10 Best Saleshandy Alternatives for Cold Email

Saleshandy's pricing page says $25 a month. That is a real number, and it is also not what you will pay.

Toggle the billing switch to monthly and Starter becomes $36. Then you find out the lead database is a separate subscription, verification is sold by the batch, and the dialer has its own plan page. The sticker was never the invoice.

That gap is the whole reason people go looking for Saleshandy alternatives, and it is the thing almost every comparison guide skips. So this one starts there: we rebuilt the bill line by line, then priced the alternatives against it.

TL;DR: the best Saleshandy alternatives at a glance#

What Saleshandy actually costs once the add-ons land#

Here's Saleshandy's own machine-readable pricing file, the one it publishes for AI agents. Monthly rates, no annual discount applied:

So the honest entry price is $36, not $25. Fine. That's normal SaaS marketing.

The interesting part is what isn't in that table. Saleshandy now sells five separately billed product lines, and the sequencer is only one of them:

Individually, none of those lines looks unreasonable. Stacked, they're a different product.

So let's put a real team on it. Priya runs outbound at a 12-person B2B software company. She has three SDRs, contacts about 4,000 new prospects a month, buys her contact data rather than scraping it, and sends from 20 mailboxes across a handful of domains so no single inbox gets cooked. That's an ordinary setup, not an aggressive one.

Here's what she'd actually be billed:

That's the number nobody prints. Nearly fourteen times the sticker, and Priya hasn't hired a fourth SDR yet.

Keep her invoice in mind. It's the benchmark every tool below gets measured against.

To be fair to Saleshandy, and this matters: there is no per-seat fee and no per-mailbox fee. Unlimited email accounts on every plan, unlimited team members from Pro up. Compared to Apollo at $65 a seat or Reply at $99 a user, that's genuinely generous. If you already own your data and just need to send, $99 for 30,000 prospects is a fair deal.

The problem isn't the price. It's that the price is eight prices.

The 10 best Saleshandy alternatives compared#

Monthly rates, annual discounts deliberately ignored. Scroll sideways on mobile.

Scores cluster between 4.5 and 4.8, so treat them as a sanity check rather than a ranking. The review volumes behind them vary by two orders of magnitude across this list, which matters more than the tenths of a point separating them.

How we checked these numbers#

Short version: we opened every pricing page ourselves.

1. Monthly toggle, explicitly selected. This mattered more than expected. Smartlead's page reads $32 on load and $39 once you click Monthly. Mailshake reads $25 and is really $29. lemlist reads $55 and is really $69. Apollo reads $49 and is really $65. Four of ten vendors default to annual.
2. Currency forced to USD. Woodpecker geo-detects and served us rupees.
3. Add-ons counted as real money, because they are.
4. Ratings read live on G2, not copied from vendor sites. Worth doing: lemlist's own pricing page cites a 4.7, while G2 itself shows 4.6 for the same product.
5. Anything we couldn't verify got cut. Klenty's pricing page was throwing a client-side error, so Klenty isn't in this list rather than being listed from memory.

One disclosure, up front: we build SmartReach.io, and it's ranked first. Read that with the appropriate amount of suspicion. We've also handed clear wins to QuickMail on flat pricing, Instantly on raw sending volume and Apollo on data depth, because those are real.

The 10 best Saleshandy alternatives, reviewed#

Each entry follows the same shape: what the tool actually is, who it suits, honest pros and cons, current monthly pricing, the costs that don't appear on the pricing page, and what it runs Priya's team at scale.

1. SmartReach.io: best overall Saleshandy alternative#

Ours, so weigh it accordingly. SmartReach.io is a multichannel sales engagement platform: email, calls, LinkedIn, WhatsApp and SMS running inside a single sequence, with the deliverability tooling built into the plan rather than sold beside it.

The reason it leads a Saleshandy list is narrow and specific, and it's the thesis of this whole article. Saleshandy splits sending, data, verification and placement testing into four separate subscriptions. We don't. Verification is free on every plan, prospect credits come with the plan, and your tier is set by how many prospects you contact rather than how many people log in.

Compare like for like: Email Outreach Plus is $89/month for 50,000 prospects contacted, with unlimited sending emails, free verification and 1,000 credits. Saleshandy's nearest equivalent is Outreach Pro at $99 for 30,000 prospects, and verification is still $19 a batch on top of that.

