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10% -- total reply rate for Cold email campaigns on small, highly-curated lists (2025-2026)
Cold email campaigns with small, highly-curated lists and warm-ish angles achieve total reply rates above 10%.
- Represents an upper benchmark threshold (>10%) rather than an exact average
- Includes all responses (both positive and negative)
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10%
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Percentage
Data Vintage
2025-2026
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B
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50
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
Sales.co
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Tier C
https://coldmailopenrate.com/blog/what-is-a-good-cold-email-reply-rate/ ↗
Source Article
What Is a Good Cold Email Reply Rate? Benchmarks That Survived the Privacy Era
What Is a Good Cold Email Reply Rate? Benchmarks That Survived the Privacy Era
A competent cold email campaign earns a total reply rate of 2–6% of delivered emails, with a positive reply rate of 1–3%. Sustained results below 1% total replies indicate a structural problem — list quality, deliverabili…
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Sales.co
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Threshold value: reply rates above 10% occur with small, highly-curated lists and warm-ish angles; 10% extracted as the threshold.
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Cold email campaigns on small, highly-curated lists: 10% total reply rate. Source: Sales.co (2025-2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/cold-email-curated-list-reply-rate-above-10
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