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.
Most cold email platforms charge you for results you can't verify and let your domains burn without warning. ForgeSend shows you everything — before you spend it, before you send it.
DNS health check
Check a sending domain
✓7-day free trial — no charge until day 8
✓All features included, no plan restrictions
✓Self-host for free, no account needed
✓SOC 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 platform on the ForgeSend compare hub that publicly offers VPS or Docker self-hosting. One Docker command. When self-hosted, your leads never touch ForgeSend-managed servers.
WHY FORGESEND EXISTS
Built for operators who are tired of guessing.
Cold email tools often hide the two things operators need before action: what enrichment will cost and whether a campaign is safe to launch.
ForgeSend was built to make those decisions visible earlier — costs before credits are spent, guardrails before campaigns send, and optional self-hosting when infrastructure ownership matters.
ENRICHMENT RECEIPT
Campaign: Q2 Outreach
Cached result
Email lookup·Found (cached)·$0.000
Data provider
Email verify·Verified·$0.004
Paid lookup
Email lookup·Found·$0.008
Cached result
Phone lookup·Not found·$0.000
Data provider
Email verify·Risky·$0.004
Enrichment source
Email lookup·Found·$0.008
Cached resultEmail lookupFound (cached)$0.000
Data providerEmail verifyVerified$0.004
Paid lookupEmail lookupFound$0.008
Cached resultPhone lookupNot found$0.000
Data providerEmail verifyRisky$0.004
Enrichment sourceEmail 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 — ENRICHMENT LEDGER
Every credit. Every cost. Every time.
Cached result
Email lookup·Found (cached)·$0.000
Data provider
Email verify·Verified·$0.0125
Paid lookup
Email lookup·Found·$0.050
Cached result
Phone lookup·Not found·$0.000
Data provider
Email verify·Risky·$0.0125
Enrichment source
Email lookup·Found·$0.050
… × 794 more rows
5 actions$0.125
WATERFALL ENRICHMENT
If we can't find it, you don't pay for it.
ForgeSend searches 20+ premium data providers in sequence — a waterfall cascade that queries the next provider only if the last one missed. The moment a verified result is found, the cascade stops. If no provider finds the contact, no credit is charged.
Findymail
Prospeo
RocketReach
Hunter
Dropcontact
Apollo
Datagma
BetterContact
Wiza
Enrich.so
LeadMagic
Icypeas
ZeroBounce
Scalelist
Kaspr
+5 more
20+
providers
80%+
find rate
1%
bounce rate
$0
for misses
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.
Sends today
42
Health
96
Sends today
18
Health
81
Sends today
9
Health
74
HONEST COMPARISON
We checked. No one else does all three.
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 $29/month
- ✓ Hosted ForgeSend workspace
- ✓ Transparent enrichment ledger
- ✓ Deliverability guardrails
Self-hosted
Free forever
- ✓ Run on your own VPS
- ✓ Your data stays with you
- ✓ Self-hostable on your VPS
THE OUTBOUND TOOL PROBLEM
The frustrations that come with most outbound platforms
Three problems operators run into again and again across the category — and how ForgeSend is built to avoid each one.
Headline pricing rarely matches the real bill. Add-ons for leads, verification, and extra workspaces stack up, and the monthly total lands far above the advertised starting price.
ForgeSend shows the full cost before you spend a single credit.
One credit pool feeds everything — email search, prospect lookups, verification — so credits drain faster than expected, with little visibility into what each action actually costs.
ForgeSend itemises every action and its cost before it runs.
Deliverability problems often surface only after a campaign has run. By the time you see the spam rate, the emails are already sent.
ForgeSend blocks the send until every guardrail passes.
Cloud
Start on our cloud
Launch fast with hosted infrastructure and the same transparent guardrails.
Start freeSelf-hosted
Self-host on your VPS
Keep your data, sending logs, and enrichment records inside your own server.
Read self-hosting docs →