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SmartReach.io vs Saleshandy
Both run flat plans with unlimited sending accounts and no per-seat pricing, so this one does not turn on billing model. It turns on how much of the multichannel story each platform actually automates, and on how many prospects a plan gives you.
Saleshandy Pro is $99 a month for 30,000 prospects and 10 users. SmartReach.io Email Outreach Plus is $89 for 50,000 prospects and unlimited users.
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In short
- SmartReach.io is a cold email software with multichannel outreach capabilities via channels like email, LinkedIn, calls and WhatsApp.
- Saleshandy is a cold email platform with a built-in lead database. Both it and SmartReach.io use flat pricing with unlimited sending email accounts and neither charges per seat, so the billing-model argument that separates most tools in this category does not apply here.
- All prices monthly. Saleshandy Starter is $41 for 2,000 prospects and one user, Pro is $99 for 30,000 prospects and 10 users, and Scale is $189 for unlimited prospects and unlimited users. SmartReach.io Email Outreach Basic is $29 for 1,000 prospects, Plus is $89 for 50,000 prospects with unlimited users, and Pro is $199 for 100,000.
- The difference that decides most evaluations is channel automation. Saleshandy markets email, LinkedIn, calls and WhatsApp, but LinkedIn runs as a manual task or a hand-off to a third-party tool. SmartReach.io automates LinkedIn natively inside the same conditional sequence as email, at $29/month per connected account.
- Calling separates them for teams. SmartReach.io includes calling seats in Sales Engagement plans with live coaching through listen, whisper and barge. Saleshandy ships a dialer with transcription and voicemail drops but no live coaching. Neither has a power dialer.
- Saleshandy is stronger on public proof with 773 G2 reviews against 60, on compliance with SOC 2 and ISO 27001 claims, on white-labelling, on call transcription, and on mailbox infrastructure priced from $2.99 per mailbox a month against $4 on SmartReach.io.
- SmartReach.io offers a 14-day free trial covering 200 prospects with no credit card. Saleshandy's trial is 7 days.
SmartReach.io vs Saleshandy, who should pick which
Both are capable platforms. The honest answer depends on what you are optimising for.
Pick SmartReach.io if
- You want LinkedIn genuinely automated in the same sequence as email, not a task list
- Your team is bigger than ten people, or you expect it to be
- You need 50,000 active prospects for under $100 a month
- A manager coaches live calls and needs listen, whisper and barge
- You send across regions and want each prospect reached in their own working hours
Pick Saleshandy if
- A SOC 2 or ISO 27001 report is a procurement requirement
- You resell under your own brand and need white-labelling
- You want call transcription and AI call summaries
- You need unlimited active prospects at a fixed price
- You are one person and prospect volume matters more than anything else
Feature by feature
Grouped so you can read the part you care about. Rows where the two platforms genuinely do the same thing are marked parity rather than dressed up, and rows Saleshandy wins are marked as such.
Pricing and packaging
Neither charges per seat. That is unusual in this category and it means the usual argument does not apply.
| Capability | SmartReach.io | Saleshandy |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing unit | Flat per plan. Unlimited users from Plus Parity | Flat per plan. 1 user on Starter, 10 on Pro, unlimited on Scale |
| Sending email accounts | Unlimited on every plan above Basic Parity | Unlimited on every plan |
| Emails per month | Unlimited above Basic. 10,000 on Basic We win this | 6,000 on Starter, 100,000 on Pro, 200,000 on Scale. Metered on every plan |
| Active prospects at the team tier | 50,000 on Email Outreach Plus, $89 We win this | 30,000 on Pro, $99 |
| Active prospects at the top tier | 500,000 on Scale They win this | Unlimited on Scale |
| Email verification | Included on every plan We win this | A one-time credit grant per plan, then metered |
| Free trial | 14-day free trial, 200 prospects, no credit card We win this | 7 days |
Channels, and which are actually automated
Both market four channels. Only one of the two automates LinkedIn inside the sequence, and that is the single biggest practical difference between them.
| Capability | SmartReach.io | Saleshandy |
|---|---|---|
| Channels marketed | Email, LinkedIn and calls, with WhatsApp as a manual step Parity | Email, LinkedIn, calls and WhatsApp |
| LinkedIn automation | Native and automated inside the same conditional sequence, $29/month per connected account, unlimited network accounts We win this | A manual task in the sequence, or handed off to a third-party LinkedIn tool |
| Manual task step in the sequence Parity | Manual task step in the sequence | |
| Conditional branching | Conditional drips branch on prospect behaviour, with A/B variants, spintax and Liquid Parity | Sub-sequences triggered by prospect behaviour |
| Shared team inbox | Unified campaign inbox with reply sentiment Parity | Unified inbox |
Calling
Both ship a dialer. They differ on what a manager can do while a call is live.
