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title: "Saleshandy vs Apollo"
date: "2026-09-16T11:50:42+00:00"
url: "https://aisdr.com/blog/saleshandy-vs-apollo/"
description: "See which platform fits your team, plus where AiSDR changes the math entirely"
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# Saleshandy vs Apollo

Both tools promise contact data and outreach on a single bill, at a price a small team can approve without opening a procurement cycle. The split between them is which half of that job they built first.

Saleshandy is an outreach platform with a database bundled in. Apollo is a database with sequencing and a dialer bundled in. That difference is subtle on the feature page and obvious on the invoice, because it decides whether you pay for sending capacity or for seats.

**Key takeaways**

- Saleshandy caps seats by tier, with Pro covering 10 users for $76 a month, while Apollo charges per seat starting at $49 a user a month.
- Saleshandy only charges a Lead Finder credit for a verified result, so failed lookups cost nothing. Apollo’s credits are consumed per reveal instead, and they expire at the end of each billing cycle with no rollover.
- A 2026 analysis of 1,000+ user reviews puts Apollo’s real-world email accuracy at 65 to 70%, with bounce rates of 15 to 25%.
- Apollo’s Organization plan carries a 3-seat minimum, which puts its real entry cost at $357 a month rather than the advertised $119 per seat.
- AiSDR replaces the manual targeting work behind both tools with an AI Strategist trained on 20,000+ campaigns and Live AI search, which builds prospect lists on demand rather than relying on a static database.

 ## **What is Saleshandy?**

[Saleshandy](https://aisdr.com/blog/saleshandy-alternatives/) is a deliverability-first cold email platform with a B2B database built into every plan. It launched in 2015 as an email tracking tool for Gmail and Outlook, and then moved to dedicated cold email in 2019. Today it runs a sending engine, an 852M+ contact Lead Finder, an AI Sequence Copilot, verification, warm-up, and a CRM under a single subscription. A dialer is available too, sold as a separate add-on.

Its credit math is the mechanism that sets it apart commercially. A single credit reveals a verified work email through an 8-provider waterfall with catchall verification included, and an unverified result costs nothing.

### **Pros**

- **Misses cost nothing**: 1 credit runs the full 8-provider waterfall, verifies the result including catchalls, and delivers it, and a lookup that returns nothing is free.
- **Unlimited sending mailboxes on every plan**: There’s no fee to connect a mailbox at any tier. Sender rotation, unlimited warm-up, dynamic IPs, and spintax all start on the entry plan.
- **Seats are capped by tier rather than billed individually**: Pro covers 10 users on a single $76 bill, so adding people to the workspace doesn’t move what you pay.
- **Lead Finder credits arrive monthly**: Starter includes 1,500 a month and Pro 4,000, deposited as a full year upfront on annual billing.

### **Cons**

- **Starter is a single seat with a hard sending cap**: The entry plan covers 1 user, 2,000 active prospects, and 6,000 emails a month. Sender rotation is capped at 10 email accounts. A second person means moving to Pro at more than double the price.
- **Verification and AI credits are one-time grants**: Starter’s 500 verification credits and 100 AI credits arrive once rather than refilling each month. A G2 reviewer names this specifically as something you end up buying separately.
- **Warm-up reliability draws repeated complaints**: Warm-up problems come up 54 times across G2 reviews, behind only UI/UX and missing features as a con theme. Reviewers also report deliverability degrading at higher sending volumes, including damaged domain reputation.

### **Pricing**

Saleshandy publishes 3 paid tiers on annual billing: Starter at $34 a month, Pro at $76, and Scale at $149, with monthly billing running roughly 20 to 30% higher. Starter is a single seat capped at 2,000 active prospects and 6,000 emails a month, and Pro raises that to 10 users and 4,000 monthly Lead Finder credits. Every published plan is self-serve behind a 7-day trial with no credit card, and only Enterprise routes to a sales conversation.

## **What is Apollo?**

[Apollo](https://aisdr.com/blog/apollo-alternatives/) is a B2B contact database with sequencing, a dialer, and enrichment bundled into a single per-seat subscription. It’s the default self-serve entry point into the data category. Its database is published at 210M+ contacts. The commercial mechanism is a unified credit pool.

