lemlist Pricing per User and per Credit, Email and Multichannel Plans
lemlist publishes two paid tiers and a custom one. Email is $69 a month, or $55 a month if you pay yearly. Multichannel is $109 per user a month, or $87 yearly. Enterprise is quoted. The number that decides your real bill is none of those: it is the credit meter that sits underneath every plan, because leads, phone numbers and intent signals are billed separately at $0.01 per credit.
Every lemlist figure on this page was read from lemlist.com/pricing in September 2026, not from a comparison roundup. Prices exclude tax and can change.
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What each lemlist plan costs and includes
Email, $69 a month ($55 yearly)
The entry tier. The plan card advertises unlimited users and unlimited email senders with a 50,000 email a month ceiling, plus the 650M lead database, unlimited contacts, the email and phone finder, the lemAgent AI agents, the lemlist MCP server, a unified inbox, the Deliverability Hub with warm-up, and CRM integrations with API access. Email only: no LinkedIn, no SMS, no dialer.
Multichannel, $109 per user a month ($87 yearly)
Flagged as the popular tier and the one most outbound teams end up on. It adds 5 senders per user, unlimited emails and messages, LinkedIn automation, SMS automation, a WhatsApp add-on, a built-in call dialer with VoIP integrations, task management, and the ability to drive lemlist from inside Gmail and LinkedIn. This one is explicitly per user.
Enterprise, custom quote
Aimed at teams of 5 or more. It raises senders to 5 or more per user and adds CRM-native usage, custom user roles and permissions, a dedicated account manager, custom terms, SSO and SAML login security, 1:1 onboarding sessions and priority support. No public number, so budget on a call.
Credits, $0.01 each, metered separately
This is the second meter and the one that moves your invoice. A verified email costs 5 credits, so $0.05. A phone number costs 20 credits, so $0.20. lemlist sells them in rechargeable packs and quotes 1,000 credits at $10, which it describes as 200 emails or 50 phone numbers.
Intent signals, priced per signal in credits
Separate again. A company visiting your website is 20 credits. Hiring and job-change signals start at 100 credits. A funding event is 100 credits. LinkedIn engagement signals start at 400 credits, which is $4 per signal. Signal-heavy prospecting can cost more per month than the seats do.
Deliverability, included on every plan
Worth noting because rivals charge for it. Google, Microsoft and SMTP connections, in-app domain purchase, rotating IPs, a custom tracking domain, a DNS setup test, deliverability testing, sending-limit management, unsubscribe links, a smart sending algorithm, inbox rotation, in-app mailbox purchase and deliverability alerts all sit inside the plan price.
ColdMailer and lemlist charge for different things
These two are not priced on the same axis, and pretending otherwise would waste your time. lemlist sells a seat that bundles a contact database, multichannel outreach and a credit meter. ColdMailer sells sending: you connect mailboxes you already own and pay for a monthly email allowance. Which is cheaper depends entirely on whether you need lemlist's data.
| Feature | ColdMailer | lemlist |
|---|---|---|
| What the price is charged on | The plan's monthly email allowance. Seats and connected mailboxes do not change the bill | Each user on Multichannel. Adding a rep adds a full $87 to $109 subscription |
| Published entry price | $49 a month on Starter, 1,000 emails | $55 a month yearly, $69 monthly, on the Email tier |
| Price of the tier most teams buy | $99 a month on Pro, 5,000 emails, unlimited SMTP accounts | $87 per user a month yearly on Multichannel, $109 monthly |
| Contact data included | None. You bring your own list, or scrape LinkedIn on Pro | A 650M lead database is included, but pulling verified contact details out of it burns credits |
| Cost of 1,000 verified email addresses | Not sold. Use your own list or your own data vendor | 5,000 credits, which is $50 at the published $0.01 rate |
| LinkedIn, SMS and calling | LinkedIn lead scraping on Pro. No SMS, no dialer | LinkedIn automation, SMS and a built-in dialer, on Multichannel and above |
| Mailboxes | Bring your own. Unlimited SMTP accounts from Pro upward, at no per-inbox fee | 5 senders per user on Multichannel. More senders means more users, or Enterprise |
| Warm-up | Included on every plan | Included on every plan through the Deliverability Hub |
| Currency you are billed in | US dollars | US dollars for US buyers |
| Free trial | No trial. 25 free emails to try, no card required | 14 days on both paid tiers |
lemlist figures read from lemlist.com/pricing in September 2026. ColdMailer figures from coldmailer.ai/pricing.
