The best lemlist alternatives
Six tools, and who each one suits.

The best lemlist alternatives depend on which half of lemlist you actually use. If it is the LinkedIn steps and the lead database, the closest options are other multichannel prospecting platforms; if it is the cold email and the replies, there are senders built around unlimited mailboxes and an AI agent that answers for you. Here are six, ranked for the typical lemlist buyer, with how each one charges.

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Every channel wired into one agent and out to the tools behind it: email, SMS, phone, Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp, Telegram, LINE, Slack, Discord, X, Reddit, Bluesky, website chat, campaign sequences and follow-ups on one side; HubSpot, GoHighLevel, Housecall Pro, ServiceTitan, Jobber, Google Calendar, Microsoft 365, Calendly, HubSpot Meetings, Zoho Bookings, Acuity Scheduling, Cal.com, Square Appointments, Stripe, Shopify, WooCommerce, Wix and Squarespace on the other.

Why people look for lemlist alternatives

lemlist is an outbound prospecting platform. Its own site describes a lead database of more than 650 million contacts, enrichment, AI that writes personalised steps, and campaigns that run across email, LinkedIn, calls, WhatsApp and SMS from one workflow, with conditions that adjust the steps to what each lead does. Its warm-up tool, lemwarm, is included with every seat, and the conversations that come back land in a unified inbox. For a sales team whose working day is prospecting, that is a great deal of the stack in one place, and nothing on this page pretends otherwise.

The people who search for lemlist alternatives are usually weighing the shape of the plan rather than the sending. At the time of writing, lemlist's published plans start at $69 a month, or $55 a month billed annually, for its Email plan, which lists unlimited users and email senders. LinkedIn automation, SMS, the call dialer and the WhatsApp add-on sit on its Multichannel plan, which is priced per user with five senders each, and finding and verifying emails and phone numbers draws on lemlist credits. That is a coherent model for a team that uses all of it. It is a harder sum for a team that uses one half.

Which half matters. A buyer who lives on LinkedIn wants another tool that treats LinkedIn as a first-class channel. A buyer who mainly sends cold email wants unlimited mailboxes and warm-up at a price tied to volume rather than seats. A buyer who uses the database more than the sequences wants data with a free way in. And a founder or small team with a list already in hand often wants something else again: the reply answered, the meeting booked and the enquiries that never came from a campaign handled by the same tool. The six options below cover all four.

Every entry is described from the tool's own website, checked on 11 September 2026: what it does, how it charges, and when it is the right choice, including when that is not the tool ranked first. Pricing is given by model, with a figure only where the tool publishes one. Plans change often in this category, so treat the figures as a starting point and read each pricing page before you commit. If LinkedIn steps carry your lemlist sequences, check how each tool handles them before you move anything.

LinkedIn-first optionsReply.io and La Growth Machine put LinkedIn steps beside email in one sequence.
Data built inReply.io, Apollo and Instantly find contacts as well as write to them.
Mailboxes off the billInstantly and Smartlead include unlimited email accounts on their plans.
The reply answered for youBold Agent Kit's agent writes back from your material and books the meeting.
Four ways to be chargedPer user, per identity, by contacts and sends, or one price for the account.
From their own sitesEach tool is described from its website as checked on 11 September 2026.

Four reasons people move on from lemlist

None of them is a complaint about the sending. They are about the shape of the plan, and what happens on either side of the sequence.

01

Only the email half gets used

lemlist's Email plan covers email outreach with unlimited users and senders, while the channels many people associate with lemlist, LinkedIn automation, SMS, the dialer and WhatsApp, sit on its Multichannel plan, priced per user. A team that sends cold email and nothing else may find a tool built only around mailboxes, warm-up and sends a simpler fit, with pricing that moves with its volume rather than with channels it does not use.

