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Published September 7, 2026 · Updated October 26, 2026
The answer up front: Smartlead has four plans in 2026: Base $39, Pro $94, Unlimited Smart $174 and Unlimited Prime $379 a month, with 17% off on annual billing and unlimited connected email accounts on every plan. Warmup is included on all four. What the sticker leaves out is the infrastructure: mailboxes, domains, verification credits, placement testing and client workspaces all bill separately, and on Base and Pro the verified prospect emails are a $59 a month add-on.
How much does Smartlead cost?
Prices verified October 26, 2026 on smartlead.ai/pricing and in Smartlead's own pricing file.
Where Valley fits: if the goal is LinkedIn and email from one place instead of a mailbox stack, Valley (joinvalley.co) is an AI outbound platform that finds buyers from live signals and writes each message. The Plus plan covers LinkedIn plus 1,000 emails a month, priced per seat (current prices at joinvalley.co/pricing).
Plan | Monthly | Annual (per month) | Contacts stored | Sends a month | Verified prospect emails a month | Warmup |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Base | $39 | $32 | 2,000 | 6,000 | 2,000 ($59/mo add-on) | Included (Foundation) |
Pro | $94 | $78 | 30,000 | 90,000 | 30,000 ($59/mo add-on) | Included (Growth) |
Unlimited Smart | $174 | $144 | Unlimited | 150,000 | 50,000 (included) | Included (Premium) |
Unlimited Prime | $379 | $315 | Unlimited | 500,000 | 170,000 (included) | Included (Premium) |
What changed since the September 7 check: no plan price changed. This page previously said warmup was a $59 add-on on Base and Pro; Smartlead's own pricing file says warmup is included on every plan and the $59 add-on buys verified prospect emails.
Disclosure: Valley competes for part of the outbound budget, but not for volume email, so it has no reason to shade Smartlead's numbers. Every figure here is checkable on the pages linked.
Valley is an AI outbound platform that finds the people most likely to buy from you - from live buying signals, natural-language search, or your own lists - qualifies them against your ICP, researches each one, and sends personalized messages across email and LinkedIn that get 15-45% reply rates.
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What each plan unlocks
Two separate meters run underneath: a lead credit is a unique prospect email stored in your account, and an email credit is each individual send, counted across all campaigns (Smartlead's own FAQ definitions). API access, webhooks and CRM access start on Pro. CSM calls start on Unlimited Smart. Prime includes three client workspaces, three SmartServers, OAuth, a dedicated manager and a private Slack channel.
The add-ons, where the real bill lives
Add-on | Cost | Notes |
|---|---|---|
Verified prospect emails | $59/mo | Base and Pro only; included on Unlimited Smart and Prime |
Client workspaces / whitelabel | $29/mo each | From Pro up; Prime includes 3 |
SmartSenders mailboxes | $3.99-9 per mailbox/mo + $13-19 per domain/yr | Fresh or pre-warmed Google, Outlook and SMTP inboxes bought in-app |
SmartDelivery placement testing | $49-599/mo | Three tiers of inbox-placement testing |
Email verification | From $32 per 6,000 credits | One-time or monthly |
SmartServers | $39 per server/mo | Dedicated sending infrastructure |
SmartDialer calling | From $9/mo | Credit plans |
A worked example, so the shape of the bill is honest: an agency on Unlimited Smart ($174) running three client workspaces (+$87) across 40 pre-warmed mailboxes (+$360) on 20 domains (about +$30/month amortized) is at roughly $650/month before verification credits, more than three and a half times the sticker price. That is not a criticism; it is how volume infrastructure works. Third-party cost writeups (Emelia, Ditlead, 2026) note the add-ons commonly rival the subscription itself.
Trial and contract terms
The free trial is 14 days, no card required, capped at 2,500 sends and 1,250 stored contacts, with white labeling excluded (Smartlead help center, verified October 26, 2026). There is no lock-in: Smartlead's pricing FAQ says it offers monthly and annual plans with no lock-in contracts, and you can cancel anytime.
When Smartlead pricing is the right deal, and when it is not
Right deal: agencies and volume teams sending 90,000+ emails a month. Unlimited mailboxes plus $29 client workspaces is genuinely hard to beat at scale, and nobody meters your inbox count.
Wrong deal: a founder or small team sending 20-50 researched emails a day. You would be paying for rotation, warmup pools and placement testing, machinery whose only job is making mass sending survivable. Valley's model is the opposite trade. On the Plus plan, $299 per seat a month or $249 billed quarterly, buying signals pick who to contact, each person is researched before the message is written, and about 30 emails a day go out per seat from your own inbox, alongside LinkedIn. 15-45% reply rates. Full comparison logic: Smartlead alternatives and the full stack-cost math.
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Three questions for any cold-email pricing page
Ask three questions: what meters (leads, sends, or both), what the sticker excludes (mailboxes, domains, verification, placement testing), and what the trial hides (Smartlead's is generous: 14 days, no card). Then price your actual month, not the plan name.
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FAQ
What does Smartlead cost in 2026? Base $39, Pro $94, Unlimited Smart $174 and Unlimited Prime $379 a month, or $32, $78, $144 and $315 a month billed annually (17% off). Verified against smartlead.ai on October 26, 2026.
Is warmup included? Yes, on every plan. Base gets the Foundation warmup pool, Pro the Growth pool, and Unlimited Smart and Prime the Premium pool.
What is the $59 add-on? Verified prospect emails on Base and Pro: 2,000 or 30,000 a month. They are included at no extra cost on Unlimited Smart (50,000) and Prime (170,000).
Are mailboxes and domains included? No plan includes them. In-app SmartSenders run $3.99-9 per mailbox/month plus $13-19 per domain/year, or you bring your own.
Does Smartlead have a free trial? Yes: 14 days, no credit card, 2,500 sends, 1,250 contacts, white labeling excluded.
How does Valley pricing compare? Different category. Valley's Starter plan is $199 per seat a month, or $149 billed quarterly, for LinkedIn outreach; Plus adds email at $299, or $249 quarterly, with 1,000 emails a month per seat. The 7-day trial needs a card. It is built for low-volume, signal-based outreach, not mass sending. If you need six-figure monthly send volume, Smartlead is the right shelf.
Related: Valley pricing.
See also: Reply.io pricing explained.
