Saleshandy Starter is $41 a month on the monthly-billing basis, read 25 August 2026.
This directory shows $36.
That figure was read on 7 August 2026 and it is what the tool page still displays today, because the newer reading was published in a post and never written back into the record. Eighteen days apart, one product, two numbers, and the older one is the one on more pages. Nothing here is a vendor's fault.
So this page starts with our own defect rather than with the vendor's pricing page, because the mechanism that produced the defect is the same one that will produce yours: a page with a currency selector on it, defaulting to the annual price with the monthly price in smaller type underneath, showing a buyer a figure they cannot pay unless they commit a year.
What does Saleshandy cost?
$41 a month billed monthly, or $34 a month billed annually at $408 for the year. Starter includes 6,000 sends and unlimited email accounts, and warmup is bundled with no metered credits against it. There is no free tier. It is self-serve, so you can buy it without speaking to anyone.
| Figure | Where it is recorded | Date read | What it describes |
|---|---|---|---|
| $36/mo | entities.ts, `entryMonthly` | 2026-08-07 | The entry rate this directory still shows |
| $41/mo | what-cold-email-costs, sequencer table | 2026-08-25 | Starter, monthly billing, USD, 6,000 sends |
| $34/mo | what-cold-email-costs, price note | 2026-08-25 | Starter, annual billing, $408 charged for the year |
| $408/yr | what-cold-email-costs, price note | 2026-08-25 | The annual commitment as the page states it |
The newer reading is the better one and this page uses it. It is worth being precise about why, though, because the reasoning is not that newer wins by default.
The 2026-08-25 reading was taken first-hand on the vendor's own page, in USD, with the billing toggle moved to monthly, and the post that carries it records the correction in its changelog rather than quietly overwriting the old number. A dated reading that states its own basis beats an undated one that does not, and that is a different claim from newer being righter.
Why our $36 survived eighteen days
A third reading, from an archived capture, disagrees with both
An archived capture of saleshandy.com/pricing taken on 14 August 2026 reads $25 a month on the annual basis and $36 monthly, with a badge on it reading save 31%. That contradicts the $34 annual and the 17.1% this page has been working from, and it is published here rather than resolved, because the same rule that governs the $36 against the $41 governs this.
| Figure | Billing basis | Where it is recorded | Date read | What it implies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $36/mo | Monthly | entities.ts, entryMonthly | 2026-08-07 | The rate this directory still displays |
| $36/mo | Monthly | Archived capture of the pricing page | 2026-08-14 | The 7 August reading was still live a week later |
| $25/mo | Annual | Archived capture of the pricing page | 2026-08-14 | An annual rate this repo held nowhere else |
| Save 31% | Badge on the page | Archived capture of the pricing page | 2026-08-14 | $36 to $25 is a 30.6% saving [computed], so the badge rounds its own arithmetic |
| $41/mo | Monthly | what-cold-email-costs, sequencer table | 2026-08-25 | Starter, USD, 6,000 sends, read first-hand |
| $34/mo | Annual | what-cold-email-costs, price note | 2026-08-25 | The annual basis eleven days after the capture |
| $408/yr | Annual, committed | what-cold-email-costs, price note | 2026-08-25 | The commitment as the page stated it |
| 17.1% | Computed | This page | 2026-08-25 | $41 to $34 is a 17.1% saving [computed], half the badge from eleven days earlier |
Both readings are internally consistent, which is the awkward part
The easy explanation is that one of them is a misread. The arithmetic says otherwise. On the 14 August capture, $36 against $25 is a 30.6% saving [computed] and the badge says 31%. On the 25 August reading, $41 against $34 is 17.1% [computed]. Each pair agrees with itself. So the likeliest reading is that both prices and the discount moved inside eleven days, which would mean this category moves faster than the three-week window this page already calls fast.
Why the page publishes three readings rather than picking one
Because picking one would hide the thing worth knowing. The $36 in the entity record is not simply stale: an independent capture shows the same figure live a week after we recorded it. What changed is the vendor, not the reading. A page that quietly adopted $41 would have told you a correct price and taught you nothing about how fast the correct price stops being correct.
Because the pricing page defaults twice away from the figure this site records.
It opens with a currency selector offering USD, EUR, GBP, AUD, CAD, INR and BRL, and it opens on the annual price with the monthly one in smaller type beneath it. A reader who takes the number at the top of the page gets a figure in a currency the page picked and on a billing basis the page picked, and neither choice is announced.
This site's convention is the monthly-billing rate in USD, for a specific reason: it is the price a buyer can actually pay without committing a year, and mixing the two bases across a comparison table penalises whichever vendors happened to be recorded on the dearer one, typically by 15 to 20%. Here the spread is 17.1% [computed from $41 and $34].