lemlist pricing against the rest of the market
Entry price exactly as each vendor publishes it. The column that decides your bill is not the price, it is what the price is charged on, because a per-seat platform and a per-allowance sender are not competing for the same budget line.
| Tool | Best for | How it bills | Entry price |
|---|---|---|---|
| ColdMailer | Sending software. You bring mailboxes, SMTP and leads | Monthly email allowance | $49/mo |
| lemlist | Multichannel outbound with a lead database attached | Per user, plus a credit meter | $55/mo yearly |
| ReachInbox | Agencies wanting leads and sending in one place | Per plan, metered on leads and emails | $30/mo yearly |
| Smartlead | High-volume sending with unlimited mailboxes | Per plan tier | $39/mo |
| Instantly | Sending and data bought as two separate meters | Two meters, sending and credits | $47/mo |
| Apollo.io | Contact database first, sequencing attached | Per seat, annual billing | $49/mo |
| ListKit | Done-for-you list building at agency scale | Single plan | $597/mo |
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Decide whether you need Multichannel at all
The gap between the two tiers is not small. Email is $55 a month yearly for the whole account. Multichannel is $87 per user per month. If your motion is email only and you do not need LinkedIn automation, SMS or the dialer, the Email tier is the cheaper answer by a wide margin once you have more than one person.
Multiply Multichannel by headcount, not by team
Multichannel is charged per user. Three reps on yearly billing is 3 times $87, which is $261 a month, or $327 on monthly billing. Five reps is $435 yearly and $545 monthly. Enterprise starts making sense at 5 users, which is exactly where lemlist points you.
Price the credits before you sign
Take your monthly lead target and multiply. At 5 credits per verified email, 2,000 new contacts a month is 10,000 credits, which is $100 on top of the seats. If you also want phone numbers at 20 credits each, 500 numbers is another $100. Credits are the line that turns a $261 invoice into a $461 one.
Count senders, not seats, against your send volume
Multichannel gives 5 senders per user. At a safe 30 cold emails per mailbox per day across 22 business days, each mailbox carries about 660 emails a month, so 5 senders is roughly 3,300 emails. Three users is 15 senders and about 9,900 emails a month. If your volume needs more mailboxes than that, you are buying seats to buy senders, which gets expensive fast.
How much does lemlist cost?
lemlist costs $69 a month for the Email plan, or $55 a month if you pay yearly, and $109 per user per month for Multichannel, or $87 per user per month yearly. Enterprise is custom quoted. Every plan carries a 14-day free trial, and lemlist applies a 20 percent discount for yearly billing and a 10 percent discount for quarterly.
The list price is only half the answer. lemlist runs a second meter on top of the subscription: contact data, phone numbers and buying-intent signals are all billed in credits at $0.01 each, and none of them are included in the seat price. A team on Multichannel with three reps is paying $261 a month in seats before it has enriched a single contact.
Here is the published plan table as it renders on lemlist.com/pricing:
| Plan | Monthly billing | Yearly billing |
|---|---|---|
| $69/mo | $55/mo | |
| Multichannel | $109/user/mo | $87/user/mo |
| Enterprise | Custom | Custom |
lemlist also offers quarterly billing at a 10 percent discount. Its pricing page shows only the monthly and yearly numerals, so applying the advertised 10 percent to the list rates puts quarterly at roughly $62 for Email and roughly $98 per user for Multichannel. Treat those two as arithmetic from lemlist's own discount label rather than as published figures.
Is lemlist priced in euros or dollars?
lemlist prices its plans in US dollars for US buyers: Email is $69 a month or $55 on yearly billing, Multichannel is $109 per user a month or $87 yearly. Visitors from Europe are shown euro prices with the same numerals, which is why some roundups mix the two currencies.
That history explains why the comparison articles disagree so much. Search lemlist pricing and you will find $55, $63, $69, $87, $99 and $109 all presented as fact by different sites. They are mostly quoting different plans and different billing terms, and some still treat the Email plan as per user, which it is not. Check the checkout screen before you budget, but the dollar figures on this page are the ones lemlist shows US visitors today.
How much do leads cost in lemlist?
A verified email address costs 5 lemlist credits and a phone number costs 20, and since one credit is $0.01, that works out to $0.05 per email and $0.20 per phone number. lemlist quotes a 1,000 credit pack at $10 and describes it as 200 emails or 50 phone numbers, which matches that arithmetic exactly.