| Capability | SmartReach.io | Saleshandy |
|---|---|---|
| Calling seats | Included in Sales Engagement plans, 3 on Plus and 10 on Pro, extra seats $19 Parity | Included in sequences |
| Live call coaching | Listen, whisper and barge, so a manager can coach without ending the call We win this | Not offered |
| Call transcription | Not offered They win this | Transcription and AI call summaries |
| Power dialer | No Parity | No |
Email infrastructure and deliverability
Close to parity on tooling. They are cheaper on mailboxes; we do more automatically when something goes wrong.
| Capability | SmartReach.io | Saleshandy |
|---|---|---|
| Mailboxes and domains | Google and Microsoft 365 at $4 a mailbox plus $5 a domain, SMTP at $3 a mailbox, or an Azure tenant of 50 mailboxes plus a domain for $35 with a dedicated IP, which works out at about $0.70 a mailbox We win this | Google, Microsoft 365 and Azure at $3.99 a mailbox quarterly, $3.49 on annual flexible or $2.99 on annual fixed. No SMTP option published |
| Email warmup | Included free on every plan and every mailbox Parity | Included free |
| Inbox rotation | Included, across unlimited inboxes in one campaign Parity | Included, sender rotation |
| ESP matching | Included. Pairs the sending domain with the recipient's provider We win this | Not available |
| Blacklist and domain-health monitoring | Continuous, and auto-pauses a campaign when a reputation issue appears We win this | Deliverability monitoring and alerts |
| Campaign soft start | Volume ramps gradually on a new mailbox instead of spiking on day one We win this | Not available |
Scheduling and sending controls
The part most comparisons skip. It decides whether your email lands at 3pm local or 3am local.
| Capability | SmartReach.io | Saleshandy |
|---|---|---|
| Prospect timezone sending | Detects each prospect's timezone and sends inside their local business hours We win this | Schedules by the sequence timezone |
| Sending holiday calendar | Holds sends on local public holidays and releases them the next working day We win this | Not available |
| Per-account daily limits | Configurable up to 200 a day per connected account, with workspace-wide safety settings Parity | Configurable per mailbox |
Data, AI and trust
Where Saleshandy is ahead, and it is ahead on more than one axis here.
| Capability | SmartReach.io | Saleshandy |
|---|---|---|
| Contact database | 300M+ contacts and 50M+ companies, with credits included every month They win this | A larger published database, with a monthly credit allowance per plan |
| Public review base | 4.6 on G2 from 60 reviews They win this | 4.6 on G2 from about 773 reviews |
| Compliance | GDPR, two-factor authentication, role-based access, encryption in transit and at rest They win this | SOC 2 and ISO 27001 claimed |
| White-label for agencies | Not offered. Client dashboards priced per client They win this | Offered on the top plan |
| Autonomous AI SDR | An AI SDR is coming soon as a separate plan. Message chat support for early access. Parity | Not offered |
SmartReach.io vs Saleshandy pricing
Every price on this page is the monthly rate on both sides, so nothing here can disagree with our own pricing page. An email-only buyer and a multichannel buyer get different answers, so both are priced separately rather than averaged into one.
A team, the usual case
Several senders on email outreach, monthly billing on both sides. Saleshandy Pro against SmartReach.io Email Outreach Plus
| Line | SmartReach.io | Saleshandy |
|---|---|---|
| Plan | Email Outreach Plus, $89/mo We win this | Pro, $99/mo |
| Active prospects | 50,000 We win this | 30,000 |
| Prospects per dollar | 562 We win this | 303 |
| Emails per month | Unlimited We win this | 100,000 |
| Users | Unlimited We win this | 10 |
| Sending email accounts | Unlimited Parity | Unlimited |
| Monthly | $89 | $99 |
$10 cheaper, 20,000 more prospects, no monthly email cap and no ceiling on users. Saleshandy meters emails on every plan, at 6,000 on Starter, 100,000 on Pro and 200,000 on Scale; SmartReach.io stops metering them above Basic.
One person starting out
A single sender, email only, monthly billing on both sides
| Line | SmartReach.io | Saleshandy |
|---|---|---|
| Entry plan | Email Outreach Basic, $29/mo We win this | Saleshandy Starter, $41/mo |
| Emails per month | 10,000 We win this | 6,000 |
| Active prospects | 1,000 They win this | 2,000 |
| Free trial | 14 days, 200 prospects, no card We win this | 7 days |
| Monthly | $29 | $41 |
$12 cheaper with 4,000 more emails and twice the trial, against 1,000 fewer prospects. If prospect volume is the only thing you care about as a solo sender, Saleshandy Starter gives more of it; on everything else this tier goes the other way.
Competitor pricing checked 2026-09-23. Prices change often, so check the vendor's own pricing page before planning a migration around one. Saleshandy pricing. SmartReach.io figures come from our pricing page, which is the source of truth for them. No per-seat pricing. Plans scale by active prospects, and every plan above Basic includes unlimited users and unlimited sending email accounts.
Where SmartReach.io is the better choice
Six places the difference is real rather than marketing, each one checkable against the two pricing pages.
