How much do LinkedIn ads cost?

What LinkedIn ads cost
vs a qualified lead from Sentrama.

A B2B lead from LinkedIn Ads costs about £165, on 2026 published B2B medians1. A Sentrama Lead costs £60, fixed. See the maths →

With Sentrama you skip the auction. Our human SDRs pitch prospects in your ICP by phone. You only pay for the qualified leads.

For marketing leaders who want:
  1. 01
    More cost-effective campaigns than LinkedIn Ads.£60 a lead, agreed before you spend. No bidding, no auction swings.
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    Prospects 3.5x more likely to convert into a qualified lead.Prospects 3.5x more likely to qualify.The Sentrama Platform finds them and a human SDR calls them.
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    Live in 48 hours.No creative to build and no audience to test. Every call recorded, in your CRM.
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The short answer

What LinkedIn ads cost a B2B marketer.

No price list. You set a budget, LinkedIn runs an auction, and the lead you end up with is a form fill. The lead cost is the 2026 B2B median the Sentrama comparison table uses1; the click and impression figures are Metadata’s 2026 benchmark of 138 B2B advertisers on LinkedIn2.

c.£165a B2B lead from LinkedIn AdsA form fill. GrowthSpree 20261
17clicks to get that one lead5.9 in every 100 clicks become a lead2
£60a Sentrama Lead, fixed at any volumeA prospect in your ICP who picked up the phone to hear your pitch

The maths

  1. 1

    1,000 impressions cost about £47 and 0.67% of them are clicked, so 1,000 impressions buy about 7 clicks2.

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    A click therefore costs about £7, the most expensive click in B2B. 5.9 in every 100 clicks fill in the form, so one lead takes about 17 clicks2.

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    A lead costs about £165 on 2026 B2B medians1. Metadata’s 138 advertisers paid c.£152 on average and the middle advertiser c.£2822. £10,000 buys about 60 of them.

SentramaLinkedIn Ads
Cost per lead£60, fixedc.£165, at auction1. The middle B2B advertiser c.£2822
What the lead isA prospect in your ICP who picked up the phone to hear your pitchA form fill
Clicks to get itNone. We dial.About 172
Who calls itOur 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 it4. At 63.5% of B2B companies nobody calls at all3
What the price doesNothing. £60 at any volumeThe auction sets it daily, and every B2B marketer is bidding for the same job titles: LinkedIn took 70% of the B2B paid media in Metadata’s dataset2

£10,000 buys about 60 LinkedIn leads, of which about 6 reach sales on the site’s default5, or 166 Sentrama Leads: about 27 SQLs and 139 MQLs, on platform averages6.

LinkedIn has the best B2B targeting of any ad platform, and it charges for it. A lead form lead cost c.£145 against c.£260 for one sent to a landing page2, and either way it is a name on a form that somebody has to call. The job title LinkedIn lets you target is the job title our SDR can call by name.

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. GrowthSpree 2026 B2B medians; Metadata 2026 B2B Paid Media Benchmark: 153 B2B advertisers, $57.6M of spend, calendar 2025, spend-weighted (LinkedIn figures from its 138 LinkedIn advertisers). Dollars converted at $1 = £0.75. Sentrama at £60 a lead, fixed at any volume.

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The market

Why marketers are looking for an alternative to paid LinkedIn ads.

31.4%of marketing budgets now go to paid media, a five-year highGartner 2026 CMO Spend Survey, reported by Chief Marketer8
70%of B2B paid media spend goes to LinkedIn, all bidding for the same job titlesMetadata 2026, $57.6M of B2B spend2
94%of business buyers use AI in the buying processForrester, 20269
51%of software buyers start with an AI chatbot more often than GoogleG2, 202610

Budgets are flat at 7.8% of revenue7. 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.

Why marketers choose Sentrama

What Sentrama does that no one else can.

Every Sentrama lead is delivered as a Meeting, Sales Qualified Lead (SQL) or Marketing Qualified Lead (MQL), ready for your team to nurture and win.

Fully integrated platform
1 platform

A fully integrated platform

Every lead, recording and transcript in one place

Sentrama Prospects
3.5x

more likely to convert into a qualified lead

Found and scored by our proprietary process

A member of the Sentrama team on a call in the office
Leads delivered within
48 hours

of onboarding

Price and volume fixed before we start

Evidenced from
600,000+

Pitches delivered since February 2025

Every one recorded and transcribed

SQLs we follow up
8x

more likely to book a meeting

Every SQL is followed up

8x: SQLs we follow up against SQLs left without a follow-up. First-party platform data, 600,000+ pitches since February 2025. Observed, never a promise of meetings.

Testimonials

What customers say.