What you actually get:

• No per-seat pricing. Unlimited users from Plus up. Adding a fourth SDR costs nothing, which is the single biggest structural difference from Apollo, Reply and lemlist's multichannel tier.
• Deliverability inside the base price. ESP matching, inbox rotation and blacklist monitoring, rather than a separate placement-testing subscription.
• Free email verification on every plan, including Basic. Every prospect gets validated before the send goes out.
• The Smart Email AI Agent, the newest addition. Set your goal, pain points and offer once and it writes a distinct subject line and body for every prospect from enriched data, with no merge tags to clean up. Copilot mode queues each email for your approval and learns your tone from the edits, Autopilot sends once validation passes, and you can switch between them mid-campaign. Reply.io charges from $500/month for its equivalent as a separate product.
• One sequence, five channels. A reply on LinkedIn stops the queued email follow-ups automatically, and a booked meeting stops everything. That conditional logic is the part single-channel tools can't reproduce with integrations.
• Shared inbox with sentiment tagging, so replies from every channel land in one place tagged interested, out of office or meeting booked. Three SDRs stop double-replying to the same prospect.
• Unlimited sending emails from Plus up, where Saleshandy meters you at 150,000 a month on the equivalent tier.

Where it breaks down: if you need a very large volume of fresh contact data every month, our 1,000 credits on Plus won't cover it and you'll be topping up. Apollo and Saleshandy's Lead Finder are both stronger as pure data sources. And if LinkedIn is your primary channel rather than a supporting one, you're pushed onto a Sales Engagement plan plus a $29 per account add-on, which makes QuickMail's unlimited-LinkedIn model cheaper.

How much does SmartReach.io cost?#

Two plan families, and the split matters. Email Outreach is email sending only, with no LinkedIn or calling at any tier. Sales Engagement is the one that adds calls, LinkedIn and WhatsApp. Both are priced by prospects contacted per month, never by seat.

The Email Outreach column has no LinkedIn seats at any tier. That column is email sending only.

Hidden costs: LinkedIn only exists on the Sales Engagement plans. The Email Outreach family is email sending and nothing else, with no LinkedIn seats at any tier, so if LinkedIn matters to you the $89 Plus plan is the wrong column to be reading. On Sales Engagement, manual (task-based) LinkedIn seats are included from Basic upward: 1 on Basic, 3 on Plus, 10 on Pro, 100 on Scale. Full hands-off LinkedIn automation is a $29/month per account add-on, available on Sales Engagement Plus and above, and it isn't offered on Sales Engagement Basic at all.

Beyond that, mailboxes and secondary domains are bought separately, as they are on every platform here. Verification, warmup, inbox rotation and ESP matching are not extras.

Cost at scale: the trial is 14 days and 200 prospects with no card. Priya's team of three, contacting 4,000 prospects with verification included, sits on Email Outreach Plus at $89 plus mailboxes. Her Saleshandy stack for the same work was $345.80. Adding a fourth and fifth SDR changes neither number, because neither plan counts seats.

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2. Instantly.ai: best for high-volume sending#

Instantly has the strongest review record in this category by a distance, and the highest G2 score on this list at 4.8. That reflects a tool that does one job and does it without drama.

The product is deliberately narrow: unlimited mailboxes, unlimited warmup, inbox rotation, a unified inbox, and a campaign builder that a new user can figure out in an afternoon. If your bottleneck is "we need to send more email reliably," it removes that bottleneck faster than anything else here.

What you actually get:

• Unlimited email accounts and unlimited warmup on every tier, including the $47 entry plan. No per-mailbox fee at any volume.
• Inbox rotation across every connected account, which is the mechanic that keeps per-mailbox volume low enough to stay out of spam.
• A unified inbox across all connected mailboxes.
• Setup speed. This is the tool people recommend to someone running their first campaign.

Where it breaks down: it's email only. No native calls, LinkedIn, WhatsApp or SMS, so the moment your motion needs a second channel you're buying a second tool. And the lead database, verification and CRM are separate credit lines, which means Instantly rebuilds the same stacked-invoice problem that drove you off Saleshandy. Different logo, same shape.

