Woodpecker alternatives compared: price and features
One row per tool from this page, Woodpecker first for reference: who it suits, its entry price for the same need (email and LinkedIn, cold email) and what it does. The sections below explain each choice.
email and LinkedIn
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Email and LinkedIn in one sequence, priced by mailboxes and accounts
Multichannel seats with a large database
One sender identity, LinkedIn and email together
Email, LinkedIn and calls in one platformcold email
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Many mailboxes, every one warmed up
High volume with warm-up pools and mailbox add-ons
Emails sent plus Lead Finder credits every month
Searching a very large B2B database
Email finder, sequences and an optional LinkedIn slotMonthly prices, billed monthly unless stated, excluding VAT, read on each publisher’s site (checked between October 6, 2026 and October 26, 2026). Emelia’s prices follow your currency; tools billed in dollars only stay in dollars, and those billed in euros only stay in euros. –: not offered, or not checked for this need.
Emelia: plans by inboxes and LinkedIn accounts, not by emails sent
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Best for: Email and LinkedIn in one sequence, priced by mailboxes and accountsWoodpecker’s Multichannel plan is an email tier plus a LinkedIn fee per account; Emelia folds both into one plan. Start covers 3 mailboxes and 1 LinkedIn account for $37 a month, Grow 50 mailboxes and 3 accounts for $97, where the same need costs $166 or more at Woodpecker. Every connected mailbox is warmed up, the CRM connection and the API come with the plan, and phone numbers are found in credits that stay valid for a year. What Emelia lacks is a built-in contact database like Woodpecker’s Lead Finder.
- YesCredits valid for 1 year, even after cancelling
- NoBuilt-in B2B contact database
- YesCold email from your own mailboxes
- Price
- $37/month (Start plan · 3 mailboxes · 1 LinkedIn account)
- Who it’s for
- Teams that run email and LinkedIn together and would rather count mailboxes than emails.
LinkedIn accounts and email in one seat: lemlist, La Growth Machine, Reply.io
These three sell a seat (a user or a sender) that comes with a LinkedIn account and its mailboxes, so LinkedIn is in the base price rather than an extra line.
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Best for: Multichannel seats with a large databaseSearching lemlist vs Woodpecker? lemlist’s Multichannel plan costs $109 per user a month with 1 LinkedIn account and up to 5 mailboxes per user, plus a database of 650M+ contacts paid in credits. Woodpecker charges no seat and no mailbox, but meters emails; lemlist meters seats. For email alone, lemlist has a volume-based plan starting at $69 a month. 14-day trial.
- YesCold email from your own mailboxes
- YesLinkedIn automation
- YesEmail and LinkedIn in one sequence
- Price
- $109/month per user (Multichannel plan · 1 LinkedIn account)
- Who it’s for
- Small teams where each salesperson runs one LinkedIn account and a few mailboxes.
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Best for: One sender identity, LinkedIn and email togetherLa Growth Machine bills per identity, a sender with a LinkedIn account and an email address: $70 a month on Basic, with 250 enriched leads a month. It has no email-volume meter, but each identity takes 1 sending address on Basic, so it is not built for dozens of mailboxes as Woodpecker is. It can be tried for 14 days, no card needed.
- NoMailbox warm-up included
- YesCold email from your own mailboxes
- YesLinkedIn automation
- Price
- $70/month per identity (Basic plan)
- Who it’s for
- Founders and small teams who prospect under one or two names on both channels.
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Best for: Email, LinkedIn and calls in one platformReply.io’s Multichannel plan costs $99 per user a month with 1 LinkedIn account and 5 mailboxes; its volume plan, billed by active contacts, adds LinkedIn as an option, closer to Woodpecker’s logic. Calls are built in. Its LinkedIn steps need the LinkedIn interface set to English. 14-day trial, LinkedIn excluded.
- YesCold email from your own mailboxes
- YesLinkedIn automation
- YesEmail and LinkedIn in one sequence
- Price
- $99/month per user (Multichannel plan · 1 LinkedIn account)
- Who it’s for
- Sales teams that want calls next to email and LinkedIn, and accept a per-user plan.
Senders with warm-up included: Instantly, Smartlead, Saleshandy
Like Woodpecker, these three let you connect as many mailboxes as you want and price by monthly volume; unlike its few free slots, warm-up comes with the plan.
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Best for: Many mailboxes, every one warmed upFor anyone weighing Instantly vs Woodpecker: Instantly’s Growth plan costs $47 a month for 5,000 emails and 1,000 contacts, with unlimited mailboxes and warm-up for all of them, where Woodpecker’s first tier covers 3 warm-ups. LinkedIn is not part of the product, and its SuperSearch database is sold as separate credits. A free trial of 14 days needs no card.
- NoLinkedIn automation
- YesCold email from your own mailboxes
- NoEmail and LinkedIn in one sequence
- Price
- $47/month (Growth plan · 5,000 emails a month · unlimited mailboxes)
- Who it’s for
- Email-only teams that rotate a large pool of mailboxes.
