EmailBison sells one plan: US$599 a month for 500,000 emails, with dedicated IPs, unlimited workspaces and the API, bought through a demo. Instantly starts at US$47 a month billed monthly (US$37.60 annually) for 5,000 emails with unlimited mailboxes and warmup; its API is on every paid plan, webhooks start on Hyper Growth at US$97, and it runs an official MCP server.
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| What | EmailBison | Instantly |
|---|---|---|
| Base US$599/mo for 500,000 emailsOne plan: Base, US$599 a month for 500,000 emails a month. No per-seat fees. No annual price is published. Bought through a demo with sales. Verified 2026-10-25. | Growth US$47/mo monthly, US$37.60 annualGrowth US$47 a month billed monthly, or US$37.60 a month billed annually. Flat plans with unlimited mailboxes, priced by emails and uploaded contacts. Verified 2026-10-25. | |
| Base, US$599/moBase, US$599 a month. The API is part of the only plan. | Growth, US$47/mo monthlyGrowth, US$47 a month billed monthly. API v2 is on every paid Outreach plan. | |
| By send volume, unlimited leadsBy send volume. Unlimited leads, workspaces and teammates. Above 500,000 emails a month you buy extra monthly buckets; their price is not published. | Flat plans by emails and contactsFlat monthly plans by emails sent and contacts uploaded, with 20% off on annual billing. The lead database and AI run on a separate credits subscription. | |
| No free plan or self-serve trialNo free plan and no self-serve trial. The site's only call to action is Book a demo, and each customer gets a private instance. | 14 days, no card14 days, no card. In the app on 25 Oct 2026: 1,250 emails a month and 250 uploaded contacts, and API keys worked. | |
| Bearer token per workspace instanceBearer token from Settings > Developer API. An api-user token works only in the workspace it was created in; a super-admin token follows its creator's current workspace. Each customer calls its own instance URL. | Bearer key with fixed scopesAuthorization: Bearer header. Each key gets scopes you pick from 128, fixed after creation. The key is shown once. | |
| Not publishedLimits apply per API key, but no figures are published. Going over returns HTTP 429 with a retry_after value in seconds. List endpoints return 15 records a page. | 100/sec and 6,000/min per workspace100 requests a second and 6,000 a minute per workspace, shared by all keys and by v1 and v2. GET /api/v2/emails is capped at 20 a minute. | |
| 23 events, retried up to 5 times23 events, including email sent, contact replied, contact interested, email bounced, contact unsubscribed and sender account disconnected. Failed deliveries are retried up to 5 times over 24 hours, and events can be resent for 10 days. | Hyper Growth and up, 18 event typesHyper Growth (US$97 a month) and up. 18 event types, including custom label events. | |
| Partial: docs-search MCP onlyA docs-search MCP server only, at docs.emailbison.com/mcp. It searches the public docs and cannot read or change campaigns, leads or mailboxes. | YesOfficial, streamable HTTP at mcp.instantly.ai. 199 tools on 25 Oct 2026. | |
| 500,000 emails/mo on Base500,000 emails a month on the Base plan. Daily limits per sender account can be updated in bulk through the API. | Growth 5,000 emails, 1,000 contactsGrowth 5,000 emails and 1,000 contacts; Hyper Growth 125,000 emails and 25,000 contacts; Light Speed 500,000 emails and 100,000 contacts. Unlimited mailboxes and warmup. | |
| Isolated network with dedicated IPsAn isolated network with dedicated IPs is part of the plan, with warm-up and bounce protection. Warmup is switched off for a sender that causes or receives too many bounces, and a webhook reports it. | Unlimited mailboxes and warmupUnlimited mailboxes and warmup on every plan. Light Speed (US$358 a month) adds private sending servers. A setting pauses campaigns with high bounce rates; the app does not show the threshold. | |
| No lead database listedNo lead database is listed. Unlimited storage for the leads you bring. | SuperSearch 450M+ leads, separate creditsSuperSearch, 450M+ B2B leads, on a separate credits plan from US$9 a month for 150 credits. | |
| Clay, OutboundSync, EmailGuard, n8n, ZapierNative Clay actions, HubSpot and Salesforce sync through OutboundSync, EmailGuard inbox placement tests, and n8n, Zapier and Make through the API and webhooks. HeyReach can push leads into it from a LinkedIn sequence. | 129 app tiles incl. Clay, HubSpot129 app tiles in the app, including Clay, HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, Slack and HeyReach. | |
| SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, HIPAASOC 2 Type II, GDPR and HIPAA, with reports in its Trust Center after an NDA. SAML single sign-on; SCIM on enterprise plans. | No GDPR, SOC 2 or CCPA statementNo GDPR, SOC 2 or CCPA statement on its pricing page, developer docs or help index; the security page returned 404 on 25 Oct 2026. | |
| Unlimited workspacesUnlimited workspaces on the plan. Create a separate api-user token in each workspace. | Agency white-label; workspaces from Hyper GrowthAn Agency page with a white-label domain and client accounts, plus sub-workspaces. Adding workspaces and team members starts on Hyper Growth. | |
| Up to 500 leads per requestUp to 500 leads per request. Personal-domain addresses such as gmail.com are skipped unless support enables them on your instance. | Up to 1,000 leads per callUp to 1,000 leads per POST /api/v2/leads/add call. | |
| High-volume senders wanting dedicated IPsTeams and agencies sending hundreds of thousands of emails a month that want dedicated IPs and one flat price with no seat or lead fees. | API access and scoped keys from US$47/moSenders who want API access and scoped keys from US$47 a month and plan heavy API use. |
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US dollars as each vendor's page showed them on 25 Oct 2026. One panel per tool; switch each between monthly and annual billing (an annual price is the monthly rate when you pay for the year up front).
$599/mo
billed monthly
US$599 a month.
500,000 emails a month, unlimited leads, workspaces and teammates, isolated network with dedicated IPs, warm-up, API, private Slack support. Extra monthly send buckets above 500,000 at an unpublished price. Sold through a demo; no annual price published. Verified 2026-10-25.
$47/mo
billed monthly
$37.60/mo
billed annually
5,000 emails a month, 1,000 uploaded contacts, unlimited mailboxes and warmup.
No webhooks. Billed monthly, or annually at US$37.60 a month.
$97/mo
billed monthly
$77.60/mo
billed annually
125,000 emails a month, 25,000 uploaded contacts, webhooks, reply from Unibox, workspaces and team members.
Billed monthly, or annually at US$77.60 a month.
$358/mo
billed monthly
$286.30/mo
billed annually
500,000 emails a month, 100,000 uploaded contacts, private sending servers (SISR).
Billed monthly, or annually at US$286.30 a month.
Custom quote
500,000+ emails and 100,000+ contacts.
Price on request.
$9/mo
billed monthly
$9/mo
monthly billing only
150 credits a month, a separate subscription from Outreach.
$47/mo
billed monthly
$47/mo
monthly billing only
1,500 credits a month.
If neither fits: If LinkedIn is your main channel, a LinkedIn tool such as HeyReach or OutFlo fits better, and both can hand leads to an email sender. Whichever sender you pick, verify the list before you upload it.
How to verify email addresses before you sendChoosing between EmailBison and Instantly, or moving from one to the other? Tell us your setup. We will show you how we would run it, and what we would check first.
Neither has a free plan. Instantly gives a 14-day trial with no card; in the app on 25 Oct 2026 it allowed 1,250 emails a month and 250 uploaded contacts, and paid plans start at US$47 a month. EmailBison has no self-serve trial: you book a demo, and its one plan is US$599 a month.
Both include warmup. EmailBison's plan includes warm-up and bounce protection on an isolated network with dedicated IPs. Instantly includes unlimited mailboxes and warmup on every plan.
Both cap the month, and you set the daily pace. EmailBison covers 500,000 emails a month, with daily limits per sender that can be updated in bulk by API. Instantly allows 5,000 to 500,000 emails a month by plan; a new campaign had a daily limit of 30 emails in the app on 25 Oct 2026.
Yes, on its only plan. Each customer has a private instance, so the API base URL is the domain you log in on, and requests use a Bearer token from Settings > Developer API. Rate limits apply per key, but no figures are published.
EmailBison includes an isolated network with dedicated IPs in its US$599 plan. Instantly's Light Speed plan, US$358 a month billed monthly, adds private sending servers.
Read from emailbison.com/pricing, instantly.ai/pricing.md and each tool's API docs. Verified 25 Oct 2026.
