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Published October 8, 2026 · Updated October 8, 2026
The verdict in 60 words: lemlist is the sequencer that grew into a platform: email, LinkedIn, SMS, WhatsApp and calling in one sequence, a 650M-contact database, warm-up and, new in 2026, lemAgent to build campaigns from a chat. The Email plan is now priced per workspace with unlimited users, which changes the maths for small teams. Support and reporting are where reviewers lose patience.
Price: Email $69 a month monthly or $55 yearly per workspace; Multichannel $109 per user monthly or $87 yearly. 14-day trial, no card. Best for: small teams that want LinkedIn and email in one sequence without an agency-scale bill. Not for: heavy LinkedIn senders, because lemlist caps invites at 20 a day.
What we checked, and when: each vendor's pricing and features pages, its help centre, Vendr where it publishes contract data, and the public review listings we could open (Capterra, Trustpilot; G2 blocked automated reads on most pages and is cited only where it rendered or where the vendor states its own score). All read on October 8, 2026. This is a documentation and reviews-based assessment, not a hands-on test.
Disclosure: Valley makes an outbound platform and competes for part of this budget. Where Valley appears it is marked, and every price and claim below was read from the source named next to it on October 8, 2026.
Valley is an AI outbound platform that finds the people most likely to buy from you - from live buying signals, natural-language search, or your own lists - qualifies them against your ICP, researches each one, and sends personalized messages across email and LinkedIn that get 15-45% reply rates, against a category average of about 2%.
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lemlist at a glance
lemlist | |
|---|---|
What it is | A multichannel outbound platform: sequences, lead database, enrichment, warm-up and an AI agent |
Starting price | $55 a month per workspace on yearly billing (Email); $87 per user yearly (Multichannel) |
Trial | 14 days, no card, 200 credits, 50 emails a day |
Channels | Email on the Email plan; email, LinkedIn, SMS, WhatsApp and calls on Multichannel |
Prospect data | 650M+ lead database, email and phone finder; enrichment add-on $20 a month |
Stated limits | LinkedIn 20 invites a day, 30 messages a day; email 25 to 30 a day per mailbox after ramping |
Reviews | Capterra 4.6 from 387, read October 8, 2026; G2 blocked automated reads |
Pros
Email, LinkedIn, SMS, WhatsApp and calling in one sequence on Multichannel, with a unified inbox.
The Email plan is per workspace with unlimited users and senders and 50,000 emails a month, so a five-person team pays one $55 fee.
lemwarm warm-up, inbox delivery tooling and dynamic images and landing pages, the personalization reviewers praise.
lemAgent builds and launches campaigns from a conversation and executes inside lemlist.
58 listed integrations including HubSpot, Salesforce, Attio, Pipedrive, Close, Zapier, Make, n8n and Clay.
Cons
LinkedIn volume is capped by lemlist itself at 20 invites a day and about 100 to 110 total actions, well under what dedicated LinkedIn tools allow.
Support is the recurring complaint: friendly but non-technical, with slow escalation.
Open and click reporting is described as unreliable in reviews, and SMTP connection support was removed without notice.
Throttling applies across all seats when one domain's deliverability dips.
Vendr still lists a per-user Email Pro plan at $55; the vendor page now sells Email per workspace, so older comparisons are wrong.
Key features
Multichannel sequences
Email, LinkedIn visit, invite and message, SMS, WhatsApp as an add-on and an in-app dialer with 400 minutes per user a month on Multichannel. Conditions branch on replies and opens. The Email plan is email only, by lemlist's own description.
Lead database and enrichment
650M+ contacts with an email finder, verifier and phone finder. Enrichment credits are $20 a month for 2,000 (400 emails or 100 phones); Multichannel includes 400 credits per user a month. Buying intent signals are a $29 add-on for 100 signals a month.
lemAgent and the AI layer
lemAgent, labelled New, finds buyers, enriches, writes sequences and launches them from a chat. Intent Signal Agents and Data Enrichment Agents sit behind it, plus a lemlist MCP and CLI for teams that script.