LinkedIn is automated, not a task on a list
Saleshandy markets four channels, and in the product LinkedIn is a manual task in the sequence or a hand-off to a separate LinkedIn tool. SmartReach.io runs LinkedIn natively inside the same conditional sequence as email, so a no-reply can branch to a connection request without anybody touching it. If multichannel means automation rather than reminders, this is the difference.
More prospects at the tier teams actually buy
Email Outreach Plus is $89 a month for 50,000 active prospects, unlimited emails and unlimited users. Saleshandy Pro is $99 for 30,000 prospects, 100,000 emails and 10 users. Cheaper, 20,000 more prospects, and no ceiling on people or sends.
A manager can coach a live call
Calling seats come with Sales Engagement plans and include listen, whisper and barge, so a manager can join a call in progress without ending it. Saleshandy gives you a dialer with transcription and voicemail drops, which is review after the fact rather than help during. Neither platform has a power dialer.
Sending is scheduled around the prospect
SmartReach.io detects each prospect's timezone and sends inside their local business hours, and the sending holiday calendar holds mail on local public holidays. Saleshandy schedules against the sequence timezone. On a list that spans regions that is the difference between arriving at 9am and arriving at 3am.
Deliverability failures stop themselves
Both ship warmup and rotation. SmartReach.io adds ESP matching, continuous blacklist and domain-health monitoring that auto-pauses a campaign when reputation slips, and campaign soft start so a new mailbox ramps rather than spikes. Saleshandy reports problems; it does not stop the campaign for you.
Twice the trial, and verification included
A 14-day free trial covering 200 prospects with no credit card, against Saleshandy's 7-day trial. Email verification runs on every plan at no extra cost, where Saleshandy grants a one-time credit block per plan and meters beyond it.
Where Saleshandy is the better choice
Every comparison page on the internet says its author wins. Here is where this one does not, so you can weigh the parts that matter to you rather than take our word for the whole thing.
They have roughly thirteen times the public reviews
Saleshandy holds about 773 G2 reviews to SmartReach.io's 60, at a comparable rating. The ratings are close; the evidence base behind theirs is far larger, and that is a reasonable thing for a buyer to weigh.
They claim SOC 2 and ISO 27001 and we claim neither
Saleshandy publishes SOC 2 and ISO 27001 compliance. SmartReach.io makes no public SOC 2 claim. We hold GDPR compliance, two-factor authentication, role-based access and encryption in transit and at rest. If a SOC 2 report is a procurement requirement, that is a real difference and it is theirs.
Mailboxes are cheaper on their side at low volume
On a handful of Google or Microsoft 365 mailboxes with an annual commitment, Saleshandy is $2.99 each against our $4, and that is a real difference. It closes at volume: an Azure tenant of 50 mailboxes plus a domain is $35 a month here, which is about $0.70 a mailbox. If you are buying five, they win; if you are buying fifty, we do by a distance.
More prospects at the entry price, and no cap at the top
Starter gives 2,000 active prospects for $41 where Email Outreach Basic gives 1,000 for $29, so their entry plan is better value on prospects alone. At the top, Saleshandy Scale removes the prospect limit entirely at $189; SmartReach.io caps at 500,000.
Call transcription and AI call summaries
Saleshandy transcribes calls and generates AI summaries. SmartReach.io records calls and reports on them but does not transcribe. For a team that reviews calls at volume, or wants searchable call content, that is a real gap on our side.
White-label for agencies
Saleshandy white-labels the client-facing experience on its top plan. SmartReach.io does not white-label; client dashboards carry our brand and are priced per client. For an agency that resells under its own name, Saleshandy covers something we do not.
What teams who switched say
Verbatim quotes from published SmartReach.io case studies. Every one links to the full story with the numbers behind it.
4.7
on Capterra from 27 reviews
4.6
on G2 from 60 reviews
5,000+
sales teams and agencies
99.99%
platform uptime
“SmartReach is the engine that keeps our clients happy.”
Emmett ArmstrongFounder, OnRamp Data
“This software is focused on the end receiver as much as the user.”
Matt McQuinCo-founder, Coldlytics
“SmartReach.io significantly reduced manual work, allowing us to focus on managing mailboxes.”
Paz PolettaSales COR
Switching in an afternoon
Nothing here needs a migration project or a call with sales.
Bring your prospects across
Export from Saleshandy as CSV and import directly, or move contacts through the API. Field mapping is saved after the first run.
Rebuild sequences, keep the logic
Sub-sequences and conditional drips model the same branching, so the logic you designed transfers. Steps are rebuilt in the editor rather than imported, which is usually an afternoon.
Turn the LinkedIn tasks into automation
The LinkedIn steps you have been doing by hand, or in a separate tool, become automated steps in the same sequence. This is the part of the move that changes how the day works.
Protect deliverability through the switch
Connect your existing mailboxes, run free warmup on all of them, turn on inbox rotation and use soft start so volume ramps. Reputation follows the domain, not the platform. The 14-day free trial lets you run both in parallel first.
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