lemlist vs Woodpecker
We give lemlist a 2.8 GPA and Woodpecker a 2.6, out of 4.0. lemlist grades higher on value for money. They get the same grade on the free plan, 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
Woodpecker
Cold email priced by prospects contacted, with free team seats
How we grade them
| 2.8GPAlemlistGood | 2.6GPAWoodpeckerGood | |
|---|---|---|
| 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. | BMembers are free, so five people share one plan. At 10,000 prospects a month it's $188, or about $125 billed yearly with the 33% saving the page lists: roughly $25 a head, inside the cheaper quarter. A small team can start at $35 a month for 500. |
| 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. | CNo free plan, but a 14-day trial with every feature and no card. That's long enough to warm a mailbox up and see some real replies. |
| 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. | BBranching campaigns of up to 16 steps, A/B tests, warm-up, free verification, one inbox sorted by interest and a Lead Finder. With the add-on, cloud-run LinkedIn invites, messages and visits join the same campaign, so the whole job is covered. |
| 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 App Store rating on record. You'll connect mailboxes, warm them up and build the conditions before sending, and LinkedIn means one more add-on to set up. |
| 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 HubSpot, Pipedrive, Clay, Calendly, Google Sheets, Zapier, Zoho and Aircall. The catch: the API, webhooks, MCP and the HubSpot and Pipedrive syncs are a $20 a month add-on. |
| Best for | email and LinkedIn in one sequence | cold email teams who hate per-seat bills |
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 Woodpecker. How we grade
Price against what you get
lemlist starts at $55 a month and scores 2.7 out of 4 on features, ease of use and platforms. Woodpecker starts at $35 a month and scores 2.7.
They score the same, and Woodpecker starts $20 a month lower. Of the other cold outreach tools on the chart, 1 scores higher than lemlist for less, and 1 scores higher than Woodpecker for less.
Features, ease of use and platforms, averaged
What paid plans start at, a month (each step along is roughly double) →
- The best score at each price
- Has a free plan
- No free plan
Where they differ
- lemlist starts at $55 per month for 50,000 emails, billed yearly ($69 monthly). Woodpecker starts at $35 per month for 500 contacted prospects, billed monthly.
- Only lemlist lists a browser extension.
- lemlist also covers templates and AI agents.
At a glance
| lemlist | Woodpecker | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free trial | Free trial |
| Starts at | $55 per month for 50,000 emails, billed yearly ($69 monthly) | $35 per month for 500 contacted prospects, 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 | 14-day free trial with all features, no credit card required |
| Web | ||
| Browser extension | ||
| Made by | lempire | Woodpecker AI sp. z o.o. |
| Price read from | lemlist.com | woodpecker.co |
| Checked | Oct 17, 2026 | Oct 17, 2026 |
Who each one suits
lemlist
- Sales teams that combine cold email with LinkedIn and calls
- Teams sending email at volume with many users on one bill
- Senders who personalize each message with images or conditional text
Woodpecker
- Teams that want every member on the account without paying per seat
- Senders who want warm-up and verification included in the price
- Agencies running separate sub-accounts for each client
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.
Woodpecker
- A prospect counts once a month per campaign, but contacting the same person in two campaigns counts twice toward the limit.
- The API, webhooks, MCP and the HubSpot and Pipedrive syncs are a $20 a month add-on rather than part of the plan.
- LinkedIn steps cost $29 a month per connected LinkedIn account, and warm-ups beyond the plan's allowance cost $5 per email account a month.
- The Agency Panel costs $27 a month per active client, plus $5 per client for white labeling.
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.
Woodpecker
- Condition-based campaigns
- Campaigns of up to 16 steps branch on conditions, with A/B tests of up to 5 versions, spintax, snippets and sending in each prospect's time zone.
- Deliverability tools
- Free warm-up, inbox rotation, adaptive sending, matching of Google and Microsoft senders to recipients, a deliverability monitor and an SPF and DKIM audit.
- Free email verification
- Prospect addresses are checked for expired, fake and misspelled emails, catch-all addresses included, through Bouncer at no extra cost.
- Centralized inbox
- Replies from every mailbox land in one inbox, sorted by AI-detected interest level, with out-of-office replies filtered out.
- Lead Finder
- A built-in lead and company database paid for with credits. Each plan step includes some free credits, and more start at 500 credits for $10.
- LinkedIn and call steps
- With the LinkedIn add-on, campaigns mix emails with cloud-run LinkedIn invites, messages and profile visits, plus manual call and SMS tasks.
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.
Woodpecker
Cold Email$35
per month for 500 contacted prospects, billed monthly
8,000 emails a month, 2,000 stored prospects, 2 free warm-ups and 100 Lead Finder credits. Price rises with volume: $188 a month at 10,000 prospects.
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.
Woodpecker
- Annual discount
Save 33% with annual billing
Paid annually, the 500-prospect step costs $280 a year instead of $35 a month; the pricing page puts the saving at 33%.
