Saleshandy: what it is, how it works and what it costs in 2026

Saleshandy at a glance

Saleshandy is a cold email and lead generation platform built for agencies and small teams. Its cheapest plan starts at 34 dollars a month on annual billing, includes unlimited email accounts and spends no credits on the contacts it cannot verify.

These are the figures shown on its site and its pricing page today:

What is Saleshandy and what is it for?

Saleshandy is a tool that does three things at once. It finds contacts in its own database, drops them into an email sequence with automatic follow-ups, and checks that those emails land in the inbox instead of the spam folder. All from one dashboard, with a lightweight CRM that is already active on the cheapest plan.

Who it is for, in practice. Lead generation agencies running campaigns for several clients from a single account. Small sales teams that do not want to pay a licence for every rep who joins. Freelancers building their own lists who prefer one invoice instead of three. And consultancies selling prospecting as a service that need to split each client's work into separate spaces.

Who it suits less. If LinkedIn is your main channel and email is secondary, other tools do that specific job better. If you want to start without paying anything and with no expiry date, Saleshandy has no free plan, and that is a real filter. And if your team grows past fifty reps with heavily rehearsed processes, you will end up looking at heavier platforms.

The company behind it is Ikigai Infotech, based in Ahmedabad, India. On its site it claims more than 25,000 businesses use the platform, although its own about page still talks about 10,000 customers, so the public figures lag behind the current reality. On LinkedIn the company has somewhere north of fifty employees, which gives a sense of the real size of the team.

How Saleshandy works under the hood

The lead finder and the credits

The first leg is the database. Saleshandy claims 852 million verified contacts and 42 million company profiles, and the filters are among the most complete: job title, seniority, department, industry, size, revenue, location, the technologies a company uses and whether it is hiring.

The interesting part is how it charges for this data. Instead of paying a subscription to a finder and another to the verifier, here a single type of credit runs through several providers in sequence until it finds the right contact, and it comes out of the same pot. One credit reveals a verified email. A phone number costs six credits, and if you want email and phone together it is seven. The commercial point is this: credits are only deducted when the result comes back verified, and an email that cannot be validated costs nothing.

On paper that is a good deal, and on most clean lists it holds up. Now the honest part the website will not tell you. Those match rates are the vendor's own figures, I have not measured them against my own list. Before you commit to an annual plan, take fifty contacts you already have and run them through the finder. That is where you will see whether the coverage in your niche lives up to what the brand promises.

Email sequences and warm-up

The second leg is the campaign engine. The editor supports several steps with automatic follow-ups that fire depending on how each person responds, and that is where Saleshandy has an edge over what used to be the norm a few years ago. On the higher plans you can mix email, calls, LinkedIn, WhatsApp and manual tasks in the same sequence, something that on simpler tools is still a paid extra.

Inbox warm-up is included on every plan, with no limit on accounts. That is unusual. Some tools charge for warm-up separately or hide it in a higher tier, and here you can warm as many mailboxes as you connect without the bill going up. If you come from paying for warm-up on its own, that one detail changes the maths.

Email accounts are also unlimited across every tier. You can connect ten, twenty or fifty mailboxes without paying per inbox, and sending is spread across all of them so you do not burn any single one. That said, it does not mean you should connect fifty on day one. Common sense with domains still applies, and I will remind you of it at the end.

Deliverability and sending infrastructure

This is the least visible part and the one that shows up most in results. Saleshandy has a feature that buys domains similar to yours and configures them with SPF, DKIM and DMARC ready to send. It is a paid add-on: each mailbox costs 2.99 dollars a month on annual fixed billing, 3.49 if you want to be able to rotate them, and 3.99 if you pay quarterly. Each domain costs 14 dollars a year and it is best not to exceed three mailboxes per domain to protect reputation.

If you send a handful of emails a month, all of this is overkill. If you send thousands, that infrastructure is the difference between scaling and walking into a block. If you want to understand the background before touching anything, I have a separate guide on how to warm up a domain for cold email that explains the reason behind each record.

CRM, integrations and API

The CRM is included from the entry plan, not as a paid module. It stores prospects, lets you group them into lists and shows the status of each conversation. It does not aspire to be a real CRM, but for keeping a campaign under control without opening another tab it does the job.

On integrations, the higher plans connect to Salesforce, HubSpot, Pipedrive, Zoho and Zapier, plus webhooks and its own REST API. And there is an uncommon detail that did catch my eye: Saleshandy exposes the product over MCP, the protocol AI assistants use to talk to external tools. If you are the kind of person who automates with an agent inside the dashboard, that opens doors most competitors still keep shut.

How much does Saleshandy cost in 2026?

Three plans, all with unlimited email accounts and warm-up included. The difference is the number of users, the emails you can send per month and the data credits.

