Smartlead pricing and alternatives

It depends on why you are leaving. On Trustpilot, in reviews from August to October 2026, a complaint that comes back again and again is slow support. For cold email at volume, Instantly, EmailBison and PlusVibe each put warm-up beside the sending. lemlist, Saleshandy, Woodpecker and Salesforge add LinkedIn steps to the email, and lemlist and Saleshandy add calls and WhatsApp too. For LinkedIn and email in one workflow, with the people, their work emails and the replies in the same app, there is GetSales, which has no phone finder and no dialer. Each description is from the vendor's own homepage, read on 27 October 2026.

Smartlead prices by send volume and verified leads, with no fee per mailbox. On monthly billing Base is $39 a month for 6,000 emails and 2,000 contacts, Pro $94 for 90,000 emails and 30,000 contacts, Unlimited Smart $174 for 150,000 emails and Unlimited Prime $379 for 500,000, both with unlimited contacts. Annual billing takes 17% off. On Base and Pro its verified prospect emails are a $59 a month add-on, and white label costs $29 a month per client workspace, from Pro. A plan renews by itself and fees are non-refundable. All read on smartlead.ai on 27 October 2026. GetSales prices LinkedIn accounts, email capacity and data credits, billed monthly, with no per-user fees. The figures are on the pricing page.

Both are cold email tools built for volume, and both put unlimited email accounts and warm-up on every plan. They meter it differently: on monthly billing Smartlead's Base is $39 for 6,000 emails a month and 2,000 contacts, and Instantly's Growth $47 for 5,000 emails and 1,000 uploaded contacts. Beside the sending, Smartlead sells white label per client workspace, SmartDialer calling and mailboxes through SmartSenders, and Instantly a B2B lead database, a CRM and AI agents. Both read on their own pricing and home pages on 27 October 2026. For LinkedIn, Smartlead hands leads to HeyReach or Aimfox. In GetSales the LinkedIn and email steps sit in one workflow.

They are built for different jobs. Smartlead is cold email at volume: unlimited mailboxes and warm-up on every plan, priced by the emails you send, with LinkedIn handed to HeyReach or Aimfox and calls on SmartDialer credits. lemlist reaches leads by email, LinkedIn, calls, WhatsApp and SMS from one workflow, with a lead database of its own. Its Multichannel plan is priced per user, with 5 mailboxes and one LinkedIn account each, SMS on credits and WhatsApp as an add-on. Both read on their own pages on 27 October 2026. GetSales finds the people and their work emails, checked by the verifier you pick, and runs the LinkedIn and email steps in one workflow from your sender profiles. It has no phone finder and no dialer.

Through other tools. Its llms.txt describes email, LinkedIn and calls in one platform, and its help center shows how: a Smartlead sequence has email, call and manual task steps, LinkedIn outreach is listed among the uses of a manual task, which pauses the sequence until someone marks it done, and automated LinkedIn steps run when a SmartAgent passes leads to a HeyReach or Aimfox campaign, which needs an account of that tool. Read on smartlead.ai and helpcenter.smartlead.ai on 27 October 2026. In GetSales, connection requests with a note, messages, InMail and profile visits run from your own LinkedIn account, in one workflow with the email steps, and a wait for the accept gives those who accept and those who do not each their own next step.

Mailboxes and warm-up, yes, on every plan, under its fair use policy, which applies "even if you have subscribed for an unlimited plan" and names abusing the unlimited email warm-up as excessive use. Contacts depend on the plan. Its home page says you can store unlimited leads, while its pricing page holds 2,000 contacts on Base and 30,000 on Pro, unlimited from Unlimited Smart. Its help center says those lead credits do not reset each month: you free them by deleting leads, or you upgrade. Another help center article says leads you archive or move to inactive stop counting against that limit, a change rolling out first to Unlimited plan users with 60,000 leads or more. Sends renew monthly, follow-ups and replies included, and at the limit new emails wait for the reset. All read on smartlead.ai and its help center on 27 October 2026.

A trial, not a free plan. Each plan starts with a 14-day free trial and no credit card, and its pricing page lists four paid plans, from $39 a month on monthly billing, with 50% off the first month on any plan when you sign up. Read on smartlead.ai and its help center on 27 October 2026. Sign up free: Playtables stay free with your own API keys, and LinkedIn and email come with a 7-day trial. GetSales' prices are on the pricing page.

On Base and Pro you cancel from Settings, and the plan stays active until the end of the billing cycle. A custom plan is cancelled through support. Mailboxes bought through SmartSenders are cancelled with the plan, each deleted a day before its next renewal. Its terms renew a plan by itself each period and make fees non-refundable, with no refund for the rest of a period. After you cancel, its help center says the data stays two weeks, then the account enters a deletion phase that support cannot hold off. Its own pages read on smartlead.ai and its help center on 27 October 2026. On Trustpilot, in reviews from August to October 2026, slow support and cancellations that were hard to get through come back again and again. Export your leads before you cancel.

Yes, by setting the outreach up again: there is no Smartlead integration in GetSales, and campaigns are not copied over. Bring your leads as a CSV of up to 50 MB, mapped onto your table's columns. A person already in any table of your workspace is not added again, and people on your stoplist are marked Stoplisted and never contacted. Connect your LinkedIn account and your mailboxes, on Google, Microsoft or IMAP and SMTP, as a sender profile, then build the workflow, or let Creator build it from one sentence. Smartlead's help center, read on 27 October 2026, says it keeps your data two weeks after you cancel, so export first.