Saleshandy is a sequencing and sending platform built around volume and price: unlimited connected mailboxes, tiered "active prospect" caps, and a bundled 852M+ contact database with 42M+ company profiles. Rather than one static list, it runs a waterfall lookup across nine third-party data providers to fill in an email or phone number for a contact, then sells access to that lookup through a separate credit system layered on top of the seat price. It is, at heart, a per-seat-plus-credits tool you operate yourself.
Defrost is priced and built around the outcome instead of the seat. Every campaign starts with a live lead search — search engines, web scraping, and public registries, not a bought or licensed database — and every email address clears a multi-provider verification cascade before it ever reaches a mailbox. Each recipient gets a personalized email written for them, and sending goes out through a Defrost-managed relay with per-customer DKIM, automated warmup, and a 3% bounce-rate auto-pause. There is a done-for-you tier if you want Defrost to run the whole thing end to end; Saleshandy has no comparable packaged plan.
| Feature | Defrost | Saleshandy |
|---|---|---|
| What it fundamentally is | A done-for-you cold outreach pipeline: find leads → verify → write → send. | A sequencing/sending platform (unlimited mailbox connections) with an add-on lead database and credit system. |
| Lead sourcing | Independent, live discovery per campaign via search, scraping, and public registries. No shared database, no per-lead credits. | An 852M+ contact, 42M+ company database, filled in real time via a waterfall across nine third-party data providers, and paid for with separate lead credits on top of the plan price. |
| Email verification | Every address checked through a multi-provider cascade before sending, included in the plan. | Lead-finder results are checked against its provider waterfall (Saleshandy states ~98% verification accuracy); bulk list verification is a separate paid add-on at roughly $19 per 5,000 recipients. |
| Email writing | Per-recipient personalized copy generated as part of the pipeline for every lead. | AI-powered sequence writing and A-Z variant testing help draft and test sequences, run at the sequence/template level rather than deep per-lead research. |
| Sending infrastructure | Defrost-managed relay with per-customer DKIM, automated warmup, and a 3% bounce-rate auto-pause. | Unlimited connected mailboxes on every plan, sent from the user's own connected inboxes; a separate managed "email infrastructure" mailbox add-on is priced per mailbox per month. |
| Pricing model | Flat monthly plans from $79/mo (500 leads, 2 mailboxes) to $1,200/mo (10,000 leads, 40 mailboxes); annual saves roughly 20%. | Outreach plans from $36/mo (Starter: 2,000 active prospects) to $299/mo (Scale Plus: 100,000 prospects) billed monthly, cheaper annually — plus separate paid add-ons for AI credits, verification credits, and infrastructure mailboxes stacked on top. |
| Trial | No free tier — card charged at checkout, plan active immediately, backed by a 30-day money-back guarantee. | Advertises a 7-day free trial with no credit card required on its outreach plans. |
| Done-for-you option | Yes — a DFY tier where Defrost runs the whole campaign for you. | None found — Saleshandy is a self-serve platform across every published plan tier. |
| Who runs it day to day | Anyone — describe your ideal customer once, Defrost handles sourcing, verification, copy, and sending. | Teams that want to own sequence building, list management, and credit budgeting themselves inside one platform. |
Who should choose Defrost
Choose Defrost if you want each campaign built around who is actually a fit right now, verified as part of the price rather than metered out in credit packs, with copy and sending handled for you. Saleshandy's waterfall lookup is a genuinely more real-time approach than a flat static export, but it is still contacts aggregated from third-party data providers and licensed out per credit — not sourced independently for your specific campaign. If a credit runs out mid-search or a provider in the waterfall returns a stale record, that risk lands on your bounce rate. See our breakdown of why bought lead lists bounce and how it compares with a build-your-own enrichment stack like Clay.
Who should choose Saleshandy
Choose Saleshandy if you want a full-featured sequencing and sending platform at a low seat price, plan to manage your own mailbox connections, and want the option to pull contacts from a large aggregated database on a pay-as-you-verify credit basis. Its entry plan undercuts most sending tools on price, and unlimited mailbox connections on every tier make it a reasonable fit for teams that already know how to run deliverability and list hygiene themselves — see our deliverability guide for what that upkeep actually involves, or compare it against a similarly volume-priced sender in Defrost vs Smartlead.
Sources
Frequently asked questions
- Is Saleshandy's waterfall lookup the same as Defrost's discovery process?
- No — Saleshandy fills in contacts by running a waterfall across nine third-party data providers, paid for with separate lead credits. Defrost runs an independent live discovery pass per campaign via search, scraping, and public registries, with verification through a multi-provider cascade included in the plan price.
- Do I need to buy credits separately with Defrost, like Saleshandy's add-ons?
- No. Saleshandy stacks separate paid add-ons for AI credits, verification credits, and infrastructure mailboxes on top of its base seat price. Defrost's flat monthly plans include lead discovery, verification, copywriting, and sending — the plan price is the price, with no metered credit balance to manage.
- Can I bring my existing Saleshandy sequences and mailboxes over to Defrost?
- Sequences don't transfer directly — Defrost builds each campaign fresh from your ideal customer profile rather than importing templates. Mailbox connections also differ: Defrost sends through its own managed relay rather than your connected inboxes, so plan to import any reply/opt-out history as a suppression CSV.
- Does Defrost offer a managed, done-for-you plan like an agency service?
- Yes — Defrost has a DFY tier where Defrost runs the entire campaign for you. Saleshandy has no comparable packaged plan; it is a self-serve platform across every published tier, so someone on your team still owns sequence building, list management, and credit budgeting.