All-in-one · Updated 2026-10-27
Raechly vs FirstSales
The closest product to Raechly in shape, and identical on plan price: the same four plans and the same credit allowances. FirstSales sells a closed loop: find leads, let the AI personalise, send and follow up, book to a calendar, with a unified inbox for the replies. You connect the mailboxes; it warms them.
Short answer
Pick FirstSales if you want one subscription that finds the leads, writes the emails and books the meeting, and you already have mailboxes to connect.
Pick Raechly if you want the sending domain and its warmed senders included and run for you, a deal pipeline behind the inbox, and nothing sent until you approve the real emails.
Side by side
| Raechly | FirstSales | |
|---|---|---|
| Sending infrastructure | Senders on a domain Raechly buys and warms for you; on Business, your own Gmail, Outlook, SMTP or SES too | Mailboxes you connect |
| Warmup | Included in every plan, run by Raechly against its own pool of inboxes | Included, unlimited |
| Reply capture verified before sending | Yes: a sender with no verified inbound path cannot send | Replies land in its inbox; we found no gate on sending when capture fails |
| MCP server for AI assistants | Yes, all 147 tools, Streamable HTTP, OAuth or API key | Yes. Its MCP server, launched in August 2026, covers campaigns, lead lists and analytics, and a separate docs MCP answers product questions. |
| Pricing model | Credits: one per email sent, no seat or mailbox charge | Credits on monthly plans, 4,000 for $29 up to 175,000 for $499; unlimited inboxes, seats and warmup |
| Entry price | $1 for a 3-day trial, then $29/mo (Starter) | $29/mo |
Pricing checked 2026-10-27. Everything is metered: a lead find is 15 credits, a premium AI email 8, a deep enrich 35. The plan price buys a credit allowance, so real spend follows how much data and AI writing you use.
Where FirstSales wins
- A genuine closed loop from lead search to booked meeting, with calendar booking built in
- Unlimited mailboxes, seats and warmup on every plan, so the meter only counts real work
- One inbox for every reply, with an approval queue for AI-drafted answers
- An MCP server for campaigns, lead lists and analytics, launched in August 2026
Where it gets constrained
- You bring and connect the mailboxes; no sending domain comes with the plan
- Data-heavy work costs more per action: 15 credits to find a lead, 8 for a premium AI email, 35 for a deep enrich
- No gate we could find that stops a mailbox sending when its replies are not reaching the platform
The verdict
FirstSales is the product we measure against, and it is a good one. The closed loop is real and the credit meter is fair. If lead sourcing and calendar booking in one place is the whole requirement, it does that today.
Raechly makes two different bets. The first is that you should not have to bring or warm mailboxes: every plan includes a domain bought for you alone, with three senders Raechly sets up and warms, and a sender does not send until its replies provably reach us. The second is that an AI assistant is a full operator, so all 147 tools run over MCP, setup included. There is no open tracking either, so placement is never traded for a chart.
Pricing, plainly
FirstSales starts at $29/mo and its mid tier is $79/mo. Credits on monthly plans, 4,000 for $29 up to 175,000 for $499; unlimited inboxes, seats and warmup. Everything is metered: a lead find is 15 credits, a premium AI email 8, a deep enrich 35. The plan price buys a credit allowance, so real spend follows how much data and AI writing you use.
Raechly sells credits on monthly plans, from $29 for 4,000 to $499 for 175,000, and every plan includes a sending domain with three senders that Raechly sets up and warms. A send is one credit, an AI-written email is two and warmup is free, with no charge per seat, so the bill follows what you actually send. See pricing for the current plans.
Moving from FirstSales to Raechly
The move is mostly data. Export the contacts you have already paid credits for, with tags intact; Raechly imports a CSV with tags and forms companies from the email domains on the way in. New people come from Raechly’s own search once you confirm a campaign’s audience, at 15 credits each, the same as a FirstSales lead find.
Sequences carry over as text. Rebuild each as a campaign, then decide per step whether autopilot should write it (2 credits) or a template should send it (1). Nothing sends until you approve the real emails, so read them once before the first send.
Mechanically it is order_senders for your sending domain, then import_contacts and create_campaign. Launch straight away and the campaign starts once the senders are warm. On Business you can bring the domains and inboxes you already have with create_domain or connect_mailbox. Your assistant can run the whole path.
Raechly vs FirstSales: questions
Do I bring my own mailboxes?
On FirstSales, yes: you connect as many as you like and it warms them. On Raechly every plan includes a domain bought for you with three senders Raechly sets up and warms, so there is nothing to connect. On Business you can add your own inboxes as well.
Both use credits. How do the meters compare?
The plans are identical: $29 for 4,000 credits up to $499 for 175,000, and both include warmup. FirstSales charges 15 credits to find a lead, 8 for a premium AI email and 35 for a deep enrich. Raechly charges 1 to send, 2 for an AI-written email and 15 for each person it finds. Raechly also includes a sending domain with three warmed senders on every plan.
Can I use a personal Gmail on either?
On Raechly’s Business plan, yes: it connects Gmail, Outlook, Zoho or any SMTP account with an app password, personal or workspace. On the other plans the question doesn’t come up, because Raechly sends from senders it sets up on a domain bought for you. FirstSales sends from the mailboxes you connect.
Does Raechly book meetings?
Not yet. Raechly opens a deal in the pipeline the moment a reply is classified as interested, runs the stage follow-up sequence and puts the thread in your inbox. Booking still happens on your calendar link. If in-product booking is the deciding feature, FirstSales has it and Raechly does not.
Sources checked 2026-10-27
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