Smartlead Pricing 2026: Plans, Limits and Real Monthly Cost

Smartlead pricing in 2026: all four plans, what each includes, add-ons, and what a small team really pays a month once domains, mailboxes and leads are added.

Full disclosure: I'm the founder of Selamly, which is a different kind of tool, and I'll say where it fits and where it doesn't. Every Smartlead price below comes from Smartlead's own pricing page and its published pricing summary, checked on November 9, 2026. Other vendors' prices come from their own pages on the same day and are labelled as examples.

Smartlead pricing at a glance

Smartlead has four plans: Base at $39/month, Pro at $94/month, Unlimited Smart at $174/month and Unlimited Prime at $379/month. Billing yearly saves 17%. Every plan includes unlimited email accounts, and there's a 14-day free trial with no credit card needed.

Pricing is based on how many emails you send and how many contacts you store, not on seats or mailboxes. That last part is the main reason Smartlead is popular: connecting your 20th mailbox costs the same as connecting your first.

At the time of checking, the pricing page also offered 50% off the first month on any plan for new sign-ups. Treat that as a promotion, not the price.

How the limits work

Smartlead counts three things separately, and it's worth understanding them before you pick a plan.

• Contacts (lead credits): each unique prospect email address stored in your account. Base allows 2,000.
• Email sends (email credits): every individual email sent, first emails and follow-ups alike. Base allows 6,000 a month.
• Verified prospect emails: leads you source through Smartlead's own prospecting tool, SmartProspect. On Base and Pro this is a $59/month add-on; on the two Unlimited plans it's included.

Because contacts and sends are separate counters, Base works out to roughly 2,000 people with a first email and two follow-ups each. If you plan more steps per person, you'll reach fewer people inside the same send limit.

What each plan includes

The send limits are the obvious difference. The less obvious one is which features unlock at which tier. This table is from Smartlead's own plan comparison.

The one that catches people: Base has no API and no webhooks. If you want interested replies to land in your CRM or trigger anything automatically, plan on Pro from the start.

Smartlead's add-ons

Add-ons stack on top of any plan. These are the ones a small team is most likely to touch.

• SmartSenders (buy domains and mailboxes inside Smartlead): fresh Google or Outlook mailboxes via Zapmail at $13 per domain per year and $4.50 per mailbox per month; pre-warmed ones at $18 per domain per year and $9 per mailbox per month. Other providers are listed between $3.99 and $5 per mailbox.
• Email verification: credit packs on every plan, from $15/month for 6,000 credits on a monthly pack ($16.50 one time).
• SmartDelivery (inbox placement testing): Growth $49/month, Pro $174/month, Expert $599/month.
• SmartServers (dedicated IP): $39 per server per month, from Pro upwards.
• Whitelabel client workspaces: $29/month per workspace, from Pro upwards.
• SmartDialer (calling): credit plans from $9/month.

Smartlead also sells a fully managed outbound service, SmartServices, in two volumes (50,000 and 100,000 emails a month). Its price isn't published, so I won't guess it.

What Smartlead is good at

It's worth being clear: for what it is, Smartlead is good value. Unlimited mailboxes with warm-up on every plan, automatic rotation across mailboxes inside a campaign, and no per-seat pricing make it one of the cheapest ways to send a lot of cold email from many inboxes.

That's why agencies use it. If you run outreach for several clients, the Pro plan plus $29 workspaces, or Unlimited Prime with three workspaces included, is hard to beat on cost per email. Monthly plans have no lock-in, and you can cancel anytime (Smartlead's terms say fees already paid aren't refunded).

The real monthly cost: what else you pay for

Smartlead is the sending engine. To actually send, you also need domains, mailboxes, people to email, and usually a way to check addresses before you send. Here's what those cost, using public prices from each vendor's own page.

Domains

You should never send cold email from your main domain. If something goes wrong, your invoices and password resets start landing in spam too. So you buy separate sending domains. Example: Porkbun lists a .com at $11.81 a year to register and renew. Through Smartlead's SmartSenders it's $13 to $18 a year depending on the option.

Mailboxes

Each domain gets a few mailboxes in a real person's name. Examples: Google Workspace Business Starter is $7 per user per month on an annual plan, or $8.40 on the flexible monthly plan. Microsoft lists Microsoft 365 Business Basic at $7.00 per user per month paid yearly, or $8.40 month to month. SmartSenders mailboxes start at $4.50 per mailbox per month.

How many you need depends on volume. In our own setup, each mailbox sends at most 30 real emails a day once it's warmed up, which is a conservative ceiling. At that pace, 9 mailboxes on 3 domains cover about 6,000 emails across a month of weekdays, which happens to match Smartlead's Base limit.

Warm-up

Smartlead includes warm-up on every plan, so there's no extra fee. The real cost is time: new mailboxes can't send at full volume on day one. In our own schedule, a new mailbox reaches full volume in about four weeks. Pre-warmed mailboxes (from $9 per mailbox per month via SmartSenders) shorten that wait for a higher monthly price.

Lead data

Smartlead doesn't give you a list on Base or Pro unless you buy the $59/month verified prospect emails add-on. The alternative is bringing your own list from another source, which costs money, time, or both.

Verification

If you bring your own list, verify it before sending. Bounces hurt new domains fast. Smartlead's own verification packs start at $15/month for 6,000 credits.

Example: a small team on the Base plan

Here's what one realistic setup costs per month: Base plan, 3 sending domains, 9 mailboxes, about 2,000 new contacts a month. These are examples built from the prices above, not quotes. Domain costs are spread over 12 months.

So the honest answer to "how much does Smartlead cost" for a small team sending around 6,000 emails a month is closer to $120 to $140 a month than $39, before anyone's time. On yearly billing, take $7 off the plan price.

If you need API access or CRM sync, swap Base for Pro ($94 monthly, $78 yearly) and the totals rise by $55 a month on monthly billing.

The cost that isn't on any pricing page

The bigger cost is time. Smartlead sends what you give it. Someone still has to decide which companies are worth emailing, find the right person, write something specific to each company, and handle the replies. For a team with a salesperson or an agency, that's their job. For a founder doing it alone at night, it's the part that usually stops outbound from happening.

When Selamly is the better fit (and when it isn't)

Selamly isn't a sending tool, so this isn't a like-for-like price comparison. It's an AI agent for small B2B companies without a sales team. It finds and researches companies, writes short personal cold emails and sends them from its own warmed-up domains and mailboxes, so your main domain stays safe. It learns from replies which audience answers, and uses buying signals to time emails within that audience.

Pricing is $99/month flat, $49 for the first month, cancel anytime. If you get no interested reply in the first 60 days, the next month is free. Domains, mailboxes and warm-up are part of the job, not add-ons. It doesn't buy lists, doesn't guess addresses and doesn't automate LinkedIn, and no one can honestly guarantee results, including us.

Who it's not for:

• Agencies running outreach for many clients. Smartlead's workspaces and volume pricing are built for you.
• Teams that already have good lists and good copy and just need cheap sending at volume. Smartlead will cost less per email.
• Anyone who wants a self-serve tool with unlimited mailboxes to control directly. Selamly runs the infrastructure for you and doesn't hand it over.
• Companies selling mainly outside the US. Selamly writes to US companies.