Mailshake alternatives compared: price and features
One row per tool from this page, Mailshake first for reference: who it suits, its entry price for the same need (cold email, email and LinkedIn) and what it does. The sections below explain each choice.
cold email
Cold email plus automated LinkedIn, priced by mailboxes and accounts
Sending from dozens of mailboxes on one plan
High-volume cold email with mailbox infrastructure for sale
Unlimited mailboxes with database credits in every plan
Email finder, database and sequences, LinkedIn as an option
A large B2B database with sequences on topemail and LinkedIn
Multichannel sequences with a large contact database
Email, LinkedIn, calls and AI SDR in one platformMonthly prices, billed monthly unless stated, excluding VAT, read on each publisher’s site (checked between October 6, 2026 and October 20, 2026). Emelia’s prices follow your currency; tools billed in dollars only stay in dollars, and those billed in euros only stay in euros. –: not offered, or not checked for this need.
Email and LinkedIn in the same sequence: Emelia
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Best for: Cold email plus automated LinkedIn, priced by mailboxes and accountsWhere Mailshake needs a new user for every 2 mailboxes on Email Outreach, Emelia’s plans come with a set of mailboxes, 3 on Start, 50 on Grow and unlimited on Scale, and 1, 3 or 10 LinkedIn accounts whose invitations and messages run inside the email sequence. Warm-up is included, as it is at Mailshake. Emails and phone numbers are found in credits, charged only on a result, and the credits last a year; Mailshake’s Data Finder returns no phone number according to its help centre, but it is a searchable database, which Emelia does not have. You can start with a 7-day trial, no card, and 20 credits for an account opened with a work email, where Mailshake collects payment up front.
- YesLinkedIn automation
- NoBuilt-in B2B contact database
- YesCold email from your own mailboxes
- Price
- $37/month (Start plan · 3 mailboxes · 1 LinkedIn account)
- Who it’s for
- Teams that want Mailshake-style sequences with LinkedIn actually automated, and a bill that does not count users.
Unlimited mailboxes for volume senders: Instantly and Smartlead
Both price by the emails and contacts of the month and let you connect as many mailboxes as you like, so adding an address never adds a seat.
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Best for: Sending from dozens of mailboxes on one planInstantly’s Growth plan costs $47 a month for 5,000 emails and 1,000 contacts, with unlimited mailboxes and warm-up: adding addresses never changes the price, only the volume does, where at Mailshake every few mailboxes mean another user. Its SuperSearch database (450M+ contacts on the pricing page) is billed in separate credit plans. Like Mailshake today, it has no LinkedIn automation of its own, only bridges to other tools. Trial: 14 days without a card.
- YesCold email from your own mailboxes
- YesMailbox warm-up included
- YesBuilt-in B2B contact database
- Price
- $47/month (Growth plan · 5,000 emails a month · unlimited mailboxes)
- Who it’s for
- Senders who run many mailboxes and measure the plan by volume, not by seats.
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Best for: High-volume cold email with mailbox infrastructure for saleSmartlead starts at $39 a month on Base for 6,000 emails and 2,000 contacts, with unlimited mailboxes and warm-up pools included. Its SmartProspect database is an add-on at $59 a month (300M+ contacts), the same logic as Mailshake’s Data Finder at a higher price. LinkedIn goes through partner tools such as HeyReach and Aimfox. Smartlead can be tried for 14 days with no card.
- YesCold email from your own mailboxes
- YesMailbox warm-up included
- YesBuilt-in B2B contact database
- Price
- $39/month (Base plan · 6,000 emails a month · unlimited mailboxes)
- Who it’s for
- Agencies and outbound teams that send at volume and buy their mailboxes alongside.
Cold email with contacts built in: Saleshandy, Snov.io and Apollo
Mailshake’s plan cards include 50 or 2,500 Data Finder credits with no stated period, and sell the full database on the side; these three put monthly contact credits inside the plan. Saleshandy is also the pairing people look up most against Mailshake, and it publishes a Mailshake comparison page of its own.
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Best for: Unlimited mailboxes with database credits in every planMailshake vs Saleshandy comes down to what sets the price: users and their mailboxes at Mailshake, emails sent at Saleshandy, whose Starter plan costs $41 a month for 6,000 emails with unlimited mailboxes. Each plan includes 1,500 or more Lead Finder credits a month, where Mailshake’s cards give 50 to 2,500 Data Finder credits with no stated period and sell the full database for $19 a month more. Both handle LinkedIn as manual tasks, Saleshandy also handing prospects to Aimfox or HeyReach. Saleshandy has a 7-day trial without a card.
