lemlist too expensive? What it costs in 2026 and a cheaper alternative

Reach-book.com is our product. The lemlist figures below come from lemlist's pricing page and help center, checked on 4 October 2026. lemlist showed the same numbers in dollars and euros; we quote dollars.

What lemlist costs in 2026#

lemlist changed its plans in late 2025. Older articles that quote "Email Pro" per-seat prices or "3 senders per user" are out of date.

The Email plan rises with volume: 100,000 emails a month is €89, 200,000 is €159.

The part that surprises people is data. The Email plan includes no credits. Finding and verifying an email costs 5 credits and a phone number 20, and credits come from a data add-on at $20 a month for 2,000 credits, which lemlist sizes at about 400 emails or 100 phone numbers. Multichannel includes 400 credits per user per month. Credits roll over while you stay subscribed, and you pay only for successful results.

Why the bill grows#

Three things push a lemlist bill up:

1. Finding emails costs extra on the Email plan. $69 for sending plus $20 for about 400 found emails is $89 a month before anything else.
2. Multichannel is per user. A team of five on monthly billing pays 5 × $109 = $545 a month. LinkedIn steps, calls and SMS are only on this plan.
3. Add-ons. Buying-intent signals are $29 a month for 100 signals, an SMS phone number is $15 a month, and WhatsApp is a paid add-on on Multichannel and Enterprise.

None of this is hidden; it is on lemlist's pricing page. It adds up when a small team only wanted to send good emails and follow up.

Reach-book.com prices for the same job#

Email lookups are included in every plan, and top-up packs add 100 lookups for €16. A team of five fits in Team at €79 a month with lookups, the AI email writer, sequences, the shared inbox and sales reporting included. Current plans are on our pricing page.

What you keep and what you lose by switching#

What Reach-book.com covers that you use in lemlist today:

• Email sequences with steps, delays, conditions, sending schedules and A/B tests.
• Sending from your own Gmail, Microsoft 365 or SMTP mailboxes, with daily limits, pacing and sender pools.
• A lead finder with verified email status and company website research.
• AI drafts written from each prospect's research and your business profile, approved by you in a review queue.
• A shared inbox with assignment, notes, reminders, reply detection and AI reply suggestions.
• HubSpot sync, Calendly bookings, an API and webhooks.

What Reach-book.com does not do, and lemlist does:

• LinkedIn automation (visits, invites, messages, voice notes).
• Calls, a power dialer, SMS and WhatsApp.
• A built-in lead database lemlist describes as "650M+ leads".
• Salesforce and Pipedrive integrations, a custom tracking domain and buying domains and mailboxes in the app.

If your outreach depends on LinkedIn steps or calls inside the same sequence, stay with lemlist Multichannel. Reach-book.com is an email-first tool.

Worked example: a three-person team sending email only#

Take a team of three that sends email sequences, finds about 300 new addresses a month and does not use LinkedIn steps or calls.

• lemlist Email, monthly billing: $69 for sending plus the $20 data add-on for 2,000 credits (about 400 emails) is $89 a month. Unlimited users, so all three are covered.
• lemlist Multichannel, monthly billing: 3 × $109 is $327 a month, with 1,200 credits included (about 240 emails at 5 credits each), so a busy month may still need the data add-on.
• Reach-book.com Team, monthly billing: €79 a month for up to ten seats with 250 email lookups and 250 enrichments, plus a €16 pack of 100 lookups in a busy month.

For email-only outreach, lemlist's Email plan with the data add-on and Reach-book.com Team cost about the same; the difference is in what is included. lemlist gives you a larger lead database and higher sending volume. Reach-book.com includes company research for each prospect, AI drafts written from that research, a shared inbox with assignment and notes, and deal tracking. Once a team needs Multichannel, lemlist costs several times more per month.

Is lemlist worth it?#

lemlist is worth the price if you use what the price pays for: LinkedIn steps and calls in the same sequence, a large lead database, or tens of thousands of emails a month. It is hard to justify if you send a few hundred personal emails a month, because most of the plan goes unused. Write down the features you used last month before you decide.

What lemlist users complain about#

We could not reach G2 or Capterra's lemlist pages when researching this. A review published by Salesforge, which sells a competing tool, lists billing surprises and refund friction, an unstable Chrome extension, weak reporting and duplicate handling across campaigns. Other summaries mention per-seat cost rising with team size and a learning curve. Treat these as reported themes from sources with their own interests, ours included.

How to switch from lemlist#

1. Export your leads and your unsubscribed list from lemlist as CSV.
2. In Reach-book.com, import the unsubscribed list into suppression first, then import leads with column mapping.
3. Connect the same mailboxes you sent from in lemlist, so prospects keep hearing from the same address and the mailbox keeps its sending history.
4. Rebuild your sequence in the visual campaign editor and review the rendered messages before launch.
5. Start with a small batch and watch bounces for the first few days.

lemlist's 14-day trial needs no card. Reach-book.com's 7-day trial needs a card and is available once per new workspace owner.