COST TRANSPARENCY
See every cost before it runs
Line-by-line enrichment costs, cached vs paid, per provider. Export the full ledger any time. No surprises at the end of the month.
Cold email without black boxes.
See every enrichment cost before it runs. Catch every deliverability risk before it sends. Deploy on our cloud or your own server.
7-day free trialSelf-host for freeSOC 2 in progress
DNS health check
Check a sending domain
PRE-SEND GUARDRAILS
Catch every risk before it sends
ForgeSend checks your DNS, warmup status, list quality, and bounce rate before any campaign goes live. You fix the problems. Then you send.
SELF-HOSTABLE
Your server. Your data. Your rules.
The only cold email platform you can run on your own VPS. One Docker command. Your leads never touch our servers.
You set up 3 domains.
Configured DNS for 2 days.
Ran warmup for 3 weeks.
Imported 800 leads.
Launched the campaign.
Then the platform charged you for 800 enrichment lookups.
You don't know which ones found anything.
You don't know what each one cost.
You just got a number at the end of the month.
Meanwhile, half the emails landed in spam.
The platform knew. It didn't tell you.
Your domains burned.
ForgeSend shows you everything. Before you spend it. Before you send it.
ENRICHMENT RECEIPT
Campaign: Q2 Outreach
ProviderActionResultUnit Cost
ApolloEmail lookupFound (cached)$0.000
Hunter.ioEmail verifyVerified$0.004
DropcontactEmail lookupFound$0.008
ApolloPhone lookupNot found$0.000
Hunter.ioEmail verifyRisky$0.004
DropcontactEmail lookupFound$0.008
[... × 794 more rows]
SUBTOTAL$0.000
TOTAL CHARGED$247.84
Which lookups found valid emails? Unknown. Which ones were wasted? Unknown.
You won't know until next month's invoice.
ForgeSend shows you every line before it runs.
COST TRANSPARENCY
Every credit. Every cost. Every time.
ProviderActionResultCost
ApolloEmail lookupFound (cached)$0.00
HunterEmail verifyVerified$0.004
DropcontactEmail lookupFound$0.008
ApolloPhone lookupNot found$0.000
HunterEmail verifyRisky$0.004
DropcontactEmail lookupFound$0.008
5 actions$0.024
PRE-SEND GUARDRAILS
Your campaign won't launch until this is green.
SPF record configuredPASS
DKIM signing activePASS
DMARC policy setFAIL
Add a DMARC record: v=DMARC1; p=none; rua=mailto:...
Inbox warmup complete (14/21 days)WARNING
List bounce rate below 3%PASS
Domain age > 30 daysPASS
OPERATOR VISIBILITY
Every send. Every inbox. Every queue.
ops@alpha.io
Sends today
42
Health
96
founder@beta.com
Sends today
18
Health
81
sales@gamma.dev
Sends today
9
Health
74
HONEST COMPARISON
We checked. No one else does all three.
| Capability | ForgeSend | Instantly | Smartlead | Saleshandy | Snov.io | Woodpecker | QuickMail |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ONLY FORGESEND DOES ALL THREE | |||||||
| Transparent enrichment ledger | |||||||
| Pre-send guardrail checklist | |||||||
| Self-hostable on VPS/Docker | |||||||
| TABLE STAKES — FORGESEND INCLUDES ALL OF THESE | |||||||
| Unlimited inboxes | |||||||
| Inbox rotation | |||||||
| Email warmup | |||||||
| Unified reply inbox | |||||||
| Per-inbox health scoring | |||||||
| Full audit log | |||||||
DELIVERABILITY
Built around not burning your domains.
Every send is checked. Every inbox is monitored. Every risk is flagged before it costs you.
SPF · DKIM · DMARC checked before every send
ForgeSend validates your full DNS authentication stack before any campaign goes live. If something's misconfigured, the send is blocked — not warned. Blocked.
Pre-send checkBounce rate auto-pause at 3%
When a campaign's bounce rate crosses 3%, ForgeSend pauses it automatically. You're notified immediately. Your domain reputation is protected before the damage compounds.
Auto-protectionPer-inbox health scoring
Every connected inbox gets an individual health score updated after each send. Underperforming inboxes are flagged and pulled from rotation before they drag down the rest of your stack.
Live monitoringInbox rotation across all connected accounts
Send volume is distributed intelligently across all your connected inboxes. No single domain carries too much weight. No single inbox gets flagged for volume patterns.
Always onYOUR DATA
We don't see what we don't need.
- ✓We never sell or share your lead lists or prospect data
- ✓We never train AI models on your data or your prospects' data
- ✓You can export 100% of your data at any time in JSON or CSV
- ✓If you self-host, your data never touches our servers. We have zero access to your instance.
- ✓Enrichment pass-through: we show you provider costs at cost. No markup.
Self-hosting changes the trust model.
Run ForgeSend on your VPS and keep campaigns, inboxes, leads, and enrichment history inside your own infrastructure.
PRICING
Our pricing page looks like our product.
Cloud
From $X/month
- ✓ Hosted ForgeSend workspace
- ✓ Transparent enrichment ledger
- ✓ Deliverability guardrails
Self-hosted
Free forever
- ✓ Run on your own VPS
- ✓ Your data stays with you
- ✓ Open source core
WHAT OPERATORS ARE SAYING
The complaints are everywhere. We built ForgeSend because of them.
These are real reviews from G2, Reddit, and public platform analyses. We didn't write them. We just read them — and built the answer.
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"Instantly pricing starts at $47/mo. Your credit card statement will say $150–400/mo. The gap between those two numbers is the entire story of this platform."
— Prospeo independent pricing analysis
ForgeSend shows the full cost before you spend a single credit.
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"The credit system. Email search, prospect search, and verification all draw from the same pool. You will run through your credits quicker than expected."
— G2 verified review
ForgeSend itemises every action and its cost before it runs.
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"Half the emails landed in spam. The platform knew. It didn't tell you until after the campaign ran — not before."
— Reddit r/coldemail
ForgeSend blocks the send until every guardrail passes.
Sources: G2.com verified reviews, Reddit r/coldemail, independent platform analyses. Quoted for accuracy. Platform names are trademarks of their respective owners.
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