lemlist vs Saleshandy
Saleshandy
One credit covers the waterfall and the verification $34/lemlist vs Saleshandy is a choice between the stronger integration surface and the cheaper bundle. lemlist puts the API, an MCP server and a CLI on its $55 plan with unlimited users, ships webhooks and publishes 20 requests per 2 seconds. Saleshandy starts at $34 with the API on every plan, ships an MCP server and a CLI too, and has one credit buying a verified email from a waterfall, with failed lookups free, but it has no campaign webhooks and no published rate limit. If anything has to react to an event, lemlist wins it.
Where they actually differ
Every value comes from the same record that drives the Sending APIs listing, so this table cannot disagree with the cards. Accented tags are data one provider returns and the other does not.
| Compare | lemlist | Saleshandy |
|---|---|---|
| What sets it apart | Unlimited users at $55, with the developer tools included | A 113-endpoint API, and no webhooks |
| Entry price | $55/mo annual | $34/mo annual |
| Unit cost | $0.008 per credit | $0.0227 per credit |
| Billing model | Subscription Credit packs | Subscription Credit packs |
| Free tier | No free tier. 14-day trial with the Multichannel features and 200 credits. | No free tier. 7-day free trial, and up to 50 free Lead Finder credits at signup. |
| GTM motion covered | Engage Enrich Signal | Engage Enrich Verify |
| Data returned | Work emailMobile phoneLinkedIn profileIntent and newsJob changes | Work emailMobile phoneFirmographics |
| MCP server | Yes https://app.lemlist.com/mcp | Yes Hosted at mcp.saleshandy.com, with the API key in the server URL; a CLI on the same key |
| Interfaces | REST API MCP server Webhooks | REST API MCP server Bulk or async |
| Auth | API key over HTTP Basic, with an empty username. OAuth on the MCP server and CLI | API key from Settings then API Key, shown once at creation |
| Rate limits | 20 requests per 2 seconds per API key, on every route. Retry-After and X-RateLimit headers on every response. | Not published as a figure. GET /v1/enrich/rate-limits reports the account's own status. |
| Coverage | Global | Global |
| Compliance | GDPR DPA | GDPR DPA |
| Best for | API, MCP and CLI on the cheapest plan | One credit covers the waterfall and the verification |
The same workload, priced both ways
Computed from each provider's published entry-plan rate. The monthly floor is shown separately, because at low volume the floor is the bill.
| Workload | lemlist | Saleshandy | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10,000 verified work emails | $400.00 $0.04 per email |
$227.00 $0.0227 per email |
Saleshandy, 43% less |
| 2,000 mobile numbers | $320.00 $0.16 per mobile |
$272.00 $0.136 per mobile |
Saleshandy, 15% less |
| Monthly floor at entry | $55/mo annual | $34/mo annual | Saleshandy is lower |
| Charged on a miss | No | No | Neither |
Rates read from each vendor's own pricing page between 23 and 24 October 2026. Bulk figures assume the entry-plan rate holds at that volume, which in practice means moving up a plan tier.
Pick each one when
lemlist
- Events have to reach your systems: lemlist ships webhooks.
- A published rate limit, webhooks, and the MCP server and CLI behind OAuth.
- Unlimited users on the $55 plan, and LinkedIn, SMS and calls on Multichannel.
Saleshandy
- The cheapest programmatic entry: the API on a $34 plan billed annually.
- One credit buys a verified email from an eight-provider stack, failures free.
- Buying domains and provisioning mailboxes through the API.
A sender's rate card is not the part that bites, and none of what does is on a pricing page. Confirm the API is on the plan you intend to buy, then run one real sequence of 200 contacts through each on a mailbox you have already warmed. Afterwards, compare what the API tells you: which replies it classifies, what it reports on a bounce, and whether the webhook arrives at all.
What each one costs, tier by tier
Both publish a full rate card, so this comparison runs on numbers rather than on adjectives. lemlist lists 5 tiers and Saleshandy lists 3. Every figure is read off the vendor's own pricing page, and the pages they came from are listed at the foot of this one.
| The short version | lemlist | Saleshandy |
|---|---|---|
| Cheapest paid plan with the API | Email, $55 | Starter, $34 |
| Tiers published | 5 | 3 |
| Free tier | No free tier. 14-day trial with the Multichannel features and 200 credits. | No free tier. 7-day free trial, and up to 50 free Lead Finder credits at signup. |
| Unit cost at entry | $0.008 per credit | $0.0227 per credit |
The cheapest paid plan is rarely the plan you end up on, because what moves you up a tier is usually volume rather than a feature. The two rate cards below are what you are choosing between.
lemlist
lemlist publishes 5 tiers, none of them free, and the paid ladder runs from $55 to $87, with a quoted tier above it.
