Saleshandy competitors, sorted by why you are leaving
Saleshandy bundles an eight-provider waterfall into one credit and puts the API on every plan. What it does not have is a single webhook. 4 replacements below, each one matched to a specific reason.
Instantly if the reason to leave is the missing webhooks, because it ships them from Hypergrowth at $97 and publishes 100 requests a second, at the price of buying data as a second subscription from $9. Smartlead if unlimited mailboxes with rotation matter more than the entry price, remembering that its API starts at $94. Reply.io if LinkedIn belongs in the sequence, and Apollo if you want data and sending on one bill the way Saleshandy sells them. Only Apollo comes in under its one-credit verified email on price, and only just, so treat Saleshandy alternatives as a fix for the integration surface, not for the data.
Prices and limits for every option below are read off the vendor's own page. These are the Saleshandy alternatives that each answer a named problem.
The 3 reasons people actually leave
If none of these is your situation, the honest answer is that you should probably stay. The 17 providers in the Sending APIs listing are where these replacements come from.
1 · No campaign webhooks, and none on the way yet
Saleshandy's own help center says it does not offer webhooks and has them on the roadmap. A reply, a bounce or an unsubscribe reaches your systems only by polling, which is slower, noisier and a cost carried for the life of the integration. For anything event-driven that is not a gap, it is the architecture.
2 · No published rate limit
The API is broad, 113 endpoints including buying domains and provisioning mailboxes, and there is no figure to size a job against. Combined with polling as the only way to see events, throughput is something you discover in production rather than plan for.
3 · Users and mailboxes are the lines that grow
Starter at $34 a month billed annually carries one user and 2,000 active prospects, Pro at $76 carries ten users, and only Scale at $149 removes the cap. Mailboxes are a separate line on top, from $2.99 each a month on an annual commitment to $3.99 quarterly, with domains at $14 a year.
4 Saleshandy alternatives, and what each one fixes
Ordered by how closely each one answers the reasons above, not by price.
| Provider | Entry price | Unit cost | Free tier | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saleshandy | $34/mo annual | $0.0227 per credit | No free tier. 7-day free trial, and up to 50 free Lead Finder credits at signup. | Baseline |
| Instantly | $47/mo | Not sold by the unit | No free tier. 14-day trial with 250 uploaded contacts and 1,000 emails, and 100 trial credits. | Best for unlimited mailboxes and warmup |
| Smartlead | $39/mo | Not sold by the unit | No free tier. Free trial, no card. API access starts at the Pro plan. | Best sending infrastructure |
| Reply.io | $49/user/mo annual | Not sold by the unit | No free tier. 14-day trial with API access and 300 active contacts. | Best for teams that outgrow per-seat pricing |
| Apollo API | $49/seat/mo | $0.0196 per credit | Free plan with API access, 900 credits per seat per year granted monthly, so 75 a month | Best all-in-one GTM API |
Read from each vendor's own pricing page between 23 and 24 October 2026.
The case for each one
Each one below is matched to a reason rather than scored, and each one names what you give up by taking it. A replacement with no downside is a replacement nobody has actually run.
Instantly
Webhooks from $97, a published 100 requests a second and unlimited mailboxes with warmup on every sending plan. The direct fix for what Saleshandy lacks.
Instantly answers the two integration complaints in one move. It ships webhooks from the Hypergrowth plan at $97 a month, so a reply can trigger something in your own systems the moment it lands, and it publishes 100 requests a second and 6,000 a minute per workspace, shared across v1, v2 and every key. Saleshandy publishes neither.
Mailboxes stop being a line item. Unlimited email accounts and unlimited warmup come on every Outreach plan from $47 a month, metered on uploaded contacts and emails sent, where Saleshandy charges $2.99 to $3.99 a mailbox a month on top of the plan.
The data is the half that gets more expensive. Instantly sells its 450M contact database as a second subscription, from $9 a month or $47 for 1,500 credits, so data and sending together start at $56 against Saleshandy's $34, and the cheap tier carries only 1,000 uploaded contacts.
What you give up
The one-credit waterfall. Saleshandy queries six sources, then verifies through ZeroBounce and BounceBan, all for one credit at about $0.0227 and nothing for a failed lookup. Instantly has no equivalent price, and the API-driven domain and mailbox provisioning goes with it.
