Their pricing page does list personalized onboarding as a Pro feature and enhanced onboarding on Platform. |
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Both products publish prices in US dollars. We re-check these against Follow Up Boss's own pricing page at least quarterly; the verification date on each cell is the last time a human read that exact number on their site.
Every Follow Up Boss cell links the page it was read from. Where their own materials did not state something plainly, the cell says so rather than filling in a guess.
| Capability | SphereSync | Follow Up Boss |
|---|---|---|
| What the software is organized around | The people who already know you — past clients, friends, referral partners — on a fixed weekly rotation. | New leads. Lead import from 200+ sources is on every plan. The audiences named on their site are solo agents, agents on teams, team leads and admins, and ISAs.Verified 2026-07-26 · source |
| Who to contact this week | Generated for you. A short prioritized call-and-text list every Monday, with the reason each person is on it. | Smart Lists: dynamic saved filters over lead fields, which you define and maintain. Included on all plans.Verified 2026-07-26 · source |
| Lead routing and distribution | Not offered. SphereSync is built around one agent owning their own sphere, so there is no lead pool to route. | Round-robin, first-to-claim, and price- or ZIP-based lead routing. All plans.Verified 2026-07-26 · source |
| Automated follow-up | A weekly cadence rather than a drip. The rotation decides who comes up next; you decide what to say, with a suggested message if you want one. | Automations, listed as Action Plans on the pricing page. Triggers include a new lead arriving or a dormant lead becoming active; actions include sending email, creating a task, updating a field, notifying a teammate, and reassigning the lead.Verified 2026-07-26 · source |
| Database cleanup and DNC | Sphere Snapshot is included in the membership: we clean, dedupe, and DNC-flag your database before day one, and numbers are re-checked on a 31-day cycle. Help, not legal advice. | Contact-import help and lead-source connection help are listed as Pro and Platform features, not Grow.Verified 2026-07-26 · source |
| Marketing sent for you | Built-in newsletters, a monthly branded market report for your ZIP codes, and client-event invitations and RSVPs, all sent in your name. | Batch emailing on all plans, with Mailchimp and BombBomb among the named integrations.Verified 2026-07-26 · source |
| Reporting for a team leader | A roster view of who is working their sphere and who has gone quiet — accountability on activity, not on lead conversion. | Lead-source and agent-performance reporting, appointments set by agent or source, with drill-down to the underlying contacts. Agent-activity and lead-source reporting on all plans; call reporting and shared inboxes on Pro and Platform.Verified 2026-07-26 · source |
| Integrations and API | None publicly available today. There is no integration marketplace and no public API — an honest gap, not a design choice we will defend. | 250+ integrations, 200+ lead sources, Zapier, and a public REST API.Verified 2026-07-26 · source |
| On your phone | A web app built to be worked from a phone — the weekly list is designed to be checked off between showings. | Native iOS and Android apps, included with the trial. Two-way texting, calling, new-lead push notifications, and task management.Verified 2026-07-26 · source |
| Coaching included with the software | Monthly group training with Pam O'Bryant is part of the membership, at no extra cost. | Not verified: Follow Up Boss is a software product and we found no coaching programme advertised on the pages we checked — but we did not check every page, so we are not claiming they do not offer one. Their Platform plan does include a dedicated Success Manager and priority support. |
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Follow Up Boss is a lead-conversion system, and its feature set maps to that job. Leads import from 200+ sources, route to agents by rule — round-robin, first-to-claim, or by price band or ZIP — and are then worked by automations that fire when a lead arrives or a dormant one becomes active. Those capabilities are on every plan, including the $69-per-user Grow tier.
It also carries a phone system. Calling is included on Pro and Platform with per-agent numbers, call logging, and call recording; on Grow it is a $39-per-user-per-month add-on. Reporting is built around the same job: lead-source performance, agent performance, appointments set, with drill-down to the contacts behind each figure.
None of that is aimed at the problem SphereSync solves, and none of it is meant as criticism. If your week is measured in dials against new leads, this is the category of tool you want, and the comparison can reasonably end here.
SphereSync starts from a different premise: that most agents are not short of leads, they are short of contact with the people who already trust them. Nothing in a lead-conversion CRM tells you that a past client from four years ago is due a call this week, because that person is not a lead and never triggered anything.
So the product is a rotation, not a funnel. Every Monday it hands you a short list — who to call, who to text, and why each person is up now — and you work down it. In between, the things that keep you top of mind get sent for you: the newsletter, the monthly market report for your ZIP codes, the client-event invitation. Before any of that starts, Sphere Snapshot cleans, dedupes, and DNC-flags the database you bring, which is usually the reason the last system was abandoned.
And there is a coach attached: monthly group training with Pam O'Bryant comes with the membership. That is a services business wrapped around software, which is a genuinely different product category from a CRM licence — and it is the honest explanation for the price gap.
On raw software cost, Follow Up Boss is cheaper for a solo agent and it is not close: Grow is $69 per user per month, or $58 billed annually, against $349 a month for SphereSync. If what you want is a capable lead CRM at the lowest defensible price, that is the answer.
The comparison changes shape once you count what is inside the SphereSync number: the database cleaning and DNC work done for you, the newsletters and market reports produced and sent in your name, the event tooling, the monthly training. Agents who assemble that themselves are usually paying for a CRM plus an email tool plus a designer plus a coach, and still dropping half of it. Whether that bundle is worth $349 to you depends entirely on whether you would otherwise do those things — and the honest answer for some agents is that they would.
One thing worth saying plainly: these products can coexist. Running a lead CRM for new internet leads and SphereSync for your sphere is a normal setup, not a contradiction.
You do not have to leave anything to try SphereSync, and you do not have to do the import alone — though you can, in minutes, without talking to anyone.
We deliberately do not publish step-by-step instructions for exporting from Follow Up Boss. Their help centre was not reachable to us when this page was written (26 July 2026), and walking you through screens we could not verify would be exactly the kind of stale, confident-sounding advice this page exists to avoid. Their support can tell you the current steps — and either way, we can do the import with you if you want the help.
Usually not. Follow Up Boss is a lead-conversion CRM built for teams working new leads at volume; SphereSync is a weekly contact rhythm for the database you already have. If you buy leads or run a team lead pool, Follow Up Boss does things SphereSync does not do at all, including lead routing and a built-in dialer.
For a single agent, Follow Up Boss is cheaper: their Grow plan is $69 per user per month, or $58 per user per month billed annually, verified on their pricing page on 26 July 2026. SphereSync is $349 per month or $3,490 per year, which includes done-for-you database cleaning, newsletters and market reports sent in your name, event tools, and monthly group training.
Yes, and some agents do. A lead-conversion CRM handles new internet leads while SphereSync handles the weekly rhythm with past clients and referral sources. They are solving different problems, so running both is not duplication.
No. SphereSync is built around each agent owning their own sphere, so there is no shared lead pool to distribute. Follow Up Boss offers round robin, first-to-claim, and distribution by price or ZIP on all of its plans.
No dialer. You call and text from your own phone, and check the person off the week's list. Follow Up Boss includes two-way texting on all plans, and includes calling on its Pro and Platform plans, with calling available on Grow as a paid add-on at $39 per user per month.
Every Follow Up Boss figure on this page was read from Follow Up Boss's own website on 26 July 2026, and each one links the page it came from. We re-check them at least quarterly. Anything we could not verify on their own site is marked as unverified rather than guessed at.
Follow Up Boss is a trademark of its respective owner and is referred to here only to identify the product being compared. SphereSync is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Follow Up Boss.
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