Instantly vs Saleshandy VS

Two platforms for the same outbound job. Here is what each one includes in the plan, what it meters, and what it charges you twice for.

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50 credits free · no card · figures checked September 2026

01Side by side

Everything, side by side

Annual pricing on both. Instantly figures come from its public pricing page, credit documentation and help centre. Each row is unpacked in the sections below.

One Saleshandy plan covers sending and data. Starter $34, Pro $76, Scale $149 a month, billed annually.

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02Who pays the data vendors

Get Eight Named Vendors on a Single Credit

On Instantly the price of a contact depends on which provider happened to answer, and verification is metered after that. On Saleshandy the whole chain is one credit and the vendors are named.

5+ providers, priced by source

Found in Instantly’s own databaseThe cheapest outcome, and the one you cannot choose 1 credit

Found by a data partnerUnnamed providers, priced above the house rate 2+ credits

Email verificationMetered per lead, catch-all check included in it 0.25 credits

Fully enriched profileTitle, company, size and the rest of the row 0.5 credits

Instantly publishes an average of about 1.5 credits per verified work email, because the rate moves with the source. Budgeting is a forecast, not a number.

All eight, one credit

8 vendors included

Six data providers

Two verification services

Eight vendors→one subscription→1 credit

03Credit usage

Get the Whole Contact for One Credit

The same person, enriched and verified and ready to send to. One platform meters each step of that. The other charges once and pays the vendors itself.

Drag the divider — the same lookup, billed both ways

04Database size

Get 1.9× the Database and Company Data With It

When the first name goes quiet, your rep still has someone else at that account to email.

450M+ contacts

contacts returned at Acme Corp

852M+ contacts

852M+ contacts, 42M+ companies

contacts returned at the same account

05Search filters

Cut the List With 70+ Filters, Not 13

A bigger database only helps if you can narrow it. Every filter you do not have is a list your rep has to clean by hand.

13 filters

filters, including keywords and lookalikes

5× the filters

40+ people, 15+ company, 25+ saved

70+

filters across people and company data

Includes tech stack, hiring signals, company financials, net-new contacts and AI natural-language search.

06Contact limits

Keep Every Prospect You Have Ever Found

Instantly’s uploaded-contact number is a fixed ceiling across all campaigns, not a monthly allowance. Saleshandy counts only the prospects sitting in live sequences.

Prospects in the account 25,000 Hypergrowth, $97 a month, against Pro at $76

25,000 uploaded contacts, total

25,000 of 25,000 held0 with nowhere to go

The ceiling counts every prospect in the account, not the ones you emailed this month.

Unlimited storage

Unlimited prospect storage

25,000 heldno storage ceiling

Store as many prospects as you like. Only the ones in live sequences count towards the plan, 30,000 of them on Pro.

07Phone data

Get Mobile Numbers, Not Just Work Emails

Instantly’s search returns the work email and the profile around it. If the account needs a call, the number comes from somewhere else.

Monthly credit balance 4,000

Work email and profile

mobile numbers from the same balance

Second vendor needed

Calls and SMS live in the CRM, but the number that fills them has to be bought from another provider and imported.

666 numbers

6 credits, verified email included

666

verified mobile numbers, each with the work email

Built-in dialer

Revealed through the same waterfall, charged only when a number comes back, and dialled from inside the sequence.

08Sequence channels

Follow Up on Three Channels, Not One

Most replies come after the third touch, and the third touch is rarely another email. A sequence that can only send email hands the rest of the follow-up back to your rep.

Email sequences

1Email, day 1Sent by the sequence

2Email, day 4Sent by the sequence

3Email, day 9Sent by the sequence

×Calls and WhatsAppLogged in the CRM afterwards, never scheduled by the sequence

The channel that usually gets the reply is the one the automation cannot run.

3 channels + tasks

Email, calls, WhatsApp

1Email, day 1Sent by the sequence

2WhatsApp message, day 3Queued by the same sequence, or assigned as a task to the owning rep

3Call, day 5Dialled in-app on the number revealed with the email

✓Replied → subsequenceThe answer routes the prospect into the next sequence automatically

One sequence, three channels and manual tasks, with subsequences branching on how the prospect responds.

09Credit expiry

Spend Your Credits on Your Own Schedule

Outbound is lumpy. A quiet month followed by a big list-build is normal, and it should not cost you the balance you already paid for.

Months before you use them 3 on a monthly credit plan

Expire 2 months after purchase

5,000 expired0 still spendable

Unused monthly credits expire two months after they are added, so this balance is written off before you spend it.

Full year upfront

48,000 deposited on annual billing

12,000 still spendablenothing written off

On annual billing the whole year’s credits land at once, so a heavy list-build in March can draw on the quiet weeks around it.

10What you actually subscribe to

Get Sending and Data in One Subscription

Instantly splits outreach and Instantly Credits into two subscriptions. Comparable capacity means buying both, or the bundle that contains them.

Where you are Scaling 100,000 emails a month, around 5,000 credits

Scale bundle, $175 a month

$2,100

a year, outreach and credits together

Bought apart, that is Hypergrowth at $97 plus Supersonic Credits at $97 a month.

$1,188 a year less

Pro, $76 a month

$912

a year, one plan, ten users included

4,000 credits a month, 100,000 emails, unlimited mailboxes and unlimited warm-up on the same line item.

We pulled 3,000 contacts for a campaign and 92% of the emails verified on the first try.
Thomas Foley, Founder, HighTouch

11Automation and agents

Drive the Whole Platform From an Agent

An official MCP server, a CLI and webhooks on every plan, so a scheduled job or an AI agent can build the list and start the sequence without a person in the loop.

REST API, webhooks from $97

MCP, CLI and webhooks

50,000 API calls a day

Run the same campaign on one subscription

Fifty credits free, no card, seven days. Build the list you would have built on Instantly, then compare your own bounce rate, reply rate and cost per reply.

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Instantly figures were taken from instantly.ai/pricing, its machine-readable pricing page, the Instantly credit system help articles and the SuperSearch documentation in September 2026, and may have changed since. Credit rates published by Instantly are averages and vary by data source. Instantly is a trademark of Instantly.ai; this page is published by Saleshandy and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Instantly.ai.