Saleshandy vs SmartReach.io (2026)
Saleshandy suits an email first team that wants its own verified B2B data, unlimited mailboxes and a developer surface on a cheap entry plan, and SmartReach.io suits a team running email, calls, LinkedIn and WhatsApp from one sequence with strict automatic stops. Saleshandy prices Starter at $34 a month on annual billing for 2,000 active prospects and 6,000 emails, with unlimited mailboxes and warm up on every plan, a database of more than 852 million contacts searched through a named supplier waterfall, and charges only for verified results. SmartReach.io prices on prospects contacted, from $29 a month for email alone or $39 for multichannel with calling and LinkedIn seats, pauses a campaign on a reply from anyone at the same domain or an unresolved merge tag, and keeps LinkedIn in an assisted mode unless automation is bought as an add on. Saleshandy publishes API limits, an MCP server and a command line tool; SmartReach.io syncs both ways with five CRMs above its Basic plans. Saleshandy's trust portal backs a certification claim, where SmartReach.io names no certification on its own pages.
- The team wants verified emails and phone numbers from a built in database, paying only when a result verifies.
- Engineers will script against the platform through a rate limited API, an MCP server and a command line tool.
- Sending runs across many mailboxes, with unlimited accounts, warm up and rotation on every plan.
- Sequences mix email, calls, LinkedIn and WhatsApp, with calling seats included in the plan.
- Campaigns must stop on a colleague's reply, a missing merge tag or a broken link before a prospect sees the mistake.
- Replies and outcomes should sync both ways with Salesforce, HubSpot, Pipedrive or Zoho at no integration fee.
This comparison is published by GTM Tech Index, an independent research platform that compares go to market software vendors objectively. Saleshandy and SmartReach.io are each graded against the same capability taxonomy, from each vendor's own public materials, under the GTM Tech Index verification standard. No vendor pays for placement, and no vendor has reviewed this page. How this evidence is graded
Plain facts
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| Primary category | Sales Engagement & Outreach | Sales Engagement & Outreach |
| Founded | Not published | 2017 |
| Headquarters | India | Hyderabad, India |
| Website | www.saleshandy.com | smartreach.io |
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The short version of each
Saleshandy
Saleshandy is a cold email platform with its own B2B database of more than 852 million contacts and 42 million companies, unlimited sending mailboxes and warm up on every plan, and sender rotation across 10, 100 or 1,000 accounts. Starter costs $34 a month on annual billing, Pro $76 and Scale $149, with 2,000, 30,000 and unlimited active prospects, 6,000, 100,000 and 200,000 emails a month, and 1,500, 4,000 and 8,000 lead finder credits; a verified email costs one credit, a phone number six, and an unverified result nothing. API access at 100 calls a minute, webhooks, an MCP server and a command line tool come with every plan, and done for you mailboxes cost $2.99 to $3.99 each a month. The GTM Tech Index grades Saleshandy A on data licensing and provenance because it names the enrichment and verification suppliers behind each lookup.
Source: GTM Tech Index, 2026
SmartReach.io
SmartReach.io is a sales engagement platform that runs email, calls, LinkedIn and WhatsApp in one sequence and prices on prospects contacted rather than seats. Email Outreach starts at $29 a month and Sales Engagement runs $39, $99, $249 and $599 across four plans, adding 1, 3, 10 and 100 calling and LinkedIn seats, with 1,000 to 500,000 active prospects, AI automations from Plus upward and yearly billing up to 11% cheaper. LinkedIn work stays assisted by default, and full automation costs $29 a month per account. Campaigns pause on replies, replies from the same company, spam words, broken links, missing merge tags and invalid addresses, and every plan carries a one click unsubscribe link. The GTM Tech Index grades SmartReach.io A on autonomy and oversight for those automatic stops, which protect recipients as much as senders.
Source: GTM Tech Index, 2026
Common questions
How do Saleshandy and SmartReach.io pricing compare for a small team?
Saleshandy Starter is $34 a month on annual billing ($408 a year) or $41 monthly for one user, 2,000 active prospects and 6,000 emails, and Pro at $76 a month on annual billing covers ten users and 30,000 prospects. SmartReach.io Email Outreach Basic is $29 a month for 1,000 active prospects and 10,000 emails, and its Plus plans at $89 for email or $99 for multichannel lift that to 50,000 prospects, unlimited email and unlimited users. Neither charges per seat for mailboxes. Both hold A on commercial transparency in the GTM Tech Index, since every plan, allowance and add on carries a printed rate.
Does Saleshandy or SmartReach.io include contact data?
Saleshandy does, with more than 852 million contacts searched through its own data and a waterfall of named enrichment providers, then verified; one credit buys a verified email, six a phone number, and failed lookups are free, with 1,500 to 8,000 credits a month by plan. SmartReach.io cites a database of more than 300 million contacts and attributes enrichment and visitor identification to named partners, with SmartReach credits from its Plus plans. The GTM Tech Index grades Saleshandy A and SmartReach.io B on data licensing and provenance.
Do Saleshandy and SmartReach.io automate LinkedIn?
Both put LinkedIn into sequences. Saleshandy lists LinkedIn and WhatsApp steps beside email and calls and sells a browser extension that finds emails and phone numbers from profiles. SmartReach.io queues LinkedIn profile views, connection requests and messages as tasks a person completes by default, and full automation is a $29 a month add on per account. On platform terms exposure the GTM Tech Index places Saleshandy at D and SmartReach.io at C, the difference being SmartReach.io's assisted default.
Which handles unsubscribes and compliance better?
SmartReach.io ships a one click unsubscribe link on every plan, honors a Do Not Contact list across all campaigns and lets contacts opt out through a public request page. Saleshandy publishes extensive deliverability controls, including unlimited warm up and rotation, but sends at volumes up to 200,000 emails a month with no published outreach compliance position. In the GTM Tech Index, outreach compliance posture is A for SmartReach.io and D for Saleshandy.
Do Saleshandy and SmartReach.io publish security certifications?
Saleshandy runs a trust portal on its own subdomain, reached from a footer badge for SOC certification, ISO information security certification and GDPR, with a vulnerability disclosure page and multi factor authentication. The SmartReach.io security page, updated May 2026, describes AWS and Google Cloud hosting and encryption, and its site lists GDPR compliance, two factor authentication, a responsible disclosure route and a status page, without naming a certification. The GTM Tech Index grades Saleshandy B and SmartReach.io C on security certifications and trust center.
Related comparisons
Other published head to head assessments involving these vendors or their closest peers. The full set for this category is on the Sales Engagement & Outreach page.
Both platforms write and send outreach to people who never asked for it, and neither names the AI models that draft or personalize those messages or says whether campaign copy and replies train any model. SmartReach.io lists sub processors only on request, and Saleshandy's trust portal holds its policy set.