When it is the wrong answer
A team that wants data and sending on one cheap bill and never needs to react to an event. For that buyer Saleshandy's $34 is the better purchase and the webhooks are a feature nobody will use.
Read the review · Saleshandy vs Instantly
Smartlead
Webhooks on every event, unlimited mailboxes with rotation, and both rate-limit layers documented, per minute and per hour. From $94, not $39.
Smartlead is the closest like-for-like, because it also sells the whole sending stack on one bill: sequencer, mailboxes, domains and verified prospect emails. Where it differs is the integration surface. It ships webhooks on every event and publishes a full rate limit guide with headers and backoff code, which is the half Saleshandy has not built.
Read the plan gate before comparing. Base at $39 has no API and no webhooks; both start at Pro, $94 a month with 90,000 sends. Against Saleshandy's API on a $34 plan, the cheapest programmatic entry is nearly three times higher here.
The limits are 60 requests a minute and 1,000 an hour per key, rising to 120 and 3,000 on its Pro API tier, and three analytics endpoints are capped at 10 calls a minute on every plan. Mailboxes are unlimited and rotate automatically inside a campaign, from $4.50 each to buy.
What you give up
Price at the entry point, and the data bundled into the plan. Smartlead meters verified prospect emails as a third counter and includes them only on the Unlimited tiers from $174, so below that the data is a separate vendor.
When it is the wrong answer
Anyone budgeting against the $39 headline. If the API matters, the number to compare against Saleshandy's $34 is $94, and at small volume that difference buys only the webhooks.
Read the review · Saleshandy vs Smartlead
Reply.io
Email and LinkedIn in one sequence, with the API and webhooks on every plan and a trial that includes them.
Reply.io is the pick when the sequence needs a LinkedIn step. It runs email and LinkedIn together, includes the API on every plan, and ships webhooks, so the event-driven half that Saleshandy is missing comes with a second channel attached. The 14-day trial carries API access and 300 active contacts.
It meters active contacts rather than credits or emails, and the price changes shape: $49 a user a month billed annually up to 5,000 active contacts, then flat for unlimited users at 10,000. Against Saleshandy's user caps, a team of several people on a moderate list can come out level or ahead.
It also publishes the formula behind unlimited mailboxes, one per 40 active contacts. Use v3: it allows 100 requests a minute and 150,000 a rolling week, where the older v1 and v2 allow 15,000 calls a month per user.
What you give up
The bundled data. Reply.io is a sequencer, so the verified emails Saleshandy includes in its credit become a separate provider and a separate bill.
When it is the wrong answer
A single operator on a small list, where $49 a user buys less than Saleshandy's $34 Starter with 1,500 credits included.
Apollo API
Data and sequencing behind one published seat, with a free plan to test the API on. The other way to keep both halves on one bill.
Saleshandy's appeal is one bill for the list and the sending. Apollo is the other vendor in this directory that sells that shape: search, enrichment and sequencing behind one credential, at $49 a seat a month billed annually, with a free plan that carries real API access.
The metering suits a pipeline. Apollo grants 30,000 credits a seat a year on Basic, 2,500 a month at $0.0196 each, spends a credit only when it returns a result, and charges nothing for people search, so filtering hard before enriching is free to iterate on. The sequence, contact and task endpoints cost nothing either.
It also ships an MCP server at mcp.apollo.io/mcp and publishes its rate limits: 200 requests a minute, 400 an hour and 2,000 a day on Basic, with enrichment on a separate 1,000 a minute. That is a number to design against, which Saleshandy does not offer.
What you give up
Sending infrastructure. Apollo sequences from connected inboxes; it does not sell domains, provision mailboxes through the API or run a warmup pool, which Saleshandy does. On price per email found you give up nothing: Apollo is $0.0196 against $0.0227, and neither charges for a miss.
When it is the wrong answer
Cold email at volume across many domains. If deliverability infrastructure is the job, Instantly or Smartlead above is the right half of this page.
What you would actually pay, on each one
Every provider on this page publishes a rate card, so the real numbers can sit next to each other rather than behind a summary. The plan you want is the one whose included volume covers a normal month for you, not the cheapest one on the page.
