7 Best Saleshandy Alternatives for Lead Gen Agencies

Saleshandy is part cold email platform, part B2B contact database.

Which, theoretically, makes it an ideal choice for lead generation agencies.

However, once you dig beneath the surface, you’ll realize Saleshandy is missing some essential agency-grade functionality.

That’s why we’ve rounded up the seven best Saleshandy alternatives for lead gen agencies, factoring in:

• Key features

• Agency pricing

• Common challenges

Let’s get into it…

QuickMail: The #1 Saleshandy Alternative

In our view, QuickMail is the best Saleshandy alternative for lead gen agencies. Here’s why:

Saleshandy vs QuickMail: At-a-Glance Comparison Table

* Free AutoWarmer with MailFlow included with all QuickMail plans

^ Email warmup provided by TrulyInbox

What Makes QuickMail the Best Saleshandy Alternative?

Deliverability

With Saleshandy

Like every cold outreach tool, Saleshandy shouts about avoiding the spam folder and maximizing replies.

But, in reality, we’ve got some concerns about the platform’s approach to email deliverability, with some users reporting damage to their domain reputation after switching to Saleshandy.

Even if this is an isolated case, do you really want to risk it?

With QuickMail

At QuickMail, we’re kinda obsessed with email deliverability.

Whichever plan you choose, we’ll give you free access to one of the top email warmup tools, MailFlow, to ensure your new inboxes are ready to go when you need them.

We also offer a whole suite of deliverability solutions — including Deliverability AI, our proprietary inbox rotation tool that monitors the daily performance of each email account down to a granular level. If deliverability dips on one account, we can automatically switch it out for a healthier one, helping you steer clear of the spam folder by prioritizing sending from your top-performing inboxes.

So you see higher deliverability with zero extra effort. If only everything was that easy!

Learn more: 10 Best Email Deliverability Tools 

Agency Analytics and Reporting

With Saleshandy

Saleshandy’s reporting and analytics functionality leaves a lot of users distinctly underwhelmed.

While it’s capable of tracking all the basic cold email metrics, it lacks more advanced insights…

…which makes it harder than you’d like to access the necessary data to optimize your campaigns.

With QuickMail

QuickMail offers truly agency-grade reporting and analytics. Beyond tracking essential lead gen metrics (opens, clicks, replies, bookings, bounces, and more), you can segment any report by the email service provider you or your lead is using.

Plus we’re the only cold outreach platform to provide time-based data that tracks all results to the day an email was sent — a vital tool for identifying drop-offs in deliverability.

And with our intuitive client portals and agency dashboard, you can dig into the numbers you need or get a quick view of performance across all accounts.

You can even save time on repetitive reporting tasks by building custom dashboards for each client.

Learn more: How To Choose the Best Sales Analytics Tools for Your Agency 

Team Workflows and Oversight

With Saleshandy

Because Saleshandy isn’t really designed for lead gen agencies, its collaboration and oversight tools are somewhat lacking.

Take the unified inbox: only the last 15 conversations are visible on the entry-level Outreach Starter plan, with no replying or forwarding. Even if you upgrade to a higher-tier price plan, Saleshandy still doesn’t let you assign replies to different team members or respond from a different inbox.

This is basic stuff that we’d expect any outreach tool for lead gen agencies to offer.

With QuickMail

As an agency-grade solution, QuickMail makes it easy to manage your team and collaborate across client accounts.

With our unified inbox, you can: 

• Read, label, and triage replies without marking them as “read”

• See how long each reply has been waiting for a follow-up

• Assign follow-ups to the best team member

Plus your reps can respond from any inbox.

All of which makes it easier for you to maintain a smooth workflow, regardless of annual leave or sick days.

Transparent, Affordable Agency Pricing

With Saleshandy

Saleshandy doesn’t offer agency-specific pricing, so you’ll have to choose one of its standard plans, which start at $36 per month. All include unlimited email accounts and clients, with higher-tier plans offering more total prospects and monthly email sends. However, these levels are quite restrictive — and prices ramp up fast if you need to increase them.