Deliverability
lemwarm warm-up is included (excluded on trial), with lemlist's guidance to start at 10 to 15 emails a day per mailbox and cap at 25 to 30, keeping warm-up plus campaigns at or below 50.
lemlist pricing
All figures from lemlist.com/pricing and the help centre plan article, read October 8, 2026. Quarterly saves 10%, yearly 20%.
Plan | Monthly | Yearly (per month) | Unit | What you get |
|---|---|---|---|---|
$69 | $55 | Per workspace, unlimited users | 50,000 emails a month, database, lemAgent, warm-up, CRM and API; volume tiers up to 1M emails at $659 | |
Multichannel | $109 | $87 | Per user | Unlimited emails and messages, 5 senders per user, LinkedIn, SMS, WhatsApp add-on, dialer with 400 minutes |
Enterprise | Custom | Annual only, min 5 seats | Per user | 5+ senders per user, SSO, account manager, 800 call minutes |
Add-ons | Enrichment $20; intent $29 | $16; $21 | Per month | 2,000 credits; 100 signals |
The per-workspace maths against the old per-user plan is in lemlist pricing explained.
Give your sales team
an unfair advantage.
lemlist alternatives
Prices read October 8, 2026.
Instantly: cheaper raw email volume, $47 a month for 5,000 emails with unlimited accounts, but no LinkedIn at all. See our Instantly review.
Mailshake: $29 to $99 per user with a dialer on the top plan and no trial; simpler and cheaper for a one-person team. See lemlist vs Mailshake.
Apollo: $49 a seat on annual with a 240M database and sequences, but manual LinkedIn steps. See lemlist vs Apollo.
Valley (our product) starts from the other end: live buying signals, natural-language search or your own list, then qualification against your ICP, per-person research and a first message in your voice, then LinkedIn and email sequences. One seat is one LinkedIn account; Starter is $199 a month or $149 billed quarterly, with a 7-day trial. Fewer messages, each with a reason to reply. See how Valley compares.
More in lemlist alternatives (2026) and Valley vs lemlist.
Who lemlist is for
A small team that wants one tool for email and LinkedIn sequences, values dynamic personalization, and sends at modest LinkedIn volume. The per-workspace Email plan is now one of the best deals in the category for a team of three to ten senders.
Who lemlist is not for
Teams whose LinkedIn volume is the engine: 20 invites a day is a fifth of what Expandi or Dripify allow. Teams that need technical support fast. And anyone who needs per-person research rather than merge-field personalization; lemAgent writes, it does not investigate.
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FAQ
How much does lemlist cost? Email is $69 a month monthly or $55 on yearly billing per workspace with unlimited users. Multichannel is $109 per user monthly or $87 yearly. Enterprise is custom and annual with a 5-seat minimum. Read October 8, 2026.
Does lemlist have a free trial? Yes, 14 days with no card, 200 credits and a 50-emails-a-day cap; lemwarm and calling are excluded on trial.
Does lemlist automate LinkedIn? On the Multichannel plan: visits, invites and messages, capped by lemlist at 20 invites and 30 messages a day. The Email plan has no LinkedIn.
What is lemAgent? lemlist's AI agent that finds buyers, enriches contacts, writes multichannel sequences and launches them from a chat inside lemlist.
Is lemlist cheaper than Instantly? Not on raw email volume: Instantly's Growth plan is $47 for 5,000 emails. lemlist's Email plan is $55 on yearly for 50,000 emails with unlimited users, so it depends on team size and volume.
What do reviewers complain about? Non-technical support and slow escalation, unreliable open and click reporting, per-seat Multichannel pricing, SMTP support removed, and throttling across seats when one domain dips.
How this page was made: the facts were read from the sources named in the text on October 8, 2026; drafted with AI assistance; fact-checked, reviewed and edited by Saniya Sood.
