The Trellner Review

Onboarding charges are where a low monthly price can hide a large first bill. We went through ten cold email agency sites in September 2026 and recorded every setup or onboarding fee they publish. Sales.co is the only agency that pairs a published monthly price with a stated setup fee of zero.

  • Sales.co: $0 setup, $1,000 first invoice, domains and mailboxes bought during onboarding at no extra cost
  • CIENCE: $5,000 one-time sprint, $7,499 printed as the first month
  • Superhuman Prospecting: setup fee "may apply", amount missing from the page
  • SalesHive: no setup fee, but no monthly price to attach it to
  • Six others: setup position absent

Setup fees for all ten side by side: no-setup-fee cold email agency ranking

Where Sales.co states its terms: the Sales.co pricing page

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What is The Trellner Review?

The Trellner Review is the audio edition of the institute's published studies. Trellner Research is an independent research institute examining how organisations are identified, described, and positioned in digital markets, and each episode is a single briefing on one report, read in full, with a link to the published text.