Saleshandy
Saleshandy publishes 3 tiers, none of them free, and the paid ladder runs from $34 to $149.
Starter
- $41 a month paid monthly, $408 a year
- 6,000 emails a month, 2,000 active prospects
- 1 user, 40+ search filters
- $0.0227 a credit
Pro
- $99 a month paid monthly, $912 a year
- 100,000 emails a month, 30,000 active prospects
- 10 users, 70+ search filters
Scale
- $189 a month paid monthly, $1,788 a year
- 200,000 emails a month, unlimited active prospects
- Unlimited users
Instantly
Instantly publishes 4 tiers, none of them free, and the paid ladder runs from $47 to $358.
Growth
- 5,000 emails and 1,000 uploaded contacts a month
- Unlimited email accounts and warmup, and the API
- No webhooks; the Unibox is preview-only
Hypergrowth
- 125,000 emails and 25,000 uploaded contacts
- Native webhooks and full Unibox reply
- The Deliverability AI Agent
Light Speed
- 500,000 emails and 100,000 uploaded contacts
- Dedicated server and IP rotation
- Lead-priority sequencing controls
Credits, sold separately
- Nano: 150 credits for $9
- Growth Credits: 1,500 to 2,000 for $47 to $77
- Supersonic: 5,000 to 7,500 for $97 to $147
Smartlead
Smartlead publishes 4 tiers, none of them free, and the paid ladder runs from $39 to $379.
Base
- Unlimited email accounts and warmup
- 2,000 contacts, 6,000 sends a month
- No API, no webhooks, no CRM
Pro
- The first tier with API and webhooks
- 30,000 contacts, 90,000 sends
- Client workspaces at $29 each, SmartServers at $39
Unlimited Smart
- Unlimited contact storage, 150,000 sends
- 50,000 verified prospect emails included
- Premium warmup pool and CSM access
Unlimited Prime
- 500,000 sends, 170,000 verified emails
- 3 SmartServers and 3 client workspaces included
- Dedicated manager and a private Slack channel
Reply.io
Reply.io publishes 4 tiers, none of them free, and the paid ladder runs from $49 to $210.
Email Volume, 1,000
- Unlimited mailboxes under fair usage, 25 at this tier
- Unlimited emails to active contacts
- 50 live data credits, 200 website visitor reveals
Email Volume, 10,000
- Unlimited users, no per-seat charge
- 250 mailboxes under the published ratio
- LinkedIn automation at $69 a month per account
Multichannel
- Unlimited active contacts
- 10 mailboxes annual, 5 monthly
- LinkedIn, calls, SMS and WhatsApp included
Agency Core
- Multiple client workspaces under one account
- Unlimited clients, users and mailboxes
- White label as an option
Apollo API
Apollo publishes 4 tiers, one of them free, and the paid ladder runs from $49 to $119.
Free
- Full API access, not a trial of it
- Granted monthly, so 75 credits a month in practice
- 2 sequences and basic filters
Basic
- $588 a seat a year, credits granted upfront and pooled across the team
- 2,500 credits a month, at $0.0196 each
- Annual billing saves 24% against paying monthly
Professional
- 4,000 credits a month, at $0.0198 each
- AI lead scoring and multi-touch outreach
Organization
- 72,000 credits a seat a year, so 6,000 a month
- $0.0198 a credit, so the rate is flat across every paid tier
- The three-seat minimum makes $357 a month the real floor
Read the included volume before the headline price. A plan that costs twice as much and carries five times the credits is the cheaper plan, and on this page that is the usual case rather than the exception.
What each one costs at your volume
Saleshandy first, then every replacement. The model picks the cheapest published plan that covers your volume on each one, which is the comparison a row of entry prices cannot make.
Saleshandy
Priced on the volume you use, so the plan that covers a normal month is the one that decides the bill.
Instantly
Priced on the volume you use, so the plan that covers a normal month is the one that decides the bill.
Smartlead
Priced on the volume you use, so the plan that covers a normal month is the one that decides the bill.
Reply.io
Priced per seat, so the bill moves with headcount rather than with volume.
Plans are read from each vendor's own pricing page and the model picks the cheapest one that covers you, so these are list prices on the billing term each vendor publishes, annual where that is how it prices, before any discount you negotiate.