02

LinkedIn is the channel that works

For other teams it is the reverse. Their prospects answer on LinkedIn, and email is the second touch. lemlist offers LinkedIn profile visits, connection requests and messages on its Multichannel and Enterprise plans. Buyers for whom LinkedIn is the whole strategy sometimes prefer a platform organised around the LinkedIn profiles that run the campaigns, or one that bundles LinkedIn, calls and WhatsApp at a single per-user price.

03

The list already exists

Finding and verifying contact details in lemlist draws on credits, and its database of more than 650 million leads is one of the main reasons to buy it. A business that already holds its list in a spreadsheet, a CRM or a client's customer records is paying for a plan organised partly around data it will not search, and wants a tool that starts from the list it has and spends its effort on what happens after the send.

04

Somebody still has to answer

lemlist gathers the conversations into a unified inbox so that your team can reply by email, LinkedIn, WhatsApp or call. A founder, a two-person agency or a local business does not always have that team. They look for a tool that answers the reply itself, from their own material, books the meeting while the person is still reading, and handles the website chat, the calls and the DMs that arrive without any campaign at all.

What to look for in a lemlist alternative

lemlist does a lot, so no single alternative replaces all of it. Three questions tell you which part you actually need replaced.

01 / Channels

Which steps your sequences really use

Look back at the last three campaigns you ran. If every step was an email, a tool built around mailboxes and sends will do the job with less to configure. If LinkedIn visits and messages carried the replies, you need LinkedIn inside the sequence, not as a separate task list. If calls or texts matter, check which plan carries them: several tools put calls, SMS or LinkedIn on a higher plan or on an add-on priced per account.

02 / Data

Whether you need the database

A built-in database and an email finder are the reason some teams buy lemlist, and they are worth paying for if you prospect new accounts every week. If the list comes from a CRM, a trade show or your own research, data credits are a cost you can leave behind. The tools here range from a database of more than a billion contacts to none at all, with a browser side panel that pulls contacts from the pages you visit.

03 / Replies and price

Who answers, and what the bill counts

Decide who handles the reply: your team in a shared inbox, an AI reply agent you add to a plan, or an agent that answers from your own material and books the meeting. Then look at the unit each plan is counted in, whether users, LinkedIn identities, contacts and sends, or the whole account, and at where the AI cost sits, inside the plan or on your own key.

The best lemlist alternatives, ranked

Bold Agent Kit is first. The other five are ordered by how closely each matches what a typical lemlist customer uses lemlist for, which is multichannel sequences with LinkedIn alongside email: first the two LinkedIn-and-email platforms, Reply.io and La Growth Machine, then Apollo for its database and dialer, then Instantly and Smartlead, the two senders built around unlimited mailboxes.

We make Bold Agent Kit, which is why it is first on this list. Every other entry is described from its own website, including when it is the better choice.

01 / Best for cold email that answers its own replies

Bold Agent Kit

Bold Agent Kit is one AI agent that runs cold email and then does the part a sequence usually leaves to a person. It sends from as many mailboxes as you connect, Gmail and Outlook on an app password and anything else as an SMTP and IMAP host, through your own server. Each mailbox warms up on a ramp from five a day, carries a health score out of 100 built from SPF, DKIM and DMARC, seven days of sends and bounces and where its warm-up mail is landing, and leaves campaign rotation on its own when its bounce rate or spam placement crosses a threshold. Campaigns rotate across the healthy addresses inside an hourly cap per mailbox and a daily cap per sender, and every email carries a one-click unsubscribe, honoured on mail already in the queue.

When somebody replies, the agent answers from the address the reply arrived at, from your Q&A pairs, documents, prices and the pages of your site it may link to, once per thread, ignoring bounces, out-of-office replies and no-reply addresses. When they are interested, it offers real open slots from your calendar and books the one they pick. A campaign can follow an unopened email with a text on your own number and a call the agent places itself on your Twilio number, and the same agent answers website chat, inbound calls and DMs on eleven platforms. It is narrower than lemlist on prospecting: there is no contact database, no LinkedIn step and no outbound WhatsApp. The list comes from a CSV, a segment of a connected CRM, or the Chrome side panel, which extracts email addresses, phone numbers and social profile links from the pages you browse.