For example, the Outreach Scale plan comes with up to 60,000 total prospects and 200,000 monthly emails (plus 12,000 email verification credits). That’s right: we’re talking total prospects here, not just active ones.

Sooner or later, you’ll have to upgrade to an Outreach Scale Plus plan for more prospects. Options range from 100,000 total prospects for $299 per month to 500,000 for $1,499 per month.

And if you still need more, you need to reach out for a custom quote.

With QuickMail

QuickMail, on the other hand, has dedicated agency plans offering transparent, flat per-client fees. So you only have to pay more when you win more business — not when you’ve added some arbitrary number of leads to your account.

Every QuickMail plan includes all the essential functionality you need to deliver results at scale, including unlimited seats and inboxes.

Want to learn more? Speak to us to learn about our agency plans.

6 Other Top Saleshandy Alternatives

Instantly

Key Benefits for Agencies

• Add unlimited email accounts on every Instantly plan so you can scale campaigns without hampering deliverability.

• Validate emails without leaving the platform and ensure your domains are set up correctly with the one-click bulk domain tester.

• Upgrade to a Custom plan for support and optimization assistance from a dedicated account manager.

Agency Pricing

Like Saleshandy, Instantly increases prices for higher volumes of email sends and uploaded contacts. Which is fine for regular businesses doing their own outreach, but it’s a big problem for lead gen agencies doing outreach at scale.

Instantly’s mid-tier plan, Hypergrowth, only offers up to 25,000 uploaded contacts and 100,000 monthly emails for $97 per month. Or you can upgrade to Light Speed ($358 per month) for 100,000 uploaded contacts and 500,000 emails.

Need more? You’ll have to request a custom quote and sign up for a 12-month contract.

Common Challenges

• The unified inbox isn’t included with Instantly’s entry-level plan.

• Lack of a top-level agency dashboard means there’s no quick way to check performance across multiple client accounts.

• The plan doesn’t offer any insight into deliverability rates and doesn’t do deliverability monitoring.

• Inbox warmup mostly relies on custom SMTP inboxes rather than Gmail or Outlook (and some users aren’t satisfied with its effectiveness).

Learn more: Instantly vs QuickMail: Features, Pricing, and Performance 

Woodpecker

Key Benefits for Agencies

• View reports in one place and manage client accounts through the agency dashboard.

• Access always-on deliverability monitoring to keep on top of deliverability and share the results with clients by downloading as a pdf.

• Build a white-labeled client portal (with your own domain name and branding) to share client reports.

Agency Pricing

Other than QuickMail, Woodpecker is the first tool in our roundup to charge a flat rate of $27 per client.

Trouble is, it also has restrictive activity limits. Its Agency plan starts at $29 per month for just 500 contacted prospects and 2,000 stored prospects. This increases to $395 per month for 25,000 contacted and 100,000 stored prospects.

If you need more prospects, you’ll have to sign up for a Woodpecker account and check pricing within the app.

Common Challenges

• Workflow management is a struggle, with no triaging replies or assigning to individual team members.

• Limited sentiment analysis only marks replies as “positive”, “negative”, or “neutral”.

• Woodpecker’s email warmup doesn’t work with Gmail accounts.

• Lacks important analytics features like send-day attribution, positive reply rate reports, and unsubscribe rates.

Learn more: Woodpecker vs QuickMail: Features, Pricing, and Performance 

Smartlead

Key Benefits for Agencies

• Invite unlimited team members and monitor their performance via the agency dashboard.

• Save time with automated follow-up sequences and set follow-up reminders to ensure you never miss an opportunity.

• Automate low-value, repetitive outreach tasks like uploading leads and booking meetings.

Agency Pricing

Smartlead’s pricing is far from transparent. The top-tier Custom Plan starts at just $174 per month and advertises “up to” 12 million lead credits and 60 million monthly email credits. But it doesn’t tell you exactly what you get for $174 per month — or how much you’ll have to pay for higher numbers of emails or prospects.

It also charges a flat rate of $29 per month for each additional client you add.

