Smartlead pricing plans, Smartlead cost per month, add-on pricing, and what the mailboxes add to the bill.
Written for the US founder, agency owner or sales lead pricing Smartlead before a trial. We sell a competing product, so weigh that. Every Smartlead figure below was read on smartlead.ai/pricing and in the machine-readable pricing file Smartlead publishes at smartlead.ai/pricing.md, both on October 5, 2026, from a US connection.
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Read on October 5, 2026, Smartlead sells four plans: Base $39 a month, Pro $94, Unlimited Smart $174 and Unlimited Prime $379, about 17% less billed yearly ($32.50, $78.30, $144.50, $314.60). Plans are priced by sending volume (6,000, 90,000, 150,000 and 500,000 emails a month), never per seat or per mailbox, and every plan connects unlimited email accounts. Verified prospect emails are a $59 a month add-on on Base and Pro and included on the two Unlimited plans. The mailboxes themselves are not included: Smartlead sells them from $4.50 a mailbox a month plus $13 a domain a year, and at full Pro volume they cost several times the plan.
- Base, monthly
- $39 / month, 6,000 sends
- Pro, monthly
- $94 / month, 90,000 sends
- Unlimited Smart
- $174 / month, 150,000 sends
- Yearly billing
- About 17% off every plan
- WorkAgent
- $149 / month, month to month
Price the sends, then the mailboxes
On Smartlead the plan is the cheap part. The mailboxes that send the volume are the expensive part.
Smartlead lets you connect unlimited email accounts at no charge, which is true and useful, but it does not give you the accounts. Sending 90,000 emails a month at a safe 30 a mailbox a day takes about 143 mailboxes. Bought through Smartlead at $4.50 each, that is $643.50 a month before domains, against a $94 plan. The calculator below adds both.
Calculator
Smartlead cost calculator for your sends, lead data, clients and mailboxes
Set how many emails you send a month, how many contacts you keep, whether you want Smartlead to source verified leads, how many client workspaces you run and how many sends each mailbox makes a day. The calculator picks the cheapest Smartlead plan that fits, adds the add-ons and the mailboxes and domains, and shows the real monthly bill and the cost per 1,000 emails. It runs in your browser. No email, no sign-up.
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Mailboxes are counted at 21 sending days a month and 3 mailboxes per domain. Smartlead does not charge to connect a mailbox; the cost shown is buying them.
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Smartlead Base $39, Pro $94, Unlimited Smart $174 and Unlimited Prime $379 a month ($32.50, $78.30, $144.50, $314.60 billed yearly), verified prospect emails $59 a month on Base and Pro, client workspaces $29 each from Pro (3 included on Prime), SmartSenders mailboxes $4.50 or $9 a month with domains at $13 or $18 a year, all read off smartlead.ai/pricing and pricing.md on October 5, 2026. The calculator assumes the $59 and $29 add-ons are not discounted on yearly billing, 21 sending days a month and 3 mailboxes per domain, and spreads the yearly domain fee across 12 months. WorkAgent plans: Starter about 40 sends a working day, Pro 200, Scale 1,000.
The Smartlead rate card
What each Smartlead plan costs, and what it buys
Smartlead sells four plans priced by send volume, not by seat or mailbox, plus six add-ons. Here is every figure on the card and the per-email and per-mailbox numbers it leaves you to work out.
Base, $39 a month or $32.50 billed yearly
2,000 stored contacts and 6,000 email sends a month, unlimited email accounts and the Foundation warm-up pool. No CRM, no API or webhooks, no client workspaces. The 2,000 verified prospect emails shown on the card cost $59 a month extra. At full use the plan works out to $6.50 per 1,000 emails sent, the most expensive email on the card.
Pro, $94 a month or $78.30 billed yearly
30,000 contacts and 90,000 sends a month, the Growth warm-up pool, CRM access, the API and webhooks. This is the first plan that can add client workspaces ($29 each) and dedicated SmartServers ($39 each). Verified prospect emails, up to 30,000, are the same $59 add-on. Full use costs $1.04 per 1,000 emails.
Unlimited Smart, $174 a month or $144.50 billed yearly
Smartlead's most popular plan. Unlimited contact storage, 150,000 sends a month, 50,000 verified prospect emails included, the premium warm-up pool and access to calls with a customer success manager. Full use costs $1.16 per 1,000 emails, slightly more than Pro, because part of the price buys the included lead data.
