MailScale vs Infraforge: Cold Email Infrastructure Comparison

For a thorough understanding of what each option offers, a simplified comparison table isn't enough to grasp all intricacies that come with each tool, so let's dive deeper into what makes MailScale and Infraforge unique.

MailScale vs Infraforge: Cold Email Infrastructure Overview

Infraforge presents itself as an advanced private email infrastructure built for cold outreach with:

• Dedicated IPs
• Automated DNS setup
• Bulk DNS updates
• Pre-warmed domains and mailboxes
• Multi-IP provisioning
• A Masterbox view for multiple inboxes
• And an API for programmatic scaling.

Infraforge stresses full technical control, which is highly advantageous for advanced teams and agencies doing high volume outreach.

MailScale pitches itself as a fast way to generate email inboxes that get more replies: automated creation of email accounts at speed, high deliverability, and pricing tiers aimed at solopreneurs through enterprise teams.

Both brands target cold email outreach, but they approach the problem from different angles:

• Infraforge focuses on advanced deliverability, infrastructure and control.
• MailScale emphasizes speed with a lesser regard for deliverability.

Pricing Structure

Infraforge provides flexible, usage-based pricing for dedicated-IP email infrastructure. A handy on-page calculator estimates your exact costs. Annual billing gives 2 months free.

• $14/year per .com domain
• $4/Mailbox Slot/month

Add-ons & extras

• SSL & Domain Masking: $2/domain/month (quarterly billing) or $0.5/domain/month (annual billing)
• Infraforge Expert Double Session (two 1:1 sessions with experts) for $500

MailScale provides packaged plans that charge by number of inboxes (plus domains you buy inside the app).

• Solopreneur - $79/month (up to 10 inboxes)
• Business - $119/month (up to 30 inboxes)
• Enterprise - $249/month (up to 95 inboxes)
• Unlimited - $1000+/month (unlimited inboxes)
• .com domain ≈ $15 / year
• Pre-warmed inboxes add-on: $99/month for 20 pre-warmed inboxes (upgradeable)

Setup & Onboarding

Setup experience matters - teams often want to avoid manually creating domains, DNS records, DKIM/SPF/DMARC, and mailboxes for each sending domain.

• Infraforge emphasizes a free automated set up that configures DMARC, SPF and DKIM for each domain, and advertises a 5-minute ready state and bulk DNS updates for many domains.

That means when you add multiple domains or need to connect sending domains quickly for a campaign, Infraforge's automated setup reduces the manual setup burden and helps teams avoid the traditional methods of hand-editing DNS records across registrars.

• MailScale likewise promises fast setup and positions itself as replacing the 12+ hours of manual setup with an automated CSV of ready-to-use email accounts you can plug into an email sending tool.

Both approaches avoid long manual setup sequences, though target slightly different pain points:

• MailScale makes acquiring and wiring up many email inboxes fast.
• Infraforge emphasizes the infrastructure side (dedicated IPs, automated DNS, pre-warmed domains) that gives full control over the technical setup and long-term deliverability.

DNS Setup & Domain Management

DNS setup and the ability to update DNS records across many domains quickly is core to any cold outreach operation that needs multiple domains and sending domains.

• Infraforge offers domain transferring and automated DNS set up as key features - including DMARC, SPF and DKIM - and highlights the ability to push bulk DNS updates across an entire infrastructure.

That technical infrastructure is designed to reduce the chance of misconfigured DNS records that cause deliverability issues and to give teams full control when connecting domains for campaigns.

• MailScale also supports buying or adding domains and claims a fast setup for generating email inboxes, which helps when you need many new accounts rapidly.

Ultimately, Infraforge leans more into domain management tools that help larger teams manage multiple domains without the manual headaches of traditional methods.

IP Strategy

IP strategy matters when you’re doing cold outreach and high volume outreach: whether you buy dedicated IPs, provision multiple IPs, or rotate IPs across sending domains impacts how quickly you can scale without triggering spam filters.

• Infraforge explicitly promotes dedicated IPs and multi IP provisioning, letting teams buy additional IPs and protect both domain security and deliverability. The platform also includes sender rotation and smart sending limits as mechanisms to avoid spam and preserve a strong sender reputation.
• MailScale emphasizes quick inbox creation, but deep control of multi-IP provisioning - not so much.

For organizations that will run many concurrent campaigns and need IP rotation as a strategic lever, Infraforge’s dedicated IP mailboxes gives teams more granular control to build and shepherd a long-term sending domain strategy.

Alternative Infrastructure Options: Shared IP & Private IP Email Infrastructures

Salesforge uniquely bundles alternative infrastructure choices into a single stack:

• Primeforge (Google Workspace & MS365 mailboxes) for ESP-matched deliverability
• Mailforge for shared IP infrastructure needs
• Infraforge for private, dedicated-IP infrastructure and more customizable control

That product architecture means a single vendor can support multiple outbound campaigns and use-cases - from teams that want to manage multiple domains and multiple accounts cheaply, to heavy hitters who need dedicated IP provisioning or fine-grained control.

• By contrast, MailScale's positioning does not advertise a connected family of infrastructure alternatives you can switch between on the same platform.

For buyers weighing long-term lead generation and cold email outreach, this matters.

Having integrated alternatives (ESP-matched mailboxes + shared infra + private infra) inside one suite preserves CRM integration, feedback loops, and the ability to run deliverability tests and reputation monitoring under the same platform umbrella.

This saves time, reduces manual DNS setup and plan friction when adding new domains or new users, and helps maintain stable sender reputation as your sending volume scales.

Customer Support

Customer support models differ a lot between providers and that difference matters for adoption, troubleshooting deliverability, and long-term campaign health.

MailScale offers support via:

• 24/7 in-app chat
• A Slack channel
• A help center with step-by-step getting-started guides
• Domain setup and troubleshooting articles
• And a dedicated Email Deliverability collection with inbox-placement tips

Infraforge advertises consultative services and add-ons - such as expert sessions to diagnose outreach challenges - along with deliverability resources and onboarding that reduces setup time

Besides that, Infraforge also offers:

• 24/7 email and live chat support
• Extensive documentation
• Youtube tutorials
• An active Slack community
• And even weekly AMA sessions.

In practice that means fewer technical steps for your team, less manual work mapping records across registrars, and fewer hours spent troubleshooting or waiting for a response.

Final Verdict - Which Email Provider Should You Pick For Your Cold Email Outreach?

MailScale is a great choice for solopreneurs, small businesses, and teams that want an extremely fast, low-friction way to generate many email inboxes and avoid manual setup.

It’s a solid choice for sending cold emails fast, but if you'd like a Forge stack option - Mailforge is a very similar alternative.

Infraforge is the better technical infrastructure pick for agencies, growing teams, and anyone doing sustained, large-scale outreach who needs full control over sending domains, DNS records, IP rotation, and programmatic provisioning.

Infraforge’s automated DNS setup, dedicated IPs, pre-warmed domains, bulk DNS updates, Masterbox for multiple inboxes and API access make it particularly strong when the priority is best deliverability and scaling the technical setup across multiple domains and many users.

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