lemlist vs Pitchbox (2026): which should you pick?
As of Oct 23, 2026, lemlist grades higher than Pitchbox: 2.8 against 2.0 out of 4.0.
Checked Oct 17, 2026 and Oct 23, 2026 · graded Oct 17, 2026 and Oct 23, 2026 by ToolGPA
lemlist grades higher on value for money and the free plan. They get the same grade on features, ease of use and platforms.
Price, platforms and features side by side. The table says where each price was read and when.
lemlist
Cold email and LinkedIn sequences with a built-in lead database
Pitchbox
Outreach platform for link building and digital PR teams
Which one is for you
Pick lemlist if
- Fits if your team mixes cold email with LinkedIn and calls in one sequence
- Works for an email-only team that can share the Email plan at $55 a month billed yearly
Look elsewhere if
- Pricey if you want LinkedIn for five people, at $87 a user a month billed yearly or $109 monthly
- Not for you if you want a free plan, as Freemium can't launch campaigns and the trial leaves out lemwarm and calling
- Tight if you need lead data, which starts at $16 a month billed yearly for 2,000 credits
- Watch out: on Multichannel, WhatsApp is $20 a user, extra senders $9 each, and SMS a $15 number plus 6 credits a text
- Watch out: SSO, custom roles and lemlist inside your CRM are Enterprise only, at a price set by sales
Pick Pitchbox if
- Fits if you're an agency running link building for many clients and can commit for a year
- Works for in-house SEO teams that pitch publishers directly instead of hiring out
Look elsewhere if
- Pricey if you're one person, as every plan is a year's commitment and Pro alone is $2,520 a year
- Tight if more than 2 people pitch, as Pro has 2 users and 2 mailboxes
- Watch out: recurring campaigns, email rotation, Slack and the API start at Advanced for $420 a month
- Not for you if you want to try it yourself, as trials only come after a demo with a product specialist
- Pricey if you pay monthly, as expert onboarding then costs $2,000 to $4,000
How we grade them
| 2.8GPAlemlistGood | 2.0GPAPitchboxFair | |
|---|---|---|
| Value for money | AFive people share the Email plan, which has unlimited users: $55 a month billed yearly for 50,000 emails, $11 a head, a third of the cheaper quarter. LinkedIn, calls and SMS are another story: Multichannel is $87 per user billed yearly, in this category's dearest tenth. | DPro is $210 a month billed yearly ($300 monthly) for 2 users, and every plan is a one-year commitment, so one person pays at least $2,520 a year. That's in this category's dearest tenth. A team of five needs Advanced at $420, about $84 a head. |
| Free plan and trial | CNo free plan you can send from, since Freemium can't launch campaigns. The 14-day Multichannel trial needs no card and gives 200 credits and 50 emails a day, but leaves out lemwarm and calling. | DNo free plan and no self-serve trial. Pitchbox offers a trial only after a demo with one of its product specialists, and the pricing page doesn't say how long it lasts. |
| Features | BThe whole job: emails, LinkedIn invites, messages and voice notes, calls, SMS and WhatsApp in one sequence, with conditions and an automatic stop on a reply. Warm-up, a 650M-lead database and one inbox for every channel sit alongside. | BProspecting by topic or competitor, AI-written pitches and replies, follow-up sequences, a CRM for link partners, and checks that won links stay live and indexed. It covers the whole job. Email rotation, Slack and the API wait on Advanced. |
| Ease of use | CNo App Store rating on record. There's a fair bit to set up, from senders and warm-up to conditional steps and personalized images, so give it a few days before a sequence feels right. | CNo rating on record. You connect mailboxes and set up campaigns and sequences, and Pitchbox charges $2,000 to $4,000 for expert onboarding on monthly billing, which tells you something. |
| Platforms and integrations | BWeb, plus a Chrome extension that runs lemlist from Gmail and LinkedIn on Multichannel. HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, Zapier, Make, n8n, Clay and Aircall connect, and there's a public API. No phone or desktop app. | BWeb only, with no desktop or phone app. It pulls metrics from Ahrefs, Semrush, Moz and Majestic, sends through Gmail and Microsoft 365, and works with Slack and Zapier. The API starts at Advanced. |
| Best for | email and LinkedIn in one sequence | link-building outreach at agency scale |
The GPA is the average of the five grades: an A is 4 points, an F is none. The full reasons are on each tool's page: lemlist and Pitchbox. How we grade
Where they differ
- lemlist also covers templates, AI agents and email campaigns.
- Pitchbox also covers workflow automation, reports and link outreach.
At a glance
| lemlist | Pitchbox | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free trial | Free trial |
| Starts at | $55 per month for 50,000 emails, billed yearly ($69 monthly) | $210 per month, billed annually ($300 billed monthly) |
| Free plan | None | None |
| Free trial | 14-day free trial of Multichannel, no card required, with 200 credits and 50 emails a day | Free trial offered after a demo with a product specialist |
| Web | ||
| Browser extension | ||
| Made by | lempire | Pitchbox |
| Price read from | lemlist.com | pitchbox.com |
| Checked | Oct 17, 2026 | Oct 23, 2026 |
Worth knowing
lemlist
- No free plan for sending: after the trial, accounts drop to Freemium, which cannot launch campaigns. The trial itself leaves out lemwarm and calling.
- Lead data costs extra: the enrichment add-on is $16 a month billed yearly ($20 monthly) for 2,000 credits, and buying signals $21 ($29) for 100.
- On Multichannel, WhatsApp is $20 per user a month, extra email senders $9 each a month, and SMS needs a $15 a month number plus 6 credits a text.
