Saleshandy review built from the vendor's own pricing page and review-site themes: real monthly cost for 9 mailboxes, credit limits, and who should skip it.
Saleshandy is worth it if you want a cheap, email-first sequencer with unlimited mailboxes, sender rotation and bundled lead credits, and you will run it yourself. Skip it if you want something that finds prospects and writes replies for you, or if you need LinkedIn in the same tool. Test on your own domains first.
Our verdict. Saleshandy is worth it for a founder, a small team or an agency that wants cheap, high-volume cold email and is happy to run the tool by hand. It is a poor pick if you want the software to research prospects and handle replies, or if LinkedIn has to live in the same place. We haven't used Saleshandy ourselves. Everything below comes from Saleshandy's own pages, review-site themes and named third parties, all read on 30 October 2026.
If you're choosing between it and Instantly, our Saleshandy vs Instantly comparison covers plan-by-plan pricing and contact caps. This review asks a different question: what does a normal month with Saleshandy actually cost, and where does it wobble?
Saleshandy is a cold email sequencer. You connect mailboxes, upload or find prospects, build multi-step sequences, and it sends them with rotation across your inboxes. Its pricing page also lists a built-in lead finder, email verification, unlimited warm-up, a unified inbox, and call, WhatsApp and task steps in sequences.
It has kept shipping. The company's news page shows the old Prospects tab became a CRM in February 2026, and a command-line tool launched on 30 March 2026 that the vendor says works with AI coding tools. That is useful for automation-minded teams. It is not an AI SDR, though. The pricing page ties AI to one-time credits (100 on Starter) for sequence help and column enrichment, and nothing there describes an agent that decides who to contact. For that distinction, see our AI SDR overview.
On the vendor's pricing page, Saleshandy costs $34, $76 and $149 a month on yearly billing for Starter, Pro and Scale, or $41, $99 and $189 billed monthly. Trust that page over any review. Other articles quote different numbers because plans and caps have changed during 2026.
| Source | Date | Starter | Pro | Scale |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saleshandy pricing page, yearly billing | Read 30 Oct 2026 | $34 | $76 | $149 |
| Saleshandy pricing page, monthly billing | Read 30 Oct 2026 | $41 | $99 | $189 |
| Salesforge review (competitor) | 14 Aug 2026 | $36 | $99 | $199 |
| Croclub review | 9 Mar 2026 | "from $25" | Not stated | Not stated |
Caps differ too. The vendor page gives Starter 6,000 emails a month and 2,000 active prospects, Pro 100,000 and 30,000, and Scale 200,000 with unlimited prospects under a fair usage policy, plus 1, 10 and unlimited users. Salesforge lists Pro at 150,000 emails and Scale at 240,000 with 60,000 prospects. We can't tell whether that is an older plan or an error. Check with Saleshandy before you plan around any number that isn't on its own page. Source: Saleshandy pricing.
A starter setup with 9 mailboxes on 3 domains costs about $64 a month if you buy infrastructure from Saleshandy: $34 for Starter, $26.91 for mailboxes and $3.50 for domains. The pricing page says plans carry no per-inbox fees, so this only applies if you buy mailboxes through Saleshandy rather than bringing your own.
| Line | Basis | Monthly cost |
|---|---|---|
| Starter plan, yearly billing | $34 a month | $34.00 |
| 9 mailboxes | $2.99 each, annual fixed billing | $26.91 |
| 3 domains | $14 a year each | $3.50 |
| Total | $64.41 |
The mailbox and domain prices are from the pricing page, which also recommends 3 mailboxes per domain. Snov.io's review mentions $4 per extra account and $14 per extra domain a year, which matches the domain figure but not the mailbox one. Our arithmetic assumes the page's $2.99 rate.
Now check the volume. Starter allows 6,000 emails a month, about 200 a day. Spread over 9 mailboxes, that is roughly 22 per mailbox per day, comfortably under the 40-a-day ceiling we use ourselves. Google's sender guidelines tell you to keep spam rates below 0.10% and never hit 0.30%, and they apply a bulk-sender rule above 5,000 messages a day to Gmail. At 200 a day you're nowhere near that rule, but the spam target still applies. Use our cold email capacity calculator to size your own numbers, and add the cost of data and your time before you call it cheap.
