Salesforge pricing, features and alternatives
Salesforge is the outbound platform to buy if you treat cold email as infrastructure: Growth is $80 a month on annual billing for unlimited users, and a realistic 10-rep setup with mailboxes and domains runs about $2,720 a year. It is the wrong buy if you want a hands-off AI SDR, and the Agent Frank add-on at $499 a month should be priced against a part-time SDR instead.
The short answer
Buy Salesforge if you run cold email as a repeatable program, manage multiple mailboxes and domains, and want AI help personalizing outreach without buying an enterprise AI SDR platform. It suits agencies and small teams that need volume without more headcount and already understand deliverability basics.
Skip it if you want a hands-off AI SDR that handles research, writing and meetings with little oversight, if your team sends low volumes of highly tailored enterprise outreach, or if nobody on the team understands email deliverability. At volume, the tool will amplify whatever your targeting already is.
Where Salesforge fits
Salesforge is an AI-assisted outbound platform. Teams use it to run cold email programs and, increasingly, as the sending layer in AI SDR-style workflows where software drafts and personalizes outreach at volume. Despite the name, it has nothing to do with Salesforce: it is an independent vendor in the outbound tooling market, and the two come up together only because search confuses them.
Its typical buyer is an outbound operator or agency that thinks in terms of infrastructure: mailboxes, domains, sending limits and reply handling. That is a different buyer from a sales leader shopping for an autonomous AI SDR, and it explains the product shape. The platform handles sequencing and AI drafting; mailboxes, domains and lead data are separate subscriptions in the same Forge suite.
Public review data was thin when we checked, so treat the product claims as things to verify rather than things to weigh. Three tests cover most of it. Run the AI personalization on 50 real prospects and read every output, looking for factual errors about the prospect and for lines that repeat across emails. Ask how mailboxes are connected, how sending is spread across them, and what warm-up and monitoring you get. Then check how replies are sorted, how interested leads are flagged, and which CRMs it syncs with, because outbound only pays off when a positive reply reaches a seller quickly.
The risk that comes with volume is your domain reputation. AI-written email at scale can damage it if targeting and copy are weak, so start with small, well-targeted segments, track reply and bounce rates per mailbox, and scale only what works. Plan the cadence before the tooling: how many touches, how far apart, and when a prospect exits. Our pipeline generation plan template is where those volume assumptions belong, and our sales cadence definition covers the structure itself.
Then decide by test, not by feature list. Run a two-week test with one segment on Salesforge and the same segment on one alternative, and compare positive replies per 1,000 emails and bounce rates rather than open rates. The field sits in our AI SDR software guide, which separates sending infrastructure from autonomous agents.
Salesforge pricing
Salesforge publishes everything, including the add-ons, which is rare in outbound. Per its pricing page and llms.txt, checked in September 2026, Pro costs $40 a month on annual billing ($48 month to month) for 1 user, 1,000 active contacts in sequence, 5,000 emails a month, 1 LinkedIn sender and 300 each of validation, personalization and social action credits. Growth costs $80 a month annually ($96 monthly) for unlimited users, 10,000 active contacts, 50,000 emails, unlimited LinkedIn senders, 1,000 of each credit type, plus API, A/B testing and CRM integrations. Both include unlimited mailboxes, unlimited warm-up through Warmforge and unlimited workspaces, annual billing gives two months free, and extra contacts, emails and credits are bought in the app.
Published plans and add-ons
- Pro
- $40 a month on annual billing, $48 monthly. 1 user, 1,000 active contacts, 5,000 emails a month, 300 credits of each type, unlimited mailboxes.
- Growth
- $80 a month on annual billing, $96 monthly. Unlimited users, 10,000 active contacts, 50,000 emails a month, 1,000 credits of each type, API, A/B testing, CRM integrations.
- Agent Frank (AI SDR)
- $499 a month billed quarterly for 2,000 or more contacts a month, about $0.25 per contact. Salesforge's llms.txt cites about $416 a month on annual terms.
- Primeforge / Mailforge mailboxes
- $4.50 and $3 per mailbox per month. Separate Forge products with a 10-mailbox minimum, lower rates yearly, and .com domains at $14 a year.
- Leadsforge (lead data)
- From $49 a month. A separate subscription for contact data.
What a 10-rep outbound setup costs
Our assumptions, stated so you can change them: each rep adds 500 prospects a month to a 4-step sequence, which is 5,000 active contacts and 20,000 emails a month, sending from 3 mailboxes per rep, so 30 mailboxes on 10 domains.
Pro allows only 1 user, so the team needs Growth: $80 x 12 = $960 a year on annual billing, or $96 x 12 = $1,152 billed monthly. Growth's 1,000 validation credits a month will not verify 5,000 new contacts, so budget for extra credits or a separate verification tool.
Mailboxes and domains are separate subscriptions. On Primeforge the scenario is 30 x $4.50 x 12 = $1,620 a year, plus 10 x $14 = $140 of domains. All in: $960 + $1,620 + $140 = $2,720 a year before lead data. Leadsforge starts at $49 a month, which is $588 a year if you need contacts. Mailforge, the shared-infrastructure option, is $3 per mailbox per month instead of $4.50.
Agent Frank changes the comparison rather than the plan. At $499 a month billed quarterly, that is $499 x 12 = $5,988 a year before mailboxes, so weigh it against the cost of a part-time SDR rather than against Growth.