Choose it if you already have your list and the bottleneck is what comes after the send: the replies, the meetings and the enquiries that arrive without a campaign. It is $25 a month or $200 a year for the whole account, with unlimited agents, mailboxes and contacts, and no seats or credits. The AI runs on your own key with any of sixteen providers, billed by that provider at cost, and your carrier bills any texts and calls. An agency can run one agent per client and invite each client into their own.

Best forcold email that answers its own replies
Pricing$25 a month or $200 a year for the whole account, with a 7-day free trial. Your AI provider and carrier bill you at cost.
ChannelsEmail, text and call steps; website chat, inbound calls and DMs on eleven platforms
Replies answered, meetings bookedFrom your Q&A pairs, documents and prices, with real open slots offered from your calendar.
Unlimited mailboxes, one priceWarm-up, a health score with reasons and an automatic rest on every address.
Text and call stepsA text on your own number, then a call the agent places itself, for the ones who did not open.
No database, no LinkedInYou bring the list; there is no LinkedIn step and no outbound WhatsApp.
02 / Best for multichannel sequences with a database and an AI SDR

Reply.io

Reply.io is the closest like-for-like replacement for lemlist's multichannel side. Its sequences put email, LinkedIn, WhatsApp, SMS and calls in one flow, adapting to replies and actions, and any other channel can be connected to a sequence through a Zapier step. It gives access to live data from more than a billion B2B contacts, with live data credits each month, pulls contacts straight from LinkedIn and Sales Navigator, identifies the companies visiting your website, and offers Jason, an AI SDR that researches each prospect against what you tell it to look for, writes the emails and can run outreach on autopilot.

On deliverability, Reply.io lets you buy Google or Microsoft mailboxes, new or pre-warmed, with SPF, DKIM and DMARC configured for you, or connect the ones you already have. Warm-up runs through a peer-to-peer network of real inboxes and is included with every mailbox, and mailboxes are rotated across sequences. Its Email Volume plans are priced per user per month in tiers of active contacts, the unique people you can send a first-step email to each month, with LinkedIn automation at $69 a month per account and Calls & SMS at $29 a month as add-ons. The Multichannel plan bundles those channels per user, with a 14-day trial, and Jason and an Agency plan are priced on their own.

Choose Reply.io if you want what lemlist's Multichannel plan gives you, LinkedIn, calls, texts and WhatsApp in one sequence with a large database in the same tool, and you like the option of handing the whole motion to an AI SDR. It is priced for sales teams, per user and by active contacts, so a team that only emails a list it already holds should compare the Email Volume tier carefully against the simpler senders further down.

Best formultichannel sequences with a database and an AI SDR
PricingPer user per month, in tiers of active contacts. At the time of writing, its published plans start at $49 a month per user, billed annually. Jason AI SDR is a separate plan.
ChannelsEmail, LinkedIn, calls, SMS and semi-automated WhatsApp
Five channels in one sequenceEmail, LinkedIn, calls, SMS and semi-automated WhatsApp on the Multichannel plan.
A billion-contact databaseLive data credits every month, and LinkedIn and Sales Navigator import.
Jason, an AI SDRResearches prospects and writes the emails, sold as its own plan.
Per user, by active contactsEmail Volume tiers by active contacts; LinkedIn and calls are add-ons there.
03 / Best for LinkedIn-first outreach with email alongside

La Growth Machine

La Growth Machine describes itself as the multichannel outreach platform for B2B, and it is built with LinkedIn at the centre. A sequence can visit a lead's profile, like posts, follow, send a connection request and a message, leave an AI-generated LinkedIn voice message and send an email, with conditions, branches and A/B tests built in; its higher plans add calls and X. Leads you import are enriched with verified emails and LinkedIn profile data through a waterfall across nine email providers and two verification tools, and replies from LinkedIn and email land in one inbox.

