lemlist's Email plan costs $69 a month on monthly billing, for unlimited users and senders. Multichannel costs $109 a user.
This page was first written around a contradiction in this site's own records: our review said entry was "from around $39" while three dated readings said $69. A re-read of lemlist.com/pricing on 29 September 2026 settled it at $69, and the review has been corrected. The re-read also showed something the first version of this page got wrong: the Email plan is not priced per seat.
The $39 matched nothing on the current page and has been removed.
What follows is the current price on each plan and billing basis, why the two plans cannot be compared seat for seat, and the figure that makes the Email plan the cheapest email in the category.
What does lemlist cost?
$69 a month for Email on the monthly-billing basis, for unlimited users and email senders and 50,000 emails a month. Multichannel is $109 a user a month, with five senders per user. Pay yearly and those become $55 and $87. Read on 29 September 2026. There is no permanent free plan; there is a 14-day free trial.
The $39 once printed in this site's review had no date and matches nothing on lemlist's page today.
| Figure | Plan | Billing basis | Date read | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $69/mo | Email, unlimited users and senders, 50,000 emails | Monthly | 2026-09-29 | lemlist.com/pricing |
| $55/mo | Yearly, 20% off | 2026-09-29 | lemlist.com/pricing | |
| $109/user/mo | Multichannel, 5 senders per user | Monthly | 2026-09-29 | lemlist.com/pricing |
| $87/user/mo | Multichannel | Yearly, 20% off | 2026-09-29 | lemlist.com/pricing |
| 10% off | Either plan | Quarterly | 2026-09-29 | lemlist.com/pricing |
| $39/mo | None: matched nothing on the page | Not stated | No date recorded | This site's review, since corrected |
Six rows, and only the last was ever in dispute.
How the $39 was settled
By reading the page, not by averaging. The mean of the two figures, $54, would have been a price nobody was ever charged.
This directory's rule is to publish a disagreement until a reading settles it, including disagreements between two of our own files. The reading on 29 September 2026 settled it, so the disagreement is recorded here as history rather than left open.
The lesson is the method: a dated reading that states its billing basis beats an undated figure, however many pages repeat either one.
What a team pays on each plan
Because Email is priced per workspace and Multichannel per user, headcount only changes the bill on Multichannel.
| People sending | Email plan, monthly | Multichannel, monthly | Smartlead Base, flat |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $69 | $109 | $39 |
| 3 | $69 | $327 [computed] | $39 |
| 6 | $69 | $654 [computed] | $39 |
| 10 | $69 | $1,090 [computed] | $39 |
On Email, ten senders cost the same $69 as one. On Multichannel, ten cost $1,090 a month, about 28 times Smartlead's flat Base plan [computed].
So the real question is whether you need LinkedIn, call and SMS steps in the same sequence, not how many people will log in.
Three billing bases, not two
Almost every comparison of this product gets the shape wrong before it gets to the number.
The toggle offers monthly, quarterly at 10% off and yearly at 20% off, and the page opens on the yearly figure with the monthly price beside it. Read on 29 September 2026. So a buyer skimming the page sees $55 and pays $69 unless they commit a year, and this is the vendor whose headline number used to be the annual one, which is why this site records the monthly-billing rate as a convention.
The convention exists because mixing the two bases across a comparison table penalises whichever vendors happened to be recorded on the dearer one, typically by 15 to 20%. Here it is exactly 20% by the vendor's own badge.
Per seat against flat rate, and where they cross
The two pricing shapes in this category meter different things and the choice between them is not a feature question.
Per seat charges for people. Your bill tracks headcount and is indifferent to volume. Flat rate charges for a workspace, so your bill tracks contacts or sends and is indifferent to how many people log in. lemlist sells both: Email is flat with unlimited users, Multichannel is per user. Reply.io and Mailshake are per seat; Instantly, Smartlead and QuickMail are flat.
On Email there is no crossover, because adding people does not add cost. On Multichannel, a single user at $109 already costs more than Smartlead Base or Instantly Growth, so it is worth it only if the LinkedIn, call and SMS steps get used.