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Best for: High volume with warm-up pools and mailbox add-onsSmartlead’s Base plan is $39 a month for 6,000 emails and 2,000 contacts, mailboxes unlimited and warm-up included. Like Woodpecker, it sells mailboxes and infrastructure in the app; LinkedIn goes through partner tools such as HeyReach and Aimfox. You can test it for 14 days before paying, with no card asked.
- NoLinkedIn automation
- YesCold email from your own mailboxes
- NoEmail and LinkedIn in one sequence
- Price
- $39/month (Base plan · 6,000 emails a month · unlimited mailboxes)
- Who it’s for
- Agencies sending at scale across many client domains.
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Best for: Emails sent plus Lead Finder credits every monthSaleshandy prices by emails sent like Woodpecker now does: Starter is $41 a month for 6,000 emails with unlimited mailboxes and 1,500 Lead Finder credits. Its warm-up runs through TrulyInbox, a separate account, advertised as unlimited although its help centre caps how many mailboxes warm up at once, and LinkedIn steps are manual tasks. Saleshandy gives 7 days to try it, card not required.
- NoLinkedIn automation
- YesCold email from your own mailboxes
- NoEmail and LinkedIn in one sequence
- Price
- $41/month (Starter plan · 1,500 credits · 6,000 emails a month)
- Who it’s for
- Teams that like Woodpecker’s volume pricing and want Lead Finder credits every month.
Contact database plus sequencer: Apollo, Snov.io
Woodpecker’s Lead Finder is a credit-based database bolted onto a sender; these two are databases first, with sending on top.
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Best for: Searching a very large B2B databaseApollo is the reverse of Woodpecker: a database of 240M contacts first, a sequencer second. Its Basic licence ($65 a month) carries 2,500 credits and connects 1 mailbox per seat, so a team pays per person where Woodpecker pays per email. Calls are built in and its browser extension shows contact details on LinkedIn, but no LinkedIn step runs on its own. There is a free plan.
- NoLinkedIn automation
- YesCold email from your own mailboxes
- NoEmail and LinkedIn in one sequence
- Price
- Free plan, then $65/month per licence (Basic plan · 2,500 credits)
- Who it’s for
- Teams whose first need is finding contacts, with sending second.
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Best for: Email finder, sequences and an optional LinkedIn slotSnov.io starts from finding emails: Starter, at $39 a month, gives 1,000 credits and 5,000 new recipients from as many senders as you connect. Where Woodpecker meters every email sent, Snov.io meters the people reached. LinkedIn is bought the same way at both, one slot per account: $59 a month next to a paid Snov.io plan, $29 at Woodpecker. Starter warms up 3 mailboxes at a time; a database claimed at 500M+ contacts and a free plan come on top.
- YesCold email from your own mailboxes
- YesLinkedIn automation
- YesMailbox warm-up included
- Price
- Free plan, then $39/month (Starter plan · 1,000 credits)
- Who it’s for
- Small teams that start from finding emails and add LinkedIn later.
Priced per user: Mailshake
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Mailshake
Best for: Small teams, warm-up unlimited, seats instead of volumeMailshake bills per user, $29 to $99 a month, and each user unlocks a few mailboxes, the opposite of Woodpecker’s free mailboxes and metered emails. Every Mailshake plan warms mailboxes without a cap. LinkedIn steps are manual tasks, and there is no free trial: payment is taken up front.
- NoLinkedIn automation
- YesCold email from your own mailboxes
- NoEmail and LinkedIn in one sequence
- Price
- $29/month per user (Starter plan · 1,500 emails a month · 1 mailbox)
- Who it’s for
- Teams with few mailboxes per person who prefer a fixed price per seat.
Before leaving Woodpecker: yearly plans, monthly credits and legacy tiers
A yearly Woodpecker plan is paid up front and, according to its terms, never refunded; a monthly one can only be refunded within 3 days of a payment, on an account that has not been used. When an account is deleted, it stays active until the end of the paid period, then its data goes with it: export prospects and campaign results first.
Lead Finder credits do not carry over from one month to the next. Customers still on a contacted-prospect tier keep a grid Woodpecker no longer offers to new customers.
Woodpecker alternatives: questions
Woodpecker sets itself against all four on its own comparison pages, and older pages of this site compared them with it. Their prices and plans were not checked for this page, so they are only named here, without figures.
Not for the same job. Mailchimp is built for newsletters and marketing emails to people who subscribed; Woodpecker, like Emelia, sends one-to-one sequences from your own mailboxes to prospects, with follow-ups that stop when someone replies.
Emelia (1 to 10 accounts depending on the plan), lemlist’s Multichannel, La Growth Machine and Reply.io’s Multichannel, the last three per seat. Snov.io sells LinkedIn as an extra slot, as Woodpecker does; Instantly, Smartlead, Saleshandy, Apollo and Mailshake do not automate it.
Emelia features: Multichannel outreach · Cold email · LinkedIn automation · Emelia pricing
Emelia is a Woodpecker competitor. We have tried to stay fair: every figure about Woodpecker comes from its own website or public review sites.
