Saleshandy vs Woodpecker: Cold Email Platform Comparison

Both of these give away the mailboxes. One then charges for seats and the other charges for the strangers you contact, which means a small team sending a lot and a large team sending a little end up on opposite sides of this comparison. To compare Woodpecker pricing with Saleshandy's, you need two numbers before you open either page: how many people need a login, and how many prospects you will contact in a month.

Compare Woodpecker pricing with Saleshandy: the quick answer

Woodpecker charges for contacted prospects on a sliding scale. On its USD setting and monthly billing, 500 prospects cost $35 a month, 2,000 cost $67, 4,000 cost $99 and 10,000 cost $188, with annual billing about a third lower. Saleshandy charges by plan and caps seats: $41, $99 and $189 a month billed monthly for one, ten and unlimited users.

Saleshandy prices sends and caps users: Starter $41 a month billed monthly or $34 on annual for 6,000 emails and one seat, Pro $99 or $76 for 100,000 emails and ten seats, Scale $189 or $149 for 200,000 emails and unlimited seats. Email accounts are unlimited on all three.

Woodpecker prices contacted prospects, from $7.00 per 100 at its smallest stop down to $1.88 per 100 at 10,000 on monthly billing, with unlimited team members and unlimited connected email accounts included. Mailboxes beyond the included ones, warm-ups, LinkedIn accounts and dedicated servers are separate line items.

Neither charges for the mailbox pool, which is the resource cold sending consumes. They disagree about everything else.

Understanding the Core Difference

Saleshandy is a cold email platform with unlimited connected mailboxes on every tier and a hard seat cap instead: one user on Starter, ten on Pro, unlimited only on Scale.

Woodpecker is a cold email platform priced on the people you actually contact rather than on seats or mailboxes, with warmup built in and unlimited team members and connected email accounts included at no extra cost.

Saleshandy's ladder is bought with volume and paid for in seats. The email allowances (6,000, 100,000, 200,000 a month) are generous compared with the seat caps (one user, ten users, unlimited), so the upgrade trigger for most teams is a person rather than a send. The page's headline figures are the annual rates with the monthly price underneath, which is worth knowing before quoting either.

Woodpecker's page is a calculator rather than a tier list. Pick the prospects you expect to contact from its list of stops and it returns a price, with a larger saving marked at each stop: 52% at 2,000, 65% at 4,000 and 73% at 10,000 against the smallest stop's rate. Team members are unlimited and connected email accounts are unlimited, so the bill moves with reach rather than with headcount.

The two models therefore fail in opposite directions. Saleshandy gets expensive when the team grows and stays flat when volume does. Woodpecker gets expensive when reach grows and stays flat when the team does.

Pricing Comparison

Saleshandy pricing

One correction to a claim that circulates in older comparisons: Saleshandy is not unlimited on team members. The page says plainly that Starter is a single seat and Pro covers a team of ten, with only Scale unlimited. Email accounts are unlimited on all three, and the page caps active prospects, the contacts you can keep in live sequences at once, at 2,000 on Starter and 30,000 on Pro. Its multichannel sequences reach prospects across email, calls, LinkedIn and WhatsApp, and every plan can create unlimited separate teams or workspaces.

Source: Saleshandy Pricing

Woodpecker pricing

Woodpecker does not publish named tiers on the page fetched for this comparison. That page is a calculator priced on contacted prospects, with add-ons switched on individually. It served pounds to the reader of this article, with the same numerals (£7.00 per 100); switched to its USD setting it shows the dollar figures used here.

Unlimited team members and unlimited connected email accounts are included at no extra cost, which is the structural argument for the model: you are charged for people reached rather than for seats or mailboxes. Each stop also bundles an email allowance, warm-ups and Lead Finder credits, and annual billing takes the price down by the page's Save 33%:

Stop	Billed monthly	Billed annually
500 prospects: 8,000 emails, 2 warm-ups	$35 a month, $7.00 per 100	$24 a month, $280 a year
2,000 prospects: 32,000 emails, 6 warm-ups	$67 a month, $3.35 per 100	$45 a month, $536 a year
4,000 prospects: 64,000 emails, 10 warm-ups	$99 a month, $2.48 per 100	$66 a month, $792 a year
10,000 prospects: 160,000 emails, 20 warm-ups	$188 a month, $1.88 per 100	$126 a month, $1,504 a year

Source: Woodpecker Pricing

What the two cost at a realistic volume

Take an invented but ordinary case: 4,000 prospects contacted in a month, run by four people, with six sending mailboxes and warm-up on each. The arithmetic is illustrative and uses published list prices only.

On Saleshandy, 4,000 emails sits inside Starter's 6,000 allowance, but Starter is a single seat, so four people means Pro at $99 a month billed monthly or $76 on annual. The 100,000-email allowance is far more than the case needs, which is what a seat-capped ladder does to you.

On Woodpecker, the 4,000 stop is $99 a month billed monthly, $2.48 per 100, or $66 a month billed annually. The four team members are free, and the stop includes 10 warm-ups, enough for all six mailboxes. On monthly billing the two land on the same $99; on annual billing Woodpecker is $10 a month cheaper.

Change the shape and it flips. One person contacting 500 prospects pays $35 on Woodpecker against $41 for Saleshandy Starter, while the same person at 2,000 prospects pays $67 on Woodpecker and still $41 on Starter, if the 2,000 fit Starter's active-prospect cap. Ten people contacting 10,000 prospects pay $99 on Saleshandy Pro against $188 on Woodpecker, and twelve people contacting 2,000 pay $189 on Saleshandy Scale against $67. Count both numbers before choosing.