What a year costs at three volumes
The same plan-fit arithmetic as the model above, run out to a year, because an annual number is what a budget actually asks for.
Reply.io is priced per seat, so that column does not move with volume. The figure shown is 3 seats for a year. Smartlead publishes only an entry price, so that column is the floor for a year, not a forecast.
| A year at | Saleshandy | Instantly | Smartlead | Reply.io | Apollo API |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,000 a month | $408 Starter | $564 Growth | $1,128 Pro | $1,764 Email Volume, 1,000 | $588 Basic |
| 10,000 a month | $912 Pro | $1,164 Hypergrowth | $1,128 Pro | $1,764 Email Volume, 1,000 | $2,352 Basic |
| 50,000 a month | $912 Pro | $1,164 Hypergrowth | $1,128 Pro | $1,764 Email Volume, 1,000 | $11,760 Basic |
These are list prices on the published plan that covers each volume, on the billing term each vendor publishes, so they are the number before you negotiate.
Which replacement is yours
Answer what matters most and the lean appears below. Every option is read from the records on this page, and staying on Saleshandy is one of the possible answers.
Each answer leans one way. The recommendation appears here once you have picked at least two.
A tool like this can only weigh what is on the page. It does not know your workload, and the one test that does is the bake-off on this page: your own rows, queries or records, run on the cheapest entry each side offers.
Where an answer leans on a certification or an integration, it means that vendor publishes it on the pages this directory read, which is not the same as the other one lacking it. The sources are listed at the foot of the page.
Where the data comes from, and what you may do with it
The question that arrives late and expensively is who is allowed to hold the data. A migration is the moment to check it, because you are signing a new contract anyway.
| Provider | Fields returned | Coverage | Compliance | Redistribution |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saleshandy | Work email, Mobile phone, Firmographics | Global | GDPR DPA | Not stated |
| Instantly | Work email, Firmographics, Job postings, Intent and news | Global | GDPR DPA | Not stated |
| Smartlead | Work email, CRM records | Global | GDPR DPA SOC 2 Type II | Not stated |
| Reply.io | Work email, LinkedIn profile, CRM records | Global | GDPR DPA | Not stated |
| Apollo API | Work email, Mobile phone, Firmographics, Technographics, Job postings, Intent and news, LinkedIn profile, CRM records | Global | GDPR DPA SOC 2 Type II CCPA | Not stated |
None of these states a redistribution position on its pricing or docs pages. Internally that never matters. Put the rows in something your customers can see and it becomes the question your legal team asks first.
Two practical notes that apply to every provider on this page. A compliance badge describes the vendor rather than your use of it, so a GDPR DPA does not give you a lawful basis for the outreach you send. And every one of these vendors runs its own opt-out, which means a person who asks you to delete their record has to be removed from your copy as well as from theirs.
Moving off Saleshandy
Written against Instantly, the first pick above, because the steps are the same whichever one you take and the specifics are what make them useful. Swap the name and the order still holds.
Measure the thing you are about to lose
Record last month's sends, replies and bounces as Saleshandy's API reports them, per mailbox and per account. Reputation does not move with the vendor, so this is the number the new sender has to reach on the same domains.
Check which fields change
Instantly does not return mobile phone, which Saleshandy does. If anything downstream reads that field, the switch changes your pipeline as well as your vendor.
Rewrite the auth and the limits, in that order
Saleshandy authenticates with an API key from Settings then API Key, shown once at creation. Instantly uses a bearer token, from a scoped API v2 key in workspace settings.
The limits are the part that bites later. Saleshandy's limits: not published as a figure. GET /v1/enrich/rate-limits reports the account's own status.
Instantly's limits: 100 req/s and 6,000/min, shared across v1, v2 and every key in the workspace. A loop tuned to the first will either crawl or get throttled on the second.
Run both for one billing cycle
Keep the old key live and route a slice of real traffic to the new one. A month is the shortest honest test, because credit expiry, rollover and the overage rate only show up at renewal and those are where the surprises live.
Cancel on the renewal date
Credits on most of these plans do not survive a downgrade. Check what happens to the balance you have already paid for, and time the switch so you are not buying the same records twice.