A currency selector adds a second axis to the same problem. A figure read in one currency and recorded without the currency noted is not a price at all, it is a coincidence, and this repo has been caught by exactly that on another vendor whose page renders in the visitor's local currency.
What the correction is actually worth
| Basis | At $36 (our stale figure) | At $41 (the newer reading) | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Per month | $36.00 | $41.00 | $5.00 |
| Per year, monthly billing | $432 [computed] | $492 [computed] | $60 [computed] |
| Cost per send at 6,000 included | $0.00600 [computed] | $0.00683 | 13.9% [computed] |
| Rank among the 10 published rates here | 4th cheapest | 6th cheapest | Two places |
A 13.9% rise in eighteen days is the headline, and the ranking change is the consequence that actually damages a comparison page. At $36 Saleshandy undercuts Smartlead at $39. At $41 it does not, and it lands between Smartlead and Instantly instead.
The annual basis is the other half of the arithmetic. $408 for the year against $492 on monthly billing saves $84 [computed], which is 17.1% and is the discount you forfeit for the right to stop. For a product whose first three weeks are spent warming mailboxes rather than sending, that right is worth more in quarter one than the discount is.
Two of twelve prices moved in three weeks
Saleshandy was not the only one.
In the same 25 August 2026 sweep, MailReach moved from $25 to $19.50 per mailbox per month, a fall of 22%. So one price in this category rose 13.9% and another fell 22% inside three weeks, in a directory that re-verifies on a 90-day cycle. That is the argument for reading a price rather than citing one, and it is why every figure on this site carries the day it was read.
It is also the reason this page will not tell you what Saleshandy costs today. It tells you what it cost on 25 August 2026 and hands you the check.
The bundle is the pitch, and it is also the risk
Saleshandy sells database, warmup and sequencing on one bill, positioned explicitly against buying Apollo and Instantly as two subscriptions.
That is a real argument for a small team with no list. Contact data is the largest line in a cold email budget at every volume above roughly 500 sends a month, so a tool that includes some of it is competing on the line that matters rather than on the one everybody compares.
Bundled data is rarely as good as specialist data. That is the counterweight and it decides the purchase. If your ICP is narrow, or non-US, verify coverage on your actual list before committing anything, because a bundle that misses half your accounts has not saved you a subscription, it has cost you a quarter. This repo holds no coverage measurement for Saleshandy's database and does not print a match rate for it.
Unlimited mailboxes, and the add-on that is not
Starter includes unlimited email accounts in the software. The mailboxes themselves are a separate line and Saleshandy prices them, which most of this category does not.
| Mailbox tier | Price per mailbox | What the extra buys | Premium |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fixed | $2.99/mo | The mailbox | Baseline |
| Annual Flexi | $3.49/mo | Free mailbox replacement, requires a new domain at $14/yr | 16.7% [computed] |
That 16.7% is the market price of expecting to burn domains.
It is the only place in this category where a vendor has put a number on the practice, and the number tells you the practice is common enough to design a product tier around. A domain that accumulates complaints stops delivering, the standard remedy is to retire it and register another, and the replacement starts with no reputation at all, which puts it back into a warmup cycle at full cost for partial output.
Note the parenthetical in the vendor's own wording. Free mailbox replacement requires a new domain, at $14 a year, so the free part is the mailbox and the paid part is the thing that actually burned.
Verification is included, and the rule is published
Saleshandy bundles verification and states that unverified results cost $0.
That sounds minor and it is not. Verification is the one line in a cold email stack that bills by outcome rather than by capacity, and the contested part is what happens to an address the checker cannot decide about. Catch-all domains are a large and unpredictable share of any B2B list. A vendor that neither publishes the rule nor covers the result under its guarantee has moved the whole risk onto the buyer, and most of them do not publish it.
Among the seven verification options this site has priced, only Clearout and Saleshandy state what an undecidable result costs. NeverBounce publishes no equivalent rule and separately excludes accept-all, unknown, invalid and disposable results from its bounce guarantee. Read the catch-all rule before the per-unit price.
