What’s the least I can spend?

The smallest top-up is $5.00, which covers 5,000 emails. Credit never expires, but it isn’t refundable.

Will cold email hurt my main mailbox?

Inboxed caps daily sending per mailbox (30 campaign emails a day by default) and pauses a mailbox automatically when too many of its recent emails hard-bounce. Low volume and verified lists help most.

Can I use Inboxed for newsletters?

No. It’s for one-to-one cold email and replies, not bulk newsletters.

A few good clients a quarter, for the cost of a coffee.

As a freelancer or consultant you don’t need volume; you need a short list of the right people and emails that sound like you. Inboxed has no plan to pay for in quiet months: warm up one mailbox free and pay only for what you send.

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Inboxed for freelancers and consultants is a good fit if

You send tens of emails a week, not thousands
You sell a service such as design, development, writing or advisory work
You don’t want a subscription for something you use in bursts

The workflow in Inboxed

What you’d use, and how it fits together. Everything here is in the product today.

Warm up your own mailbox free

Connect your existing business mailbox. Warmup starts at 2 emails a day and adds 2 a day up to 40, and keeps running while you send.

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Verify before you send

Every lead you import is verified free; invalid, throwaway and role addresses are removed before pricing.

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Personal first lines with your own AI key

Connect your own AI account (Gemini, Groq, OpenRouter, Anthropic or OpenAI) to draft a first line per lead. Those calls run on your account; Inboxed doesn’t charge for them.

Send your portfolio as a tracked PDF

Add {{document:Portfolio}} and each lead gets their own link, so you know who looked.

Follow-ups as to-dos

Send interested replies to Todoist, Trello or Notion so nothing waits in your inbox.

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Caps so you never overspend

Daily, weekly or monthly spend limits for the workspace or a campaign.

Set it up

Connect your business mailbox; the domain checker shows any SPF, DKIM or DMARC fixes.
Pick 30 to 50 companies you’d genuinely like to work with and import them.
Start from the agency or freelance services template and rewrite it in your words.
Top up the $5 minimum and launch at a low daily limit.

Example, not a customer story

Example: three-email service pitch

A short outline we wrote. Keep each email under 100 words.

Day 01. Specific observationOne thing you noticed about their site, product or content, what you’d change and the result you’d aim for. Ask if it’s worth a short call.
Day 42. Relevant sampleSame thread: one piece of past work that matches, as a link or tracked PDF.
Day 103. Easy out“Not a priority right now? Happy to check back in a few months.” If they say “try me in Q2”, the AI can schedule that follow-up for approval.

What it costs

Inboxed charges $1.00 per 1,000 emails that actually send, from a prepaid wallet. No plan, no seats. Building, launching, warmup and verification are free.

A typical month

1 mailbox × 15 emails a day × 20 working days = 300 emails

300 ÷ 1,000 × $1.00 = $0.30 a month

$0.30/ month

A busy push

2 mailboxes × 30 emails a day each × 20 working days = 1,200 emails

1,200 ÷ 1,000 × $1.00 = $1.20 a month

$1.20/ month

These are worked examples with round numbers, not averages. They assume every email sends; unsent emails and leads that fail verification cost nothing. Mailboxes and domains are paid to your email provider and registrar, and any AI or data-provider keys you connect bill on your own accounts. The smallest top-up is $5.00 (5,000 emails); credit never expires and isn’t refundable. How pricing works.

Compliance notes

The rules that come up most for this kind of outreach, summarised from the sources linked. This isn’t legal advice.

US recipients: CAN-SPAM has no B2B exception

The FTC’s guide says the law makes no exception for business-to-business email. Every commercial email needs accurate headers and subject lines, a valid physical postal address, and a working opt-out honoured within 10 business days. In Inboxed, set your company name and postal address once under sender details, keep the unsubscribe footer on, and every unsubscribe is added to your suppression list automatically.

UK: corporate addresses vs sole traders

The ICO says PECR doesn’t require consent to email corporate subscribers, as long as you say who you are and give a valid opt-out address. Sole traders and some partnerships count as individuals and need consent or the soft opt-in. UK GDPR still applies to a named person’s work address. If your data has company size, campaign targeting can exclude solo founders (company size 1).

EU and UK: record your lawful basis and tell people where you got their data

Cold B2B email to named people usually relies on legitimate interests (GDPR Article 6(1)(f)). When data didn’t come from the person, Article 14 asks you to tell them, at the latest in your first message, who you are and where the data came from. Article 21 lets anyone object to direct marketing at any time, and you must then stop. Every Inboxed lead stores its source and lawful basis (legitimate interest by default, or consent or contract), and Erase this person keeps only a hash so they’re never emailed again.

Templates to start from

Agency or freelance services
For design, development or marketing services: one observation, one offer, no hard sell.
Simple introduction
Three short emails: who you are, one useful detail, a polite close.
Re-engage a past contact
For old leads or past customers: says what changed since you last spoke.

Integrations that fit

Todoist
Add a Todoist task due today when a lead replies or books a meeting, in your Inbox or a project.
Trello
Add a follow-up card to a Trello list when a lead replies or books a meeting.
Notion database
Add a page to a Notion database for every Inboxed reply, meeting or other event you pick.
Google Sheets
Append a row to a Google Sheet for every Inboxed reply, meeting or other event, using a Google service account.
Hunter
Import the people Hunter knows at a company domain into an Inboxed lead list, using your Hunter searches.

Questions

What’s the least I can spend?: The smallest top-up is $5.00, which covers 5,000 emails. Credit never expires, but it isn’t refundable.
Will cold email hurt my main mailbox?: Inboxed caps daily sending per mailbox (30 campaign emails a day by default) and pauses a mailbox automatically when too many of its recent emails hard-bounce. Low volume and verified lists help most.
Can I use Inboxed for newsletters?: No. It’s for one-to-one cold email and replies, not bulk newsletters.

Warm up today. Launch when you’re ready. Pay only for emails that send.

No subscription, no card to start. Connect a mailbox and warmup begins in under a minute.

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