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Smartlead pricing, plans and alternatives
Smartlead sells cold email as a flat plan: Base is $39 a month for 6,000 sends and 2,000 contacts on monthly billing, read 19 October 2026, with unlimited email accounts on every plan. LinkedIn and WhatsApp are not native. The alternatives below are grouped by need and show what each price counts.
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- Smartlead Base per month: 6,000 sends, 2,000 contacts
- $39
- Smartlead Pro per month: 90,000 sends, 30,000 contacts
- $94
- per client workspace per month for white label, from Pro
- $29
What Smartlead is and what it costs
| Plan | Monthly list price | What the price counts |
|---|---|---|
| Base | $39 | 6,000 sends, 2,000 contacts |
| Pro | $94 | 90,000 sends, 30,000 contacts |
| Unlimited Smart | $174 | 150,000 sends, unlimited contacts |
| Unlimited Prime | $379 | 500,000 sends, 3 client workspaces, dedicated manager |
Source: smartlead.ai, read 19 October 2026, with the unit from smartlead.ai, read 19 October 2026. Base has no CRM, no API and webhooks, and no client workspaces. Servers, dialer credits and delivery tools are add ons.
Who should stay with Smartlead
- Email is your channel and you send at volume with many mailboxes. Plans are flat by sends with unlimited email accounts.
- You are an email agency. White label is a $29 add on per client workspace from Pro, and Unlimited Prime includes 3.
- You want a lead finder with 300M+ verified business profiles, a lightweight CRM from Pro, and native sync with HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, Zoho and Attio.
- You want a public API, webhooks and an MCP server with 116+ tools, free with any paid plan, though API and webhooks are not on Base.
Who should look elsewhere
- You want to send on LinkedIn from the same tool. There is no native LinkedIn sending, and steps run through HeyReach or Aimfox (smartlead.ai, read 19 October 2026).
- You need WhatsApp. The FAQ says WhatsApp is not sent natively.
- You want the AI to send replies itself. The Reply Agent drafts for approval and auto send is listed as coming soon (helpcenter.smartlead.ai, read 19 October 2026).
- You need a trial that includes white label. The trial excludes it and is capped at 2,500 sends and 1,250 contacts.
Alternatives by need
| Need | Tool and price as stated | What the price counts |
|---|---|---|
| Cold email at volume | Instantly: Growth $47 for 5,000 emails, Hypergrowth $97 for 125,000 | Flat per plan by emails per month |
| Email and LinkedIn in one sequence | Salesforge: Pro $48, Growth $96 | Flat by active contacts and emails; LinkedIn senders included |
| Email and LinkedIn in one sequence | Reply.io: Multichannel $99 | Per user per month, 5 mailboxes |
| Email and LinkedIn in one sequence | lemlist: Multichannel €109 | Per user per month |
| An AI that sends the replies | Instantly: AI Reply Agent, human in the loop or autopilot, 5 credits per reply | A credits subscription, separate from sending plans |
| An AI that sends the replies | Sellinger: Email from $39, LinkedIn $198 per agent per month for 1 to 2 agents, $168 at 10 or more agents | Per module or agent per month |
| White label for agencies | HeyReach: Agency $999 for 25 senders | A fixed bundle of senders, LinkedIn only |
| Leads and sequences together | Apollo: Free $0, Basic $65 | Per seat per month plus a credit allowance |
Sources: instantly.ai, read 19 October 2026; salesforge.ai, read 19 October 2026; reply.io, read 19 October 2026; lemlist.com, read 19 October 2026; instantly.ai, read 19 October 2026; heyreach.io, read 19 October 2026; apollo.io, read 19 October 2026. Sellinger from the pricing page, checked 19 October 2026.
Where Sellinger fits, and where it does not
Sellinger fits when
- You want replies answered and meetings booked automatically, on LinkedIn and WhatsApp as well as email.
- You want one agent to carry a lead across channels with the history in a built in CRM.
- You want a card free start. 30 days free on messaging modules and bundles, no card. Usage modules (enrichment) start with a $10 credit.
- You want a portal on your own domain for clients, with unlimited client workspaces.
Sellinger is the wrong choice when
- You mainly send cold email at volume. Smartlead lists Base at $39 for 6,000 sends with unlimited email accounts. Sellinger sends through your connected mailbox and is not email infrastructure.
- You want a verified prospect email allowance included in the plan. Smartlead includes 50,000 a month on Unlimited Smart.
- You need Salesforce, Pipedrive or Zoho connected today. Sellinger lists them as coming soon.
For a row by row view of two products, see Sellinger vs Smartlead, row by row. This page is for a reader who has not decided what kind of tool to buy.
Switching notes
- Export campaigns, lead lists and Master Inbox tags. Smartlead has no lock in contract and you can cancel any time.
- Keep mailboxes and domains where they are. Moving tools does not reset their sending reputation.
- Move one campaign first and compare reply handling for two weeks before moving others.
- In Sellinger, connect your existing mailbox and start in approval mode so a person reads the first messages.
Common questions
How much does Smartlead cost?
Does Smartlead send LinkedIn messages?
Does Smartlead's Reply Agent send replies on its own?
Is there a free trial?
Sources and method
Smartlead cells read from its own pages on 19 October 2026: smartlead.ai, read 19 October 2026; smartlead.ai, read 19 October 2026; helpcenter.smartlead.ai, read 19 October 2026; smartlead.ai, read 19 October 2026. Other vendors as linked in the table. Sellinger from the facts page.
Related: Sellinger vs Smartlead, row by row, Instantly alternatives, Best multichannel outreach tools, Best white label outreach platforms, Sellinger alternatives.
