Second Nature alternatives for teams that cannot wait for a demo
Second Nature is an enterprise video roleplay platform sold by demo. Five alternatives for sales teams, two with a published price and a trial today.
Second Nature is an enterprise AI roleplay platform built around video: a rep practises on a call with an avatar, shares a screen, runs through slides, and is evaluated on messaging, tone and clarity. It is sold by demo, with pricing tailored to the use case and an enterprise package that includes training sessions. Teams look for alternatives for one of three reasons. They want a price without a demo. They want voice cold calls rather than video pitches. Or they are a sales team of ten, not a training department of two thousand. The alternatives below map to those reasons. 100 Dials is the cold-call alternative with a published monthly price and a trial. Exec is the lowest published seat price for broad training. Hyperbound is the enterprise voice alternative, also sold by quote. Outdoo offers a free hour of voice, chat and video before its quote. Nooks and Orum bundle roleplay into a dialler.
Everything here was read on each vendor's own website in October 2026. Where a vendor publishes no price, we say so and do not repeat figures that third-party blogs claim.
What Second Nature is good at
It is worth being clear about what you would be giving up. Second Nature runs 3D avatars with configurable mood and temperament. It supports 30 or more languages. It integrates with Salesforce, HubSpot, Zoom, Active Directory and SCORM or LTI learning systems. It lists SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001 and ISO 27701, and its FAQ states data is stored in a Google Cloud data centre in the Netherlands and is never used for model training. Its homepage claims a 34% reduction in ramp time and 46% more deals closed, which are vendor claims and should be read as such. For an insurer rolling out a new product pitch, a telco retention script or a bank's compliance conversation on video, it is built for the job and the alternatives below are not.
The alternatives, by reason for leaving
| Reason you are looking | Alternative | What it publishes |
|---|---|---|
| You want a price without a demo | 100 Dials, Exec | Seat prices on the website, trial or free tier without a sales call |
| You want voice cold calls, not video pitches | 100 Dials, Hyperbound | Live voice prospects that interrupt and object |
| You want to try several formats free first | Outdoo | 60 minutes of free credits, voice, chat and video |
| You want roleplay inside the dialler you use | Nooks, Orum | Custom quote, dialler required |
| You want enterprise scale with a voice-first product | Hyperbound | Tiers named, per-user quote, 25 or more languages |
100 Dials: cold calls, a monthly price, EU hosting
100 Dials is built for SDR teams making cold calls and nothing else. Reps dial a live AI prospect built from their own target accounts at one of three fixed difficulty levels. Upload CSV exports of your real call transcripts and the prospect learns the objections your market raises, in its phrasing. Every call is scored on six cold-call skills, weighted toward what books meetings, with the rationale quoting the rep's own words, and managers get a skills heatmap, an objection table and a Monday digest. The price is $79 per seat per month for 40 calls or $159 for 100, monthly with 20% off annual, and the trial is 10 calls over 14 days with a work email and no card. Database, authentication and file storage are in the EU, and enterprise customers can pin voice and language processing to EU regions.
What it does not do matters here. There is no video, no screen share, no slides, no language list and no certification workflow. If a Second Nature scenario in your programme is a demo rather than a conversation, 100 Dials cannot replace it. If the scenario is a cold call, it replaces it with a prospect who interrupts. Our enablement page describes how grounding in your own calls works.
Exec: broad training at the lowest published price
Exec publishes a free tier of five sessions per user per year, a Starter tier at $20 per seat per month billed annually with a five-seat minimum and ten sessions per user per month, and a Professional tier at $39 with unlimited roleplays and custom rubrics. It covers sales, service and support training and includes screen-shared demo practice, which makes it the closest published-price alternative to Second Nature's breadth. The trade-offs are the annual term, the seat minimums and the capped sessions at the lower tier.
Hyperbound: enterprise voice, also by quote
Hyperbound is the alternative for a team that wants Second Nature's enterprise fit with a voice-first product and sales-specific scorecards. Personas are built from ideal customer profiles and LinkedIn data, scorecards follow MEDDPICC, MEDDIC, BANT and other frameworks, it supports 25 or more languages, and the upper tier scores real calls. It is sold per user by quote with volume and multi-year discounts, so it solves the format question and not the pricing one. Our comparison of Hyperbound, Second Nature and 100 Dials covers the two side by side, and our Hyperbound alternatives page covers the rest of the field.
Outdoo: a free hour before any quote
Outdoo publishes a free tier with 60 minutes of credits, no card, no sales call, across voice, chat and video roleplay. Its paid tiers are listed as custom. It is a sensible first stop for a team that wants to hear what each format sounds like before sitting through anyone's demo, Second Nature's included.
Nooks and Orum: if the dialler is the purchase
Nooks builds roleplay bots from the recorded calls in its dialler library and sets their personality to friendly, rude or impossible. Orum adds video roleplay agents as an add-on to its annual per-user plans. Neither publishes a price or sells roleplay without the platform. They are alternatives for teams that already dial on them and want practice without a second tool.
The test that settles it
Shortlist two from the table and run the same test on both before any pricing conversation. One rep, three calls at the hardest setting, transcripts read: did the prospect push back the way your buyers do. Two managers score one call on paper before seeing the tool's score: did both land within a point. Second morning: how many reps opened it unprompted. Then ask what it costs to be wrong. A published monthly price makes that one month. A demo-led enterprise package makes it the contract. For a training department buying for the whole company, that may be fine. For a sales manager with a ramp class starting Monday, it is the reason to look elsewhere.
The practice-and-feedback method these tools share has a research base, with real limits. We set it out, study by study, on the research page.
Questions people ask
- What is Second Nature used for?
- Second Nature is an AI roleplay training platform for enterprise customer-facing teams. Reps practise on a video call with an AI avatar, with screen sharing and slides, against scenarios built from uploaded decks and scripts. It sells to insurance, telco, financial services and call-centre teams as well as sales, and is bought through a demo with an enterprise package that includes setup training.
- Does Second Nature publish pricing?
- No. In October 2026 its website had no pricing page. The demo page offers pricing tailored to your use case after a thirty-minute call, and there is no self-serve trial. Directories list a starting price, but Second Nature has not confirmed it on its own site, so treat it as unverified.
- What is the cheapest alternative to Second Nature?
- Among tools that publish a price, Exec starts at $20 per seat per month on an annual contract with a five-seat minimum and capped sessions. 100 Dials is $79 per seat per month for 40 cold-call practice calls, billed monthly, with a 10-call free trial. Which is cheaper for you depends on whether you need broad training or cold calls specifically.