Saleshandy vs 11x: Which Should You Choose?

Saleshandy and 11x both sell outbound with the data included. One is a self-serve cold email platform you can be sending from this afternoon for $34 a month. The other is an enterprise AI SDR platform with a rollout measured in weeks.

The 2 tools split on 4 things a small sales team decides on: entry-tier cost, trial access, how leads get found, and who runs the campaign day to day. Saleshandy is the cheaper and faster way to start sending, while 11x is the larger bet for a team that wants outbound and inbound covered by one vendor.

What is Saleshandy?

Saleshandy is a deliverability-first cold email platform with a B2B contact database bundled into every plan rather than sold as a separate module. The platform bundles a sending engine, an 852M+ contact Lead Finder with 70+ search filters, an AI Sequence Copilot, verification, warm-up, a dialer, and a CRM. Its credit system covers an 8-provider waterfall search plus verification for a single credit, and a miss costs nothing.

Pros

• 1 credit covers the whole enrichment job: A single credit runs an 8-provider waterfall, verifies the result including catchall verification, and delivers it. Unverified results cost nothing, so a messy source list doesn’t quietly drain your budget.
• Unlimited sending mailboxes on every plan: There’s no per-inbox fee at any tier, and sender rotation, unlimited warm-up, dynamic IPs, and spintax are all included from the entry plan.
• Self-serve with a trial that needs no card: Starter, Pro, and Scale are all buyable without a sales conversation, behind a 7-day free trial. Only the Enterprise tier routes to sales.
• Data credits arrive monthly rather than as a second subscription: Starter includes 1,500 Lead Finder credits a month and Pro includes 4,000, deposited as a full year upfront on annual billing.

Cons

• Starter is a single seat with a hard sending cap: Per Saleshandy’s pricing page, the entry plan covers 1 user, 2,000 active prospects, 6,000 emails a month, and sender rotation across 10 email accounts. A second person on the team means moving to Pro at more than double the price.
• Verification and AI credits are one-time grants: Starter grants the 500 email verification credits and 100 AI credits once, rather than refilling them monthly. That’s a cost that surfaces after signup, once the initial grant runs out.
• The AI layer assists rather than runs the motion: Saleshandy’s own plan features describe AI-powered sequences, AI variants, and manual tasks assignable to your team. Someone in-house still builds the campaign, picks the targeting, and steers it week to week.

Pricing

Saleshandy starts at $34 a month on annual billing, with Pro at $76 and Scale at $149, and all 3 are self-serve behind a 7-day trial with no credit card. Starter buys 1 seat, 2,000 active prospects, 6,000 monthly emails, and 1,500 Lead Finder credits, so team growth rather than sending volume is usually what forces the first upgrade. Monthly billing runs roughly 20-30% higher, and the email infrastructure add-on starts at $3.49 per mailbox with a 25-mailbox minimum.

What is 11x?

11x.ai sells digital workers for revenue teams: Alice (an outbound AI SDR) and Julian (an inbound AI phone agent). Alice handles autonomous prospect research, AI personalization, multi-channel sequences, reply qualification, consented outbound calling, CRM updates, and meeting booking. Julian answers inbound leads within seconds to qualify and route them. Underneath both workers sits a real-time database, live web search prospecting, website visitor tracking, signals and triggers, deep research, playbooks, and mailbox health tooling. It positions around replacing a job function rather than augmenting a workflow.

Pros

• 2 workers covering both directions of the funnel: Alice runs outbound while Julian handles inbound voice qualification, scheduling, and lead routing, which is a broader footprint than single-worker competitors offer.
• Deep platform under the agent: The real-time database, live web search prospecting, website visitor tracking, signals and triggers, deep research, and playbooks are all shipped features rather than roadmap items.
• Deliverability handled as infrastructure: Dedicated deliverability and mailbox-health tooling sits in the platform alongside call deliverability and number management. That matters, because autonomous sending at volume is where most AI SDR deployments damage domain reputation.
• Strong compliance posture: SOC 2 Type II and CASA certification, GDPR and CCPA compliance, and a public trust center give a security reviewer something to work with.

Cons

• Enterprise-scale: 11x’s entry plan costs $3,750 per month, making it costly for small teams on a budget. 
• Implementation runs weeks rather than days: Onboarding is roughly 2-3 weeks, with full performance closer to 3 months. That covers sales-led discovery, ICP configuration, CRM integration, email and LinkedIn account setup, team rollout, and launch.

Pricing

11x’s entry plan is $3,750 per month. Higher plans with greater limits require a custom quote. All contracts are annual.

Saleshandy or 11x: Which should you choose?

These 2 tools sit in the same category and serve very different budgets. The deciding factor is usually how much you can commit before you’ve seen results, and how much of the campaign you want to own yourself.

