instantly vs smartlead vs lemlist - settle this for me
been testing cold email platforms for the last 3 months and i'm honestly torn. running a 12-person marketing agency and we do about 5k emails/week for ourselves plus client campaigns.
instantly has the best deliverability hands down. their warmup pool is massive and the inbox rotation works. but their UI feels like it was designed in 2015 and the reporting is basic. plus no native CRM integration.
smartlead's got better features - the multichannel stuff is solid and their API is clean. but it's pricier and i've had more technical issues. support takes forever to respond.
lemlist looks pretty and the personalization features are next level, but for volume sending it gets expensive fast. also their deliverability isn't as good as the other two.
right now i'm leaning toward instantly for pure cold email outreach but keeping smartlead for clients who need multichannel. anyone else running similar volumes? what's working for you?
also been testing prospeo for the lead enrichment side since all three of these tools need you to bring your own leads. their email finder hits way better than snov.io which is what we were using before.