What Facebook and Meta ads cost.
What a qualified lead costs instead.
A B2B lead from Facebook (Meta) costs about £109, on Metadata's 2026 benchmark of 153 B2B advertisers1. See the maths behind Facebook ads' costs →
The Sentrama Platform launches more cost-effective campaigns than Facebook, within 48 hours, by finding prospects in your ICP who are 3.5x more likely to convert into a qualified lead when our human SDR calls them.
Instead of hoping a buyer finds you on Facebook or through an AI, Sentrama delivers targeted MQLs and SQLs at a fixed price per lead.
- 01More cost-effective campaigns than Facebook and Meta.A fixed cost per lead that no auction can move, agreed before you spend.
- 02A consistent flow of leads, live within 48 hours.A fixed lead volume written into the contract, every month.
- 03Prospects 3.5x more likely to convert into a qualified lead.Every lead attributed in your CRM, with the recording and the reason given.
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What Facebook and Meta ads cost a B2B marketer.
No price list. You set a budget, Meta runs an auction, and the lead you end up with is a form fill. The figures are Metadata’s 2026 benchmark of 153 B2B advertisers1.
The maths
| Sentrama | Facebook and Meta | |
|---|---|---|
| Cost per lead | £60, fixed | c.£109, at auction. The middle advertiser c.£1341 |
| What the lead is | A prospect in your ICP who picked up the phone to hear your pitch | A form fill |
| Clicks to get it | None. We dial. | About 381 |
| Who calls it | Our SDR already has. It comes back as an MQL or SQL in your CRM. | Your team, and fast: a call inside the hour is seven times as likely to qualify it6. At 63.5% of B2B companies nobody calls at all5 |
| What the price does | Nothing. £60 at any volume | The auction sets it daily. Meta’s average price per ad rose 14% in a year3 |
Metadata’s own reading of its data: Facebook is “cheapest per lead, and the furthest from the buyer”, and B2B agencies use it to retarget people who already know you, not to find new prospects1.
Ads bill for clicks. SDRs bill for days. We bill for the conversation. AI does the tasks. Humans do the talking. The Sentrama Platform finds the prospects in your ICP most likely to convert, and a human SDR delivers your pitch to the ones who pick up. You pay for the conversation, not the tasks. Getting your ICP on the phone is an infrastructure problem, and it is the part we put in the contract. What each lead becomes is decided by your pitch.
Estimates. Metadata 2026 B2B Paid Media Benchmark: 153 B2B advertisers, $57.6M of spend, calendar 2025, spend-weighted; the £2.83 is Sentrama's arithmetic from its figures. Dollars converted at $1 = £0.75. Sentrama at £60 a lead, fixed at any volume.
What a month’s budget buys.
Take £10,000. Here is what it buys on Facebook, and what it buys with Sentrama.
| Sentrama | ||
|---|---|---|
| What the lead is | A form fill, after you pay for the impressions and clicks | A prospect in your ICP who picks up the phone to hear your pitch |
| Leads for £10,000 | About 92, at c.£1091 | 166, at £60 fixed |
| What reaches sales | About 9, if one in ten does7 | About 27 SQLs: an email and a callback, or a meeting, after our follow-up8 |
| What marketing gets | The rest need calling first | About 139 MQLs, each with the reason given, in your CRM8 |
| When they come in | When the auction wins them | Within 48 hours of launch, at the monthly volume agreed |
| What moves the price | The auction, every day | Nothing. £60 a lead at any volume |
Facebook on Metadata’s 2026 B2B benchmark; “one in ten” is the site’s default for leads bought elsewhere that reach sales, and you can set your own on the pricing page. Sentrama on platform averages across 600,000+ pitches: 16 SQLs and 84 MQLs per 100 leads, observed, never a forecast. Your pitch decides what each lead becomes.
Why marketers are looking for an alternative to paid Facebook and Meta ads.
Budgets are flat at 7.8% of revenue9. The auction is not. The marketers we talk to want a channel they can count: a fixed number of prospects in their ICP every month, on the phone, hearing their pitch, at a price no auction can move. That is what Sentrama sells.