Where $41 puts Saleshandy in the category
Eight of the twelve sequencing tools here publish a price and a send allowance together, which is the pair you need before any comparison means anything. Saleshandy is one of them, and on the column nobody prints it does well.
| Tool and plan | Entry, monthly billing | Sends included | Cost per send | Mailboxes at entry | Warmup at entry |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| lemlist Email | $69 | 50,000 | $0.00138 | Not stated publicly | Included |
| Smartlead Base | $39 | 6,000 | $0.00650 | Unlimited | Included |
| Saleshandy Starter | $41 | 6,000 | $0.00683 | Unlimited | Included, no metered credits |
| Instantly Growth | $47 | 5,000 | $0.00940 | Unlimited | Included |
| Salesforge Pro | $48 | 5,000 | $0.00960 | Not stated publicly | Separate subscription |
| QuickMail Starter | $49 | 5,000 | $0.00980 | Unlimited senders | Free AutoWarmer |
| Mailshake Starter | $29 | 1,500 | $0.01933 | 1 email address | Included |
Saleshandy has the third cheapest email on that list and the fourth dearest sticker, which is the pattern the whole category rewards and almost nobody sorts by.
The warmup column is worth more attention than the price column. Standalone warmup runs $19.50 per mailbox per month, so on a stack of sixteen mailboxes that is $312 a month, or roughly seven and a half times the entire Saleshandy subscription. Whether your sequencer bundles warmup is a more consequential question than what it charges, and it is not on any comparison page for this query.
There is no free tier
Four of the twelve sequencing tools here carry one and Saleshandy is in the other eight.
So the cheapest way to find out whether this class of product suits you is not this product. Evaluate the model on a free tier elsewhere, decide whether you want a bundle or two specialists, and then buy the one whose data coverage you have actually checked against your own list. That order costs nothing and it is the reverse of the order most teams follow.
This site has no Saleshandy review, and that limits this page
Twenty of the tools in this directory carry a full review. Saleshandy is not one of them, and its record is marked as a listing rather than as researched depth.
That matters for what you can take from this page. Prices, allowances and published rules are here because they were read off vendor pages and dated. What is not here is any judgement built from using the product: no view on how the sequencer handles reply detection, no assessment of the database against a real ICP, and no account of what support is like when a campaign stalls. A page that pretended to those would be inventing them.
Where this page does carry a judgement, it is inherited from the entity record and labelled as such.
How to check this before you pay
- Open the pricing page and set the currency selector to your own currency, deliberately. Note what it defaulted to before you touched it. Two minutes, and it is the step that produced our $36.
- Move the billing toggle to monthly and write down the figure. Compare against $41. If it differs, the price moved again and ours is stale a second time. Two minutes.
- Find the send allowance beside the plan and divide. Our figure is $0.00683 a send at 6,000. That number, not the sticker, is what compares against another vendor. Three minutes.
- Price the mailboxes separately at $2.99 or $3.49 each. Take your target mailbox count, multiply, and add a domain registration for every three to five mailboxes at your registrar's real renewal rate. Ten minutes, and it produces the number this page cannot.
- Run 100 records of your real ICP through the bundled database before you commit a year. Count how many come back with a work email. That match rate decides whether the bundle saved you a subscription or cost you a quarter.
Pass condition: the monthly figure matches, your mailbox and domain bill comes in under your annual tool bill, and the 100-record test returns coverage you can work with. Fail condition: any of the three.
When Saleshandy is the wrong purchase
When your ICP is narrow or outside the US, until you have tested coverage. The bundle is the whole reason to buy this and a bundle that misses your accounts is worse than two subscriptions that do not.
Also when you already own a data source you trust. Then you are paying for a database twice and buying a sequencer at the fourth-dearest sticker in the category, and the flat-rate infrastructure tools do the sending part for less.
And when you run outbound for several clients, where workspace separation rather than bundled data is what you are shopping for. That is a different product shape and the agency tooling page works through it.
What breaks in month three
A domain, and then the arithmetic you did without it.
Saleshandy has priced this outcome into a product tier, which is the clearest signal in the category about how often it happens. When it does, the replacement domain starts at zero reputation and re-enters a warmup cycle: Amazon's SES documentation puts that at around two weeks with some providers and up to six with others, with automatic warmup increasing over 45 days regardless of your volume. You pay full infrastructure cost for partial output for six weeks and nobody forecasts it.
Second is the coverage question you deferred. Bundled data degrades quietly rather than failing loudly, and the symptom is a bounce rate creeping up rather than a database returning nothing.
Third is the price itself, which moved 13.9% in eighteen days once already.
So what should you budget?
$492 a year on monthly billing, or $408 committed annually [both computed from the 25 August 2026 reading]. Take the monthly basis until the mailboxes are warm, because $84 does not pay for losing the ability to stop during a ramp you have not finished.
Then budget the two lines that are bigger. Mailboxes at $2.99 or $3.49 each, and domains at a registrar's rate this page cannot quote because this repo holds no per-domain price. On the full stack model, the sequencer is 30.8% of the bill at 1,000 sends a month and 3.2% at 50,000.
And check the database against 100 of your own records before the annual commitment, because that is the only thing on this page that decides whether the bundle was the right idea.