Mailshake review (2026): pricing per user, mailboxes add-on, verdict
Mailshake pricing verified: Starter $29 a user a month or $25 yearly for 1,500 sends, Email Outreach $49 or $45, Sales Engagement $99 or $85; no trial.
Mailshake at a glance
Facts checked Oct 13, 2026 on mailshake.com
- Price
- From $11 per mailbox a month for ready-to-use mailboxes billed yearly ($12 monthly); plans per user from $25 a month billed yearly ($29 monthly)
- Pricing model
- Per user per month, billed monthly or yearly at a small discount, with every paid plan including unlimited uploaded contacts, unlimited campaigns, unlimited email warmup and unlimited email verification. Starter costs $29 monthly or $25 yearly for one email address per user and 1,500 sends a month, with 50 data finder credits, automated sequences, A/B testing and the SHAKEspeare AI writer. Email Outreach costs $49 or $45 for two email addresses per user and unlimited sends, adding email rotation, personalisation, advanced scheduling and throttling, a unified inbox, Salesforce, Pipedrive and HubSpot integrations, Zapier, a prospects view, a browser extension and template management. Sales Engagement costs $99 or $85 for ten email addresses per user and unlimited sends, adding 2,500 data finder credits, five phone numbers, a power dialer with unlimited free minutes to North American numbers, phone scripts, lead temperature, account views, custom tasks and a one-to-one onboarding call. An Agency plan with unlimited email addresses is quoted. Add-ons: the Data Finder at $19 monthly or $17 yearly, and Ready to Use Mailboxes, automatically created sending addresses that switch over when one runs into trouble, at $12 monthly or $11 yearly per mailbox. There is no free trial; payment is taken up front.
- Minimum order
- One user on Starter
- Free trial
- None; Mailshake collects payment up front and offers onboarding and deliverability training instead
- Billing
- Per user, monthly or yearly, charged in advance and renewing until cancelled before the renewal date; all fees are non-refundable with no pro-rata refund on mid-cycle cancellation; mid-cycle changes prorated as a charge or credit; prices can change from the next billing cycle after notice; customer data may be deleted after a paid account ends; based in Austin, Texas
- Mailbox types
- Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, SMTP
- Setup time
- Under an hour: connect a mailbox, upload a list, build a sequence; concierge onboarding is offered since there is no trial
- DNS setup
- Not applicable for your own mailboxes; the Ready to Use Mailboxes add-on supplies configured addresses
- IP location
- Not applicable; sends through the connected mailboxes
- Warmup
- Included and unlimited on every plan
- Replacements
- Ready to Use Mailboxes switch to another address automatically when one runs into trouble, per the pricing page
- Domains
- Not supplied separately; the mailbox add-on creates sending addresses for you
- Integrations
- Gmail and Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Exchange, SMTP and IMAP, Salesforce, Pipedrive and HubSpot (Email Outreach and up), Zapier, Browser extension, Data Finder add-on, API
Best for: Small sales teams that want a straightforward per-user sequencer with warmup, verification and a dialer, and who do not need a trial to decide.
Not for: Cold email fleets of dozens of inboxes, where per-user address caps and the $12 mailbox add-on make the maths poor.
Mailshake pricing
Published prices as of Oct 13, 2026 from their pricing page. Prices change; check before you buy.
| Plan | Price | What you get | Extras | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | $29 a user a month | 1 address a user, 1,500 sends, unlimited warmup and verification | — | $25 yearly |
| Email Outreach | $49 a user a month | 2 addresses a user, unlimited sends, rotation, unified inbox | — | $45 yearly |
| Sales Engagement | $99 a user a month | 10 addresses a user, dialer with 5 numbers, 2,500 finder credits | — | $85 yearly; Agency custom |
| Ready to Use Mailboxes | $12 a mailbox a month | Auto-created sending addresses with failover | Data Finder $19 a month | $11 yearly |
- Starter$29 a user a month
1 address a user, 1,500 sends, unlimited warmup and verification
$25 yearly
- Email Outreach$49 a user a month
2 addresses a user, unlimited sends, rotation, unified inbox
$45 yearly
- Sales Engagement$99 a user a month
10 addresses a user, dialer with 5 numbers, 2,500 finder credits
$85 yearly; Agency custom
- Ready to Use Mailboxes$12 a mailbox a month
Auto-created sending addresses with failover
Extras: Data Finder $19 a month
$11 yearly
What Mailshake does well
- Unlimited warmup and unlimited email verification on every plan, including the $29 Starter, which most rivals meter or sell separately.