- LinkedIn, SMS and calling need the per-user Multichannel plan; SSO, custom roles and CRM-embedded use are Enterprise only.
Pitchbox
- Every plan needs a one-year commitment, whether billed monthly or annually; cancelling keeps access until the term ends.
- Pro has 2 users and 2 mailboxes; recurring campaigns, email rotation, Slack and the API start at Advanced for $420 a month.
- There is no self-serve trial: trials are arranged after a demo with a product specialist.
- Expert-led onboarding costs $2,000 to $4,000 by plan on monthly billing and is included with annual billing.
Key features
lemlist
- Multichannel sequences
- Campaigns mix emails with LinkedIn visits, invites, messages and voice notes, calls, SMS and WhatsApp, with conditional next steps and an automatic stop.
- lemwarm and deliverability tools
- Warm-up, inbox rotation, rotating IPs, custom tracking domains, sending limits and a deliverability hub with alerts are included on every plan.
- Lead database and finders
- Search more than 650 million leads and find emails and phone numbers through 25+ data providers, paid for with credits: $1 covers 20 emails or 5 phone numbers.
- Personalization
- Liquid syntax for conditional content, custom variables, personalized images and AI-written lines tailored to each lead.
- lemAgent and AI agents
- lemAgent plus signal, enrichment and messaging agents research leads and write outreach. AI also flags reply intent and out-of-office replies and drafts answers.
- Unified inbox and extension
- Replies from every channel land in one inbox, and on Multichannel a Chrome extension runs lemlist from Gmail and LinkedIn.
Pitchbox
- Prospecting
- Search by topic, keywords, competitor sites or advanced search operators, filter by SEO metrics, and get sites back with contact details found and verified.
- AI personalization and replies
- AI reads each prospect's site to draft a personal pitch, and an AI Reply Agent can answer and negotiate replies. Both are on every plan.
- Email sequences
- Multi-step follow-ups with conditional templates, holiday scheduling and one-click unsubscribe. Rotating sends across mailboxes starts at Advanced.
- Deliverability monitoring
- From Advanced, a built-in MXRight service scores each mailbox daily and watches more than 80 blacklists.
- Link partner CRM and inbox
- One inbox for every mailbox and client, with follow-up reminders, out-of-office detection that snoozes a thread, tasks and pipeline stages.
- Link monitoring and reports
- Checks won links are live, indexed by Google and pointing at a healthy page: 1,000 to 10,000 links by plan, with white-label client reports.
Plans
lemlist
Email$55
per month for 50,000 emails, billed yearly ($69 monthly)
Unlimited users and email senders, lemwarm, the lead database and AI agents. Price rises with volume: $71 a month at 100,000 emails, billed yearly.
Multichannel$87
per user / month, billed yearly ($109 monthly)
Unlimited emails and messages, 5 email senders per user, LinkedIn and SMS steps, a call dialer, and lemlist inside Gmail and LinkedIn.
EnterpriseCustom
Multichannel plus lemlist inside your CRM, custom roles, SSO and SAML, custom terms and a dedicated account manager.
Pitchbox
Pro$210
per month, billed annually ($300 billed monthly)
2 users, 2 email accounts, 2,000 outreach emails and 25 campaigns a month, 1 workspace and 1,000 links monitored.
Advanced$420
per month, billed annually ($600 billed monthly)
Unlimited users, 6 email accounts, 5,000 emails a month, 25 workspaces, email rotation, deliverability monitoring, Slack and the API.
Scale$825
per month, billed annually ($1,200 billed monthly)
Unlimited users, 20 email accounts, 25,000 emails a month, unlimited workspaces and campaigns, approval workflow and Looker Studio.
Enterprise PlatformCustom
For large companies: single sign-on, a service level agreement, vendor security review, private training and dedicated support.
Ways to pay less
lemlist
- Annual discount
Save 20% with yearly billing
lemlist lists a 20% saving for yearly billing and 10% for quarterly: Email at 50,000 emails is $55 a month yearly, $62 quarterly and $69 monthly.
Pitchbox
- Annual discount
Save 30% with annual billing
Pitchbox's pricing page says annual billing saves 30% against monthly payments: Pro is $210 a month instead of $300.
Common questions
Which is cheaper, lemlist or Pitchbox?
As of Oct 23, 2026, lemlist is cheaper to start with: $55 a month, against $210 a month for Pitchbox. lemlist starts at $55 per month for 50,000 emails, billed yearly ($69 monthly), and Pitchbox starts at $210 per month, billed annually ($300 billed monthly).
Which has a free plan, lemlist or Pitchbox?
As of Oct 23, 2026, neither lemlist nor Pitchbox has a free plan. Both have a free trial.
Which platforms do lemlist and Pitchbox run on?
As of Oct 23, 2026, only lemlist lists a browser extension. Both list a web app. A platform missing from a listing is one its maker's pages did not mention.
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How this page was made
- The verdict at the top follows a fixed rule. When both tools are in the same category and either is in our top three for it, the verdict follows that ranking: the higher-placed tool is our pick. The top three weigh who each tool suits as well as its grades, so a pick can go against the GPA. Otherwise the page does not pick one and says which grades higher: the higher GPA first; on a tie, the one with a free plan, then the one that starts cheaper in dollars a month, counted the same way for both; if they are still level, what the choice depends on.
- The grades are our own, from each tool’s review or report card. The GPA is their average.
- Prices, plans and platforms come from each tool’s listing. The table above says where each price was read and when.
- The differences and the answers to the questions are worked out from those listings.