An honest Instantly alternative
Instantly is a popular cold email platform with monthly plan prices and unlimited email accounts and warmup on every plan. Terlido charges per seat, caps mailboxes per plan, and puts warmup and campaigns on one shared daily send budget per mailbox. Here is an honest look at both.
Pricing, as of October 2026
Instantly's published outreach plans are listed as monthly plan prices, limited by uploaded contacts and emails per month. Its lead database is a separate product paid with Instantly Credits.
Instantly
| Growth$47/month | 1,000 uploaded contacts, 5,000 emails a month |
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| Hypergrowth$97/month | 25,000 uploaded contacts, 125,000 emails a month |
| Light Speed$358/month | 100,000 uploaded contacts, 500,000 emails a month |
| EnterpriseCustom | Custom limits |
Terlido
| Free$0, forever | 1 mailbox and 50 leads per workspace, warmup on one mailbox forever. Campaigns need the trial or a paid plan. |
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| Email Pro$39/seat/month | 5 mailboxes, 5,000 leads and 10 active campaigns per workspace. No API or MCP access. |
| Multichannel$79/seat/month | 15 mailboxes and unlimited leads per workspace, WhatsApp, LinkedIn task and call steps, MCP and REST API. |
| Agency$149/seat/month | Unlimited mailboxes and leads, client sub-workspaces, cross-client reporting. |
Where Instantly is stronger
- Unlimited email accounts and warmup on every plan. Terlido caps mailboxes per workspace by plan (5 on Email Pro, 15 on Multichannel), so a team with many mailboxes may pay less on Instantly.
- Plans sized for high volume, up to 500,000 emails a month on Light Speed.
- A built-in B2B lead database (SuperSearch), paid with Instantly Credits from $9 a month. Terlido has no contact database of its own.
Where Terlido is stronger
- Warmup and campaign email share one enforced daily send budget per mailbox, so a warmed mailbox cannot quietly send more than you planned.
- Terlido Email Pro includes 5,000 leads per workspace, against 1,000 uploaded contacts on Instantly Growth.
- WhatsApp, LinkedIn task and call steps can sit in the same sequence as email on the Multichannel plan.
- An MCP server for AI agents where your approval is bound to one version of a campaign. If the copy, senders, schedule or audience change after you approve, the launch fails.
- A Free plan with warmup on one mailbox that never expires.
Which one should you pick?
Pick Instantly if: You send high volume across many mailboxes, or want a lead database in the same tool.
Pick Terlido if: You run a small number of mailboxes, care most about not burning your domain, or want email, WhatsApp, LinkedIn tasks and calls in one sequence.
Terlido is new and has no customer logos or reply-rate numbers to show you. The fastest way to judge it is to connect a spare mailbox on the Free plan and watch warmup and the domain checks.
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Instantly details were checked in October 2026. Prices and plans change, so check their site before you buy.