- $69 a month paid monthly
- Unlimited users and email senders
- 650M lead database, finder and verifier
- lemlist MCP and CLI, CRM integrations and API
Multichannel
- $109 a month paid monthly
- Unlimited emails and messages
- 5 senders per user
- LinkedIn, SMS and calls
Enrichment add-on
- $20 a month paid monthly
- $0.008 a credit, or 400 emails or 100 phones
- 25+ data providers behind one waterfall
Buying intent add-on
- $29 a month paid monthly
- Real-time alerts when a lead acts
Enterprise
- Priced on seats and volume
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
What lemlist and Saleshandy cost at your volume
Put your own volume in. The model picks the cheapest published plan that covers it on each side, which is the question a rate card cannot answer and the one that decides the bill.
lemlist
Priced on the volume you use, so the plan that covers a normal month is the one that decides the bill.
Saleshandy
Priced on the volume you use, so the plan that covers a normal month is the one that decides the bill.
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.
lemlist publishes only an entry price, so that column is the floor for a year, not a forecast.
| A year at | lemlist | Saleshandy |
|---|---|---|
| 1,000 a month | $660 | $408 Starter |
| 10,000 a month | $660 | $912 Pro |
| 50,000 a month | $660 | $912 Pro |
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.
How this plays out once it is running
Both sell contact data inside the sending tool, priced differently. Saleshandy's credit is about $0.0227 on Starter, and one credit buys a verified work email from a waterfall that queries six sources and verifies through ZeroBounce and BounceBan, with nothing charged when the lookup fails. A phone is 6 credits, about $0.136, and returns the email with it. lemlist's $16 add-on buys 2,000 credits at $0.008, which is $0.04 an email and $0.16 a phone across 25-plus providers.
The integration surfaces point in different directions. Saleshandy's API is the broader one, 113 endpoints including buying domains and mailboxes, but its help center says webhooks are still on the roadmap and it publishes no rate limit figure. lemlist publishes 20 requests per 2 seconds with Retry-After and X-RateLimit headers, ships webhooks, and adds an MCP server and a CLI on the entry plan. Saleshandy ships an MCP server and a CLI as well, on its API key.
What each one is genuinely good at
These are the things that keep somebody paying after the first month, which is a different question from what the marketing page leads with.
lemlist
Webhooks, which Saleshandy does not have
A reply or a bounce can trigger something in your own systems as it happens. On Saleshandy every campaign event has to be polled, which is slower and a cost carried for the life of the integration.
OAuth on the MCP server
Both vendors ship an MCP server and a CLI, but lemlist's MCP server signs in with OAuth, on the same $55 plan as the API, where Saleshandy's MCP URL carries the API key itself. An agent can drive lemlist from the first plan without a long-lived key in its configuration.
Unlimited users from the first plan
And unlimited email senders, with 50,000 emails a month. Saleshandy Starter carries one user and Pro ten, so a team of several people reaches Saleshandy's $76 tier before lemlist's plan changes at all.
Saleshandy
The cheapest programmatic entry in this pair
Starter is $34 a month billed annually, $41 monthly, with the API, 1,500 credits and 6,000 emails a month. lemlist's cheapest plan with the API is $55, and its data is a separate $16.
A cheaper verified email, and failures are free
About $0.0227 a verified email with the waterfall and verification inside the credit, against $0.04 on lemlist's add-on. Saleshandy charges nothing for a lookup that finds nothing, which matters most on a hard list.
Sending infrastructure bought through the API
Domains and mailboxes provisioned programmatically, with SPF, DKIM and DMARC configured for you. For an agency standing up sending per client, that is the slowest step made scriptable.
Where each one falls down
Every provider on this site has a case it handles badly, and the people who find out are the ones who bought it for that case. These are the ones worth knowing before you sign rather than after.
lemlist
The data and the channels cost extra
Data is the $16 add-on, intent signals another $21, and LinkedIn means the $87 per user Multichannel plan. Saleshandy bundles 1,500 credits into its $34 plan instead.
A dearer verified email
At $0.04 an email and $0.16 a phone, lemlist is above Saleshandy's $0.0227 and $0.136 on both. On a data-heavy month that difference is larger than the plan gap.
Saleshandy
No campaign webhooks
Polling is the only way to see replies and bounces. For any build that reacts to events, that decides the comparison whatever the rate card says.
No published rate limit
There is no figure to size a job against, so throughput is found in production. lemlist publishes its limit and the headers to pace by.
Users and mailboxes are the growing lines
One user on Starter, ten on Pro, unlimited only on Scale at $149. Mailboxes cost $2.99 to $3.99 each a month on top, with domains at $14 a year.
Using lemlist and Saleshandy together
Teams comparing these two often end up running both, and the arrangement below is the one they settle on.
Both bundle a sender and a data source, so running both is duplication in two places at once. This is a choice, and the first question is whether anything in your systems has to react to an event.
If yes, lemlist. If no, and the team is one or two people sending to a list that needs a lot of lookups, Saleshandy at $34 with the cheaper credit and free failures is the better value. The mailbox and domain purchases through its API are a real time saving for an agency, too.
