Smartlead

What it is for

Smartlead is a cold-email sending + warmup desk: connect mailboxes, drop them in a shared warmup pool, and send from client workspaces. Use it when the job is agency-scale inbox rotation, not when you need Apollo’s people graph.

It is not open source. Base is $39/month (2,000 contacts / 6,000 sends). Yearly Base is $32/month.

What makes it unique: the cover is Smartlead’s official plan / campaign chrome — send caps, verified-email add-on, and the warmup pool on the same card.

Key features

• Campaigns + sequences — create a campaign, attach a sequence with delays and A/B variants, set a send schedule, then start / pause / stop it (Campaign setup; Sequences).
• Warmup pool — shared reputation network that simulates opens, reads, and replies before you send (Email warmup; smartlead.ai).
• Mailbox rotation — attach SMTP / Gmail / Outlook accounts to a campaign and reallocate leads when a mailbox is removed (Email accounts).
• Master Inbox — replies from every campaign and client in one thread list; auto-categorize by intent and bulk-assign (Master Inbox).
• Webhooks + API — campaign, lead, and reply events to your own HTTPS endpoint; same objects over server.smartlead.ai/api/v1 (Webhooks; Getting started).
• SmartServers — dedicated-tenant IPs / sending infra so warmup and reputation are not shared with the public pool (SmartInfra).

Who it's for

Best fit: agencies who will attach many inboxes and pay for the send cap.

Poor fit: one-seat reps who want a built-in 200M contact graph (Apollo).

Pricing

Verified 2026-10-22 (Asia/Shanghai) from smartlead.ai/pricing monthly / yearly toggle (yearly advertised 17% off). Re-check checkout.

Monthly

• Base — $39/month. 2,000 contacts. 6,000 sends. 2,000 verified emails ($59 add-on).
• Pro — $94/month. 30,000 contacts. 90,000 sends. 30,000 verified ($59 add-on).
• Smart — $174/month. Unlimited contacts. 150,000 sends. 50,000 verified (free on this card).
• Prime — $379/month. Unlimited contacts. 500,000 sends. 170,000 verified. 3 SmartServers.

Yearly equivalents on the same page — Base $32; Pro $78; Smart $144; Prime $315 / month billed annually.

A free trial exists (“Try for free and pick a plan later” on the page). Confirm current trial days at signup.

Limitations / costs

• Sends are the meter. Base is 6k / month.
• Verified emails are an add-on on Base / Pro ($59).
• $32 / $78 / $144 / $315 are yearly. Monthly list is $39 / $94 / $174 / $379.
• Not a people database. You import or buy verified emails.

Alternatives

• Instantly — unlimited accounts + warmup if you want Instantly’s Unibox instead.
• Apollo — search + sequence if the missing piece is the contact graph.
• Clay — enrich-then-send if Smartlead is only the mailbox layer.

Official tutorial

Official Smartlead channel video: If I Wanted to Send 100,000 Cold Emails, I'd Do This (Tutorial) (oEmbed author: Smartlead).

Written path: Pricing plus the API getting started.

Website

https://www.smartlead.ai

Source

Catalog row curated for AI Tools Nav. Cover is Smartlead’s official pricing / campaign chrome. Base $39; Pro $94; Smart $174; Prime $379. Tutorial: 100k sends on @smartleadai (oEmbed).

Last verified

2026-10-22 (Asia/Shanghai) editorial check.