Where the headline numbers stop

Woodpecker's per-100 rate is not the whole bill. LinkedIn accounts at $29 a month each, dedicated servers at $59, integrations and API access at $20 a month, and the agency line at $27 per active client are where a real budget forms, and none of them appear in the headline number. Saleshandy sells its sending infrastructure separately, from $2.99 a mailbox a month on an annual fixed plan plus $14 a year per domain.

Features Breakdown

Saleshandy's page lists

• Unlimited email accounts on every plan
• 1, 10 or unlimited users
• 2,000 or 30,000 active prospects, then unlimited
• 852M+ contacts, 1,500 to 8,000 lead finder credits a month
• Email, call, LinkedIn and WhatsApp steps in one sequence
• Unlimited teams; whitelabel on Enterprise

Woodpecker's calculator lists

• Unlimited team members and email accounts
• Unlimited email verification, catch-all included
• Warm-ups and Lead Finder credits bundled at each stop
• Add-on LinkedIn outreach, $29 an account
• Add-on Integrations, API, webhooks, MCP, CLI, $20 a month
• Add-on Agency panel, $27 an active client

On their pricing pages, Saleshandy lists a B2B database of 852M+ contacts with 1,500, 4,000 or 8,000 lead finder credits a month, multichannel sequences with email, call, LinkedIn and WhatsApp steps, and subsequences that trigger on how prospects respond. Woodpecker's calculator bundles Lead Finder credits and warm-ups at every stop, includes unlimited email verification with catch-all, and sells LinkedIn outreach, integrations and the agency panel as add-ons.

The overlap here is genuinely large, which is unusual in this family. The decision is therefore mostly about the pricing unit rather than about capability, and about whether the agency features matter to you.

Integration Ecosystem

Saleshandy's pricing page lists sync with Salesforce, HubSpot, Pipedrive and Zoho, no-code automation through Zapier, Make, n8n and Pabbly, a REST API, and MCP and CLI access for AI assistants. Woodpecker sells integrations, API, webhooks, MCP and CLI as one add-on at $20 a month, so the integration line is part of its bill rather than part of the plan.

If several clients or brands run through one account, Woodpecker prices that shape explicitly at $27 per active client, plus $5 for white label; Saleshandy gives every plan unlimited teams and puts whitelabel on its custom Enterprise tier.

Who Should Pick Which

Pick Woodpecker if the team is larger than the volume. Unlimited team members against a per-prospect meter is the right way round for an agency or a team where many people touch the programme.

Pick Saleshandy if the volume is larger than the team. 100,000 emails a month on Pro is a lot of reach for a fixed price, provided you fit inside ten seats.

Price the agency case on both. Woodpecker lists an agency panel at $27 per active client and white label at $5; Saleshandy gives every plan unlimited teams and quotes whitelabel on Enterprise.

For a solo operator, the prospect count decides. Woodpecker's smallest stop, 500 prospects at $35 a month or $24 on annual, is cheaper than Saleshandy Starter at $41 or $34; from the 2,000 stop, at $67, Starter's single seat and 6,000 emails are the better buy.

Where each one sits in a cold outbound stack

Both are senders and both belong in the sending slot. Both now bundle a lead finder as well, but the mailbox pool each supports is the reason to pick either.

Our own doctrine keeps that slot deliberately thin: one message per campaign, no bumps and no thread replies, and volume spread across many low-volume mailboxes so no single address carries too much. LinkedIn runs as its own motion rather than as a step inside an email sequence, because a second LinkedIn message lands under the one that was ignored and reads as a bump whatever the campaign structure says.

Since both include unlimited connected email accounts, the practical question is which meter your programme grows along, and then which add-ons you will actually switch on.

Switching between them

These two migrate more cleanly into each other than most pairs, because both hold mailboxes rather than living inside one. Export contacts, sequences and the suppression list, reconnect the sending addresses, and confirm warm-up is running before the first campaign.

The part that does not migrate is sending history. Domains carry reputation and tools do not, so a move between platforms neither helps nor harms deliverability on its own.

Do the arithmetic again after the move. A programme that grew into a new team size may have crossed the line that made the other model cheaper.

Feature Comparison Summary

Getting Started Checklist

1. Count people who need a login. That is Saleshandy's real meter.
2. Count prospects you will contact in a month. That is Woodpecker's.
3. Add Woodpecker's add-ons before comparing: mailboxes, warm-ups, LinkedIn, servers.
4. Read Saleshandy's headline price as the annual rate and check the monthly figure beneath it.
5. If agency work matters, price Woodpecker's $27 per active client against Saleshandy's unlimited teams and quoted Enterprise whitelabel.
6. Warm every new sending address before the first campaign, whichever tool sends it.

Final Thoughts

These two agree on the thing that matters most for cold email, which is that mailboxes should not be metered. They disagree about whether to charge for people or for reach.

Work out which of those two numbers is growing fastest in your programme, and the comparison answers itself.

Related Reading

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• Instantly vs Woodpecker
• GMass vs Saleshandy

If you would rather have the sending run for you, RevenueFlow books qualified meetings on a pay-per-meeting basis and publishes client results.

Pricing and features are taken from the vendors' own pages. Verify current terms with the vendor before relying on them.