Smartlead vs Saleshandy VS

Both send cold email from unlimited mailboxes with no per-seat fee. The difference is everything you have to buy on top.

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01Side by side

Everything, side by side

Annual pricing on both. Every line is unpacked below.

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

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02Where the leads come from

Get an 852M Contact Database Inside the Plan

A sequencer can only send to a list somebody else built. Saleshandy finds the people, verifies them and sends to them on one subscription.

Sending platform, data sold separately

Sending and sequencingThe part every plan pays for Included

Verified prospect emailsSmartProspect, an add-on on Base and Pro + $59 a month

Email verificationSold as credit packs, one-time or monthly From $32

Phone numbersSmartDialer, a separate credit balance From $9 a month

Three separate purchases, three balances to watch, and the list still arrives from somewhere outside the campaign you are about to run.

Database included

852M+ contacts, 42M+ companies

Six data providers

Two verification services

Eight vendors→one subscription→1 credit

Every plan carries a monthly credit allowance: 1,500 on Starter, 4,000 on Pro, 8,000 on Scale. Search, verification and the catch-all check all run on the same credit, and an unverified result costs nothing.

03The real monthly bill

Get One Invoice Instead of Four

Same team, same three clients, same work. This is what each platform charges once the add-ons needed to match one Saleshandy plan are on the invoice. Add-ons that are extra on both sides — dialer, dedicated IPs, placement testing — are left off.

Drag the divider — the same outbound programme, billed both ways

04Prospect storage

Keep Every Prospect You Have Ever Found

Smartlead counts every stored contact against the plan, so a big list pushes you up a tier. Saleshandy stores as many as you like and only counts the ones sitting in a live sequence.

Prospects in the database 30,000 annual billing on both sides

Pro, 30,000 contacts

30,000 of 30,000 stored$78.30 a month

$940

a year, and the next tier up is the only way to store more

$532 a year saved

Unlimited storage on every plan

30,000 stored, no cap$34.00 a month

$408

a year — the plan limits live sequence slots, never the database behind them

05Channels in a sequence

Get Calls and WhatsApp in the Same Sequence

Nobody replies to the third email. The next touch should be a call or a WhatsApp message fired by the same sequence, not a second tool and a spreadsheet of who is where. Both platforms charge for dialer credits; only one puts the other channels in the sequence itself.

Email sequencer

1Email stepsMulti-step sequences with A/B testing and branchingIncluded

2CallsSmartDialer, bought separately on its own credit balanceAdd-on

3WhatsApp stepsNot listed as a feature of any published planNot in the plan table

4Manual SDR tasksNot listed on any planNot offered

The published plan comparison is built entirely around sends, contacts and verified emails. Every non-email touch is either a paid module or something a rep has to remember and log by hand.

Three channels, one sequence

Multichannel on every plan

1Email stepsAI variants, A-Z multivariant testing, spintaxIncluded

2Call stepsDialer credits are an add-on, but the step itself lives in the sequenceIn sequence

3WhatsApp stepsQueued in the same sequence as the emails, on every planIncluded

4Manual tasks and subsequencesAssign a task to an SDR, or branch on how a prospect repliesIncluded

One sequence decides the channel, the timing and the owner, and every reply lands back in the same unified inbox. Calling minutes are bought as dialer credits, as they are on any platform that dials.

06Verification and catch-all

Get Emails Verified Without a Second Credit Pack

A bounce costs you the domain, not just the send. On Smartlead, verification is a purchase you have to remember to top up. On Saleshandy it is part of the credit that found the address.

Verification sold as credit packs

$32+

for the smallest pack, on top of the plan, every time it runs dry

1sarah.c@enterprise.comImported from wherever the list was built

2Verification credits deductedA separate balance from the plan, one-time or monthly

×Catch-all left unresolvedA catch-all server accepts anything, so a standard check proves nothing and the contact is risky either way

When the pack empties mid-campaign, sending carries on unverified until somebody notices the bounce rate.