Its pricing is per identity, a word it defines as a profile engaging with your leads automatically, in other words a profile running campaigns; its pricing page notes that you do not need an identity to answer your leads' replies. There are Basic, Pro and Ultimate plans priced in euros per identity per month, with two months free on annual billing and a 14-day free trial that needs no credit card. Each plan includes a monthly allowance of enriched leads, 250, 400 and 1,000 respectively, and a number of sending email addresses per identity, from one on Basic to ten on Ultimate. Agency and custom plans carry minimum commitments.

Choose La Growth Machine if LinkedIn is where your prospects actually answer and email is the follow-up, and you would rather pay for the profiles doing the outreach than for a seat per person. Its integrations include HubSpot, Clay, Make and Slack, with an API and webhooks. If your lemlist sequences were mostly email, most of what it is organised around will go unused, and one of the senders further down this list will be the simpler move.

Best forLinkedIn-first outreach with email alongside
PricingPer identity per month, in euros, with two months free on annual billing. 14-day free trial, no credit card.
ChannelsLinkedIn and email; calls from Pro, and X on Ultimate
LinkedIn at the centreProfile visits, follows, connection requests, messages and voice messages, with email in the same flow.
Enrichment includedVerified emails and LinkedIn data for imported leads, with a monthly allowance per plan.
Billed per identityThe profiles running campaigns are billed; answering replies does not need one.
Channels rise by planLinkedIn and email on Basic, calls from Pro, and X on Ultimate.
04 / Best for finding B2B contacts and sequencing them in one tool

Apollo

Apollo is built around data. Its database lists more than 240 million contacts and 30 million companies, and around it Apollo puts multi-step sequences with emails, calls, LinkedIn tasks and more, a dialer with power and parallel dialling, local presence, voicemail drops and AI call summaries, automated meeting scheduling, and AI for writing and personalising emails. It connects to CRMs such as Salesforce and HubSpot, and it is aimed at sales leaders, account executives, SDRs, RevOps teams, marketers and founders.

Its deliverability tools cover warm-up, SPF, DKIM and DMARC set-up, health score alerts and mailbox rotation, and you can buy sending domains and mailboxes through Apollo. The pricing model is a free plan and paid plans priced per user, with credits that its own pages say are used for things such as exporting contacts and placing dialer calls, and add-on credits when you need more. Check its pricing page for the current figures.

Choose Apollo if the database is the part of lemlist you rely on most, if your reps make calls from a dialer, or if you want a free plan to try before committing. In how it charges it sits closer to lemlist's Multichannel plan than to its Email plan, per user with credits, so a team that needs neither the data nor the dialer is buying a plan organised around parts it will not use.

Best forfinding B2B contacts and sequencing them in one tool
PricingA free plan, and paid plans priced per user, with credits for things such as exports and dialer calls. Add-on credits available.
ChannelsEmail, calls and LinkedIn tasks in sequences
A large B2B databaseMore than 240 million contacts and 30 million companies, per its site.
A dialer for repsPower and parallel dialling, local presence and voicemail drops, on credits.
A free planThen paid plans priced per user, with credits and add-on credits.
Salesforce and HubSpotCRM integrations for teams whose pipeline already lives there.
05 / Best for high-volume cold email from unlimited mailboxes

Instantly

Instantly describes itself as a sales engagement and lead intelligence platform: automated outreach, a B2B lead database of more than 450 million contacts, deliverability tools and an AI-powered CRM. Its Outreach plans include unlimited email accounts and unlimited warm-up, which ramps a new address slowly with read emulation, and it can set up done-for-you Google accounts. Sequences can mix email, LinkedIn and webhook steps, replies from every account land in its Unibox, and inbox placement tests check blacklists and SPF, DKIM and DMARC.

Its AI Reply Agent answers interested prospects, handles objections and shares your Calendly link, in a human-in-the-loop mode or on autopilot, and its AI Sales Agent reads your website and runs outreach. Pricing is split in two. Outreach plans are tiered by emails a month and uploaded contacts, and at the time of writing its published plans start at $47 a month for 5,000 emails and 1,000 uploaded contacts; the lead database runs on separate credits plans; and bundles combine the two, with the AI Reply Agent listed on its Scale bundle.