Every reveal consumes a credit whether it’s an email or a phone number, credits are shared across the team, and they expire at the end of the billing cycle. Feature gating tracks the tiers closely. The US dialer and call recording start at Professional. Custom reports and SSO sit behind Organization, and international dialing runs as a separate add-on.

### **Pros**

- **A free plan that tests the thing you need to test**: The free tier opens the contact database with basic filters and the Chrome extension. You can run your ICP through it before spending anything.
- **Sequencing, a dialer, and enrichment on a single bill**: Email sequences, calling, intent data, and contact enrichment all ship inside the seat price. That starts from $49 a month on annual billing.
- **Intent topics come bundled**: Basic includes 6 intent topics and Organization raises that to 12, packaged into the plan rather than licensed as a separate line item.
- **Waterfall enrichment and email warmup start at Basic**: Neither sits behind an upmarket gate, which saves a small team from buying a second tool for each.

### **Cons**

- **Credits expire with no rollover**: Apollo’s own credits FAQ states that credits don’t carry into the next cycle or on renewal. On annual billing, the full pool lands upfront, and anything unused is forfeited at the 12-month mark. A 2026 pricing analysis names credit expiry as the most-cited post-signup surprise.
- **Data accuracy**: 1,000+ user reviews put real-world email accuracy at 65-70% and bounce rates at 15-25%. Several conclude that teams end up adding a separate verification tool.
- **Per-seat pricing multiplies even when usage stays flat**: Credits are pooled across the team, but seats are not. Adding a sixth person to a 5-person Professional plan raises the bill 20% whether or not enrichment volume moves.

### **Pricing**

Apollo prices per seat on annual billing: Basic at $49 a user a month, Professional at $79, and Organization at $119. Organization also carries a 3-seat minimum, which puts its real entry at $357 a month. A permanent free plan and a 14-day Professional trial let you test coverage first, and both lower tiers can be bought month to month at a 20 to 25% premium.

## **Saleshandy or Apollo: Which should you choose?**

Both tools sit in the same price band, are self-serve, and will be approved without a committee. The decision comes down to which half of the job matters more. One is delivering messages at volume across a team. The other is proving the contacts exist in the first place.

### **Choose Saleshandy if…**

#### **You’re adding people to the workspace and don’t want the bill to follow**

Saleshandy caps seats by tier rather than charging for each one. Pro at $76 a month covers 10 users, and Scale lifts that to unlimited seats with a dedicated account manager and 1:1 onboarding.

Every plan includes unlimited sending mailboxes with no per-inbox fee, so a growing team can add senders and warm-up without a new line item appearing. Sender rotation, unlimited warm-up, dynamic IPs, and spintax all start on the entry plan.

Sequences run email, calls, LinkedIn, and WhatsApp in a single flow, with manual tasks you can assign to people directly. Salesforce, HubSpot, Pipedrive, and Zoho all sync from Starter upward, alongside an API, webhooks, an MCP server, and a CLI.

#### **Your outbound is email-led and you want prospecting on the same bill**

Lead Finder credits are included in every plan rather than sold as a second subscription. That’s 1,500 a month on Starter and 4,000 on Pro, deposited as a full year upfront when you pay annually.

1 credit covers the whole enrichment job, running an 8-provider waterfall and verifying the result including catchalls, and a lookup that returns nothing costs you 0. That model favors lists with patchy source data, because the misses don’t bill.

The database carries 852M+ contacts with 40+ people filters and 15+ company filters. A 7-day trial with no credit card lets you check the coverage before you commit, and pricing is available in 7 currencies.

### **Choose Apollo if…**

#### **You need to prove the data exists for your ICP before you spend**

Apollo’s free plan opens the contact database with basic filters and the Chrome extension. You can run your ICP through it and see what comes back before any money changes hands. Professional layers a 14-day trial on top of that.

The database is published at 210M+ contacts, with advanced filters covering technographics, job postings, funding, and revenue from Basic upward. For a team that’s been burned by coverage gaps in a hard-to-reach segment, being able to test before buying is worth more than a lower headline price.

#### **Your team dials as much as it emails**

Calling sits inside the product rather than arriving through an integration. Professional includes the US dialer and call recording with AI insights at 4,000 minutes, and Organization adds custom reports and SSO. The Advanced Dialer add-on brings parallel and power dialing, international calling, and local presence for $119 a team a month on annual billing, or $149 monthly.

