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Saleshandy sells outbound in pieces. Salesforge sells it whole.
Salesforge, built by a former Googler and VP of sales, takes a different approach:
Saleshandy and Salesforge both pitch themselves as complete cold outreach platforms, but they mean different things by "complete." One assembles the workflow from separately priced modules and credit meters; the other ships it as a single system built on owned deliverability infrastructure. In this article, we'll go through both platforms in detail - real pricing from their own pages, feature depth, and what actual users say - so you can pick the platform that fits your stage.
Alternatively, you can just let Salesforge's results speak for themselves:
Saleshandy started as a Gmail email-tracking tool and has grown into a genuinely popular cold email platform - it holds a 4.6 on G2 from 700+ reviews, and users consistently praise how easy it is to set up and run campaigns. Its pitch is affordability: unlimited email accounts, seats, and clients on every plan, with entry at $25/month. Where it gets complicated is the packaging - lead finding, placement testing, infrastructure, and AI all sit outside that price as separate products or metered credits - and, as the reviews below show, reliability at scale has been a sore spot for some users. We break down every feature in more depth in our full Saleshandy review.
Saleshandy's sequence builder is legitimately solid: unlimited sender accounts, sender rotation, A/Z testing, spintax, and condition-based subsequences on higher tiers. Sending is metered by plan - 6,000 emails and 2,000 active prospects per month on Starter, up to 240,000 emails on the $139/mo Scale plan - and LinkedIn steps don't exist, so multichannel sequences that include LinkedIn need a second tool.
The Lead Finder is a separate subscription (from $24/mo) with a claimed 700M+ contact database, and its credit policy is fairer than most: unused credits roll over, and you're only charged when Saleshandy actually finds verified contact info. Freshness is the open question - one reviewer reported prospects replying that they hadn't worked at the listed company in over a decade, with a no-refund policy at the end of that conversation.
Email warm-up is included free on every plan, which is more than some competitors offer. It's powered by TrulyInbox, a partner product rather than infrastructure Saleshandy controls end to end - and the layer that tells you whether warm-up is working, inbox placement testing, is a separate product starting at $34/month for 120 tests.
Saleshandy's AI builds sequences from prompts and enriches prospect data, and it shows you the credit cost before each task runs - a transparency touch worth crediting. The model is still pay-as-you-go, though: every task consumes credits from a metered pool (100/month on Starter), and failed runs don't refund themselves.
A built-in CRM and dialer are genuinely nice inclusions at this price point - deal tracking from reply to close, plus calling inside campaigns. One thing to plan around: integrations with Salesforce, Zoho, HubSpot, and Pipedrive unlock on the Pro plan ($69/mo annual), so the $25 entry plan won't connect to the CRM you already run.
Saleshandy's pricing looks simple until you count the products. There are four of them - cold email, Lead Finder, inbox placement testing, and email infrastructure - plus two credit meters (AI and verification). Prices below are from Saleshandy's own pricing breakdown, annual billing.
1. Outreach Starter – $25/month ($36/month billed monthly)
2. Outreach Pro – $69/month
3. Outreach Scale – $139/month
4. Outreach Scale Plus – from $209/month
Here's the real bill: a team on Outreach Pro that also wants lead data, placement testing, and ten mailboxes pays $69 + $24 + $34 + $40 = $167/month across four line items - before topping up a single AI or verification credit. Salesforge Growth is $96/month total, with warm-up and placement testing already included through Warmforge.
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Now, this is something crucial to consider before choosing a cold email tool. To be fair to Saleshandy: most of its reviews are positive - a 4-star TrustScore on Trustpilot with 81% five-star ratings, and a 4.6 on G2. But aggregate scores hide the patterns, and with Saleshandy there are two things worth weighing before you rely on the score itself.
Saleshandy's Trustpilot profile carries an official "Breach of guidelines" notice: Trustpilot detected and removed fake reviews for the company.
One reviewer's experience suggests how ratings like that can get inflated - they describe being asked for a 5-star rating in exchange for credits:
And another bought largely on the strength of the rating, then ran into the bugs firsthand:
That reviewer's campaigns were hit by a bug that sent plain-text emails as broken HTML - prospects received "Hello < b Hey ABC how are you< /b" - though, to Saleshandy's credit, support stayed engaged and comped them a free month.
It's not an isolated story. Another reviewer reports a placeholder update that started sending malformed emails to contacts, and a placement-test bug that automatically fired hundreds of emails per account - 100% of which went to spam, forcing them to wind down sending and re-warm every domain:
For a platform whose one job is putting clean emails in front of prospects, bugs that reach the prospect are the expensive kind.
The dashboard says unlimited; the plan says otherwise. This reviewer bought both the email and Lead Finder products and found the limits and credit charges after the fact:
When the AI Co-Pilot fails, the credits don't come back. This user tried to build a sequence three times, failed three times, and finished onboarding with an exhausted AI credit balance:
The most serious pattern: charges that continue after cancellation. This reviewer cancelled, was charged again, deleted the account entirely, was charged a second time - and was then refused a refund because more than five days had passed:
And when the Lead Finder's data turns out to be outdated, there's no recourse - this reviewer had prospects reply that they hadn't worked at the listed company in 12 years, then got pointed to the no-refund policy:
None of this makes Saleshandy a bad tool - but if your priority is scaling multichannel outbound on infrastructure you control, with fewer meters between you and your prospects, let's look at Salesforge.