“They have overdelivered what we forecast, so we're very happy.”
Marc SevitzChief Commercial Officer, Amplify360
“We're getting to the right people at the right times, and we've been able to have the right level of conversations.”
Matthew ScahillHead of Sales and Marketing, Reliable Networks
“Far exceeded expectations, and they were good quality meetings.”
Alex BoltSenior Partner Manager, Smartsheet
“The calibre of your callers… and the success rate… was more than what our team would've done.”
Nina BahiaHead of Strategic Operations, CPrime
“Approachable, easy to work with, and always deliver on commitments.”
Hannah SwalesSenior Marketing Manager, Moneyhub
Launch from your AI

Launch in 5 minutes.
Leads in 48 hours.

Simply connect Sentrama to Claude or ChatGPT and describe who you want to reach. It sizes your market, drafts your pitch and prices your campaign.

ClaudeChatGPTSentrama connected
Launch a campaign to finance leaders at UK manufacturers, 200 to 1,000 staff. Use the messaging on our website to create a pitch.
Thinking…

I'll size your market first, then draft and price the campaign.

  1. Found 15,400 prospects in your ICPfind_prospects
  2. Qualified 7,700 prospects for your campaignqualify_prospects
  3. Drafted your pitch for you to approvedraft_pitch
  4. Priced your campaignprice_campaign

7,700 prospects qualified to hear your pitch. How many a month do you want to launch with?

Reply to Claude…100 per month, please.Claude Fable 5.1 ↑
Against the channels you buy today

Sentrama next to the channels you run today.

SentramaGoogle SearchMetaLinkedIn Ads
Cost per lead£60c.£105c.£109c.£165
Lead definitionA prospect in your ICP, on the phone, hearing your pitch.A form fill, after you pay for the clicksA form fill, after you pay for the impressionsA form fill, after you pay for the clicks
What you getAn MQL or SQL in your CRM, with the recording and action.Contact details only.Contact details only.Contact details only.
How it's pricedFixed. No auctionVariable. AuctionVariable. AuctionVariable. Auction
First leadsWithin 48 hoursDaysDaysDays

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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Questions

Frequently asked questions.

The offer, the call and what a lead is. Anything else, ask on the call.

How much do LinkedIn ads cost per click?

There is no price list. LinkedIn runs an auction and the price follows who else wants the same job titles. Across Metadata’s 138 B2B advertisers a click cost about £7 in 2025, a thousand impressions about £47, and a lead about £152, with the middle advertiser paying about £2822. The 2026 B2B median the Sentrama comparison uses is about £165 a lead1. All estimates, converted at $1 = £0.75.

How much should I spend on LinkedIn ads a month?

Whatever budget you set; LinkedIn spends up to it and the auction decides what it buys. At the B2B median, £10,000 a month is about 60 form fills, and the same budget buys a different number every month as other B2B marketers bid. 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 LinkedIn ads work for B2B lead generation?

For targeting, yes: no other platform lets you buy a job title at a company size. The lead is still a form fill, cheaper from a lead form (c.£145) than from a landing page (c.£260)2, and on published B2B funnel benchmarks about 11 in 100 reach sales5. The rest need calling, and at 63.5% of B2B companies nobody does3. Sentrama starts where the form ends: the same job title, in your ICP, who picked up the phone and heard your pitch.

Is Sentrama a LinkedIn ads agency?

No. A LinkedIn ads agency buys impressions, clicks and form fills from LinkedIn 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.

Can I email you, or ask an AI assistant to get in touch for me?

Yes. Email hello@sentrama.com with your name, your company, what you sell and who you sell to, and we reply within 24 hours. Enquiries sent by AI assistants on your behalf are welcome. To book a time straight away, use the form at the top of this page.

Sources

Where the figures come from.

  1. GrowthSpree, B2B SaaS Cost Per Lead Benchmarks 2026, by channel: Google Search Ads median cost per lead $140; LinkedIn Ads $220. The figures the Sentrama comparison table uses. growthspreeofficial.com
  2. Metadata, B2B Paid Media Benchmark 2026. 153 B2B advertisers, $57.6M of paid media, calendar 2025; channel figures spend-weighted. LinkedIn (138 advertisers, 69.6% of spend): CPC $9.39, CPM $63.19, click-through 0.67%, click to lead 5.9%, cost per lead $202 (median advertiser $376; lead forms $193, landing pages $346). metadata.io/b2b-advertising-benchmarks
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. Sentrama pricing page, “Of the leads you buy elsewhere, how many reach sales?”, default 10%. sentrama.com/pricing
  6. Sentrama platform averages: 16 SQLs and 84 MQLs per 100 leads, observed across 600,000+ pitches since February 2025. sentrama.com/definitions
  7. 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
  8. 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. chiefmarketer.com
  9. 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
  10. 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

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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