6 categories · RankedSmartlead
Smartlead is cold email outreach software for sales teams that run outbound campaigns at scale · smartlead.ai ↗
Gane, the publisher, sells software in Email marketing, where this product is measured. It is measured there by the same method as every other product. How the conflict is handled.
Read the same way at every company size.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Apollo.io is first at 50%.
Salesloft is first at 37%.
Outreach is first at 52%.
Why models recommend it
“Choose Instantly or Smartlead if you are running "spray and pray" style cold email campaigns at scale”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Comparative question · alternative
“built-in warm-up via Smartlead/Instantly if conducting outbound sales”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“Smartlead - Volume email automation specialist”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Comparative question · alternative
“Best for Cold Emailing: Instantly, Smartlead.”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Negative question · alternative
What gives them pause
“Unreliable sending, poor support at scale”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Smartlead, over the 42 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 29 | 2 | View → | |
| 27 | 13 | View → | |
| 23 | 5 | View → | |
| 22 | 4 | View → | |
| 21 | 1 | View → | |
| 19 | 0 | View → | |
| 13 | 0 | View → | |
| 10 | 0 | View → | |
| 9 | 0 | View → | |
| 7 | 0 | View → |
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Smartlead's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- sales teams that run outbound at scale
- Price stated
- Basic Plan at $39/month; Pro Plan ($94/month); Custom Plan ($174/month)
- Starting price
- 39
- Free plan or trial
- Free trial available
- Customers named
- StackOptimise, Cold Email Hackers, DutchSave Media, Growth Today, FueltoFly, OutboundSync, Axoleads, Claygen
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 35 of the 42 answers that named Smartlead and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Seventy-nine of the ninety-two domain citations in answers naming Smartlead came from a third party's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 590 | undated | CRM, Email verification | ||
| Case study | 143 | 0 | 2024-05-06 | ||
| Comparison | 59 | undated | |||
| Report or ebook | 34 | undated | |||
| Glossary or explainer | 31 | 0 | 2026-03-17 | Email verification | |
| Template or tool | 23 | undated | |||
| Podcast or video | 10 | undated | |||
| Webinar or virtual event | 4 | undated | |||
| News or press | 4 | 0 | 2024-05-06 | ||
| Conference or event | 1 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-03-17What is cold email mcp server glossary or explainer
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- 2024-05-06Newsletter email template news or press
- 2024-05-06Press release email template news or press
- 2024-05-06How AI bees Achieved a 30% Reply Rate Using Smartlead | Smartlead Case Study case study
- 2024-05-06Aico valhalla case study
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page smartlead.ai exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.