- Email rotation, a unified inbox and CRM integrations from the $49 Email Outreach tier, with unlimited sends.
- Sales Engagement folds in a dialer with five numbers and free North American minutes, so email and calls run in one tool.
- Users and mailboxes are decoupled: pay for three users and connect three addresses even if one person runs them.
- A long track record, concierge onboarding and deliverability training in place of a trial, and a published prorating policy.
Where it falls short
- No free trial; you pay up front and judge it afterwards, and the terms make all fees non-refundable with no pro-rata refund if you cancel mid-cycle.
- Addresses are capped per user, one on Starter and two on Email Outreach, so a fleet of inboxes means more users or the $99 tier.
- The Ready to Use Mailboxes add-on costs $11 to $12 a mailbox a month, several times the price of a Google or Microsoft inbox bought elsewhere.
- Starter's 1,500 sends a month is a hobby limit for cold email.
- Prices can change from the next billing cycle after notice, and customer data may be deleted once you stop paying.
PureMail score for Mailshake
Five criteria, 1 to 5 each, scored on what Mailshake publishes. How we score.
3.4 / 5
- Price and value
- 3 / 5
- Setup and control
- 4 / 5
- Deliverability foundations
- 4 / 5
- Terms and support
- 2 / 5
- Fit for cold email
- 4 / 5
Published prices, effective cost per mailbox at 10, 30 and 100, no hidden fees. Unpublished pricing scores 1.
Time to first send, DNS automation, domain options, sequencer connection, ownership of domains and mailboxes.
Mailbox type and its inherited reputation, IP policy, warmup path, replacement policy for blocked mailboxes.
Minimum order, billing flexibility, refund and cancellation terms, support channel and hours.
Built and permitted for outbound, integrations with sequencers, warmup and verification tools.
What Mailshake is
Mailshake is a sales engagement platform from Austin, Texas, built around cold email sequences, with unlimited warmup and verification on every plan, email rotation and a unified inbox from the middle tier, and a dialer on the top one. It claims more than 100,000 sales teams, a figure of its own, and sells per user rather than per inbox or per email. For cold email it is one of the older, steadier sequencers, with a pricing quirk worth understanding: addresses are capped per user, and it sells its own mailboxes as an add-on.
Mailshake pricing explained
Per user per month, billed monthly or yearly. Starter costs $29 monthly or $25 yearly for one email address per user and 1,500 sends a month, with unlimited uploaded contacts, campaigns, warmup and verification, 50 data finder credits, sequences, A/B testing and the SHAKEspeare AI writer. Email Outreach costs $49 or $45 for two addresses per user and unlimited sends, adding email rotation, personalisation, advanced scheduling and throttling, a unified inbox, Salesforce, Pipedrive and HubSpot integrations, Zapier, a prospects view, a browser extension and template management. Sales Engagement costs $99 or $85 for ten addresses per user and unlimited sends, adding 2,500 finder credits, five phone numbers, a power dialer with unlimited free minutes to North American numbers, phone scripts, lead temperature, account views, custom tasks and a one-to-one onboarding call. The Agency plan with unlimited addresses is quoted. Add-ons: the Data Finder at $19 monthly or $17 yearly, and Ready to Use Mailboxes, auto-created sending addresses that switch over when one runs into trouble, at $12 monthly or $11 yearly per mailbox.
There is no free trial; payment is taken up front, with onboarding and training offered instead. You can cancel before the renewal date, mid-cycle changes are prorated, prices can change from the next billing cycle after notice, and the terms say customer data may be deleted once you stop paying. The terms make all fees non-refundable, with no pro-rata refund for cancelling mid-cycle.
Sequences, rotation and the mailbox add-on
Sequences run from any connected mailbox with follow-ups, A/B tests and AI-written copy; from Email Outreach, rotation spreads sends across the addresses on the account, throttling paces them and the unified inbox gathers replies with CRM sync. The Ready to Use Mailboxes add-on is Mailshake’s answer to inbox fleets: it creates addresses for you and fails over automatically, at $11 to $12 a mailbox a month. The dialer on Sales Engagement adds calls to the same cadence.