Where a team is already on both, consolidate the data rather than the sending. Saleshandy's credit is the cheaper verified email, so routing lookups there and dropping lemlist's $16 add-on is the easiest saving available.
lemlist or Saleshandy, for you
Three questions, answered from the same records as the rest of this page. Nothing is sent anywhere and there is no result to email yourself.
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. These are the fields each one returns, the coverage it claims and the compliance it publishes.
| Provider | Fields returned | Coverage | Compliance | Redistribution |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| lemlist | Work email, Mobile phone, LinkedIn profile, Intent and news, Job changes | Global | GDPR DPA | Not stated |
| Saleshandy | Work email, Mobile phone, Firmographics | Global | GDPR DPA | 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 between lemlist and Saleshandy
Most readers of this page are already on one of these two, and the order below catches the expensive mistakes while they are still free.
Measure the thing you are about to lose
Record last month's sends, replies and bounces as lemlist'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
Saleshandy does not return LinkedIn profile, intent and news and job changes, which lemlist does. If anything downstream reads those fields, the switch changes your pipeline as well as your vendor.
Rewrite the auth and the limits, in that order
lemlist authenticates with an API key over HTTP Basic, with an empty username. OAuth on the MCP server and CLI. Saleshandy uses an API key from Settings then API Key, shown once at creation.
The limits are the part that bites later. lemlist's limits: 20 requests per 2 seconds per API key, on every route. Retry-After and X-RateLimit headers on every response.
Saleshandy's limits: not published as a figure. GET /v1/enrich/rate-limits reports the account's own status. 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.
The wider field for both
Sometimes the answer is neither, and the reason you are comparing these two points somewhere else entirely: lemlist alternatives and Saleshandy alternatives both start from the reason people leave.
lemlist alternatives
3lemlist gives you the API, the MCP server and unlimited senders on the entry plan. What it sells separately is the data.
See the alternatives →Saleshandy alternatives
4Saleshandy bundles an eight-provider waterfall into one credit and puts the API on every plan. What it does not have is a single webhook.
See the alternatives →Everything in Engage
17The full category these two sit in, filtered by data returned, billing model and entry price.
Browse the category →Related comparisons
The 52 providers behind every pairing here are in the main listing.
Pairings that share a side with this one: lemlist vs Outreach, Smartlead vs Saleshandy and lemlist vs Woodpecker.
And: Instantly vs Saleshandy and Smartlead vs lemlist. Every comparison in the directory is on the compare hub.
Instantly vs lemlist
Both put the API and an MCP server on the entry plan. Only one adds a CLI, and only one makes you wait for webhooks.
Compare them →Instantly vs Saleshandy
One credit for the whole waterfall against a separate data subscription, and one of them has no webhooks.
Compare them →Smartlead vs lemlist
The API starts at $94 on one and $55 on the other, and the cheaper one throws in a CLI.
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lemlist and Saleshandy, answered
Read from the same records that drive the table above.
Is lemlist or Saleshandy cheaper?
At 10,000 emails a month it is lemlist, $55 a month against Saleshandy at $76, on the cheapest plan of each that carries the API. The cost model above moves with your own volume. Per verified work email it is $0.04 on lemlist against $0.0227 on Saleshandy.
Can I try lemlist and Saleshandy for free?
lemlist: No free tier. 14-day trial with the Multichannel features and 200 credits. Saleshandy: No free tier. 7-day free trial, and up to 50 free Lead Finder credits at signup.
What are the rate limits on lemlist and Saleshandy?
lemlist: 20 requests per 2 seconds per API key, on every route. Retry-After and X-RateLimit headers on every response. Saleshandy: Not published as a figure. GET /v1/enrich/rate-limits reports the account's own status.
Do lemlist and Saleshandy both have MCP servers?
Both do. lemlist: https://app.lemlist.com/mcp. Saleshandy: Hosted at mcp.saleshandy.com, with the API key in the server URL; a CLI on the same key.
Which is better, lemlist or Saleshandy?
lemlist vs Saleshandy is a choice between the stronger integration surface and the cheaper bundle. Saleshandy starts at $34 with the API on every plan, ships an MCP server and a CLI too, and has one credit buying a verified email from a waterfall, with failed lookups free, but it has no campaign webhooks and no published rate limit. If anything has to react to an event, lemlist wins it.
What are the downsides of lemlist and Saleshandy?
lemlist: the data and the channels cost extra; a dearer verified email. Saleshandy: no campaign webhooks; no published rate limit; users and mailboxes are the growing lines. The Limits section above has each one in full.
Can you use lemlist and Saleshandy together?
Both bundle a sender and a data source, so running both is duplication in two places at once. This is a choice, and the first question is whether anything in your systems has to react to an event.
Can I migrate from lemlist to Saleshandy without losing data?
Not without losing a field. Saleshandy does not return LinkedIn profile, intent and news and job changes, which lemlist does, so anything downstream that reads those fields has to change. Either way, run one live sequence on a warmed mailbox through both before you switch.