Published rates make this easy to model, and the credits are where models break. Before choosing a plan, get the cost of extra active contacts, emails and validation credits once you pass Growth's 10,000 contacts and 1,000 credits, decide whether you buy mailboxes through Primeforge or Mailforge or connect your own, and confirm which CRMs sync and what data moves when a prospect replies.
What Salesforge gives up
You give up independent evidence. We found few third-party reviews when we checked, so ask for references from teams sending at volumes close to yours and treat the trial as the real review.
You give up the option of skipping deliverability work. Poor targeting or setup at volume can damage your domains, and the tool does not replace outbound discipline: it makes the consequences arrive faster.
You give up a single bill. The platform plan is the small line. Mailboxes, domains and lead data are separate Forge subscriptions, which is how $960 a year becomes $2,720 for a 10-rep setup before any contact data.
You give up autonomy, if that is what you came for. Teams still set targeting and strategy here, so this is closer to infrastructure than to an autonomous rep, and the Agent Frank add-on is a separate purchase at a different price point.
You give up generous credit allowances. Growth's 1,000 validation credits a month do not cover 5,000 new contacts, so the usage line is real and it arrives in month one.
How Salesforge compares
The split in this category is between sending infrastructure you steer and agents that claim to run themselves. Instantly is the comparison most SMB outbound teams make first, since it is widely used as the execution layer for AI-led outbound. Smartlead is popular with cold email operators building their own systems and prices add-ons the same way Salesforge does. If you want the AI to own more of the work, 11x and Artisan are positioned as fuller AI SDR platforms, and AiSDR shows what that costs once it is published.
| Tool | Best for | Price | Where it breaks |
|---|---|---|---|
| Salesforge | Operators running cold email as infrastructure with AI drafting | Pro $40, Growth $80 a month annually; Agent Frank $499 | For hands-off AI SDR expectations or low-volume enterprise outreach |
| Instantly | SMB teams that want a widely used execution layer for outbound | Growth $37.60 a month annually, Hypergrowth $77.60, Light Speed $286.30 | When you want mailbox and domain supply from the same vendor stack |
| Smartlead | Cold email operators building their own sending systems | Base $39, Pro $94, Unlimited Smart $174 a month, cheaper annually | Once add-ons stack, since extras run $29 to $599 a month |
| 11x | Buyers who want an autonomous agent rather than a sending platform | Custom quote on all plans | When you need a published rate to budget before a sales call |
| Artisan | Teams buying a fuller AI SDR with research and writing included | Custom quote on all plans | For operators who want direct control of sequences and mailboxes |
| AiSDR | Teams that want AI SDR coverage with published tiers | Solo $250, Explore $900, Scale $2,500 a month | At the price point where a part-time human SDR competes |
What to test in a Salesforge trial
There is no free plan, but Salesforge offers a 14-day free trial with no credit card required, capped at a small number of contacts, emails and credits; the pricing page and its llms.txt list slightly different caps, so confirm yours. Use it to send a small live campaign rather than testing in isolation.
- Run the AI personalization on 50 real prospects and read every output. Count factual errors and repeated lines; that rate decides how much human review each campaign needs.
- Send one small live campaign to a well-targeted segment and record reply and bounce rates per mailbox, not open rates.
- Price the overage before you commit: what extra active contacts, emails and validation credits cost once you pass Growth's 10,000 contacts and 1,000 credits.
- Decide the mailbox route. Compare Primeforge at $4.50 a mailbox per month, Mailforge at $3, and connecting your own, then ask how each affects deliverability.
- Check how sending is spread across mailboxes and what warm-up and monitoring you get through Warmforge.
- Confirm which CRMs sync and what data moves when a prospect replies, then time how long a positive reply takes to reach a seller.
- If Agent Frank is on the table, price $499 a month billed quarterly against a part-time SDR and decide which one you would rather manage.
Salesforge questions buyers ask
What is Salesforge used for?
Salesforge is used to run AI-assisted cold email outreach, often as the sending layer in AI SDR-style outbound workflows.
How much does Salesforge cost?
Per Salesforge's pricing page, Pro is $40/month and Growth is $80/month on annual billing ($48 and $96 month to month), and the Agent Frank AI SDR is $499/month billed quarterly. Mailboxes and lead data are separate: a 10-rep team on Growth with 30 Primeforge mailboxes runs about $2,720 a year.
Does Salesforge have a free plan or free trial?
There is no free plan. Salesforge offers a 14-day free trial with no credit card required, capped at a small number of contacts, emails, and credits (the pricing page and Salesforge's llms.txt list slightly different caps). Use it to send a small live campaign rather than testing in isolation.
Is Salesforge an AI SDR?
It is an AI-assisted outbound platform often used in AI SDR-style workflows. Teams still set targeting and strategy, so it is closer to infrastructure than an autonomous rep.
What are the alternatives to Salesforge?
Instantly and Smartlead are the usual comparisons for cold email infrastructure. 11x and Artisan come up when buyers want a more autonomous AI SDR.
Is Salesforge the same company as Salesforce?
No. Salesforge is an independent AI-assisted outbound email platform with its own Forge products for mailboxes, domains and lead data. The similar name is a coincidence, and nothing on its price list is related to Salesforce licensing.