Choose Instantly if most of what you do in lemlist is cold email at volume and you want mailbox count off the bill entirely, with a database on hand for the weeks you need new contacts. If LinkedIn and calls carry your sequences, compare how its LinkedIn steps and CRM calling fit the way you work before moving, and size the Outreach tier by the emails and contacts you actually send each month.

Best forhigh-volume cold email from unlimited mailboxes
PricingOutreach plans tiered by emails a month and uploaded contacts; the lead database on separate credits plans. At the time of writing, its published plans start at $47 a month.
ChannelsEmail, with LinkedIn and webhook steps; calls and SMS from its CRM
Unlimited email accountsAnd unlimited warm-up, on every Outreach plan.
A 450M+ lead databaseOn separate credits plans, or bundled with outreach.
An AI Reply AgentAnswers interested prospects and shares your Calendly link, with or without review.
Tiered by emails and contactsPlans rise with emails a month and uploaded contacts, not with mailboxes.
06 / Best for agencies sending cold email for several clients

Smartlead

Smartlead describes itself as cold email software for sales teams that run outbound at scale. Every plan includes unlimited email accounts at no extra cost, and sending rotates across the mailboxes in a campaign. Warm-up starts as soon as a mailbox is connected, in a private pool, with DNS and sender rotation handled for you, and a master inbox gathers the replies from every mailbox, tagged by intent, with assignment, notes and routing to other sequences or booking calendars.

Around the sending it sells infrastructure and data: SmartSenders for mailboxes, SmartServers for dedicated servers, SmartDelivery for placement testing, SmartProspect for verified business profiles, and SmartDialer, a power dialer with parallel dialling and local-presence numbers. It has an API and webhooks, and integrates with HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive and Clay. Plans are tiered by contacts and email sends; at the time of writing its published plans start at $39 a month, with 17% off on annual billing and a free trial that needs no credit card.

Choose Smartlead if you are an agency sending for several clients: client workspaces are an add-on from its Pro plan, three are included on Unlimited Prime, and white-labelling is $29 a month per client workspace. It suits a lemlist customer who wants to stop counting mailboxes and would rather build out sending infrastructure in the same place. Each add-on is priced on its own, so price the ones you need alongside the plan before you move.

Best foragencies sending cold email for several clients
PricingPlans tiered by contacts and email sends, with unlimited email accounts. At the time of writing, its published plans start at $39 a month, with 17% off yearly.
ChannelsEmail, with a power dialer as an add-on
Unlimited email accountsOn every plan at no extra cost, with automatic rotation.
Client workspacesFor agencies, with white-labelled client dashboards.
Infrastructure as add-onsMailboxes, dedicated servers, placement tests and a power dialer.
Tiered by contacts and sendsPlans rise with contacts and email sends, with 17% off yearly.

lemlist alternatives at a glance

The six picks side by side: who each one suits, which channels it covers and what its plan is counted in, as each tool's own site described it on the review date.

ToolBest forChannelsHow it charges
Bold Agent Kitcold email that answers its own repliesEmail, text and call steps; website chat, inbound calls and DMs on eleven platforms$25 a month or $200 a year for the whole account, with a 7-day free trial. Your AI provider and carrier bill you at cost.
Reply.iomultichannel sequences with a database and an AI SDREmail, LinkedIn, calls, SMS and semi-automated WhatsAppPer user per month, in tiers of active contacts. At the time of writing, its published plans start at $49 a month per user, billed annually. Jason AI SDR is a separate plan.
La Growth MachineLinkedIn-first outreach with email alongsideLinkedIn and email; calls from Pro, and X on UltimatePer identity per month, in euros, with two months free on annual billing. 14-day free trial, no credit card.
Apollofinding B2B contacts and sequencing them in one toolEmail, calls and LinkedIn tasks in sequencesA free plan, and paid plans priced per user, with credits for things such as exports and dialer calls. Add-on credits available.
Instantlyhigh-volume cold email from unlimited mailboxesEmail, with LinkedIn and webhook steps; calls and SMS from its CRMOutreach plans tiered by emails a month and uploaded contacts; the lead database on separate credits plans. At the time of writing, its published plans start at $47 a month.
Smartleadagencies sending cold email for several clientsEmail, with a power dialer as an add-onPlans tiered by contacts and email sends, with unlimited email accounts. At the time of writing, its published plans start at $39 a month, with 17% off yearly.

