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Woodpecker

What Woodpecker is
Woodpecker is a cold email and LinkedIn outreach tool for businesses running outbound campaigns. Its sequences can combine email with LinkedIn profile visits, connection requests, direct messages, and InMails. Listed deliverability features include email verification, warm-up, inbox rotation, monitoring, adaptive sending, and domain audits. Campaign automation includes condition-based workflows, A/B tests with up to five versions, and reply sorting by interest level. The company says users can find B2B leads in a database of more than 1 billion. Listed integrations include Claude, Clay, Pipedrive, HubSpot, Calendly, Zapier, and Google Sheets, along with API, webhooks, MCP Server, and CLI. Woodpecker is available on the web and through an API. The pricing note lists plans from $35/mo, alongside a free plan and a 14-day trial. The trial includes all features but ends after 14 days or 100 cold emails, whichever comes first. When the contacted-prospect limit is exceeded, campaigns stop sending new emails to new prospects until the limit renews or the account is upgraded. The company says it was created to help lead generation, sales, and recruitment professionals build B2B relationships.
Who it suits
Woodpecker suits lead generation, sales, and recruitment professionals running B2B outbound campaigns. Its mix of email and LinkedIn steps may suit teams seeking multichannel sequences and deliverability tools.
What it does well
- Sequences combine cold email and LinkedIn outreach.
- Includes email verification, warm-up, and inbox rotation.
- A/B tests support up to five versions.
- Trial includes all features.
- Lists API, webhooks, MCP Server, and CLI.
What to know first
- Trial ends after 14 days or 100 cold emails, whichever comes first.
- Campaigns stop sending to new prospects after the contacted-prospect limit is exceeded.
- Pricing is listed from $35/mo.
Limits
The trial ends after 14 days or 100 cold emails, whichever comes first. When the contacted-prospect limit is exceeded, campaigns stop sending to new prospects until the limit renews or the account is upgraded.
Plans
| Plan | Billed and limits | Price |
|---|---|---|
| New Domains | ~$1 /monthly per domain, billed annually · per domain | $1 |
| Additional Lead Finder credits | Starts at 500 credits for $10 · 500 credits starting purchase | $10, paid once |
| Lead Finder credits | starts at 500 credits · additional credits | $10, paid once |
| Integrations, API, webhooks, MCP, CLI | $20 /monthly · integrations, API, webhooks, MCP, CLI | $20 a month |
| Agency Panel | $27 /monthly per active client · per active client | $27 a month |
| LinkedIn connected account | per connected LinkedIn account · LinkedIn outreach add-on | $29 a month |
| LinkedIn connected accounts | $29 /monthly per LinkedIn account connected · LinkedIn Outreach $0 · per connected LinkedIn account | $29 a month |
| 500 contacted prospects | usage-based · 500 prospects contacted per month | $35 a month |
The first 8 of 15 plans, as woodpecker.co lists them, read 3 Oct 2026. The maker's own page has the final word. Every plan
Getting started
- Visit https://woodpecker.co/ on the web or connect through its API.
- Start the 14-day trial to access all features.
- Build a campaign using cold email and, if needed, LinkedIn sequence steps.
- Connect listed integrations such as HubSpot, Pipedrive, or Google Sheets as needed.
- Track trial usage; it ends after 14 days or 100 cold emails, whichever comes first.
Verdict
Woodpecker combines email and LinkedIn outreach with campaign automation, prospecting, and deliverability features. The trial has a sending cap, and campaigns pause for new prospects when the contacted-prospect limit is exceeded, so consider those limits when assessing fit.
Questions
Does Woodpecker have a free plan or trial?
A free plan and a 14-day trial are listed. The trial includes all features and ends after 14 days or 100 cold emails, whichever comes first.
How much does Woodpecker cost?
The pricing note lists plans from $35/mo.
Which platforms does Woodpecker support?
Woodpecker is available on web and through an API.
Can campaigns include LinkedIn outreach?
Yes. Sequences can combine cold email with LinkedIn profile visits, connection requests, direct messages, and InMails.
What integrations are listed?