Sentrama next to the channels you run today.
| Sentrama | Google Search | Meta | LinkedIn Ads | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cost per lead | £60 | c.£105 | c.£109 | c.£165 |
| Lead definition | A prospect in your ICP, on the phone, hearing your pitch. | A form fill, after you pay for the clicks | A form fill, after you pay for the impressions | A form fill, after you pay for the clicks |
| What you get | An MQL or SQL in your CRM, with the recording and action. | Contact details only. | Contact details only. | Contact details only. |
| How it's priced | Fixed. No auction | Variable. Auction | Variable. Auction | Variable. Auction |
| First leads | Within 48 hours | Days | Days | Days |
Sentrama at £60 a lead, fixed at any volume. Google and LinkedIn: GrowthSpree 2026 B2B medians. Meta: Metadata 2026 B2B advertising benchmark, all B2B advertisers. Converted at $1 = £0.75.
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Frequently asked questions.
The offer, the call and what a lead is. Anything else, ask on the call.
How much does it cost to advertise on Facebook?
There is no price list. You set a daily or lifetime budget and Meta’s auction decides what it buys. For B2B advertisers in 2025 a thousand impressions cost about £11.60, a click about £1.46, and a lead about £109, because only 2.6 in every 100 clicks become one; the middle advertiser paid about £134 (Metadata 2026, 153 B2B advertisers)1. Across every industry a lead cost about £21 (WordStream 2026)2. All estimates, converted at $1 = £0.75.
How much do Facebook ads cost per day or per month?
Whatever budget you set. Meta’s own guidance is that you decide how much you want to spend, and that an ad set needs about 50 results in a week before its delivery settles4. The budget caps what you spend; the auction sets the price of each click that day, so the same £10,000 buys a different number of leads every month. With Sentrama the number of leads and the price per lead are agreed before you spend, and a shortfall in any month is credited to the next.
Do Facebook ads work for B2B lead generation?
For retargeting, the data says yes: a lead from a warm audience cost about £90 against about £125 from a cold one1. For finding new prospects, the benchmark’s own authors say most B2B teams treat Facebook as a consumer channel and agencies use it to re-engage people who already know you1. LinkedIn’s B2B Institute puts up to 95% of business buyers out of the market at any one time13, which is why a cold audience costs more and converts less. Either way the lead is a form fill, and 2.6% of clicks become one1. Sentrama starts where the form ends: a prospect in your ICP who picked up the phone and heard your pitch, and if the timing is wrong, an MQL that tells you when to come back.
Is Sentrama a Facebook ads agency?
No. An agency buys impressions, clicks and form fills from Meta and bills you for the work. Sentrama is a B2B lead generation channel that sells the lead: a prospect in your ICP who picks up the phone to hear your pitch from our SDR, at £60 a lead, fixed at any volume, back in your CRM as an MQL or SQL. Keep your agency for the ads; Sentrama sits beside them with its own cost per lead. It is for B2B marketing leaders with a defined ICP and a product worth a phone call with a senior prospect. A first purchase is 175, 300 or 500 leads.
How does the offer work?
Choose 175, 300 or 500 leads at £60 a lead on your first purchase (£10,500, £18,000 or £30,000, plus VAT, paid when you launch) and we add 25, 200 or 500 leads of credit: 14%, 67% or 100% on top of what you buy. Your credit is added to your account when you fund your campaign and delivered after your paid leads, at the same leads a month. The 12 months runs from that day. They are delivered in full even if you stop buying before using them.
When is the credit added?
When you fund your campaign and launch. They are delivered after your paid leads, at the same leads a month.
How do you define an MQL and an SQL?
By who needs to act on the lead next. An MQL is a Sentrama Lead that, after hearing your pitch, needs your marketing team's action: 84 in 100 on average, with the reason, where given. An SQL needs an email and a callback, or a meeting: 16 in 100 on average. We follow up first, then hand it to sales.
Does this compete with my agency?
No. Your agency keeps running the channels it runs today, and this sits alongside them as another line in your marketing mix, with its own cost per lead.
What am I committing to?
One first purchase of 175, 300 or 500 leads at £60 a lead (£10,500, £18,000 or £30,000, plus VAT), paid when you launch, delivered at 50 to 500 leads a month as agreed on your launch call. Top up in blocks of 100 leads whenever you want more. Nothing is dialled and nothing is charged until you have approved your pitch in writing; you pay once, when you launch. If we deliver fewer leads than agreed in any month, the shortfall is credited to the next month.