Multiplied out to the volumes an outbound team actually runs, the credit meter looks like this:
| What you are buying | Credits | Cost at $0.01 per credit |
|---|---|---|
| 1 verified email address | 5 | $0.05 |
| 1 phone number | 20 | $0.20 |
| 1,000 verified email addresses | 5,000 | $50 |
| 1,000 phone numbers | 20,000 | $200 |
| 1 website-visit intent signal | 20 | $0.20 |
| 1 hiring or job-change signal | from 100 | from $1.00 |
| 1 funding-round signal | 100 | $1.00 |
| 1 LinkedIn engagement signal | from 400 | from $4.00 |
The signals are where budgets get away from people. Tracking LinkedIn engagement across a 1,000 account target list, at 400 credits a signal, is $4 per signal. That is a data product with a data product's economics sitting inside what looks like a sequencing subscription, and it is metered per success rather than per month, so it scales with how hard you prospect.
Does lemlist have a free plan?
No. lemlist's pricing page publishes a 14-day free trial on both paid tiers and no free forever plan. There is a free Chrome extension that finds a limited number of contacts a month, but it cannot send outreach, so it is a data sampler rather than a usable free tier.
That is now the norm rather than the exception in this category. Apollo still runs a genuinely free seat with a small credit grant, and ReachInbox publishes a free tier, but Smartlead, Instantly, ListKit and ColdMailer all sell trials rather than free plans. If a free plan is the deciding factor, Apollo is the only one of the group whose free tier includes real sequencing, and even there it caps you at 2 sequences.
Is lemWarm still a separate cost?
Not on the current pricing page. Warm-up now appears inside the plans as part of the Deliverability Hub, and lemlist lists it under features included on every tier alongside inbox rotation, rotating IPs, a custom tracking domain, DNS setup testing, sending-limit management and deliverability alerts. There is no standalone lemWarm price published on lemlist.com/pricing as of August 2026.
People still search for lemwarm pricing because it used to be sold separately, and plenty of older articles still quote a standalone monthly figure for it. If you find one, treat it as historical. The practical version of the question is whether you need to pay anything extra for warm-up on lemlist, and the answer today is no.
Bundled warm-up is genuinely a point in lemlist's favor. Several deliverability tools charge for this on its own, which is the whole reason a comparison between GlockApps and MailReach is a question people ask at all. Getting it inside the seat price removes a line item that otherwise runs 20 to 80 dollars a month.
Does lemlist charge per user?
Multichannel does, explicitly: $109 per user per month, or $87 per user per month on yearly billing. Enterprise is also per user. The Email tier is where it gets confusing, because the plan card advertises unlimited users and unlimited email senders, while the compare-plans strip further down the same page labels the identical plan as from $55 per user per month.
Those two statements cannot both be true, and lemlist has not reconciled them on the page. If the Email tier matters to your budget, get the seat terms in writing before you commit to a year, because the difference between $55 for a team and $55 per person is the entire decision at four or five seats.
Per-user pricing is the structural reason lemlist gets expensive for growing teams while looking cheap for a solo founder. The seat count multiplies, the credit consumption multiplies with it, and neither is capped. Tools that bill on a monthly send allowance instead, which is how cold email software pricing generally splits, hold flat as you add reps.
Is lemlist worth it?
lemlist is worth it if you need one tool to run email, LinkedIn, SMS and calls against a contact database you do not already own, and you have fewer than about four people who need a seat. It stops being worth it when seat count rises, when you already pay for a data vendor, or when your motion is email only at volume.
The honest case for lemlist: the multichannel sequencing is genuinely one product rather than three bolted together, the deliverability tooling is included instead of upsold, the 650M contact database means you can start prospecting the day you sign up, and the AI agent layer does real work on research and enrichment. For a two-person founding sales team, that is a lot of coverage for $174 a month.
The honest case against: two meters means two bills, and the second one is uncapped. At five seats on Multichannel you are at $435 a month yearly before data. Add 2,000 verified contacts a month and you are past $500. If what you actually need is to send a lot of email from mailboxes you already own, you are paying for a database and a dialer you will not touch.
What is the cheapest way to run cold email if lemlist is too expensive?
Split the two jobs and pay for them separately. Sending software and contact data are different products with different price curves, and bundling them is what makes per-seat platforms expensive. Buy sending on a monthly allowance, buy data only when you need it, and own the mailboxes yourself.