- YesCold email from your own mailboxes
- YesBuilt-in B2B contact database
- YesNative CRM integration
- Price
- $41/month (Starter plan · 1,500 credits · 6,000 emails a month)
- Who it’s for
- Teams that want mailboxes without a per-user count and data credits in the same subscription.
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Best for: Email finder, database and sequences, LinkedIn as an optionSnov.io bundles a database (500M+ contacts) with its sequences: Starter costs $39 a month for 1,000 credits and 5,000 recipients, with unlimited senders. Unlike Mailshake, it sells LinkedIn automation, as a separate slot at $59 a month per account alongside a plan. Warm-up is limited to 3 mailboxes on Starter. Its free plan, called Trial, needs no card.
- YesLinkedIn automation
- YesCold email from your own mailboxes
- YesMailbox warm-up included
- Price
- Free plan, then $39/month (Starter plan · 1,000 credits)
- Who it’s for
- Small teams that start from finding emails and want sequences and LinkedIn in the same account.
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Best for: A large B2B database with sequences on topApollo is a database first (240M contacts), with sequences, a dialer and credits per licence: Basic costs $65 per licence a month for 2,500 credits. Like Mailshake, it bills per seat and caps the mailboxes per seat, 1 on Basic. Its extension reveals contacts on LinkedIn, but LinkedIn steps are not automated. A free plan exists.
- YesCold email from your own mailboxes
- YesBuilt-in B2B contact database
- YesNative CRM integration
- Price
- Free plan, then $65/month per licence (Basic plan · 2,500 credits)
- Who it’s for
- Teams whose first need is a big searchable database, with sending as a second step.
Automated LinkedIn steps: lemlist and Reply.io
Until mid-2026, Mailshake’s pricing page listed LinkedIn automation on Sales Engagement; today its help centre describes LinkedIn steps as tasks you do by hand. These two send invitations and messages from the sequence.
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Best for: Multichannel sequences with a large contact databaselemlist’s Multichannel plan costs $109 per user a month, with 1 LinkedIn account and up to 5 sending mailboxes per user, so it counts seats like Mailshake but includes the automated LinkedIn steps that Mailshake’s pricing page no longer lists. Its email-only plan is priced by volume, from $69 a month. A database of 650M+ contacts comes with credits. 14-day trial.
- YesLinkedIn automation
- YesCold email from your own mailboxes
- YesEmail and LinkedIn in one sequence
- Price
- $109/month per user (Multichannel plan · 1 LinkedIn account)
- Who it’s for
- Teams that accept per-user pricing in exchange for automated LinkedIn and built-in data.
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Best for: Email, LinkedIn, calls and AI SDR in one platformReply.io sells two models: Email Volume from $59 a month for 1,000 active contacts, and Multichannel at $99 per user a month with 1 LinkedIn account and 5 mailboxes (10 on yearly billing). It calls, like Mailshake’s Sales Engagement, and automates LinkedIn, which Mailshake’s pricing page no longer lists, though its LinkedIn steps need the LinkedIn account set to English. 14-day trial without a card, LinkedIn excluded.
- YesLinkedIn automation
- YesCold email from your own mailboxes
- YesEmail and LinkedIn in one sequence
- Price
- $99/month per user (Multichannel plan · 1 LinkedIn account)
- Who it’s for
- Sales teams that want email, LinkedIn and calls under one roof and do not mind seats.
Mailshake alternatives: questions
All three send cold email, and Mailshake names them in its own comparison pages and blog posts. Woodpecker charges by emails sent rather than per user, from $39 a month for 5,000 emails with unlimited mailboxes, and automates LinkedIn for $29 per account on top, which Mailshake no longer lists. QuickMail and Klenty were not priced for this page.
Usually not. Mailshake includes unlimited warm-up on every plan; Emelia includes it too, as do Instantly and Smartlead, while Saleshandy goes through its partner TrulyInbox. Mailshake also sells its warm-up on its own, as Warm Up Your Email. Standalone services are compared on the email warm-up tools page.
Yes: Emelia sets its price by mailboxes and LinkedIn accounts, Instantly, Smartlead and Saleshandy by emails sent, Snov.io by recipients and credits. lemlist’s Multichannel, Reply.io’s Multichannel and Apollo count seats, like Mailshake.
Emelia features: Cold email · Email finder · Email warm-up · Emelia pricing
Emelia is a Mailshake competitor. We have tried to stay fair: every figure about Mailshake comes from its own website or public review sites.
