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Smartlead vs lemlist

Pick up to 4 tools and see their free plans, entry prices, platforms and limits in one table. Every fact comes from each vendor's own pages, checked 21 October 2026.

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Smartlead

Free trial · from $32.50/mo

lemlist

Free trial · from $55/mo

What it isCold email platform with unlimited mailboxes and warmup, priced by sends and stored contacts, not seatsMultichannel outreach across email, LinkedIn, calls and WhatsApp, with an email-only plan priced by volume
Free planNoNo
Cheapest paid plan$32.50/mo billed annually (Base)Smartlead pricing$55/mo billed annually (Email)lemlist pricing
What it covers2,000 stored contacts, 6,000 email sends and 2,000 verified prospect emails a month, unlimited email accounts; $390 a year on annual billing. No CRM, API or webhooks on Base.50,000 emails a month with unlimited users and email senders; $62 a month on quarterly billing. Higher volumes cost $89 (100,000), $159 (200,000), $359 (500,000) and $659 (1,000,000) a month on monthly billing.
Free trialFree trial on every plan, no card needed; length not stated14-day free trial with Multichannel features (except in-app calls) and 200 credits
PlatformsWeb, APIWeb, Chrome extension, API, CLI
Integrations (vendor's figure)Native connections with Clay, HubSpot, Zapier, Slack, Salesforce and 18+ more58 integrations across 8 categories, including HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, Zapier, Make, n8n and Clay
Open sourceNoNo
Good for
  • Agencies sending high volumes across many mailboxes
  • Running client campaigns in separate whitelabel workspaces
  • Scaling sends without per-seat or per-mailbox fees
  • Running email and LinkedIn outreach in one sequence
  • Teams that want unlimited users on an email-only plan
  • Building campaigns from a written brief with an AI agent
Watch out for
  • Base has no CRM, API or webhooks and caps stored contacts at 2,000
  • Verified prospect emails cost $59 a month extra on Base and Pro
  • Dedicated servers and client workspaces are paid add-ons below Unlimited Prime
  • LinkedIn, SMS, calling and the Gmail and LinkedIn extensions are only on the per-user Multichannel plan
  • Lead finding and intent signals use credits sold as separate add-ons
  • WhatsApp steps cost an extra $20 per user a month
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Entry prices are the cheapest paid plan, as each vendor publishes it; “What it covers” says what that price is per (a user, a channel, a brand, a number of contacts). The sources are listed on each tool's page.

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