# Mailshake > Per-user cold email sequences with a dialer on the top plan Mailshake sends automated cold email sequences with follow-ups from Gmail, Office 365 or any SMTP and IMAP mailbox, with warm-up and email verification included. Its AI writer drafts copy, and Lead Catcher gathers engaged leads in one place. Plans are billed per user, and the top Sales Engagement plan adds a browser power dialer for calls. - **Category:** Cold Outreach - **Made by:** Mailshake, LLC - **Website:** https://mailshake.com - **Runs on:** Web, Browser extension - **Facts last checked:** Oct 17, 2026 ## Pricing Mailshake is a paid product, starting at $25 per user / month, billed yearly ($29 monthly). - **Pricing model:** Paid - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Starter | $25 per user / month, billed yearly ($29 monthly) | 1 email address, 1,500 sends a month, unlimited contacts, warm-up and verification, A/B tests and the SHAKEspeare AI writer. | | Email Outreach | $45 per user / month, billed yearly ($49 monthly) | 2 email addresses, unlimited sends, email rotation, a unified inbox, Salesforce, Pipedrive and HubSpot, Zapier and the browser extension. | | Sales Engagement | $85 per user / month, billed yearly ($99 monthly) | 10 email addresses, 2,500 Data Finder credits, a power dialer with 5 numbers, phone scripts, lead temperature, tasks and a 1:1 onboarding call. | | Agency | Custom | Everything in Sales Engagement with unlimited email addresses, sold through sales. | Read from https://mailshake.com/pricing/ on Oct 17, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Mailshake before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **Lower per-user rates with yearly billing** (Annual discount): Billed yearly, Starter is $25 per user a month instead of $29, Email Outreach $45 instead of $49 and Sales Engagement $85 instead of $99. Source: https://mailshake.com/pricing/ ## Key features - **Sequences and follow-ups:** Automated email sequences with follow-ups, advanced scheduling and throttling, A/B tests and spintax to vary parts of each email. - **Deliverability tools:** Free warm-up, unlimited email verification and list cleaning, a spam-word copy analyzer and a domain setup assistant come with every plan. - **SHAKEspeare AI writer:** Generates several versions of email copy from a short description of your business, on every plan. - **Lead Catcher and analytics:** Engaged leads and replies are gathered in one place, and team dashboards track opens, replies, clicks and each rep's activity. - **Power dialer:** Sales Engagement adds browser calling with 5 phone numbers, phone scripts and unlimited free minutes to North American numbers. - **Data Finder:** Search for prospects' business contact details by role, location or company. Sales Engagement includes 2,500 credits; the other plans get 50. ## Good for - Small sales teams starting cold email from their own mailboxes - Reps who want calls and emails in one sequence - Teams that want shared templates and quick onboarding ## Worth knowing - There is no free trial or free plan: Mailshake takes payment up front. - Starter connects 1 email address and stops at 1,500 sends a month; rotation, the unified inbox and CRM integrations need Email Outreach. - Calling needs Sales Engagement, $99 per user a month billed monthly, and its free minutes cover North American numbers only. - More Data Finder credits are an add-on from $17 a month billed yearly ($19 monthly). ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 1.8 out of 4**, graded Oct 17, 2026. Mailshake is plain, tidy cold email: sequences with follow-ups from your own mailbox, warm-up and list cleaning included, and an AI writer to get you going. The top plan adds a phone dialer. But there's no trial at all, and it charges per person where plenty of rivals don't. - **Value for money: C.** Starter's 1,500 sends and one address per person won't carry a sales team, so five people need Email Outreach: $45 a user billed yearly, $45 a head. That's above the category's $40 middle, while most email rivals here charge one price for the whole team. - **Free plan and trial: F.** Nothing free. There's no free plan and no trial, and Mailshake says it takes payment up front. You can cancel before renewal, but that isn't a trial. - **Features: C.** Email sequences with follow-ups, A/B tests, spintax, warm-up and unlimited verification, plus a power dialer on Sales Engagement. The gaps: no LinkedIn steps on record, and rotation and the unified inbox need Email Outreach. - **Ease of use: C.** No App Store rating on record. Quick enough to start, since it sends from Gmail, Office 365 or any SMTP mailbox and the AI writer drafts copy, but you still connect accounts and set up your domain. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web and a browser extension, with Salesforce, Pipedrive, HubSpot and Zapier on Email Outreach and above. No phone or desktop app on record. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Mailshake's own pages on 17 October 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among cold outreach tools - Mailshake's GPA of 1.8 is higher than 0 of the 20 other cold outreach tools we grade. - It stands best on platforms and integrations (B, above 3 of 20) and worst on free plan and trial (F, above 0). - Its paid plans start at $25 a month for each person, against a middle price of $38.80 for the category: 3 of the 17 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 1 tool scores higher and costs less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/cold-outreach ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace Mailshake you would be making newsletters sent to thousands of people that still reach the inbox. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 20 of the 20 other cold outreach tools grade higher. It costs $300 a year. - You could make: Templates: an app builder makes this well. - You could not: Newsletters sent to thousands of people that still reach the inbox. - You could not: It is priced for each person, which means accounts and billing for a team. - You could not: It plugs into other products, Salesforce, HubSpot and Pipedrive among them. - You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Salesforce, HubSpot, Pipedrive, Zapier, Gmail, Office 365 **Tags:** Email campaigns, AI features, Templates ## Alternatives - [Woodpecker](https://toolgpa.com/tools/woodpecker): Cold email priced by prospects contacted, with free team seats. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/mailshake-vs-woodpecker) - [QuickMail](https://toolgpa.com/tools/quickmail): Cold email and LinkedIn campaigns with unlimited senders and users. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/mailshake-vs-quickmail) - [lemlist](https://toolgpa.com/tools/lemlist): Cold email and LinkedIn sequences with a built-in lead database. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/lemlist-vs-mailshake) - [Saleshandy](https://toolgpa.com/tools/saleshandy): Cold email sequences with a B2B lead database in every plan. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/mailshake-vs-saleshandy) - [Reply.io](https://toolgpa.com/tools/reply-io): Multichannel sales sequences with the Jason AI SDR. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/mailshake-vs-reply-io) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 17, 2026: - https://mailshake.com/pricing/ - https://mailshake.com/ - https://mailshake.com/terms/ Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/mailshake Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).