$0 extra

Verification inside the same credit

extra — verification and the catch-all check ride on the credit that found the contact

1sarah.c@enterprise.comFound by the waterfall, inside the plan

2ZeroBounce verifies the mailboxChecked at the moment you export, not whenever a database last refreshed

3BounceBan resolves the catch-allA second method that goes past the SMTP handshake to the inbox itself

✓Confirmed deliverableOne credit, and nothing charged if no verified address comes back

Each plan also opens with standalone email verification credits for lists you bring in from elsewhere: 500 on Starter, 1,000 on Pro and 5,000 on Scale.

07Warm-up and deliverability

Get the Full Warm-up Stack on the Cheapest Plan

Both platforms include warm-up. The difference is that Smartlead grades the pool your mailboxes sit in by how much you spend, and the best pool is gated behind an eligibility review on top of that.

Warm-up pool tiered by plan

$39Base — Foundation poolThe entry pool, on the cheapest planTier 1

$94Pro — Growth poolA better pool, four times the priceTier 2

$174Unlimited Smart — Premium poolThe good pool starts hereTier 3

Ultra Premium poolA paid add-on, and eligibility is reviewed against account age, bounce rate and sending historyGated

A dedicated IP is a further $39 a month per SmartServer, and inbox placement testing runs from $49 to $599 a month on SmartDelivery.

No tiers, no review

Every warm-up feature, every plan

$34Unlimited email warm-upEvery mailbox, on the $34 Starter planIncluded

$34Dynamic IP addressesWarm-up traffic rotates across IPs, no server to rentIncluded

$34Advanced warm-up settingsRamp, volume and reply rate under your controlIncluded

$34Unlimited email accounts and sender rotationSending spreads across connected mailboxes automaticallyIncluded

Warm-up never draws on the Lead Finder credits you prospect with. Inbox placement testing runs free for two tests a month, then $34 to $139 a month — against $49 to $599 on SmartDelivery.

08Agency and client work

Add a Client Without Adding to the Bill

Smartlead charges $29 a month for every client workspace below the top plan. Saleshandy gives every plan unlimited clients, and puts whitelabel on Scale.

Client workspaces 10 annual billing on both sides

Unlimited Smart, plus $29 per workspace

$5,214

a year — $1,734 for the plan and $3,480 in workspace fees

Pro at $78.30 a month takes workspaces at the same $29 each, but leaves verified prospect emails as a further $59 a month. Unlimited Prime bundles three workspaces at $314.60 a month.

$3,426 a year saved

Scale, unlimited clients and whitelabel

$1,788

a year, whatever the client count — whitelabel, unlimited seats and SSO come with it

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

09What a plan buys

Get 100,000 Sends and 4,000 Credits for $76

Line the ladders up and the same money buys more sending, plus the database that fills it.

Plan tier Mid monthly price on annual billing

Pro

$78.30

90,000 sends · 30,000 stored contacts · verified emails are a $59 add-on

10,000 more sends

Pro

$76.00

100,000 sends · unlimited storage · 4,000 Lead Finder credits included

10Automation and API

Get the API on the $34 Plan, Not the $94 One

Smartlead's entry plan has no API and no webhooks, and its MCP server authenticates with an API key — so the first automation you write, or the first time you point Claude at your campaigns, is also an upgrade. Saleshandy ships the API, MCP and a CLI on every tier, at 50,000 calls a day.

API and webhooks from Pro, $94

API on every plan

API, MCP and CLI, 50,000 calls a day

Run the next campaign on one subscription

Seven days free, no card. Build the list, verify it, warm the mailboxes and send it, then compare your own bounce rate, reply rate and monthly invoice.

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Comparison figures were taken from Smartlead's public pricing page, machine-readable pricing file and help centre, and from Saleshandy's pricing page, in September 2026, and may have changed since. Smartlead prices are shown on annual billing where a monthly equivalent is quoted. Where a figure could not be confirmed on a vendor's own pricing page, it is described as what that page does or does not list rather than stated as a capability. Smartlead is a trademark of 521 Products Pty Ltd; this page is published by Saleshandy and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Smartlead.