The thing per-seat pricing punishes hardest is a team where several people send occasionally, because you pay full freight for a seat somebody opens twice a week. Count seats before you compare features.
The cheapest email in the category, by a factor of nearly five
lemlist against the whole sequencing roster
The cost-per-send table needs a published allowance and only six tools have one. This table needs nothing beyond the entity record, so all twelve sequencing tools in the directory appear, including the two that publish no monthly rate at all.
| Tool | Entry rate held | Pricing model recorded | Free tier | Self-serve | Price verified on |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MailReach | $25 | Flat | No | Yes | 2026-08-07 |
| Mailshake | $29 | Per seat | No | Yes | 2026-08-07 |
| Woodpecker | $35 | Usage | Yes | Yes | 2026-08-06 |
| Saleshandy | $41 | Flat | No | Yes | 2026-09-30 |
| Smartlead | $39 | Flat | No | Yes | 2026-08-11 |
| Instantly | $47 | Flat | Yes | Yes | 2026-08-06 |
| Salesforge | $48 | Usage | No | Yes | 2026-08-11 |
| QuickMail | $49 | Flat | No | Yes | 2026-08-07 |
| Reply.io | $59 | Per seat | Yes | Yes | 2026-08-07 |
| lemlist | $69 | Flat (Email); per user (Multichannel) | No | Yes | 2026-09-29 |
| Klenty | None held | Per seat | No | Yes | 2026-08-07 |
| Meetz | None held | Flat | No | Yes | 2026-08-12 |
Three of twelve are per seat, and lemlist's Email plan is not one of them
Reply.io at $59, Mailshake at $29 at entry against a $58 seat rate, and Klenty, which publishes no monthly figure. lemlist's Email plan is flat with unlimited users; only its Multichannel plan is per user. Seven of the twelve are recorded as flat rate and six of those publish a figure. Two are metered by usage. That split is the shape of the whole category, and it is the reason a sticker comparison across it means so little: the tools are not selling the same unit.
Two rows in this table were stale, and both are now corrected
lemlist's row once sat beside an undated $39 in our review, and Saleshandy's showed $36; both were re-read on 29 September 2026 and corrected. MailReach's $25 is its rate for 1 to 5 mailboxes, falling to $19.50 at 6 to 20. Read the last column before the second one.
$0.00138 a send on the Email plan.
lemlist's Email plan publishes a 50,000-send allowance against its $69 rate, read 25 August and 29 September 2026. That is the largest allowance of any entry plan in this directory and it produces the lowest cost per send by a wide margin: 4.7 times cheaper than Smartlead's Base plan at $0.00650 and 14 times cheaper than Mailshake, which has the lowest sticker price in the category at $29 and includes 1,500 sends for it.
| Tool and plan | Entry, monthly billing | Sends included | Cost per send | Ratio against lemlist |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| lemlist Email | $69 | 50,000 | $0.00138 | 1.0x |
| Smartlead Base | $39 | 6,000 | $0.00650 | 4.7x [computed] |
| Saleshandy Starter | $41 | 6,000 | $0.00683 | 4.9x [computed] |
| Instantly Growth | $47 | 5,000 | $0.00940 | 6.8x [computed] |
| QuickMail Starter | $49 | 5,000 | $0.00980 | 7.1x [computed] |
| Mailshake Starter | $29 | 1,500 | $0.01933 | 14.0x [computed] |
Read that table twice. The cheapest sticker in this category is the most expensive email you can send, and the dearest sticker is the cheapest, which is the single most useful thing a buyer of a sequencer can know and it appears on no ranking page for this query.
And unlike most per-send comparisons, this one does not worsen as the team grows, because the Email plan's $69 covers unlimited users. The limits are the allowance, 50,000 emails a month, and the channel: Email means email only.
lemlist publishes what a credit is worth
One enrichment credit costs one cent. The Data add-on is $20 a month for 2,000 credits, which the page says buys 400 emails or 100 phones [computed: $20 ÷ 2,000].
