Comparison
Hellofew vs lemlist
lemlist describes itself as: “The all-in-one platform for precise outbound at any scale — email, LinkedIn, calls, WhatsApp and SMS from one workflow.”
Prices below were read from lemlist.com on 8 September 2026.
The short answer
- Buy lemlist if
- email is your main channel and LinkedIn is one more step in a sequence. For that job it is the better product and we would not pretend otherwise.
- Buy Hellofew if
- LinkedIn is the channel rather than one step in an email sequence, and you want it run end to end on your own account rather than a domain.
Price
lemlist starts at $55/mo. Hellofew is $49/month.
| Plan | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| $55–69/mo | Unlimited users · 50,000 emails/mo · 650M+ lead database · no LinkedIn automation | |
| Multichannel | $87–109/mo per user | LinkedIn automation · SMS · WhatsApp · 5 senders per user · unlimited messages |
| Enterprise | quoted | Teams of 5+ users |
| Hellofew | $49/month | One LinkedIn account · 25 matched leads a day · 20 invitations a day, maximum · no contract |
Email plan, annual billing; $69/mo monthly. LinkedIn needs the Multichannel plan.
What lemlist does better
Genuinely better, not faint praise. If any of these is what you need, buy theirs.
- By far the widest channel coverage: email, LinkedIn, calls, WhatsApp, SMS in one sequence.
- A 650M+ contact database, email finder and verifier — we have none of that.
- Email deliverability tooling and inbox warm-up, which is a genuinely hard problem they have solved.
- The most mature product of the four, with the deepest integrations.
- A 14-day free trial.
Where we differ
- LinkedIn automation is not on the entry plan — it needs Multichannel at $87/mo per user.
- Priced per user, so cost scales with the team rather than with usage.
- "Unlimited emails & messages" on Multichannel. Unlimited is the opposite of the constraint a LinkedIn account needs.
The thing lemlist's pricing page does not mention
A daily sending limit. Neither does anyone else's in this category — we checked all four on 8 September 2026 for any mention of invitation caps, warm-up ramps, or what happens if LinkedIn objects to your account.
That absence is not an oversight, it is the business model. Volume demos well. But LinkedIn does not publish its limits, restricts accounts that exceed them, and the account it restricts is yours — not your vendor's.
So here is our whole spec, in public
- 20 invitations a day, maximum. You cannot raise it. Neither can we — it is a constant in the code, not a setting.
- A new account starts at five a day and takes three weeks to reach the ceiling.
- Nothing sends outside your working hours, and we stay twenty minutes clear of both ends. Weekends and public holidays are skipped.
- Gaps between sends are irregular by design. Twenty invitations exactly three minutes apart is more obviously scripted than twenty at random times.
- An account with fewer than 150 connections is held back and sends nothing at all.
- One follow-up. Not five. Any reply cancels everything still queued for that person.
- If your acceptance rate falls below 15% we halve your caps; below 8% we stop inviting and tell you. A low accept rate is what precedes a restriction.
- Every message waits for you to approve it, individually, for ever — and the whole schedule is visible before any of it runs. Approving is the only way anything sends.
- If LinkedIn flags the account in its first 24 hours of sending, we stop and stay stopped until you say otherwise.
Hellofew does one thing: agents that run LinkedIn outbound end to end for a single founder — the research, the targeting, the writing, the sending and the replies — for $49/month. If what you want is a few hundred invitations a week, it is the wrong product and lemlist is probably the right one. We would rather say that here than take your money and disappoint you.
Free to read what it writes about your market. $49/month when you connect LinkedIn and it starts finding real people.