Now let's go over an alternative to Saleshandy: Salesforge is an all-in-one cold email and LinkedIn outreach platform where the whole outbound motion - sending, warm-up, placement testing, personalization, and reply management - lives in one flat plan instead of four subscriptions and two credit meters.
Instead of reselling mailboxes and outsourcing warm-up, Salesforge runs on the Forge Stack: Mailforge, Infraforge, and Primeforge for owned infrastructure, Warmforge for premium warm-up and placement testing, and Leadsforge for lead discovery - all under one login. Every email and LinkedIn reply lands in one unified inbox, Primebox™.
Salesforge runs conditional multi-channel sequences that combine cold email with native LinkedIn automation - six action types including connection requests, messages, InMails, post likes, follows, and withdrawals - in a single flow. If a connection request is accepted, the sequence continues on LinkedIn; if not, it falls back to email automatically.
Overdrive Mode generates 1:1 personalized messages at scale across 21+ languages, pulling from multiple data sources rather than filling a template with variables. There's no per-task credit meter deciding when the AI stops working - it's part of the plan.
Every Salesforge plan includes free, unlimited premium warm-up via Warmforge - a curated pool of aged Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 accounts only, with a Heat Score™ for every mailbox and inbox placement testing included. On Saleshandy, that placement testing alone starts at $34/month.
Built-in validation priced to scale - roughly $20 per 10,000 credits, compared to Saleshandy's $79 for 30,000 - plus Bounce Shield, which automatically protects sender reputation when bounce risk climbs.
Agent Frank is a fully autonomous AI SDR: he sources leads, writes personalized emails and LinkedIn messages, follows up, handles replies, and books meetings 24/7 - on full Auto-Pilot or in Co-Pilot mode with human approval. Saleshandy's AI drafts sequences while its credits last. Agent Frank runs the pipeline.
In comparison to Saleshandy's four products and two credit meters, Salesforge offers a very straightforward pricing model:
One plan. No separate placement-testing subscription, no per-task AI meter, no $4/month mailbox reseller math.
Here's the honest split. If you're a solo founder or a small agency running email-only outreach on a tight budget, Saleshandy is a legitimately good starting point - cheap entry, unlimited sender accounts, and an easy learning curve.
The equation changes when you scale. The moment you need LinkedIn in the sequence, placement data included rather than sold separately, or AI that isn't metered by credits, the $25 sticker grows into a $167 multi-product stack running on resold infrastructure and a partner's warm-up pool. We also ranked the top Saleshandy alternatives if you want the wider field.
Here's a quick recap of where Salesforge pulls ahead:
It depends on your stage. Saleshandy is a strong budget pick for email-only outreach - unlimited sender accounts from $25/month is real value. Salesforge is built for teams scaling beyond that: unlimited mailboxes on every plan, unlimited LinkedIn senders on Growth ($96/mo), free premium warm-up and inbox placement testing via Warmforge, and Agent Frank, an autonomous AI SDR. If your outbound is multichannel or growing fast, Salesforge covers in one plan what Saleshandy spreads across four products and two credit meters.
Packaging and channels. Saleshandy is an email-first platform sold in modules: sending from $25/mo, lead data from $24/mo, placement testing from $34/mo, mailboxes at $4/mo each, with AI metered by credits. Salesforge is a multichannel platform sold as one system: email and LinkedIn in the same conditional sequence, warm-up and placement testing included, AI personalization without per-task meters, and proprietary infrastructure through the Forge Stack.
Salesforge, once you price the whole workflow. A Saleshandy setup with Outreach Pro ($69/mo), Lead Finder ($24/mo), placement testing ($34/mo), and ten mailboxes ($40/mo) runs $167/month across four line items - before AI credit or verification top-ups (30,000 verification credits cost $79). Salesforge Growth is $96/month total with unlimited mailboxes and LinkedIn senders, and validation runs roughly $20 per 10,000 credits.
No. Saleshandy's multichannel means email plus a built-in dialer; LinkedIn is limited to a prospecting Chrome extension, with no LinkedIn steps inside sequences. Salesforge includes native LinkedIn automation - connection requests, messages, InMails, post likes, follows, and withdrawals - inside the same conditional sequence as your emails, with unlimited LinkedIn senders on the Growth plan and every reply landing in Primebox™.
Yes. Export your prospects from Saleshandy as a CSV and import them into Salesforge in minutes, then connect your existing mailboxes or spin up fresh infrastructure through Mailforge, Infraforge, or Primeforge. Warmforge starts warming your senders for free from day one, placement testing is included rather than a separate subscription, and Salesforge's 24/7 support, Slack community, and Academy handle onboarding. There's a 14-day free trial to run both side by side.