Saleshandy vs Apollo: Pricing, Seats, Send Limits and Lead Credits

Saleshandy costs less in every setup we priced, and the gap widens with each rep you add. Saleshandy Starter is $34 a month on annual billing against $49 for one Apollo Basic seat. From two senders up, Apollo multiplies by headcount while Saleshandy Pro covers 10 users for $76. The trade is data: an Apollo seat carries more credits.

Apollo is a contact database with a sequencer and dialer attached, so the seat is the unit. Saleshandy is a cold email platform with a lead finder, so the plan is the unit and seats come along. That design choice explains most of the gap below.

All vendor prices are read from their own pages in September 2026. Every total, crossover and per-1,000 figure is our arithmetic. For the full ladders, see our Apollo pricing per seat and per credit and the Saleshandy pricing guide.

On annual billing, Saleshandy runs $34, $76 and $149 a month per plan, and Apollo runs $49, $79 and $119 a month per seat. Apollo's page shows annual rates by default (it says annual saves 24%) and hides the monthly rate, so we quote no Apollo monthly figure.

Saleshandy's annual discount is not flat. It is 17.07% on Starter, 23.23% on Pro and 21.16% on Scale, so yearly billing saves $276 on Pro against $84 on Starter (our arithmetic). In the middle row, $76 and $79 look equal, but Saleshandy's figure covers ten users and Apollo's covers one. Organization's three-seat minimum makes its smallest bill $357 a month.

Saleshandy is cheaper in all five setups we priced, by $3 to $799 a month on annual billing against Apollo Professional (our arithmetic). The table assumes the cheapest plan that covers both the send volume and the headcount. Apollo Basic tops out near 5,500 emails a month per seat, 250 a day over 22 business days.

Apollo's column buys more data. Five Professional seats carry about 20,000 credits a month against 4,000 on Saleshandy Pro, and twelve seats carry about 48,000 against 8,000 on Scale. If your team really pulls that many contacts, Apollo's premium buys something. If not, it pays for headcount. The same seat arithmetic against another sender is in our Smartlead vs Apollo comparison.

For cold email alone, yes: Saleshandy includes warm-up, sender rotation across 10 to 1,000 accounts, a unified inbox and seats in the plan, while Apollo Basic sends from one mailbox at 250 a day. Apollo is the better buy when reps also need a dialer and call steps.

Saleshandy wins on included seats, volume (100,000 emails on Pro), unlimited connected accounts, included warm-up and mailboxes sold by the same vendor. Scale adds whitelabel for agencies. Apollo wins on the dialer, call steps inside sequences, a larger credit allowance per seat, and one app where a rep searches, reveals, sequences and calls. More on the sending side in is Apollo good for cold email, and at Saleshandy's closest rivals in Smartlead vs Saleshandy and Instantly vs Saleshandy pricing.

Apollo Free and Basic cap sending at 250 emails a day from one mailbox per user, and Professional removes the daily cap. Saleshandy limits emails per month (6,000, 100,000 or 200,000) and lets you spread them across many connected accounts.

On Apollo, 250 a day over 22 business days is about 5,500 emails a month per Basic seat, all from a single inbox. Many practitioners keep each mailbox under 30 to 50 a day, so a Basic seat at full allowance puts the whole reputation risk on one address. Professional allows unlimited Google and Microsoft mailboxes and 5 SMTP accounts per user, and Organization adds 15 more.

Saleshandy rotates across 10 sender accounts on Starter, 100 on Pro and 1,000 on Scale, so the daily ceiling is how many warmed mailboxes you own.

Apollo gives more credits per dollar for one heavy user; Saleshandy gives more per dollar for phone numbers and for teams, and charges nothing when a search comes back empty. Saleshandy lists 852M+ contacts in its Lead Finder. Apollo's database is its core product, and an Apollo seat carries a larger allowance.

Phones cost 6 credits on Saleshandy and 8 on Apollo, so Starter buys 250 phone numbers a month against about 312 on Apollo Basic, while Saleshandy Pro buys about 666 against 500 on an Apollo Professional seat.

You can also split the jobs: pull leads from Apollo and send from Saleshandy. That is one Apollo Basic seat plus Saleshandy Starter, $83 a month on annual billing (our arithmetic).

Neither plan price covers the inboxes you send from. Saleshandy sells mailboxes at $2.99 to $3.99 a month plus $14 a domain a year; Apollo sells none, so you pay Google Workspace or Microsoft 365 at about $7 a user a month.

Ten mailboxes on Saleshandy's annual fixed plan are $29.90 a month, and two domains at up to 5 mailboxes each add $28 a year, about $32.23 a month in total (our arithmetic). Ten Google Workspace users at $7 are $70 a month before domains.

Trials differ too: Saleshandy runs 7 days with no card, capped at 100 emails; Apollo's Free plan gives 75 credits a month and 2 sequences.

ColdMailer is not the cheapest option. At 5,000 emails a month our Pro plan is $49.50 on annual billing, against $34 for Saleshandy Starter, and we have no lead database, warm-up or follow-up sequences. What we do is write a separate message for each prospect and send it from your own SMTP, Google or Microsoft inbox, with no credit meter. A new account gets 25 free emails to try. See also the Saleshandy alternative and Apollo alternative pages, or our ColdMailer pricing.