The step people skip is the first one, and it is the only one that cannot be done after the fact. Once the old key is off you have nothing to compare the new one against, so a provider that is quietly worse on your workload looks like a provider that is fine.
What practitioners say about Smartlead
Transcribed as written and linked to the thread. A Reddit claim is a signal rather than a fact, so nothing here is the only source for any figure on this page.
The sending tool is not what decides deliverability
To be clear, instantly Apollo and smartleads are all just front end management tools for campaign, lead list, and sending triggering through any API/SMTP servers (like Gmail, M365, sendgrid, SES, etc.) and they shouldn't have a direct effect on deliverability. Your email copy, leads, and sending patterns/volume are what matters the most
r/Emailmarketing · June 2024 · 5 points
The most useful correction on this page, and it applies to every sending provider in the directory rather than to Smartlead alone. These products schedule, rotate and report; the mail still leaves through Google, Microsoft or an SMTP relay, and the things that decide placement are the domain, the authentication, the list and the volume curve.
What that means for a comparison like this one is that the feature lists are not where the difference lives. Compare the mailbox economics, the webhook surface and what the API lets you automate, because those are the parts the vendor actually controls.
14 threads read on 13 October 2026, searched by vendor name. Scores and dates are the comment's own. Nothing here is the only source for a price or a limit on this site: every figure in the tables above comes from a vendor's own page.
What practitioners say about Apollo
The one part of this page that is not a vendor claim. The comment below makes its point in crude words, so we summarize it in our own words and link the thread. A Reddit claim is a signal rather than a fact, so nothing here is the only source for a figure on this page.
The rate limit, not the credit price, is what people actually hit
In our words: A practitioner building on the API says the rate limits are what their team hit, that they got past them by routing requests across three Apollo accounts, and that Apollo charges per request even when a lookup returns nothing.
r/gtmengineering · May 2026 · summarized rather than quoted
Two halves worth separating. The limit is real and it is on this page: 200 requests a minute, 400 an hour and 2,000 a day on Basic, with enrichment on a separate 1,000 a minute and no hourly or daily cap. That split is why a bulk job and a per-row loop feel like different products.
The charge-on-no-output half needs care, because Apollo publishes 0 credits when nothing is found and that matches what we read. What a miss does spend is a request against the rate limit, and when the limit is the binding constraint that is the cost you feel. Pooling accounts to get round a published limit is a terms question before it is an engineering one.
11 threads read on 13 October 2026, searched by vendor name. Scores and dates are the comment's own. Nothing here is the only source for a price or a limit on this site: every figure in the tables above comes from a vendor's own page.
Should you actually switch?
The short answer is at the top of this page. Before you act on it, run the test below, because it is the cheapest way to find out whether that answer holds for you.
Sending reputation does not transfer, so the migration is a warm-up schedule rather than an export. Confirm the API is on the plan you intend to buy, move one domain first and run it alongside the old sender for two weeks, and compare reply rate on the same list. Moving everything at once is how a working domain gets burned.
Head to head, and in a stack
Instantly vs Saleshandy
CompareOne credit for the whole waterfall against a separate data subscription, and one of them has no webhooks.
Compare them →Smartlead vs Saleshandy
CompareBoth sell mailboxes and data alongside the sending. One of them has no webhooks at all.
Compare them →lemlist vs Saleshandy
CompareBoth sell data inside the sender. One adds webhooks and a published rate limit; the other adds 113 endpoints and a cheaper credit.
Compare them →All alternatives
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Switching from Saleshandy, answered
What is the best Saleshandy alternative?
It depends on why you are leaving, which is how this page is organized rather than ranked. The first pick here is Instantly, which this directory lists as the best for unlimited mailboxes and warmup, at $47/mo. The case for it, and what you give up, is in the section above.
Is there a free alternative to Saleshandy?
Yes, one: Apollo. Free plan with API access, 900 credits per seat per year granted monthly, so 75 a month.
What is the cheapest Saleshandy competitor?
None of the picks costs less than Saleshandy at 10,000 emails a month, where it is $76 a month on its cheapest plan with the API. The cost model above shows where that changes.
How were these competitors chosen?
By the reason teams leave, not by a score. The page opens with the reasons teams leave and matches a replacement to each one.