Woodpecker lists Claude, Clay, Pipedrive, HubSpot, Calendly, Zapier, and Google Sheets, along with API, webhooks, MCP Server, and CLI.
What happens when the contacted-prospect limit is exceeded?
Campaigns stop sending new emails to new prospects until the limit renews or the account is upgraded.
Facts from Woodpecker's own pages
- A/B testing
- Email campaigns can test as many as five message versions. · woodpecker.co, 15 Oct 2026
- Adaptive sending
- Adaptive sending monitors mailbox volume and can reduce sending to help avoid provider blocks; Woodpecker recommends 25–35 cold emails per mailbox daily. · woodpecker.co, 15 Oct 2026
- Analytics
- The feature set includes open, click, reply, soft-bounce, hard-bounce and opt-out tracking plus AI interest classification for replies. · woodpecker.co, 15 Oct 2026
- API
- The public REST API uses https://api.woodpecker.co/rest, x-api-key authentication and rate limits, and exposes accounts, prospects, campaigns, reports, mailboxes and agency clients. · developers.woodpecker.co, 15 Oct 2026
- API documentation depth
- The developer documentation includes endpoint guides, authentication, rate limiting, agency contexts, domains, webhooks, CLI and a dated changelog. · developers.woodpecker.co, 15 Oct 2026
- Audience
- The company says Woodpecker was created to help lead generation, sales and recruitment professionals build B2B relationships. · woodpecker.co, 3 Oct 2026
- Automation
- Listed automation features include condition-based campaigns, workflows, A/B tests with up to 5 versions, and reply sorting by interest level. · woodpecker.co, 3 Oct 2026
- Campaign branching
- Condition-based campaigns can vary follow-ups according to prospect actions, and campaigns support up to 16 combined email, LinkedIn and phone steps. · woodpecker.co, 15 Oct 2026
- Campaigns
- Users can combine cold email with LinkedIn profile visits, connection requests, direct messages and InMails in multichannel sequences. · woodpecker.co, 3 Oct 2026
- Centralized inbox
- Replies from connected mailboxes are collected in one inbox, while messages remain in the underlying Gmail, Outlook or other mail server. · woodpecker.co, 15 Oct 2026
- CLI
- Woodpecker publishes an npm CLI package named @woodpecker.co/cli that can be installed globally or run with npx. · developers.woodpecker.co, 15 Oct 2026
- Company
- The maker is Woodpecker.co S.A., based in Wrocław, Poland; its about page says it was founded in 2015. · woodpecker.co, 3 Oct 2026
- Company founded
- LinkedIn lists Woodpecker.co as founded in 2015. · linkedin.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Company size
- LinkedIn lists the company size as 51–200 employees. · linkedin.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Deliverability
- Listed deliverability features include email verification, warm-up, inbox rotation, deliverability monitoring, adaptive sending and domain audits. · woodpecker.co, 3 Oct 2026
- Email verification
- It checks addresses before sending and offers unlimited catch-all verification without an extra charge. · woodpecker.co, 15 Oct 2026
- Email warm-up
- The product includes mailbox warm-up intended to build sender reputation before campaigns run. · woodpecker.co, 15 Oct 2026
- Founded
- 2015 · woodpecker.co, 28 Sept 2026
- Headquarters
- LinkedIn lists headquarters in Wroclaw, Lower Silesia, Poland, at 29D Krakowska Street. · linkedin.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Inbox rotation
- A campaign can distribute prospects across multiple connected mailboxes while keeping one sender for each prospect's follow-ups. · woodpecker.co, 15 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- Ready-made or API-key integrations include Zapier, HubSpot, Pipedrive, Google Sheets, Slack, Salesforce and Airtable. · woodpecker.co, 15 Oct 2026
- Legal entity
- The privacy policy identifies the provider as Woodpecker.co S.A., registered in Wrocław, Poland, under KRS 0000896179. · woodpecker.co, 15 Oct 2026
- Licence
- Woodpecker software is proprietary copyrighted software owned by Woodpecker.co rather than an open-source project. · woodpecker.co, 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: API breadth
- A G2 reviewer asks for a more robust API. · g2.com, 15 Oct 2026
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