The clearest dividing line is the unit each tool charges in. lemlist's Email plan is a flat monthly price and its Multichannel plan is per user, with credits for data. Reply.io counts users and active contacts, La Growth Machine counts LinkedIn identities, Instantly and Smartlead count contacts and sends, Apollo counts users and credits, and Bold Agent Kit charges once for the account, with the AI on your own key. Pick the unit that matches how your team grows.

We checked each tool’s public website on 11 September 2026 for this page. Plans and features change, so check each vendor’s own site for the current detail. Product names are trademarks of their owners, and Bold Agent Kit is not affiliated with or endorsed by any of them.

Which lemlist alternative fits which buyer

If LinkedIn is the reason you use lemlist, start with Reply.io or La Growth Machine. Reply.io is the broader of the two, with calls, texts, semi-automated WhatsApp, a database of more than a billion contacts and an optional AI SDR, priced per user and by active contacts. La Growth Machine is organised around LinkedIn itself, with email alongside and enrichment included, priced per identity. If the database is the reason, Apollo gives you data, sequences and a dialer, with a free plan to start.

If you mostly send cold email, the choice is between the senders. Instantly suits a team that wants unlimited mailboxes and warm-up with a lead database and an AI Reply Agent in the same product; Smartlead suits an agency that wants client workspaces, white-labelling and its own sending infrastructure. Both price by contacts and sends rather than by mailbox, which takes one of the numbers you had to watch off the table.

If you already have the list and the work that stalls is the reply, the meeting and the enquiries that never came from a campaign, Bold Agent Kit is the one built for that. Its agent sends from every mailbox you connect, answers the replies from your own material, books the meeting, follows the silent ones with a text and a call, and covers the website chat, the phone and eleven DM platforms, for $25 a month for the account on your own AI key. It has no database and no LinkedIn step, so pair it with a data tool if you need one.

Powered by your own keys

Each agent uses a model on your own API key, in the same way it sends from your own mailbox and your own phone number. Sixteen providers are supported: OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, xAI and Mistral; DeepSeek, GLM, Kimi, Qwen and MiniMax; Groq, Together, Fireworks and OpenRouter; and Ollama or any other OpenAI-compatible endpoint you host yourself.

Bring your own credentials and you own the whole stack: your model provider, your mailboxes, your carrier, your CRM. We charge for the software and nothing else — no token markup, no metering, no credit packs — so your provider bills you direct at their rates, usually a few dollars a month per agent.

Your key, sixteen providersOpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, xAI, Mistral, DeepSeek, Groq, OpenRouter and more.
Or a model you hostOllama, vLLM, or any other OpenAI-compatible endpoint of your own.
The fast model on callsIt switches automatically, because a phone call cannot wait for a sentence.
No metering from usNo markup, no credit packs, no per-message billing. A busy month costs no more.
Keys stored encryptedYour credentials are yours; we never send them anywhere but your provider.

Sixteen model providers, on your own key

  • OpenAI
  • Anthropic
  • Gemini
  • xAI
  • Mistral
  • DeepSeek
  • GLM
  • Kimi
  • Qwen
  • MiniMax
  • Groq
  • Together
  • Fireworks
  • OpenRouter
  • Ollama
  • Any OpenAI API

One plan. Everything in it. Monthly or yearly.

No seat tiers, no credit packs, no per-agent or per-channel pricing, and nothing held back behind an enterprise call.