Intent topics come bundled at 6 on Basic and 12 on Organization, so the accounts you dial into can be ordered by signal rather than by list position. For a team splitting its day between the phone and the inbox, that’s 1 login and 1 invoice rather than 2 contracts and a sync to maintain.

**Saleshandy****Apollo****AiSDR****Entry price**$34/month, billed annually$49/user/month, billed annually$1.50**How you get started**Self-serve, 7-day trialSelf-serve, permanent free planSelf-serve**How leads are found**852M+ contact Lead Finder210M+ contact databaseLive AI search, built on demand**Channels**Email, calls, LinkedIn, WhatsAppEmail, calls, LinkedInEmail, LinkedIn, calls, video, voice notes**Contract length**Monthly or annualMonthly or annual below OrganizationPay as you go**G2 rating**4.6/5 across 800+ reviews4.7/5 across 9,600+ reviews4.6/5 across 101+ reviews**Best for**Email-led outbound across a growing teamUS-focused teams wanting data and dialing togetherTeams buying booked meetings rather than tooling## **Why AiSDR might be a smarter third option**

Both tools give you capable machinery and leave the strategy to you.

Saleshandy’s AI layer is assistive, drafting sequences and generating copy variants. Apollo gives you filters, intent topics, and a dialer. Working out which audience to chase this quarter, and what to say to them, still lands on your team.

[AiSDR](https://aisdr.com/) was built around that gap.

### **Ami AI Strategist**

The part neither tool covers is the thinking that happens before the first send. Ami is trained on more than [20,000 campaigns](https://aisdr.com/blog/outbound-sales-best-practices/) AiSDR has run, so it already knows what a [workable ICP](https://aisdr.com/blog/how-ideal-customer-profiles-benefit-your-business/) looks like and what messaging lands.

Give it your website and your goals. It reviews your offer, your CRM data, and your past campaigns, and then suggests specific audiences and niches for Live AI search to go find. It takes about 20 minutes to analyze your site and build a campaign, and you review and launch in 2 clicks.

80% of AiSDR customers build campaigns this way rather than by hand, and execution runs about 6x faster than doing it manually. You clear it for takeoff and stay in command of the direction.

### **Live AI search**

Both tools ask you to trust records that were collected before you needed them, which is where the accuracy complaints above come from. AiSDR builds the list on demand instead. Live AI search takes a plain-text query and finds the audience, including ultra-niche ICPs a filter set struggles to isolate. Contact data comes back valid as of today.

Ami decides what to look for. Live AI search finds it. That order matters, because it removes the step where someone on your team translates a strategy into 15 filter selections and hopes the output matches the intent.

It also means your addressable market doesn’t quietly shrink each quarter as a licensed database ages. Enrichment and qualification run on any publicly available web data, and the AI scores accounts so outreach only goes out to the ones that qualify.

### **Intent & CRM data**

Knowing who to contact is half the problem, and knowing when is the other half. AiSDR pulls website visitors, LinkedIn profile visitors, LinkedIn social engagement, and LinkedIn keywords into a single signal set. Outreach goes out when someone shows a public, verifiable reason to hear from you.

Through deep integration with HubSpot and Salesforce, AiSDR processes, scores, and enriches your account data for both inbound and outbound leads.

That’s where the conversion numbers come from: a 9.22% response rate, 5.63% positive responses, and 31% of replies turning into a booked demo.

AiSDR doesn’t track open rates, because bot opens tell you nothing about interest and can hurt your placement. Across the customer base, the working benchmark is 1–3 meetings per 100 targeted leads.

### **Campaign Builder with multichannel conditional sequencing**

Channel access shouldn’t depend on which tier you bought.

AiSDR runs email, LinkedIn messages, connection requests, InMails, and calls inside a single sequence. You can drop in AI-generated video, voice notes, text, and memes along the way. The builder is drag-and-drop with conditional logic when you need it, so a sequence branches on what a prospect does rather than firing the same 5 steps at everyone.

Behind it, AiSDR handles what agencies charge thousands for: lookalike mailbox setup, continuous warmup, bi-weekly deliverability tests, and inbox health monitoring. The AI handles replies, objections, and unsubscribes until the goal is met.

You can go from kickoff to a live campaign in about 30 minutes, and the [AI SDR](https://aisdr.com/blog/what-is-an-ai-sdr/) replaces 8+ tools your team would otherwise buy and wire together.

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