The other thing worth knowing is the tier gap. Hypergrowth at $97 covers 25,000 contacts. The next step up is $358. There is nothing in between, so teams that outgrow 25,000 contacts face a near four-fold jump.

How much does Instantly.ai cost?#

Hidden costs: the lead database, email verification and CRM are all separately metered credit products. Budget for them or bring your own data.

Cost at scale: Priya's 4,000 prospects fit inside Hypergrowth at $97, but she'd still be buying verification and contact data elsewhere, so her real number lands well above the sticker. Cheaper than Saleshandy's $345.80, more than SmartReach.io's $89.

Full write-up: Instantly.ai review.

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3. Smartlead.ai: best for agencies with client workspaces#

Smartlead is built for people who run campaigns on behalf of other people. If you're an agency, this is the most natural fit on the list, and the feature set shows where the product's attention has gone: client workspaces, white-labelling, unlimited mailboxes and a reporting layer you can put a client's logo on.

For an in-house team it's a decent sender with more surface area than you need. For an agency managing eight clients, the workspace separation alone justifies it.

What you actually get:

• Client workspaces with genuine separation, so campaigns, inboxes and reporting don't bleed between accounts.
• White-labelling on the higher tiers, letting you present the platform as your own.
• Unlimited mailboxes on every plan, with mailbox purchasing built in at $4.50 each per month plus $13 per domain per year.
• Unlimited contact storage from the $174 tier up, which matters when you're warehousing eight clients' lists.

Where it breaks down: verified prospect emails are a $59/month add-on on Base and Pro, and only become free on Unlimited Smart at $174 and above. So the advertised $39 entry price is really $98 the moment you need data, and the $94 Pro tier is really $153. That's the same stacked-invoice pattern this article is about.

It also carries the lowest G2 score among the major senders here, and the product has grown fast enough that new users routinely report getting lost in it.

How much does Smartlead.ai cost?#

Monthly rates below. The page loads showing $32, $78, $144 and $315, which are the annual equivalents.

Hidden costs: $59/month for verified emails below the Smart tier. Mailboxes at $4.50 each per month, domains at $13 each per year.

Cost at scale: Priya's 4,000 prospects with verified data land on Pro plus the data add-on, so $153, plus roughly $90 for 20 mailboxes. Call it $243. Better than Saleshandy, still nearly three times SmartReach.io.

Full write-up: Smartlead.ai review.

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4. QuickMail: the flattest pricing on this list#

QuickMail gets less attention than it deserves, and on pricing structure it's arguably the cleanest thing here. Starter is $49/month and includes unlimited email senders, unlimited LinkedIn accounts and unlimited users. Not a trial allowance. Unlimited.

In a category where LinkedIn access is the standard upsell, that's unusual enough to be the headline. Reply charges $69 per LinkedIn account per month. Snov.io charges $69 per slot. We charge $29 per account. QuickMail charges nothing.

What you actually get:

• Unlimited email senders, LinkedIn accounts and users on the $49 entry plan.
• Inbox rotation and deliverability tooling with a long-standing reputation among people who have been sending cold email for years.
• Workspaces for separating clients or business units, with the Agency plan including two and extra ones at $49.
• Pricing you can forecast, because the only variable is contacts.

Where it breaks down: there's no native lead database, so you're bringing your own data or buying it elsewhere. And the contact caps bite hard. Starter allows 1,000 uploaded contacts, and the next step to 25,000 doubles the price to $99. If your list is 3,000 contacts you're paying Growth money for Starter volume.

It's also a smaller operation than the venture-funded names here, with a correspondingly thinner review base. That cuts both ways: less marketing noise, but also less certainty about the roadmap.

How much does QuickMail cost?#

Hidden costs: none on the platform itself, which is the point. Your data and mailboxes are bought elsewhere.

Cost at scale: Priya's 4,000 contacts push her to Growth at $99, plus data bought separately and mailboxes. If her three SDRs each needed a LinkedIn account, that's still $99, where Reply would add $207.

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5. lemlist: best for personalized multichannel#

lemlist has quietly restructured, and the old criticism that it's a per-seat tool is now only half true. The Email plan is $69/month with unlimited users and 50,000 emails. Only the Multichannel plan bills per user, at $109.

