Saleshandy vs Instantly vs Smartlead vs Woodpecker

Written head to head: Instantly vs Smartlead, with when to choose each side.

Compared on	Saleshandy Free trial · from $34/mo VisitRemove	Instantly Free trial · from $37.60/mo VisitRemove	Smartlead Free trial · from $32.50/mo VisitRemove	Woodpecker Free trial · from $23.33/mo VisitRemove
What it is	Cold email with unlimited mailboxes and warm-up plus a lead database, at flat prices with users included	Cold email platform with unlimited sending accounts and warmup, priced by emails sent and contacts uploaded	Cold email platform with unlimited mailboxes and warmup, priced by sends and stored contacts, not seats	Cold email and LinkedIn outreach priced by prospects contacted, with unlimited mailboxes and team members
Free plan	No	No	No	No
Cheapest paid plan	$34/mo billed annually (Starter)Saleshandy pricing	$37.60/mo billed annually (Growth)Instantly pricing	$32.50/mo billed annually (Base)Smartlead pricing	$23.33/mo billed annually (500 contacted prospects)Woodpecker pricing
What it covers	1 user, 2,000 active prospects, 6,000 emails a month, 1,500 lead finder credits a month, unlimited email accounts and warm-up; $408 a year on annual billing. Prices exclude taxes.	Outreach plan: 5,000 emails a month, 1,000 uploaded contacts, unlimited email accounts and warmup. Lead data and AI agents need a separate Instantly Credits plan; the cheapest, Nano, is $9 a month for 150 credits.	2,000 stored contacts, 6,000 email sends and 2,000 verified prospect emails a month, unlimited email accounts; $390 a year on annual billing. No CRM, API or webhooks on Base.	500 prospects contacted a month, 8,000 emails, 2,000 stored prospects, 2 free warm-ups, 100 Lead Finder credits, unlimited email accounts and team members; $280 a year on annual billing. Prices exclude VAT.
Free trial	7-day free trial, no card needed; trial sending is capped at 100 emails	14-day free trial, no card needed, with 250 uploaded contacts and 1,000 emails	Free trial on every plan, no card needed; length not stated	14-day free trial or 100 cold emails, whichever comes first, with all features and no card needed
Platforms	Web, iOS, Android, API, CLI	Web, API	Web, API	Web, API, CLI
Integrations (vendor's figure)	Salesforce, HubSpot, Pipedrive, Zoho and Zapier, plus Make, n8n and Pabbly, an MCP server and a REST API	Not stated	Native connections with Clay, HubSpot, Zapier, Slack, Salesforce and 18+ more	Native Pipedrive and HubSpot two-way sync, Clay, Calendly, Zapier, Google Sheets and Claude, plus API, webhooks, MCP and CLI
Open source	No	No	No	No
Good for	Solo founders starting cold email on a small budget Teams of up to ten that want users included in a flat price Finding verified leads and emailing them from one account	Sending cold email from many mailboxes without per-inbox fees Agencies running high-volume campaigns for several clients Finding leads and writing sequences with AI in the same tool that sends them	Agencies sending high volumes across many mailboxes Running client campaigns in separate whitelabel workspaces Scaling sends without per-seat or per-mailbox fees	Small teams that want to pay only for the prospects they contact Agencies managing client campaigns from one panel Adding LinkedIn steps to cold email campaigns
Watch out for	Starter is a single user with 2,000 active prospects and 6,000 emails a month CRM integrations and webhooks start on Pro SSO and whitelabel are listed under the custom Enterprise tier	Growth caps sending at 5,000 emails and 1,000 uploaded contacts a month; going over a plan's volume means upgrading, not paying overage Lead data and AI agents need a separate Instantly Credits subscription Webhooks and full in-app Unibox replies start on Hypergrowth	Base has no CRM, API or webhooks and caps stored contacts at 2,000 Verified prospect emails cost $59 a month extra on Base and Pro Dedicated servers and client workspaces are paid add-ons below Unlimited Prime	Integrations, API, webhooks and MCP are a $20 a month add-on Once the contacted-prospects limit is reached, campaigns stop emailing new prospects until you upgrade or the limit renews A prospect added to 5 campaigns counts as 5 contacted prospects
Made by	Ikigai Infotech	Foo Monk, LLC	521 Products Pty Ltd	Woodpecker AI sp. z o.o.

Entry prices are the cheapest paid plan, as each vendor publishes it; “What it covers” says what that price is per (a user, a channel, a brand, a number of contacts). The sources are listed on each tool's page.

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