Unlimited Prime, $379 a month or $314.60 billed yearly
500,000 sends and 170,000 verified prospect emails a month, unlimited contacts, three SmartServers with private OAuth, three or more client workspaces, a dedicated manager and a private Slack channel. Full use costs $0.76 per 1,000 emails, the cheapest unit on the card, and it is the only plan with private infrastructure included.
SmartSenders mailboxes, from $3.99 to $9 a mailbox
Smartlead resells mailboxes and domains. Fresh Google or Outlook mailboxes are $4.50 a month with domains at $13 a year; Outlook through InfraInbox is $5 and $16; SMTP is $3.99 with $19 domains or $4.20 with $13 domains; pre-warmed Google or Outlook mailboxes are $9 a month with $18 domains, ready to send on day one.
Other add-ons, $9 to $599 a month
SmartDelivery inbox placement testing is $49, $174 or $599 a month. A dedicated SmartServer is $39 a server a month. Whitelabel client workspaces are $29 each a month. Email verification credits start at $32 for 6,000, one-time or monthly. SmartDialer calling starts at $9 a month in credits.
What the guides get wrong
Why the Smartlead price you found may not be the one you pay
The top-ranked guide prints sends the card does not sell
La Growth Machine's guide (dated June 26, 2026), first for this query on October 5, lists Pro at 150,000 sends and both Unlimited plans as unlimited sending. The card says 90,000, 150,000 and 500,000. Unlimited refers to contacts, not sends, and Pro sends 40% less than the guide says.
The same guide says Smartlead has no verification. It sells two kinds.
That guide says Smartlead does not include email verification and you need ZeroBounce or NeverBounce. Smartlead sells its own verification credits from $32 for 6,000, and the two Unlimited plans include 50,000 and 170,000 verified prospect emails a month. Budgeting an outside tool on Unlimited Smart pays twice.
Base with lead data costs more than Pro without it
Base is $39 and the verified prospect emails add-on is $59, so Base with leads is $98 a month. Pro without leads is $94 and sends 15 times as much. If you have your own list, Pro beats Base with leads on price. If you need Smartlead to source the leads, read the next card.
Pro with leads is $21 short of Unlimited Smart
Pro plus the $59 add-on is $153 a month for 90,000 sends and 30,000 verified emails. Unlimited Smart is $174 for 150,000 sends, 50,000 verified emails, unlimited contacts, the premium warm-up pool and CSM calls. On yearly billing the gap shrinks to $7.20 if the add-on stays at $59, which the page does not say otherwise.
"Unlimited email accounts" means you can connect them, not that they are free
Smartlead charges nothing per mailbox you connect, and that really is cheaper than tools that bill per inbox. But you still have to buy every mailbox and domain. At 30 sends a mailbox a day, the volume on the Pro plan needs about 143 mailboxes, $643.50 a month through SmartSenders, almost seven times the plan.
Smartlead's own page disagrees with itself by 10,000 emails
The comparison strip at the top of the October 5 pricing page lists Prime at 510K sends a month. The Prime card below it and the pricing.md file both say 500,000. It is a small gap, but if you are buying Prime for the top of its range, confirm the number with sales before you rely on it.
Compare
Smartlead pricing against the tools small outbound teams compare it with
Smartlead read on smartlead.ai/pricing and smartlead.ai/pricing.md on October 5, 2026. lemlist and Salesforge read on their pricing pages on October 2, 2026. Cost per 1,000 emails is the plan price divided by the plan allowance, so it holds only if you use the whole allowance, and it excludes mailboxes. Confirm every price with the vendor before you buy.