If you're on an older comparison quoting $39 per user, throw that number away.

What lemlist has always been best at is making a cold email not look like a cold email. Dynamic images with the prospect's logo, personalized video thumbnails, LinkedIn voice notes generated at scale. If your differentiation is craft rather than volume, this is the strongest tool here.

What you actually get:

• The best personalization tooling in this comparison, including custom images, video and AI-generated LinkedIn voice notes.
• A 650M+ contact database included rather than sold as a second subscription, which is a real advantage over Saleshandy's split.
• Unlimited users on the Email plan at $69, which is excellent value for a team that only needs email.
• Multichannel sequences covering email, LinkedIn, calls, SMS and WhatsApp on the $109 tier.

Where it breaks down: data runs on credits, and the credits are the thing to watch. A verified email is 5 credits and a phone number is 20, with credits at a cent each. So an email is 5 cents and a phone number is 20 cents. Priya's 4,000 verified emails is $200 on top of her subscription, and there's no ceiling on that line.

The Multichannel tier's per-user billing is also the steepest scaling on this list after Apollo. Five people on Multichannel is $545/month.

One small credibility note: lemlist's own pricing page cites a G2 score of 4.7, while G2 itself currently shows 4.6. Minor, but if a vendor rounds its own rating up, read the rest of its marketing with the same care.

How much does lemlist cost?#

Hidden costs: verified emails at 5 credits each and phone numbers at 20, with 1,000 credits costing $10. Intent signals are metered separately, from 20 credits each.

Cost at scale: Priya's three SDRs on Multichannel is $327, plus roughly $200 in credits for 4,000 verified emails. Around $527, which is more than her Saleshandy stack. On the Email plan alone she'd pay $69 plus credits.

More options in that space: best lemlist alternatives.

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6. Reply.io: deepest multichannel, watch the add-ons#

Reply does more channels than anything else here, and charges accordingly. Email, LinkedIn, calls, SMS, WhatsApp tasks, plus an AI SDR product on top. For a 20-person sales org with real reporting requirements, it's a serious platform.

For a three-person team it's the most expensive way to solve this problem, and the add-on structure is the reason.

What you actually get:

• Every channel, natively: email, LinkedIn, calls, SMS and WhatsApp tasks, with conditional sequences across them.
• Unlimited mailboxes and unlimited users on the Email Volume plan, which is a genuinely good structure if you're volume-led rather than seat-led.
• Reporting depth that larger organizations actually need: team performance, channel efficiency, per-sequence attribution.
• Jason, an AI SDR product from $500/month if you want the fully automated path.

Where it breaks down: the add-ons. LinkedIn automation is $69/month per account. Calls and SMS are $29/month per account. Email validation starts at $20/month. Real-time B2B data starts at $39/month. None of that is in the headline price.

Run Priya's team through it. Three users on Multichannel is $297. Add a LinkedIn account each and that's $207 more. She's at $504 before data or validation, for the same work SmartReach.io does at $89 and QuickMail does at $99.

There's also a presentation problem worth flagging: Reply's own comparison strip advertises "from $59" while the monthly toggle on the same page shows $179 for the Email Volume plan. Both numbers are on one screen.

How much does Reply.io cost?#

Hidden costs: LinkedIn at $69/month per account, calls and SMS at $29/month per account, email validation from $20/month, real-time B2B data from $39/month.

Cost at scale: Priya's three SDRs with LinkedIn on each is roughly $504/month before data. This is the one tool on the list that costs more than the Saleshandy stack it's meant to replace.

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7. Snov.io: best budget all-rounder#

Snov.io does the thing this whole article is arguing for: data, verification and sending in one place, cheaply. Starter is $39/month, Pro starts at $99, and both include unlimited team seats.

Credit where it's due, their pricing page defaults to Monthly rather than annual. After checking ten of these, that's rare enough to mention.

What you actually get:

• Unlimited team seats from $39, which is excellent for a small team and beats most of this list outright on structure.
• Email finder, verifier and sender in one subscription, so the data and the sending live together.
• A Chrome extension for pulling contacts while you're browsing.
• CRM integrations with HubSpot, Salesforce and Pipedrive on the paid tiers.