Agents
How manyUnlimited — one per business, brand or job
Shared brainThe same identity, instructions and knowledge on every channel
Knowledge baseDocuments, Q&A pairs, data points and pages of your own site
IsolationOne agent's content is never used to reply for another
Client seatsInvite a client into one agent, with their own login
Channels
EmailAs many mailboxes per agent as you connect, rotated by campaigns
Text messagesNine providers — Twilio, Telnyx, SimpleTexting, Plivo, Vonage, Sinch, Bandwidth, MessageBird, ClickSend
Phone callsAnswering and dialling, with recordings and transcripts
TranscriptionGoogle, or Deepgram nova-3 on your own key
VoicesGoogle, Amazon Polly and ElevenLabs, or your own ElevenLabs / Fish Audio account
Voice cloningRecord a voice in the browser and clone it on your ElevenLabs or Fish Audio key
Website chatA widget on your site with your colour, image and greeting
Social DMsMessenger, Instagram, WhatsApp, Telegram, LINE, Viber, Slack, Discord, Bluesky, Reddit, X
Inbox
One listEvery channel's conversations together, newest first, tagged by channel
FiltersBy channel, by mailbox or number, or by agent
TakeoverReply yourself and the agent stands down on that thread
Hand backReturn the thread to the agent when you are done
Campaigns
Multichannel sequencesEmail, text and call steps in one campaign, each with its own timing
Send conditionsSend a step only if they opened, did not open, clicked or did not click
ScheduleThe days, hours and time zone anything may be sent
Stop rulesA reply, a booking or an opt-out on any channel ends the sequence
PacingPer-mailbox and per-number hourly limits, pausable and resumable
Review before startThe full plan is shown; a campaign sends nothing until you start it
TemplatesEmail, text and call scripts, saved once and reused
Analytics
FunnelReached, replied, visited, converted, plus value won and time to convert
By channelWhere each person started, and the channel they converted on
PagesWhich pages known people read, and how many of them converted
JourneysOne row per person: every message, visit, call and booking in order
GoalsA page rule or a manual "won", each with a dollar value
TriggersA known person returns to a page — notify you, or send a follow-up
Open and click trackingRecorded per campaign and added to that person's history
Integrations
CalendarsGoogle, Microsoft 365, Calendly, Cal.com, Acuity, Zoho, Square, HubSpot Meetings
CRMs and commerceHubSpot, GoHighLevel, Housecall Pro, ServiceTitan, Jobber, Stripe, Shopify, WooCommerce, Wix, Squarespace
BookingReal open slots offered, and only an offered slot can be booked
CRM importImport a segment of customers into a contact list
Deliverability and compliance
Mailbox warm-upRamped sending across the network, with spam rescue and replies
Health scoreSPF, DKIM, DMARC, bounce rate and inbox placement, with reasons
Auto-restA failing address is removed from rotation automatically
UnsubscribesOne click, honoured automatically, including on queued mail
Reply limitsOne reply per thread, per-sender daily and per-channel hourly caps
FilteringBounces, out-of-office and no-reply addresses ignored
List building
Contact extractionEmails, phone numbers and social profiles, on any site. Unlimited.
Deep scanFollows the pages of a domain most likely to carry contact details
Domain queueLoad a CSV of sites and work through them one at a time
Contacts and listsUnlimited, by email or phone, with CSV import and export
AI
Your own keySixteen providers, including any OpenAI-compatible endpoint you host
What we charge for AINothing — no markup, no metering, no credit packs
On callsUses your provider's fastest model automatically
Account
PlatformsChrome side panel and web dashboard on one login
Members' forumSix boards, visible only once you are signed in
Referral program$50 a year per referral ($5 a month), recurring for the life of the account
Supportsupport@boldagents.co
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Before you switch

What is the best lemlist alternative?

