Cold email · replacement recipe

Go from Smartlead to Warmbly

The job: Cold email outreach (Email sequences with follow-ups, Unlimited mailboxes with automatic rotation, Unlimited email warmup, Unified master inbox). Pick where you are today and where you want to land; the move below follows your pick.

From · what you pay for now
Smartlead
Smartlead Base · $39/mo
Year one+$70modeled
To · your pickBest fit
Warmbly
Starter plan · $29/mo
Change where you land

The money

$39/mo today , then $29/mo

Smartlead Base

Year one, net+$70
Pays back in5 months

Modeled from public list prices, with your time at $50 an hour. Show the math

Does it do the job? 4 of 4 covered

  • Covered: Email sequences with follow-ups
  • Covered: Unlimited mailboxes with automatic rotation
  • Covered: Unlimited email warmup
  • Covered: Unified master inbox

The work

Setup
About 1 h
Upkeep
None
Watch out
Check first: You only rely on: Email sequences with follow-ups, Unlimited mailboxes with automatic rotation, Unlimited email warmup…

Make the move in four steps

  1. Export from Smartlead

    Lead data per campaign, filtered by email status (not contacted, in progress, completed, stopped) or lead category. Format: CSV

    Export steps
  2. Set up Warmbly

    Suits senders under about 150 emails a day (Smartlead Base allows 6,000 a month) for $29 a month.

    Details
  3. Switch links and integrations

    Point links, embeds and integrations at Warmbly, then send a test through every one.

  4. Cancel Smartlead

    Turn off renewal before your renewal date, once the new setup works. Access runs until: The end of the billing cycle.

    How to cancel Smartlead
Open WarmblyHow to cancel Smartlead
Modeled, not measured. Savings use public prices and planning assumptions: the bill you stop paying, minus the new tool, your upkeep time and your setup time at $50/hour, over the first 12 months. Paths marked Tested by Stackcut were run end to end by us on our own products. They're our tests, not customer results. Check the must-haves in each recipe before you switch.

The whole recipe: 3 ways out, best first

What you use

  • Email sequences with follow-ups
  • Unlimited mailboxes with automatic rotation
  • Unlimited email warmup
  • Unified master inbox

Not covered

  • Verified prospect emails (add-on on Base and Pro)
  • API, webhooks and CRM access (Pro and up)
  • Client workspaces and white-label (add-on)

Check before switching

  • You only rely on: Email sequences with follow-ups, Unlimited mailboxes with automatic rotation, Unlimited email warmup, Unified master inbox
  • Export your data from Smartlead before canceling

Agents: get_recipe("replace-smartlead") on the Stackcut MCP server.

3 ways out, best first

Switch vendorHunter (free tier)Saves $418 in year one
$39/mo today → $0/mo · setup 1 h · then $468/yr · payback 1.3 mo
If your use fits the free tier (50 credits a month; Sequences from 1 connected email account with up to 500 recipients per sequence; unlimited team members).
Covers 25% of the core features (not: Unlimited mailboxes with automatic rotation, Unlimited email warmup, Unified master inbox)
Suits a founder testing cold email from one mailbox, up to 500 recipients per sequence; no warmup, rotation or reply inbox.
How we got this
You pay now: Smartlead Baseflat price$39/mo
New cost: Hunter (free tier)free plan$0/mo
Difference each month$39 − $0+$39/mo
Over 12 months+$39 × 12+$468
Setup, once1 h × $50/h−$50
Year one+$468 − $50+$418
  • Not counting your time (1 h in year one): saves $468 in year one.

Year one = 12 × (what you pay now − the new cost − upkeep) − setup, with your time at $50/hour. Prices are public list prices; hours are Stackcut’s planning estimates. Price it for your team

Switch vendorWarmblySaves $70 in year one
$39/mo today → $29/mo · setup 1 h · then $120/yr · payback 5 mo
Covers 100% of the core features
Suits senders under about 150 emails a day (Smartlead Base allows 6,000 a month) for $29 a month.
How we got this
You pay now: Smartlead Baseflat price$39/mo
New cost: WarmblyStarter plan$29/mo
Difference each month$39 − $29+$10/mo
Over 12 months+$10 × 12+$120
Setup, once1 h × $50/h−$50
Year one+$120 − $50+$70
  • Not counting your time (1 h in year one): saves $120 in year one.

Year one = 12 × (what you pay now − the new cost − upkeep) − setup, with your time at $50/hour. Prices are public list prices; hours are Stackcut’s planning estimates. Price it for your team

Open sourceWarmblyCosts $992 more in year one
$39/mo today → $5/mo + 2 h upkeep · setup 4 h
Covers 75% of the core features (not: Unlimited email warmup)
Suits a technical team that will run its own sender with the API included; self-hosted warmup waits for Warmbly Cloud.
License: open_source
How we got this
You pay now: Smartlead Baseflat price$39/mo
New cost: Warmblya small server (modeled)$5/mo
Your upkeep time2 h/mo × $50/h$100/mo
Difference each month$39 − $5 − $100−$66/mo
Over 12 months−$66 × 12−$792
Setup, once4 h × $50/h−$200
Year one−$792 − $200−$992
  • Not counting your time (28 h in year one): saves $408 in year one.

Year one = 12 × (what you pay now − the new cost − upkeep) − setup, with your time at $50/hour. Prices are public list prices; hours are Stackcut’s planning estimates. Price it for your team

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