Where it breaks down: data accuracy is the recurring theme in reviews, and accuracy is the entire value proposition of a data product. A cheap database that bounces is more expensive than an accurate one, because bounced sends damage the domain reputation you're trying to protect.

LinkedIn automation is also a separate product line at $69/month per slot, the same as Reply and again more than double our $29. And the 7-day trial is the shortest here alongside Saleshandy's.

How much does Snov.io cost?#

Hidden costs: LinkedIn automation at $69/month per slot. Phone and data enrichment is a third product line.

Cost at scale: Priya's team fits Pro at $99 with all three SDRs included at no extra cost, plus mailboxes. If she wants LinkedIn on each seat, add $207 and the maths stops being attractive.

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8. Woodpecker: pay only for prospects you contact#

Woodpecker prices by prospects you actually contact rather than by prospects you store, which is a genuinely different model and the right one for a specific kind of team.

The entry point is $35/month for 500 contacted prospects, working out at $7 per 100. That tier includes 8,000 emails a month and 2,000 stored prospects at no extra cost.

What you actually get:

• Consumption-based pricing. A quiet month costs less. No other tool on this list does that.
• A long track record and a solid deliverability reputation built over many years.
• Conditional follow-up sequences and the CRM integrations you'd expect.
• Monthly billing as the page default, with no annual sleight of hand.

Where it breaks down: if you send consistently at volume, consumption pricing stops being a kindness and starts being a tax. The per-100 rate rewards irregularity, so a team contacting 5,000 prospects every month without fail is likely better served by a flat tier elsewhere.

Two practical warnings. Prices exclude VAT, which most competitors quote inclusive, so budget accordingly. And the page geo-detects currency without asking, so confirm you're reading USD before comparing.

How much does Woodpecker cost?#

Pricing runs on a slider rather than fixed tiers. The verified entry point is $35/month for 500 contacted prospects, quoted at $7.00 per 100, including 8,000 monthly emails and 2,000 stored prospects. We didn't verify whether volume discounts apply higher up the slider, so check that directly before you model a large tier.

Hidden costs: VAT on top of every price. Data and mailboxes bought elsewhere.

Cost at scale: Priya contacts 4,000 prospects a month, well past the point where a flat tier is cheaper. Woodpecker suits her only if that 4,000 is really 500 in most months and 8,000 twice a year.

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9. Mailshake: simplest to learn, hard mailbox caps#

Mailshake is the easiest tool here to get running, and it has quietly got cheaper while most of this category got more expensive. Starter is $29/month, Email Outreach is $49, and Sales Engagement is $99. Older guides quoting $58 and $83 per user are out of date.

It also carries one of the higher G2 scores on this list, which fits the product: a small, well-made thing that does what it says.

What you actually get:

• The fastest setup of anything here. If you've never run a sequence before, this is the gentlest on-ramp.
• Unlimited email sends and unlimited uploaded contacts from the $49 tier, which is unusually generous.
• Native phone dialling on the Sales Engagement plan, so cold calling and cold email live together.
• Solid personalization with merge tags and conditional logic.

Where it breaks down: and this is the one that decides it. Mailshake caps email addresses per account: 1 on Starter, 2 on Email Outreach, 10 on Sales Engagement.

In a category where unlimited mailboxes are standard, that's the binding constraint. Inbox rotation across 20 domains, which is the core technique for sending at volume without burning a domain, is simply not possible here. Priya's 20-mailbox setup cannot be built on Mailshake at any price.

That makes it a genuinely good tool for a founder sending 200 careful emails a month, and the wrong tool for a scaled outbound team. There's also no free trial, unlike almost everyone else here.

How much does Mailshake cost?#

Hidden costs: none material, because the caps prevent you from scaling into them.

Cost at scale: not applicable. Priya's setup needs 20 mailboxes and Mailshake tops out at 10.

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10. Apollo.io: when the data matters more than the sending#

Apollo is a database that learned to send, which is the reverse of everything else on this list. That framing matters, because it tells you when to pick it: if your problem is "we don't know who to email," Apollo solves the right problem. If your problem is "our emails land in spam," it doesn't.

It has by far the largest review base here and one of the highest scores, and the free tier is genuinely usable for evaluation rather than being a demo in disguise.

