Instantly vs Saleshandy
Both give you unlimited sending mailboxes — the architecture that makes outbound work — but they gate different things: Instantly caps nothing on its entry plan, while Saleshandy caps prospects and sends instead of mailboxes. The price gap used to be the headline. It narrowed in August 2026, when Saleshandy raised its entry tier to $41/mo against Instantly's $47, leaving $6 between them on monthly billing. Which is right now depends less on budget than on whether you want caps at all.
Instantly
High-volume cold email with unlimited mailboxes and strong deliverability tooling.
Saleshandy
Unlimited mailboxes on every tier, with a B2B lead database bundled in rather than sold separately.
| Feature | Instantly | Saleshandy |
|---|---|---|
| Rating | 4.6 | 4.3 |
| Starting price | $47/momonthly billing | $41/momonthly billing; $34/mo billed annually |
| Free trial | No | Yes |
| Email accounts | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Warmup included | Yes | — |
| Unified inbox | Scale plan+ | All plans |
| Lead database | 450M+ (separate Credits plan) | — |
| API access | Yes | — |
| Active prospects | — | 2,000 (Starter) → unlimited (Scale) |
| Monthly emails | — | 6,000 (Starter) → 200,000 (Scale) |
| Whitelabel | — | Scale plan+ |
Hands-on field test
In progressWe plan to run identical 200-contact campaigns from freshly warmed mailboxes on each platform — same copy, same sending window, same domain age — and measure inbox placement via seed accounts alongside bounce and reply rates. Published here with dates once run. Until then we quote no deliverability figures, because a number without that methodology attached means nothing.
The verdict
Saleshandy is still the cheaper way in, but only just, and the gap no longer carries the argument on its own. Both allow unlimited mailboxes on every plan; Saleshandy adds whitelabelling on Scale for agencies watching per-client cost, and since August 2026 bundles a lead database into every tier rather than selling it separately. Instantly is the better platform once volume is the constraint — its entry plan caps neither prospects nor sends. At $6 apart the honest framing is that the caps decide this, not the price: start on Saleshandy if your volume fits inside them, and go straight to Instantly if you already know it does not.
Choose Instantly if volume is your constraint, you want no caps on prospects or monthly sends, and $6 a month is not what decides this. Choose Saleshandy if your volume fits comfortably inside the caps, or you want sending and lead data on a single bill.
Instantly vs Saleshandy: FAQs
- Is Saleshandy cheaper than Instantly?
- Yes, but barely, and by much less than it used to be. Saleshandy is $41/mo paid monthly ($34/mo billed annually) against Instantly's $47/mo — $6 apart, where before its August 2026 increase it was $11. Instantly's lead database is a separate Credits subscription from $47/mo, whereas Saleshandy now includes lead credits in every plan, so the cheaper option is also the one that bundles data.
- Do both include unlimited email accounts?
- Yes. Both allow unlimited connected sending mailboxes with no per-mailbox fee on every plan, which is the main reason either beats a legacy sequencer for cold outreach.
- What does Saleshandy limit instead?
- Active prospects and monthly sends. The Starter plan allows 2,000 active prospects and 6,000 emails a month, rising to unlimited prospects and 200,000 emails on Scale. Instantly's sending plan does not cap these in the same way.
- Which is better for an agency?
- Saleshandy on cost — whitelabelling and SSO arrive on its Scale plan, and unlimited mailboxes across clients keep per-client cost down. Instantly suits agencies running very high volume where the caps would bind.
- Can I try either before paying?
- Saleshandy offers a 7-day trial with no credit card. Instantly does not advertise a free trial, so you would start on a paid plan.
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