Enrichment is billed per success, with unlimited credit rollover, according to the pricing page. Putting a money value on a credit is close to unheard of in this market: Apollo, Warmly, folk and Instantly all meter in credits they never convert to money, and this site has spent whole pages on that gap. lemlist simply closes it.
It is worth weighting in a purchase decision more than most feature comparisons are, because a credit you cannot price is a bill you cannot forecast.
The MCP server is on the entry plan, and that cuts both ways
lemlist ships an MCP server and a command-line interface on the $69 Email plan, so a model you control can operate a lemlist account directly. Few tools in this directory offer that.
Read that as a risk as well as a feature. The usual guardrail on an AI sending tool is a human clicking send, and an MCP integration exists precisely to remove that click. Whatever your agent is permitted to do, it can now do to a live sending account with your domain reputation attached to it. Scope the credentials before you scope the prompt.
lemlist also puts its own drafting agents and intent agents on that same cheapest paid tier, where most of this category gates them upward. Whatever else is true of the pricing, the AI is not the part being held back.
The free trial is a real evaluation
The 14-day trial includes the Multichannel plan's features, except in-app calls, plus 200 free credits, according to the pricing page's FAQ. There is no permanent free plan.
Use it, and use it specifically to answer the question the price cannot: whether your team will actually run the LinkedIn and call steps. Teams who buy multichannel and send only email are paying a per-seat premium for two channels nobody switched on, and that is a more expensive mistake than picking the wrong tier.
How to check all of this in fifteen minutes
- Open lemlist.com/pricing and note which billing basis the page opens on. Then click through all three and write down the Email and Multichannel figures on each. Compare against $69 and $109. Five minutes.
- Find the send allowance beside the plan you would buy. Divide the monthly figure by it. Our table says $0.00138 for Email; if yours differs, the allowance moved. Three minutes.
- If you are considering Multichannel, count the people who will run LinkedIn or call steps every week. Multiply by $109 and compare against the $69 Email plan plus a separate LinkedIn tool. Five minutes, and it is the whole decision.
- Check whether anyone on the team has ever run a LinkedIn step. If not, you want the Email plan and not Multichannel, and the difference is at least $40 a month, rising with every user. Two minutes.
Pass condition: on Email, 50,000 sends a month covers your volume; on Multichannel, every paid user runs a channel beyond email. Fail condition: either is false, in which case a flat-rate tool or the Email plan does the same job for less.
When lemlist is the wrong purchase
On Multichannel above a handful of users, where a flat-rate sender plus a separate LinkedIn tool costs less for the same output.
Also when you need far more than 50,000 emails a month from one workspace, because the Email plan's allowance is its ceiling. For volume spread across dozens of mailboxes, Smartlead and Instantly sell larger tiers and the comparison is not close.
And when you would buy Multichannel but only ever send email, in which case the $69 Email plan already does the job. The alternatives page matches eight tools to the specific condition each one wins on.
What breaks in month three
On Multichannel, the user you added without thinking about it. Per-user pricing has no step function to warn you: headcount moves and the bill moves with it, quietly, at $109 a time. On Email, adding people costs nothing.
Second is the channel nobody switched on. A four-user Multichannel plan running email-only costs $436 a month against $69 for the Email plan, $367 a month for nothing, or $1,101 over three months [computed]. Audit it at the end of month one, not at renewal.
Third is the enrichment credit line, which is genuinely well priced at a cent each and is still a variable meter attached to a fixed subscription. And fourth is deliverability, which is better here than the CRM platforms and not as good as the infrastructure specialists, so a team scaling volume inside lemlist will hit a ceiling that is architectural rather than configurable.
So what should you budget?
$828 a year for the Email plan on monthly billing, however many people use it, or $660 billed yearly [both computed from prices read 29 September 2026].
On Multichannel, multiply $109 by the people who will actually run LinkedIn or call steps, and compare the total with the Email plan plus a separate LinkedIn tool.
Buy this one for the sequencing and the interface, which are the best in the category, and not for the price.