On the sending side, the arithmetic is stable and easy to check. Google Workspace Business Starter is $7.00 per user per month on an annual commitment, a .com domain renews around $11.08 a year, and a safe cold sending rate is about 30 emails per mailbox per day. At 22 business days that is roughly 660 emails per mailbox per month, so 5,000 emails a month needs about 8 mailboxes across 3 domains, which is about $58.77 of infrastructure. Add ColdMailer Pro at $99 and the whole operation is $157.77 a month with unlimited SMTP connections and no per-seat charge.
Run the same volume through Multichannel and three seats costs $261 a month yearly, before mailboxes and before a single credit. That gap is the argument for unbundling. The full arithmetic at higher volumes, including the mailbox and domain counts, is worked through in the cost to send 10,000 cold emails a month breakdown.
Which lemlist plan fits which buyer
Solo founder doing email-only outbound
The Email tier at $55 a month yearly is the right entry point, and the 50,000 email ceiling is far more than one person can personalize. Budget $50 on top for every 1,000 verified contacts you pull from the database and you have a realistic number.
Two-person founding sales team on multichannel
Multichannel at $87 per user yearly is $174 a month for the pair, with 10 senders between them. This is the configuration lemlist is genuinely well priced for, because the bundled database and dialer replace tools you would otherwise buy separately.
Five-rep SDR team
$435 a month yearly in seats alone, plus credits, plus the mailboxes. At this size lemlist points you at Enterprise, and it is also the size where a per-allowance sender plus a separate data vendor usually costs less. Price both before renewing.
Agency running campaigns for clients
Per-user billing works badly here, because every client workspace tends to want its own seats and senders. Agencies generally do better on tools that bill per plan and allow unlimited mailboxes. Our cold email agency pricing breakdown covers how those margins work.
Team that already pays for a data provider
You are paying twice. The 650M database and the credit meter are a large part of what lemlist's price buys, and if your contacts already come from elsewhere, a sending-only tool at $49 to $99 a month covers what you actually use.
High-volume sender, 20,000 emails a month or more
Senders become the constraint before seats do. At 5 senders per user and roughly 660 safe sends per mailbox a month, 20,000 emails needs around 30 mailboxes, which is 6 users on Multichannel purely to unlock senders. That is $522 a month yearly for mailbox capacity you could connect for free elsewhere.
lemlist pricing FAQ
lemlist costs $69 a month for Email, or $55 a month billed yearly, and $109 per user per month for Multichannel, or $87 per user per month billed yearly. Enterprise is custom quoted for teams of 5 or more. All figures read from lemlist.com/pricing in August 2026.
No. lemlist publishes a 14-day free trial on both paid tiers and no free forever plan. A free Chrome extension finds a small number of contacts each month but cannot send outreach, so it does not work as a free tier for running campaigns.
One lemlist credit costs $0.01. A verified email address costs 5 credits, so $0.05, and a phone number costs 20 credits, so $0.20. lemlist sells a 1,000 credit pack for $10 and describes it as 200 emails or 50 phone numbers.
Multichannel and Enterprise are charged per user. The Email tier is ambiguous on lemlist's own page: the plan card says unlimited users, while the compare-plans strip labels the same plan from $55 per user per month. Confirm the seat terms before committing to an annual contract.
On yearly billing the Email tier is $55 a month, which is $660 a year, and Multichannel is $87 per user a month, which is $1,044 per user a year. lemlist advertises a 20 percent saving for yearly billing and 10 percent for quarterly. Credits are charged on top of both.
Yes. Warm-up now sits inside the Deliverability Hub and is listed among the features included on every plan, alongside inbox rotation, rotating IPs and a custom tracking domain. lemlist does not publish a separate lemWarm price on its pricing page as of August 2026.
Email covers email sequencing only. Multichannel adds LinkedIn automation, SMS, a WhatsApp add-on, a built-in dialer with VoIP, task management and 5 senders per user, and it is billed per user rather than per account. The price gap is $55 versus $87 per user per month on yearly billing.
It depends on volume. lemlist Email is $69 a month for 50,000 emails with unlimited users, against Smartlead Base at $39 for 6,000 emails and Instantly Growth at $47 for 5,000. Between about 6,000 and 50,000 emails lemlist is the cheapest of the three. On Multichannel, lemlist bills $109 per user, so a larger team pays considerably more than on Smartlead or Instantly, which do not bill per seat.
Because reviewers quote different plans and billing terms, and older roundups copied euro figures with a dollar sign. The same plan appears as $55, $63, $69, $87, $99 and $109 across published roundups. lemlist now shows US visitors $69 or $55 yearly for Email and $109 or $87 yearly per user for Multichannel.
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