Instantly vs Saleshandy Pricing: Cost at 5,000 to 500,000 Emails a Month

Saleshandy is cheaper for a single sender and for any team that needs lead data; Instantly is cheaper once you send well past 100,000 emails a month. Saleshandy Starter is $41 a month for 6,000 emails with 1,500 lead credits included. Instantly Growth is $47 for 5,000 emails with no lead data. Around $97 to $99 the two meet: Instantly sends 125,000 emails, Saleshandy 100,000 with 30,000 prospects and 10 seats. On annual billing Saleshandy Pro is $76 against Instantly's $77.60.

Every price below was read from instantly.ai/pricing and from Saleshandy's pricing page and its machine-readable saleshandy.com/pricing.md in September 2026. Totals, per-email costs and discounts are our arithmetic. Most comparison posts still quote Saleshandy at $25, $74 and $149, which are old prices.

Instantly vs Saleshandy pricing, plan by plan

Both tools include unlimited mailboxes and warm-up on every plan, and neither bills per user. Saleshandy does cap seats by plan: 1 on Starter, 10 on Pro, unlimited on Scale. Instantly's contact limit is one pool across all your campaigns, not a monthly refill, so a contact that finished a sequence last month still counts until you delete it. Saleshandy's limit counts active prospects.

Which is cheaper, Instantly or Saleshandy?

It depends on volume. Below about 6,000 emails a month Saleshandy is cheaper, $41 against $47. At 100,000 to 125,000 they are within $2 of each other. Above 200,000 Instantly wins, because Saleshandy's self-serve ladder stops at 200,000 and Instantly's goes to 500,000.

Instantly's Email Outreach add-on is $87 a month for 25,000 more contacts and 125,000 more emails, which is how Hyper Growth reaches 250,000 emails for $184. At 50,000 emails the jump between plans hurts both vendors: you pay for 100,000 or 125,000 whether you use them or not.

The annual discount flips the middle tier

Instantly takes a flat 20% off for annual billing. Saleshandy's discount changes by plan: 17.1% on Starter, 23.2% on Pro and 21.2% on Scale. Because Pro gets the deepest cut, the $2 monthly gap at 100,000 emails reverses on annual billing: Saleshandy Pro is $76 a month ($912 a year) against Instantly Hyper Growth at $77.60 ($931.20 a year).

Per email, Instantly is cheaper at every tier above the entry plan. Per dollar of total spend at 100,000 emails, Saleshandy is cheaper once you pay yearly. Decide which of those two numbers your budget actually runs on.

Lead data is where the gap gets wide

Saleshandy includes its Lead Finder database in every plan; Instantly sells its lead database as a separate subscription from $47 a month. Saleshandy Starter includes 1,500 Lead Finder credits a month, Pro 4,000 and Scale 8,000, against an 852 million contact database. One credit reveals a verified email, six a phone number, and nothing is charged when no result is found.

To get lead data on Instantly you add a credits plan: Growth at $47 for 1,500 credits, Supersonic at $97 for 5,000, Hyper at $197 for 10,000. So a founder who wants to send and find leads pays $94 a month on Instantly against $41 on Saleshandy for the same 1,500 credits. At team scale, Hyper Growth plus Supersonic is $194 for 5,000 credits, while Saleshandy Pro is $99 with 4,000. If you already buy data elsewhere, ignore this section, because then the sending plans are what you compare.

What mailboxes add to either bill

Neither subscription includes the mailboxes you send from. At roughly 30 cold emails per mailbox per sending day, 25 mailboxes carry about 16,500 emails a month. Saleshandy sells mailboxes for $2.99 each a month on an annual fixed plan, $3.49 on annual flexible (minimum 25) and $3.99 quarterly, plus domains at $14 a year with up to five mailboxes each. That is about $80 a month for 25 mailboxes on five domains. On Instantly, the common route is your own Google Workspace or Microsoft 365 seats at $7 a mailbox, about $175 a month for 25.

Whichever you pick, 25 mailboxes also means 25 signatures that have to match, carry the same legal footer and never leak a stale title. Setting one signature template across every sending mailbox is quicker than editing each inbox by hand, and it stops a mismatched signature from making one sender look off. Our breakdown of how many domains and mailboxes cold email needs covers the sizing in more detail.

Instantly vs Saleshandy free trial

Saleshandy gives 7 days with no card but caps trial sending at 100 emails. Instantly's trial allows 250 contacts and 1,000 emails. Neither is enough to judge deliverability at volume, so use the trial to check the workflow, then buy one month before any annual commitment.

Which should a US sales team buy?

Buy Saleshandy if you are one person under 6,000 emails, if you need lead data inside the same bill, or if you will pay yearly at around 100,000 emails. Buy Instantly if you send more than 200,000 emails a month, already have your data, or want the lowest price per email on monthly billing. Our full pages on Instantly pricing and Saleshandy pricing go deeper into each ladder, and Smartlead vs Saleshandy covers the third tool most teams shortlist.

There is one case neither fits well. Both are built to send a lot of templated email cheaply. If your list is already built and you want each email written for its prospect rather than merged into a template, ColdMailer writes a separate message for every prospect and sends it through SMTP you own: $49 a month for 1,000, $99 for 5,000, half that on annual billing. It sends far less per dollar than either tool here, and it has no warm-up or sequences, so it is the right buy only when the writing is what you are paying for. Before choosing, compare the whole market on our cold email software pricing page, including tools like Salesforge that meter AI writing with credits.

Frequently asked questions

Is Saleshandy cheaper than Instantly?

At the entry level, yes: Saleshandy Starter is $41 a month for 6,000 emails, Instantly Growth $47 for 5,000. At 100,000 emails Instantly is $2 cheaper monthly and Saleshandy $1.60 cheaper annually. Above 200,000 emails Instantly is cheaper.

Does Instantly include a lead database?

Not in the outreach plans. Instantly sells lead credits separately, from $47 a month for 1,500. Saleshandy includes 1,500 to 8,000 Lead Finder credits a month in every plan.

Do Instantly or Saleshandy charge per user?

Neither bills per user. Saleshandy caps seats at 1 on Starter, 10 on Pro and unlimited on Scale. Instantly does not tie its plans to seats.

Which has unlimited email accounts?

Both. Every Instantly and Saleshandy plan connects unlimited sending mailboxes and includes warm-up. You still pay for the mailboxes themselves.