| Smartlead Base | Smartlead Pro | Smartlead Unlimited Smart | lemlist Email | Salesforge Growth | WorkAgent Starter | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price, monthly billing | $39 / month | $94 / month | $174 / month | $69 / month | $80 / month | $149 / month |
| Price, yearly billing | $32.50 / month | $78.30 / month | $144.50 / month | $55 / month | Two months free | $74 / month |
| Emails a month | 6,000 | 90,000 | 150,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 | Up to 40 sends a working day |
| Cost per 1,000 emails at full use | $6.50 | $1.04 | $1.16 | $1.38 | $1.60 | Not priced per email |
| Users and mailboxes | Unlimited mailboxes | Unlimited mailboxes | Unlimited mailboxes | Unlimited users and senders | Unlimited users | 1 seat |
| Lead data | $59 add-on | $59 add-on | 50,000 included | Credit add-on | Separate Leadsforge product | Researched by the agent |
| API and CRM | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | CRM updates included |
| Who does the work | You run the campaigns | You run the campaigns | You run the campaigns | You run the campaigns | You, or Agent Frank from $499 | The agent, end to end |
The honest read: for anyone who wants to run cold email at volume and already knows how, Smartlead Pro is one of the cheapest sequencers per email on the market, and its no-charge-per-mailbox rule matters most to agencies juggling dozens of inboxes. WorkAgent costs far more per email and only earns that if you want the list built, each account researched, the emails written and sent and the replies sorted for you, alongside research and inbox work on the same plan.
How much does Smartlead cost per month?
$39 a month on Base, $94 on Pro, $174 on Unlimited Smart and $379 on Unlimited Prime, read on smartlead.ai/pricing on October 5, 2026. Billed yearly they are $32.50, $78.30, $144.50 and $314.60 a month, about 17% less, or $390, $939.60, $1,734 and $3,775.20 for the year.
Those are plan prices only. A working setup adds lead data on the two lower plans ($59 a month), mailboxes and domains on every plan, and client workspaces for agencies. A one-person team sending 6,000 emails a month on Base with its own list and about 10 fresh mailboxes pays roughly $39 plus $45 in mailboxes plus about $4 a month in domains, close to $88 a month. The same person adding Smartlead's verified leads pays about $147.
At the other end, an agency on Unlimited Smart sending 150,000 emails a month for five clients pays $174, plus $145 for five whitelabel workspaces, plus about 239 mailboxes at 30 a day. That is $1,075.50 in mailboxes and roughly $87 a month in domains, so around $1,481 a month, of which the plan is 12%.
Does Smartlead charge per mailbox or per user?
Neither. Every Smartlead plan connects unlimited email accounts with no per-mailbox fee, and plans are not priced per seat. Smartlead prices by three separate counters instead: contacts stored, emails sent a month, and verified prospect emails sourced through SmartProspect. A lead credit is one stored contact and an email credit is one email sent, so the same contact can receive several emails within the send allowance.
That structure rewards teams that spread sending across many mailboxes, which is exactly what good deliverability practice asks for. It also hides the biggest cost on the page. The mailboxes are free to connect but not free to own, and Smartlead resells them through SmartSenders at $3.99 to $9 a mailbox a month. We work out how many inboxes a campaign needs on how many inboxes per domain for cold email.
Which Smartlead plan should a small team buy?
It depends on two questions: do you have your own list, and do you need the API. With your own list and no integrations, Base at $39 is enough up to 6,000 emails a month, about 285 a working day. The moment you need to push replies into a CRM, connect Clay or Zapier through webhooks, or send more than 6,000 emails, Pro at $94 is the plan, and it costs less than Base with the lead data add-on.
If you want Smartlead to source verified leads every month, run the arithmetic in the calculator before picking Pro. Pro with the add-on is $153; Unlimited Smart is $174 with 20,000 more verified emails, 60,000 more sends and no cap on stored contacts. Most teams that need lead data and send more than about 60,000 emails a month are better off on Unlimited Smart.
Unlimited Prime is for agencies. It is the only plan with private infrastructure (three SmartServers) and three client workspaces included, which together are worth $204 a month at add-on prices.
What Smartlead costs an agency with client workspaces
Client workspaces start on Pro at $29 a month each, with the whitelabel included. Prime includes three. For an agency with four clients on Unlimited Smart, workspaces add $116 a month to the $174 plan. Prime at $379 includes three workspaces and three SmartServers, so a fourth client costs $29 more, $408 in total, against $290 on Unlimited Smart before any servers.
The switch point is usually sending volume rather than client count. Unlimited Smart stops at 150,000 sends a month. An agency running six clients at 25,000 emails each is at the ceiling, and the next step is Prime, at 500,000 sends. Unit cost falls from $1.16 to $0.76 per 1,000 emails at full use.
Is Smartlead worth it compared with an AI agent?
For a team that writes and runs its own cold email at volume, yes. Smartlead Pro sends 90,000 emails for $94, and Smartlead does not charge for the mailboxes you connect, which is a real saving for agencies. Very few tools beat it on cost per email sent.