There is no free plan. The closest thing is a 7-day trial without a card, and inside the trial sending is capped at 100 emails, so it is good for seeing the interface and the data quality, not for launching a real campaign. On final price, a Starter account works out at 34 dollars a month, around thirty-odd euros, which for the package it brings is below almost everything I have tested in this category.

The Pro plan is the one that makes most sense for a team. Ten users and a hundred thousand emails a month for 76 dollars when you pay yearly, with nothing added per extra rep. The quick calculation I always run: if you have five people sending, on a tool that charges per seat you would end up paying noticeably more than here.

Scale is the agency plan. Unlimited users and prospects, white label so you can sell the tool under your own name, and 200,000 emails a month. There Saleshandy competes head to head with the platforms built for agencies handling many clients at once.

Saleshandy vs Instantly vs Waalaxy

They do not do exactly the same thing, so the honest comparison is by use case.

If what you need is cold email volume and nothing else, Instantly is still a very well-tested reference, with its 14-day free trial. Saleshandy plays on that ground and adds the database and the CRM from the cheap plan, so if you come from paying for a finder separately, the saving is real.

If your channel is LinkedIn and email is support, Saleshandy is not your tool. For that there are much finer options, and the one I keep recommending to start without risk is Waalaxy, which starts at 19 euros and can be tried for 14 days free without a card.

And if what worries you is the technical side of sending, with mailbox rotation and fine deliverability control, some people prefer Smartlead or lemlist for that reason. None is best at everything. The choice depends on which piece is failing for you today.

What do the Saleshandy reviews say?

Here there is a fact worth telling exactly as it is, because it is rare to see. Saleshandy's Trustpilot page shows no score. The platform itself explains that it withdrew it for a breach of its guidelines, and as long as that is the case there is no aggregate rating to quote. It is a warning that cannot be glossed over, and I would rather say it before showing anything else.

That said, the reviews you can still read tell a less dramatic story. The ratings from recent months are mostly five stars and repeat two ideas: that setup is simple and that having the CRM from the first plan saves going through another tool. One review from July 2026 says it plainly, comparing it with Instantly and noting that this one seems cheaper and just as good.

The negative ones exist and they almost always go to the same place. One from September 2026 titled "Scam" says the person cancelled the subscription and was still charged, with no refund. Another from August 2026 complains that when extracting contacts in bulk the tool added the phone by default and that blew up credit usage, and that support could not give a clear way out. These are not complaints about sending quality, they are complaints about billing and about clarity in how credits are used.

I have not been able to cross-check these opinions against G2 or Capterra because their pages block access from this server, so I am left with what I have been able to verify first-hand. If your decision is going to hinge on public reputation, check the Trustpilot page yourself and read the latest reviews before signing anything.

The drawbacks I see

Five, and I will put them in order of importance.

The first is that there is no free plan. It sounds minor until you compare. Direct rivals let you try the product for free for weeks or simply give away a capped tier, and here you get at most seven days with a hundred emails. If you like deciding in your own time, that filter pushes you towards another tool.

The second is that withdrawn Trustpilot score. I am not saying the company is a disaster, I am saying that the only public source with enough volume to judge it is paused by the platform's own decision, and that should enter your decision.

The third is that the database match rates are the vendor's figures. A 92 per cent of emails verified on the first try sounds great in a review on its own website, but I have not reproduced it. Test with your own contacts before you believe the number.

The fourth is the real cost of phone numbers. Six credits per phone and seven if you want the email too, out of a pot of 1,500 credits a month on Starter, runs out quickly. If your campaign lives on calling, the entry plan falls short fast and the jump to Pro or to extra packs is almost mandatory.

The fifth is that white label and unlimited users only arrive on the agency plan. If you manage clients and want to sell the tool with your logo, you have to pay for Scale, and there the price already looks like those of competitors who have been in that space for years.

Verdict: is Saleshandy worth it in 2026?

Yes, with clear caveats. For a small agency or a sales team of fewer than ten people that wants to find contacts, send cold email and keep a minimum of control in the same place, Saleshandy has a value-for-money ratio that is hard to match. Unlimited email accounts, warm-up included and CRM from the entry plan is a package most charge for separately. If that is your case, start with the Saleshandy trial, which is seven days without a card, and decide on your own data.

What I would not do is pick it out of inertia. If you need to test without rushing, if you depend on LinkedIn, or if public reputation is a requirement for your boss, there are options that fit better. And if your real question is where to start in prospecting, before buying anything I would read what cold email is and the best tools to find company emails, where I compare the pieces by use case.

In the end, this is not about which tool is best in the abstract. It is about what you are missing right now. If you are missing a list, Saleshandy gives you one. If you are missing a channel above all, email is not your problem.