What that means for cold email
The per-user model suits a team of reps each sending from their own couple of inboxes, and the unlimited warmup and verification remove two separate bills. It fits fleets less well: twenty inboxes need ten users on Email Outreach or two on Sales Engagement, and the mailbox add-on costs several times what a Google or Microsoft inbox costs from a dedicated provider. The cheapest shape is Sales Engagement seats filled with outside inboxes on separate domains.
Who Mailshake is for, and who should look elsewhere
Mailshake suits small sales teams that want a straightforward per-user sequencer with warmup, verification and a dialer, and who do not need a trial. It is a poor fit for cold email fleets of dozens of inboxes. QuickMail prices by volume with unlimited senders, Smartlead and Instantly are built around rotation at scale, and lemlist is the multichannel alternative. The sequencers category compares them. Yesware is the inbox-based tool for reps, and SmartReach prices by prospects rather than users with warmup and rotation from Plus. Klenty starts at $50 a month, with a dialer and CRM automation on per-user plans from $70. Woodpecker charges by contacted prospects from $35 a month with unlimited accounts, free verification and a small refund window.
Mailshake’s mailboxes against PureMail inboxes
Mailshake’s Ready to Use Mailboxes cost $12 a mailbox a month, or $11 billed yearly, created for you with automatic failover. PureMail’s Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 inboxes cost $3.30 each for 10, $3.10 for 30 to 100 and $2.90 for 101 or more, set up with SPF, DKIM, DMARC and MX on your own domains, and connected to Mailshake like any mailbox. The comparison below sets them side by side: PureMail wins on price and on owning the domains, and Mailshake wins on convenience inside its own platform.
PureMail vs Mailshake
We sell inboxes too, so read this as one vendor's table built from published prices on both sides, not a neutral verdict.
| PureMail | Mailshake | |
|---|---|---|
| Price per mailbox | $2.9 (101+ inboxes), $3.1 (30–100), $3.3 (10) | From $11 per mailbox a month for ready-to-use mailboxes billed yearly ($12 monthly); plans per user from $25 a month billed yearly ($29 monthly) |
| Mailbox types | Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 | Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, SMTP |
| Minimum order | 10 inboxes | One user on Starter |
| Setup time | About 4 hours | Under an hour: connect a mailbox, upload a list, build a sequence; concierge onboarding is offered since there is no trial |
| DNS setup | SPF, DKIM, DMARC and MX configured for you | Not applicable for your own mailboxes; the Ready to Use Mailboxes add-on supplies configured addresses |
| IP location | US IPs | Not applicable; sends through the connected mailboxes |
| Warmup | Not bundled; warm up in your sending tool | Included and unlimited on every plan |
| Domains | Bring your own from any registrar (GoDaddy, Namecheap, Cloudflare, Porkbun) | Not supplied separately; the mailbox add-on creates sending addresses for you |
Price per mailbox
PureMail: $2.9 (101+ inboxes), $3.1 (30–100), $3.3 (10)
Mailshake: From $11 per mailbox a month for ready-to-use mailboxes billed yearly ($12 monthly); plans per user from $25 a month billed yearly ($29 monthly)
Mailbox types
PureMail: Google Workspace and Microsoft 365
Mailshake: Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, SMTP
Minimum order
PureMail: 10 inboxes
Mailshake: One user on Starter
Setup time
PureMail: About 4 hours
Mailshake: Under an hour: connect a mailbox, upload a list, build a sequence; concierge onboarding is offered since there is no trial
DNS setup
PureMail: SPF, DKIM, DMARC and MX configured for you
Mailshake: Not applicable for your own mailboxes; the Ready to Use Mailboxes add-on supplies configured addresses
IP location
PureMail: US IPs
Mailshake: Not applicable; sends through the connected mailboxes
Warmup
PureMail: Not bundled; warm up in your sending tool
Mailshake: Included and unlimited on every plan
Domains
PureMail: Bring your own from any registrar (GoDaddy, Namecheap, Cloudflare, Porkbun)
Mailshake: Not supplied separately; the mailbox add-on creates sending addresses for you
See PureMail's Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 inboxes for cold email and the full pricing.