Who makes the call?
A Sentrama SDR, employed by us and trained on your pitch and your sales material before the first dial. Not an AI voice. Every call is recorded with notice and every list is screened before dialling. Privacy Notice & Data Policy.
What exactly is a Sentrama Lead?
A prospect in your ICP who picks up the phone to hear your pitch from our SDR. It is the only thing you are billed for. A voicemail, a switchboard or a wrong number is never a lead and is never charged.
What does it cost?
£60 a lead, fixed. Choose 175, 300 or 500 leads on your first purchase, delivered at 50 to 500 leads a month, agreed on your launch call. No auction, no bidding. Offer terms apply.
Where the figures come from.
- Metadata, B2B Paid Media Benchmark 2026. 153 B2B advertisers, $57.6M of paid media, calendar 2025; channel figures spend-weighted. Facebook: CPC $1.95, CPM $15.50, click-through 0.79%, click to lead 2.6%, cost per lead $145 (median advertiser $179; prospecting $166, retargeting $120). metadata.io/b2b-advertising-benchmarks
- WordStream (LocaliQ), Facebook Ads Benchmarks 2026, 14 September 2026. 1,377 US traffic campaigns and 452 US lead campaigns, April 2025 to June 2026, medians. Lead campaigns: cost per lead $27.39. wordstream.com/blog/facebook-ads-benchmarks-2026
- Meta Platforms, Third Quarter 2026 Results, 21 October 2026: “Average price per ad increased by 14% year-over-year”; ad impressions up 10%. Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2025 Results, 28 January 2026: average price per ad up 9% across 2025. investor.atmeta.com
- Meta Business Help Centre, “How much it costs to advertise on Meta technologies”: “you decide how much you want to spend”; “About the Learning Phase”: delivery settles “after about 50 results in the week after the ad set’s last significant edit”. facebook.com/business/help
- RevenueHero, Lead Response Times Report, March 2024. Demo requests submitted to 1,000 B2B companies; 635 (63.5%) never responded. revenuehero.io/resources/lead-response-times-report
- Harvard Business Review, “The Short Life of Online Sales Leads”, Oldroyd, McElheran and Elkington, March 2011. 2,241 US companies sent a web lead; average response 42 hours among those that replied within 30 days; a response within an hour was nearly seven times as likely to qualify the lead as one an hour later. hbr.org/2011/03/the-short-life-of-online-sales-leads
- Sentrama pricing page, “Of the leads you buy elsewhere, how many reach sales?”, default 10%. sentrama.com/pricing
- Sentrama platform averages: 16 SQLs and 84 MQLs per 100 leads, observed across 600,000+ pitches since February 2025. sentrama.com/definitions
- Gartner, 2026 CMO Spend Survey, press release, 11 May 2026. 401 CMOs and marketing leaders, North America, the UK and Europe, January to March 2026: marketing budgets effectively flat at 7.8% of company revenue; 56% of CMOs lack the budget to deliver their 2026 strategy. gartner.com/en/newsroom
- Chief Marketer, “Gartner CMO Spend Survey: Budgets Reflect Increase in Consumption-Based Martech, Paid Media Spend”, 24 June 2026, reporting the same survey: paid media 31.4% of marketing expenses, a five-year high, up from 25.1% in 2021; 53% plan to spend more on paid media, 25% to cut; social and search advertising among the top five channels respondents plan to reduce. chiefmarketer.com
- Forrester, “B2B Buyers Make Zero-Click Buying Number One”, John Buten, 22 January 2026, on Forrester’s Buyers’ Journey Survey 2025: 94% of business buyers use AI in the buying process, up from 89%. forrester.com/blogs
- G2, The Answer Economy: 2026 AI Search Insight Report, 15 April 2026. 1,076 B2B software buyers, surveyed March 2026: 51% start their research with an AI chatbot more often than Google, up from 29%. company.g2.com/news/g2-research-the-answer-economy
- LinkedIn B2B Institute with the Ehrenberg-Bass Institute, “Advertising effectiveness and the 95-5 rule”, Professor John Dawes, 2021: “up to 95% of business clients are not in the market for many goods and services at any one time.” business.linkedin.com
Third-party figures are published estimates and are not Sentrama's. Sentrama at £60 a lead, fixed at any volume. Dollars converted at $1 = £0.75.
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