MailReach vs Emelia at a glance
- Mailbox warm-up includedYesYes
- Cold email from your own mailboxesNoYes
- LinkedIn automationNoYes
- Email finderNoYes
- APIYesYes
Checked on October 18, 2026 on MailReach’s own pages and on Emelia’s pricing page.
MailReach warming: what happens to a mailbox you connect
You connect an address (Google, Microsoft or any provider that supports SMTP) and MailReach starts exchanging emails between it and its network, "30k real human inboxes" according to its warm-up page, mostly Google Workspace and Office 365 accounts.
The warm-up itself
The network's mailboxes open your warm-up emails, mark them as important, pull them out of spam and reply to them. On Autopilot, the default mode, the volume climbs to around 40 to 50 emails a day; MailReach advertises up to 100 a day. The warm-up emails are hidden from your inbox, so the address keeps working normally.
MailReach asks for at least 14 days of warm-up before the first campaign, then to keep warming for as long as you send. Its terms add one detail its marketing pages leave out: the exchanges can involve MailReach's own accounts or the mailboxes of other MailReach customers.
What you watch
A reputation score per address and per provider (Google, Microsoft and others), available 72 hours after you connect, checks of the domain and the inbox (blacklists, SPF, DKIM, DMARC), and alerts through Slack or webhooks when a score moves. With several accounts, an overview groups the scores by domain, tag and provider.
What MailReach chooses not to do
Its warm-up page lists 3 things it leaves out on purpose: warming your email templates, adapting the warm-up to your industry, and writing warm-up emails in your language. MailReach argues that none of them moves your reputation, points its comparison pages also make against Lemwarm and Warmy. It also leaves B2C warm-up aside.
What MailReach looks like
The MailReach spam test: where a real email lands, inbox by inbox
The free version needs no account and allows 3 tests every 24 hours. You paste a code into your email, send it from your usual tool to the seed addresses MailReach lists (MailReach announces "30+", the page showed 28 on October 18, 2026), and get a score out of 10, where the email landed in each mailbox, and checks of SPF/DKIM/DMARC records, blacklists, links, HTML and spam words.
Beyond that, tests cost credits: the warm-up subscription comes with 20 a month, whatever the number of mailboxes, and a Spam Tester plan sells them without warm-up. Credits also run automatic tests on a schedule, with the same alerts. The MailReach pricing page has the full credit grid.
This is where MailReach is ahead of Emelia, which runs no inbox placement tests. If you check placement before every large send, a spam test tool keeps its place next to Emelia.
No campaigns, no sequences, no LinkedIn: what you still need next to MailReach
MailReach only warms and tests. It sends no cold email sequence, does nothing on LinkedIn and looks up no one’s email address: the campaigns go out from another tool, connected to the same mailboxes. MailReach says so itself, in plain words, on its blog.
It also names the tools it has in mind, and Emelia comes up in 8 of its articles, always as a sending tool. In the one about spam traps, MailReach writes: "we definitely recommend using Emelia or LaGrowthMachine". If you do send with Emelia, every connected mailbox is already warmed by your plan: MailReach would then add its spam tests, and a second bill of $16 to $25 per mailbox a month.
MailReach or Emelia: a warm-up bill per mailbox, or a plan that warms and sends
Start from Emelia's plans: Start connects up to 3 mailboxes for $37 a month, Grow up to 50 for $97, and each connected mailbox is warmed. MailReach's column is what warming the same mailboxes costs there, with nothing sent.
Warming the same mailboxes
1 mailbox, billed monthly
3 mailboxes, billed monthly
4 mailboxes, billed monthly
10 mailboxes, billed monthly
50 mailboxes, billed monthly
51 mailboxes, billed monthly
What else the price covers
Inbox placement tests
Cold email campaigns
LinkedIn automation
Email finder
Free trial
Monthly prices excluding tax, checked on October 18, 2026. MailReach bills in US dollars only and Emelia in your currency, so a row is only marked when it holds at any exchange rate. MailReach's bill follows the number of mailboxes ($900 for 50); Emelia's only changes when you move up a plan. MailReach stays cheaper for 1 mailbox (and 4 billed yearly); from 4 to 6 mailboxes, the winner depends on your currency and on how you pay. The full grid is on the MailReach pricing page.
MailReach’s case against bundled warm-up, and where Emelia stands
MailReach argues that in all-in-one sending tools, "deliverability gets sidelined", and calls warm-up bundled with an outreach platform "the illusion of free". Its blog adds that warm-up networks open to free accounts lose quality, and that having no trial and a higher price attracts better senders.
On free accounts, Emelia agrees with the principle. Its warm-up comes with a paid plan: there is no free plan, only a 7-day trial, and each plan sets a mailbox limit (fair use of 1,000 on Scale), so the network is not an open pool. Emelia’s price stays low because the warm-up shares one subscription with the sending, LinkedIn and the finder, not because the network is open to anyone. Where MailReach does stay ahead is testing: placement tests are its job, and Emelia does not run them.
MailReach: frequently asked questions
Only its spam test, 3 tests every 24 hours without an account. The warm-up has no free plan and no free trial: MailReach states it itself, and a card is required from the first mailbox. Its prices are on the MailReach pricing page.
THE BRAIN COMPANY, a French SAS based in Paris, registered on May 6, 2021. Its president, Damien Brenelière, is the man MailReach presents as its co-founder and CEO. MailReach says 3,000+ businesses use it.
Through its web app at app.mailreach.co. The free spam test needs no login at all.
Yes, a REST API that is free to call: MailReach only bills the warm-up seats and the spam test credits it uses. It connects mailboxes, reads reputation scores and runs tests, and there is also an MCP server for AI assistants. Emelia's warm-up can be switched on and read through its API too.
At least 14 days before the first campaign, without sending campaigns, then all along your campaigns, according to MailReach. After that, it advises no more than 100 cold emails a day per address, ideally 80 or fewer.
Users rate it highly for the results and the support, less for the price at low volume and the reporting: the details are on the MailReach reviews page. Its alternatives, from cheaper warm-up to warm-up included with sending, are compared on the MailReach alternatives page.
Emelia features: Email warm-up · Cold email · Emelia pricing
Emelia is a MailReach competitor. We have tried to stay fair: every figure about MailReach comes from its own website or public review sites.