It depends on what you use lemlist for. For multichannel sequences with LinkedIn, calls and WhatsApp alongside email, Reply.io is the closest match, and La Growth Machine suits teams for whom LinkedIn is the main channel. For the database, Apollo is the natural comparison and has a free plan. For cold email at volume, Instantly and Smartlead both include unlimited email accounts, and Smartlead leans towards agencies. For a founder or small team that already has its list and needs the replies answered and the meetings booked, Bold Agent Kit does that for $25 a month for the account.

Why do people switch from lemlist?

Usually because of fit rather than a fault. Some use only the email half and would rather pay for mailboxes and sends than for a plan that also carries LinkedIn, SMS and a dialer. Some rely on LinkedIn and want a tool organised around it. Some already have their list and do not need a database or data credits. And some want the reply answered rather than collected in an inbox: an agent that writes back from their own material, books the meeting and handles the website chat and DMs that arrive without a campaign. Each reason points to a different alternative on this page.

How is Bold Agent Kit different from lemlist?

lemlist is an outbound prospecting platform with a lead database, LinkedIn steps and a unified inbox where your team replies. Bold Agent Kit is one AI agent that sends cold email from as many mailboxes as you connect, answers the replies itself from your material, books the meeting, follows up by text and call, and works the website chat, inbound calls and eleven DM platforms. It has no database and no LinkedIn step, and it costs $25 a month for the account on your own AI key. The full side-by-side is on our Bold Agent Kit vs lemlist comparison page.

How do I move my campaigns from lemlist to another tool?

Plan to rebuild rather than import. Bring your contacts across as a CSV, or through a CRM both tools read, copy each sequence's steps and templates into the new tool, and reconnect the mailboxes you send from. In Bold Agent Kit that means an app password for Gmail and Outlook, or an SMTP and IMAP host for anything else, with warm-up switched on for each before the campaign starts. Rebuild LinkedIn steps only if the new tool supports them. Before you press Start, make sure the same contacts are not still in a live lemlist sequence, so nobody hears from you twice.

Is there a free lemlist alternative?

Of the tools on this page, Apollo publishes a free plan, so you can start there without paying, within that plan's limits. Most of the others offer a free trial instead: Reply.io's Multichannel plan has a 14-day trial, La Growth Machine has a 14-day free trial with no credit card, Smartlead offers a free trial with no credit card, and Bold Agent Kit has a 7-day free trial, after which it is $25 a month or $200 a year. Free plans and trials change, so check each pricing page for the current terms before you plan a migration around one.

Which lemlist alternatives include LinkedIn automation?

Reply.io offers LinkedIn automation as an add-on at $69 a month per account on its Email Volume plans and includes it on Multichannel, alongside LinkedIn and Sales Navigator import. La Growth Machine is built around LinkedIn, with profile visits, connection requests, messages and voice messages in the same flow as email. Apollo's sequences include LinkedIn tasks, and Instantly's sequences can include LinkedIn steps. Bold Agent Kit has no LinkedIn step: its campaigns are email, text and call, and it answers DMs on eleven platforms, LinkedIn not among them.

Which lemlist alternative suits an agency?

Several are built with agencies in mind. Smartlead offers client workspaces as an add-on from its Pro plan, three included on Unlimited Prime, and white-labelling at $29 a month per client workspace. Reply.io has an Agency plan for multichannel outreach across several clients. La Growth Machine has an agency plan with a minimum of six identities. Bold Agent Kit runs unlimited agents on one $25 account, one per client, each with its own mailboxes, knowledge base and analytics, and each client can be invited into their own agent with a login that shows nothing else.

Do I need a lead database to replace lemlist?

Only if you find new prospects every week. If you do, keep a database in the stack: Reply.io, Apollo and Instantly each include one, and La Growth Machine enriches the leads you import. If your list comes from a CRM, a trade show, a client's customer records or your own research, you can leave data credits behind. Bold Agent Kit has no database; lists come from a CSV, a segment of a connected CRM such as HubSpot, GoHighLevel or Jobber, or the Chrome side panel, which extracts contact details from the pages you browse and can deep-scan a domain for more.

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