Common Challenges

• Smartlead is a relative newcomer to the cold outreach scene, and we’ve seen reports that it can be glitchy and error-prone.

*Quote from unaffiliated agency owner, March 2024

• Lack of native integrations forces you to rely on Zapier to connect Smartlead with your other tools, which is expensive and buggy at scale.

• With no agency dashboard, you have to filter by account to view performance data.

• Smartlead’s auto-warmer mostly uses custom SMTP inboxes, not Gmail or Outlook.

• No way to create prospects manually, verify them in Smartlead, or add them to campaigns in bulk.

Learn more: Smartlead vs QuickMail: Features, Pricing, and Performance 

Reply.io

Key Benefits for Agencies

• Segment reports by client or team member.

• Control access to specific reports and campaigns by setting roles and permissions.

• Get unlimited mailboxes, clients, users, contacts, and email warmup on agency plans (at an undisclosed cost).

Agency Pricing

Unlike most Saleshandy alternatives for lead gen agencies, Reply.io offers an agency-specific price plan. It starts at $210 per month and includes unlimited sequences, inboxes, and email warmup.

However, costs stack up fast when you add more prospects.

Reply.io also paywalls a bunch of useful features, including LinkedIn automation and email validation. So you’ll have to pay more for them, even if you’ve already chosen the top-tier plan.

Common Challenges

• Minimal customization in reports.

• No centralized client dashboard for monitoring performance across accounts.

• Lots of users struggle to get to grips with the challenging user interface, even after enduring Reply.io’s lengthy onboarding program.

Learn more: Reply.io vs QuickMail: Features, Pricing, and Performance

Lemlist

Key Benefits for Agencies

• Set up outreach sequences that use smart logic to adapt on-the-fly to the prospect’s previous actions (like opening an email or clicking a link).

• Create multichannel outreach campaigns including cold calling and LinkedIn steps to boost reply rates.

• Build dynamic landing pages to create a more personalized path to conversion.

Agency Pricing

Got more than 10 users on your team? You’ll have to contact Lemlist for a custom quote.

Alternatively, smaller agencies can choose one of Lemlist’s standard plans, all of which charge per user. For example, the top-tier Outreach Scale plan costs $159 per user, per month. 

That’s almost $1,600 for a 10-person team.

Common Challenges

• Per-user pricing makes Lemlist too expensive for all but the smallest lead gen agencies.

• Lemlist emails are full of messy html — which can hamper deliverability.

• No categorizing email replies by campaign or client.

• Some users have encountered regular glitches when using Lemlist:

Learn more: Instantly vs. Lemlist vs. QuickMail: Which Is Best? 

Mailshake

Key Benefits for Agencies

• Validate emails within Mailshake to reduce bounces and increase deliverability.

• Build personalized outreach campaigns using trigger-based follow-ups.

• Upgrade to the top-tier plan for automated LinkedIn messaging, profile views, and connection requests via a dedicated Chrome extension.

Agency Pricing

Mailshake is another outreach platform that charges per user, making it prohibitively expensive for most agencies.

For example, the top-tier Sales Engagement plan costs $99 per user, per month — or almost $1k a month for a 10-person team.

It’s so expensive that Mailshake actually recommends making your clients set up their own team in Mailshake and adding your agency as a user:

So even if your clients are happy to do that, you’ll have a totally different account for every client you work with. Which is a nightmare at scale.

Common Challenges

• Per-user pricing makes Mailshake way too expensive for agencies with more than one or two team members.

• LinkedIn automation and unified inbox are only available on the top-tier plan.

• The Starter plan is super-limited, with just 1,500 monthly emails and one email address.

Learn more: Mailshake vs QuickMail: Features, Pricing, and Performance 

Switch To the Best Saleshandy Alternative Today

There are plenty of quality outreach platforms on the market. 

But, as you can see, most aren’t built for agencies. They’re either too restrictive, too expensive at scale, or both.

With one clear exception: QuickMail.

QuickMail’s superior deliverability, simple workflow management tools, and transparent pricing make it an obvious choice for agencies.

For a full overview of how QuickMail can help your agency, speak with us.