Mailshake alternatives we have reviewed
QuickMail
Cold email sequencer with unlimited senders and users: Starter $49 a month for 5,000 emails, Growth $99 for 100,000, Agency $299 for 500,000, warmup included.
Smartlead
Cold email sequencer with unlimited mailboxes on every plan: $39, $94, $174 or $379 a month, 17% less yearly, warm-up free from Smart, mailboxes from $4.50.
Instantly
Cold email sequencer with unlimited inboxes and warmup on every plan: $47, $97 or $358 a month, 20% less yearly, plus done-for-you Google inboxes at $5.
lemlist
Multichannel sequencer from Paris: Email plan at $69 a month for unlimited users and 50,000 emails ($55 yearly), Multichannel $109 a user ($87 yearly).
Yesware
Gmail and Outlook sales email tool: free plan, Pro $19 a seat a month or $15 yearly, Premium $45 or $35 with unlimited campaigns, Enterprise $85 or $65.
SmartReach
Prospect-based sequencer with warmup, rotation, calling and LinkedIn: Email Outreach from $29 a month, Sales Engagement from $39, in-app mailboxes $4 each.
Klenty
Sales engagement platform with email, calling and CRM automation: Starter $50 a month billed annually, Growth $70 a user, Plus $99; dialer plans from $40.
Woodpecker
Sequencer priced by contacted prospects: $35 a month for 500, $24 billed yearly, $99 for 4,000; unlimited accounts, verification and warm-up free.
Mailshake FAQ
How much does Mailshake cost?
As of 13 October 2026, per user per month: Starter $29 or $25 billed yearly for one email address and 1,500 sends, Email Outreach $49 or $45 for two addresses and unlimited sends, Sales Engagement $99 or $85 for ten addresses, a dialer and 2,500 finder credits. Add-ons are the Data Finder at $19 or $17 and Ready to Use Mailboxes at $12 or $11 each.
Does Mailshake have a free trial?
No. The FAQ says payment is collected up front, with concierge onboarding, deliverability training and support resources offered instead, and the terms allow free trials only at Mailshake's discretion. You can cancel before the renewal date to stop the next charge, but all fees are non-refundable with no pro-rata refund mid-cycle; plan changes are prorated as a charge or credit.
How many mailboxes can I connect to Mailshake?
It depends on the plan and the number of users: one email address per user on Starter, two on Email Outreach and ten on Sales Engagement, with unlimited on the Agency plan. Users and people are separate, so a team can buy three users to connect three addresses for one person. Mailshake works with Gmail, Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Exchange and most SMTP and IMAP mailboxes.
What are Mailshake's Ready to Use Mailboxes?
An add-on at $12 a mailbox a month, or $11 billed yearly, that creates sending addresses for you and switches automatically to another if one runs into trouble, so you do not have to set up mailboxes by hand. It is convenient, but at $11 to $12 a mailbox it costs several times what a Google Workspace or Microsoft 365 inbox from a dedicated provider does.
How does Mailshake compare with PureMail?
They overlap only on mailboxes. Mailshake's add-on supplies auto-created addresses at $12 a month each; PureMail's Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 inboxes cost $3.30 each for 10 and $2.90 for 101 or more, with DNS configured on your own domains, and connect to Mailshake like any mailbox. Mailshake wins on having sequences, warmup, verification and a dialer in one subscription.
Sources
Disclosure: PureMail sells Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 inboxes and competes with some tools in this directory. We do not assign star ratings and we do not take payment for placement. Spotted an error? Email [email protected] and we will correct it within a week.
More tools in the directory
Amplemarket
All-in-one outbound platform: Startup $600 a month on an annual term for 2 users, 27,000 contacts and 13,500 email credits a user; Growth and Elite custom.
EmailBison
Infrastructure-first cold email sequencer: one $599-a-month plan covers 500,000 emails on dedicated IPs with warm-up, API and unlimited users, sold by demo.
Emailchaser
Instantly-priced sequencer with unlimited accounts, warm-up and lead credits: Starter $47 a month, Pro $97, Max $358, Enterprise $897; in-app mailboxes $6.
Setup guides from PureMail
How to Set Up SPF, DKIM and DMARC for Cold Email Domains
Step-by-step SPF, DKIM and DMARC setup for cold email domains on Google Workspace and Microsoft 365, plus the mistakes that quietly kill deliverability.