What you actually get:

• The best contact data in this comparison, comfortably. Coverage, filters and enrichment are the product, not a bolt-on.
• A free tier with 900 credits per year that's real enough to test with.
• Prospecting and sequencing in one login, so you're not exporting CSVs between tools.
• Deep CRM integration, particularly with Salesforce.

Where it breaks down: it's the only strictly per-seat tool in this comparison, and that structure punishes exactly the growth you're hoping for. Basic is $65 per seat per month, Professional is $99, and Organization is $149 with a three-seat minimum.

Priya's three SDRs on Professional is $297. Five is $495. Ten is $990. Every hire reprices the tool, which is the opposite of how Saleshandy, SmartReach.io, QuickMail and Snov.io all work.

The sending and deliverability side is also weaker than the specialists. Teams frequently end up running Apollo for data and a dedicated sender for the actual outreach, which is another stack.

How much does Apollo.io cost?#

Hidden costs: the seat count is the cost. Budget for a separate sending tool if deliverability matters to you.

Cost at scale: Priya's three SDRs on Professional is $297/month, and she'd likely still pay for a dedicated sender on top.

Full review: Apollo.io review.

Narrowing the shortlist to three#

Most teams who read this far end up choosing between three: the one they're on, the cheapest way to keep sending, and the one that collapses the stack. Here's how those line up.

Straight answer: stay on Saleshandy if you own your data and only need sending, because $99 for 30,000 prospects with no seat fee is a fair deal and switching costs are real. Pick Instantly if volume is the whole job. Pick SmartReach.io if you're tired of four invoices and want the channels running in one sequence.

What switching actually costs you#

Nobody puts this in a comparison table, and it's the reason plenty of teams stay somewhere worse than they should.

Your domains and mailboxes move with you. This is the part people fear most and it's the least painful. Mailboxes are just Google or Microsoft accounts connected by OAuth or SMTP. Disconnect from one platform, connect to the next. Your sending history and domain reputation live with the domain, not the sequencer, so they follow you.

Your warmup does not reset, but your rotation does. If you've been warming 20 mailboxes for six months, that reputation is attached to the domains and survives. What resets is the platform's internal knowledge of which inbox to use next, so ramp back up over a week or two rather than pointing 240,000 emails at a fresh rotation on day one.

Sequences have to be rebuilt by hand. No platform imports another's campaign logic. For a team with five or six sequences that's an afternoon. For an agency with eighty client campaigns it's a genuine project, and it's the strongest argument for staying put.

Your reply history usually doesn't come. Contacts and campaign membership export cleanly as CSV. Threaded conversations generally don't. Pull anything you'll need for context before you cancel, because you lose access at the end of the billing period.

Run both for one cycle. The cheapest insurance is a month of overlap: new platform on one domain, old platform on the rest, then compare reply rates on comparable lists before you commit. It costs one month of one subscription and it's the only way to know whether the new tool's deliverability is actually better or just differently marketed.

How to choose, in four questions#

1. Do you own your data, or are you buying it? This decides more than any feature. If you're buying, Saleshandy's real cost is Outreach plus Lead Finder, so $198 minimum. Price every option that way and the ranking shifts.

2. How many people will touch this in six months? Per-seat models (Apollo, Reply's Multichannel, lemlist's Multichannel) reprice as you hire. Jordan adding two SDRs to Apollo Professional adds $198 a month for the same work. Prospect-based and flat models don't move.

3. Is email actually enough? If your connects go quiet after the first message, a better sequencer won't fix it. You need a second channel, and that's a different tool category. Our sales engagement platform guide covers that shift.

4. What's your deliverability budget? Warmup, verification, placement testing and mailboxes are real costs whoever you pick. Some bundle them, some meter them. Google's own Postmaster Tools is free and worth watching regardless of the platform you land on.

The bottom line#

Saleshandy isn't a bad product. It's a good sequencer wearing a pricing model that hides two thirds of the bill until you're inside.

If you only need sending, it's fine and you should probably stay. If you need data, verification and placement testing too, you're looking at roughly $350 a month across five subscriptions, and that's the number to hold every alternative against.

We think one invoice beats five, which is why SmartReach.io bundles verification and prospect credits into the plan price and charges by prospects contacted rather than by seat. You'd expect us to say that. The pricing tables above are there so you can check it yourself.

Frequently asked questions#