Choose Saleshandy if…

You want to test outbound this week without a sales call

Every published Saleshandy plan is self-serve behind a 7-day trial that doesn’t ask for a card. You can build a list, warm a few mailboxes, and send a real sequence before anyone asks for budget approval. That matters when outbound is a channel you’re testing rather than one you’ve already committed to.

The entry plan lands at $34 a month on annual billing, which is close to the cost of finding out whether your ICP responds at all. If it works, you scale up a tier. If it doesn’t, you’ve spent a rounding error.

You need prospecting data and sending on one bill

Lead Finder credits come bundled into every plan rather than sold as a second subscription, and unlimited sending mailboxes mean the number of inboxes you run never changes the invoice. For a founder or a 2-person team, that removes the usual pattern of paying one vendor for data, another for sending, and a third for warm-up. 

The credit model also protects you on messy lists, because a lookup that returns nothing costs nothing. Multichannel steps across email, calls, LinkedIn, and WhatsApp sit in the same sequence builder.

Choose 11x if…

You want one vendor covering outbound and inbound

Alice and Julian split the top of the funnel between them. Alice runs outbound research, sequencing, and meeting booking, and Julian answers inbound leads within seconds to qualify and route them. For a RevOps team currently stitching that together from separate tools, one platform covering both directions is a real consolidation story.

The platform underneath is broad enough to support it, with a real-time database, live web search, visitor tracking, and signals shipped as first-class features. It’s a fit when the goal is fewer contracts and fewer integrations.

You have a sharp ICP and the capacity for a multi-week rollout

11x operationalizes targeting well when the ICP is already well defined, and struggles when it isn’t. So the buyers who get the most from it arrive knowing exactly who they sell to and why now.

Onboarding runs 2-3 weeks, covering discovery, ICP configuration, CRM integration, and mailbox setup, with full performance closer to 3 months. That’s manageable if you have ops capacity and a pipeline target a quarter out.

Procurement gets SOC 2 Type II, CASA certification, and a public trust center to review.

Why AiSDR might be a smarter third option

Both tools assume you arrive with the strategy already worked out. 

Saleshandy gives your team a fast, cheap way to execute a plan someone in-house has to write. 11x runs the plan for you, though reviewers are consistent that it works best when your ICP is already sharp. 

AiSDR handles the part that sits before either of those.

Ami AI Strategist

The gap in both tools is the same: Neither one tells you who to go after or what angle to lead with. AiSDR trained Ami on lessons from 20,000 campaigns.

It reviews your offer, CRM data, and past campaigns, then suggests specific audiences and niches for Live AI search to investigate. It takes about 20 minutes to analyze your site and build a full campaign with messaging angles, sequences, and targeting parameters. You review and launch in 2 clicks.

That changes what a launch looks like. 

Rather than a blank canvas and a week of guessing, you get a set of plays to react to. That’s why 80% of AiSDR customers use AI Strategist rather than building campaigns by hand. 

Live AI search

Saleshandy’s data comes from a licensed database, and Lead Finder works better as a supplement to a dedicated prospecting workflow than as a full replacement. That’s the structural problem with any static database: It decays between refreshes, and a narrow ICP is exactly where coverage thins out.

AiSDR builds lists on demand instead. Live AI search takes a plain-text query and goes and finds the audience, with contact data valid as of today. That includes ultra-niche ICPs which filter-based search tends to miss.

Ami decides which niches are worth pursuing, and Live AI search goes and finds them. The list becomes a product of the strategy rather than whatever sat in a database.

For a small team, that removes the usual first-week problem of discovering your segment is thinly covered after you’ve already paid for the year.

Intent & CRM data

Timing is the piece that separates a well-researched message from a well-timed one. AiSDR brings website visitors, LinkedIn profile visitors, LinkedIn social engagement, and LinkedIn keywords together as signals in one place. Outreach fires when someone shows a public, verifiable sign that they have the problem you solve.

Those signals connect straight into HubSpot and Salesforce. 

The integration processes, scores, and enriches your account data for both inbound and outbound leads. The AI then reaches out only to the accounts that qualify. Enrichment and qualification run on publicly available web data plus your CRM history.

The practical effect is fewer messages to a better-chosen group of people. AiSDR customers see 1-3 meetings per 100 targeted leads, with a 9.22% overall response rate and 5.63% positive responses.

Campaign Builder with multichannel conditional sequencing

Channel scope is where a cheap sending tool and an enterprise platform both tend to leave gaps. 

AiSDR’s sequence builder runs email, LinkedIn messages, connection requests, InMails, and calls in a single flow. You can add AI-generated video, voice notes, text, and memes as mediums inside it. Conditional logic is there when you want it, through drag and drop, without a specialist to configure the workflow.

Behind the scenes, AiSDR handles what agencies bill thousands for. That covers procuring and configuring lookalike mailboxes, continuous warmup, bi-weekly deliverability tests, and inbox health monitoring. 

The platform replaces 8+ standalone tools, and Ami gets a campaign live in 30 minutes.