Your team sends connection requests and follow-ups by hand, and it eats the week. If you are comparing these two, you probably run outbound for a sales team or an agency and are deciding whether LinkedIn or cold email should carry it. You also worry about a bill that grows with every rep, and about LinkedIn restricting a profile your pipeline depends on.
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| Expandi | lemlist | |
|---|---|---|
| Price we read | Email $69/mo ($55 billed yearly) for unlimited users; Multichannel $109 per user ($87 yearly) (read 5 Oct 2026) | |
| Entry price | Business $99 per seat a month, or $79 a month billed yearly (read 7 Oct 2026) | Email $69 a month, or $55 billed yearly, unlimited users (read 5 Oct 2026) |
| How you pay | Per seat, one LinkedIn account per seat; Agency quote for 10+ seats; taxes on top | Email plan for unlimited users; Multichannel per user; contact data is a separate add-on |
| Free plan or trial | 7-day free trial; no free plan | 14-day trial, no card; no free plan |
| Best for | Sales teams and agencies running LinkedIn outreach at scale across several accounts | Outbound teams that live in cold email and want multichannel sequences |
| Main catch | LinkedIn automation sits in a grey zone against LinkedIn's terms; bans still happen | LinkedIn steps reported thin and the Chrome extension unstable; data costs extra |
You send an occasional campaign or a few connection requests now and then. Neither has a free plan, lemlist's entry plan only pays off with steady volume, and for occasional connection requests LinkedIn's own tools are enough.
Look at Apollo instead. Our lemlist dossier names Apollo for teams that only send a one-off campaign now and then. Read our Apollo review.
A team of three reps on yearly billing. lemlist Email: $55 a month, with unlimited users on that plan. lemlist Multichannel: 3 × $87 = $261 a month. Expandi: 3 × $79 = $237 a month, one LinkedIn account per seat, with taxes added by country. If you need contact data, lemlist's Lead data enrichment adds €16 a month on yearly billing for 2,000 credits; that add-on was priced in euros on the page we read. Expandi says its discount grows with seat count, so ask for a quote before you trust the $237.
Business, $99 per seat a month, or $79 a month billed yearly ($948 a year), read 7 Oct 2026. Run the 7-day trial on a spare account first.
Start with Expandi →Email, $69 a month or $55 billed yearly, unlimited users and 50,000 emails a month (read 5 Oct 2026). Move to Multichannel only if you need LinkedIn or call steps.
Start with lemlist →No. Warm-up tops out at 21 actions a day, and Expandi's own article notes LinkedIn enforces a weekly cap of 100 connection requests. A second seat buys a second account, not a faster one.
No. Lead data enrichment is a separate add-on at €20 a month, or €16 yearly, for 2,000 credits, about 400 emails or 100 phone numbers (read 5 Oct 2026).
On lemlist, no: cancelling only stops renewal, running sequences keep sending until you stop them, and the enrichment add-on must be cancelled separately. On Expandi, a cancelled subscription cannot be reactivated, so export your leads and campaigns first.
The page says so, but $1,188 minus $948 is $240, which is closer to two and a half months of the $99 fee.
Expandi: expandi.io/pricing, its FAQ and help-centre articles on seats, warm-up and data export, read 5 Aug and 7 Oct 2026; buyer reports from G2 and Capterra, Aug 2026. lemlist: lemlist.com/en/pricing read 5 Oct 2026, its cancellation help article read 23 Oct 2026, and our trial test of 24 Oct 2026. Prices change: each one carries the date we read it, and our reviews are re-checked against the vendor pages. How we review.
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