Scenario: you've been paying for Pages Jaunes Pro for a few years, the subscription is up for renewal soon, and a colleague mentioned outsend. Before signing on for another 12 months or switching everything over, the real question isn't "which one is better" — it's "what do I keep, what do I change, and how do I check without risk." This guide is written for someone who already has their Pages Jaunes Pro invoice in hand.
Factual approach — not a pitch for outsend, not an attack on Pages Jaunes Pro. The two products address different needs: one makes you visible when people search for you, the other helps you go out and find them. Most of the time, the right decision is a combination, not a replacement.
What you keep by staying with Pages Jaunes Pro
Before talking about switching, let's look at what Pages Jaunes Pro actually does well and what you'd lose by cancelling it. Three concrete strengths, built up over decades of operation in France by Solocal.
Inbound visibility in a reference directory. When an individual searches for a plumber, hairdresser, or lawyer on Google, Pages Jaunes often appears in the top results. Being listed there brings in qualified inbound traffic, especially for tradespeople and local professionals. That's their core business, and no outbound prospecting tool replicates it.
Turnkey local SEO. Solocal actively optimises subscriber listings for local search queries. A well-filled profile can boost your visibility on Google Maps and in local results pages without you having to handle SEO yourself. If you don't have the time or inclination to manage that, it's a genuine service.
Institutional trust among consumers. The brand is well-known, perceived as reliable, and a segment of users (notably the 50+ age group) actively uses it to find service providers. For consumer-facing trades, it's a channel that delivers tangible inbound leads.
What changes when your need shifts to outbound
The switch is justified when your objective moves from "being found" to "going out to find." That's where the limits of Pages Jaunes Pro become visible — not as flaws, but as boundaries of scope.
Outbound prospecting isn't its mission. Pages Jaunes Pro gives you inbound visibility: prospects find you. If you want to actively target businesses, pull a list of leads to contact, export data to enrich and work with, it's not the right tool. It's a directory, not an outbound lead generation tool — and it doesn't claim to be.
Long-term commitment locks in your decision. According to conditions published on consolidated pricing sources, the Essentiel offer at €33 excl. VAT/month and the Privilège offer at €78 excl. VAT/month commit you for 12 or 24 months with automatic tacit renewal. If your activity shifts toward outbound outreach, you remain tied in until the end of the period.
Listings are not exportable. What appears on Pages Jaunes is not downloadable as a CSV for your own use. You pay to be listed, not to retrieve a database of companies in your sector to work with.
That's precisely outsend's territory, which plays on the other side: Google Maps extraction, email qualification, deliverability verification, drip sending — all in a single tool. Not a directory — an outbound prospecting tool, in free alpha by application, with no commitment and free CSV exports. That's the "all-in-one, far cheaper than stacking subscriptions" logic underlying outsend's core value proposition.
Testing outsend in one week on a sample
There's no need to cancel Pages Jaunes Pro to evaluate outsend. The test runs in parallel, on a limited scope, while your directory listing keeps running. One week is enough to decide.
Day 1 — apply for the free alpha and pick a sample: a single activity type, a single geographic area (for example "joiners in Lyon" or a specific B2B sector). The goal is to test your actual use case, not to extract everything.
Days 2–3 — Google Maps extraction of the sample, then email qualification and deliverability verification. Assess the targeting quality: do the companies returned actually match your targets? Are the emails usable?
Days 4–5 — CSV export of the list and, if you want to go all the way, a drip send on a small batch. Measure what you couldn't do with Pages Jaunes Pro: retrieve a database and work with it in your own tools.
Days 6–7 — review. Compare the cost and effort of this outbound sample against what you get inbound via Pages Jaunes Pro. If both serve distinct needs (which is often the case), the answer isn't "one or the other." The alpha application is precisely designed to evaluate the product on your use case before any paid switch.