Not as far as the headline suggests. Saleshandy's page lists 1,500 lead credits a month on Starter, 4,000 on Pro and 8,000 on Scale. One credit buys a verified email and a phone number costs 6. Credits are spent only on verified results, per the vendor.
Do the sums on Starter. If you take emails only, 1,500 credits fill 1,500 of your 2,000 active-prospect slots. If you want phone numbers, 1,500 credits buy 250 of them and nothing else. On annual billing the page says the full year of credits arrives upfront, 18,000 on Starter. That helps if you load a big list once, and it does nothing for a team that needs steady monthly supply.
The database claim, 852 million contacts and 42 million companies, comes from Saleshandy's pricing.md and we haven't checked it. Competitor Prospeo says its verification misses catch-all domains. We couldn't read that page, and the Reddit threads it cites didn't surface in our searches, so treat it as a lead. Catch-all addresses are hard for any verifier to confirm, so run a small test batch whichever data you use.
Reviewers like the price, the quick setup and the volume tools. G2 shows about 4.6 from roughly 790 reviews, depending on the snapshot, and Capterra's UK page shows 4.5 from 126, with support rated 4.5 and value for money 4.4. Those are search extracts, because G2 and Capterra blocked direct reads.
The repeated complaints are limits, add-on costs, warm-up and deliverability at scale, and cancellation friction. None of these comes from our own use. They come from review sites and from competitors, who have a reason to be harsh, so each is marked by who said it.
| Complaint | Who says it | How to check it |
|---|---|---|
| "Email management" and "missing features" are top cons (114 and 87 mentions) | G2 compare page, search extract | Read the latest 1-star and 3-star reviews on G2 |
| Warm-up issues (52 mentions) and warm-up via a third-party provider | G2 category extract; Salesforge (competitor) | Ask Saleshandy who runs warm-up; seed-test placement |
| No native LinkedIn, no built-in enrichment, credit costs hard to forecast | Snov.io (competitor) | Compare against your channel needs |
| Cancellation took extra support time | TechJockey and SoftwareFinder reviewers | Read the cancel steps before paying yearly |
| Deliverability dips at high volume or weak domain health | TechJockey reviewers | Authenticate domains and ramp slowly |
Two points deserve a position. First, warm-up is a side issue. No tool rescues unauthenticated domains or a bad list, so run your domains through the email domain checker first and read our guide to AI cold email deliverability. Second, yearly billing is a bet. If the cancellation stories matter to you, pay monthly for the first quarter and accept the $7 to $23 a month premium.
Only partly. Saleshandy offers a 7-day free trial with no card, and its pricing.md says trial sending is capped at 100 emails. A hundred emails can show you the interface, sequence logic and unified inbox. They can't show you inbox placement at volume, because placement depends on reputation built over weeks.
Snov.io also says the interface can take longer to learn than seven days. Use the trial for workflow questions: import a list, build a three-step sequence, connect one Gmail and one Outlook mailbox, and see how replies land. Then decide whether to pay for a month and run a proper seeded test.
The right alternative depends on what you're missing. Instantly is the closest rival on price and features. A multichannel tool fits if LinkedIn matters, and an AI SDR fits if you don't want to run a sequencer at all. Prices below come from our earlier posts and vendor pages; confirm them before buying.
| Option | Best for | Where it differs from Saleshandy | Where to read more |
|---|---|---|---|
| Instantly | Deliverability-minded teams that reuse a stable list | Fixed total contact cap; higher G2 review base | Our Saleshandy vs Instantly post |
| lemlist | Teams that want LinkedIn steps and personalised images | Per-seat pricing | Our lemlist pricing post |
| Snov.io | Teams wanting enrichment in the same tool | Competitor; says it covers enrichment Saleshandy lacks | Snov.io review |
| Outbound Labs AI SDR | Founders who want research, writing and sending done for them | Agents do the work; you approve each campaign | AI SDR pricing |
Use Saleshandy if you already know who to email, can write the copy, and want the lowest software bill. Use an AI SDR if the bottleneck is research, writing and reply handling. At Outbound Labs, six agents handle those steps, you approve every campaign, and the Growth plan is $149 a month with 750 emails free to start and no card.
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