Mailforge ALTERNATIVE

Stop landing in spam. Start sending emails that get replies.

We built our inboxes purely for cold email and provide all the deliverability tech needed to land you in the inbox. You just send emails.

Who's responsible for your deliverability?
Mailforge You
You are.

You share IPs with senders you'll never meet, then it's on you when their spam burns the pool.

On their own
Aerosend Us
We are.

The only provider on the hook for whether you actually land.

On the hook
Trusted by 1000+ B2B Companies
The deliverability ledger

Aerosend vs Mailforge

The same question, decided row by row. One column owns whether you land.

Feature
Them Mailforge
Us Aerosend
Who owns your deliverability whether you actually land
You do
We do
Dedicated
Shared with other senders
Your own IPs and servers, never shared
Risk of a block
Shared reputationa flagged neighbor can affect the pool
Isolated, a neighbor can't take you down
IP quality
Shared, rotating pool reused across senders
Aged, highest-quality, dedicated
Deliverability monitoring
No monitoring
6-metric burn alerts
Warmup
Sold separately (Warmforge)
Premium Warmup
Support
Email + chat support
A C-suite exec replies in under 1 hour
Bring your own domains
Yes
Yes, free
Lowest sticker price
Yes, the cheapest sticker
More per inbox, less per reply

Shared infrastructure is the cheapest way to start, and that is its only edge. You are renting space on IPs used by senders you have never met, so when one of them gets flagged, the whole pool pays for it, you included. Reliable cold email takes your own dedicated setup and a team watching it every day. On Mailforge, a stranger's spam becomes your problem. With Aerosend, your reputation is yours alone, and landing you in the inbox is our job.

The shared-pool problem

Why teams leave Mailforge

01
Burns go unnoticed

You need to monitor deliverability.

Domains burn, and if no one catches it fast, your replies dry up before you notice. We watch every domain across 6 metrics, around the clock, and catch a burn before it spreads.

02
A stranger's spam

A stranger's spam shouldn't sink your replies.

On shared infrastructure you sit on the same IPs as senders you have never met. One of them blasts spam, the pool gets flagged, and your replies drop for something you did not do.

We give you your own dedicated IPs, isolated every 10 domains, so your reputation is yours alone.

03
Ours to own

We own the deliverability.

Getting to the inbox takes constant work: warming up every domain, keeping it landing, and adjusting as inboxes age. We run all of it for you, continuously. On Mailforge, all of this is your problem. With Aerosend, it's a team whose only job is keeping you in the inbox.

The two receipts

Yes, they're cheaper. Here's the full picture.

Shared inboxes win on sticker price, no argument. With code AEROSTART we take 40% off and close most of the gap. And because your emails actually land, your cost per reply ends up lower, even if the monthly is a little higher.

Mailforge 30 inboxes / mo
What you pay
$90/mo
as of June 2026 The cheapest sticker. The replies are where it costs you.
Reputation Shared with the pool
Monitoring + warmup Sold separately (Warmforge)
Cost per reply Higher
Contract NoneEven

A lower sticker that lands in spam costs more per reply, not less.

Lower per reply
Aerosend 30 inboxes / mo
What you pay
List $120/mo $72/mo AEROSTART 40% off, first 3 months
Reputation Yours alone
Monitoring + warmup Included
Cost per reply Lower
Contract NoneEven
You keep Lower cost per reply a little more per inbox, less for every reply that lands
Get your inboxes One price. Month to month. Cancel anytime.
The proof

They've tested everyone.
They run Aerosend.

1000+ B2B companies sending
10 providers tested, one picked
2 to 4x more replies after switching

Built by operators who lived your problem. Namit Jindal ran a lead-gen agency sending up to 1.5M cold emails a month and hated every provider he used: shared IPs, zero monitoring, no burn detection. So he built the infrastructure he wished existed, with co-founder Prabhu Rengaswamy, a 20-year infrastructure architect. One's a Smartlead Hall of Famer in the top 1% of cold emailers. The other engineered the isolation and monitoring stack. Operators, not outsiders.

Real operators, real results
0.62% 2.87% reply rate

“Aerosend just works.”

Pranam Lipinski Founder
Under 1% over 4% replies

Now books 2-3 meetings a day.

Conrad James Co-founder, CallPad
Tested 10 providers, picked Aerosend.

One choice after the full field.

Alexan Zartarian Founder, Sparklead
1.31% 2.75% same copy and list

Nothing changed but the inboxes.

Nicolás Kwiatkowski Founder, ZalesMachine
4x the replies

“A vendor that's on your side.”

Arthur Grishkevich Founder, Alchemail
95-99% inbox placement on 250+ inboxes

Placement that holds at scale.

Dan Timelines AI
Hundreds of positive replies a week

Volume of intent, every week.

Grayson Faircloth Founder, Kai & Sonamation
17.4% reply rate (LATAM)

Region-specific, still landing.

Santiago Lopez Founder, Saravá Sales

Individual results reported by named customers; methodology and dates on file (as of June 2026).

The honest call

Who should use Mailforge, and who should use Aerosend.

We will be straight about who each one is for. If one of these reads like you, you already know which way the scale points.

Use Mailforge if Could be you
  • The lowest sticker price is what matters most to you.
  • Reply rates don't really matter to you, and your average contract value is under $1,000.
  • You already run plenty of inboxes on Aerosend and just want to diversify.

All three are real reasons to use Mailforge. We would rather you keep what works than change for the sake of it.

Use Aerosend if This is you
  • You want consistent replies and meetings from cold email.
  • You can't afford a stranger's spam dragging down your reputation.
  • You want experts owning your deliverability while you focus on copy and sending.
Tick even one and the scale tips here.
Risk reversal

Here's how much we believe in Aerosend

We built Aerosend to be a more reliable way to land cold email. Test us against anyone you're considering.

The wager

Run both side by side, same copy, same list. If your reply rate isn't higher with us, you get your money back.

The last questions

Before you decide?

The five things people ask right before they switch. The short answer to each is on the right. Open any row for the rest.

It is cheaper, and if the lowest sticker price is all you need, it wins. But on shared IPs your reputation is tied to senders you can't see or control. One spammer on the pool and your replies drop for reasons that have nothing to do with you. Your own dedicated, isolated setup is what keeps that from happening.

Yes. Smartlead, Instantly, lemlist, Woodpecker, Reply.io, Saleshandy, and anything that connects over IMAP or SMTP. We sit under your sequencer, we don't replace it.

Yes, from any registrar (about $10 to $12 a year). We handle all the DNS for you: SPF, DKIM, DMARC, configured automatically.

Run us next to your current provider on the same copy and list. If your reply rate isn't higher with us, you get your money back.

Domains provision in 24 to 48 hours, warmup runs about three weeks, then you're at full capacity.

Nothing left to stop you. Every answer above is yours, included, with money back if we don't beat your reply rate.
Your deliverability, our job
40% off your first 3 months with code AEROSTART
Month-to-month, cancel anytime
Money back if we don't beat your reply rate