Keep both, or cancel: the decision grid
Here's how to decide based on your actual situation. The table summarises the scopes; the text below gives the decision rule.
| Criterion | Pages Jaunes Pro | outsend |
|---|---|---|
| Product type | Reference directory (inbound visibility) | Outbound prospecting tool |
| Price | €33 to €78 excl. VAT/month depending on plan | Free alpha (by application) |
| Commitment | 12 to 24 months, automatic tacit renewal | None (alpha) |
| CSV export of listings | Not available | Yes (CSV/JSON/XLSX) |
| Google Maps scraping | No | Yes (core feature) |
| Email finder + verification | No | Yes |
| Email/SMS sending | No (available on other Solocal modules) | Yes (on request in alpha) |
| Primary use case | Local visibility for general public | B2B and general-public prospecting |
Stay with Pages Jaunes Pro if your revenue depends on inbound prospects who search for you in a reference directory: tradespeople (plumbers, electricians, heating engineers, painters), independent professionals with a consumer client base (lawyers, notaries, GPs), neighbourhood businesses. If you want local SEO without managing it yourself, and if the brand's institutional trust carries weight with your clients, it remains a relevant channel. On that segment, Pages Jaunes Pro is still the best choice.
Test outsend if you actively prospect businesses, partners, suppliers, or sponsors, if you want to export lists to work with in your own tools, and if you refuse an annual commitment for variable usage. Your approach is outbound, not inbound.
Keep both if you're a mixed SMB: Pages Jaunes Pro for local inbound visibility, outsend for your one-off outbound prospecting campaigns. The two scopes don't overlap, so they don't cancel each other out.
The honest economics before you sign
If you currently pay €78 excl. VAT/month for Pages Jaunes Privilège, that's €936 excl. VAT/year, or roughly €1,123 incl. VAT/year. Over a 24-month commitment, that's €2,246 incl. VAT. That amount is justified if inbound visibility brings you clients; it's less so if your need has shifted toward outbound.
For outbound prospecting, you'd typically stack Pages Jaunes (not suited for that) with a tool like Scrap.io (€49/month for Google Maps scraping), Hunter (€49 from 2,000 credits/month for email finding), and a sending tool (Lemlist around €79/month, or Lemwarm alone). Total: €175 to €220/month for the outbound stack, on top of Pages Jaunes.
outsend in free alpha covers that outbound stack (extraction + emails + sending) with no subscription, by application. The financial decision therefore isn't "pay for outsend or pay for Pages Jaunes Pro" — it's "add outbound without stacking subscriptions," while keeping the inbound channel if you need it.
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Request free alpha accessFAQ — switching from or supplementing Pages Jaunes Pro
Do I need to cancel Pages Jaunes Pro before testing outsend?
No. The outsend test runs in parallel, on a sample, while your directory listing keeps running. There's no need to cut an inbound channel to evaluate an outbound one: they don't serve the same need. You only decide after seeing results from both sides.
How do I cancel a Pages Jaunes Pro subscription if I decide to stop?
Cancellation must be sent by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt to Solocal's head office (204 Rond-Point du Pont de Sèvres - 92100 Boulogne-Billancourt, France), within the contractual window before automatic renewal. The 14-day withdrawal right applies only to the initial subscription. Beyond that, you must wait until the end of the commitment period.
Which trades are better off staying with Pages Jaunes Pro?
Tradespeople (plumbers, electricians, heating engineers, painters) and certain independent professionals (lawyers, notaries, GPs) where clients still actively search in a reference directory. On those segments, Pages Jaunes Pro remains relevant. For most other businesses (B2B, professional services, e-commerce), a well-maintained Google Business Profile + an SEO-optimised website + customer reviews typically cover the core inbound need.
Does outsend let you extract a company list, which Pages Jaunes Pro doesn't?
Yes, that's precisely the difference in scope. The listings displayed by Pages Jaunes Pro are not downloadable as CSV. To extract a list of companies by sector and geographic area, you need a Google Maps scraping tool like outsend — or, for a raw administrative database, the Sirene directory from INSEE (free).
What does Pages Jaunes Pro actually cost in 2026?
Three main plans: Essentiel at €33 excl. VAT/month (~€40 incl. VAT), Premium at an intermediate price, and Privilège at €78 excl. VAT/month (~€94 incl. VAT). All with a 12 or 24-month commitment and automatic tacit renewal. Consolidated source available here. Solocal also offers custom pricing for larger organisations.