The decision changes when the bottleneck is time. Smartlead sends what you build: someone still has to choose the accounts, research each one, write the copy, watch the replies and update the CRM. WorkAgent is the other shape. You brief the job and the agent builds the list, researches each account, writes and sends the sequence, sorts the replies and logs them, and the same plan covers research, inbox and reporting work. Starter is $149 a month, or $888 a year billed yearly. It sends far fewer emails per dollar than Smartlead, so it fits a team that wants the work done, not a team that wants to send more. See AI lead generation software for how the agent runs a campaign, and AI SDR for how we split outbound between you and the agent.
If LinkedIn is part of the plan, Smartlead does not automate it; most teams pair it with a per-sender LinkedIn tool. We price that side in HeyReach pricing per sender, the closest sequencer rival in Instantly pricing, and the lemlist and Salesforge alternatives in lemlist pricing and Salesforge pricing and Agent Frank.
FAQ
Questions buyers ask about Smartlead pricing
How much does Smartlead cost?
Smartlead has four plans: Base at $39 a month, Pro at $94, Unlimited Smart at $174 and Unlimited Prime at $379, read on smartlead.ai/pricing on October 5, 2026. Yearly billing takes about 17% off, to $32.50, $78.30, $144.50 and $314.60 a month. Mailboxes, lead data on the two lower plans and client workspaces cost extra.
What are the Smartlead pricing plans?
Base sends 6,000 emails a month to 2,000 stored contacts. Pro sends 90,000 to 30,000 contacts and adds CRM, API and webhooks. Unlimited Smart sends 150,000 with unlimited contacts and 50,000 verified prospect emails included. Unlimited Prime sends 500,000 with 170,000 verified emails, three SmartServers, three client workspaces and a dedicated manager.
Is Smartlead cheaper with annual billing?
Yes, by about 17% on every plan. Base drops from $39 to $32.50 a month, Pro from $94 to $78.30, Unlimited Smart from $174 to $144.50 and Unlimited Prime from $379 to $314.60. Billed for the year that is $390, $939.60, $1,734 and $3,775.20. There is no long-term contract on either billing period.
Do I have to pay per email account or mailbox on Smartlead?
No. Every plan connects unlimited email accounts with no per-mailbox fee. You still have to own the mailboxes. Smartlead sells them through SmartSenders from $3.99 to $9 a mailbox a month plus $13 to $19 a domain a year, or you can connect mailboxes you already pay for elsewhere.
Does Smartlead include email verification?
Partly. Verified prospect emails sourced through SmartProspect are included on Unlimited Smart (50,000 a month) and Unlimited Prime (170,000), and are a $59 a month add-on on Base and Pro. Separate email verification credits for your own lists start at $32 for 6,000 and are sold one-time or monthly on every plan.
Which Smartlead plan has API access?
Pro and above. Base does not include the API or webhooks, so any setup that pushes replies into a CRM, pulls leads from Clay or connects through Zapier or Make needs Pro at $94 a month or more. CRM access also starts on Pro.
How much does Smartlead whitelabel cost?
Whitelabel client workspaces are $29 a month each and are available from Pro upward. Each workspace keeps one client's campaigns, mailboxes and data separate under your branding. Unlimited Prime includes three client workspaces, so an agency with three clients pays nothing extra for them on that plan.
Does Smartlead have a free trial?
Yes. Every plan has a free trial with no credit card required, and on October 5, 2026 the pricing page also offered 50% off the first month on any plan. Use the trial to test deliverability with your own mailboxes, because the plan price is a small part of the real cost once mailboxes are added.
Is Smartlead cheaper than lemlist?
Per email at volume, yes. Smartlead Pro sends 90,000 emails for $94, about $1.04 per 1,000, against lemlist Email at $69 for 50,000, about $1.38. Under 50,000 emails lemlist Email is cheaper than Pro and includes the API that Smartlead Base lacks. Neither price includes mailboxes or contact data.
Is Smartlead cheaper than WorkAgent?
Per email, by a wide margin. Smartlead Base sends 6,000 emails for $39 a month; WorkAgent Starter is $149 for about 40 sends a working day. They do different jobs: Smartlead is a sending tool your team runs, WorkAgent is an agent that builds the list, researches, writes, sends and sorts replies for you.
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